Chapter 3: The War with the Giant Bug
Two hours was not a long time, and it passed quickly.
And in the space of two hours, they strengthened all the defense borders, striving to be able to face the next enemy with ease.
This is already directly related to the survival of the country and even the survival of mankind, so they cannot be careless.
At the same time, they also fully saw the horror of these insects in these two hours.
At first, some people didn't take these things seriously, but after seeing the scene of insects biting and eating small animals, no matter how good their equipment is, they don't dare to be careless.
You must know that the total number of bugs in this world is hundreds, even tens of thousands of times that of humans, including extremely aggressive bugs.
If all the bugs are mutated, it will undoubtedly be the level of the end of the world.
And the growth of bugs has not stopped, so to speak, it is just beginning.
Every time a bug eats a certain prey, it will grow, and this growth seems to have no limit.
As long as the conditions are sufficient, it is not a problem to grow to the size of the earth.
Of course, this sounds, but if there are really no boundaries, it is not impossible.
Either way, they were about to encounter the first batch of giant bugs, and even if the bugs had infinite possibilities, that wasn't something they should care about right now.
They must concentrate on the incoming bugs, and if they lose here, who will protect the people in the rear? They must be the ones who guard!
"It's coming!" I don't know who shouted, everyone's originally tense spirit exploded at this moment, and they were quickly ready to face everything.
After the man's voice fell, a swarm of insects appeared in the distance.
How to describe it? It is impossible to describe the shock of the arrival of locusts.
The black oppression, like a dark cloud, completely covered the sky.
This is not an exaggeration, or a little inadequate, to describe the shock of the arrival of these locusts.
Locusts the size of a child were piled up together, covering the sky, and the sun's light was blocked, as if it was a dark night, and there was no light in sight.
"Turn on the searchlights! Throw pesticides! ”
At the captain's command, a missile-like cannonball from the rear was launched, bursting as it reached the locust swarm.
These shells are filled with powerful pesticides, and although throwing a large number of insecticides will cause some pollution to the environment, it is no longer so much to care about.
If the environment is destroyed, it will be restored, but if all of humanity is destroyed, there will be nothing.
A large number of insecticides were projected into the locust swarms, but the pesticides did not do any harm to the locusts, but only made them more irritable.
If it didn't work at first, they could still think of it as a slow effect, but now that the locusts are more irritable, how do they think that the insecticide is working?
Seeing that the insecticide had no effect at all, the captain was completely aware of the seriousness of the tense, and did not make any contemptuous moves, completely treating these damn insects as enemies invading the land!
"Turn on the flamethrower! Attention machine gunners, artillerymen, not a single locust is spared! ”
At the captain's command, rows of soldiers turned on their flamethrowers, and a neat row of tongues of fire erupted and burned towards the army of locusts.
This is not enough, the flamethrower alone is far from the extent to destroy all locusts.
If it were an average-sized locust, it would still have a certain effect, but these locusts have grown to the size of children.
The flamethrower didn't do much damage to them at all, at most it burned off the locust's wings, rendering them incapacitated.
The locusts that lost their ability to fly fell to the ground, and the machine gunners in the rear opened fire to take the lives of the intruding locusts.
Although this did not cause much damage to the total number of locusts, it also stopped them for a while.
Insects generally have the characteristic of fearing flames, and of course, it is not excluded that moths fight fires, which is also caused by the phototropism of insects.
And now, the flames that erupted did stop most of the locusts, but also attracted most of the locusts here.
That's it, just get together.
Looking at the locusts gathered in front of the flamethrower, the gunner did not hesitate to think of firing the cannon.
With a bang, the shells exploded in the locust swarm, blowing up a large number of locusts.
But this is only a very small part, and it is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the entire locust swarm.
But that's it, as long as the shells work, that's fine.
After seeing the effect of the first shells, the second, the third...... Countless shells rained down from the sky, constantly bombarding the locust swarms.
The continuous bombardment caused a lot of damage to the locust swarm for a while, and this is not over, it is better to say that the bombardment has just begun!
Some people may think that shelling bugs is like anti-aircraft guns hitting mosquitoes, which is a bit of a fuss.
But in the current situation, it is not a big fuss at all, but it is not enough.
Each locust is bigger than a child, and the number is so great that there is no end in sight.
If these locusts were allowed to invade the territory, it would be a huge slaughter, and the human race, without weapons, would hardly have the slightest resistance in the face of the powerful locusts.
Locusts have strong hind legs and mouthparts that can be bitten even with steel.
Humans do not have these, and a single human being, without any weapons, may not be an opponent of locusts.
So, this is no longer a pest eradication operation, but a war!
The continuous bombardment seems to have caused a lot of damage to the locusts, but compared with the overall number of locusts, it will be found that there is not much reduction at all.
And over time, the locusts huddled together and went straight over the wall of fire.
This is a habit of insects, and when encountering a fire, the insects will hug each other to form a ball to protect the larvae in the middle from the flames.
Now this habit is used by the locusts as a means to cross the wall of fire, although the locusts on the periphery were almost burned to death, but the locusts inside are safe and sound, and successfully cross the wall of fire.
The locusts that had completely crossed the wall of fire spread their elytra and flew towards the humans at great speed.
It is difficult for the average person to react to such speed, and even if the eyes can see, the body may not be able to react.
A locust hit a soldier with unmistakable accuracy, and the huge impact made the soldier feel like his internal organs were about to be shattered.
And this is not the end, after hitting a person, the locusts behind swarm and begin to bite and gnaw at the soldier's body.
"Ah!!h The screams of the soldiers resounded through the heavens and the earth.
In the eyes of others, this is a cannibalistic zombie, without any reason to speak of, constantly gnawing and eating the soldier's body.
Such a bloody scene caused a mental blow to the other soldiers, but they were also trained soldiers, and they quickly returned to normal, and began to pick up their guns and sweep away the locusts that passed through the wall of fire.
When the locusts found that the method of hugging each other was useful, they began to use this method in a big way, and for a time a large number of locusts broke through the wall of fire and came to the other side.
This method is not without its drawbacks, and the biggest drawback is that for every ten locusts that pass, ten locusts are burned to death.
But this is completely harmless for the overall number of locusts.
Besides, they don't care about this loss at all, they are just insects without any reason, they don't think like humans, they have only one purpose, and that is to eat, to keep eating.
At first, the locusts broke in, which did make them panic, but they also reacted quickly.
Now that the locusts have entered the crowd, the artillery is useless, but they have not stopped attacking.
Even if the locusts that rushed into the crowd couldn't bomb, there were still many locusts outside, and they couldn't stop attacking for a moment.
Once stopped, then the front they were guarding would collapse completely, so they couldn't stop.
And the locusts that rushed through the wall of fire did startle them at first, but after reacting, the threat was not very great.
The speed of the locusts is very fast, and the shell is very hard, but that's all, even in the hard shell, it is not as hard as steel, and in the face of powerful thermal weapons, it is still scum after all.
As long as the locusts are not allowed to get close, the soldiers can still rely on firearms to solve the problem.
In this way, the scene reached an impasse for a while.
Locusts hovered around the wall of fire, trying to break through it.
And the people are stuck here, saying that they will not let a single locust into their homes.
And just when the two sides were at a stalemate, a large number of locusts poured out from the rear of the soldiers, and they were caught off guard.
"What the hell is going on?! Are other places lost!? ”
The locusts that suddenly appeared behind him made the chief resentful.
What had been a stalemate was now broken in an instant.
It's hard enough for them to just face the countless locusts in front of them, and now that a swarm of locusts has emerged behind them, how can they defend it?
But even if they can't hold it, they have to keep it, because they have no way out.
Now they have man-eating locusts in front of them, and man-eating locusts in their rear.
Even with weapons in their hands, their loss was already doomed.
There are only so many of them, and the number of locusts is innumerable, and the number of locusts that have been observed so far alone has reached hundreds of millions, and there may be more.
As for them, they are now completely surrounded by locusts, and they don't know if there is any support in the rear.
Soon, the army that had been stationed here was buried by locusts, and in the end only a ruin remained, and not a single human bone remained.