Chapter 246: Teaching those scum what a real war is!
Metropolitan Area 05.
It is located on the north side of the most chaotic District 04, near District 07, which has a starport.
At the onset of the chaos, the starport, together with the relay station, became a target of the 203rd Division Artillery Battalion and was bombarded by heavy artillery.
The starport is now paralyzed; the large cruise ships and cargo vessels docked above were forced to land on the ground by the bombardment, causing widespread building collapses and casualties that are impossible to estimate.
Fortunately, Keli Ge's 087th Regiment responded swiftly and eliminated the 203rd Division Artillery Battalion at once; otherwise the metropolitan area's losses would have been far worse.
District 05, whose chaos was originally not severe, gradually fell out of control as large numbers of believers in Our Lord emerged from District 04.
The believers forced bewildered people to drink "Corrupt Thick Soup" to increase their ranks, causing more and more people to be compelled to join Our Lord's side.
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Each floor houses forty families; the ground‑level lobby resembles an indoor garden plaza, and looking up from the lobby gives a clear view of the sky above.
On the north side of the lobby's main entrance, hundreds of residents in pajamas or casual attire gathered.
"What on earth is happening?"
"War? Alien species?"
"Unclear; the authorities haven't issued any notice."
Outside the street, a scene of chaos prompted the bewildered residents to discuss among themselves.
Two security guards armed with pistols pushed through the crowd; one guard wearing a baseball cap walked toward the terminal mounted on the right wall.
Another guard, apparently the captain, stepped forward and turned to the residents, reminding them: "Please stay away from the main entrance! We are going to manually seal off the entire building!
Also! Everyone should return to their homes, lock the doors, and wait for the metropolitan situation to stabilize!"
Watching the escalating turmoil outside the glass doors, the residents ceased their discussion, heeded the captain's advice, and prepared to leave for their homes.
"Captain!"
The cap‑wearing guard, just after opening the sealing program interface, shouted loudly: "A squad of Security Officers is heading this way!"
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Hearing this, the captain and the residents looked toward the glass doors.
They spotted two black‑painted transport craft parked beside the street in front of the doors; as the cargo bays opened, dozens of Security Officers poured out.
Half of them wore Mechanical exoskeletons and armor, wielding military‑grade pulse rifles, forming a Special Squad of the Security Department that handles major incidents.
"Great, with Security Officers here, the safety of our building should be fine."
"Indeed."
The arrival of the Security Officers, especially the fully armed Special Squad, greatly increased the residents' sense of security.
"Hold on a moment," the captain signaled the cap‑wearing guard to pause the sealing procedure.
Just then, the glass doors automatically opened, allowing the Security Officers to walk unhindered into the lobby, where they quickly divided into eight squads.
Six squads immediately dispersed toward the upper residential area, while the remaining two stayed in the lobby, guns trained on the hundreds of residents gathered there.
A member of the Special Squad forcefully pulled the cap‑wearing guard away from the terminal and shoved him toward the crowd, causing the guard to nearly stumble and fall.
?? Seeing the Security Officers' extremely aggressive stance, the residents and the two guards finally realized that something was amiss.
The captain then asked, "Excuse me, officer, what exactly is outside?"
But a "ta!" gunshot and a "puff!" sound of a broken arm cut off the captain's question.
The captain's face showed disbelief as he looked at the Security Officer still standing with a raised gun, then turned to his missing left arm. "Ah!! My arm! My arm!" he shouted.
"Tap tap tap!"
Immediately afterward, the surrounding Security Officers fired their weapons, threatening the hundreds of residents.
!!!
"Ah!"
"No! Don't kill me!"
"Shut up!" the first officer who opened fire roared: "Anyone who doesn't want to die, crouch down and cover your heads!"
The Security Officers' successive abnormal actions terrified everyone, and fear drove them to obey the order to crouch with heads covered.
When pointed at, the cap‑wearing guard, recognizing the situation, tossed his sidearm aside.
"Help me. Help me"
The captain, who had not voluntarily surrendered his weapon, immediately lost the ability to act or resist; now he collapsed on the ground, weakly moaning in pain.
Moreover, under the watch of the unusually aggressive Security Officers, no one dared to approach and assist the captain.
Seeing that the situation had already been seized.
Four more members of the Special Squad, from a departing airship, carried out two large equipment crates and brought them through the glass doors into the lobby.
They set the crates down.
They opened the lids.
Inside was the foul‑smelling "Thick Soup" that reeked to the heavens.
"Ugh!"
At the moment the smell hit, someone could not hold back and began vomiting.
"Everyone," a pale‑skinned Security Officer said with an affable smile, "Drink the elixir bestowed by Our Lord, and you will become our companions, never again fearing disease or death."
"Come," the officer said, looking at the increasingly dazed captain and said:
"Help this friend relieve his suffering."
As the words faded, the two Special Squad members lifted the captain toward the equipment crate, apparently intending to feed him the extremely pungent Thick Soup.
"." The people witnessing this scene wore expressions of outright refusal.
But they could do nothing; they could only watch helplessly as the two Special Squad members approached the crate with the captain.
However, a booming "Boom!" sound interrupted the two Special Squad members' actions and made everyone present look up.
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UEG appears: United Earth Government? It's an acronym. Should we treat as a name? It's an organization. Likely we should include UEG as a name (faction/people). It's an acronym but appears as a term. According to rules: list every character, place, sect/clan/faction/people, official & sect rank/title, technique, item/artifact, beast, and realm that appears. UEG is a faction (government). So include UEG.
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UNSC appears: United Nations Space Command? It's an organization/faction. Include UNSC.
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An old soldier wearing an old-style blue beret approached Andre and reported, standing at attention:
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Now we need to translate each.
Andre and the old soldiers, using the airborne division's most classic four-person team, quickly dispersed, killed the believers and sheriffs who exhibited abnormal behavior, and assisted normal civilians in escaping.
Bang!
Andre fired a shot, blasting the believer whose skin was covered in abscesses, and after confirming there were no more abnormal individuals nearby, he looked toward the north side of Third Avenue.
Only a Krieg armored regiment led by a Mammoth mobile fortress clearing the way was already within a hundred meters of their area.
The Krieg vehicle unit, consisting of a Mammoth, two siege tanks, and several armored personnel carriers, had long noticed Andre and his companions' movements, realizing this group of veterans were allies.
However, even after noticing them, the Krieg vehicle unit had no intention to stop, passing Andre and his companions' position and driving straight toward Zone 04.
Andre, who understood the Krieg's modus operandi, then ordered via a civilian walkie-talkie: "Everyone, follow the unit and continue eliminating the scum!"
Yes!
The following veterans then followed the unit toward Zone 04.
Along the way, large numbers of uncorrupted sheriffs, other retired veterans, and even many UNSC soldiers who had voluntarily withdrawn from the 203rd Division gathered.
When the Krieg unit reached the Blue Holiday Hotel in Zone 04 and successfully met up with Leon and Ada, the force, which originally numbered just over a hundred veterans, expanded to nearly a thousand.
?? stood at the hotel's main entrance, Leon looking puzzled.
"Haha!" Andre then laughed heartily: 'I never expected Leon, this young man, to actually be someone from Umbrella!'
(End of chapter)
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