Byron's Blade

At the gate of the city, the smell of blood is permeating.Of the 37 soldiers who came out of the armored vehicle, 6 of them died the moment they got off the vehicle. Although the remaining soldiers confronted the five monsters for the first time, they still inevitably caused casualties.

However, this is also within Lani's expectation.Sometimes she is quite helpless, no matter how cold-blooded and cruel the calculation itself is, she still has to do the calculation inevitably.The cards in one's own hand, the cards in the opponent's hand, the overall situation, future predictions, and all the details are never overlooked.

The issue of life and death has plagued philosophers since ancient times, but the environment in which Lanny grew up taught her: in the face of inevitable huge losses, you should choose to make others pay more, let yourself pay less, and let some others pay more. To undertake, not collectively.When necessary, sacrifice the few and preserve the many.Only in this way can one become a qualified leader initially.

There was a wry smile on the corner of Lanny's mouth. If she told this theory to Mu Mu, she would definitely be angry, so she should reason with herself confidently.

Ali, how are you doing?I'm really worried about you...

"Short, major... Now, what should we do?" The corporal who had just been appointed as the temporary combat team leader by Lani asked Lani in a low voice. His name was William, and his voice didn't sound very good at the moment, as if Injured in the brief conflict just now.

"Hold on, the monster doesn't move, you absolutely don't move. If the monster moves, shoot together. Remember, the bullet must hit the eyes, and then send someone to cut the nerves in the ankle with a saber on the back of the monster. This step It is very critical, and it is related to whether we can kill the monster next. After the monster's ankle is cut off, the shoulder muscles connecting its two sickles and the aorta in the neck will be destroyed, so that it will lose its aggressiveness. Leave it alone, and soon will die."

"Yes, I understand." Corporal William's voice sounded a little more confident, and it seemed that Lanny's words had pointed him in the right direction.

"Are all five monsters in your encirclement now? Why do I only show four here?" Lanny suddenly noticed something unusual and asked.

"Eh? Wait a minute, I'll make sure." Corporal William was taken aback. Just as he was about to investigate, at this moment, a female soldier's scream broke into their conversation:

"The monster moved! Ah!"

"Shoot!" Lanny ordered decisively.

Lan Ni, who was squatting in the grass, immediately heard dense gunshots in the circle formed by several armored vehicles not far away. In addition, screams and roars also echoed in her ears.She clenched her fists tightly, her eyes fixed on it, waiting for the result of the battle.

This sound lasted for about two minutes, and finally stopped.The call request from Corporal William was displayed on Lanny's mask. Lanny connected and immediately asked:

"how?"

"Report to the major...the monsters were all killed by us...but...only two people survived..." Corporal William's voice was vain and weak as if it would drift away in the next moment.

"Kill all of them? Are you sure it's all of them? Four or five?" Lanny asked.

"It's four..." After struggling to finish saying this, Corporal William suddenly lost his voice, and Lanny frowned and called out several times:

"Hello? Corporal William, did you hear that? Please answer!"

But no one spoke.

Lan Ni cursed, thought for a moment, and decided to take the risk to confirm.She lowered her body, walked slowly through the grass with her waist bent, and moved closer to the convoy.While walking, try to make sure that there are no stones or branches under your feet, and you will not make too much noise.The first one to approach was an armored vehicle. She quickly approached the armored vehicle, and then slowly moved close to the vehicle. After moving to the edge of the vehicle, she clicked on the camera of the wristband ID, and quietly stretched her hand out of the area covered by the vehicle to take a picture a photo.Withdrawing her hand, she carefully observed the photo, and found that the encirclement formed by the car was silent, and there was no threat in sight.But because of the blind spots in the shooting, she still couldn't relax.

She took a deep breath, thought about the hidden route to get in, then lowered her body, quickly got out of the hidden car, swooped forward, rolled under the chassis of an overturned armored car, took cover, and then didn't stop much, her hands and feet And slowly moved to the left, quickly dodged out, and moved behind an armored vehicle closest to the battlefield.She quietly leaned out from behind the armored vehicle, and finally saw the entire battlefield from the clearest angle.The corpses of the four monsters were twitching slowly on the ground, they were still alive, the purple blood of the monsters flowed all over the ground, mixed with the blood of the soldiers, it was impossible to tell them apart.The corpses of soldiers were everywhere, with broken limbs and broken arms. Many corpses were completely cut into two pieces, or even three pieces. Lanny also saw a head rolling beside the wheel not far away. helmet.

A feeling of nausea rose from the bottom of her heart, and Lanny couldn't help retching.This was the first time she had come into such close contact with such a bloody battlefield in such an old age.Since joining the army, she has had the experience of going out to the city twice. This is the first time, and the other time was four years ago.At that time, she saw the dead for the first time, and saw the living Zerg and predators. Even though she almost died, she didn't think it was a big deal in retrospect.Only this time, nearly 40 people were under her command, and they won the victory after the tragic result of almost being wiped out. Thinking about the death of these people because of her own order, Lan Ni couldn't stand it.

Did I kill them?

No, my judgment is not wrong, this is the price that must be paid for victory.

She took a deep breath, suppressed the feeling of nausea, and slowly stepped into the center of the battlefield.There is also a monster that is missing, but at least there is no warning on the radar, so it should not be around here. She must save the two surviving people.

Walking on the thick blood-clotting steel suspension bridge, she finally found the survivors through life response exploration assistance. Corporal William and a female soldier were both seriously injured. Corporal William’s abdomen was cut open and his intestines flowed out. came out, and the right hand of the female soldier was gone.

Lanny couldn't drag these two people by herself, so she had to run towards the overturned medical car. Dr. Alita and two nurses in the car should still survive, and the green light representing them was still shining.

Lanny went around to the back of the medical car and tried to pull the door, but it got stuck.She slammed on the car door while calling Dr. Alita's id. After a while, Dr. Alita's voice sounded weaker:

"Major Freesman..."

"Doctor Alita, the battle outside is over, the danger is gone, I will rescue you now."

"The door...is stuck and I...can't open it from the inside..."

"It's okay, I'll find a way. Are Bailey and the adventurer still alive?"

"Well...all still alive..."

"That's good, just wait, I'll go find the tools and I'll be right back."

Lanny looked around, tools... how can there be tools... I can only look for them in the car, maybe the driver put a tool box in the car.

Thinking of this, she immediately stepped forward to search for other armored vehicles.But at this moment, she inadvertently saw a thick purple liquid dripping between the medical vehicle and the guardrail of the steel suspension bridge.

Is this...monster blood?Feeling suspicious, Lanny quietly walked to the edge of the gap and looked into the angled area formed inside.It turned out that a monster had died in this blind spot.

The fifth monster?Why would you die here?

Lanny squeezed into the gap and walked over to the monster's corpse to check.This monster seemed to have been dead for some time, at least earlier than the four in the battlefield.At this moment, the corpse has not moved at all, there is no sign of life at all, and the blood has drained dry.Lanny checked the monster's wounds. The muscles of the rear ankle and the muscles of both arms and shoulders were all severed. The wounds were deep, and the attackers were very ruthless.The fatal injury was a knife on the back of the neck, which directly severed the central nervous system, and the monster was almost dead.

The wound looks like it should be caused by the most common standard saber in the army.This should be the scene of the first battle. The battle broke out here, and the battle ended here. In such a narrow corner, a mantis-type first-level predator was killed quietly like this?Who killed it?Those 37 soldiers?Seems unlikely.Judging from the traces of the battle at the scene, there were no more than two people fighting this monster, and it was very likely that it was just one person.This person's skills are terrifying, even surpassing Mu Li, who is currently number one in Lan Ni's mind.

Wait, these wounds are... secondary wounds?Lanny found that the monster's severed tendons and hamstrings, including the fatal wound on the neck, had strange textures on the cut surface, as if it had been stabbed twice.

Why cut two knives at the same place?Is it... to cover up the weapon with which he originally fought?Who the hell?To kill a praying mantis-shaped predator in such a silent manner, and to hide his identity like this?enemy?companion?still......

Goosebumps crawled up Lanny's skin. After encountering Sister Bailey, she suddenly felt as if a thick fog had begun to fill her body, gradually blocking her vision.The turbulence and treachery made her, who had always boasted of her clever mind, gradually become confused and unable to see through.

Pulling herself together, Lanny decided to get down to business first.She ran to the armored cargo vehicle and found the toolbox in it.Pulling out a crowbar, she held it and ran towards the medical vehicle.When she came to the door of the car, she contacted Dr. Alita again to ask everyone to put on the oxygen supply device, and then she struggled to pry the car door with a crowbar.It's just that the car door was stuck unexpectedly, and she was too weak to open it for a while.

Just when she was concentrating on prying the car door, something suddenly patted her on the shoulder.She gasped in fright, trembled all over, turned around, and swung the crowbar in her hand.

"Hey! It's me!" The crowbar was quickly grasped, and Mu Li's figure appeared in front of Lan Ni.

"Heh...heh..." Lanny almost couldn't catch her breath. If she took off the helmet, she could see that her face was as pale as paper at the moment.

"Are you okay?" Mu Li asked her.

Lan Ni shook her head, and then began to look at Mu Li.This person really did not disappoint her, and came back with healthy limbs, but the injuries on his body were really embarrassing.Seeing that she was still dragging the forearm scythe of a praying mantis-shaped predator in her hand as a weapon, Lanny could probably imagine how this guy tortured and killed that monster.

Wait, could it be Ali who killed him?This idea was vetoed by herself as soon as it came up. If it was killed by this wood, why did she go to great lengths to cover it up?But she still opened her mouth to confirm:

"When did you come back?"

"Just came back, it looks like... this battle is very tragic."

"Yeah, almost the whole army was wiped out."

"How many survivors are there?"

"There are two lying there. In the medical vehicle, Dr. Alita and the two nurses are still alive, as well as Bailey and the adventurer."

"Add us, a total of 9 people?" Mu Li sighed, and then said, "I'll help."

"Are you okay? You've got injuries all over your body." Lanny asked.

"Fortunately, I can still hold on." After saying that, he took the crowbar from Lan Ni's hand, and pried open the door of the medical car with a "bang".The blinding light caused the only awake doctor in the car, Dr. Alita, to subconsciously squint her eyes and stretch out her hands to cover them.Mu Li glanced inside the car, seeing a mess, two patients and two nurses were in a coma, military doctor Alita made them lean side by side on the overturned bed, covered with a sheet, and put a mask on their nose and mouth. oxygen breathing machine.

Military doctor Alita herself was wearing a helmet, and gauze was wrapped around her right leg, with conspicuous bloodstains on it.

"Hey, are you the savior?" Seeing Mu Li appearing, Dr. Alita was still in the mood to joke.

"Let's talk about this when we get back to the city." Mu Li replied.

Mu Li and Lan Ni started to get busy, working together with the military doctor Alita to treat the wounds of the surviving Corporal William and the female soldier, and let all the wounded lie together.Mu Li's body was full of scars, and he had gone through another fierce battle. He was busy now and felt a little tired. He treated the wound briefly, and then sat side by side with Dr. Alita next to the overturned medical cart.Seeing that Lan Ni was still walking around in the battlefield, looking around, wondering what she was busy with, she couldn't help asking:

"Major, what are you doing?"

"It's okay, you guys rest first, I'll find something."

"Looking for something?" Mu Li felt puzzled.

Lan Ni didn't answer Mu Li again, but kept looking for something among the soldiers' corpses based on a faint impression.

How not?Could it be that I remembered wrongly?Should be able to find that sonar device, otherwise there is no way to control the predator.Could it be that he was thrown into the moat?In other words, the traitor is not outside the city, but has already entered the city.Or, the mole lost the sonar device and is dead.Otherwise, this person should be among the 9 of us...

"Major Friesman, the city gate is closed, and we can't communicate with the inside, what should we do?" Military doctor Alita asked.

Lanny replied: "Wait! Don't worry, if we get through this, they will let us into the city."

Really, where does the confidence come from?Mu Li muttered something in his heart.