The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

White light flashed, and a Home-class aircraft carrier converted from a Predator-class heavy supply ship, escorted by two Vengeance-class light destroyers, escaped from hyperspace and came to the outer space of the planet Injori.

The hatch of the Homeland-class aircraft carrier opened, and one APOD-33 transport plane after another took off from the platform, carrying the recruits from the 131st and 132nd companies and landing towards the planet Injori.

The fourth civilization has set up several outposts on the Injori planet. These outposts are all set up near some Injorian towns and villages, but they will not be too close to them. Because the relationship between the Injoris and the fourth civilization is not that good, and their strong aggressiveness also makes it unrealistic to set up outposts in their cities.

The facilities in the outpost are very simple, a very simple apron, some simple maintenance equipment, and some weapons, ammunition and emergency communication facilities are buried underground, mainly to prevent those Injoli people who are wandering around from coming to steal.

A total of 400 recruits from the two companies were assembled in two parts.

The instructor gave a simple speech, "Listen! Let's go to a place ahead called Masangao City for a brief rest, and then we will enter the desert for a two-week training! The transport ship has been air-dropped in the predetermined area Supplies, when they show up next time, it will be two weeks later. Of course, getting these supplies is not an easy task, the first thing you have to face is those who even the Injorians dare not provoke too much Beast!"

Seeing the eager or fearful expressions on the faces of the recruits, the instructor continued: "There is also a very important point! The Injoli are extremely aggressive and unreasonable, so it is best not to talk to them. Let’s start a conflict so as not to get into unnecessary trouble! Although I have taught them a few times before, there are always exceptions. Well, let’s not talk nonsense, let’s go!”

The city of Masangao was 20 kilometers away from the outpost, and 400 recruits marched hard against the wind and sand, maintaining a high-intensity march, and finally arrived at the outskirts of the city after two hours.

However, what they saw was darkness, and the whole town was completely dark, and it didn't look like there were people at all.

The instructor immediately realized something was wrong, he raised his fist to stop the march, "The situation is wrong, notify all units, disperse immediately, and enter the fighting state!"

The soldiers of the two companies quickly dispersed, entered the combat state with squads as units, looked for bunkers on the spot, and entered the shooting position.

"Drone." The instructor waved his hand. In this training, this is something that only the instructor has the authority to use. When he found something wrong, he immediately dispatched the drone.

A soldier carrying a large box immediately opened the box and started the terminal. More than a dozen spherical drones flew out and flew towards the center of the town.

Through the screen, the instructor saw that the town was a mess everywhere, many buildings and vehicles were destroyed, and there were hideous bloodstains everywhere on the ground, and there were even traces of claws torn.

"Sir, the town should have been attacked. It looks like it was attacked by a beast." The soldier said, "Something unexpected happened, what should we do?"

The instructor frowned, now there are two ways in front of him, to continue the training, or to suspend the training. But if the training is suspended, there is no doubt that these recruits are all unqualified, and their efforts in the past three months will be in vain. However, if the training continues, no one can guarantee the result in the face of this unexpected situation.

He quickly made up his mind, connected to the communication, and said in a deep voice: "Masangao City has been attacked, and the city is dead silent. There should be no survivors. This is a situation that we have never encountered in previous recruit training, but... the battlefield There are no ifs, no assumptions, and no everything is ready! And our fourth civilization has no retreating soldiers!"

Huang Yehao nodded emphatically when he heard the communication, going to the battlefield to fight, who dares to say that the things encountered are always in the plan? If they leave this time because of an accident, no matter what the accident is, they will lose their qualifications to serve as soldiers!

Soldiers, there is no retreat!

"Company 132, stand guard and send out scouts! Company 131, act immediately and make a detour to the east of the city!" The instructor issued an order.

Huang Yehao followed the 131st company and started to act immediately, heading towards the east of the city. Along the way, the surrounding was completely silent, except for the sound of footsteps, there was nothing, not even the sound of birds and beasts!

As one of the training locations, Masangao City is a relatively remote town. After the town fell into silence, boundless darkness immediately shrouded it, making people shudder.

Soldiers also work in squads, and the person at the front of each unit turns on the headlights on their combat uniforms to illuminate the front.

At the same time, the 132nd Company sent two teams of scouts, each with 10 men, to enter the town from two directions. The town was still dead silent, and the horrible bloodstains on the road kept stimulating the nerves of these recruits.

"Look at this!" One of the groups discovered the situation, and a recruit pointed to the blood on the ground and shouted.

Others hurried over to look, but found a long bloodstain, which seemed to be left by something bloody on the ground, and there were two rows of bloody handprints beside it.

"Three fingers, in the shape of an Inchori hand." A soldier said, "and... there is no trace of a foot. I think... it seems that his lower body was cut off, and then he dragged the stump with his hands. The trace left by the previous crawl?"

"But the question is... where did his lower body go?" another soldier asked.

There was a look of fear in everyone's eyes. No matter what they said, they were just recruits who had been training for 3 months. Such a scene really exceeded their tolerance.

They looked at the place where the bloodstains stretched, and they were heading towards an incomplete house. They looked at each other and finally made up their minds, "Let's go and have a look, group 2, you follow behind and be on guard!"

"No problem." The captain of Group 2 immediately gestured, and the 10 soldiers immediately dispersed and surrounded the house in a fan shape.

The 10 people in group 1 looked solemn, picked up their weapons and walked towards the house.

When they came to the door, bloodstains stretched in, and there was more blood spreading from the ground inside. The team leader of group 1 gestured for everyone to divide into three teams, two teams lined up around the door, and the remaining team stood guard outside.

Hold up three fingers to count down, 3, 2, 1!

Bang! The captain kicked open the door!

Almost in an instant, a tentacle shot out from the door, directly hitting the visor of the captain's helmet like lightning, and the front part of the tentacle opened a big petal-like mouth and directly wrapped his helmet inside!

"What is that! What is that?! Ah! Ah!!!" The captain yelled in horror, picked up the M-8 Avenger assault rifle in his hand and fired indiscriminately. Although the tentacles didn't penetrate his helmet, they still dragged him towards the house.

Ta-ta-ta-ta! Da da da da da da! The captain's bullets fired indiscriminately, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

"Monster!! It's a monster!!" The others saw clearly what was shooting out the tentacles.

That was clearly the upper body of an Injoli, but at this moment he was completely devoid of human form, mutated tissues accumulated and swelled on his body, and even a huge eye grew on his back! And the tentacles grew from the fracture of its upper body, which was originally a spine!

"Quick! Kill it! Shoot! Shoot!!" The recruits suddenly panicked, shooting violently at the monster!

Da da da da da! ! ! Intensive gunshots resounded through the dark town, seeming to wake up the city. In the endless darkness, there were bursts of rustling sounds and suppressed low growls.

In the darkness, shadowy things crawled out from the ground and corners, let out a terrible roar, and rushed over following the sound!