Chapter 40: Disappearance of the Reconnaissance Team
Big guy?
Even after just witnessing a colossal Corrosive Vulture, for to still refer to an entity as a ‘big guy’, it definitely wasn't small.
The hurricane in the air had subsided, but the hurricane in people’s hearts still raged.
The crowd, having just experienced a series of shocks, craned their slightly stiff necks and looked through their binoculars in the direction I pointed.
At the end of their line of sight, a humanoid shadow was slowly erging from the hazy dust with its advancing steps.
The change in size due to distance, coupled with its seemingly slow movents, made its appearance far less imposing than when the Corrosive Vulture appeared.
However, a horizontal comparison with the surrounding buildings on the sa level revealed that this humanoid figure was almost as tall as a two-story building.
“That… could it be…”
Luo Shi muttered to himself.
Even though he had beco sowhat numb after the Corrosive Vulture’s appearance, his heart still stirred considerably at the sight of that figure.
In all his years as a Security Team squad captain, this was the first ti he had lost his composure to such an extent.
In the world of the wasteland, humanoid monsters could mostly be classified as ‘walkers’.
As the figure’s silhouette beca clearer, its identity was confird.
Its bluish-gray skin was distinctly different from both ordinary walkers and Swift Walkers.
Its basically humanoid form was also severely deford.
Unlike the slender build of Swift Walkers, the Giant Walker’s bloated and robust physique was extrely exaggerated.
Its body had more accumulated fat than muscle, piled up in rolls around its abdon.
Compared to its massive body, its head appeared abnormally small.
Its movent was more like a moving mountain of flesh; its heavy body caused the ground to crack further with every step it took.
Giant Walker……
Upon seeing it for the first ti, information about it accurately surfaced in my mind.
Like Swift Walkers, Giant Walkers were also a branch in the mutational process of walkers.
Similar to Swift Walkers, they were a relatively common type of walker.
And the reason I rembered it so vividly was not just this, but a more profoundly engraved past experience that made my impression so deep.
Although the category of Giant Walker was relatively common, the individual Giant Walker before us was not within the so-called ‘common’ scope.
And the reason why everyone was once again shocked was precisely the sa: the evolutionary stage of this Giant Walker.
“Tier two and a half… No, that’s not right, it’s a true Tier 3.”
The initial judgnt of the Giant Walker’s stage was very simple and direct, based on judging the subject’s height and build.
Luo Shi had dealt with monsters for over a decade, and the size of that Giant Walker was definitely the largest individual of its kind he had ever seen.
Its height of nearly six ters alone showed a significant difference from its Tier 2 counterparts.
Reaching this conclusion, even he himself found it hard to believe.
Tier 3… In the sixteen years since Chu Sheng City was built, the number of recorded Tier 3 monsters was only in the double digits.
No one doubted Luo Shi’s conclusion, and this also made and Han Nianling involuntarily think of the Tier 2 Headhunter Wild Dog we had seen in the subway station.
Mutated beasts and walkers were two completely different populations.
It was impossible to accurately compare mutated beasts and walkers of the sa tier horizontally.
However, it was obvious that the comprehensive strength of this Tier 3 Giant Walker was far superior to that Tier 2 Headhunter Wild Dog, drastically increasing the danger level of the central urban area of the JD Ruined City Nuclear Wasteland Area.
“It’s heading towards the city center.”
Following the sa route as the Witch and the Corrosive Vulture, this Tier 3 Giant Walker that had entered our line of sight was also heading towards the center of the JD Ruined City.
This discovery further convinced them that there was indeed sothing in the center of the JD Ruined City that attracted the Witch and a host of high-tier monsters.
“Second Reconnaissance Team, can you hear ? Second Reconnaissance Team, please respond!”
When the Giant Walker’s massive form disappeared behind the buildings, we all then realized that the figure of the Witch ‘Tyrant’, who had been overlooked, had also long since vanished from her original spot.
Luo Shi imdiately began trying to establish contact with the second team, but behind the continuous static, there was never any response from the other side.
Just now, while their attention was briefly diverted, the reconnaissance team had lost contact……
Luo Shi’s heart plunged to freezing point.
He raised his hand and looked at the signal sources of the two reconnaissance team mbers on the display screen.
The rhythmic signal waves ca in bursts, like a beating heart rate.
However, from this, Luo Shi couldn't feel any vitality of life.
He was already considering the worst possible scenario.
“First Reconnaissance Team, imdiately approach the signal source of the Second Reconnaissance Team. Others, follow behind, ready to provide support at any ti.”
The squad, having left the building, imdiately headed in the direction where the Second Reconnaissance Team had disappeared.
However, after the shock of the series of high-risk monster appearances just now, no one dared to lower their guard in the slightest.
When they approached the building where the Second Reconnaissance Team had last taken cover to avoid the Corrosive Vulture, the faint sll of blood made everyone’s expression turn ugly.
Their footsteps paused slightly at the window.
When Luo Shi cautiously peered inside, the scene that t his eyes imdiately sent him into a fit of extre rage.
In a dark corner, more than a dozen walkers were gathered in several groups, heads down, gnawing on the tattered corpses in their midst.
The mangled, bloody remains were no longer recognizable as human, but the surrounding scraps of clothing proved that they had once been part of a Security Team mber.
“Damn it… Fire!”
As soon as Luo Shi shouted this command, the squad mbers had already aid their guns at the walkers devouring their comrades’ corpses.
In the blink of an eye, bullets spewed from the muzzles and hit these walkers, who were oblivious to the danger and still enjoying the flesh and active cells.
More than a dozen walkers were killed on the spot, without even having ti to let out a roar.
After a few seconds of silence, Luo Shi was the first to step into this bloody scene, walking straight towards the center of the gore.
The dust on the blood-soaked ground had already coagulated into clumps.
As he stepped down, a deep, bloody footprint was left behind.
The congealed dust did not stir in the slightest; it had solidified along with the blood.
These military boots had clearly trodden through countless pools of blood, but when they stepped on the blood of his team mbers, it felt like walking into a muddy swamp, each step taken with such effort.
While taking off his tactical gloves, he slowly knelt beside the shattered corpse, disregarding the blood and filth, and rummaged through it with his bare hands, searching for sothing.
It wasn't until he found an oval-shaped tal piece from the corpse that he moved towards another piece of remains.
It was the Security Team’s identification tag for personal information.
This scene made involuntarily reach for my pocket, where I kept the rcenary ID I had obtained before entering the JD Ruined City Nuclear Wasteland Area.
This cold piece of tal separated the realms of life and death, but no matter how cold it was, it was still warr than this world.
It seed… the Luo Shi before wasn't as detestable as I had previously imagined……
“Take care of it……”
After finding both team mbers’ identification tags and putting them into the pocket of his tactical vest, Luo Shi slowly walked out of the small building, silently breaking the silence that had persisted from beginning to end.
The team mbers who had been observing then entered the building, collecting and cleaning up the weapons and equipnt scattered around.
“Ordinary walkers could never have done this.”
Coming before Han Nianling, Luo Shi lowered his voice and said, his calm tone seeming to suppress sothing.
He already had a judgnt about the culprit who killed his two team mbers.
It wasn't just him; I and Han Nianling both agreed with his statent.
A re dozen ordinary walkers could not possibly be a match for two fully ard and well-trained Security Team soldiers, let alone prevent them from even sending out an alarm.
The breaks in the corpses were not just bite marks from walkers; those smooth cuts could only have been made by a sharp weapon.
And the only one capable of doing this was the Witch ‘Tyrant’.
“Report our specific location to the observation post. Continue tracking the Witch.”
“Understood.”
In the next second, an abrupt wave of intense heat suddenly ca from behind them.
The abnormality in temperature made glance back.
The team mbers responsible for cleaning up were exiting the building one after another, and that bloody scene was engulfed by rising flas.
Amidst sporadic explosions, all traces were burned to ashes.
The black visors under the team mbers’ helts reflected the leaping flas.
Even the end for a Security Team mber was rely this.
At this mont, they were no different from rcenaries, scavengers, or commoners.
This was also the best outco in such a high-risk area: along with everything else, turned to powder, avoiding the fate of their remains being devoured by monsters.
And the living had to take over the baton from the dead and keep moving forward in this wasteland.
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