Rogue World (Undying Mercenaries Series Book 7) by B. V. Larson

Author:B. V. Larson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-03-09T07:00:00+00:00

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As soon as my troopers got over their shock, they began peppering the crab-like monsters with sniper fire. At this range, it was hard to tell if it was having much effect.

My tapper buzzed my wrist again. It somehow seemed to me that the buzz was angrier than it had been just a moment ago.

“Sir?” I asked, answering the call. “Are you seeing this?”

“McGill, what the hell are you playing at?” Winslade demanded. “No one ordered you to fire at anything—”

He broke off at that moment as I streamed vid playback from my helmet to his tapper. Since we were already connected, he didn’t even have to approve the incoming stream, it just started playing in his face.

“What have you done?” he demanded, his voice cracking high for a second.

“Nothing, Primus. I just saw something in that smoke down there, and I thought we should take a poke at it. Well sir, turns out I was right.”

“Why is it always you who starts these things, McGill?”

“Just dumb luck, I guess.”

“Are they attacking?”

“Uh…” I said, hoisting myself up to the ridge again to have a look. The ribbons of bare rock were vanishing again as the vapor closed over them. “The creatures appear to have all vanished into the smoke again. It’s hard to tell, but they were surging in our direction when we uncovered their presence.”

“You mean when you provoked them,” Winslade said. “We’ll have to step up every element of the plan. These damnable rebels. If I wasn’t under direct orders, I’d burn their dome out right now.”

“Your orders, Primus?”

“Keep those creatures from overrunning us. Those are your orders. Winslade out.”

Nodding thoughtfully, I had another peek down at the field. Was that a feeler poking out of the smoke at the very bottom of the slope, at the edge of the smoke-filled region? It seemed to me that it just might be.

“Leeson,” I said, “what are the other units up to?”

“Looks like they’re setting up 88s now in a panic,” he said, chuckling. “They should have done it first thing. What’s the point of high ground and an open field of fire if you don’t exploit it?”

“What’s the point indeed... Leeson, what would you do if you were a bug that loved smoke, but were planning to rush out of it and kill something?”

“Well… I’d probably move to the edge of it and mass up right there under cover.”

“My thoughts exactly,” I said. “Let’s get those 88s tilted straight down, shall we? We’re going to be burning their forward perimeter in about thirty seconds.”

“Thirty seconds? On it, sir!”

He began yelling at his men to hustle. They did so, piling up charges and cranking their field of fire more steeply, so they could hit the bottom of the ridge below with ease.

I liked Toro and her heavies just where they were, but I frowned when I considered Harris and his light snipers. They seemed useless against this foe. An enemy that could withstand an 88 was going to shrug off a snap-rifle without feeling a thing.

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