Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 606 - 599: Calling the Vehicle

Chapter 606: Chapter 599: Calling the Vehicle

"Hold up, cease fire!" Seeing the situation, Luo’er quickly reacted, realizing they could use the corpses to distract these monsters and retreat. Dealing with the massive onslaught of monsters would surely consume too much ammunition. They needed at least a few more hours to escape from this forest, and the lack of ammunition could definitely cost lives.

"Everyone, retreat, don’t attack the feeding monsters!" Luo’er commanded, swallowing hard.

He observed how easily the soldier’s body was sliced and chewed by the monsters’ crescent-like mouthparts. Humans naturally feared these arthropods, especially when witnessing such colossal creatures devouring their own kind, which sent chills down their spines.

Apparently, these monsters attacked the purification army just for food. They were active in the afternoon, attacking and hunting all living beings in the epidemic area.

However, if that’s the case, there should be no corpse demons nearby, as these monsters were interested in flesh and wouldn’t merely let them turn into corpse demons. But Luo’er couldn’t be certain there were no corpse demons in the vicinity, as he couldn’t guarantee if these monsters ate corpse demons or not.

The Advance Team calmly provided cover fire as they retreated alternately. By now, they had given up on the remaining soldiers and allowed them to flee, depending on the strength of the two Advance Teams for protection during the retreat

Given the monsters’ speed and quantity of consumption, they would likely finish devouring the bodies of the lagging soldiers in half an hour and quickly catch up. Therefore, the Advance Team must seize the opportunity to retreat quickly.

Luo’er remembered the monsters’ attack method. The forest didn’t seem suited for their hunt. Otherwise, with their powerful hind legs, they could leap onto their prey like locusts. It seemed their mobility was impaired by the trees in the forest.

If his hypothesis was correct, they would need a strategic plan once they reached the edge of the forest. If these monsters launched an attack in the plains, they wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

However, Luo’er wasn’t excessively worried, as he had already called for air reinforcements. Once they reached the plains, they could immediately board the transport plane and leave the area, falling back to the rear.

To be honest, Luo’er was somewhat reluctant to discard the new soldiers of the Purification Legion. After all, he had personally trained them. Losing their lives casually like this seemed a waste. But he also understood — death was common in war. The greatest failure of the Purification Legion was underestimating the enemy’s strength, assuming an army equipped entirely with automated weapons would sweep through the epidemic area while they had no reserve troops to replenish losses.

If the Purification Legion sustained losses, replenishing the troops would be extremely challenging since they only trained 500 soldiers and deployed all of them, leaving no backup forces — to the point that they couldn’t even provide reinforcements or refills.

In Luo’er’s view, the Church Court had obviously overestimated the power of Earth’s weapons, resulting in the neglect of the Purification Legion’s establishment. Caught between the Judgement Legion and the Knights of the Temple, the newly formed Purification Legion’s status was awkward. The Church Court initially wanted to form a temporary biochemical unit to specifically deal with high infectivity corpse demons. After the epidemic, they planned to disband it, which is why the troop replenishment and equipment distribution seemed very casual.

Li Si mentioned that the Church Court’s original plan was to equip the Purification Legion with outdated Mosinka-Nagant rifles. It was thanks to the headquarters’ military advice and appropriate concessions, they agreed to equip AK series automatic rifles.

Although they were referred to as AK rifles, they were actually domestically-produced Type 56 submachine guns, specifically for export to Otherworld. The AK rifles in Otherworld were still mainly from Russia, but despite their good relations with Russia, the people at headquarters did not want to lose such a business opportunity to them.

The main enemies of the Purification Legion were corpse demons and a small number of exotic beasts. Although the exotic beasts were fast and easily exposed, they became the prime target of concentrated fire. And while corpse demons had a high infection rate, their slow movement didn’t pose much of a threat.

Before the onset of war, the Purification Legion’s soldiers were informed they would be fighting a large number of corpse demons and a few exotic beasts. They had impressions of these two types of monsters, so even if they were all new recruits, their morale wouldn’t collapse so quickly if only these two types of monsters appeared.

The main reason for the complete collapse of the morale of the Purification Legion was the sudden appearance of these arthropods. They moved swiftly, with extremely deadly effects, easily shaking the originally unstable will of the new soldiers, causing a complete line collapse.

Taking advantage of the monsters’ feasting, Luo’er and the others didn’t have time to cover each other’s retreat, but instead seized the moment to run at full speed. Their long-term military operations and related training saved them; this distance was equivalent to a few hours of marching with heavy loads. Although exhausted, they were able to cope.

Soon, the Advance Team overtook the retreating Purification Legion and ran ahead of them.

Luo’er noticed that the men of the Purification Legion were not merely retreating in name, but were completely scattering. Soldiers rolled and crawled, some even dropping their weapons, discarding their gas masks, all in the hope of running in the forefront.

Luo’er dared not judge the quality of these soldiers, he only knew that these recruits likely wouldn’t have an easy time when they returned. In the military, losing a weapon is a serious matter.

Moreover, some of the soldiers had removed their gas masks for easier breathing. Considering this is an epidemic area, even according to the headquarters’ standards, they would be detained and isolated for observation to see if they were infected. The Church Court had neither the patience nor the time for this. They might just kill them outright.

No matter how you put it, with the collapse of the morale of the Purification Legion, failure was inevitable. Luo’er was just worried if Carter would be punished, as he was the commander of the Purification Legion. The disintegration of the legion was a responsibility he cannot escape.

After running for almost two hours, they finally made it out of the forest and arrived at the camping site from the previous day. The area was already deserted, only a few tents left behind. No one knew where the people in charge of the logistics had gone.

"Luo’er, look up!" Tangmo pointed at the sky and reminded him.

Upon hearing Tangmo’s reminder, Luo’er looked toward the sky, only to see a transport plane hovering about three hundred meters above the ground, waiting for the signal from below.

Luo’er took a deep breath, calmed himself down a bit, then took a signal flare from his waist, aimed it at an open space not far away, and fired. The marker, once it was fired, instantly sent up red smoke from the ground. Seeing the red smoke on the ground, the transport plane in the air started to take action, hovering to adjust its position and slowly descents.

At this time, the soldiers from the Purification Legion started to crawl out of the woods, and then fled in disarray. Seeing this scene, Luo’er quickly ordered, "Everyone, guard the landing zone, don’t let anyone approach the transport plane!"

He didn’t want these soldiers to also board the transport plane and leave. After all, the carrying capacity of the transport plane was limited, it was just enough for them and it was impossible to take on any more people. In a worst-case scenario, if they had to take anyone else, it would have to be high-ranking officers, people of Carter’s level.

"Received!"

Hearing his command, the members of the Advance Team began to guard the landing zone. Although the Murong Squad was not part of Luo’er’s Advance Team, at this moment they also followed Luo’er’s orders.

Luo’er checked his weapon and prepared for guard duty. At this time, they were all sweating due to the protective suits, the sweat and heat could not permeate out, thus soaking their clothes completely.

Luo’er took a deep breath, and the pain in his chest finally subsided a bit. At this time, Carter also came out of the woods, his complexion was not very good, with a lost and confused expression on his face. With the help of several followers, he staggered out.

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