Chapter 21: The Tide of Insects

As soon as the crawler rolled up the sand and dust and passed a large tanker parked next to the storage tank, a huge wave of green slime slapped on the right side of the tanker, and the large tanker smoked white smoke and dissolved the slime in a moment.

Wang Zhiyuan took a look at it and hurriedly set a path across the factory on the commander's operation screen, and the mode was set to rapid. Hundreds of beetles, large and small, rolled out of the rusted corners of the chemical plant in all directions, arching their bellies and surging backwards towards the tank.

Hurry up and let Robot 5 take the M2 heavy machine gun on the top of the turret and stick it out from the shell ejection at the rear of the turret, and keep strafing at the beetles that are getting closer and closer. The tide-like beetles were beaten into pieces of cracked slime by a tongue of fire. In front of the tank, Wang Zhiyuan used 30 guns to shoot non-stop, and Cortana took over the operation and tried her best to avoid patches of green on the ground.

Several of the beetles on the side stuck their heads into the sand, arching their expanding bellies, and squirting several rays of white-green liquid at the tank's side skirts and weight wheels. With the main cannon fired at the sand in front of him, a beetle in the way was blown away by the blast blast and the sand and slime to both sides.

Hurriedly changing the ammunition box for the M2 coaxial machine gun and the 30 gun, Wang Zhiyuan took a look at the side skirt armor and load wheels and tracks of the tank that had been corroded by venom to the extent that it had reached more than 30 percent, and the entire suspension structure was about to collapse.

The green poisonous mist continued to seep into the shell of the turret tail compartment, although the turret smoke system had been working non-stop, the tank was still filled with green mist, and Wang Zhiyuan wore a gas mask and gradually felt that he could not breathe, and his throat became more and more painful.

A dozen beetles approached from behind, arching their backs and sticking their heads into the sand. It shrank into a ball and bounced towards the tail of the tank, and in the air the beetle's abdomen swelled into a green ball, smashing into the top of the tank's turret aft compartment and rear compartment.

The commander's screen automatically switched to the hull damage interface, and the tail, top, and tail compartment of the turret were corroded by the burst venom, and more than a dozen large and small deep pits. Wang Zhiyuan hurriedly fired a shot at the front. While rotating the turret backwards, he began to reload the main gun with the grenade that he had just tested, and when the turret rotated to the right, he saw that it was not far away from a chimney more than 20 meters high.

There was no time to take a closer look, so he shot at the bottom of the chimney, which was covered in a cloud of dust, steel pillars and bricks flew around, and the turret was full of large and small white pits. Most of the beetles on the right were also squeezed into a green mist by the muzzle impact and the flying steel balls.

The towering chimney slowly tilted towards the tank in the flying dust, and in an instant it slammed into the tide of poisonous beetles a few meters away from the tail cabin, and the sand and dust were scattered and slime splashed. Temporarily blocked the path of the Poison Explosion Beetle Wave.

Wang Zhiyuan shouted: "Robot No. 5 will bring all the M24 grenades over and put them on the turret seat~", pushing the turret hatch cover open a crack and pulling the fuse. Throwing through the cracks, more than a dozen grenades rolled down from the pitted skirt armor on the left side.

Wang Zhiyuan hurriedly closed the hatch, and the turret rotated 40 degrees to the left, shooting a grenade that had just topped the cannon chamber into the pile of bugs in the left rear. A series of successive explosions of the main cannon and grenades in a large area of poison beetles on the left blew away a large number of poison beetles pursuing on the left.

The body damage interface continued to alarm, and Cortana zoomed in on the track information on the screen and said: "The track has reached 50 percent corrosion, and there is a risk of breaking immediately, so the speed of the car must be reduced to medium speed."

This time, there was a sound of "bang" in the tail compartment, a poisonous beetle, the bomb on the hull, the roof of the tail compartment burst, and directly corroded through a large hole. The one with a burst belly that left only its chest cavity and head fell to the tail bilge, shook its head, and crawled towards the cockpit with the remaining half of its body.

Wang Zhiyuan kept controlling the 30-gun fire with one hand, picked up the shotgun hanging on the side wall of the turret with the other, and smashed the poison beetle that was about to climb into the cockpit with two shots. Enduring the sharp pain in his calf, he jumped down and pushed the hatch tightly.

Robot No. 5's M2 heavy machine gun is running out of ammunition and is firing non-stop with its AK47, and the front of the hull is shrunk into a ball of poisonous beetles ready to jump. The tank had escaped from the factory area in a bitter battle, and the car was still chasing after a large number of poisonous beetles.

Wang Zhiyuan jumped back to the turret and glanced at the track data of the warning on the commander's screen, he really had to slow down, otherwise he would be paralyzed here at any time. Fortunately, the poisonous fog had been almost discharged, and a random shot was fired at the back to blow up a piece of poisonous explosion beetles.

Enduring the severe pain, he turned the car 180 degrees to the right on the driver's seat, and began to reverse at full speed, and the tail compartment could no longer withstand more poisonous explosions. The two shovels that control the robotic arm are held above the turret to protect the weak top armor, and they stagger back to the turret to turn the turret back in front of the hull.

Seeing a dry poplar forest on the side of the road, Cortana continued to accept the drive and reversed into the poplar forest at full speed. The frontal relies on a bulldozer blade and a robotic digging blade, as well as a relatively thick upper head armor, to continue to defend against the constantly jumping poisonous beetles.

Wang Zhiyuan moved around in the position of the commander's gunner, changed the turret weapon to shoot, and finally entered the poplar forest, and the messy poplar branches resisted many jumping poisonous beetles. The bulldozer blade and two robotic arms were also corroded, and several large holes were almost scrapped and inoperable.

Throwing the shotgun to Robot 5, he said, "Go and tie up all the clothes and supply cartons, douse them with gasoline and throw them into the surrounding woods along with the oil cans." ”

Emptying all the M2 coaxial machine guns and 30 gun ammunition boxes in the turret, Robot 5 climbed out of the turret with something in his arms. After throwing down the cardboard boxes and oil drenched with gasoline, Wang Zhiyuan climbed out of the cloudburst incendiary bomb launcher and put it on his shoulder and fired at the gasoline barrel behind him.

A silvery-white missile ejected its launcher in a puff of salt spray, exploding into a white mist in a poplar forest full of poisonous beetles. Wang Zhiyuan threw the launcher into the turret and hurriedly pulled the robot No. 5 into the turret and closed the hatch.

As soon as Wang Zhiyuan's eyes were attached to the commander's observation glass, a wave of fire pounced, and the entire poplar forest became a sea of fire, and the poisonous beetles inside burned and burst into yellow-green fireballs one by one.

There was a sharp pain in his calf, and when he looked down, he saw that the pants on his calf had been stained red with oozing blood. Looking at the bullet casings all over the ground on the cockpit floor, I am still a little scared when I think about it now, there is too much luck in escaping death this time.

If it weren't for the big chimney, there would have been a poplar forest here, and sooner or later it would have been corroded by poisonous beetles and broken tracks.