Chapter 260: Chapter 182: The Smoke of Gunpowder Rises Once More.
At this moment, Bob's New Human Squadron, was racing their Heavy Armored vehicles at full speed, tracking the wolf pack by radar.
The terrifying Rat Tide, on the other hand, also tightly pursued them.
"Damn! What the hell is going on? Weren't the backup troops supposed to have held them off? How did they catch up again?"
As a member of the New Human Squadron, Bob was looking at the terrifying Rat Tide regrouping behind them on the central screen of the Heavy Armored vehicle, fear still lingering in his eyes from being dominated a few days ago.
They had narrowly escaped death from that Rat Tide and thought they had shaken them off,
but unexpectedly, just two or three days later, the terrifying Rat Tide had caught up again!
And this Rat Tide seemed to devour everything in its path.
Logically, traveling in the vast snowy wilderness, there shouldn't have been enough to sustain such a Great Army of Traveling Rats.
Yet they had even gnawed away a layer of ice harder than steel, especially the giant Traveling Rat almost eight or nine meters long, which let out a long howl at the huge breach in the ice layer, towards the North Arctic Ocean below, probably killing countless fish in the Shallow Sea.
These floating dead fish also became food for the ravenous Great Army of Traveling Rats.
If it weren't for the food that had briefly delayed the Traveling Rat Pack, Bob and his team probably would have already been engulfed by the overwhelming Rat Tide.
Last time, the backup troops had come to relieve them, but this time they wouldn't be so lucky.
Because in the last bloody clash with the Rat Tide, the backup troops had lost over a thousand people,
and even rocket launchers, armored vehicles, Heavy Armored vehicles, armed helicopters and so on had been destroyed in large numbers.
Now, even if the backup troops could really come to their aid, it would only be with the Sixth Generation Invincible Warplanes that reigned supreme!
It was nearly the culmination of human peak technology!
The Sixth Generation unmanned combat aircraft could not only reach speeds of thousands of kilometers per second in the sky, but their agility, endurance, payload, and firing accuracy were all far beyond previous aircraft.
However, after multiple strikes and bombings, the Sixth Generation aircraft had also exhausted their energy reserves and ammunition supplies.
"Captain, the backup troops have sent us the Rat Tide's route map, come take a look; it seems their path isn't the same as ours, but they have caught up with us along the way!"
Joyce, responsible for communications with the backup troops behind them, was looking at the Rat Tide's route on a tablet screen.
The maps showed several blue, red, and gray lines.
These represented the paths of the twenty or so members of the Wolf Clan ahead, as well as their own and the terrifying Rat Tide's routes.
As for the numerous dotted lines, those were predictions of the terrifying Rat Tide and the wolf pack's future paths.
Honestly, in terms of intelligence and data analysis, humanity had an absolute advantage.
Even if mutated creatures had high intelligence, without twenty or thirty years of technological application and development, they would never reach the current level of humans!
Bob looked at the route map and saw that the Rat Tide's path was indeed different from theirs.
He had thought that the Rat Tide was tracking their team or the wolf pack based on scent.
But now, from the route chart, it was clear that wasn't the case!
After consuming the thousands of backup troops, the Rat Tide moved toward this area like a straight line.
Their route was completely different.
And their speed was alarmingly fast, reaching more than ten kilometers per hour.
This speed might not sound fast, but this was an overwhelming Rat Tide!
Such a massive species maintaining such speed was nothing short of miraculous.
The terrifying Rat Tide was like a moving gluttonous demon, leaving no blade of grass wherever it passed.
At this time, Bob, looking at the Rat Tide's route, said, "Damn! So does this mean the Rat Tide isn't coming for us?"
Joyce nodded and said, "Yes, the backup troops' conjecture is that it's indeed the conclusion. But we are only twenty or thirty kilometers away from the Rat Tide, and with the Tide advancing at such a high speed and rapidly depleting its Physical Strength, they're almost starving crazy and definitely won't let us go!"
With this in mind, Bob clenched his fist and slammed it against the inner wall of the Heavy Armored vehicle, saying, "What do we do then? Our Heavy Armored vehicles can't compete with the speed of the wolf pack ahead on ice and snow. We can't continue on this route; let's detour and hide somewhere else!"
Joyce shook his head, "That won't work! Because the commander of the backup troops has ordered us to keep moving towards the Rat Tide's path. The backup troops want to know what it is that's driving such a terrifying Rat Tide to advance so quickly. Who knows, there might be a huge discovery."
Hearing this, Bob was struck with horror!
Yes, their lives were cheap in the eyes of the real power holders.
Even if it was a certain death, they were ordered to investigate the purpose of the terrifying Rat Tide.
The route of the terrifying Rat Tide was always straight, making it easy to predict.
But Bob didn't know what they would encounter if they continued on this path,
nor did he know what was on this path that made the terrifying Rat Tide mobilize in such a massive way.
Meanwhile, among the skies darkened by the Traveling Rat Pack, the Variant Species Traveling Rat King's tiny eyes were watching the distance.