Chapter 139 Emergency Military Situation
"Yuke, are you? Come over quickly. Oh my god, the slow girls are faster than you."
In the Imperial Fleet flagship command center, Tong Zhongmikai and his two faces were ashen. Looking at the holographic screen, a colonel with drunken eyes and a layer of hazy mist seemed to be covered with a layer of hazy mist on his face. He grinned and shouted at the person next to the screen.
"Ahem." Old Tongzhong was very unhappy, because the colonel in front of him was like a drunkard and a veteran gangster. He could vaguely see a piece of wine stain that had not yet dried on his colonel's uniform. After communicating, the guy was still yelling at the people beside him, which made Tongzhong feel angry unexpectedly.
However, Tong Zhong also knew that in the Imperial Army, almost nine-story senior officers were from the so-called imperial nobles. Although there were many excellent natural professional soldiers among them, most of them were some who only knew how to act on orders. If it were not for the senior officers of the Imperial Army, there were many excellent commanders who came out of the federal colonial civil war. In addition to those non-commissioned officers with rich combat experience, Tong Zhong could not even believe whether the Imperial Army in his hands could still look like an army.
Even though he was angry, Tong Zhong could only turn the indignation in his heart into a hint of helplessness, because he knew that almost every officer from the high-level nobles of the empire had a huge network of relationships behind him. Even if he wanted to deal with an unqualified noble officer, Tong Zhong had to consider the consequences first. Otherwise, he believed that there would definitely be countless books to impeach him and presented them to the head of state, Emperor Ha. At that time, even the head of state might not be able to speak for him.
"Ah, General." Hearing Tong Zhong's intentional cough, the soldier colonel seemed to suddenly wake up, and hurriedly greeted Tong Zhong and the others with a standard military salute.
"Col. I heard that you have any urgent military information to report to me." Tong Zhong narrowed his eyes and asked coldly. He really couldn't imagine what kind of valuable military information the noble officer in front of him would report to him. Could he want to ask for credit in advance and gain some benefits for himself when he was in the triumphant army.
"Ah, report to the general, last night, a patrol team of our troops suddenly encountered an unknown enemy raid, and almost all of them died for their country. However, we also found one near the scene of the incident. How to say, hey, old general, you will know at a glance." The colonel scratched his head and ears, looking like he didn't know how to express it clearly. Tong Zhong shook his head again, but for some reason, Tong Zhong vaguely felt that the colonel's words and actions of a mere regiment leader actually had a bit of familiarity.
"General, look." As he spoke, the colonel took a birdcage-like thing from the side of the screen. When Tong Zhong and the others saw clearly what was inside the birdcage, they couldn't help but gasp.
"What... is this?" Before Tong Zhong could speak, Mikai, who was standing beside him, exclaimed in a burst of voice.
"Uh, we can't figure out what this guy is." The colonel replied helplessly, then reached out and pulled a tall and big Marine from beside him, patting the member's shoulder and said, "This is Ellie, a member of our hunting dog team. Last night, their team was attacked by the enemy, that is, he bravely repelled the enemy. When pursuing the enemy, he found that the enemy had left this thing and brought it back. Ellie, tell the generals, what did you see last night."
"Yes, that's the thing. When our team patrolled the foot of the hillside last night, we wanted to rest on the spot for a few minutes, but just as we sat down, some black shadows suddenly popped up from the near side of the hillside. The black shadows rushed over and started fighting with us. They seemed to be humans, but they didn't seem to be humans. Almost no one spoke during the fight. Unfortunately, our brothers were killed, but several of them were also beaten to death by us."
"In the end, I was the only one left in our team, and there were only two left on the other side. Maybe I was scared by my heroic momentum. The two obviously injured guys turned around and ran to the hillside. Of course, I couldn't let these bastards secretly attacked and chased after them without thinking. When I was halfway through the pursuit, this thing fell off them. I was startled at the time and thought that the other party was throwing something like a grenade, so I quickly lay on the ground, so I let them run away."
"When I picked up this thing and walked back, a big explosion occurred in the place where our team members died. Later I realized that when I was lured away, someone seemed to have sneaked back and used the body of our teammate to make a thunder. He killed and injured several other teams who rushed over after hearing the news. Commander, probably this is the case."
Although the team member, who was still covered in blood, spoke intermittently and a little messy, Tong Zhong and the others probably understood what he wanted to express.
"What do you mean when you say the other person looks like a human but not a human?" Mikai frowned and questioned.
"Oh, it's such a stern officer. The light was very dim at that time. I could only vaguely see that the other party seemed to be wearing our Imperial Army uniforms. However, those people looked more like corpses that had been dead for a long time, and some even had terrible big holes on their bodies... "
"Zombie." Before the team member finished speaking, Tong Zhong subconsciously took a breath and whispered in a low voice.
"Ah, yes, sir, it looks like zombies. We can only kill them effectively by directly destroying their heads." The team member shouted suddenly.
After the words came to an end, Tong Zhong and the other senior staff officers in the command center were all shocked.
How could zombies appear on this battlefield? For so many days when fighting with alien insects, the Imperial Army has never encountered such a situation. Could it be that the insect swarm has undergone a mutated and has evolved a zombie army that uses the remains of the Imperial Army officers and soldiers to make it into an attacking zombie army.
For a moment, a series of bad thoughts flashed through the hearts of senior Imperial Army generals such as Tong Zhong.
"Col. Who else knows about this?" Tong Zhong suddenly asked coldly with a gloomy face.
"No one knows except this surviving team member and the staff in the regiment command center. Even the team that rushed to reinforcements did not know what happened. I have ordered that everyone should strictly prohibit discussing the attack on the patrol team last night." The colonel soldier reported with a serious look this time.
"Very good, colonel, I'm now ordering you that your department will not participate in today's general offensive mission for the time being, and will rest and stand by on time, waiting for further instructions from the command center, and also issue a closure order to all the informed staff officers of your regiment headquarters. Anyone who discovers this matter without authorization will be punished for leaking secrets."
Tong Zhong issued a confidential order to the gangster colonel almost without hesitation. In his opinion, if the zombies raid the patrol team spread, it would inevitably cause a shock to the Imperial Army's morale. Although the Imperial Army soldiers would not panic in the face of the brutal and bloody alien insects, once they saw that their former comrades turned into lifeless zombies and rushed towards them fiercely, I believe that most of the Imperial Army officers and soldiers would collapse.
"I understand, general." A trace of inadvertent pride flashed in the colonel's eyes.
"By the way, Colonel, is this thing lying on it all the time?" Then, Tong Zhongcai had the leisure and curiosity to look at the bird cage in the colonel's hand. It was like a pocket baby, lying on his back.
Chapter completed!