Liu Yuxin and his party hid quietly at the bottom of the lake, patiently waiting for the war insects on the shore to leave.

On the third day of their abandoned camp, they almost ran into a patrol of bugs, and they had to find a small lake to hide in order to avoid revealing their location. It was only at this time that Liu Yuxin and the others understood why Suzuki Minami asked them to drive a mecha to carry out the mission.

Those war insects that live in the dark for a long time can even locate the physiological characteristics of prey more than a dozen kilometers away with their sense of smell and hearing. If it weren't for these well-insulated mechs, the xenos who patrolled to and fro would have relied on their hunting instincts to track their scents to find them.

"Why are there all of a sudden war bugs patrolling? It was calm when we came! ”

Chang Haotian complained in a low voice unhappy

"Shut up!"

Chang Haotian's brainless Chang Shengshi was even more unhappy, this person lost ......

"It should be the xenomorph leader named Firefly who found out that we had escaped, so he launched the xenomorph to search."

Liu Yuxin has fought with high-level xenos many times, and has almost lost his life in their hands several times, and he has never dared to underestimate the wisdom of those xenos.

That high-level xenomorph would definitely be suspicious when he found out that he and the others had not shown up for a long time, right? In fact, the safest way is to leave a suspicious soldier to contain it, but Liu Yuxin can't say anything about this, after all, the person who stayed to cover everyone is almost destined to die alone in the hinterland of the Zerg.

Liu Yuxin is not a qualified commander yet!

Chang Shengshi, who had been observing this young man's every move throughout the trip, couldn't help but sigh.

He was still too young, and his thoughts were controlled by the emotions in his heart, and he was completely unable to make the most calm decisions. Judging by the wisdom he had shown lately, he must have thought of this surest plan, but he still decided to try to save everyone, and finally chose this thorny path.

"It looks like we're going to be delayed, hopefully in time for the Great Retreat"

Liu Yuxin was sure that as long as their whereabouts were exposed, it wouldn't be long before a steady stream of fast-moving war insects would appear to intercept them, and the team that had been slowed down would definitely be surrounded again by the swarm of insects with many high-level xenomorphs behind.

Although there are many waterholes and lakes in this underground world, there is no place to hide, but the longer and longer it will expose them to everything, and it may be absolutely safe for a very limited time......

Day after day, Firefly has lost Liu Yuxin's traces for seven days!

Although he reacted quickly, he reacted on the same day, sent a pursuit force, and called for additional troops at the main base to patrol, and after a few days, this section of the tunnel was almost turned over by it, and even the smallest gap was not spared, but no trace of that group of humans was found.

Could it be that your guess was wrong? They are not on the way back, but on the other side? Firefly couldn't help but begin to doubt her own judgment. But no matter where they went, Firefly had to admit that they had escaped their control and that their mission had actually failed.

Realizing this, Firefly had just pleaded guilty with their king and briefed them on the latest situation. The strange thing is that since the capture of the human named Fu Jingzhu, the king's attention seems to have been completely shifted to that captive, and even he made such a big mistake that it was only a faint I knew that there was no follow-up, and the casual appearance and the anger shown that day were like clouds, could it be that human beings are so valuable for research, even the king gave up his long-cherished wish for them that he had pursued for more than 100 years?

Stop, stop! The king's wisdom is as deep as the sea, and how can his mind be fathomed by himself? I still focus on my own work and find that group of people as soon as possible. So where exactly will they be? I've searched almost every place!

No! Wrong! There has been one place I haven't set foot in, and that is the underwater where the Zerg don't have any way to search for the time being! That's right, they can't disappear out of thin air, and there is a good chance that they have avoided all the patrols by hiding in the water, so they should be prepared for this.

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There are still 2 days left until the time to launch the response offensive!

"It's hard!"

Chang Haotian began to complain again

In the past few days, the patrols of the Zerg have increased exponentially, and several of them have been hiding in the water for much longer than they have been on the road.

"Shh~, silence!"

Chang Shengshi snorted in the channel

It's strange that this time the Zerg actually stayed at the water's edge for a long time and had no intention of leaving.

What do they want to do?

Looking at the red dots on his biological detection radar that were close to their location, Chang Shengshi was very strange in his heart, why didn't these xenos who had never liked water very much leave, could they still jump down?

"Kill it!"

Liu Yuxin suddenly turned on the searchlight on the mecha after a loud shout.

In the lamppost, a jellyfish-like creature the size of a puppy was desperately floating not far away.

Everyone immediately understood: their whereabouts had been discovered by the xenomorph in front of them!

Several war insects threw a new type of aquatic xenophyte wrapped in a transparent capsule that looked like a ball into a pool, and watched as it slowly unfolded from the ball to the deep water in the form of a jellyfish, and disappeared again for a while. A war insect swayed its head from side to side with curiosity close to the water, hoping to see the movements and tracks of the xenomorph that had only recently evolved.

There was a sudden burst of foam in the waterhole, and several special ammunition for electromagnetic rifles shot out, knocking the stretched neck in half.

"Whoa!"

In the midst of the splash, Anubis, whose winged engine sprayed blue flames, leaped out of the water, and with a large slash of the scythe in his hand, he cut all the xenomorphs standing on the shore in half.

The body rolled in the air again and turned into a flight close to the ground, catching up with the war insects that were guarding the perimeter and killing them one by one, and the area around the waterhole had been cleared in a few breaths.

It was only by this time that the other members climbed onto the shore in the rippling water.

"Didn't miss it, did you? I was careless, I didn't expect the xenos to have the means to detect the bottom of the water......"

After Liu Yuxin climbed up, she looked at the corpses of the war insects lying on it and asked

"As long as everything in the vicinity is cleared, not a single one is missed!"

"That's good, it buys us a lot of time. It seems that in the future, we can no longer pin our hopes on hiding in the water, and they have the means to deal with it."

Chang Shengshi looked at the corpse of the aquatic xenomorph and made a simple record

"The next two days were sad...... Captain Liu, let's hurry up, this team of missing war insects should soon attract the attention of the swarm, and soon a large group of xenos will come to check on it. ”

Liu Yuxin nodded, and followed Chang Shengshi to evacuate in a depressed mood.

Without a safe haven, their future is bleak, and it's not easy to hold out for two days in this xenomorph-infested tunnel. To make matters worse, they were followed by a formidable pursuer.

"Where are we going now? Or where to hide? ”

Johnny asked

"There is no way back, we can only rush straight forward, whether it is to retreat or stay here can only be a dead end"

Liu Yuxin's answer was categorical

Although there are still unknown dangers waiting for them ahead, having seen the strength of the pursuing troops, Liu Yuxin believes that encountering them is really dead or alive.

"Two days of high-intensity breakthroughs...... This time it's really going to be desperate. ”

Chang Shengshi smiled wryly

He already has a basic understanding of Liu Yuxin, and he naturally won't say some words.

What followed was a non-stop rush all the way, and their entire team was divided into three groups and took turns to take on the main attack task. As the number of encounters increases, the difficulty of their breakthrough increases accordingly. By the second day, they had already begun to encounter a swarm with high-level xenomorphs as the core of the team.

Looking at the swarm of insects waiting in front of her, Liu Yuxin exhaled

"Thankfully, because there are squads at every fork in the road, and they don't have much to pull out of their troops. Johnny, Qi thought, we will break the insect array for you, can you directly kill their scorpion king? ”

"There should be no problem" x2

"Okay, assault with me!"

With Liu Yuxin's greeting, six raider mechs rushed over in an assault formation

They were greeted by a rain of acid that stinged snakes.

"Raise your shield!"

The raiders took out their large shields mounted on their backs and raised them diagonally, hiding their bodies under the shields as much as possible and bowing and charging. The acid from the canopy struck the shield and scattered it, eroding its surface into pits.

After three rounds of spraying, they had already approached the swarm, and except for Anubis and the others, who were not equipped with shields, who were stained with a few drops of the flying liquid, and their outer armor was a little corroded, the rest of them were intact.

Seeing that the stinging snake no longer spits, Liu Yuxin straightened his body, waved his shield to slap the war insects around him away, and forcibly opened a big road to their core in the insect swarm, and the eye-catching scorpion king was already close in front of them after a burst of killing.

The raiders suddenly separated, giving up the position of the main attacker, and Anubis and Sobek, who had been protected inside for a long time, rushed straight towards the Scorpion King.

The Scorpion King saw that the two custom mechs knew that the situation was not good, and he spewed out a mouthful of red mist and turned to run.

"Want to run?"

The two were about to chase after them, but they were stopped by the war bugs and stinging snakes that had fallen into madness, and they watched the Scorpion King slip away.

"Damn, it's pretty fast!"

Chang Haotian scolded so much that he slapped a war insect that stretched out his head to bite him away

If the scorpion king is not cleared, it will not be long before it will lead a large number of cannon fodder over, and then repeat the action just now.

For the swarm, using some low-level cannon fodder to consume the enemy's strength is the basic means, in their eyes, these ordinary war insects and stinging snakes are not their own kind at all, just some necessary consumables.