Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Freedom Tower, 12th floor.

Two fire isolation zones were rapidly established.

Sandbags and ammunition all reached their predetermined positions.

The sniper team led by Eagle Eye also completed their target lock.

Three team members locked onto the three Elite-tier Infected.

Eagle Eye’s target, however, was the Leader-tier Muscle Berserker.

“Target locked!”

Habaar and Blackfire arrived at their predetermined positions.

The two of them were the main force against these two Leader-tier Infected.

“Move out!”

With the Alpha’s command.

Bang—

Four overlapping gunshots rang out as one.

The cervical spines of the three Elite-tier Infected were directly blown to pieces under the effect of the high-explosive armor-piercing rounds.

The relatively tough skin of the Elite-tier Infected was nothing in the face of the high-explosive armor-piercing rounds.

And the bullet fired by Eagle Eye was even more devastating.

The Rare-tier Sniper Rifle, combined with the specially made high-explosive armor-piercing rounds, directly penetrated even the powerful defensive skin of a Leader-tier Infected.

Although the bullet only penetrated the Muscle Berserker’s skin before embedding itself in its steel wire-like muscle fibers.

It still dealt considerable damage to the Muscle Berserker in the subsequent explosion.

The bullet’s subsequent explosion blasted a gap open on the back of the Muscle Berserker’s neck.

Seeing that his attack only achieved this effect.

Eagle Eye was not surprised either.

After all, the training materials made it very clear.

The strength gap between Leader-tier Infected and Elite-tier Infected was enormous.

Especially in terms of defense.

Back then, even when Yu Yuan wielded an Epic-tier weapon.

It took him 20 to 30 minutes to take down one.

For Eagle Eye to cause this kind of damage to the Muscle Berserker with a single shot was already quite impressive.

And with the start of this wave of attacks, the three Elite-tier Infected were killed outright.

But it also fully awakened the two Leader-tier Infected.

The Football Charger let out a furious roar, its legs staggered front and back and slightly bent, its shoulders dropped, assuming a charging posture.

Then the ground beneath its feet cracked as it stampeded, and the Football Charger charged toward the fire isolation zone.

“Boom—”

A pillar in the center of the casino was snapped clean in two just from the Football Charger’s collision.

Tables and chairs were shattered into pieces.

If the Football Charger truly rammed head-on into it, the newly established fire isolation zone would undoubtedly be obliterated.

But the next moment, Blackfire had already grabbed a pinball machine from the casino hall and hurled it at the Football Charger.

And he himself followed closely behind, charging toward the Football Charger.

The Football Charger smashed the pinball machine to pieces, but Blackfire, who was right under it, executed a slide tackle.

The immense impact force erupted with a loud bang in the casino hall.

The Football Charger also lost its balance and was sent flying.

It crashed heavily to the ground, sliding for a distance before slowly coming to a stop, while Blackfire seized the opportunity to launch his attack.

His target was not the back of its neck, but the Football Charger’s knee joints.

Meanwhile, the Muscle Berserker took heavy steps toward Blackfire.

Although Eagle Eye’s earlier attack hadn’t dealt fatal damage to it.

The armor-piercing round’s explosion at the back of its neck had still affected its cervical spine somewhat.

Its reactions were a bit sluggish.

And that was precisely Eagle Eye’s main objective.

As the Muscle Berserker walked toward Blackfire.

Habaar, fully covered in Mechanical Armor and wielding a Rare-tier axe, rushed out from the side and swung the axe down at the back of the Muscle Berserker’s neck.

The axe blade struck directly at the spot where the armor-piercing round had exploded. Black-blue blood splattered, accompanied by a sound like metal grinding.

Having landed his hit, Habaar immediately retreated, absolutely refusing to prolong the fight.

And the very next second after he stepped back.

The Muscle Berserker had already whirled around, raising its bulging, muscular arms and slamming them directly at the ground.

Boom—

The ground within a three-meter diameter was smashed into spiderweb-like cracks, and a massive surge of energy erupted from below.

The spot where its fists struck directly created a pit half a meter deep.

Habaar watched, his eyelids twitching, but the corner of his mouth hidden beneath the armor curled up with excitement.

“Haha, good! This is exactly the kind of opponent I want.”

Thinking this, he once again pushed off the ground, moving at a speed that belied his size, closing in on the Muscle Berserker once more. Seizing the gap in the enemy’s attack, he swung his axe down in a chop…

The battle in the casino hall was all recorded by cameras and transmitted back to the screens in the rear.

“With the boost from the Mechanical Armor, Habaar’s strength and speed have reached the standard of an ordinary Bronze-tier creature…”

“The replacement alloy on Blackfire still hasn’t met the original standard; the alloy ratio needs to be recalculated…”

The Alpha watched the surveillance footage, deep in thought…

Dealing with these two Leader-tier Infected was quite simple for the Pioneering Group.

Whether it was rocket launchers, Epic-tier weapons, or a concentrated attack from a whole squad, they could handle it easily.

But that wasn’t his goal.

The Alpha had only two objectives.

First, to obtain more data on Leader-tier Infected to complete the subsequent research and development of the virus gene serum.

The second objective was troop training. He wanted to transform combat units within the Pioneering Group who possessed special advantages into high-end combat power.

Habaar and Blackfire were precisely such combat units with special advantages.

He also wanted to see if this kind of 1v1 combat—Bronze-tier vs Bronze-tier (Blackfire), and ordinary combat unit vs Bronze-tier (Habaar)—could increase the probability of obtaining special identity templates.

For example, [Elite Veteran] and [Hunter].

This was an important attempt by the Alpha.

And the commotion of the battle on the 12th floor quickly attracted the attention of Infected on the 11th and 13th floors, as well as other floors.

These Infected were gradually awakened and began moving toward the 12th floor.

The Swift Wind Recon Squad had just finished installing cameras in the stairwell shafts when they saw the surging tide of Infected approaching.

“Alpha, the Infected on the upper and lower floors have left their current floors and are moving toward the 12th floor.”

It was Shadow’s voice.

“As expected! ‘King’ mentioned in the training materials that the restriction preventing Infected from leaving their current floor was just a unique mechanic of the [Wasteland Battle Royale]. In the real world, it’s most likely not the case.”

The Alpha watched the screen, his gaze cold as Infected surged from both the upper and lower floors.

“Rock, block them for me.”

“Roger!”

At the stairwell entrance on the 12th floor.

The Swift Wind Recon Squad returned from both the upper and lower floors, retreating behind the fire isolation zone.

“Rock! It’s all on you!”

“Don’t worry!”

The firepower squad led by Rock was already primed and ready.

Behind the sandbag wall, every member of the firepower squad held a Rare-tier Light Machine Gun, already cocked and loaded.

The reserve firepower squad stacked ammunition supply crates behind them.

As the Infected charged with roars into the entrance of the 12th floor, Rock licked his lips.

And gave the order to open fire.

“Brothers, attack!”

Rat-a-tat-tat—

Inside the narrow corridor, three tongues of flame flared to life.

The bullets tore through the surging Infected, shredding them into severed limbs that fell to the ground.

As more and more Infected bodies piled up.

The ammunition in the machine gun boxes was rapidly depleted.

At the entrance to the 12th floor, corpses quickly formed a pile, and a foul stench spread through the surroundings.

But because of the deafening noise of the machine guns, even more Infected were drawn to the entrance.

Rock led his men to step back directly and swap out the ammunition boxes.

Three other firepower squad members immediately stepped forward to take over the firing gap and opened up with their guns.

The tongues of flame representing death roared to life once more.

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