Girls' Frontline: My Apocalypse with Dolls

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"My God, Miss Athel, you... I'm simply speechless with shock. This is truly a masterpiece that has been groundbreaking..."

"They are nothing but scraps from the many singularities. Be careful, Umbrella can start on the same footing as you."

"You mean, Umbrella also has access to, or is working on, such groundbreaking research projects?"

"Yes, but their approach is different from yours... In any case, at least for now, Miss Pascal, your research is going much more smoothly than theirs, and I believe that we will be able to open this lovely child's eyes soon."

"7 = all, Snow White fairy tale model, demo version..."

......

After discussion, Luo Fan and the girls decided to suspend the search and lead all the passengers back onto the train to wade back through the water. After all, it was unlikely that the water would recede on its own in a short time, and in order to prevent the situation from getting worse, they had no choice but to risk going back.

The water was icy cold and hard to resist, which was a real torment for passengers with average physical condition. Heavy breathing rose and fell, and the initial courage to try had long since vanished.

"Adjust your breathing rate, don't gasp for breath, stay calm, we will get back safely."

Luo Fan tried to calm everyone down in this way from time to time, but the physiological reaction was ultimately irresistible. The sound of breathing was still there, and they had to fight against a powerful enemy called "hypothermia".

Moreover, the inability to see the bottom of the water means they are easily tripped by pebbles and debris, and several people have already choked on water as a result. However, the team does not stop because of this and continues to move forward. Whether someone can be pulled up by another person when they fall depends entirely on the person's connections.

However, this approach may also come with risks...

There's something in the water.

Almost all the girls who were with Luo Fan said this, but it seemed more like ripples caused by multiple people moving in the water at the same time.

Are you sure you're not mistaken?

Luo Fan subconsciously slowed his pace and asked again.

“There’s no mistake,” Lightning’s gaze swept across the water again: “It’s hovering not far from us, and its movement is completely different from that of humans.”

...At this point, he had no choice but to believe it. If the way it moved was different from humans and it could move freely in the water, then it could basically be ruled out as a regular human zombie.

The problem is that the girls' thermal imaging modules cannot see what is underwater; they only see a deep blue expanse. Unless they can sense bioelectrical signals or perform real-time calculations on underwater movements, they cannot accurately pinpoint the location of the target.

The passengers followed Luo Fan and the others' movements, keeping their steps low. Unable to cope with the crisis on their own, they could only move forward cautiously, praying that they would not become the alarm bells that alerted their companions to the impending crisis.

They truly exemplified the meaning of being paranoid, with more timid passengers occasionally stepping on bent steel bars in the water. The sharp sensation would cause them to involuntarily jump out of the water, thus drawing everyone's attention to them.

The more conspicuous pebbles that were above the water level were all moved by the executioner by hand. Unfortunately, the motion sensors of the hunters and the measuring officer could not work underwater, otherwise they would have had a better understanding of the situation.

"Be careful, a large section of the ceiling has collapsed ahead, don't trip over it."

After the executioner gave the warning, he moved ahead to the area and began to personally check the team for any potential loose rocks, warning them to avoid them.

The hunter followed to help, but after only a few steps, he was jolted up from the water as if electrocuted.

"Damn it...!"

He turned the gun towards the water and began to lock onto it at a certain angle, but never pulled the trigger.

Luo Fan quickly caught up, his brows furrowed: "What happened?"

"Something in the water brushed past my leg, alive... executioner, watch out!"

The sudden warning caught the executioner off guard, but he still instinctively took a few steps back. Only then did everyone notice that a wave was sweeping across the water at a relatively fast speed, heading straight into the group.

The girls immediately began firing at the water at their feet, continuing until the bullets grazed the passengers' sides.

"That thing swam past!"

The executioner grabbed his machete and charged toward the back of the group, with Luo Fan close behind, because he had also felt the fluctuations coming from beside his legs.

"Everyone, get out of the way immediately, quick!"

Luo Fan instinctively warned, but it was too late. A female passenger at the end of the line collapsed in an extremely unnatural position within a very short time, which clearly matched the description of the victim's condition given by the two female passengers before.

Other passengers also dared not step forward to help, clearly because it was beyond their ability to handle the situation.

The executioner almost ignored the water resistance and rushed to the victim's side. She reached out to grab him from the bottom of the water and watched as he was completely submerged.

Luo Fan and Lightning rushed to help, and the three of them put their hands into the water and groped around for things underwater. Apart from the struggling female passenger, they did indeed touch some other things.

Based on the strange feel, Luo Fan's brain began to work at high speed: "What is this? An appendage? Some kind of insect? No, the shape doesn't quite resemble it. It seems a bit like a jellyfish, but a jellyfish's head wouldn't be this hard. If it's a spider, this head is unreasonably large, and water spiders are extremely fragile..."

Damn it, what is this?

They kept increasing their force, trying to pull the thing off, but the passenger struggled frantically, and every time they touched the target, they were pushed away by his body.

The water is gradually turning red; the situation is worsening...

"Damn it, that thing got away!"

The executioner reached out but found nothing, watching helplessly as a wave swam away into the distant waters.

"Damn it!"

It would be far too difficult to catch that thing without hurting the other person.

But now, they might be able to roughly determine what it was based on the wound, and such a short time shouldn't be fatal.

"Hey, are you alright...?"

The executioner instinctively pulled the other person up. With her human form and conscious awareness, she didn't think the injury would be serious in such a short time. However, this action nearly cost the person their life...

Or perhaps, this poor victim was simply...

"Damn it, how did it get like this...?"

Her abdomen was ripped open, her intestines dangling from the scarlet gash, filling the air with a stench that stained the water red. Had she not been lying in the water, her screams of agony would have echoed throughout the entire station...

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AR18 stepped forward to check and then shook his head: "He is still conscious, but there's no hope. The wound cannot be treated, and a large amount of filth has entered his abdomen along with the water, which will soon worsen the infection."

First of all, disregarding the issue of stopping the bleeding, simply being submerged in water is enough to fill her stomach like a balloon. It's a miracle that she's still conscious, but for her, it might be more painless to just die.

"Tsk, how pathetic..."

The hunter chose to ignore it and waited on the nearby rubble.

The passenger seemed to have heard AR18's words as well, struggling to grab the executioner's shoulder, trying to say something, but could only sob weakly.

This might be mixed with a desire to survive, but any normal person would know that she had lost any chance of being rescued, and all that awaited her was death, whether painful or not. Rather than a fake rescue, she probably needed a clean and swift release.

The executioner turned around and looked at Luo Fan with his eyes, asking how he would handle the situation. The passengers gathered around, watching the horrific scene unfold before them.

After a moment, Luo Fan slowly shook his head, then pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the victim.

Was that unfocused gaze filled with fear or gratitude? Was it fear of impending death, or gratitude for a swift and painless end? At this moment, did she hate Luo Fan and the others, or was she grateful to them? How did she view her precious life being bound to this endless train of death?

He'll never know...

"boom"

"Dispose of the body as is, everyone else stay vigilant."

After saying that, Luo Fan turned around and continued walking with AA12, leaving everyone looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

Finally, the executioner placed the body in a freezer and weighed it down with heavy objects; this was the last thing she could do.

This female passenger was different from the others they had executed before—those were the culprits who exposed all those involved in the search. She was simply a casualty on their path to achieving their goal...

Even the horrific wounds on her body will ultimately become valuable information they gather to deal with threats.

Is this a disregard for life?

Maybe not?

......

Their commander, in order to achieve his goals, will spare no effort to do, either personally or by having them do, the most cruel and unscrupulous things that are perpetually unacceptable to humans. Unfortunately, he is forever plagued by his own pitiful humanity.

He can never become a truly evil person who abandons everything.

This is what the girls from the Ironblood Factory have always worried about.

......

"I'm saying, with all of us from the Ironblood faction here, isn't our firepower intensity a bit too high?"

The Destroyer was still "resting" on the Alchemist's back. The Alchemist carried her on his back, fearing she would be submerged when the water rose, despite the Destroyer's repeated insistence that she wasn't short...

The scarecrow moved aside the rubble blocking the path with his bare hands and continued to stand guard with a small pistol: "It's alright. Exploring unknown areas always requires high vigilance. Besides, our current goal has become bringing the commander back safely, so it's reasonable to be fully prepared."

“That’s right,” the disruptor chimed in, holding the machine gun to his chest. “The passengers will be taken back by Griffin’s kids. They’ll run away on their own if anything happens. Griffin’s will be fine. Those idlers should just watch themselves.”

Everyone knows what the "interferers" are. The lives of those passengers are none of their concern. The Griffin team will know what to do. The Ironblood Factory team only needs to maintain its stance and act as Lovan's henchmen.

Now, they are simply fulfilling their duties. With the location provided by the metrologist, they can find Luo Fan's location at any time and calculate the shortest route.

“Hmm… almost there,” the scarecrow stopped in front of an iron gate. “Employee passage. Considering the resistance caused by the water flow and the problem of route blockage, crossing from here can save five minutes of the journey.”

"Let's go then. Hurry up and bring the commander and the measurement officer back. My legs are about to fall apart from being soaked."

The architect yanked the lock off the door, swaggered in carrying the transmitter, seemingly having already forgotten the embarrassment he had felt just minutes before.

"...That's quite optimistic."

The alchemist rolled his eyes, then carried the Destroyer to the center of the group.

Compared to the so-called staff passage, this place looks more like the back alley of a slum. It is enclosed, narrow, damp, with peeling walls and private lockers and rubble scattered in the passageway, giving it the illusion of a haunted house.

The architect moved the lockers that were blocking the passageway, and the rest of the people walked slowly in a single file.

"What exactly is that noise?"

The noise had been incessant since they entered, which had already annoyed the vandals.

She wasn't the only one who noticed, but no one brought it up; everyone was keeping a watchful eye on what they could see.

This reminded the alchemists and architects, who had already arrived in this world, of the movie "Alien" they had seen, where they could hear similar annoying noises in the monsters' lairs.

If it weren't for their built-in noise reduction technology, they would probably be driven crazy by the noise right now.

suddenly...

"boom!"

The alchemist suddenly turned around, punched through the wall beside him, and then plunged his body into the hole.

"Hey!"

Caught off guard, the saboteur nearly fell off the alchemist's back and quickly grabbed his shoulder. All eyes turned to the alchemist as he leaned his body into the hole.

A moment later, the alchemist pulled out a bizarre creature that resembled a spider but had a body the size of a human head.

That body could perhaps be immediately replaced by the abdomen of a spider, but it was far too large and incredibly strong. The sight of the alchemist subduing it looked a bit like a human capturing a live seafood in a market.

She supported the several trembling legs and asked with difficulty, "Is this what it is?"

"what is this?"

The person who was disturbing them came closer to confirm the monster's appearance. It was extremely ugly and was obviously a product of mutation. Even without seeing it in person, they could basically confirm that the noise was caused by this kind of creature crawling.

But how could one possibly produce such a violent sound? This also means...

"careful!"

The perpetrator grabbed the woman beneath him by the neck and forcibly dragged her away from the cave entrance. In that instant, two more "spider" sprang out.

Meanwhile, the scarecrow and the architect had already set up their weapons and were aiming at the vicinity.

"We're surrounded."

P.S.: Sorry, I've been quite busy, and my thinking speed isn't as fast as before.

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The restlessness finally subsided, and it poured out from every dark corner, approaching the girls like a tide.

"I wish I had a flamethrower."

"If...if...there are no 'ifs'! Run!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the architect pulled the trigger of his submachine gun and ran towards the depths of the staff passage. The others cursed under their breath and followed closely behind, clearing away the spiders in the vicinity as they fled.

With no one else around, the Scarecrow finally began operating the floating cannons for efficient elimination. The Disruptors and Architects provided close-range firepower, the Alchemists were responsible for close combat, and the Destroyers used grenades to destroy the roads behind them. The Ironblood Factory girls were cooperating with each other with extremely high efficiency. Although they mostly led the battle as elite units, their combat power only increased exponentially when they acted together.

Spider holes were still emerging from the nearby wall. The alchemist picked up a storage cabinet from the ground, stuffed it into the hole, and smashed it into a pulp along with two enormous spiders.

"Ugh, so noisy!"

Unable to tolerate the incessant noise any longer, she fired three high-explosive grenades at the ceiling behind her, completely blocking off the roads in the area. As she said, the sound of the explosions was indeed much better than the crawling of spiders.

A spider leaped down from the ceiling, and the architect immediately picked up the launcher and swung it away: "Luckily we came in first, otherwise the commander would have been in trouble!"