Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 126 Swamp

The ground troops continued to advance and then encountered a large puddle of water.

This was originally a low-lying area in Zhongchao. When Zhongchao was operating normally, the accumulated water flowing here would be drained away quickly. However, after the outbreak of the plague, most of the drainage systems were left unmaintained, and large areas of accumulated water appeared here.

Also under the influence of the plague, the plants and algae in the water mutated, growing wildly and rapidly decaying, eventually forming a thick layer of humus at the bottom. Even from a distance, the pungent, unpleasant stench emanating from the water could be smelled.

It is impossible to say that there is no dirt in this water, but the team has already advanced here, and taking a detour is unrealistic.

Ivan scanned the water, confirmed the threat was within an acceptable range, and ordered the ground troops to wade through.

The ground troops were hesitant, but having been selected or signed up for this operation, they had already, either actively or passively, prepared themselves for sacrifice. They had been frightened by the swarm of flies simply because they believed that even if they fought tooth and nail, they would not be able to inflict any significant damage on the enemy. Now, while everyone knew the dangers of wading rashly, they still obeyed Ivan's orders.

Ivan rose into the air, leading the way with his masterpiece at the head of the team. Under Ivan's guidance, the sharp legs of the self-propelled forge crushed the obstacles hidden under the water, and the mortal troops followed closely behind.

Gradually, the troops reached the center of the puddle, where the water was deepest. When they first entered the puddle, the water only covered their calves, but now it was above their waists. The mortals could only hold their weapons high to avoid getting wet and damaged.

The water contained dirt and irritants, and many people only wore basic gas masks, so their bodies soon developed adverse reactions after being soaked in the dirty water.

"Wow!" At this time, someone at the end of the team made a strange cry. It was a young man in his early twenties. After the strange cry, he pulled the safety of the rifle, roared and fired randomly into the water, splashing a circle of water around. He maintained the shooting posture until he ran out of bullets, and it took a long time for him to calm down.

"Just now...just now it seemed like something in the water touched my leg..." The boy, who had calmed down, realized that his reaction was a bit embarrassing, so he scratched his head feeling a little embarrassed.

As if to answer his doubts, a piece of rotten wood that he had broken floated up from the water, with a number of bullets embedded in the wood.

The people around him glared at him, but no one blamed him for making a fuss. They all withdrew their shooting postures and continued to wade forward.

The boy stayed where he was, because according to Ivan's rules, in non-emergency situations, consumable materials should be recycled as much as possible. The boy was only issued three magazines in total, and he had just emptied one.

He didn't want to pick up the bullets and shell casings that had been shot into other parts of the water, but the bullets that were embedded in the wooden boards could be recovered.

Just as the boy was standing in waist-deep sewage, holding the bullet on the wooden board, something touched his leg again.

At first he thought it was just some debris floating in the water so he ignored it, but the next second, the thing wrapped around his legs.

The young man was dragged into the water. This time, he didn't even have time to scream before the water had already poured into his throat. His hands and feet waved weakly, but they could only create a small ripple at the bottom of the water. These ripples soon mixed with the ripples caused by other people's movement, and no one noticed.

The air in the boy's lungs was exhaled from his mouth to form bubbles, which rose to the surface of the water. However, the dirty water was covered with a layer of oil, so the bubbles did not burst immediately.

No one noticed the boy's disappearance, but a most careful person discovered this string of unusual bubbles when he walked past the place where the boy disappeared. He followed the string of bubbles and looked into the distance, and then saw a water mark appear on the water surface about ten meters away from him, as if there was a big fish swimming below.

"What the hell is that?!" He immediately pointed his gun at the waterline and alerted the people around him. He used to work as an assembly worker in the Zhongchao workshop. He had never seen anything like a "fish" in his life, but in this situation, he could tell that anything swimming in such dirty water was definitely not human.

The people around him also noticed the water streak after he reminded them, and they immediately drew their guns and took precautions. However, the water streak continued to extend forward without any haste, and finally began to circle around one place.

Soon a small vortex appeared where the water mark circled, and then the calm water surface was suddenly broken, and turbid waves kept splashing up, as if there really was a big fish under the water, and this big fish was entangled in the fishing line and was struggling.

"Bang!" It was unknown who fired the first shot, and then the others fired bullets at that place together. They were not as impulsive as the boy at the beginning. Rifles can fire continuously, but they chose to fire in bursts, which could ensure accuracy while saving bullets.

After a few rounds of bullets, the splashing water slowly calmed down, and then everyone saw a black dot rising from the water surface, and then the black dot began to slowly expand.

That was blood. The puddle's water was a dirty brown-green, while blood flowing from a person's body was red. The mixture of red and green appeared to the human eye as black.

Then, more black liquid rose from the bottom of the water in threads and bloomed on the surface.

"Wow--"

A long object flipped out from the bottom of the water. One of the people on guard nearby couldn't control himself and fired a few more shots. The kinetic energy of the bullets caused one end of the object to sink into the water, but the other end rose up again.

After confirming that the object was lifeless, the people around it gradually approached with guns raised. The surface of the object was covered with thick algae and silt, and it was impossible to tell what it was.

The bravest of them walked up to it, put the barrel of his gun under the thing and turned it over.

The moment they saw the front of that thing, everyone took a step back in fear. It was the body of the boy who had just been dragged into the water. The boy's entire face had been bitten off, leaving only muscles, bones and one remaining eye exposed. The left half of the boy's body was missing, and the cross-section of the muscles showed that it was not cut off, but torn apart.

Just as others were horrified at the boy's miserable condition, his body suddenly swelled up, and then exploded with a "bang", with broken flesh and intestines flying everywhere. The person closest to the corpse was blown away and finally fell on an abandoned building nearby, with his body pierced by rusty steel bars.

Those who were farther away finally recovered from the shock of the explosion, but they didn't notice that more water marks began to emerge and approached them silently.