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The sounds of explosion and gunfire from the frontline attracted the green zombies in the area. The two thousand zombies of the queen egg turned their attention to the scene and ran toward the battlefield while they screamed and roared.
The queen egg also stuck out her tentacle eyes to peek at the scenes. Her tentacles that were with the eyes were not the usual green ones, but they were red, the same color as the alpha egg!
The eyes got out of the queen's mouth for an instant, and n.o.body had noticed its color.
Once the queen saw several robots and tanks, she emitted the pheromone to get back the attention of the zombies.
The green undead army was attracted by the odor of the queen. It turned around and walked back toward the egg.
However, the queen moved. The 12-meter-tall egg rolled toward the north, heading toward the backline of the government army!
The movements of the queen shocked the mutants. However, as it favored them because the queen ignored the mutant soldiers and brought the zombies to the other side instead.
With this, Crystal and her crew did not have to worry about fighting them.
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On the other side, Zeris and Balam could not partic.i.p.ate in this battle as they had to rescue the harvesters. All of them exited the battlefield to recover all coc.o.o.ns and the personnel inside, dead or alive.
Crystal also ordered the infantry units to split into two battalions. One had to a.s.sist Zeris and Balam to secure all coc.o.o.ns. The second platoon had to join the fight with the government army.
Meanwhile, as the Tautog mechs were engaging with the government forces, Misha equipped herself with battle gears.
While she was at it, Crystal placed her spare exoskeleton suit before Misha.
"This?"
"Put it on. You can move faster on the battlefield with this."
"T-Thank you!"
Misha accepted Crystal's goodwill and wore it.
The exoskeleton was as its name, an outer skeleton suit. It was a supporting suit, which could boost the wearer's mobility and jumping power.
Misha was also given an anti-mech rifle, 20 AP bullets, and a rock-propelled grenades launcher, aka RPG, which suited her supporting role as a backup force.
The AM rifle had 1,350mm barrel length, 20kg weight, and it used 20mm cartridge. To ordinary people, this gun should not be called a rifle anymore. It was more of a portable cannon.
"You don't have to get to the frontline. Use these and give us a cover fire from the back. Let the big boys in the army handle the rest, okay?"
"Okay."
Crystal allowed Misha to roam the battlefield and find an advantage point on her own as they lacked firepower. As for herself, Crystal remained in the commander truck to coordinate with her soldiers.
Misha parted from the command truck. She kept her distance from the queen egg's site and the battlefield of the mech units.
As she ran, her yellow eyes darted around the wasteland, looking for a suitable hiding place for her sniping spot in the dark night.
Unfortunately, this was a barren land without any wreckage or an abandoned building. Aside from the b.u.mpy geography and sand dunes, Misha did not have many places to hide.
Without many options, Misha lay p.r.o.ne behind a sand dune and observed the battle with her rifle scope.
One kilometer further away, Misha spotted a government AHMU mech, which had transformed into a semi-mech-tank.
'The helmet of each mech always contains vision sensors for the c.o.c.kpit. This is also the only area that a 20mm round can penetrate since a smaller size AP can't get through the armor plates.'
The teaching of Thorn appeared in Misha's mind when she was deciding where to shoot.
No hesitation remained in her eyes, she adjusted the AM-rifle, aiming at the weakest gla.s.s parts of the mech's head.
*BOOM*
*CLANK*
The loud boom sound from the mini-cannon echoed throughout the wasteland. If Misha had not worn ear protection, her eardrums would have been shattered to pieces.
*Mrrr!*
Tama shrunk back all tentacles inside Misha's body as it was panicked by the sound.
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"Wow."
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At the other end of the bullet path, the softest gla.s.s sensors shattered from the AP sh.e.l.l, and all monitors inside the mech's c.o.c.kpit lost the visual.
The pilot cried out in shock as he communicated with his teammate, "I'm hit! Water 7 is. .h.i.t! I've lost my sensors."
Because of the chaotic fight and random bullets flying around, no one had the time to pay attention to the damage of a mech. Each tank and AHMU of the Mafdet Federation were so focused on the Tautog suits that kept jumping and flying around.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
The Tautog did not play around. By the time Misha sniped one mech, their team had disabled five mechs and three tanks in an instant. However, two mechs of their teammates were crippled as well.
*BOOM*
The blinded mech was. .h.i.t by a 150mm AP sh.e.l.l from Tautog One of Dolphin, and the bullet went into the c.o.c.kpit, killing the pilot inside.
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Siren in Dolphin c.o.c.kpit rang as more missiles from the missile trucks came at him again.
"Hmm."
Dolphin switched his targets to the oncoming missiles to protect himself. He did not notice that the bullet came from Misha.
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"Wow. They are efficient."
Misha observed the battle from afar. Within five minutes of fighting, Tautog squad has already taken down one-third of the enemies.
"My EXP …"
She scanned the battlefield again, hoping for more preys to feed her level.
Then, she found another mech in her range.
"Free EXP."
Misha pulled the trigger.
*BOOM*
*CLANK*
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"Kakakaka. Next!"
Misha picked her AM-rifle to change her sniping location and search for the next prey.
Unfortunately, because of her tunnel vision, she did not notice a horde of tattoo zombies which were running after the sounds of her gunfire.
*SCREEECH!*
The zombies screamed and ran after Misha.
Hearing the familiar screech, Misha turned around.
Two hundreds of running tattooed bald zombies were chasing after her with their disfigured mouths open. Misha could even see the drools from their long tongues.
"Eeeeekk!"
Had it been on daytime, she would have no problem handling the panic attack. Unfortunately, the night environment and the monstrous looking of these undead creatures frightened her.
Despite the military training she had had, she still lost it.
Panicked and shocked, Misha ran for her life while she was carrying her rifle. The zombies with speed surpa.s.sing the cheetahs pursued her as they ran on all four limbs.
Unable to regain her calm, she forgot about the direction and ran just to get away from the zombies. Within less than a minute of running, she went from the backline of the mutant side to the west of the battlefield.
From the bird's eye view, Misha went from the southwest of the battlefield to the west area, heading upward to the northwest zone of the government's side.
As Misha's running speed and the speed of zombies were almost the same, she could not outrun them. Without this exoskeleton, she would have turned into fast food for all zombies.
The illogical running and panicking Misha got the attention of all soldiers from both sides.
"What dafuq is that person doing!?"
As n.o.body expected a train of monsters and a stray soldier to enter the kill zone, no mech or tank aimed their weapon at Misha and the zombies.
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*RUMBLE*
On the northeast of the battlefield, the queen egg and 2,000 green zombies rushed at the government supporting infantries, flanking them from the side.
"d.a.m.n it! All monsters are helping the rebels! Kill them all!"
All supporting infantries got out of their APCs with their weapons in hands. They formed groups and moved together as units, attacking the green zombies.
Dove and all players rushed toward the east side to kill monsters along with all infantries, leaving their vehicles behind. Krastel also followed after the students, looking after them from behind.
A minute later, Misha and 200 tattoo zombies continued to play their cats and a lone mouse game. As all mechs and tanks ignored her and her company, she subconsciously ran to the local government's side, the northwest area of the battlefield.
Fortunately, all attention of the government soldiers were on the queen egg and the green zombies at the northeast area, which they ignored Misha and 200 zombies.
As she had run for a couple of minutes, her brain finally half-functioned, which her human logic and her conscience came back to herself, mostly.
"Huh? Where am I? Why am I running?"
Misha glanced back again. By seeing the face of the zombies, her temporary dementia and her airheadedness were cured.
"I'm a banana. It was your fault, you d.a.m.n zombies!"
She took her RPG that had been hanging behind her back to use. As she ran backward, she armed the rocket and aimed at the zombies out of hatred and anger.
*Click*
Misha pulled the trigger, and the rocket was launched forward.
Again, her sober was still fresh, and her brain did not work in a full capacity. She had forgotten that the rocket was armed with a heat sensor.
As a result, she fired the RPG without locking on a target, and it flew upward to the sky in random.
"Ah."
Misha's brain function returned to her usual self, and she found out about her derpiness again.
*WHOOSH*
The fired rocket suddenly found the closest target. It went for the missile launcher truck, which had just launched a new missile.
*BOOM*
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Misha's eyes turned into two small dots, and her mouth became one black line as if her face changed into a poker face meme.
Because of the explosive, spare missiles of the truck also exploded from the chain reaction.
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
*BOOM*
The flame and the explosion engulfed the missile crews and the nearby soldiers.
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The game messages were so long that it flooded Misha's notification panel.
One of the missiles got carried by the explosion shockwave forces. It was flung into the air and landed in the middle of the pack of zombies that were chasing after Misha.
*BOOM*
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