Chapter 38: The Manor Crisis (4)
After the smoke cleared, Lawrence saw the environment below, and when he saw countless face-eaters crawling in the direction of the Ant, his brain was hot and he jumped without much thought.
"Lawrence!" Christina on the hillside called out to Lawrence's name in horror, and she didn't understand why he was doing it.
Inside the cave, Claurence, as he was about to fall to the ground, activated the assault airbag behind his back, and the airflow that was instantly discharged allowed him to soften the impact of the fall. But Rao is like this, and the height of five or six meters also makes him fall very much.
The addition of Grassy made the faceeater's attention shift from the mecha to Laurence, after all, Cornus's scent was much stronger than that of the Ant Machine. The face-eaters went berserk when they smelled the creatures, and the frequent friction between the arthropods and the carapace made a screeching sound.
Nervous, Craving Lawrence, grabbed the rifle that hung over his shoulder.
"You can't shoot!" Dora pressed the chat channel button of the fifth group and hurriedly scolded. If Lawrence had shot underground at this time, he would have really been hopeless, and the others would have been implicated.
"Yes!" Crorences replied. He was a little flustered when he encountered such a situation for the first time, and now that Dora said this, he also realized that he had made a mistake.
He put on his shield, drew the thick-backed machete at his waist, and stepped back to the edge of the wall.
In order to protect Flowerrence, Adeline drove the ant machine to smash the worm into the ground with a clenched iron fist.
"Chris, you should have a rope there, put him down and pick him up. Jean, continue to stare at those two positions. Dora felt like she was out of breath, and she thought to herself that Claurence, maybe wasn't fit for the job, but that would have to happen when he returned.
"Yes!"
"Roger!"
Ethan, who was on the hillside, saw that Lawrence had fallen into the hive, and hurriedly trotted to the side of the cave. The danger of Cadline falling into the hive is different from Adeline's falling into the hive, after all, the ant machine piloted by Adeline is a mecha, if it doesn't even have the most basic protection capabilities, can it be called a mecha? However, Lawrence only has a relatively thin type of armor, and his protection is limited, and if he is surrounded by a swarm, he will definitely be killed.
In the command center, Jeff's face was also grim, and he said solemnly: "The terrain detection and life detection maps have been shown, according to the graphics, such a hive size can only be possessed by a second-level insect swarm, and there are more than 400 face-eating insects within 500 meters near Crorence." ”
"Lawrence, come up." Christina took out the rope and threw it down.
Craura sliced the machete from the bevel into the soft belly beneath the faceeater's carapace, dark green slime splattering out. After seeing the rope come down, Lawrence hurriedly put away his gear and grabbed the rope and struggled to climb up.
With the combined efforts of Ethan and Christina, Lawrence quickly rose into the air, the faceeater below rubbing his sharp mouthparts that could break gold and iron.
"That'...... What about Adeline? Claurence, too, was worried about Adeline's well-being.
"I'm fine, you can go up quickly." Adeline waved her mechanical arm at Grassenance in midair, and steam rose from the joint of the right arm of the Ant Machine, and on the palm of the steel hand was a pinched bug.
"Okay." As Lawrence moved his gaze to the upper end of the cave, he caught a glimpse of what seemed to be something strange about the wall in front of him.
"Something is wrong! Grass, there are plenty of signs of vital activity in front of you. Jeff called out in the channel.
Sure enough, the slightest crack cracked in the mud wall, and a faceeater was using its shovel-like tip head to break through the dirt that stood in its way. Then, the face-eater lunged at Laws.
Clorence swung his body to avoid the flutter of the face-eater, but on the wall of the cave, more face-eaters emerged from it and flew to Claurence.
Being pounced on by a large insect with a diameter of nearly one meter and weighing 30 kilograms, Clawrence's heart swelled with nausea, but he didn't dare to let go, he grabbed the rope with both hands, and climbed up with all his strength.
"Don't let go!" Ethan said.
He wrapped the rope in his hand and held it tightly in his hand, compacted his feet, and used all the strength of his body to lift it up.
Christina behind her also dragged the rope backwards, but the rope in her hand became heavier and heavier, not only did she not feel like she was lifting up, but she was falling down one by one.
In the hive, more and more insects flew out of the cave wall, some of them flew from both sides of Flowerence, but many of them caught Flowerence, and the six arthropods clasped Flowerrence's armor, and the sharp jaw pincers made a "Kerakala" sound on the metal shell of the armor.
As more than a dozen face-eaters clinged to Grassrence, the objects on the rope grew heavier and heavier, gradually exceeding the maximum weight Ethan could bear. Eventually, Ethan and Christina were dragged into the cave with a rope.
"Esango!"
"Ethan!"
In the command center, Dora and Jeff both exclaimed at the same time. On the hillside, Jean was also in disbelief after noticing the disappearance of Ethan and Christina. He put away his scope and ran towards the entrance of the cave.
Seeing such an abnormality, Dora felt cold in her hands and feet, and looked at the screens in front of her in disbelief.
The dust cleared, and Ethan hugged Christina as the image in front of him entered the combat system, and countless red letters appeared all around.
[Small Ferent Face Eater] Lv.7 [Small Ferent Face Eater] Lv.8
Ethan shook his dizzy head, his feet landed on the ground first, although he was protected by armor, but it was still a little painful to fall down like this, which suddenly reduced his health by a few points, and there was a faint feeling of discomfort in his leg bones, and there was a slight pinprick sensation on his knees.
"You four, even if you are desperate, you must protect Ethan for me!" Dora pressed the button and gritted her teeth and said word by word in the channel.
"Understood!" Several people said in unison, and their voices no longer had the high emotions they had when they came, but a resolute determination to die.
"Jean, set up the observer." After saying this, Dora released the button of the fifth group and pressed another button, which represented the entire channel.
"All members, terminate the mission, return to the transfer station, and rescue Ethan at the designated location!" Dora said coldly.
The members of the first, second, and third groups, who were carrying out their respective tasks in the other three directions, heard Dora's voice and were all startled.
"Turn around and go back the way you came!" After seeing the location shown on the mask, Arthura did not hesitate and immediately led the team to Ethan's location.
"Throw away the loot and rush to the target location!" Kevin, who had just finished his exploration mission and was about to return home, ordered.
On the other side, Carl, who was squatting in front of a ruin to scan the mural, was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly put away the items in his hand and shouted in the team: "Go!" ”
"Fack!" Dora slammed the table, and the loud noise on the command platform made several informants in the audience tremble in fright.