What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?

Chapter 1047: We’re Doing A Full Scale Invasion Of The Nest

Everyone was well fed and in high spirits when we were told to gather for the next phase of the expedition.

Looking at the tunnel, it seemed like they were able to clear out the blockage and the war machines were now able to move into the tunnels as well.

I was looking at what looked like large combat mechs, spider tanks and even hover tanks that were being moved close to the entrance of the tunnel to prepare for their entry.

The General was standing at the end of the war table with the leaders of the assault teams gathered around said table.

Some of the officers were shooting me questioning looks, clearly wondering why I was there. Some were openly hostile to me as they glared at me like I was taking away their salary or something. There were some who didn’t really care about my presence and the senior staff who gave me a nod of acknowledgement.

The interesting part was the rare few who were looking quite starstruck in my direction and I would have wondered why they were looking at me like that until I overheard their whispers.

”That’s... That’s the Merc! She’s the one who took out those bug nests by herself!”

”I also saw her stream! That was so awesome!”

”Especially when she was with those dogs! She made it look so effortless! So cool!”

”You think I can get her to shake my hand?”

”You? Nah, no way man...”

Oh? I guess they’re fans or something. That’s quite a surprise. I didn’t think we were already popular enough that we would meet fans of us outside in public.

I decided to just pretend I didn’t hear anything and focused on the General instead as he started the meeting.

”Thank you all for coming... As all of you might be aware, the blockage to the tunnels have been cleared and we will be doing a full scale push into the tunnels. I would first like to extend my thanks to the Teran Mercenary Company for taking the risk to secure the main outpost and giving our engineers the space they needed to clear out the blockage to begin with.”

The General gestured in my direction to draw the room’s attention to me, prompting several of the gathered soldiers to start clapping their hands.

That’s embarrassing...

He waited for the applause to die down before continuing, ”The plan is to map out the tunnels and establish outposts in key locations to maintain our supply line and make sure we always have a route of retreat if anything unexpected happens. We will split into five main groups to push from each of the outposts that have been set up and move deeper into the nest. Scouts will map out the tunnels and search for the main nest area where we can then kill their Queen and hopefully be rid of this mess. I am also aware that there have been some updates that some nests have evolved to the point that killing the Queen no longer kills all the other bugs so we have to be prepared if that happens with this nest.”

Several soldiers started murmuring amongst themselves, some of them surprised at this revelation.

I guess the updates we gave have not been as widespread as we thought.

The General raised his hand to quieten everyone else down, ”This changes nothing. Our original plan is already to clean up every single tunnel in this nest since we have to gather the corpses of all the bugs in the first place. We will need to make sure every inch of the tunnel is clear of bugs so don’t let your guards down. Now, for the teams... This is what we have planned.”

He tapped on his personal terminal and five individual screens popped up on top of each outpost, indicating the teams that would be going down that specific direction.

I looked for my team and it seemed like I would be assigned to the outpost that was directly before the GenoTrend outpost. No doubt that was assigned to us for a reason.

Not only that... While the other four teams had several groups to make up that team, mine showed only my own group and no one else.

That is not counting the supply drones and support personnel who would be following us to that outpost but would stay behind and only advance down the tunnel when we found a suitable spot for them to set up another outpost.

I frowned and turned back to frown at the General and he caught my eye before he gestured towards me, ”You have a hundred dogs, Miss Tera. There is nothing I have here that would be able to match your capabilities. Any team I assign to you would just be a waste of resources since your dogs would do everything to begin with. I would much rather direct these resources to other teams that need the help more.”

Hmm... Fair enough... But... Shit... That means that I can’t even get myself a tank or a mech, can I? This sucks...

Now I’m wondering if I could somehow acquire military hardware through black market channels or maybe get some kind of license that allows me to get them.

The General continued with the briefing, giving instructions to the other team leaders before he came back to me.

”I just need you to push forward and establish forward bases to secure communication and supply lines. I won’t tell you how you should do your things but just maintain a comms channel and support any other team that might need support. Report anything that you might find within the tunnels that you believe is worth reporting. Anything at all.”

I’m quite surprised he’s placing that much trust in me.

Though maybe that has to do with the fact that I managed to complete that task he gave me in reaching those outposts earlier and helped make this expedition possible too.

The General looked out at the gathered crowd and gave us a node, ”Alright. All of you have your orders, we will be moving out in an hour. Go to your teams and get them ready to move. Team one will enter first and we’ll follow in order. Move out.”

The gathered officers turned to move out of the meeting room to find their teams.

I was given the designation team five so we will be the last to move out, meaning we had plenty of time before we needed to head down the tunnel again.

I went outside to find my girls waiting at the same place I left them with the dogs all laying around a short distance away with Freyja seemingly watching over them.

Seems like Freyja established herself as the leader of their group already.

I explained what the General told us to my girls and Mara was the first to react, ”He wants us to keep an eye on GenoTrend without explicitly telling us to.”

I raised an eyebrow, ”How would we even do that? It’s not like we would be near them once we descend further into the tunnels.”

”If I know anything about them. They would most likely already know about the plan to push deeper into the tunnels. They might even try to attach a team to the group pushing closest to them. And since we already know they are looking for their escaped experiment to begin with... They would definitely be sending someone to the outpost to try and follow us.”

Patricia turned to her, ”Even though they already tried to hire us and failed?”

”They wouldn’t know it’s us. They just want to try and follow along to look for that escaped bug to recapture it. I suppose that’s where we can extort them for it. Oh, and it would probably be a good idea to include the point that they would be paying to follow us, not for the successful capture of their bug. I don’t think we want to get more involved in whatever they are doing than we already are.”

Hmm... That’s true... I already know there’s some company politics going on between them and the others for getting the spot here and not only that... It seems like they are also engaged in military politics too. I really don’t want to get too involved with them for that.

Well, there’s a reason why I already preempted Vier that I would most likely be calling her again if they try and make another deal with me.

At least they wouldn’t try to bully me since I have my team to back me up in any confrontation that might happen there.

I wonder if that professor guy already received the notice that we rejected the task he gave us?

Anyway... Girls, we better check our gear and get ready. We’ll be moving out soon.

I still have a hundred and one dogs to pat to get them ready for their task~