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Chapter 287 Crazy swarm of insects, reconnaissance force with heavy casualties (please subscribe)

The First Expedition Fleet stayed in the void outside the galaxy, more than 30 million kilometers away from the outermost planet of the Malantai Galaxy.

The speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second. This distance is equivalent to the distance that light travels for about one hundred seconds. To ordinary people, such a distance is already an astronomical figure, but in the vast starry sky, a distance of more than 30 million kilometers can be said to be as close as a stone's throw away.

Thirty million kilometers is also a well-thought-out distance, which is a very appropriate tactical distance. At this position, the First Expedition Fleet can quickly enter the galaxy, and can also enter the subspace and escape from the battlefield as soon as possible. The best distance to retreat and defend.

The situation in the Malantai galaxy is a bit complicated. The Holy Inquisition's scanning system found that there is nothing here. It is empty. There is no space station, no orbital platform, and even no traces of subspace corruption have been found. However, every planet has its own A strong life signal.

As the saying goes, when something goes wrong, there must be a demon. After a brief discussion, Wang Ben and others finally decided to send out a reconnaissance force to see what was going on in the Malantai galaxy. After collecting enough information, they would formulate the next plan. plan.

After receiving the order, several reconnaissance ships started their conventional engines, broke away from the main ship group, and entered the alien ring of the Malantai system to conduct reconnaissance operations.

The commander in charge of this reconnaissance mission was Liu Xia, who had changed from a guard commander to a company commander. Due to the expansion of the empire, the original First Army Corps was split, and the current First Army Corps was rebuilt with veterans. In order to carry out his work better, Liu Xia was transferred from the personal guard officer to the first company commander and also served as the deputy of the regiment.

Don't underestimate Liu Xia just because he is a deputy. If something happens to Wang Ben, he will become the second leader of the legion and the commander-in-chief of the first expeditionary force.

Several reconnaissance ships advanced in standard battle formations. Years of war had already made these tactics instinctive for the captains. No matter what the situation, they will subconsciously use these tactics and be wary of surprises everywhere.

Captains have seen too many accidental deaths. In war, no matter how safe the environment is, once you lose your vigilance, death is not far away.

A great victory was achieved on the battlefield, but someone was greedy for credit and was hit by the defeated enemy, and exploded directly. There are also captains who relax their vigilance in seemingly safe places. As a result, enemies suddenly appear in the void, and they are killed directly behind them.

You must be vigilant at all times, because the universe is impermanent, the enemy is cunning, and danger is everywhere. If you relax even a little, you will die.

The first to be listed as a reconnaissance target is the gas giant planet MLT07 in the outermost part of the Malantai galaxy. According to the preliminary scanning results of the Holy Inquisition, its mass volume ranks fifth in the galaxy, and there are six satellites surrounding it. Doing orbital motion, all six of them have very strong life signals.

The reconnaissance fleet searched for a place where the gravitational point was stable and scanned the gas giant planet MLT-07. No space station, no orbital station, nothing. The orbit of the entire planet is empty and impossibly clean. However, every satellite of the MLT-07 gas giant planet has found life signals. Even the MLT07 planet has found strong life signals. Even some large meteorites have life signals.

After in-depth scanning, it was discovered that on the surface of each satellite, and even in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet MLT07, there are huge buildings similar to biological nests. They stand like giant eggs on the surface or are suspended. in the atmosphere.

"What on earth is going on!!" Liu Xia was filled with confusion when he saw the results scanned by the reconnaissance ship.

"We have to land to find out the answer." Adjutant Fodia said, "Look at those large nests. The answer should be inside."

Liu Xia frowned, thinking about this proposal, and then relaxed after a moment. He finally decided to listen to the adjutant's advice and go to the ground in person.

"You really should go down and take a look."

Half an hour later, several large gunboats rushed out of the reconnaissance ship's landing pad, carrying Legion soldiers into the atmosphere and flying towards the surface of the MLT07-01 satellite.

On the way, they did not encounter any interception. They arrived at the ground smoothly. The smoothly suspended gunboat roared and extended its hydraulic lift to support the heavy body. After it stopped, the heavy hatch slowly opened. Liu Xia and others followed the cabin. They rushed out of the door, raised their weapons, and went around to establish a defensive line around the gunboat.

They all carry special weapons, flamethrowers, bolters, various high-power energy guns, and fire support from armed drones.

The armed drone had been released before the gunboat even landed, hovering in the sky, taking pictures and scanning the entire area.

As soon as they step out, they can use the field of view provided by the drone to see the surrounding situation.

The drone's field of view and the reconnaissance ship's scan both showed that MLT07-01 was a very desolate satellite. Although the life signal was strong, there were no living things on the ground.

"Tarta, you take two teams to garrison a little ahead. I don't want anything to suddenly rush over without warning." Liu Xia said, "We need to protect this landing point, and we can't withstand the loss of the gunship." s consequence."

A tall legionnaire nodded and led two teams, a total of ten people, in a fan shape to walk out, acting as the first cordon to guard the landing point.

"Fodia, prepare your destruction team. To be honest, it's too weird here. Although I can't see the enemy, I can feel that a battle may break out at any time."

"They are already in position, sir." Another tall legionnaire said.

After arranging all his men, Liu Xia took the remaining soldiers to the nest building closest to the landing point.

For safety reasons, the gunboats did not stop too close to the nests to avoid being attacked by the enemy, so they had to walk for a while to reach those nests.

The nest building is extremely majestic, standing on the ground, covering a large area, somewhat similar to a beehive, and somewhat similar to an ant nest. Some places expanded and contracted rhythmically, as if the nest itself was alive.

While Liu Xia was inspecting the footage captured by the drone, he led the team closer to the nests. The scanning system showed strong biological signals.

After getting close to the nest, I found several huge entrances, which were dark and without any light.

Liu Xia hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to take a closer look. There was no information about these strange buildings in the database of the Human Alliance. It was very likely that they were a species that humans had not come into contact with.

It may be foolish to rush into the enemy's lair, but if you want to defeat the enemy, you must understand the enemy. If you fire hastily, you will lose the opportunity to understand the enemy.

The team gathered into a defensive formation and entered the lair through a huge entrance. The inside seemed to be made of some kind of hard-shell biomass, was pitch black, and exuded a strange smell.

These hard-shell biomass have some special ability to block signals. After entering the nest, their communication signals become very poor, and they can sometimes be connected to the landing site, and sometimes they cannot.

"There is no abnormal subspace psychic energy, and no traces of corruption have been found. Are these buildings the product of nature??" Liu Xia murmured to himself as he looked at the divination scanner that showed no abnormality.

The other team members had no answers. They just recorded these things and prepared to take them back to the technical experts for analysis.

The team kept going deeper and deeper until their helmets showed that they had walked five kilometers before finally reaching the end of the road, a huge black platform.

Looking out from the platform, there is a huge space filled with squirming flesh and blood and various weird organs. It is hundreds of meters high and bottomless.

The pods hang on the surrounding walls, covered with bloodshot eyes, and sometimes squirm because of the life inside. They look like wombs that breed new life.

In addition, there are some strange crawling insects that are taking care of these pods, sending the cultivated individuals into some pipes and sending them away.

"What are these?" Xu Qianglong, who came in with Liu Xia, looked at this scene and his eyes widened.

"It looks like a nursery for bees." Another soldier said in a low voice.

"I think it's like ants, they gather their eggs together to hatch them."

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Liu Xia did not intervene in the conversation of his teammates, and he had no idea what these ghosts were.

After observing for a while, he said to a few people next to him.

"Take some samples and give them to those technical geeks for study."

"We will be discovered." Xu Qianglong said.

"You won't run away if you find it." Liu Xia said angrily, "These things will definitely be listed as cleanup targets, but we must know what they are and what kind of weapons are suitable for use for extermination. I don't want us to enter Here we are, and we still don’t know anything about this damn race.”

Under Liu Xia's order, Xu Qianglong and others could only act in accordance with the order. Several soldiers took out combat daggers made of single-molecule materials and easily cut off the flesh and blood connecting the pods. This theft made them undetected. All the reptiles are aware of their presence.

These reptiles and the nest seem to be one, and as long as one part is damaged, they will notice it immediately.

Seeing those crawling bugs looking at his position, Liu Xia realized that he was exposed and made an immediate decision to let a few people take the pods to retreat first, while the others were responsible for buying time.

A strange howling sound sounded, and the crawling creatures crawled towards them quickly, able to easily cross even the steepest slope.

"Fire." Liu Xia shouted, and then took out the giant blaster. No abnormal psychic fluctuations were detected on the crawling creatures. The blaster was not the best way to kill the enemy.

The dense blaster beam pierced the dark space and exploded when it came into contact with the target, blowing all the crawling bugs along the way to pieces. those bugs

There are many of them, but their combat power is really weak. Even with the protection of their carapace, they are no match for the legionnaires.

Liu Xia and others evacuated while killing the insects. After a while, the battlefield was full of broken corpses.

They thought it would be an easy battle, but what happened next surprised them.

From the depths of the nest, various strange-shaped bugs crawled out continuously. Some crawled, some flew with wings, and some ran with two legs. There were all kinds of insects. The only thing they have in common is that they all have sharp claws and insect-like mouthparts, as well as various black carapace protections.

The abdomens of some bugs will also glow. After squirming for a while, they will eject bioplasma balls and various light beams, which have extremely powerful killing power.

Countless bugs poured out like a tidal wave, a mass of darkness, so numerous that the helmet's scanning device couldn't clearly calculate how many there were.

A rare trace of fear appeared on the faces of Liu Xia and others. Such a huge number of bugs had never been seen before. What species were they? ?

A huge number of insect swarms swarmed in. Liu Xia and others opened fire while evacuating, and at the same time called gunboats to come for support.

Several brothers were swamped by swarms of insects during the battle, and their display runes were turned gray, indicating that they were dead. Even their bodies could not be retrieved. They were torn apart by the insects in an instant, and even the latest The model's power armor also fell into pieces.

The insects were so fast that Liu Xia and others had no choice but to abandon their blasters and use melee weapons instead, fighting while retreating outside.

Some bugs are unusually large, several meters taller than legionnaires, and their carapace is harder than steel. They also have jointed limbs similar to those of a mantis, which are sharp and hard, like sharp sickles. Can cut through their armor.

In seven or eight minutes of fighting, Liu Xia and others lost more than one-third. The number of enemies is too large, and they have various long-range and melee attack methods, coupled with their terrifying size and strength. On the other hand, they had no heavy fire cover, were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers and firepower, and had no air support. They were lucky to be able to escape alive.

They finally fled outside in embarrassment, and the insects rushed out with them, and noisy screams filled the surroundings.

In addition to the monsters on the ground, there are also various insects flapping their wings and flying in the air. Their numbers are so huge that they cover the sky and the sun, leaving huge shadows on the ground.

Several small teams stationed at the landing point also arrived on gunboats at this time. Intensive artillery fire and beams fell on the dense insect swarm. No need for any aiming, just hit them casually, and they could blow up the insects into pieces.

But the number of insect swarms is endless, and even if it is cleared, it will be replenished instantly.

Some bugs with long-range attack capabilities fired hot bioplasma and pulse beams at the gunship, causing the gunship's shield to continuously ripple.

Those bugs with the ability to fly swarmed towards the gunboat.

The gunboat's firepower was very fierce, and a large number of bugs became fragmented and fell from the air to the ground. However, the number of bugs was too terrifying. No matter how many were killed, countless bugs would appear.

Soon a gunboat was breached in defense, spinning and crashing into the ground with black smoke. At the last moment, the driver shouted the slogan of dying for the God-Emperor and started the self-destruction procedure. The bright light and shock wave swept out, instantly vaporizing the bugs within tens of meters, and flying bugs within hundreds of meters. The charred remains and broken flesh flew into the air, and then fell to the ground like rain. Lose.

"You can't be reluctant to fight, evacuate immediately." After Liu Xia witnessed the destruction of the gunboat and the emptied area that was instantly filled with black insects, he realized that if they continued to fight, they would all die here.

There are so many bugs that it is unreasonable to say that in the face of sheer numbers, no matter how tenaciously they fight, they will die. They must evacuate and then apply for a planetary extermination strike.

Under Liu Xia's order, the team began to retreat in an orderly manner. The two brothers with the pods were the first to go up, followed by the soldiers responsible for cutting off the rear.

But those bugs were chasing too close, and some legionnaires had to stay to block the enemy and give other team members time to leave.

As the company commander and legion adjutant, Liu Xia naturally had the right to evacuate first. Without any pretense, he dragged the corpse of a bug directly onto the gunboat, and then asked the driver to leave the ground immediately and return to the track.

The warriors who remained on the ground were quickly devoured by the swarm, but the battle was not over yet.

The insect swarms have been chasing the gunboats, launching suicide attacks one after another. Soon another gunboat was unable to withstand the attack and was destroyed by the dense insect swarm. It exploded directly in the air, and its passengers disappeared in the flames.

It wasn't until it entered a high altitude that the air became thinner and the insect's wings could not provide enough lift. The gunboat was able to take a breather. But after a while, the ground fired a series of giant plasma balls and pulse beams into the sky. Unexpectedly, It attacked the gunboat alone, and also attacked the scout ship in orbit, causing the scout ship's shield to flicker.

The gunship's scanning system showed that some insects as huge as mountains were launching attacks that could reach low-Earth orbit.

In the end, only three gunboats returned to the reconnaissance ship in low-Earth orbit. Liu Xia immediately ordered the reconnaissance ship to return and directly withdraw the expedition fleet.

Those bugs on the ground are definitely not indigenous creatures. They are most likely another interstellar race, a race that is not in the Human Alliance database.

The information and samples brought by Liu Xia were taken seriously. Wang Ben immediately held a strategic meeting to prepare the expeditionary forces for war, discuss how to purify the enemies of the Malantai system, and at the same time find ways to understand the enemies. What exactly is the origin?

In the middle of the meeting, when everyone was analyzing the battle data and images brought back by Liu Xia, Morton, the technical general adviser of the First Expeditionary Force, walked in with a pale face.

His metal-implanted face looked a little dull, without the previous enthusiasm and excitement. It seemed that he had discovered something extraordinary, and his whole body was shocked and dumbfounded.

"What did you find??" Wang Ben looked at the technical general adviser of the expeditionary force. The other person's expression made him feel uneasy.

"A catastrophe is coming." When Morton spoke, the bloated mechanical body trembled a little, causing several high-ranking officers at the strategic conference table to look at him.

"Just say what you have!! Don't guess in riddles, and don't talk about things that are there or not."

Wang Ben's tone was serious and he did not allow Morton to disturb the morale of the army.

Morton walked to the console and used his mechanical tentacles to turn on the data projection, showing the specimens brought back by the reconnaissance team, as well as the videos and analysis results of their anatomy.

"All the samples brought back by First Company Commander Liu Xia have been dissected. We found that those monsters absorbed human genetic sequences, not just human genetic sequences. I checked a variety of different sources from their samples. The genetic sequence of a biological population. This is a biological group that relies on devouring other living things to complete its self-evolution. And there is no information in the database of the Human Alliance. They may be visitors who have just visited the galaxy."

These words made everyone present look solemn. At its peak, the Human Alliance only occupied the Milky Way and failed to project its influence outside.

Perhaps some adventurous or fleeing fleets fled to the galaxies closest to the Milky Way, such as Magellan and Magellan, but overall, the Human Alliance's scope of influence is only within the Milky Way.

If we want to distinguish between them, the Human Alliance is a galactic-level civilization, while those who can send troops to other galaxies are super-galactic-level civilizations, and even reach the civilization level of the local galaxy group.

"Is it possible that they are a race native to the Milky Way?" an officer asked.

Morton shook his head, "It's impossible. The Human Alliance fell apart in just ten thousand years. Coupled with the raging Eternal Night Storm, the races that emerged during this period will all have psychic characteristics and the pollution marks left by the evil gods. But they are very clean, without any traces of contamination. Besides, the human alliance's database can only identify 5% of the genetic sequences in those guys, which means that the remaining 95% may not belong to the Milky Way. .”

"Damn it." Wang Ben's brows furrowed. Even he had to lament the fate of the empire. "Before the Star Spirits approached, another race that could cross the galaxy appeared. Is humanity really going to perish? ?”

"We must report this matter to Xuanyuan Star and let the empire prepare." Elsa said, "The insect swarm should have just taken control of the Tyran Star region."

"It is absolutely necessary to report to Xuanyuan Star. Now we should discuss one thing first, and that is the purification work of the Malantai Galaxy." A senior general of the expeditionary force said.

"Start the sacred purification. At all costs, completely destroy these damn monsters and eradicate them." Wang Ben said in a cold tone.

As soon as he finished speaking, the alarm sounded.

The voice of Intelligence Director Fenyu sounded over the communicator, with a hint of panic and uneasiness. "A strong life signal is detected approaching us, and the enemy fleet is coming."

A data packet entered the computing core of the strategy room, was processed, and displayed in the projection. I saw a fleet comparable in size to the First Expeditionary Force appearing in the originally empty Malantai Galaxy.

When everyone was attracted by the sudden appearance of the fleet, in the cold and empty void, some weird meteorites passed over the shield silently, and when they touched the hull, they were like barnacles. Adsorbed tightly to the hull.

Then these meteorites grew legs covered with thick biological carapace, moved on the hull, and crawled towards the battleship's scanning antenna, laser turret, rail turret, entrance, observation window and other locations.

　Six thousand two, another day with more than ten thousand. Come on, brothers, keep asking for votes.

　　It's up to you to rise up.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)