I Became A Mech Soldier After Waking Up in The Future. - Chapter 74

“Bastard!!” A cuss came out of Jeanne’s mouth.

She gritted her teeth and anger flared up in her eyes.

‘The city guards were actually closing the city gate! Did they want to abandon us? How on earth did Major General Frode give the order?’

There were still three armored cars on the drawbridge that connected to the city gate; if the bridge was lifted while the cars were still there, she was afraid that there would be a collision with the city gate, killing many soldiers and city guards in the process.

Furthermore, the city gate, which was only made of steel plates covered with miracle stones, wasn’t as strong as the city wall itself. If the cars really crashed into it, the city gate would surely be destroyed at the first impact. Jeanne couldn’t imagine what would happen to Trudheim city by the time it happened.

Jeanne called Major General Frodele’s ID again, but her effort was for naught as it kept showing that no one answered.

‘What the hell is going on here?’ Jeanne frowned. Her heart was full of doubts.

“Did General Frode want to harm us?” Keiko shook her head immediately, “No, the possibility of that happening is nigh impossible. After all, he didn’t have the motive to do so, and he wouldn’t get any benefit if that happened.” The frowns on Jeanne’s forehead became more apparent, “Who is messing with us?”

Jeanne’s eyes suddenly shifted to the medical car; some guesses surged in her mind. But the most urgent task right now for Jeanne wasn’t thinking about this matter, but thinking about how to survive this ordeal.

Jeanne looked at the radar and saw that there were dense green spots in front of her. Obviously, the reserve mecha soldiers were still trapped in the vehicles without someone who could command them, and they probably didn’t know what to do.

Jeanne called Captain Amanda’s ID again and got no answer. The same thing happened when she tried to dial Sistine’s ID.

At that moment, she realized that someone had installed a signal jammer nearby, leaving them without a proper communication method.

‘Is there a traitor in the third squadron? How did they predict that we would get separated from the rest of the team?’

Installing a signal jammer right in front of the entrance of the city gate required time and effort. There was no way that such suspicious behavior hadn’t been detected before.

‘No, I’m so stupid! As long as they could kill us, it didn’t matter how many people were buried with us! They weren’t planning to spare anyone from the beginning’

‘Oh, so vicious! If I, Jeanne Armstrong, come out alive this time, I won’t let you off easily! ‘

They were trapped in an extremely dangerous situation right now.

The people on the other side had made their move; Trudheim’s city guards and the soldiers weren’t on their side but the enemies’.

They might still have retained their calm at this moment and waited for the monster to finish their entourage.

But when the reinforcements come, they might become anxious and decide to bombard them with the city wall’s defensive weapons with the excuse that they misfired when attempting to annihilate the Zergs.

If that happened, even if they had nine lives, they might not be able to survive.

Jeanne just prayed that her comrades inside the wall could understand their situation and try their best to prevent reinforcements from leaving the city.

Right now, they could only rely on themselves.

After thinking for a while, Jeanne tried to contact the soldiers in the armored vehicles ahead.

Jeanne eventually connected to their side not long after. The one who received her communication was a male soldier with the rank of corporal, and he is currently the highest-ranked non-commissioned officer in several vehicles.

His voice sounded calm, and after receiving the communication from Jeanne, he immediately described the situation in the car in a clear and orderly manner.

The man was in the third armored car; trapped on the drawbridge. He had established contact with the other three armored cars.

Of the 40 soldiers, 3 were injured and could not move for the time being. The others were fine. But the drivers were all dead.

Jeanne thought for a moment and said: “Now I appoint you as the leader of this 37-man squad, responsible for commanding the action at my command. Mantis-type predators have the habit of confronting their prey head-on. You will jump out of the car together. Do not run around after getting out; find the mantis-shaped predator, raise your guns to confront it, and then listen to my order to shoot around to kill!”

“Roger!”

Jeanne then called Dr. Leah, and after a while, Leah’s voice faintly appeared on the intercom.

“Major… Major Armstrong…”

“Doctor Leah, What’s the condition on your side right now?”

“My right leg was scratched, and the two nurses with me had fainted. The two patients are fine.”

“Okay, stay in the car and don’t come out. I’ll take care of the outside and come to save you.”

After hanging up the call, Jeanne glanced at the radar and saw that Keiko’s green dot had led the mantis predator into the forest. She pursed her lips and said to herself, “We all have to survive!”

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“Huh…huh…huh…huh…”

The sound of rapid breathing reverberated in Keiko’s ears, drowning out the shrieks of the monsters behind him and the snapping sounds of the broken twigs beneath her shoes.

Her silhouette maneuvered through the jungle quickly, her steps as light as a feather.

If she could be measured this time, she would be surprised to learn that her speed has increased to 72 kilometers per hour.

What kind of concept was this? Imagine sprinting through a 100-meter track in 5 seconds. That was how fast she moved, far exceeding the world record of 9.58 seconds for the 100-meter dash in the old era.

What was more terrifying was that Keiko could achieve such speed despite not being equipped with an exosuit. She had been running entirely on her own muscle strength, and she was constantly dodging various potholes in a forest with complex terrain and blocking branches.

This speed lasted for a minute. She had run at least 3 kilometers by now, and her heart had been working at full throttle since the beginning, depleting a frightening amount of her oxygen supply. The storage of the oxygen cylinder behind her had gone down by more than half.

“No, I can’t run anymore. I must find a way to get rid of this guy. If it really doesn’t work, I can only do it the hard way.”

Keiko just had this thought in her heart, and suddenly saw a big tree, so she jumped with her hands, grabbed the thick trunk protruding from the big tree with both hands, swung up like a horizontal bar, and then squatted on the branch.

The speed of the monster chasing her was also extremely terrifying but it was abruptly thrown two or three hundred meters down by Keiko. Unfortunately, this monster had a keen sense of smell, and this distance was simply not enough to get rid of it.

Before Keiko could catch her breath, the Devil Mantis jumped lightly to reach Keiko’s height and slashed over with the sickle.

“Tsk!” Keiko clicked her tongue, thinking that this guy was really annoying. Then she stretched her body and jumped, like a leopard leaping to another tree.

The monster chased after her again, a pair of sickles hooked on the branches, climbing like a monkey. Keiko leaped from one tree to another while once again clicking her tongue in annoyance and cursing the monster inwardly, ‘Damn it! Are you a mantis or a monkey?! Please make up your mind!’

She had exerted most of her strength but still failed to get rid of her pursuer, making her slightly frustrated.

She finally had enough of running away. She immediately jumped down from the tree, turned around, and readied her fighting stance, deciding to have a good fight with this guy.

The monster saw that Keiko stopped, but instead of attacking, he held a pair of sickles, lowered his body, and stared at Keiko motionlessly, reminding Keiko of a veteran fighter who practiced mantis boxing she had met previously.

The handgun in Keiko’s hand had been emptied of bullets. It actually wasn’t that effective when dealing with a monster like the first-class predator in front of her, which had copper skin and iron bones.

Despite so, she didn’t throw it away, keeping it close to her body.

After all, It was better than nothing, and it could be taken out and thrown away at a critical time.

Although she had encountered many predators and zergs in the monster arena previously, she hadn’t gotten to fight this Devil Mantis at that time. So, she actually didn’t know much about this monster.

Know your enemy, and you’ll be undefeated in 100 battles. Keiko was well aware of the importance of information, so while still keeping herself ready for the monster assault, she quickly accessed the bracelet ID to find the monster data.

After the helmet scanned the monster, the information came out instantly, Keiko skimmed the line of words in front of her and quickly digested the information, searching for its abilities and weaknesses.