The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 247 - 242: Testing Ground

Chapter 247: Chapter 242: Testing Ground

The monsters that spit strong acid move slowly, but it’s unknown how resistant they are to attacks.

As Gao Yuan was thinking, he saw two soldiers fire a rocket launcher at the monster.

The rocket hit the monster without exploding, but it did penetrate the bug’s body.

"The bug is so soft! The rockets can’t even detonate!"

Everyone on site made their judgment quickly, and then an anti-aircraft gun with twin 23mm barrels opened fire on the bug.

A series of shells penetrated the bug’s body, then green liquid swiftly began to spurt out of various small holes in its body. Subsequently, the bug started to wriggle and soon ceased moving altogether, its body deflating like a leaking water balloon as the liquid continued to ooze out and it gradually shrank.

"Not hard to deal with, these creatures will be eliminated."

Gao Yuan was concerned the Serpent People might release the bugs, but he was not afraid of these super-sized bugs. Although they looked and moved like bugs and even spit strong acid, they weren’t tough to handle as long as there was sufficient firepower.

Moreover, a ship couldn’t carry many of these large bugs, so there was no need to worry too much about this type.

Armored Beasts, Acid-Spraying Bugs, what else?

Zhao Qiang ran up to Mosavizadeh and hurriedly said, "As soon as you spot the aliens deploy the bugs, let the flamethrowers open fire immediately! Don’t worry about collateral damage!"

Mosavizadeh bowed his head and hurried toward the square, while Zhao Qiang whispered to Gao Yuan, "How about it, still confident?"

"Yes!"

"Good, continue observing the battle! We’ll assist if necessary, but retreat immediately if things go south, Chunxiao!"

Liu Chunxiao quickly stepped forward, and Zhao Qiang took a breath, resting his hand on Chunxiao’s shoulder and speaking softly, "We’ve only got one flamethrower, and you’re the only one who can handle it. I’m not afraid of anything except those small bugs. Remember, your only task is to protect Gao Yuan and Xinghe, got it?"

Chunxiao replied softly, "Understood, won’t fire unless I see the bugs. I’ll save the firepower for when it’s most critical."

Zhao Qiang nodded and then whispered, "Let’s go take a look!"

The battle on the square had stopped. The general offensive, which lasted not even two minutes, had ended in utter devastation.

But astonishingly, someone crawled out of a tank, then collapsed onto the ground before shakily standing up, looking around in a daze.

"The Serpent People’s experimental targets and characteristics are very obvious—they are testing various weapons. Those large bugs are probably meant to deal with buildings and fortifications, right? Imagine, if we were all hiding in a sturdy underground shelter, and small bugs couldn’t get in, but then comes a bug that can burrow and corrode iron doors..."

Gao Yuan was just looking at the remnants of tanks on the square when he suddenly turned pale and exclaimed, "Not good!"

Zhao Qiang also realized, and with a gulp and anxious face whispered, "Let’s go check on those large bugs, quick, hurry!"

Gao Yuan turned and ran back, and the rest of the group quickly followed.

The scenario Gao Yuan had just described was perfectly suited for dealing with the underground command base of the highest headquarters.

When they reached the area corroded by the acid spit out by the large white flesh bugs, Wang Ning suddenly shouted, "Stop advancing, the smoke produced by this liquid when it contacts the air is toxic."

The ground was pitted with corrosion from mere drops of the liquid, and Gao Yuan didn’t want to imagine what would happen to the base’s iron doors if they encountered such liquid.

"This isn’t just strong acid! It’s not just acid... Wait, if it’s only these bugs, the threat wouldn’t be so great. They should be used in combination with flying insects or something similar..."

No sooner had Wang Ning finished speaking than Gao Yuan shouted, "To hell with it, run back! Fast! Fast!"

Were the Serpent People merely testing weapons?

Now it seemed not, as the Serpent People were also testing tactics, a strategy of using multiple weapons in combination.

The Armored Beasts cleared the obstacles, the Acid-Spraying Bugs breached defenses, and the flying insects swarmed in.

Currently, these creatures were few in number and seemed easy to deal with, but what if their numbers were in the hundreds or thousands?

"Why are we retreating?"

Wang Ning asked puzzledly, then continued, "I want to collect some acid samples. Although I’m not a chemist, but..."

"It’s your damn head!"

Gao Yuan lifted Wang Ning onto his shoulder and yelled, "Run!"

Everyone started running again, following Gao Yuan. He glanced at Xinghe, who was by his side, and shouted, "Haven’t you thought about it? The Serpent People are clearly following a sequence: first, the Armored Beasts disrupt the defense, then the large bugs spray acid. Since the large and small bugs are meant to work together, doesn’t that mean the small bugs are next?!"

Li Jingang said urgently, "You just figured that out? I thought of that long ago! It’s just like tanks paving the way and providing cover, combat engineers blowing open the doors of bunkers, and then the infantry entering to clear out the remnants. It’s roughly the same idea."

"Then why didn’t you say so earlier?"

"I thought you wanted to observe the small bugs!"

Gao Yuan and his team swiftly ran back to Mosavizadeh, who at the moment was using the radio to command his troops to counterattack at a remarkably fast pace.

Zhao Qiang grabbed Mosavizadeh and urgently said, "Pay attention to the direction of that giant bug!"

Mosavizadeh pointed at the body of the giant bug and hurriedly said, "Four ships dropped monsters, this kind, and that kind!"

One was an Armored Beast, the other a giant bug; four ships, two types of monsters, the tactical purpose was extremely clear, the experimental nature was extremely clear.

What are the characteristics of experimental weapons? Or rather, under what circumstances are weapons in the testing phase used?

The answer is, every weapon must withstand the test of harsh environments, so every weapon, during its experimental phase, needs to be tested in adverse conditions.

A soldier will take good care of his rifle, but before a rifle is finalized in its design, it needs to go through various trials, like throwing the gun into mud and firing it after fishing it out, firing it immediately after it gets sand in it without cleaning it, firing it right after taking it out from a freezer at tens of degrees below zero, continuously firing as many bullets as possible until the barrel is shot to the point of failure, and so on.

Even civilian vehicles need road tests, like testing for quick ignition in extremely cold environments, placing them in the hottest places for testing, or bringing them to high-altitude plateau areas to test if the vehicle can function in these extreme conditions.

If civilian vehicles need road tests, then military equipment will undergo even more rigorous testing.

The Serpent People could drop monsters where Dushanbe’s defenses were lax to cause greater damage, but if their purpose was to test weapons, they would of course choose to clash head-on, opting to air-drop monsters in the place with the densest firepower and toughest defenses.

And then the Serpent People did exactly that.

So the two types of monsters appeared; what next?

Mosavizadeh’s biggest concern was this. He turned to Zhao Qiang and urgently said, "We killed all the monsters! But there are two more ships! What other monsters are there? What else?"

"There are bugs!"

Zhao Qiang pointed to the huge bug and then said urgently, "The bugs are likely to appear near that kind of giant bug. Aim the flamethrowers there, be ready to launch at any moment. Is the range enough? Is the range enough for the other location?"

Flamethrower tanks, called tanks, are actually a type of huge weapon system designed for flame-throwing. This weapon is very powerful, but it also has great limitations because its maximum range is only thirty-five hundred meters.

However, as long as the range is sufficient, everything else is easy to handle.

Mosavizadeh immediately took the radio in his hand and began to speak rapidly.

"He said to aim the flamethrower tanks at the giant bug’s location and to fire immediately once the aliens air-drop monsters. We’re too close to the giant bug now, hurry up and retreat!"

Mosavizadeh had already started retreating, and without hesitation, Gao Yuan and his team started running, even outpacing Mosavizadeh.

"There’s a problem!"

Nie Erlong shouted, "Why haven’t the Serpent People released the Electromagnetic Pulse until now?"

Radios were still working, which meant the Serpent People hadn’t released an EMP, something they could easily do.

"Because this is a weapons testing ground!"

Liu Deguang answered Yu Shunzhou’s question. He was holding a rocket launcher, his face calm as he said, "I have participated in the final testing of several types of armored vehicles. For example, during the command vehicle tests, they have to withstand electronic interference, so we have to perform electronic interference. The same principle applies in reverse. The aliens aren’t trying to destroy this city; they’re testing weapons here, so they will increase the difficulty. I think, the monsters today very likely do not carry the zombie virus because using the zombie virus would negate the point of a test."

Nie Erlong was taken aback for a moment, then asked, "Why?"

Liu Deguang was still calm as he said, "Aside from this place, where can the aliens find another city so populous, with so many buildings, and with ample armed forces to test weapons?"

Zhao Qiang was stunned for a moment, then he immediately said, "Makes sense, let’s get in the car!"

Just then, Mosavizadeh shouted again, and soon after, Gao Yuan heard a dull thud that seemed to come from the bottom of his heart.

It wasn’t shrill; it was a very, very muffled explosion. Gao Yuan instinctively covered his ears, then felt a gust of wind sweeping past.

Gao Yuan turned around and saw about four or five hundred meters away, a black mushroom cloud rising from the ground.

The wind was strong, but there was no difficulty breathing because they were far enough away from where the Fuel-Air Bomb exploded.

Gao Yuan looked up at the sky, where he saw two of the Serpent People’s ships hovering at a height of only about two or three hundred meters above the ground.

He had not even seen how the Serpent People had deployed the flying bugs. He had not seen?

Gao Yuan was annoyed, but Mosavizadeh, who had already been behind them and was now running ahead after turning around, spoke a few words into the walkie-talkie and then suddenly raised his arms and roared, "Ura!"

There were about twenty people following Mosavizadeh, but no one echoed Mosavizadeh’s cheer; however, after Mosavizadeh shouted something Gao Yuan did not understand, everyone immediately started cheering.

"We won? Just like that, we won?"

Gao Yuan looked at Zhao Qiang, who nodded and said in a low voice, "The general said the bugs the aliens just dropped are all dead. We... we’ve won."

Suddenly, Mosavizadeh rushed over like a madman, grabbed Zhao Qiang, and started spinning around with him. As Zhao Qiang was spun around, he still managed to turn his head and say to Gao Yuan, "Should we retreat now?"