Chapter 550: with translation of chapter title

Who's speaking?!

These four traitors were about to speak when they discovered invisible hands covering their mouths and choking their necks.

Meanwhile, the girl who had been lifted up by two traitor guards instead floated in midair, landing smoothly on the ground.

?!

The girl saw each of the four traitors, as if entangled by ghosts, unable to move, only able to emit muffled 'uh! uh!' sounds, and she couldn't help but rub her eyes hard, muttering softly:

"I... am I hallucinating?"

But the girl clearly felt that a 'person' was holding her and then putting her back on the ground, right?

Immediately after.

Accompanied by a silent, swift flash of electric current, Ba'er, wearing a cloak of concealment (another Optical Camouflage product developed by the manager's technology), simple armor, and holographic glasses, was lowering his head to stare at the four traitors who could neither speak nor move.

"Trash."

Ba'er immediately stretched out his left hand, pinched the traitor captain's skull with his index finger and thumb, then applied force to squeeze.

"Pfft."

The sound of the skull bursting was somewhat muffled, and it did not disturb the people gathered in the alley.

Besides, at this time and in this weather, the people lying in the alley were either asleep or dead, so no one would deliberately look toward the alley entrance.

At the same time, those invisible shadows also used daggers to slit the throats of the remaining three traitors.

"Uh... uh..."

The three traitor guards wanted to say something, but they could not make any sound; they clutched their wounds, blood pouring like a waterfall, faces showing disbelief and fear, looking up at Ba'er like a god, before collapsing to the ground, completely still.

!!

Seeing the four traitors and scum who wanted to bully her die violently, the girl felt a momentary fear.

After all, when people see others of their kind die, they imagine themselves in that situation, wondering how painful such a death would be if it happened to them.

But immediately after, the girl didn't know why, deep inside she felt a kind of very…

It feels very satisfying, very relieving, right?

Seeing those scum dead, the girl felt this was normal, unlike the dark world where scum and traitors previously ruled.

Furthermore, as she looked toward the approaching Ba'er, she felt no fear at all; instead, she felt a strong sense of closeness.

Waiting for Ba'er to half-squat, his right hand still gripping the explosive-arrow gun, he freed his left hand to reach into his tactical pack to feel for something, and the girl couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Are you a god? Or have I died… and everything before me is just an illusion?"

As she said this, the girl raised both hands and weakly pinched her cheeks.

Hiss…

A bit painful.

"You're not dead." Ba'er gave a light laugh.

Then he took a nanomachine injector from his tactical pack, and without needing disinfection, he injected it into the girl through her neck.

After Ba'er collected the empty injection tube, stood up, and casually rubbed the girl's head, he softened his tone to correct:

"I'm not a god. Get a good night's sleep, kid. When you wake up, you won't have to suffer or toil anymore."

"Okay, but you look quite young too, why do you call me… uh…"

The girl didn't want to be called a child by Ba'er, who looked about her age; she was about to say more, but an irresistible drowsiness overcame her, and she curled up again in the corner of the alley and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the girl's feet, which had been frozen purple and swollen, inflamed wounds, were recovering to their original state at a visible speed.

Even her cracked skin became smooth and tender, the appearance a young woman in her prime should have.

Having done all this, Ba'er activated the cloak's stealth mode and vanished without a trace.

As for the corpses of the traitor guard team, they were drenched by the invisible shadows, which poured out a liquid emitting a pale blue fluorescence, corroding them completely.

Even their bones, clothing, and equipment turned into a puddle of foul-smelling corrosive water, which stuck to the ground and was completely corroded.

Most strangely, that four-seater off-vehicle lacking a roof and cabin also, under the shadows' drive, left the roadside and continued heading west of City 13.

Moreover, this off-vehicle seemed to have a god's-eye view, able to perfectly avoid other patrol units.

In fact, there were six shadows in total following Ba'er as they infiltrated City 13.

Seven days ago.

Dan Ding and others selected over one hundred fifty from more than seven hundred prisoners and incorporated them into the Mourners' auxiliary army.

After seven days of intense training, and after the nanomachines broke down lactic acid to relieve fatigue and enhance physique, the Mourners' auxiliary army dared not claim it could meet the standard of a regular battalion, but crushing the National Guard was more than enough.

Equipped with the old-style individual gear sent by the Human Emperor, as well as some weapons already phased out in the main universe, the Mourners' auxiliary army had absolute confidence even against the United Forces.

And these six shadows were the elite selected from the over one hundred fifty auxiliary troops.

They were not only equipped with mechanical exoskeletons and alpha-titanium alloy armor, but also possessed stealth cloaks and silent Gauss Rifles as their stealth gear.

Like the fluorescent liquid that completely corroded the four scum, this is Umbrella's corrosive agent derived from the Iron Blood Clan's 'corpse-dissolving water' to erase evidence.

(In 'Aliens vs. Iron Blood 2', the lone wolf used the 'blue-bottle agent' to destroy corpses and erase traces.)

However, the Ghost agents tasked with carrying out black ops did not rate the corrosive agent highly, so Umbrella sealed it away until it was delivered to this Earth by the Human Emperor Sui Bian.

The six elite auxiliaries' mission was to assist Ba'er in first infiltrating City 13, so that Ba'er could, through physical means, completely dismantle the city's communications and command systems, and also create as much chaos as possible to draw attention, facilitating the Mourners' main force's upcoming total assault.

However, during their advance, Ba'er and his team happened to encounter a scene where four traitors wanted to humiliate the girl; they intervened to stop it, causing a delay.

The holographic glasses showed the time as '11:34', with less than half an hour's gap before the full-scale assault would begin.

But it wasn't too rushed.

As for the 'god's-eye view,' Ba'er now carries a homemade jammer that blocks all nearby surveillance cameras, and several small drones that he personally improved silently hover and circle above, serving as their 'third eye'.

Moreover, the drones outline a holographic map of City 13 for the main force, and through Ba'er's simple algorithm, they preliminarily estimate which areas and factories are worth noting.

All this is to facilitate preliminary work; once Ba'er completes decryption and intrusion, City 13 will have no secrets left for the Mourners.

However, Ba'er still hopes his father can have the Red Empress and White Empress provide assistance; failing that, even a low-intelligence AI could achieve a dimensionality reduction strike against the current Earth United Government.

Of course, Ba'er was just grumbling in his heart; the equipment his father could send was already enough.

One should be content.

Two or three minutes after leaving the alley entrance.

This seemingly unmanned off-road vehicle arrived at the west side of City 13, where a base with a tower building was heavily guarded and had its main gate.

The off-road vehicle shut down when it was tens of meters from the gate, coasted on inertia, and finally slowed to a stop at the red-and-white painted area before the lift-equipped fence.

?!

The two National Guard squads on duty in the guardroom rushed outside to stand by and inspect, and reported the phenomenon of 'a ghost seeming to drive the off-vehicle' to their superiors.

But the first reply was: "Don't fucking daydream, are you being sent to the reformation factory? Ah!"

But before these two squads could finish hearing, their heads and even entire upper bodies were smashed by basketball-sized fists, while the barriers and wire mesh meant for obstruction were forcibly bent and torn apart.

As for the 'ghost-driven off-vehicle,' it remained in place to confuse the senses.

———————

…

Inside the central control room of the base's perimeter.

"Did you two hear that?! Reply!"

A sunken-eyed lieutenant colonel of the guard, who looked chronically spiritless, was shouting into the microphone on the control panel.

Judging by his appearance, he must have been given unprecedented power by a collaborator, and was somewhat overly indulgent.

"Sizzle…sizzle…"

All that came back over the comms was a burst of static.

?

This made the lieutenant colonel sense something off, and he quickly looked up at the multi-screen monitor.

Everything was normal.

At the main gate entrance, there was no 'ghost-driven off-vehicle'; those two silent guards were still dutifully in the guardroom.

Looking again at the various passages and zones outside, all personnel were at their posts.

Although the surface showed nothing unusual, the person responsible for the base's perimeter, the lieutenant colonel, naturally wouldn't think it was really like that; he immediately got up from his comfortable chair, preparing to lead a few subordinates from the control room on a personal patrol.

However, the metal gate automatically swung open to both sides.

Having already stowed his cloaking cloak and hung his explosive-arrow gun on his lower back, freeing his hands, Ba'er stood outside the gate.

!!!

Upon seeing the three-meter-tall giant, the lieutenant colonel and all the guards were utterly shocked.

However, the lieutenant colonel, who had seen the United Army's manufacturing factory, had a tolerance for accepting the extraordinary far beyond ordinary people, and immediately ordered:

"Open fire! Aim for the limbs! Be careful not to really kill it! Handing it over to the mayor would be a great achievement!"

"Yes!"

Soon, dense gunfire erupted from within the central control room.

But just as quickly, the gunfire ceased, leaving only the pleas of 'Don't... don't kill me...!' from inside the central control room.

In just a few seconds, Ba'er tore apart all the collaborators except the lieutenant colonel with his bare hands.

The lieutenant colonel, meanwhile, sat on the ground with weak legs, his voice trembling as he begged Ba'er for mercy.

But he, as if recalling something, clung to a straw and hurriedly said: "Right! You still need me! To enter the base's core, you need my eye identification! You need me alive!!"

But Ba'er never stopped his steps, half-squatting with a faint smile before the lieutenant colonel, then extending his left index finger and thumb to pinch both sides of the lieutenant colonel's head, and replied:

"Whether you're dead or alive, to me you're a piece of trash reeking of corruption, garbage."

"Since you say your eyes are useful, that reminds me…" he said, slowly applying force with his left index finger and thumb.

"Ah… ah! No! Don't! Don't kill me!"

His head undergoing an unstoppable slow compression, the collaborator lieutenant colonel struggled and begged frantically, but the lieutenant colonel could not resist Ba'er in the slightest.

"No… uh… uh…"

In the end, the lieutenant colonel's wail sounded as if he'd been choked by blood.

Immediately after, a crisp 'bang!' was heard, and the lieutenant colonel's head could no longer withstand it and burst.

Ba'er then took the opportunity to reach out his right hand, catch the pair of eyeballs that had flown out in the explosion, shake off the blood on his left hand, stand up, and say:

"This way can also do eye identification, so why would I keep you alive? You laughable scum."

Having said that, Ba'er threw away the two eyeballs, then lifted his right foot to crush them.

"..."

As for completing their respective tasks, the six auxiliary army elites who successively arrived and gathered at the control room happened to witness and watch Ba'er's 'abuse' of the collaborator lieutenant colonel.

Because they wore masks and holographic glasses, their expressions and gazes could not be seen clearly.

But from their simultaneous slight shudder, one could tell these six elites seemed to think their commander…

... had some other mental illness.

Each looked quite friendly, speaking kindly to their fellow compatriots, yet when facing enemies they were extremely brutal; today Ba'er had crushed the heads of two collaborators.

It felt like "schizophrenia".

Ba'er's spiritual energy was far inferior to Zelin's, but he also vaguely sensed the moods of the six elites, merely not explaining that 'Astate can control emotions through subjective consciousness.'

Afterward.

Ba'er walked to the control panel, took from his waist tactical pack a single-soldier computer that is large for ordinary people but micro for an Astate.

As a 'tech otaku' among the Holy Angel recruits, Ba'er didn't like crystals or holographic tablets; instead, this old-fashioned computer with a keyboard suited him better.

After a brief operation…

"Hum~~—!"

The lights went out suddenly.

The emergency lighting system activated, filling the control room, the base's core, and the outer corridors with dark red light.

It looks like Ba'er has already bypassed layered permissions, directly paralyzing City 13's communications and hub, and is now launching an intrusion against this base's core.

After completing this step, Ba'er placed the personal computer displaying the '001%' progress bar on the console, took off the explosive-arrow rifle slung at his waist, and as he walked outward, he instructed the six elites:

"I will draw all the scum's attention outside; you must make sure this place stays safe, understood?"

"Yes, Commander."

The six elites looked at Ba'er's back and replied in unison.

———————

…

Soon.

On the assembly square between the base's outer perimeter and core area.

Ba'er stood there, calmly folding his concealment cloak with one hand and placing it into the inner pocket protected by armor, then glanced at the upper-right corner of his holographic glasses' screen.

11:56.

Perfect.

Then Ba'er raised his left wrist and tapped a few times on the wrist computer's screen, then…

"Boom~—!! Boom~—!!"

Violent explosions erupted in succession, engulfing and destroying most of the base's outer structures.

And the blue flame representing plasma instantly lit up the entire base, also illuminating Ba'er standing alone.

These past few days' progress may have been a bit slow; I'll speed up a bit later, and Chief Sui will personally take the field (if this old bone of his doesn't move, it'll rust).

(End of chapter)