Floating from the depths of the darkness, the massive ship approached the orange-red planet. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The three big characters of the INFO Expedition are inscribed on the hull of the ship, fused with the pitch-black steel armor, like a sharp sword piercing the darkness, emitting a cold light in the starry sky.

The bowl-shaped engine emitted a crimson glow, and then suddenly stopped.

Under the effect of inertia, the Seagull-class transport ship slowly stopped in the synchronous orbit of Mars.

"The main engine is off. ”

"Secondary engine ignition. ”

"The track parameters have been corrected. ”

"The feedback beam confirms, the center of gravity height is normal, and it is confirmed to enter the synchronous orbit. ”

"The secondary engine is off. ”

After a series of sounds sounded, the serious and tense atmosphere in the entire bridge was suddenly relaxed.

The man in military uniform walked up to the captain and gave a military salute.

"Captain, we've arrived over the colony!

The dignified man stood inside the bridge, looking out the window at the fiery red planet.

"Freeze the dormant chamber. ”

"Yes!"

Outside the bridge, inside the transport compartment.

The cold light in the corner of the wall is lit up one after another, illuminating the entire long space.

The freezer cabins lined up on the wall lit up with a faint blue arc light, and mist erupted from the gap between the cockpit and the hatch, making a clattering sound.

The dormant cabins opened one after another, and the members who had been released from dormancy opened their eyes, pushed open the half-hidden hatch and stepped out, as they had trained countless times during the exercise, and rushed to the combat position in an orderly manner.

The crew members in blue overalls rushed to the gun positions, observation positions, power rooms, and other functional compartments, while the marines in gray-white uniforms rushed into the equipment depot and changed into aviation exoskeletons and Gauss rifles, and lined up at the door of the buffer cabin to stand by.

Inside the bridge.

The officer returned to the captain's side and gave a military salute.

"The hibernation pod has all woken up. ”

"Connect to the Colonial Channel. ”

"Yes!"

The holographic screen appeared in the middle of the bridge, and after a string of snowflakes flashed, the picture on the screen quickly stabilized.

Looking at the man on the screen, a smile appeared on the captain's resolute and calm face.

On the other side, standing in the command room of the colony, looking at the friend on the screen who had finished his captain training one term later than himself, Hong Zewei sighed with emotion.

Clearing his throat, he greeted the reinforcements on behalf of the colony in a calm voice.

"This is a Martian colony, welcome to the expedition. ”

"This is the Expedition, the first echelon of marines is being airborne, you have worked hard. ”

……

Looking up at the sky above the colony, the shock and joy in Zhang Hai's eyes gradually magnified.

The pronged drop pods dragged the blue arc light through the air, and finally crashed into the desert near the colony.

The dust rose into the sky, and the red sand in the sky instantly slammed into the sand dunes dozens of meters away.

The hatch that fitted to the four sides of the drop pod opened, and it slammed to the ground.

New half-track vehicles drove out of the hatches, kicking up clouds of dust behind them.

The new half-track infantry vehicle, called the Pathfinder T-2, was heavier than the Pathfinder T-1 for the Colonial Advance Marines, replaced the rubber wheels with a half-track design, and replaced the barrel on the top of the infantry with a rapid-fire gun that fired electromagnetic projectiles.

This improvement was mainly made in response to the possible appearance of extraterrestrial civilization armored units at the 071 mine. It's just that I didn't expect that what existed under the 071 mine was only a weathered ruin, and there was not even a shadow of a living person.

However, then the incident took a new turn, and suddenly the devil worm drilled out of the ground killed the Star Ring Trade by surprise. As a result, more than 100 Pathfinder T-2s were once again used, and were used in the fight against devil bugs, providing armor protection against vulnerable soft targets.

The movement outside the Martian colony apparently attracted the attention of the devil bugs hovering nearby.

Feeling the tremor coming from the surface, the devil insects drilled out of the oxygen supply layer one after another, like dragons swimming underground, accelerated to the direction of the epicenter, and violently drilled out of the surface to bite these "new neighbors" who had never seen before.

"Squeak!"

A low roar was like a cry of pain, and two pairs of scythes sliced into the solid steel, leaving only a crack the width of a thumb.

The barrel of the rapid-fire cannon with the large mouth of the bowl suddenly flashed with a dazzling white light, and the projectile that was accelerated to N times the speed of sound tore through the armor of the devil bug in an instant, and the devil bug that burrowed out of the ground was turned into a sieve. Like earthworms that burrow through the earth, these insects rush out of the surface one after another, biting at the infantry chariots of the Star Ring Marines.

However, they are mentally retarded and do not quickly realize how stupid their actions are.

The scythe that could tear through the granite slammed into the sturdy A-shaped steel, and it could not break through the defenses of the Star Ring Trade Infantry Chariot at all, and at most it could only cause some interference to the formation of the Star Ring Marines. However, when the individual realized this began to retreat, trying to re-pop the skull back into the sand, it was too late.

Standing on the colony ship, the captain who had finished communicating with the colony was locked on the red dots on the satellite map.

Life detection devices.

The maximum sensing depth for underground creatures is only five kilometers, but this range is sufficient for those devil bugs that have risen in height due to movement on the surface.

When the armored units of the Star Ring Marines finished assembling, he immediately ordered in a deep voice.

"Five kilometers deep, launch a ground-penetrating bomb!"

"Yes!"

With an order, the crew of the ship in the bridge immediately got busy.

"Support Weapon Reloaded!"

"Coordinates locked!"

"Launch!"

A long strip of object separated from the Expedition in synchronous orbit, and after falling downwards for some distance, the silent engine in the tail suddenly flashed orange-red flames.

Under the dual action of gravity and engine, the missile began to accelerate, spanning a distance of 17,031 kilometers, and slammed into the empty sand dunes.

The dust drifted away, and the silence on the dunes was as terrible as the silence of the bridge......

On the big holographic screen in the center of the bridge, the red dot that attracted everyone's attention was rapidly descending its elevation.

At the moment when the altitude jumped to minus five kilometers, the gunner, sitting in front of the console, calmly spoke.

"Hit confirmed!"

Almost as soon as the words fell, the orange-red firelight was like rolling magma, engulfing the rock tunnels and hollow layers five kilometers below, along with the devil insects lurking in them.

Thousands of degrees of heat even ignited the air, and even the metamorphic rock could not withstand the terrifying temperature, and was directly liquefied into magma, snaking out needle-like stalagmites from the dome of the hollow formation.

No creature can survive such a purgatory.

Even a species that spans 3.7 billion years will eventually be defeated in the face of the sharp weapons of civilized people.

The hot flames quickly dissipated.

A string of red dots on the screen that marked the source of life also went out.

An officer walked up to the captain, stood up and saluted, and said cleanly.

"A total of twenty-seven devil bugs, confirmed kill!"

Listening to the adjutant's report, the captain nodded, and a flash of pride flashed in his eyes as he looked at the red planet.

Devil bugs?

Alien species?

In front of the iron hooves of the Star Ring Trade.

But that's it!