Chapter 791.2: Inside Job

“Probably,” Ice and Fire replied casually. He gestured to the strength type player loading behind him while searching for his next target as he spoke. “Those guys probably rushed inside to grab their guns... These bastards really are dumb.”

The mounting casualties clearly enraged the Mutant Humans on the ground. Anti-aircraft guns hidden among the ruins spat tongues of flame, sending streaks of tracer fire drifting through the night sky like willow fluff as they attempted to drive away the Overlord circling above the battlefield.

Seeing what was happening below, Bun, sitting in the cockpit, pushed the throttle forward to increase engine output. The exhaust plumes from the four plasma engines stretched even longer. As they accelerated, he yelled, “Hold on tight!”

Hearing his voice over the communications channel, the three players beside the side hatch immediately returned to their seats and fastened their safety belts securely.

At the same time that the Overlord transport aircraft fitted with the 155mm cannon accelerated to evade the incoming fire, four P-2 Lightning attack aircraft swept into the battlefield from the south!

Each attack aircraft locked onto two anti-aircraft positions. Almost simultaneously, they opened fire, pouring a rain of 37mm armor-piercing incendiary rounds onto the ground!

BRRRT!

The Mutant Humans manning the anti-aircraft positions were so focused on firing at the gunship in the sky that they never even had a chance to hear the roar of the autocannons. Together with the fortifications around them, they were shredded to pieces by the rain of fire descending from above.

The entire defensive position was filled with the scorched smell of roasted meat. Countless Mutant Humans and Goblins cut down by shrapnel lay wailing amid the shattered fortifications without ever even seeing where their enemies were.

One P-2 Lightning attack aircraft after another streaked over the clouds of dust and smoke from the explosions.

“Beautiful!” Looking at the devastation below, Bun laughed and shouted over the communications channel. He then eased back the throttle he had nearly pushed to its limit and stepped on the rudder, guiding the aircraft back onto its predetermined attack course.

The rail-mounted 155mm cannon slid back toward the hatch, extended out of the side of the craft, and resumed firing.

With their anti-air defenses completely paralyzed, the Mutant Humans had lost all means of resistance. They began retreating into their shelters, hoping to ride out the air raid by contracting their defensive perimeter. However, they clearly had no idea that the New Alliance’s operation tonight had never been intended to end after claiming a few kills.

Four Overlords packed with monsters from the Burning Corps were already following close behind the P-2 Lightning attack aircraft and charging toward the battlefield!

Seeing the paratroopers approaching, Bun glanced at the situation on the ground, switched communications channels, and shouted, “Enemy anti-aircraft positions have been neutralized! Ground units are withdrawing into their shelters! Brothers of the Burning Corps, it’s your turn!”

A brief burst of static crackled through the communications channel, followed by a firm and powerful reply.

“Copy!”

At the same moment those words fell, parachutes blossomed one after another across the night sky. Warriors clad in exoskeletons rode the noisy evening wind down toward the battlefield.

The Mutant Humans hiding inside their shelters had no idea that an entire battalion of the enemy’s elite force had silently descended right on top of them.

Those were true monsters, the elites of the New Alliance!

Although they were not as specialized in slaughtering Mutant Humans as the Jungle Corps, there was no questioning their combat strength! They were ready at any moment to use the flames burning within their chests to incinerate the evil corroding order, and the blades in their hands to bring death to the New Alliance’s enemies!

“All units, attention! This operation is designated Operation Quicksand! Our objective is to devour all of the enemy combat forces! There is no retreat plan! Everyone fights until the very last moment! Until either the enemy or every last one of us has fallen!”

“Fire at will!”

The morale-filled roar echoed across the communications channel, while flames of excitement burned in the eyes beneath their helmets.

“COPY!”

The first to storm into the concrete bunker was the first platoon of the second company. 30 exoskeleton-clad players divided themselves into squads and stabbed viciously toward the Mutant Human soldiers hiding inside the shelters from nine different directions like a sharp dagger.

Clearly having never expected to encounter New Alliance ground troops, the greenskins were startled. They hurriedly pulled out their weapons and returned fire, but they were still caught completely off guard.

The rapid chatter of gunfire echoed through the tunnels. Faced with concentrated volleys of bullets, Mutant Human after Mutant Human fell where they stood. Within mere seconds, corpses covered the entrance to the bunker’s first defensive line.

“Charge! Stop them!” roared the Mutant Human who had been sent to the front to replace the dead captain, shoving the underlings beside it forward.

Amid the shouting and roaring, a 100-creature unit that had finally managed to assemble rushed into the bunker’s entrance hall with weapons in hand and exchanged fire with the New Alliance soldiers who had broken in!

Dense streams of bullets tore through the confined space and the battle instantly became a brutal deadlock!

Shoulder pressed tightly against the cover, Coincidence gestured to the brother beside him. The latter immediately understood, pulled out a flare gun, loaded a flare, and fired it toward the front.

The flare slammed hard into the wall and then went completely still, as quiet as a stone. However, the agitated high-frequency radio signal had already transmitted the strike coordinates into the night sky above!

“Artillery in position! Take cover!” Coincidence roared, then immediately stopped firing.

“Copy!”

The other players responded and ducked their heads, pressing their helmets against the cover. They activated their impact-dampening modules and braced themselves for the shockwave.

Seeing the enemy fire suddenly die down, the Mutant Human centurion commanding the front line immediately brightened with delight. Just as it thought its side’s ferocious firepower had successfully suppressed the invaders, a deafening explosion erupted overhead.

In a daze, it caught sight from the corner of its eye of a dark object smashing straight through the concrete ceiling above before plunging down not far behind it.

Boom!

Dust billowed everywhere and before it could turn around and see what had happened, the flames of the secondary explosion ripped it out from behind cover and hurled it violently into the ceiling!

“ARAAGH!”

Amid its unwilling howl, the bunker’s first defensive line was swiftly breached. The ground was covered in mangled chunks of flesh and scattered green limbs.

“The first defensive line is down! We’re assaulting the second line now!”

“Casualties?”

“None so far!”

“Beautiful!”

Hearing the good news from two hundred meters away, Peepo, whose feet had only just touched the ground, could not help but exclaim in excitement.

According to their intelligence, only a little over 1,000 Mutant Humans were stationed in the area. If they could keep up this momentum, there was a chance that the 400 or so brothers of their unit could smash straight through the Mutant Human positions and drive their supposed feint attack directly into the heart of the Torch Church!

At the thought, he shouted excitedly over the communications channel. “Keep attacking! Don’t give the enemy a second to breathe!”

Coincidence answered enthusiastically. “Yes!”

The squads that had broken into the bunker continued advancing, colliding head-on with the Mutant Humans pouring in from the rear!

Only then did the bloody meat grinder truly begin!

Coincidence, who had originally been advancing almost effortlessly, gradually began to feel the pressure, especially after the airborne gunship ran out of bunker-buster shells, more and more huge Mutant Humans, Warriors, and even Plague Champions entered the battlefield, and the situation steadily became more difficult.

Those Mutant Humans were, after all, somewhat different from the rabble on Ten Peaks Mountain. During Chalas’s era, North Island Heavy Industry had designed more advanced infantry weapons specifically for them.

That included Mutant Human assault rifles designed specifically to defeat polyethylene ballistic plates, as well as portable anti-armor weapons such as shaped-charge grenade launchers and rocket launchers.

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