Chapter 1,280 Swarm of Insects
Facts have proved that Hong Zewei's choice was correct.
The second week after the Corruptor's lair was discovered at Mine Point 071, more than five hundred Halo Marines stationed nearby had to abandon their base of operations and evacuate from the vicinity of Mine Point 071.
These bugs are very smart and know that climbing up from the tunnel is equivalent to hitting the muzzle of the Halo Marines' guns with their heads, so they use the devil bugs to leave the tunnel, go around the side of the operation base, and launch a surprise attack on the base.
If the Expedition had not been monitoring the life signals in the area near Mine No. 071 and discovered something was wrong when these bugs climbed five kilometers underground, and notified the garrison in the base to withdraw from the corrosive encirclement in time, it might have really happened. They will be caught off guard.
Fortunately, these Corruptors were not as sensitive to sound waves as the Devil Bugs. Five hundred soldiers and the stationed engineering team were able to withdraw from the colony from the operational base without any danger.
Also brought back to the base were specimens captured from the tunnel.
Although it was not easy, the soldiers of the Halo Marines still managed to get a few.
In addition to a dozen specimens with over 80% intactness, they also obtained four larvae!
For a Martian colony with few specimens, the four larvae were undoubtedly an unexpected surprise.
Four corrosor larvae were kept in separate large glass enclosures and stored in separate isolation chambers.
The small one is only the palm of an adult's hand, and the largest one is almost the size of a washbasin. They're like smaller versions of Corruptors, except they don't spit venom. Unlike devil bug larvae, their small size does not weaken their aggressiveness at all, and even makes them more dangerous and deadly!
Researchers tried putting a bull in a glass enclosure at the same time as it. As a result, in less than a second, the bull was grabbed by the Corruptor Larva and impaled on the head with its tail. During the feeding process, the larvae of the Corruptor showed amazing digestive abilities, eating half a cow in just three days.
In the past three days, its size has almost doubled, from the size of a palm to half a meter high, and its mouth can already spray a small amount of corrosive acid.
If this trend continues, if there is sufficient organic matter, it will probably grow to the size of the Corruptors outside in less than half a month.
"Twenty babies can be born in one litter, and each one is only as big as a washbasin... God, can you imagine it? This thing can grow to be so big when it reaches adulthood!" He made a gesture with his open hands. large size,
The researcher in a white coat kept shaking his head, "The experimental environment here is too crude. We must immediately send the specimens back to Halo City for research."
"How long does it take for them to reach adulthood?" Hong Zewei frowned as he looked at the restless little guy inside the glass cover.
"I don't know." The researcher shook his head and looked at the bull skeleton in the glass cover. "This one cannot be used as a reference. There should not be such rich organic matter underground for them to develop. Sample No. 3 eats oxygen-generating bacteria and the development speed is about Only one-tenth of that.”
"How many bedbugs are there hiding in this damn desert?" Hong Zewei cursed fiercely.
"I don't know if you've noticed," the researcher said after pondering for a moment, "Every time we encounter new troubles, it's because of the 071 mineral point... I'm very curious about what is buried under the 071 mineral point. ."
Hong Zewei was stunned for a moment, then frowned and fell into deep thought.
However, at this moment, his meditation was abruptly interrupted by the sound of an alarm blaring from the radio on the wall.
Lifting his head suddenly and looking at the broadcast on the wall, Hong Zewei immediately rushed towards the entrance of the research institute.
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Alarms sounded in the colony cabin, and the entire colony was boiling.
At this moment, the Halo Marines showed their combat prowess. In less than half a minute, the soldiers who had finished dressing rushed into the front door from the corridor, opened the storage box, took out their equipment and hung it on the exoskeleton.
The magazine was inserted and Zhang Hai loaded the Gauss rifle in his hand.
"What's happening outside?" The white woman with wavy hair stepped forward, tried to stop Zhang Hai, and asked in broken Chinese, "Besides the devil bugs, there are other things out there, right? Otherwise, you won't know how to build it. The wall..."
"No comment." Zhang Hai replied coldly, buttoned the last button of his tactical helmet, pushed the American away, and trotted towards the buffer cabin with the rifle in hand.
The woman wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Blaise who was standing next to her.
"That's enough, Jenny, calm down first." Looking at his teammates, Blaise shook his head.
"But..." Jenny looked at the captain anxiously, "They must be hiding something from us! I had this hunch since they were building the wall, and now -"
"Yes, what are they hiding from us?" Blaise shook his head, with a hint of helplessness and self-mockery in his smile, "Don't forget that we are living under someone else's roof now. If you continue to pick on their people and get to the bottom of it, maybe we will Months and the right to make phone calls at home have to be taken away.”
The white woman named Jenny immediately closed her mouth and stopped talking. She looked at Blaise with a stiff expression. After a while, she nodded, lowered her gaze with a somewhat depressed expression, and said.
"I see."
"Just understand." Looking at the backs of the soldiers, Brace said calmly.
All he wants now is to get home safely.
I hope the troubles of the Star Ring Trade don’t affect “poor people” like them.
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Outside the colony, the Corruptors rushed out of the tunnels behind the dunes one after another and surged up towards the colony walls, forming a black swarm of insects.
As soon as Zhang Hai stepped onto the alloy floor outside the colony cabin, the commander's voice rang in his ears.
"The insect wave is approaching, take your people to the wall immediately!"
"Received." Looking at the coordinates of the defense zone sent to the holographic map, Zhang Hai stretched out his hand and pressed it on his helmet, switching to the team channel. "Attention, everyone, go to the wall defense zone immediately. Turn on the safety and fire freely!"
"receive!"
The infantry fighting vehicle rushed from the slope to the shooting platform of the wall. The muzzle on the top was aimed at the insects that came up like a tide, releasing a raging firepower.
After rushing to the wall, Zhang Hai gestured to his comrades next to him, then leaned behind the corrosion-resistant alloy plate that served as a bunker, stretched out his rifle from behind the bunker and fired back.
These bugs are very smart, at least their brains are much more flexible than those of devil bugs.
Their charging formation was very loose, and they surrounded them in waves, effectively reducing the hit rate of the Star Ring Marines' rifle and machine gun fire. While charging, some bugs were responsible for spitting acid, while the other bugs tacitly immersed themselves in the charge under the cover of the acid.
From time to time, a soldier's face was covered in acid, and he had to be pulled to a safe place by medics for treatment.
After burying his head and dodging a string of acid, Zhang Hai gritted his teeth and raised the rifle. He gave the last few bullets in the magazine to the nasty bug. He took the magazine from the comrade beside him and inserted it. rifle.
Looking at the endless tide of insects emerging from behind the dunes, he knitted his brows together and cursed in a low voice.
"What the hell, where did these bugs come from..."
He didn't know if it was his imagination, but he felt as if there was an eye staring at them.
Whenever they make some progress on the 071 mineral point, trouble will come.
coincide?
He doesn't think so.
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