Chapter 215 - 143: Taking Command, Tier Two Corps
Chapter 215: Chapter 143: Taking Command, Tier Two Corps
This was all closely related to their defensive equipment, so of course, they wouldn’t treat it lightly.
The remaining ten thousand recruits were designated as Support Soldiers, responsible for providing logistical support.
This included gathering food and transporting supplies.
In truth, this organizational structure was very similar to that of the Zerg Race.
But the first step to defeating a powerful enemy is to learn their methods, then optimize those methods to utterly crush them.
At the end of his report, Li Ran brought up the biggest problem they were currently facing:
"The doctors at the field hospital behind the second line of defense were taken away, too... We have medicine, but we’re critically short on frontline medics. We only have a few."
"This afternoon, while clearing the battlefield, several soldiers were unfortunately ambushed by a small, hidden Swarm. Although their lives aren’t in danger, they still suffered from severed hands and injured legs..."
"Even though we managed to stop the bleeding, we didn’t have any surgeons to treat them when they got back. In the end, we had to use Organic Nutrient Liquid to save them."
"Otherwise, they would have been permanently disabled, lost their combat effectiveness, and could only serve as Support Soldiers from now on."
Lin Feng’s expression grew heavy as he nodded.
"I’ll take care of it."
Five thousand Warriors wasn’t a huge number, but it wasn’t small, either. The main problem was that Lin Feng had no source of reinforcements. Every man lost was one less seed for his future Legion.
Back when his team only had a hundred or so men, injuries were rare. Even when someone was wounded, they could use Tier Two Zerg Eggs to regenerate and heal.
But now, with an army in the thousands, Lin Feng wasn’t wealthy enough to rely solely on Organic Nutrient Liquid.
He urgently needed to replenish his medical staff.
At once, Lin Feng thought of Liu Yueqi’s aunt, the recently engaged Liu Ruojiao. She was a professor of surgery at a university, and her family also came from an academic background; she was bound to know many medical professionals.
Or he could ask Ling Shuyan for help, but her people were all technicians from a biological research institute. If he handed the wounded over to them, they might send them back as deformed monsters with Zerg Race limbs...
It was probably more reliable to first have Han Yuxin search for survivors in Jin City with experience in the medical field.
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「Meanwhile...」
Old Mountain Military Restricted Area, Federation Biological Research Institute.
Qin Hu had awakened from the hibernation pod.
His atrophied muscle tissue had returned to normal.
He looked at the woman beside him and asked with a sense of resignation,
"How much longer do I have?"
Ling Shuyan, however, seemed to ignore his question.
"Are you certain about what I just asked? Is there really a Genetic Warrior in Lin Feng’s unit?"
Qin Hu frowned, a hint of displeasure in his voice.
"Haven’t I confirmed it enough times? Yes, there is one. He was one of the students who escaped from Hai City with us. His State is terrible—he’s overused Genetic Assimilation even more than I have. The Zerg Race characteristics are on the verge of covering his entire body. But at the same time, his combat strength is freakishly high..."
"He took on three Tier Two Late Stage Tiger Spine Zergs by himself and killed two Samurai Hunter Zergs at the same time."
"Didn’t he get his modification surgery from you?"
Having received confirmation yet again, Ling Shuyan didn’t answer. Her mind was a whirlwind of thoughts...
She replied distractedly as she walked away,
"Every time you overuse the Assimilation from the Genetic Essence Liquid, your remaining lifespan is cut in half."
"A Tier Two Awakener has a metabolic lifespan, based on their cellular telomeres, of about five hundred years. In your current State, you probably have less than fifty years left..."
Qin Hu’s brow furrowed deeply, his face turning ashen. He stared at her departing back and roared in a low voice,
"When the hell are you going to fix this flaw?! Weren’t the new Tier Two Zerg Race specimens we brought back this time enough!?"
"I won’t last long in my current State for the defense of the Capital! Do you even want to see this Genetic Warrior project succeed by forcing it like this?!"
Ling Shuyan suddenly stopped. She turned her head slightly, revealing the perfect curve of her profile. Behind her glasses, her dark pupils flickered as she replied faintly,
"Relax. Everything is going according to plan."