The Little Prince in the Ossuary

# Sunrise, or dusk (15)

The macro attack on the terratomas resembled a swarm of locusts. Just looking for more food and more hosts, the individual probably didn't even know it was an attack. However, as the number increases, the vigor becomes more aggressive because the competition for prey with the same species increases. It is natural to eat first and move farther and faster to proliferate first than other individuals.

Thus, the wave of erosion they were making, their visualized instincts lacked rationality. The defense line was an armored and supernatural barrier, and the waves of appetite collided with it receded in confusion, wanting to become ferocious and calm, and rushing back and forth.

Like now. In the middle of a long struggle, a quiet silence came. Of course, there's only so much silence in this area. In the direction the other troops block, the symphony of the remaining guns resonates. We'll have to send a reserve party this way, but we haven't had any requests for immediate assistance. It must be stopping them somehow since they weren't buried at the command post for a moment.

Winter dreaded me. Only people who have experienced it know, but there was a limit to warming up with exercise in cold places. After crossing that limit, fever decreases rapidly.

Since my whole body has been soaked with sweat, it was difficult to maintain my body temperature.

I was getting tired so quickly because the monsters I had to deal with were too small and many. Killing those little bastards one by one is going to be a waste of moves.

Luckily, the cooler your body gets, the easier it is to identify sticky teratomas.

Winter was only after checking the loss and ammunition for each critical mass and resetting the focal point and the front of the defenses that he was able to take a break against the dirt wall. It's a superhuman stamina, but since I've been running all over the defensive line during combat, I can't spend more than the rest of my officers and soldiers.

Peek-a-boo.

You hear a sharp electronic sound somewhere. It was the sound of a radiometer, a Geiger counter.

Nearby soldiers react nervously.

“Who the fuck are you? Turn it off! ”

Then Hanstar blurted.

“I'm a baby, man! People can make mistakes! I'm sorry!”

And she mutes her counter. I was in mute mode from the beginning, but I felt like I was touching the wrong button after touching my words nervously. The nervous soldier looks stunned.

The image of the common counting machine tickled intermittently, but it cried as soon as I turned it on.

In the beginning, the Geiger counter was not an instrument for measuring high-level radiation. It's just a way of checking for radiation contamination.

Nevertheless, I think it's safe to say

‘I had never imagined the situation of using a nuclear cannonball as a melee. ’

In other words, it was given to prevent fallout damage if one nuclear cannonball was actually used.

Now it is quiet again, but the afterglow of the beep remains echoed with intense anxiety. Winter senses it and summons the soldier.

“Private Jung Jae-hee. Do you smoke?”

“Yes?”

“Do you smoke?" I asked. I think you're right. ”

“Uh, yeah. That's right."

“How many do you burn a day? ”

“About half a pack……. ”

When I heard the answer, I made a smile and a gentle voice that would be easy for winter to see.

“After I go back, I quit smoking for 20 years. As long as he's been exposed, he'll make up for it. ”

“ ……. ”

Private Jung scratches his back head nicely. It was an act of ridicule in protective clothing.

Everyone here knows that the cigarette contains polonium (po210), and a radioisotope of lead (pb210). It is because it is pre-trained. Bringing down vague fears of radiation to a concrete and realistic dimension. This was the goal of education, and winter affirmed its intention. The greatest fear comes from ignorance.

It was a necessary training as long as the mission troops received nuclear shells.

It's also true that prolonged smoking is equally detrimental to nuclear exposure. This is not as dense as the nucleus, but the toxicity of cigarettes is just as severe.

Of course, it should be noted that all mission forces are wearing protective clothing, thus protecting against the most deadly internal exposures.

‘Maybe 20 years is enough. ’

I said what I thought was reassuring. It may be lacking or overflowing. The listeners will also know it with their heads, but their hearts will comfort the words of winter. I believe in winter, so the officers and soldiers will want to believe it themselves.

You hear the groaning of non-smokers. I don't smoke, so there's no way I can make up for it.

I liked the fear just that much to endure now. I've lived on a reef all my life, but I've had plenty of water.

“Sir! Pararesque is coming! ”

Winter nods dry in someone's report. I was aware of the helicopter's approach early. The Special Forces rescue fleet was the only way to transport the wounded on this battlefield. Thus, an entire squadron of Special Ops pilots was deployed to zero ground support.

The rescue helicopter lowers altitude with the sound of the engine beating the ground. Darkness is so dark, it descends at a terrifying speed with no one to guide the landing, restoring balance just before impact. It was an elite and outstanding capability among elites. If there's anything to compare, it's the famous Night Stalker. Either way, there is a relationship with winter.

"Here it comes again!

Warning to be heard with a zigzag radio. It wasn't the helicopter this time.

Frist, Frist! David 4 Actuals in Charge! Six clicks north of the base point line spot (km) and about 300 general variants, including the majority of Keksik, are undergoing heavy divergence! Movement Speed 10Click! Request 8 high explosives! Did you enter? "

"Wait a moment. Eight high-explosives and counting. Rain Time 14 sec."

An Independent Delta squadron deployed on the ground, requesting fire support.

“Let's take a break, motherfuckers.... ”

It was Sergeant Im Ho-jin, one of the squad commanders, who lowered his head and sighed and muttered. He tears the duct tape from his torso and prepares for battle. His protective clothing is odd because of the tape he keeps wrapping around. Other soldiers had similar circumstances.

It was also common to break a magazine box and splint the board like a splint. The entire unit was a total wreck.

Lt. Song Jeong-hoon groans.

“This is not a proper battle. What a pity for the Medic... ”

However, centurion gloves only fit two of them in the glove car, and even though they were separately organized, the battery duration problem remained. Transport capability and combat sustainability were unsuitable for both drop operations.

When the teratoma retreats, the common varieties come, the teratomas come back to eat it, the pattern repeats over and over again against the common varieties.

Winter wanted cunning things to keep track of the situation and stop the aggression, but this cruel plateau night did not meet any hopeful expectations.

I realized one possibility that winter had overlooked the past hope.

‘Oh, I see... Go. ’

The first change I wanted was for the cunning to recognize the existence of the teratoma and to stop the addition of additional variants.

However, if the neural net had been destroyed by a teratoma infection, there was no way to transmit the information backwards as long as the Sisarin Tricksters had recognized the threat of the tiny monsters on the front. In order to avoid radio bombardments and to move swarms across the continent, the Tricksters were likely to have difficulty communicating directly with each other within the boundaries of the papillary neural network.

In fact, the expansion of the range of behavior produced by the papillary neural network became toxic.

‘As expected, we have to use the Strategic Core to recognize threats in a vast area……! ’

It was a time when strategic disruptive forces of different dimensions were needed from the tactical core.

If the population is cut off, the crisis caused by the teratoma will also be over.

“Where are the injured? I heard there's one here too! ”

Pararescuer shouts with a fellow carrier.

“This way!"

Captain Foster waves his arms wide.

The wounded were the intelligence officer, Captain Murray. This means that a fleet of forwarders fought an indistinguishable battle.

I'm glad it wasn't a teratoma injury. It was caused by a nuclear storm. When I looked at the debris, I noticed that it was not airborne, but a landmine that the old Chinese military planted in the mountains to prevent military invasion.

‘I don't know if I should think of this as a good thing. ’

Critical wounds have been avoided, but there is no way to avoid more serious exposure due to the burst of protective clothing.

Despite the urgency, Pararesque crews paid the honorary commendation to the honorary winner. Winter held the chief's hand, which was quickly fastened to a stretcher.

“Go ahead and wait. You've done enough. ”

Murray stammers, whose focus is clouded by bleeding.

“I can't do this much longer. We should call for a withdrawal. ”

“… I'll consider it. ”

Actually, there's nothing else to suggest. Why haven't we heard about the withdrawal from the senior chiefs?

Due to the nature of the teratoma, we just need to take a few minutes and we'll be on our way!

That was Major Alexei Gushkin's statement.

Caphraov, his boss, dismissed it as optimism.

"Even though I am out-of-the-box in biology, it is common sense that my proliferation and division cycles are short, meaning that my mutation rate is high. And that, by the way, is a remodel of Mogelons. Who's to say feeding on existing variants could have made a difference, the shape of it all the way to the end?

Even General Zverev shot him briefly.

Do you mean because you don't know that successful withdrawals are as difficult as winning?

Even Lt. Gen. Rogers refused as Chief Executive Officer.

Possibility of success. But soldiers must prepare for the worst. It's only been a few hours, but has there ever been a hopeful observation on this battlefield?

In the end, he said that he would go ahead with the operation unless the president would step forward and reverse his decision.

‘Falling back from here takes at least a few more months to get ready again. ’

And then the fight will not be a sure victory.

At the same time, it was never easy to withdraw from enemy aggression, as Zberev said. Because two Air Force divisions, including the Independence, were the only ones to escape in the air. The whale retreat often caused just as much damage as the amphibious landing.

So if it's a sacrifice we have to make, I'll end it now, as much as I can in the uncertain future. It was the common will of the generals and the White House.

Murray mutters to the winter as his hand slips away.

“Come back alive. ”

“Don't worry. I don't belong here. I have a plan. ”

The chieftain looks curious, but is taken to the helicopter without any further questions.

Winter's proposal to use the tactical core, Lt. Gen. Rogers said it was already under review. Competence was unquestionable.

You know, I'm embarrassed at the Whiskey Hotel (White House). He decided that POTUS would be easy to decide if the density of varieties for Se-hyun were to spread to sparse areas. It will take some time to pick a point of attack, so I hope you'll hold out until then.

It was said that the dawn was coming, but it was still black sky. Satellite observation is half useless, so it's never easy to determine the density of variants in the range of triggering nuclear weapons. That was how long it took to select the point of attack.

“Sir!”

Captain Evans urgently spread the word as a new plague army enters the visible zone even in winter locations.

“Base search party has breached the last quarantine zone! We have the Mogellons prototype in sight! ”

Winter sighs and nods.

“But I guess you weren't playing. ”

It was winter when the base was not properly sealed off. If I hadn't missed the teratoma there, I would be struggling a lot more comfortably by now.

“…… let's give it a little more strength. ”

Trying to cover up fatigue. Winter has a new resolution.