208 Aerial Threat, The Crazed Infected Animals of the Sky (1/2)

Day 25 – 2:15 PM – Philippine General Hospital, Ermita, Metro Manila

”You heard the idiot leader of Team Fairy! If any of you can't deal with the [Leader Types], lure them to the front of the hospital!”

Major Lopez rubbed his temple after he spoke at the radio.

While majority of the people participating in this mission were issued with the main radio, the squad and team leaders, whether the soldiers or the private groups, were given another smaller radio that should only be used in emergency. He did not expect that the idiot granddaughter of one of the previous American Major that participated in World War II would be able to think of using the radio to contact Keene who was also a leader of his own team. The major just wished that it would not set as a bad example that the other leaders would follow.

Still, the information Irene said was vital. He also did not expect that the silent princess of Xiao Industries was capable of eliminating the [Leader Types] without problem. It was really good that General Perez asked them to participate in this mission. However, the condition that they asked in order to agree was rather hard to accomplish and it was to make greedy pigs from the upper brass to leave their group in peace. It was rather hard because even in Bay City, the standing of these politicians and businessmen were just a little below to the General and the latter did not have much authority over those people.

Well, it was not the major's problem.

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”Leader, why is our team called ”Team Fairy” while the other teams were all named after birds?”

Irene's spotter and the vice leader of Team Fairy, Sergeant Jennifer Atman asked with confusion. She had been thinking of it since they were briefed about the mission but did not have the opportunity to ask.

”I requested it. Isn't it good?”

BANG!

Irene replied before shooting her MSSR. Her target was a mutated infected that had just came out of its pod. On her observation, it was a [Suicide Type] as it had a rather disgustingly bloated body and slow movements.

”It hit.” Jennifer said as she watched the bloated target explode with a fog of green smoke in her scope. ”There's another target at Sector 2-2, [Armored Type]. Fairy seemed good but it sounded odd when the other groups were named after birds and we're not.”

BANG!

Irene shot her sniper rifle towards the next target and hit the head but it only staggered backwards and did not die and ran off away from their sight.

”We'll, our team is originally named as Team Flamingo. What do you think?”

”Lost visuals of the target. Um. I guess Team Fairy is good.”

Flamingos were cute but a military team with a name like that was more likely to be taken less seriously than the others.

BANG! BANG!

Another gunshot echoed not far from them. They glanced at that direction and saw Mei who was using her PSG-1 sniper rifle while picking the [Leader Types] in front of the hospital one by one. Furthermore, not only that she had no need for a spotter but the interval of shots from her sniper rifle was rather too short. The recoil of the sniper rifle had not totally subsided but she was able to aim it once the recoil started to weaken.

They felt amazed that the almost invincible [Leader Types] were easy pickings for her with the exception of [Armor Type] hybrids which she could only injure or kill in several shots.

However, as soldiers, they knew why the [Leader Types] were able to dodge their attacks. In theory made by the scientists in Bay City, the [Leader Types] were likely to be able to sense danger through killing intent and that was why they were able to dodge bullets even from sniper rifles and sneak attacks. It was similar to how insects and animals were able to avoid dangers around them.

[Leader Types] were too agile even for most Mutators and Evolvers not to mention to them who were just normal soldiers. Due to that, they needed time to aim towards the target and there were the issue lies. The more time they consumed to aim at the target before shooting, the more killing intent they release. Unless it was those people who were professionally and intensely trained to conceal their killing intent like international mercenaries and assassins, it was almost impossible to kill [Leader Types] in one shot.

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The reason to this was Mei's eye ability, [Optical Zoom] and [Bullet Time]. She was not even relying on her scope too much and was aiming with her bare eyes. She was using both abilities especially against the [Leader Type], [Predator Type] and [Agility Type] infected. It was because those three types of infected were the fastest kinds. She was not using the scope too much when dealing with the fast infected due to the fact that the scope was inhibiting her field of view.

[Agility Type] infected, as their name implied were those that could move the fastest compared to other infected types. They had no redeeming physical features aside from their agility but their attack patterns were rather erratic and random. They could move too fast and the muscle springs of their limbs were too strong that they could sometimes use walls, ceilings and other structures to propel their bodies towards their prey.