The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse
Chapter 490 - 483 Solution

Chapter 490: Chapter 483 Solution

Satan’s headquarters really turned into a cafeteria.

Wang Buliuxing ate very quickly, and after he had hastily finished, he immediately wiped his mouth and said anxiously, "You guys keep eating, I need to rush to work."

Being alarmed and scared didn’t begin to describe Wang Buliuxing’s experience today. As an engineer, the events he encountered were a bit too stimulating for him.

After a long and arduous journey, being scared, and soaking in the water for half a day, Gao Yuan was very worried that the engineer might catch a cold like Ashraf had.

Gao Yang, however, was worried about something clearly different. He said seriously, "Engineer Wang, don’t rush to disassemble that ’Iron Watermelon’. We’ll do it after we get back to the base."

Wang Buliuxing hurriedly said, "I’m not going to disassemble it, I just want to quickly record everything while the memory is still fresh."

Gao Yang said gently, "Engineer Wang, what I mean is, you should be more cautious and pay attention to confidentiality."

Wang Buliuxing was obviously taken aback, but Gao Yang gave a wry smile of helplessness and said, "It’s not you we’re guarding against, but the sanitation workers. Don’t overthink it. Forget it, Hedgehog, go with Engineer Wang for a bit, find him a safe and hidden spot, and ensure that all non-related personnel can’t approach him."

Hedgehog stood up and made a gesture to Wang Buliuxing, saying warmly, "Let’s go. I will ensure your safety."

Wang Buliuxing didn’t say much, but he seemed somewhat displeased. Nevertheless, he turned and walked away first, with Hedgehog following behind.

Gao Yang gave a bitter laugh, shook his head, and Gao Yuan whispered, "Brother Yang, is it necessary to watch over Engineer Wang?"

"This isn’t surveillance, it really isn’t."

Gao Yang seemed very helpless as he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Do you know what sanitation workers are best at? Let me put it this way, sanitation workers are really, really good at assassinations, and we are all too familiar with each other, truly difficult to guard against. If the sanitation workers knew that we had seized that ’Iron Watermelon’, they would definitely activate their undercover operatives. Hmm, Hedgehog will explain to Engineer Wang, he’s done this kind of thing a lot."

"What, are there undercover sanitation workers here too?"

Several people laughed, albeit bitterly.

Gao Yang spread his hands and said, "More than just some. We recruited people from all over the world, and back then we were still in a honeymoon phase with the sanitation workers. God knows how many operatives the sanitation workers managed to plant among us. Although we’ve already cleared out quite a few, I estimate that there are still dozens, if not a hundred, of their operatives in my team. It’s impossible to guard against completely, we can only arrange more personnel around key figures and pay more attention to safety."

"Is Hedgehog a professional bodyguard?"

Gao Yang said with a smile, "Hedgehog is a bodyguard and also our security expert. He’s in charge of the entire base’s security and the protection of important personnel, and he’s doing a good job with all these security tasks."

Having said that, Gao Yang smiled and added, "The situation here has stabilized, and the rest is just a matter of beating a drowning dog, which the staff office is better at than we are. So after we finish eating, we’ll head straight back to the base. It’s safer there, and more importantly, there are many things we must do at the base."

Changing the subject, Gao Yang looked at Rabbit and asked, "Rabbit, do you have any thoughts?"

Rabbit was biting a soup spoon in his mouth, mumbling unclearly, "Still thinking about it."

Crow nudged Rabbit with his arm, and said, "Watch your image."

Rabbit took the soup spoon out of his mouth and then he said dreamily, "12.7mm rounds are useless, I wonder if 14.5mm with armor-piercing bullets will do."

Rabbit seemed lost in thought as he tried to scoop some soup with his spoon, when Gao Yang smacked his hand with chopsticks and said, "Dead Rabbit, how disgusting, with so many people here!"

Rabbit started and then came to his senses, "Oh, I got confused."

Gao Yang turned and said, "Xiao Yuan, has there been research on Armored Beasts back home? Any tests conducted? To take down an Armored Beast, don’t we at least need a 30mm cannon?"

Gao Yuan then understood what Gao Yang and Rabbit were discussing.

"Oh, you’re talking about this."

Gao Yuan continued to replenish his energy, so he didn’t stop eating while speaking, and said unclearly, "We haven’t actually done experiments with that, because we’re not short of heavy weapons back home. Knowing that Armored Beasts are tough to kill, we just greet them with heavy weapons. If light weapons don’t work, we switch to heavier ones."

Gao Yang frowned and said, "We still need to consider how an individual soldier can deal with an Armored Beast. The name ’Armored Beast’ is quite apt; it’s like infantry fighting tanks."

Gao Yuan replied, "Anti-tank rocket launchers, anti-tank missiles, but they’re not very effective. Whether it’s rockets or missiles, you have to hit the target squarely for the armor-piercing warhead to be effective. This leads to a problem: you must carry a large number of rocket launchers, but there’s a limit to how many rockets you can carry. Overall, Armored Beasts are hard to deal with."

"Rocket launchers are definitely needed since they’re the most readily available and convenient weapons. But they’re too inefficient. For a special forces team of four to eight, even if everyone has a rocket launcher, it’s not guaranteed to kill an Armored Beast. And you have to fire from a very close range, which means the combat response time is extremely short, and the margin for error is too low. We definitely need to find a way to increase the success rate," continued Gao Yang.

After Gao Yang finished, Li Jinfang said from the side, "Form a specialized anti-Armored Beast team, all members equipped with anti-tank missiles or rocket launchers, and treat the Armored Beasts like tanks, which should be about right."

Grolyov immediately shook his head and said, "That would take up too much of our resources, and the efficiency is too low. Armored Beasts are much more agile than tanks, and missile weapons are too slow and require too many preconditions, leading to a high casualty rate. Our personnel are precious; if we lose a team for one Armored Beast, we can’t afford that. But as it stands, a four-man anti-tank team taking down one Armored Beast is already doing well, which still is not an acceptable casualty rate."

Satan’s combat thinking vastly differs from that of the domestic military.

For Shenzhou, Armored Beasts are a major problem but not an insoluble one. If cannons are required to take down Armored Beasts since guns won’t work, then use cannons. Is such a simple issue even up for discussion?

But for Satan, heavy weapons do not seem to be their first choice.

No wonder, for a light special infantry team, to ask them to use large-caliber artillery to solve the practical issues encountered in combat is no joke.

Gao Yang thoughtfully said, "It has to be individual weapons, and at least those that can be deployed down to the squad level. Cannons... aren’t very realistic, how about anti-tank rifles?"

Rabbit said, "That’s why I mentioned 14.5mm. If regular bullets don’t work, what about armor-piercing? If armor-piercing doesn’t do the job, how about discarding sabot armor-piercing bullets?"

Hearing Rabbit’s words, Gao Yuan replied with a wry smile, "Ask me something else, and I might not be sure. But 14.5mm caliber really won’t work because we’ve tested firing armor-piercing rounds from the 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and they still can’t penetrate an Armored Beast."

Gao Yang said with a look of regret, "Well, there are mature solutions. Finland has a L-39 Lahti 20mm anti-tank rifle. You’re aware of this, right? But with a 20mm caliber, that’s practically a cannon."