Girls' Frontline: My Apocalypse with Dolls

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Although they didn't know the reason, the two chose to trust their captain, abandoning their superior firepower and moving to the left. The alchemist, meanwhile, braved the scattered fire to reach the stairwell, adjusted his angle, and hid on the other side of the hospital bed.

"Let me find it... a lighter. Damn M16, I have to borrow a light from him to smoke. Luckily, I always keep one handy..."

After cursing M16 under her breath, she disregarded her own condition, grabbed a lighter, and slammed it against the armrest of the hospital bed. The instantaneous explosion ignited the ethanol spilled on the bed, creating a makeshift "incinerator" that stood out starkly in the dark corridor.

"Go back to training your troops!"

With that, the alchemist kicked the hospital bed away. The impact was enough to cause the bed to flip over as it fell. The bed, engulfed in flames, overturned right in front of the soldiers, enough to make them feel the danger and instinctively back away. But not everyone is so lucky.

One of the soldiers was too close to back away in time, and the overturned hospital bed landed squarely on him, along with the burning ethanol-coated sheets.

"Shit, shit!!! Get this thing off me right now!"

In the midst of the crisis, the girls had already retreated from the side. The other team was probably busy rescuing their teammates from the fire and couldn't catch up immediately.

After a brief skirmish, Anjie and the Rebellious Squad continued moving towards the north side of the hospital. During their journey, they received another message from another squad.

"Anjie, we've made a new discovery..."

In her haste, Anjie could only raise her fist to signal a stop, and then went to a ward to respond.

"What was discovered, and where was it found?"

On the other end, MDR was kneeling beside a device, performing a hacking operation, but her response sounded somewhat panicked: "I sent you pictures on your phone, you'd better take a look yourself..."

Take a look for yourself?

Anjie pulled out her spare phone and switched to their own private contact method. The photos taken on a rudimentary mobile device, however, were enough to make one feel nauseous...

"...What exactly is going on? Paradis can even have different zones here?"

Several photos taken inside a medical tent, with human figures providing lighting in blind spots, show the blood-soaked ground, mangled corpses, numerous syringes, and an unidentified yellow liquid of unknown origin beneath the chemical protective layers.

“Not Paradis, but it’s just as good,” MDR replied instinctively, not even having time to be surprised by the seriousness in his tone. “We found an incredibly ugly monster here, its entire body pieced together, and it was skinned, stinking and contorted in a grotesque way. After we killed it, it just fell apart.”

MDR glanced at the pieces of the body on the ground, pinched his nose in disdain, and then continued with his work.

"In addition, we discovered that these tents cannot be accessed directly through normal means. The hospital, or rather GRE, Umbrella, whatever, they use a special electronic lock cylinder that requires their own key to open."

Ange looked up, her eyes asking if the AK12 was safe. After receiving an affirmative answer, she continued, "You cracked it?"

"No, we dismantled it. This thing is essentially a mechanical movement, and since it doesn't have electricity, we can't just waste it here."

......

"Okay, tell me what you've discovered."

For the first time, Anjie began to doubt the professionalism of her subordinates.

MDR, unaware of the anomaly, truthfully replied, "I hacked into the small terminal inside the tent and discovered that they used this lock to isolate all the tents belonging to Umbrella in the central area for their human experiments. The tents of GRE and the hospital are for the normal placement of patients, but I suspect that these people are also Umbrella's food reserves."

During the report, MDR casually made a few gestures on the screen before adding, "They used a certain virus on these patients, which resulted in the creation of many monsters, but those monsters broke through the lockdown, causing chaos in the hospital area."

"So, the human experiments conducted within the hospital grounds actually predate the fall of the city?"

"I think so. The outbreak of the biohazard was not the primary reason for the loss of control in the hospital area. Rather, it was the monsters they had created here in advance."

Anjie subconsciously gritted her teeth and spat, "What damned beasts! I thought they really saved people in the early days, but it seems I was too naive." Then, she gave the order based on reason: "Keep those photos and documents. They can be used as evidence later, so that Luo Fan can use them as leverage in negotiations with the military."

"I'm working on it now, and it's currently syncing to the commander's terminal."

While conducting human experiments in a hospital is inherently despicable, it did objectively contribute to their downfall of Umbrella, which they preserved as evidence of their crimes.

After all, without these real log files and photos, ordinary news anecdotes alone might not be enough to convince the military and the public...

650 Anjie PART.10

On the way to the northern campus, the gunfire gradually subsided, and the entire hospital returned to its desolate silence from the start of the operation. However, based on the information provided by Essex and Kaga, the actual situation might not be that the military and the USS had emerged victorious, but rather that they had essentially all entered the campus...

In other words, the entire hospital has entered a state of darkness, where there is always the possibility of encountering the other side. At this point, it will be necessary to see which side is exposed first. The fact that they did not fire their guns when they encountered those monsters earlier was also due to their fear of being exposed.

"Open the door, get in!"

Pushing open the wooden door, one officially enters the North Campus, which belongs to the Information Technology Department. Here, there are no elaborate medical facilities or department layouts; instead, it serves as a place for external operations, internal hospital exchanges and learning, and storage of archives and documents. Whether this place has any special significance is unclear, but most of the windows are covered with opaque curtains, making it much darker than the previous three campuses…

Fortunately, they had night vision goggles, which allowed them to move freely in the darkness.

After the danger was eliminated, everyone relaxed their vigilance and began the search, but apart from a few display cases, a front desk, and benches for waiting, there was nothing of any greater use.

AK15 approached the floor plan and examined it closely before saying in a deep voice, "The archives and information management platform are on the sixth floor."

"Sixth floor? Okay, let's keep going up then."

After receiving the information, Ange decided to continue her relocation and get there first before the military enemy could explore the area.

Aside from a few brief roars, nothing unusual was noticed along the way, so they must have been the first team to enter the North Campus.

The process of going up the stairs was normal; apart from the bloodstains and the inexplicably leftover gravel, there was nothing noteworthy.

Except when they arrived at the junction of the third and fourth floors...

"Why are there so many rubble on the ground? Has there been a landslide somewhere?"

After a period of careful progress, Anjie couldn't help but feel a little irritated. If it weren't for the night vision goggles, she would have fallen several times while climbing the stairs. With pebbles scattered all over the ground, she would have thought that a truck was unloading stones here.

RPK smiled and pointed upwards: "Just look up and you'll see..."

"..."

No wonder the staircase leading to the fifth floor was completely and severely broken, causing a small-scale collapse and rendering the staircase unusable.

What could possibly cause such destruction? Even a chemical explosion couldn't be this devastating...

"...Let's change our route after we get to the fourth floor."

It's impossible to go this way now; the risk is too high.

Changing direction might help avoid some unnecessary trouble...

Starting from the fourth floor, it is used more as doctors' offices and lounges. Dormitories, living spaces, and public and private offices can all be seen here, so it looks cleaner overall than the other three hospital areas. However, this is only one aspect, since as long as there are people, there will be casualties, and the same is true here.

Using night vision goggles, the group continued to grope their way forward, occasionally passing a mutilated corpse, but mostly they heard muttering sounds lingering in their ears, coming from who-knows-where...

"The sound seemed to be quite far behind us."

Anjie turned around, checking from time to time, but the night vision goggles had limited visibility and couldn't see anything further away.

AK15 turned around and replied, "At least forty meters. In the absence of light, gallium arsenide has limited reaction, which is beyond the night vision range, but in thermal imaging, you can see a big guy."

"How big is it?"

"It's probably like three bears stacked together. Imagine a Big Mac, that's probably the image."

RPK's untimely lame jokes left Ange speechless, but at least they made her feel a sense of crisis, as there was a big guy following them without seeming to notice their presence.

"Continue moving forward at a constant speed, and don't get noticed."

While zombies are a threat, it's not a big problem if this clumsy giant is the only one here. It's more important not to be noticed by the living.

"Be careful of the legacy the company leaves us; those things are even more dangerous."

"That monster with the searchlight on its head was actually pretty sexy. Damn, I almost got caught by it. I don't want to die in the arms of a woman like that."

......!

The conversation they were hearing was a more dangerous sign, and everyone immediately hid in the nearest office.

"USS, overlapping heat sources, number of people cannot be confirmed."

After inspecting the area with the AK12 probe, the situation was immediately reported to Anjie.

Anjie didn't hesitate and immediately responded: "Open fire after the other side moves ten meters, and take care of them quickly."

There's a troublesome enemy following them; if they don't deal with the current foe quickly, things will get even more complicated...

The group waited close to the door until the other party's footsteps gradually approached, and the ten-meter distance became shorter and shorter. With the number of people uncertain, could they effectively eliminate all of the other party and then escape unscathed?

They had no time to think...

"Fire!"

The three firing angles—low, medium, and high—instantly struck the unsuspecting USS members. Before they could even confirm what had happened, the two at the front of the line fell backward. However, the penetration capability of the 5.45x39 caliber rounds was indeed limited in such a space, and they could not effectively harm the enemies behind them.

Moreover, the other side reacted very quickly, using the bodies of their two dead teammates as temporary cover to withstand subsequent fire and move towards a nearby office.

Ange sensed something was wrong and immediately ordered, "Throw flashbangs, force your way through, alchemist, it's your turn."

Upon death, the members of the Defiant Squad immediately retrieved flashbangs from their waists, pulled the pins, and simultaneously threw them towards the door frames where enemies were hiding diagonally opposite them, using the bounce angle to send the flashbangs inside.

Without further ado, the alchemist raised his fist blades and charged forward at high speed, taking advantage of the enemy's blindness to begin an efficient cleanup. The others followed closely behind, using cover to approach the enemy ahead.

"There are still enemies behind us."

AK15 noticed the movement further away and immediately signaled to his teammates, forcing them to slow down their advance once again.

"You keep pressing and keep advancing; I'll break in from the flank."

With that, the alchemist threw down the severed torso he was holding and rushed out.

"What are your plans?"

But before Anjie could get an answer...

boom!

Volume 1: "Happy Cooperation"

651 Anjie PART.11

Not only the hostile USS, but even the Rebellion Squad was startled. With a loud bang, several sounds of flesh being torn apart and horrifying screams, the USS's firepower density immediately dropped significantly.

"This madwoman, anyone would be fine, why did she have to be assigned to our side?"

Ange turned around and saw AK12 complaining irritably, while AN94 and AK15 followed to provide support.

“Why be dissatisfied with a strong teammate, Captain?” RPK grinned as he changed to a new magazine. “The Commander’s decisions have their reasons, and this madman’s actions now make our Commander seem quite brilliant.”

"...Just follow them and provide support. We can talk about it later. Don't let the alchemists gossip about us after they rejoin the Ironblood."

Such tactics were not within Ange's expectations, but the result was far better than anticipated. Under the alchemist's whirlwind advance, the USS can now be described as being in complete disarray. After all, their firepower was basically no threat to them, not to mention that she could rush into the room faster than the flashbangs she threw.

Thanks to the light-blocking eyelids and highly sensitive optical sensors provided by military-grade technology, the alchemist became an unparalleled assassin in the face of light firepower. If she wanted to, perhaps no one in this building could stop her.

The Rebellion Squad followed behind the Alchemist at a steady pace, tasked with clearing out enemies behind them, while the Alchemist was responsible for carefully cleaning each room, moving back and forth and breaking through. Compared to the group of people with superb marksmanship, it was this white-haired woman with her wide and sweeping movements that instilled more fear in the USS.

"Grenade, watch out!"

AN94 spotted the object on the ground and immediately alerted his teammates to take cover. After noticing it, the alchemist also turned around and kicked it into the dormitory where only corpses remained.

The brief explosion didn't cause any real harm, but it at least reassured the girls a little that their reckless teammate still cared about their safety.

The firefight lasted longer than expected, and naturally became more intense. The roars from behind were still approaching, but thankfully they weren't moving too fast...

"how's it going?"

Seeing the alchemist wipe the blood off his arm and return to the corridor, Ange quickly stepped forward and asked him.

"The cleanup has been confirmed complete," the alchemist replied coldly. Ange didn't mind and nodded to show that she understood.

"Of course, I'm only referring to USS. There are others behind them, and they're all alive and well."

"what?"

Everyone's hearts skipped a beat, and they immediately pointed their guns at the front of the corridor. But suddenly, a red flash tore through the darkness, causing Anjie's night vision goggles to sting briefly. She quickly took them off.

"Safety confirmed...wait!"

A young male voice was heard, followed by hurried footsteps. The girls simultaneously confirmed that the person was armed, but the person's uniform did not prompt them to open fire immediately.

Similarly, the other side remained highly vigilant and did not launch an attack immediately.

Anjie rubbed her eyes, forcing herself to adjust before finally taking in the situation...

"Who are you? State your identities!"

The one who issued the warning was a very young-looking man. The dark uniforms worn by his teammates were enough for Ange to confirm his identity: military personnel...

That red flash was a flare thrown by the other side. Why didn't they open fire immediately?

Or perhaps they noticed that the USS was engaged in combat with another squad that was not part of the military, and since they could not verify the identities of either side, they chose to negotiate?

Anjie thought it was just the first negotiation with the military and was about to speak when AK12 stepped forward first, and she was pulled to the back by AN94.

"No, no, no, don't fire! Don't fire! We're on the same side! We're on the same side!"

AK12 seemed to know the other party, and her attitude showed that she was making concessions, which puzzled Ange, who was new to the area.

AN94 leaned closer and whispered, "Two of them are among the commander's targets; we can't afford to clash with them."