Magical Girl's Knight Brother

Chapter 555 The Attack of Mutant Creatures

The greyish-white snowfield stretched out beneath our feet, like a cold, velvety blanket covering the ruggedness and menacing nature of Arakawa, but also obscuring any potential dangers. The biting wind still howled, whipping up snowflakes that lashed at the faces of the marching group.

Under the command of Xiao Yue and Zhang Wei, the agents displayed remarkable adaptability and discipline. No longer the stumbling "puppets" of the previous night, they were now able to execute basic tactical maneuvers smoothly. At this moment, they were like precision detection machines released from their cages, spreading out on both sides of the marching column to conduct "beginner-level" exploration. Group A, left flank rock sample collection point, watch out for abnormal weathering structure; Group B, 300 meters to the right front, suspected metallic residue, scan and analyze components; Group C, maintain vigilance along the central route, focus on scanning for heat sources under the snow; Group D, the path ahead is relatively safe, but watch out for snowdrifts on both sides, as there may be small cave creatures.

Under Xiao Yue's instructions, everyone sprang into action.

At this moment, there was no slacking off or being lazy. Everyone excitedly explored everything around them. Although they didn't have professional equipment, Tang Zijun had paper and pen. A bad pen is worse than a good memory. Soon, one after another, exquisite maps and records were drawn up by the agents.

The agents were clearly in a state of high excitement.

Although they were in a cold wasteland, controlling bizarre bodies, for these veteran field agents, this was an immersive, real-world training ground they had always dreamed of, a million times more exciting than any VR simulation. It allowed them to experience what it felt like to actually come into contact with extraordinary power, even though they weren't magical girls.

"Wow, I've never seen the mineral composition of this rock sample before."

"The metallic residue looks like fragments of some kind of high-toughness alloy, with traces of high-temperature melting at the edges, as if it was forcibly torn off by something." "Wait! There's something moving under the snow, looks like... insect eggs?"

"Take photos! This distorted spatial crack background is perfect for a selfie wall. I'll upload it to the intranet later and make those office workers furious." The snowfield was filled with an irrepressible sense of novelty and professional discussion. Everyone wanted to analyze every stone and every withered blade of grass they saw, but no one dared to stray too far from the group. The warning of "death penalty" in the mission briefing and Tang Zijun's orders from last night still echoed in their ears. Leaving the group? That would be absolutely suicidal, no different from voluntarily quitting the mission. Leisen carried Yedi on his back, following in the middle of the group, watching the group of "monsters" who were both highly vigilant and having a great time (in his eyes, they were just touching and patting the stones). His eyes were filled with vigilance mixed with speechlessness. "They treat a few broken stones like treasures," he muttered under his breath.

During this relatively smooth journey...

A series of rapid and intense gunshots pierced the silence of the wasteland like icicles. The sound originated from the direction of the rebel Hawke's detachment, about four kilometers to the right front of the column. The gunfire was dense, with a clear rhythm of exchange fire, interspersed with a few muffled roars and the howls of some wild beasts.

All the agents instantly stopped their investigation and turned their eyes to the source of the gunshot.

"Something's up!" Xiao Yue shouted, and the scattered team quickly retreated.

Leisen's expression changed instantly, his eyes sharpening like an eagle's. He immediately put Yedi down, grabbed the short-range megaphone from his waist, pressed the call button, and his voice was urgent. "Shasha... Hawk! Hawk! Sha... What's the situation over there?! Shasha... I heard you!"

After a brief, suffocating static, Hawke's heavy breathing, mixed with gunfire and wild howls, came through the microphone. "Sha... Leisen! It's... it's those winged bastards! Shasha... and sandworms crawling out of the snow! Sha... quite a few... ambushed... Shasha... they're exchanging fire!" "What's going on?" Tang Zijun walked over.

"They're monsters from the wasteland, the kind that were brought over from other planets. There are no such creatures on Earth. After those creatures came here, they proliferated because they had no natural enemies, and they even mutated due to pollution. Hawke has been fighting them," Rayson said quickly.

"Then let's..."

Just as Tang Zijun was about to say something, she heard Hawke's voice coming through the communicator again.

"Sha... Don't come over and make things worse... Sha... Keep an eye on those 'weird things' over there... Sha... Ten minutes! It'll be over in ten minutes at most... Sha... Over!" Hawke's voice contained no fear, only a battle-hardened, blood-stained confidence.

He had clearly noticed the change in Tang Zijun's group as well. No wonder; the previously lifeless corpses had suddenly become so lively, it was hard for them not to notice, even from a distance. Leisen, holding the megaphone, blinked and spoke. "...Hawk can handle things on his own. If he could be dealt with by these mutated trash, he wouldn't need to be the leader of this resistance." The tense atmosphere in the group instantly eased by half.

The agents who had just assumed a fighting stance froze in their movements.

One of the agents couldn't help but ask, "...Don't we need to go in?"

Tang Zijun didn't speak, but instead looked towards the direction of the resistance army. The others followed suit and widened their eyes as well.

Beneath a snow-covered, rocky slope, Hawke's resistance squad was surrounded by about twenty mutated beasts. Seven or eight bat-like mutated bat-winged beasts, with wingspans of over four meters and dripping corrosive slime from their mouthparts, were frantically swooping down. On the snow, a dozen giant, python-like worms hissed incessantly, attempting to break through the resistance's defenses with the spikes on their backs. However, the resistance's response was equally swift.

Hawke himself stood at the forefront like a rock, and every time his modified large-caliber shotgun roared, it was like a small artillery barrage. His timing was terrifyingly precise. He always fired at the moment when the bat-winged beasts were at their lowest point and unable to change direction. The huge energy lasers were like a death storm, blasting the diving bat-winged beasts into sieves in mid-air.

The sturdy warrior beside him knelt, his heavy pulse rifle firing precisely, targeting the sandworms attempting to flank him. Each strike of the pulse energy beam tore up a cloud of charred flesh. Most impressive was the short-haired female warrior; her rib wound seemed to have no effect on her agility. She moved like a ghost among the rocks, her two specially crafted short blades, shimmering with high-frequency vibrations, moving with lightning speed. Whenever a sandworm tried to break through the lines, or a bat-winged beast swooped down at a tricky angle, she appeared at the most vulnerable point. Her vibrating blades sliced ​​through the sandworm's vitals or the bat-winged beast's wing membranes like hot knives cutting butter, striking and retreating instantly, never lingering. Each of her attacks was accompanied by the screams of a mutated beast and the loss of its mobility. The other members of the resistance were equally active, their teamwork impeccable. Soon, the mutated creatures' offensive was suppressed. "Hiss... This teamwork..." Xiao Yue, in his mantis form, exclaimed in amazement. "Is this even something a human could do?" Even the elite special forces soldiers couldn't do this; it's a matter of physical superiority, completely incomparable. The other agents were also dumbfounded. They had been immersed in the novelty of exploration, but now these wasteland veterans had given them a harsh lesson in the most primitive and direct way—what the true rules of wasteland survival really are.

"Although we are both civilizations similar to Earth, don't really think of the Blue Star people as Earthlings. Haven't you noticed that your physical abilities are no longer what they used to be?" Tang Zijun's light words reached everyone's ears.

Now, they belatedly realized that the bodies they were controlling were not just physical forms; even the most basic wasteland dwellers would be super soldiers in the real world. "Watch closely, learn well; you too will be conquering new territories in this world in the future."

The gunfire subsided within minutes, quickly escalating into a one-sided massacre. After a few sporadic shots and dying howls, the rocky slope fell completely silent. Old Chimney, who had been silent until now, finally poked his head out as the battle ended.

"Sha... Are you done fighting? Hurry up and leave! Sha... The smell of blood travels fast! If it attracts other things, it'll be troublesome! Sha... Hurry up!" Tang Zijun watched as Hawke's team began to clean up the battlefield efficiently in the distance, then turned around.

"keep going."