Reclaiming the Scavenger City

A day and a night have passed.

The car city was successfully captured.

The death rate of Class B radioactive beasts has also exceeded 20.

Two of the veteran hunters died; they probably wanted to show off their skills but forgot they weren't at their peak.

He completely ruined his own career by showing off.

As for the deaths of the low-level radiation beasts, the senior engineer glanced at the system panel.

It's just over 30,000.

This number of deaths probably doesn't even compare to a single battle during the Mountain's reign.

However, if it were high-level radiated beasts that died, the number would probably be ten times that of the Demon Mountain era.

When the B-level radiation beasts banded together, these new and old hunters went to hunt down the C-level radiation beasts, hitting and running away, then hitting again, fully utilizing the style of guerrilla warfare.

Therefore, the casualties were very low, less than one-tenth.

Although the car city was overrun, the beast tide did not become a disaster, but instead advanced towards the three oases.

The new drone-based strategy once again successfully kept the horde within a certain range.

The Crimson Queen, who controls the beast tide, can certainly divide her forces and attack the three oases.

But she didn't do that, because if she split up her forces, she would have to separate the B-level radioactive beasts, and given the enemy's tactics, they would inevitably carry out a large-scale decapitation strike.

She's not that stupid.

As a result, a large number of C-class radiated beasts began to band together, with each 'C-class legion' consisting of hundreds of members. This time, even hunting teams composed of both new and old hunters encountered trouble.

The beast tide devoured everything.

During the beast tide, the elite forces of both sides clashed from time to time.

The senior engineer would also look up at the sky from time to time; he always seemed to have a kind of nuclear bomb phobia.

The raging beast tide turned mostly white, but the senior engineer was fine, even feeling exceptionally comfortable, with all attributes increasing by 40%.

However, the others didn't have it so easy.

The young woman was one of them; in terms of importance to the battlefield, her presence was second only to the senior engineer.

With electronic signals completely cut off, only her telepathic abilities could communicate with the various hunting teams, making her the communication center of the battlefield.

"What? Old Wang and his men are recklessly fighting again? They're surrounded! Send someone to rescue them? Let them die!"

"Kep suggested a raid on the B-rank beast horde. No way! He's asking for trouble, don't drag us down with him!"

"Weren't we supposed to send the large robots back? How come they're still surrounded? They're hopeless! Let them die!"

After hundreds and thousands of messages flooded in, the young woman's temper became increasingly irritable, showing a tendency to transition into the role of a middle-aged woman.

She remotely commanded the battlefield through telepathy while simultaneously guzzling mental potions.

As the pressure from the beast tide grew stronger, so did her own pressure, as if one mountain after another was pressing down on her.

Under such intense stimulation, her superpowers improved at an increasingly rapid pace.

After a ten-minute period of mental confusion, the young woman felt as if a hole had suddenly opened in her head, and a refreshing feeling arose spontaneously.

The initial superpower has been upgraded to the intermediate level.

The scope of consciousness has expanded tenfold.

"Awesome, but no!!"

Huang Yuanli's expression changed drastically. The unconscious spread of her spirit just now would inevitably attract high-level monsters, such as A-level radiation beasts!

"What's wrong?"

One of the colonists asked a question, but the next moment, a red light seemed to pierce through space and pinned him to the ground.

The next moment, the bio-armor oozed from the skin, but bright red flesh spores also oozed from the gun, and the two biological weapons began to fight.

The bio-engineered armor was actually being pushed to the back foot.

Huang Yuanli's protective force is very strong, consisting of five powerful colonists, one of whom is Gao Shu, the leader of the Shadow Force.

Three veteran hunters, one of whom is Old Qian, the head of the hunter department.

This power encompasses a quarter of our side's high-level combat strength, making it a sure win against any B-level radiated beast.

Unless, of course, they are facing a Class A radioactive beast.

The next moment, the Crimson Queen descended from the sky, her blood-red eyes staring straight at Huang Yuanli.

Although she had just been promoted, Huang Yuanli felt even more pressure than before.

"Superior!"

Without the slightest hesitation, the four bio-engineers immediately overloaded their bio-armor, with fifteen energy nozzles appearing on their bodies. The terrifying kinetic energy caused them to burst into supersonic speeds in an instant.

Meanwhile, the blind man opened his eyes again. In his grid-like pupils, a single figure multiplied into ten thousand, each grid representing a dynamic capture.

Gunshots rang out, and the Scarlet Queen's body jolted in mid-air as a bullet lodged in her bone between her protruding chest.

It drilled toward the heart at a very slow speed.

A flash of anger crossed the Crimson Queen's eyes. The next moment, a terrifying mental wave burst forth from her body, directly blasting the four powerful beings away.

"Take her away!"

Old Qian slowly stood up, picked up a ram's horn helmet and put it on his forehead. Terrifying blood-red flames immediately emanated from his body, and a red-skinned monster rose from the ground.

Of the seven creature modification blueprints obtained from the Hunter's Graveyard, most were level 2 blueprints, with only one being a level 3 blueprint, which was the [Demon Ram Horn].

Its material is the head of a B-grade radiation demon sheep, and wearing it grants the ability to transform into a radiation demon for a short period of time.

Old Qian's severed arm quickly grew back, and with a pull of both hands, a flaming greatsword was pulled out, its blade the white color of an A-grade radiation beast.

With a leap and a slash, the Crimson Queen's eyes narrowed, and two spears immediately sprouted from her hands.

Swords and spears clashed, the ground caved in, and the terrifying firepower burned cracks into the surface of the crater.

The next moment, the Crimson Queen tilted her head back, revealing another noticeable indentation on her forehead.

"Hiss--"

The Crimson Queen was furious. She waved her hands upwards, and a thick layer of fleshy carpet appeared on the ground. The flesh spores surged towards the group of people like a raging torrent.

"Wow, it's so lively here."

Four old men appeared out of nowhere and stood in front of Huang Yuanli.

Huang Yuanli's expression changed drastically, and she exclaimed, "You've just come from the battlefield! You can't fight! Run!"

The old men looked at each other and then grinned at the same time.

"Little girl, when you reach our age you'll understand that memories are far more beautiful than a fading life, and that's all we have left."

The next moment, the old wolf landed on all fours and instantly transformed into a terrifying blade wolf. Countless blood vessels bulged on the wolf's body, a sign that the biological rejection had reached its limit.

The other old hunter leaped onto the fleshy carpet, and the next moment, a huge blood vessel burrowed into it.

The water tank on Old Wang's back rattled loudly as electric current surged wildly into the conductive fork in his hand. He roared and the electric fork plunged violently into the oncoming fleshy blanket. The arm-thick current turned the wall-thick fleshy blanket charred black.

This electric current even caused the Crimson Queen's body to stiffen.

The next moment, a superhuman appeared at the back of her head, unleashing a powerful attack, the "Air Cannon," from his palm.

It blasted the back of her head flat.

More than a dozen high-level combatants attacked almost continuously, especially the old hunters, who were clearly determined to die, only attacking and not defending, desperately attacking the opponent.

The young woman was being carried away by an old female hunter. Seeing this scene, tears streamed down her face.

"Run! I promise I'll never call you old codgers again!"

Old Wang grinned, about to say something, when a skinned arm suddenly emerged from the flesh blanket and smashed half of his head.

The electrical box on its back suddenly exploded, and the baby thundercloud electric eel frantically fled. However, a dozen lanterns appeared in the air at some unknown time. Under the illumination of the 'lights', the baby gradually turned into a dried-up corpse.

On the surface of the fleshy carpet, the figure of the Crimson Queen emerged, her injuries having healed in a short time.

She seems to possess a recovery ability even stronger than that of a senior engineer.

However, she had only taken half a step when a lightning bolt pierced her eyeball and popped it out.

Old Wang, with only half a head remaining, smirked.

With his last ounce of strength, he plunged another electric fork into the other man's abdomen.

Old Qian descended from the sky, and the pale greatsword, without the slightest hesitation, cleaved Old Wang's body in two. The flesh of the Crimson Queen was also cleaved in half.

The old hunters seemed to have returned to their former days, a time without sorrow, joy, or distress.

Some are left with only endless slaughter.

One red lantern after another fell from the sky, each one a biological bomb.

Despite being surrounded and killed by a group of experts who were willing to risk their lives, the Crimson Queen seemed to be in complete control, unleashing sonic boom spears one after another, like a shower of meteors.

One of the colonists had his thigh blown off; the old wolf's biological guillotine failed to stop the flesh spears, cleaving him in two at the waist.

However, even after the fleshy blanket was removed and the senior engineer and other experts descended from the sky one by one, the crimson queen still could not break through their defenses.

Of the seven old hunters, four died in battle.

[Quest complete, Experience +4100, Reputation +1000]

This is the fourth link in the quest chain: The Flame Rises.

However, the senior engineer who had completed the task was not very happy. Although the old rogue was annoying, he was still his own old rogue.

"Laughing so happily, you old folks," an old hunter said, glancing at Old Wang's upturned lips.

"One last shot before you die, huh? You're something else, Lao Wang."

Old Qian didn't die, but he was hit on the thigh and now has a fist-sized hole in it.

The blind man didn't die, but he became truly blind.

Old Qian didn't seem sad at all, and was still boasting, "It's just an A-level monster. If it hadn't escaped quickly, it would have been a victim of my sword."

"Take their bodies and bury them in New Hope City after the beast tide ends."

Old Qian suddenly raised his head, but the senior engineer didn't say anything. With a flap of his wings, he disappeared into the night.

The hunter had no time for sorrow, nor did he have time for grief.

[Fifth Stage of the Mission (Final): New Hope City]

Difficulty: Hard

Mission Briefing: The starting point and the end point both lie in this city.

Mission Objective: Reclaim the urban area

Mission Reward: Unknown

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