Chapter 17: The Fifty Foot Cocodrillus

The spider tank and its ten drone escorts are sweeping the area in and around the Zoo.

They found other signs of big mutant animals however they are not in this area anymore.

On their last leg of the sweep, they saw a big man made pond. It’s the furthest place from Adam’s bunker.

When his drones made their initial sweep on this area they did not see any heat signatures or movements.

However, the surveillance drone that’s hovering a hundred feet above directed his attention to it. It found some recent tracks on the muddy sand banks of the pond.

When zooming on those images, he was shocked by the size of those foot prints. He can totally fit inside them if he lay down inside.

He added two of his regular drones to the A.I.’s team and ordered the A.I. to use them to do a recon under the pond’s surface.

He needed to do it this way since this area is already outside his sphere of influence.

Unfortunately, the water inside the pond is so murky and dark that the two drones didn’t see anything.

The moment that the drones flew out of the water, a huge shadow suddenly sprung up and caught one of the drones then just as fast went down again.

The incident happened so fast that Adam wasn’t able to completely see what it was.

However, he is absolutely sure that that huge thing was only its head and not its entire body.

A cold chill run down his spine. He immediately ordered the spider tank to fall back 200 meters and one of the concrete buildings as a cover.

He then deployed his sniper sentry as close as he could to the A.I.’s team for additional support. From his calculation the sentry is roughly 900 meters from the pond, well inside the range of the 50 cal. Sniper rifle.

He also changed two of the attack drones weapons. He replaced the automatic rifles with his two remaining grenade launchers. He then tasked the two drones to hover 100 meters above the pond.

The remaining attack drones were now spread out around the pond keeping a good safe distance but also making sure that it can respond right away.

Once everything is set, he instructed the A.I. on what to do.

The attack started by the two drones above the pond. When the attack signal was given by the A.I. it strayed lobbing grenades down the pond starting from the side furthest from the tank. The grenades started exploding in a pattern.

Basically, Adam plans to herd the monster towards the tank’s cannon. He want it to surface on the side where the spider is hiding.

It took the drones a few minutes to get any response from the pond. Halfway through the pond, when the grenades exploded a large ripple moved and started to get away just as he predicted.

He is using HE grenades on those launchers. It’s not really as destructive as the main cannon of the tank, but when it explodes under water it creates a shockwave with a scary force.

The ripple on the pond got more vigorous as the underwater explosions continues to herd the monster into the shore.

After another five minutes, the monster finally showed itself.

It crawled to the shore with its huge mouth wide open.

For the second time that day, Adam’s jaw dropped again.