Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 618 The Eve of the Great War
With a loud "stab" sound, a large crack was suddenly torn open on the floor of the carriage, and the steel plate at the torn place was folded to the sides, and a skinny, scorched arm stretched in from the outside and grabbed the edge of the steel plate.

It's a human hand... but it doesn't look like a living limb, it looks like it came from a dried mummy.

The ends of the fingers have long, sharp and broken nails like sharp claws. These nails scratched against the steel plate, making a continuous, tooth-piercing sound - the engineer almost immediately thought of the sound that came from above his head not long ago. , He originally thought it was some kind of multi-legged arthropod like a centipede, but now it seems that it is probably the ear-piercing noise made by these nails scratching the armor of the car body.

The gap in the steel plate became bigger again, and a second black arm like a mummy stretched out into the compartment... Immediately afterwards, the third and fourth arms...

Could it be that there is more than one monster under the car... No, no!These arms are from the same body!The engineer felt that his body seemed to be out of control, and an indescribable sense of fear seized his heart... He really wanted to pull the trigger, but found that the trigger seemed to be welded to death, and he couldn't pull it down no matter what.

On the contrary, it was Lao Le who immediately roared, picked up his two guns, and fired at those arms!
But as soon as the bullet touched these arms, these arms immediately shattered—to be precise, they didn't shatter, but "scattered" apart!
These arms turned into countless tiny black beetles in an instant!

These little beetles moved extremely fast, and covered the body of the machine gunner in a blink of an eye—the latter had turned into a white skeleton before it could make any sound, and fell down inside the carriage.

This speed is countless times more exaggerated than the terrifying army ants on the earth!
"Bugs, bugs?!" Lao Le was also dumbfounded at this time, his muzzle subconsciously moved with the swarm, but after eating all the flesh and blood of the machine gunner, the beetles pounced on the man who had just seen the photo of his wife and child On the soldiers, Lao Le couldn't help hesitating briefly—if he shoots now, he can't be sure how many bugs he can kill, but the teammate who was targeted by the bugs will definitely die.

A full-power bullet with a [-]mm caliber will tear apart the human body neatly and smash the internal organs... If you are shot at this distance, there will be no chance of rescue.

Or to put it another way, not even the whole body will be left behind.

But in less than half a second of Lao Le's hesitation, the soldier followed in the footsteps of the machine gunner and was devoured by these black beetles.

Two white skeletons were scattered and slid along the sloping floor to one end of the carriage—these black beetles not only ate up all the flesh and blood on the two of them, not even the cartilage and tendons between the bones were left. Down.

But... these bugs...

They don't seem to be getting enough.

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On the other side, the First Cruise Fleet finally arrived at Yagunaktor's berthing airspace and completed the handover with the Zero Fleet.

Those researchers who were not very injured were also sent to the frontline supply base and devoted themselves to the research on wolf-like creatures—although most of the research equipment and equipment were damaged during Ke Lan's "violent unloading", but While Ke Lan was dealing with the hijacking incident, Ye's consortium spent a lot of money to urgently purchase a batch from the ark and sent them over... In Ye Yan's words, it can be regarded as "making up for mistakes".

Although compared with the mistakes made by Ye's consortium due to negligence, this compensation can only be said to be negligible, but neither Ke Lan nor the Undead Crew Club seem to have any intention of holding the Ye family accountable. That fatty Ye Yan breathed a sigh of relief in private.

However, before Ke Lan's butt was hot, he immediately received an encrypted call from the field army.

The content of the call was probably that the Field Service Corps originally planned to send a special team to send Ke Lan and others into the ruins of the Bronze City by digging tunnels, but just a few minutes ago, this special team suddenly disappeared underground. Communication between them and the headquarters was completely cut off.

The Field Corps immediately dispatched a reinforcement force consisting of about 100 elite soldiers equipped with a large amount of active ammunition and various advanced weapons into the tunnel... But even if they were about to reach the place where the special team lost contact, this [-] People's troops also suddenly disappeared.

With the firepower of this team, even if they encounter a powerful SP-type mutant, they can "poison" the enemy to death by pouring a large amount of active ammunition... Take ten thousand steps back, even if they encounter the Mu who attacked Mu The "giant centipede" at the Kahe base can at least send some news before it is completely wiped out.

However, even if it was a scream before dying, the headquarters behind did not hear it.

One second, the communication soldiers of this unit were still making routine reports as usual, and the next second, the entire communication channel fell into silence—as if this unit had evaporated from the world at that moment.

To achieve this effect, after much deliberation, only the power of the bishop in black can do it.

The commander of the field legion immediately decided to report to the Undead Crew... The black bishop heresy is the most dreaded existence besides the prophet. The danger of them does not lie in the destructive power of terror—if we only talk about destructive power, More than [-]% of the black-clothed bishops couldn't keep up with the giant centipede that appeared at the Mukahe base. If they just turned into black skeletons, they were not even as threatening as an SP mutant.

The reason why they are fearful is entirely because of the randomness, instability and uncontrollability of the sacrificial ceremony.

Just as Ke Lan had envisioned before, sending more than a dozen bishops in black to sneak into the ark, and directly wearing bomb vests ran to those important facilities such as reactors, research institutes, ammunition depots, etc. to play sacrifices and other ceremonies In the middle of the process, detonate the bomb and interrupt the sacrifice by committing suicide.As long as one of them draws the "jackpot" and triggers a space storm, or an effect similar to a hydrogen bomb explosion, the damage caused is absolutely incalculable, and it may even sink the entire ark directly.

Although Ke Lan doesn't know why the Prophet didn't adopt such a simple and crude tactic, it doesn't mean that the Ark military will despise the danger of the black bishop—whether it is anywhere, in the wilderness or inside the Ark, as long as they find Suspecting the existence of the black-clothed bishop, they will all list the elimination of the black-clothed bishop as the highest priority mission goal.

But this time, after the headquarters submitted the combat report to the Undead Crew, the crew only replied with a very short sentence: "The original combat plan was launched in advance."

The so-called "original combat plan" refers to the combat operation in which the "Gopher Squad" sent Ke Lan and others into the ruins of the Bronze City after digging through the tunnel, and seized the authority to control the ruins... But now not only the tunnel is worse Eleven kilometers have not been opened, and even the gopher team responsible for digging the tunnel and the follow-up reinforcements are still alive or dead. Under such circumstances, the undead crew will have to start the battle plan in advance, which is already obvious.

They want Ke Lan to clean up the mess.

Ke Lan listened to the officer who called to finish the whole thing. A foul word was brewing in his throat for a long time, but he still didn't swear.

He also knew that this officer...or in other words, the entire Field Corps Command, including this officer, was just a role to spread the word, and it was meaningless to scold them.

If you want to scold, you might as well scold the crew members directly.

However, when Ke Lan tried to dial the communication number Pan left for him, a mechanized female voice came from the other end of the phone, "The user you are calling is not in the service area".

"Grass... Isn't this a landline number? Is it still in the service area?" Ke Lan cut off the phone with some discomfort, but the hound on the side patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "I used to talk about this kind of thing." I have seen it a lot in the army...Many orders are thought up by the people above - oh, maybe not the head, but the ass. They never consider the specific situation of the people below Anyway, if plan A doesn’t work, there’s still plan B, and if plan B fails, there’s still plan C... As for the life and death of those who implement these plans, who cares?”

The hound poured a glass of soda and handed it to Ke Lan, and then said, "Just treat it as a waiter and resign, and the food that was brought to you on the table will become a buffet... Anyway, this is a bad dish. It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not. To me, instead of opposing this surprise attack, it's better to ask the people above to cancel the entire battle plan... Storming the ruins of the ancient bronze city, no matter how you look at it, it seems that people are going to Push it in the meat grinder."

"I also think the old dog is right." Layton nodded, "This time the battle plan was drawn up too hastily, from the discovery of the traces of heretical sects to the final decision on the whole battle, it took even an hour. There is not enough time... Even if the extremist organizations in the old era want to launch a terrorist attack, they must at least start planning several days in advance."

"But we have no way to refuse." Ke Lan sighed, "It's like, old dog, your troops have received a mission that is obviously to send you to death. Apart from obeying the order, you can only choose to defect. The third option is from the very beginning. It doesn't exist... Of course, you can also ignore orders, but disobeying orders on the spot is no different from defecting."

The hound was dumb for a moment. He stared at Ke Lan viciously, panted heavily, and couldn't say a word.

Ke Lan's words just hit the past that he was least willing to mention.

Indeed, at that time he knew that his troops were being used as bait, but he could only obey and send his subordinates to hell with his own hands... Even if there was trouble later, it was only because the soldiers who died did not receive the compensation and benefits they deserved. Compensation—if he had been disobedient in the first place, he would have been shot long ago.

"It doesn't make sense to mention this now." 33 gave the hound complicated eyes, and then turned his attention to Ke Lan, "You might as well discuss how to activate the combat plan in advance."

"The situation is not optimistic... Or to put it simply, the situation has gotten so bad that it can't get any worse." Ke Lan said, "The gopher team and the subsequent reinforcements should have been wiped out. Obviously, this tunnel into the ruins The heretical sect has already noticed the battle plan. Even if we wipe out the enemies in the tunnel and get through the last eleven kilometers, the whole operation plan is not a surprise attack at all. The heretic sect in the ruins can completely wait for work. We're waiting at the exit of the tunnel—"

"This is not called an infiltration operation at all." The hounds said angrily after breathing a little bit, "This is called a self-inflicted trap."

"That's not necessarily true, as long as the strength is strong enough—surprise attack, it can be turned into a strong attack." 33 shook his head, "With the two of you, I think there is a high probability that heretical sects will misestimate the strength of the infiltration team. Chance."

33's eyes moved from Ke Lan to Ze Luo - he had never seen Ze Luo before, and he didn't have a general idea of ​​Ze Luo's ability like Cao Ge did. He didn't even know that Ze Luo was the God of Hunting The members of the regiment are the family members of a certain member... However, his fighting instinct has been reminding him that this girl with some perfect looks is definitely stronger than any monster he has ever seen on the battlefield or in the ruins. Be scary.

If 33 had encountered Ze Luo alone in the wilderness, he wouldn't even have any thought of fighting with him—turn around, run away, and maybe still have a chance.

It's just a ray of hope.

He didn't know how to describe this feeling, which was a unique sense of danger for a warrior who had experienced many battles... But he was also glad that at least this girl was on their side now.

"You mean to let Ze Luo participate in the action?" Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at Ze Luo who was playing the game console, hesitating involuntarily.

In fact, he was very unwilling to let Ze Luo fight with the heretic sect, but with his own strength, if the enemy was a black-clothed bishop, he might not be sure of winning.

Like the black mummy on the Hercules transport plane before, he has nothing to do with the other party, and he can only get rid of that guy with Ze Luo's shot.

What's more, the black-clothed bishop in the tunnel is only the "first pass", and there are more enemies and traps waiting for them.

Ke Lan hadn't made a decision yet, but Ze Luo put down the game console in his hand and said to Ke Lan, "I want to go."

"...This operation is very dangerous, and the chance of getting out unscathed is very low." Ke Lan said to her.

"If it weren't for me, the chances of you all getting out unscathed would be lower." Ze Luo said, "In fact, you know very well in your heart that my own safety is the last thing you need to worry about...you are worried that I will lose control, so You don't want me in this operation, do you?"

(End of this chapter)