Chapter 39: The Great Interstellar Retreat (I)
On June 1, 2115 in the federal calendar, the "revenge operation" has been going on for three days, but the Zerg are hiding in the mines, relying on complex tunnels to attack everywhere, so that humans can't figure out how many bugs are still in the underground world of Ah. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The environment in the tunnel is extremely suitable for the activities of the Zerg, and the movement of humans in such a place is very restricted, so that the task of clearing the Zerg is very slow, and the entire army of 200,000 people is dragged to the ground.
Karl sat in the command seat irritably, his eyes bloodshot, but he was still staring at the computer screen, monitoring the clearing operation on the ground. In his original plan, recovering Ahstar was just a matter of hand, but he didn't expect it to be deadlocked, and if it went on like this, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to take Aha Star for a month.
A major staff officer hesitantly walked up to Karl, he knew that coming to the commander who was in a very bad mood at this time would definitely hit the head, but the matter was important and had to be reported.
"Commander, I ......"
"What's the matter with you?" Carl didn't look up, his eyes still fixed on the screen.
"Oh, yes, since this morning, we have lost contact with the St. Edinburgh headquarters, and all communications have been cut off." The staff officer said nervously.
"It must have been the sudden explosion of a star that was causing radiation and interfering with our communication systems." Karl impatiently briefly analyzed the reason.
"However, that wouldn't have caused all communications to be completely disrupted, and I'd suggest relaying signals from other systems to try to restore contact with headquarters."
"Whatever you want," Karl said with a rough wave of his hand, "I'm busy right now, don't bother me with such trivial things." ”
The major staff officer whispered, "Yes......" turned around and walked down the command seat and returned to his position.
"How? He still doesn't care about anything? The staff officer on the side asked in a low voice.
"Of course, his dream of being president is about to be shattered, is he still in the mood to take care of things?"
"Hey, what then? I also have a tricky matter to deal with here, he's still like that, and I'm sure I'll be scolded for no reason if I go. ”
"Huh? What's going on with you here? The Major asked.
"Come and see." The staff officer on the side gave up his seat, let the major sit down in front of the computer, pointed to the screen and said, "You see, behind Planet Two, there are many bright spots. ”
When the major looked at it, he found those flashing signals, and said suspiciously: "Could it be a meteorite group?" ”
The staff officer nodded and said: "It's possible, but it's strange, these bright spots have changed the direction of progress three times, as if they are deliberately approaching the fleet, and the meteorite group will not do such a movement, it is really unpredictable." ”
The major looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "If you report this kind of ambiguous information now, you will definitely not be able to get the commander's affirmation, so let's wait." ”
Deep in the underground tunnels of Ahstar, Olga struggled to get up, but couldn't muster any strength.
In front of her, there was a fat flesh worm, its body was so heavy that it could no longer walk, and it had to rely on the scorpion's back to move.
Beside the fleshworm is a strange little beetle, which looks like a one-horned fairy, and looks like a little follower of the fleshworm.
The fleshworm was clearly interested in her, and with wide eyes, he brought his fat wrinkled face closer to Olgar, looking at her through the helmet glass.
"It'...... What the hell is it trying to do? "Ao Jia was too familiar with this kind of eye that coveted his beauty, but he didn't expect to find the same look in the eyes of the Zerg. She kept trying to back away from the ugly face, but the energy mass emitted by the flesh worm paralyzed her whole body, and she couldn't exert any strength.
The flesh worm looked left and right, and seemed very satisfied with Olga. At its signal, several scorpions crawled over and were about to drag Oga deeper into the tunnel. …,
Olga was terrified for a moment, wondering what this extremely ugly flesh worm wanted to do to her.
"No...... Don't ......" she let out a faint sound, emitting through an on-on radio.
Unexpectedly, a voice of response came from the radio, and a loud voice shouted: "Captain! Is that you? ”
When Olga heard it, he realized that it was Khalid's voice. Thankfully, they finally found this place.
With a thud, Khalid slipped down the pit, followed by Jack and Memphis, who stood up and immediately formed a zigzag defensive formation, turning on the lights to look for Olga.
"It's the Zerg! They caught the Captain! Khalid was the first to see everything in the tunnel, and while shouting loudly, he raised his Gatling heavy machine gun and roared: "Let go of the captain!" ”
The meat worm didn't expect Olga's rescuers to arrive so soon, and it turned around to run away, but it didn't forget to let the scorpion take Oljia away at the same time.
Seeing that the Zerg was about to slip away with Olga, Khalid immediately pulled the trigger, grabbed the crane gun and began shooting. Jack and Memphis also picked up their Gauss rifles and began to fire at the swarm.
Lying on the ground, Oga saw countless tracer bullets flying in front of him, shooting at the swarm of insects carried by the flesh worms. The meat worm hurriedly picked up speed and quickly escaped from the tunnel. The two giant beetles were in charge of the rear of the hall, blocking all the bullets fired and slowly exiting the tunnel.
Khalid and the others didn't dare to continue the pursuit, and quickly pulled Olga up from the ground, and asked nervously; "Captain, are you alright? Did they bite something off of you? ”
Ao Jia shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's nothing, it's just that I was hit by that strange trick of the meat worm, and my body seems to have been hit by electricity, and I am completely numb." She tried to stand still, and found that there were only three members of the team in front of her, and the recruit Nikolai did not follow, so she asked, "What about Nikolai?" Did you save him? ”
Khalid shook his head and said, "That spider ran so fast that it couldn't catch up at all." Besides, you fell into the pit, so we decided to save you first. ”
Oga sighed, knowing that Nikolai was less than lucky. The numbness in her body faded as she struggled to reach for the Gauss rifle that had fallen to the ground and reload it
She looked at the team members in front of her and said, "The situation in this tunnel is complicated, and there are a large number of insect swarms, so we should hurry back to the surface and report the situation inside to the command, so that they can decide how to act."
In the command of the 1978 Federal Fleet, the flagship "Carl Vincent", officers and staff officers were busy walking around, dealing with various matters between the fleet and the ground forces.
A staff officer stared at the screen, sweat pouring from his head. He bit his nails, and after some psychological struggle, finally pressed the emergency button on the console.
"Drip, drip, drip......" The siren sounded in the hall of the headquarters, and the red siren lights began to shine non-stop, and the busy people all stopped, and for some reason the alarm sounded.
"Who is it? Who did this to you? Karl sat up abruptly from the command seat, glancing fiercely at everyone.
A hand was raised from the seat in the front row, followed by a young staff officer who stood up and stammered, "Commander, I pressed the alarm." ”
"You? Do you know what you're doing? Karl stretched out his hand and pointed at him and scolded: "That's only for emergencies, you say, what emergency do you have?" ”
The staff officer pursed his lips and said, "Commander, I really found an emergency, otherwise I would never have pressed the panic button randomly." ”
"Say, what did you find?" In full view, Karl didn't dare to criticize him too much.
"Yes!" The staff officer linked his screen to the large screen of the command headquarters, and countless points of light immediately appeared, which were the data of the space radar observations. …,
The staff officer pointed to a small bright spot of glitter and said: "I have been observing this bright spot for a long time, and at first I thought it was a meteorite group, but then I found that it was not so simple, they changed direction several times and kept approaching the fleet. Just now, he suddenly sped up and was rapidly approaching us! ”
Karl stared at the big screen and found that the bright spot was indeed approaching rapidly, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Is it really a meteorite group?" Why hasn't anyone reported to me? ”
All the staff officers thought to themselves, who dares to report to you, isn't it interesting to look for yourself?
Just as Karl blamed the staff officers, the speed of the point of light was getting faster and faster, and it was closer to the fleet.
"Alert! Threat Alert! "The central computer of the battleship also issued a warning, which only appeared in a state of imminent battle.
"Commander, if they keep flying, they'll collide with the fleet! I propose to issue an urgent order to the whole fleet to urgently turn on the protection and prepare for protection against the onslaught of meteorite swarms! A lieutenant colonel staff officer said loudly.
"Yes, yes, give the order now, open the particle shield immediately!" Carl finally came to his senses and said loudly.
The officers immediately sprang into action and issued an urgent order to the entire fleet. For a while, the command hall was noisy, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"Commander, the engine is currently on standby, it will take at least three minutes to fully start, and until then, the particle protection system cannot be turned on!" A staff officer stood up and shouted.
"What? Start the engine and let the guys in the mechanical bunch figure it out! Carl shouted, and he saw the collision time calculated by the central host appear on the big screen, counting down to 3 minutes and 20 seconds!
"Yes!" The staff officer immediately picked up the phone and spoke to the mechanical warehouse.
Carl sat in the command seat, nervously watching everything in the command room, and his henchman Captain appeared next to him again, whispering. After Carl listened, his face kept changing, as if he was struggling to decide what to do.
"The engine is done! Turn on the particle protector! Energy level up! Per cent! Ten percent ......"
The officers nervously watched the big screen, and there were only 17 seconds left in the collision time. Beads of sweat appeared on everyone's noses, and if the energy value of the particle shield did not reach more than 80 percent, it would not be enough to protect the ship's hull against meteorites.
"Fifty percent, fifty-five percent...... Commander! We're too late! The staff officer looked back at the command seat, only to find that Karl's seat was empty.
"Commander...... Where has he gone......"
The staff officer turned his head blankly, only to see a meteorite coming at a rapid pace outside the porthole, and when the countdown on the big screen showed zero, the hull shook violently.
"Impact begins!"