1419 Alarm bells and hole cards
After receiving the news, Halsey learned from the pain and immediately revised the plan of action, no longer blindly pursuing depth, but asked the ships to lower the inclination angle of the ice cave, wait for the ice cave to touch the bottom of the sea, and then send the giant ants down to dig the hole.
Dozens of kilometers of ice caves, still can't avoid the filaments in the soil layer?
After receiving the order, the ships immediately moved their positions, picked a position close to the shore, and re-excavated the ice cave.
In order to determine the depth of the ice cave, the ships must stop for a few minutes at regular intervals and have drones determine the depth of the ice cave.
Half an hour later, the first ice cave to the bottom appeared, with a length of thirty-two kilometers and a vertical depth of twenty-one kilometers.
Halsey immediately sent the giant ants in, and by the time the giant ants reached the bottom of the cave, it had been more than an hour.
Seeing the giant ants begin to dig the bottom of the sea, the veteran general who has been fighting for many years actually felt a little nervous, and he was full of expectations.
It was not only Halsey who was full of expectations, all the officers and men of the international fleet near Ganymede were paying attention to the excavation of the giant ants, and soon after, Huo Qiang and the Chinese officers and soldiers who got the news were also concerned about the development of the situation on Ganymede.
Through the footage sent back by the drone, it can be seen that the excavation speed of the giant ants is very ideal, and the progress is faster than expected, and after a while, a hole with a diameter of more than two meters and a depth of more than ten meters is dug at the bottom of the sea.
This depth is exactly where Velvet appears, and Halsey is glued to the screen, his eyes reluctant to blink.
At this time, the time limit for the giant ants to be outside was up, and the digging action became more and more weak, and Halsey was worried about his lungs, eager to get into the screen and dig a hole for the giant ants.
"Drop another transport ship, right in this position!" Halsey pointed to the ice cave and said viciously.
A transport ship leaped out of the formation and landed steadily on top of the ice cave, and the ant colony, which was more than a hundred kilometers away, immediately migrated in the direction of the ice sea.
Wait patiently until the colony arrives, and the digging is finally on track, fifteen meters, twenty meters, thirty meters!
Until this time, there was no abnormality, and the dawn appeared, and Halsey's heart hanging in the air finally landed, and his eyes emitted an uplifting light: "Speed up the progress, all the ants will act for me!"
The ships quickly took action, and the haze that had been hanging over the head of the international fleet disappeared in an instant, and the sun was shining in everyone's hearts, and everyone's faces were filled with excitement and joy.
Soon after, good news came from several other ice caves.
However, at this very moment, Halsey suddenly ordered the fleet to evacuate Ganymede and advance towards Europa!
Although the giant ants avoided the velvet, the excavation could not be completed in a day or two, and there was no need to leave so many warships here, so Halsey decided to lead the main force of the fleet to Europa, leaving only a few warships to manage the ant colony.
To be on the safe side, these ships could not get close to Ganymede and had to retreat out of the range of the fine light.
In this way, the international fleet was once again divided.
Thirty-two hours later, the giant ants dug through the holes left by the aliens, and the ant colony frantically poured in.
The remaining warships immediately sent more giant ants, and all ant colonies that could move to the ice sea moved over, sending as many giant ants as possible into their burrows.
After only a few minutes of digging through the hole, the giant ants encountered a group of unnamed giant insects, which were hideous and large, full of oppression.
The giant ant didn't know that it was afraid at all, and attacked the insect swarm brazenly, but the giant insect that looked very strong was actually a group of cowards, and was frightened by the giant ant, and ran away in one go.
How could the giant ant let go of the fat that finally got to the mouth? The ant colony fought to catch up, and the two sides staged a life-and-death mad chase in the burrow.
After a while, several giant ants caught an alien giant insect, and the giant ants planned to have a good meal, but they didn't expect that the giant insect's carapace was too strong, and a string of sparks actually came out from the supersonic giant jaw, and it couldn't bite through at all.
At this time, the alien counterattack also came, and another group of giant insects that came out of nowhere pounced on the ant colony, and the two sides tore and bit together, the worm legs and shells flew around, and the flesh and blood of the worms were splashed everywhere.
In less than two hours, the ant colony that had been put into the battlefield was exhausted, and the ant colony in other directions was too far away to catch up, and the remaining personnel of the international fleet were helpless and could only watch the ant colony disappear.
When the drone following the ant colony was destroyed by the giant insects, the battleship lost its image of the underground, and the drone sent down again only found the blocked passage and never entered the tunnel again.
Although the ant colony was destroyed, they proved that there were still aliens entrenched in Ganymede's underground, which was a not-so-perfect end to the operation.
This discovery also sounded the alarm bell for the Jizhou ship group, which seemed to be destroyed by bombing, but the actual situation was known only to aliens.
spent such a big price on an expedition to Jupiter, but in the end it was a troublemaker, how can you explain it when the time comes?
But then again, even nuclear bombs with a yield of more than 200 million tons have been used, will we use 300 million, 400 million tons, or even 1 billion tons of nuclear bombs to blow up again in the future?
Huo Qiang didn't want to keep a tail for the future, but he couldn't think of a way to break the game, so don't mention the grievance in his heart.
It's not just that, he's not young, this time he followed the fleet expedition to Jupiter is an exception, and when he returns to Beiyuezhou, it is estimated that there will be no similar opportunities in this life, let alone a front-line command operation.
As a general, but he can't fight on the battlefield, this is simply a knife in Huo Qiang's heart.
If this expedition destroys the satellites where the aliens are entrenched, even if only one is a consolation, on the other hand, if none of them can be destroyed, and the aliens will appear on these moons again in a short time, how should he explain to the above? How do you explain it to the people?
With this in mind, the Jizhou ship group flew close to Europa.
Aliens from Europa and Europa had long since flown to Europa, landing as soon as the fleet arrived, burrowing into several huge holes in the ice.
After all the alien ships were inside, a large amount of seawater gushed out from under the ice holes, and the surface of the water condensed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it didn't take long for it to freeze into a new ice cap.
Everyone who saw this scene was stunned and couldn't figure out what the aliens were doing under the ice.
Having dealt with aliens for so long, humans know the situation of Jupiter very well, and Ganymede has always been the most important stronghold of aliens, even if the fourth expedition almost destroyed Ganymede, it did not change this.
Behind Europa is Europa, Europa has always been inconspicuous, and Europa is simply a foil for soy sauce.
But reality slapped humanity in the face, Europa is not unimportant, but too important, it is simply the last hole card of aliens on Jupiter!