Life Mission Chapter 47:
Blood dripping from the stomach flows down the leg . The Lifer who had radioed in was hanging 2 meters in the air .
6 nails that were like a rake had penetrated his stomach, and came out . They are almost 1m long . A lifeless body hit the cold cement .
A forked tongue covered in yellow bumps licked the blood on its nails .
Kihik!
It looks around the area . There are objects born from the matrix and pieces of meat with sweet scents everywhere . It is a favorable scene .
-[Sniper… . . ]
-[Craymore… . . ]
The Lifers could sense movement beyond the door . Even though they could not see it, they could hear it and their emotions showed in their sweat .
After taking a few steps, it is at the door . As large as it is, its strides are long .
It can see a Crawlion leaning lifeless on the door . It is a hindrance to its focus . It grabbed the Crawlion by the head and flung it to the side . A 200kg weight hit the ground .
Kikik!
Kyak!
Another of the same type appeared . Brothers born at the same time, their appearance and ability to fight were the same . The two mutants recognized each other .
They both thought . Should they break the door? They could crush it with one or two hits . Should they crush it and go in to fill their stomachs with the blood and guts of weak beings?
Kung!
Kyak!
The nest stopped them and gave them a different order .
They made a fuss and gathered the corpses in one place . They even made sure to pick up the small pieces . They did not separate the mutants and humans .
A large lump detached itself from the nest’s main body, crawled down, and swallowed the corpses . It is getting supplements by consuming nutrients .
It spit out the gear that it cannot digest and even sucked the bones of what it could digest . With this amount, it would not need to worry about food for a while .
The lump that absorbed the corpses went back to the main body and supplied it with rich nutrients . It went back to a healthier state than before it had given birth .
Woowoo!
Kyahak!
The nest gave its 2nd order . Because the creatures are large, it is dangerous to go through the passage . They need to find a path where they will not be attacked .
Papat!
Kwajik!
They searched through the rest area, broke a door on the east side, and entered the warehouse .
Kihaek!
They disappeared into the warehouse and the rest area fell into silence . The nest trusted the creatures and produced 26 eggs . They are all level 2 mutants .
The creatures surprise attack the force from the back and the level 2 mutants can join to spread confusion . That is the nest’s plan .
Oh!
Level 2 mutants are born . They varied by specialty in those with sturdy skin, petite and fast bodies, and large with strength .
The nest had distributed roles just as the force did . It did not know if the force members knew this or not, and was just waiting for the door to open .
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The snipers climbed to the top of a container box .
No matter how much they look around, this is the best place as there are no obstructions and it is high up . It is refreshing because they have a view of everything .
If they need to shoot from the bottom, they could . They could stay in a corner .
There is a worst case scenario . If the mutants get through the passage and go to the warehouse, a higher place is best .
“I can see well . ”
Park Jin Hyuk put his eye to the scope to check the passage . It seems they could see everything from the bottom, but the view is clearly different from the top .
He changed the scope . The long-range expands too much, so it disturbs the short-range . A proper sniper has 3 or 4 scopes to fit distance .
“If they come in, I’ll have to hit all of them . ”
Hihit!
Park Jin Hyuk got in position 25m away from the passage . Of the 7 snipers on top of the container box, he was closest .
He could not know the other Lifers’ sniper skills, but being closer is better if the speed of their bullets is similar . That is of course if the passage is open .
Crunch .
“Huh?”
Is someone grinding his teeth? Park Jin Hyuk tilted his head and looked behind him .
He sees snipers . They all have their faces on the container box . Their necks are stiff from keeping their eyes on the scope .
If they rest, there is less of a burden if battle starts .
“I’ll have to rest too . ”
Tung!
Park Jin Hyuk laid on his stomach comfortably as well . If it becomes noisy outside, there will be a signal from under them . He will last longer if he starts abusing his neck from then .
Shashak!
“Who’s been playing around since before?”
Someone is grinding his teeth and blowing into the air . It is bothering him .
“Uh… . . ?”
He turned his head again and his thoughts became paralyzed .
He could not tell if what he is seeing is a dream of if it is real . A monster one and a half times the size of a Crawlion was sticking its tongue out .
Spat!
Ugh!
It was just a short moment of 1 second . Park Jin Hyuk fell off of the container box as he tried to avoid the tongue from reaching his neck .
Shoong!
He did not fall without doing anything . He threw any of the grenades that he could get his hands on . He was not able to check the type . He did not have the time to do that .
Bang!
As the impact grenade went off, the container box was crushed . The force members’ attention went to the source of the explosion . Then they saw the mutant’s body leaping to the side .
“It’s a Spectre!”
It is 3 to 4 times the size of a human, has long malformed arms and legs, 12 rake-like nails, and it is as fast as a Slayer .
[Groups 1 and 2, check the passage . Group 3, fall back and face the Spectre!]
Chun Myung Ik determined the situation as the master of a large guild should . He did not know what had happened, but it had come in already . They need to end it before the situation worsens .
Pew pew pew pew!
Dozens of Lifers brandished SMGs . The Spectre climbed the ceiling and walls to avoid the shower of bullets . It moves like a ghost .
Then it disappeared among hundreds of container boxes . They failed .
-[Put on your vision goggles!]
All of the force members wore their vision goggles . They would not perform to the fullest because of the thickness and number of container boxes, but they had to put them on .
Zing!
The sensor could not get past 2 of them and got stuck on the way .
-[Sniper, sniper respond . ]
-[Everyone will have died . I think I was the last . ]
Park Jin Hyuk spoke . The Spectre had been going for his neck to break it .
It seems like what he thought had been the sound of teeth grinding was the sound of a neck breaking .
If he had not been able to detect the Spectre’s movement with his senses enhanced through body modification, he would have fallen to the same fate as the other snipers .
‘Where did it come from?’
The Spectre made a round in the next passage . It had tracked the body odor of the force to come through the ceiling of the cargo lift .
It had not made any sounds because it cut through it carefully with its nails .
Everyone had been moving busily . Even if there had been a sound, the force would not have been able to hear it unless it was loud because it was so far away .
The Spectre handled the easy targets first . That was the snipers .
The reason why it left its nails and used its tongue to break their necks? It wanted to avoid having the other Lifers detect the smell of blood .
-[It might go through the passage after creating confusion, so… . . Huk!]
Sukukuk!
Chun Myung Ik and Oh Min Ho got flat on the ground . Another Spectre appeared out of nowhere and waved its nails .
Kuhuk!
Kyah!
Its long arms and nails swung around a 7 meter radius . Excluding the 2 who had reflexively gotten on the floor, 3 Lifers got caught on the nails and were ripped into pieces .
‘Hocheon is going to attempt a level D, too? Give some advice, not interference . Stay focused if you don’t want to be wiped out . It is completely different from level E . ’
Chun Myung Ik suddenly remembered what he said a few days before launching the mission .
‘Do you think it’s pathetic that 50 people die at a time? Try going . You’ll know if you go . ’
29 people died already . But the danger had not passed . Rather, it is getting worse as they go . Annihilation? This is not a dream .