32 Fight With Mutant Beasts (1/2)

”Is this really going to be enough.” I looked doubtfully at the golf ball sized explosive in my hand. It was the 1st tier explosive grenade that I had bought for 40 white coins.

I had to sell all of the 1st tier crystals I had in my possession to purchase this thing. But looking at it's size made me doubtful.

'Don't worry. It may be small but it will do the job.' Lily said.

'Oh. They are coming.' I said as I felt the vibration on the ground.

I looked sneakily from my hiding position and realized that it was large army truck.

Looking at the size of the truck, there should be at least 40-50 soldiers in there. Looks like the commander really valued our town highly.

But that's just all the more reason for me to sabotage their mission.

I watched from within the car as the truck passed by me and drove for a few dozen meters when it suddenly came to an abrupt halt.

200 meter in front of the truck, the highway was filled with abnormals.

At this distance, the abnormals would not be able to see the truck, but the driver in the truck must have already understood that something was wrong.

One quick look from a binoculars was all it would take for the army to realize the situation up ahead.

But the truck could not find a place in the congested road to turn around and thus, the driver had to put it in reverse and take it back slowly, hoping that the sound of the engine would not attract the attention of the abnormals.

At this moment. The soldiers inside must have realized that the mission earlier must have been a failure.

Otherwise how could the highway be filled with abnormals.

'Here they come… Here they come…' I looked at the truck with anticipation in total silence.

When the truck was a good twenty meters away from my position, I rolled down the window sneakily and threw the 1st tier explosive grenade at the truck's rear tire.

If the same grenade was thrown against a mutant tree, then it would have very littleeffect.

But when it struck the tire, a small explosion resounded and the tire was blown to smithereens along with the axle.

The explosion might have been small but it was loud, and did it's job.

A few soldiers inside the truck even suffered grievous wounds and passed out on the spot.

No one died from the explosion but it wrecked their vehicle perfectly and attracted the attention of the abnormals.

'Bingo' I thought and hid myself under the backseat once again.

”Get out everyone. Take the 3 line formation at once.” I heard a loud and stern voice followed by the sound of hurried foot steps.

”Quick. Those monsters are coming take. Take positions and get ready for my signal.”

”Wait!”

”Waaaiiit!”

”FIRE!!!” with that, tens of explosive rifle shots rang out within just a second.

I could not see any of it from my fighting position but I had already guessed that the abnormals must be very close to their position at this moment.

Truth be told, I had not expected them to fight back at all. I had thought that they would run away after realizing how many abnormals were coming their way.

But unexpectedly, it turned out that these guys were rather brave.

I sneaked a look and realized that they were standing in 3 lines in a very strange formation.

'That 3 line formation must be something they would have come up with after many battles against the abnormals. But would it really work against such large numbers. The abnormals that were left behind must have numbered around 300 or so.'

After two minutes, the firing gradually stopped. I did not hear any dying screams as I had earlier expected. But the shrieks and howls of all the 1st tier abnormals had stopped completely.

'Holy shit! Did those guys really defeat all of the 300 abnormals on their own.' The thought horrified me a bit.

Although I knew that guns were deadly weapons, it seemed like I had still underestimated the weapons.

Not only the guns, I had underestimated the whole army.

This thought shocked me a bit as suddenly I realized that these guys were no pushovers.

Suddenly, I felt a bit of respect for these men who were able to fight against the abnormals without any crystals.

Even though they had done some very bad deeds, I could not deny that they were brave. Brave enough to stand calmly in front of three hundred raging abnormals.

But then again, without any intelligence, these abnormals were no different from mindless beasts either. So it was not impossible for 50 soldiers to wipe out the 300 1st tier abnormals. But…

'If they think that they are out of danger then they are gravely mistaken.'

The soldiers who had defeated the abnormals started cheering loudly at their victory but their cheers were abruptly stopped by the loud shrieks coming from the forest beside the highway.

The ground started trembling violently and soon enough, thousands of abnormals came out of the forest and started running in the direction of the soldiers.

”2nd and third line. Retreat to the forest behind us. 1st line, you'll hold those monsters and provide us with enough time to retreat.” The stern voice rang out once again but this time, I could hear a slight tremor in the voice.

”Your sacrifice will be remembered. Now start firing.”

The sound of gun shots reverberated throughout the whole forest but this time, it was submerged by the howls and shrieks of the thousands of abnormals.

Soon after, the rifles stopped firing followed by painful cries of the soldiers. After that, only the shrieks and howls of the abnormals could be heard as they chased after the soldiers who had retreated in the forest.

I could hear the horde going away into the forest and the trembling of the ground stopped along with it.

From there on out, I heard gun shots every now and then but every time it rang out, it was stopped abruptly.

After a few minutes, I stopped hearing any sound altogether.

'Well… I guess the mission could be considered accomplished now?' I thought and peak out from inside the vehicle.

Although I was not able to stop them from disturbing the abnormals in the town, I did stop their reinforcements completely.

I opened the door and slowly went out of the car.

The place, where the horde had passed thoroughly had been thoroughly destroyed. The vehicles had been stomped flat and even the military truck was torn apart by the stampede.

It felt as if a hurricane had passed through that area.

I sucked in a cold breath as I saw this.

Something of this level was really beyond my imagination. If the car I was hiding in was stomped by the horde as well, then I had no doubt that I would have been trapped inside it forever.

I felt the cold sweat in my back and made it a point to never come in front of an abnormal horde ever again.

But I looked at the distance and all of the fear I felt was suddenly replaced by surprise and happiness.

There, I could see hundreds of abnormal corpses lying on the ground. The corpses had been riddled with bullets which meant they were the first wave of abnormals.

But such a sight made me a bit sceptical and confused as well.

'Why would the horde chase after the few soldiers and leave these corpses behind? Wouldn't it be far beneficial for them to eat these guys instead?' I asked in my mind.

'Not really.' Lily replied. 'Low level abnormals are more interested in hunting and killing. Eating meat and evolving themselves comes after that. And although this does makes them dangerous in the sort term, in the long term they would start to fall behind the mutant beasts. Unless they evolve, that is'

'Is that so. Well, doesn't it mean that I'm free to collect the crystals from all of the abnormals here.' I thought in jubilation and ran toward the corpses without any further delay.

After ten minutes, I had collected around 300 crystals from all the corpses. Although most were a bit damaged and could only be sold to the Black watch, a few were still usable.

Unexpectedly, I also found seven 2nd tier crystals of which two were still undamaged.

After I sold the damaged ones to the Black watch, my wealth was increased substantially.

Wealth:-

1139 white coins, 64 crystals (1st tier), 4 crystals (2nd tier)

I had decided to only use the 2nd tier crystals after all of my stats reached 4.0 points since they were harder to come by. So I could not eat them at the moment.

But that didn't matter as much since I had a large amount of 1st tier crystals.

I also had more than 1000 white coins so I bought a Spatial ring without delay. It was something that Big bro wanted to buy for the team but was not able to since most of our funds went in upgrading Neha.

I wore the Spatial ring after which I consumed the 1st tier crystals without delay.

The warm feeling faded from my body and I opened the hologram to check the interface.

User name:- Ashok Singh Rana

Stats:-

Strength - 4.0 (2.0)