Chapter 1,237 The Martian Rescue

"How long until rescue?"

"If you had said less, maybe we could have lasted a few more hours. Chinese?" Wang Qiang said tiredly, looking at the remaining battery and oxygen bars on the holographic screen.

The oxygen inside the rover is mainly provided by two systems.

One is an oxygen tank placed in the trunk. The reserve inside can probably sustain the life activities of the crew for a week. The other one is the carbon sequestration device, which starts automatically when the oxygen in the oxygen tank is exhausted, and consumes electricity to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen until the battery is completely exhausted.

If the situation is optimistic, it can last for two weeks.

But now, five days have passed.

Looking at the fiery red desert outside the window and the "centipede" that poked its head out of the ground from time to time, a bitter smile appeared on Wang Qiang's face.

However, at this moment, a black spot appeared in his field of vision, and behind that black spot, there were bursts of dust.

"Hey, James, wake up!" Wang Qiang immediately kicked the black man leaning opposite him, waking him up from his sleep.

"What happened..." Rubbing his eyes and waking up, James was about to ask what happened, and then he saw the black spot outside the window.

His sleepiness was instantly swept away, and he suddenly crawled to Wang Qiang's side. He squinted his eyes and looked out the window. After trying to see clearly what it was, he shouted with joy, "It's our people! They are back!" They didn’t abandon us!”

"Come quickly and get ready."

Wang Qiang patted him on the shoulder, walked into the compartment of the buffer room, and took off the spacesuit from above.

At the same time, the action outside the car window began.

The devil bug crawling near the Mars rover raised its head and opened and closed its sharp front teeth at the infantry vehicle in the distance. Just when it was about to plunge into the ground, it saw the machine gun on the top of the infantry vehicle. , suddenly fired a rocket.

Like a burning iron fist, the rocket hit the Devil Bug's abdomen, suddenly bursting into flames.

Green blood and insect limbs exploded in all directions, and the upper body of the devil insect flew out and fell on the sand five meters away.

"Zhizhi——!"

The vocal cords let out a suppressed and shrill scream,

The broken devil bug was twisting wildly on the desert, its internal organs and blood being thrown everywhere.

"This damn thing can't die." The gunner said with difficulty as he looked at the difficult bug through the sight glass.

"Shut it up! It's attracting its own kind!" the captain yelled.

The 20mm cannon sprayed out tongues of flame and fired a round of bullets at the twisting upper body.

The driver turned the steering wheel sharply and made a 30-degree turn toward the advancing infantry vehicle.

Almost at the same time, dust exploded from the side of the vehicle, and another devil bug emerged from the ground. Its steel teeth were like a sickle and scraped against the body of the infantry fighting vehicle. It opened and closed like scissors like crazy. It made bursts of heart-wrenching sounds.

"Go to hell!" gritted his teeth, turned the gunner's muzzle, and pulled the trigger firmly.

The cannon spit out tongues of fire, and the orange-yellow trajectory tore open the belly of the devil insect.

While the devil bug fell backwards with a howl, the entire desert began to boil like boiling water.

One after another, devil bugs emerged from the side of the infantry fighting vehicle, and after failing to hit the target, they quickly plunged towards the ground. The cannon continued to spray flames, but facing four or five targets at the same time, it was impossible to cope with it.

"Damn it! How many are there!" the driver exclaimed.

"Don't care how many there are, just hit them! Hit the tires of that rover!" The Marine captain standing behind shouted angrily while holding on to the driver's seat.

Breaking out of the Devil Bug blockade, the infantry combat vehicle hit the rover's heavy rubber tires hard, pushing the rover seven to eight meters on the sand before stopping, but it did not knock it over. .

"Shet! Are they planning to save us or kill us?!" James, who stood up again while holding the cabin of the car and was knocked unconscious, exclaimed.

"The damage to the car body... is not a big problem. They probably planned to knock us over, but they underestimated the width of our chassis." Wang Qiang squatted in the corner to prepare for the impact from the beginning, so he did not suffer any damage.

The rescue plan seemed to go awry from the start.

Seeing that Plan A failed and the car had not completely stopped, the Marine Corps captain immediately ordered, "Activate Plan B! Quick!"

The infantry combat vehicle continued to accelerate, pushing the rover forward. At the same time, the top cover of the vehicle opened, and a Marine soldier came out, took out the hook lock from the compartment, and hooked the two pins of the rover. tire.

"Are they asking us to go out by ourselves? Don't even think about it." James exclaimed.

"Then you just stay in."

Wang Qiang didn't waste any time. After seeing the action of the soldier outside the window, he immediately reached for the safety lock next to the driver's seat. After entering the password, he suddenly pulled the wrench.

The moment the wrench was pulled down, the cover of the safety channel of the rover's chassis suddenly popped open. Under the huge air pressure difference, the air inside the rover surged outward. With one foot on the seat, Wang Qiang climbed out of the vehicle through the safety channel of the chassis, grabbed the soldier's hand, jumped onto the infantry vehicle, stood firm, and got into the infantry vehicle.

"It's hitting our tracks!" the driver shouted as he stepped on the accelerator.

"It can't hit us! Our tonnage is bigger than the Mars rover... Damn it!"

A stabilizing bracket was installed before going on duty. The larger infantry combat vehicle was not knocked over like the Mars rover, but it was still lifted a centimeter or two from the desert. Although the gravity of Mars is not as strong as that of the Earth, the fact that it can hold up such a large iron lump is enough to highlight how terrifying the explosive power of the Devil Bug is.

"Hurry! Hurry!" Trying to stand firm on the top of the infantry fighting vehicle, the Marines nervously looked at the rolling gravel under the vehicle while anxiously shouting in the direction of the rover, "Give me your hand!"

Although he was scared, James gritted his teeth and followed Wang Qiang to climb out of the rover, grabbed the soldier's hand and jumped onto the infantry fighting vehicle.

However, at this moment, a change suddenly occurred.

The devil bug that hit the chassis of the infantry suddenly stopped and suddenly jumped out from the side of the infantry. It roared at the two people on the roof and opened its front teeth like sickles. When he met the row of dark green eyes, James, who had just helped the soldier stand still, his pupils gradually dilated with a hint of fear.

"Thanks--"

"No--!"

With a scream that broke through the air, the sickles suddenly bit together.

The blood rushed up to two meters high, spreading a layer of blood mist in the dusty air...

"The mission failed, Engineer James died, and Sergeant Miller was seriously injured..."

"Sergeant Miller's rescue was effective and his life is not out of danger yet."

"The rescue force is returning to the colony."

On the big screen of the Space Command Center in Star Ring City, the icon marking Engineer James has been marked with a red cross.

Looking at the big screen solemnly, Kerwin slowly sat on the chair, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.

His political sense told him that things might be getting troublesome...