Chapter 7: Purging the Fox (Part II)
Andrey: "It's natural, I'm turning on the surveillance scans of each compartment right now, and hopefully they're not broken." Ah, let me see, first you have to go into the boarding vestibule, which has washing devices and towels........"
"Pick the point!"
Andrey: "There are more than 200 bugs in this area, so I'll try to help you isolate the antechamber from the inside of the ship." Take a little stress off your shoulders. By the way, there is nothing to worry about in this area, although the shooting is good. ”
"Understood, brothers, prepare to kill!"
The door separating the antechamber from the interior of the hull suddenly fell, and the bugs frantically tapped on the door with their fangs. But in exchange for the sound of "boom-boom" slamming on the door, and the sound of many insects using too much force and shattering their minions.
The isolation door was also riddled with holes, but thanks to its thickness, it was not smashed open for a while.
At the same time, the Marines acted.
Like the soldiers of the ancient era of platoon shooting, they lined up in neat squares, walking at the same pace, suppressing the insects who had nowhere to hide. In addition to spike bullets, the Marines covered the interior of the vestibule with bolt-type grenade launchers. The bugs couldn't get in or out, and the isolation gates and the Marines' nets blocked all their way to live.
Eventually, the bugs decided to fight back. They raised their sharp forelimbs and leaped out of the hatch in droves to storm the Marines who were waiting for them. But it turned out in vain, they were just the most ordinary creepers, and the so-called hard skin had no effect in front of the nail stabbing rifle. The moment they jumped through the hatch, they were already dead bugs.
"It's not more difficult than shooting a dead cockroach......."
Ji Tianping muttered.
With the help of the Marines, he changed into a silver-gray power armor and joined the good brothers in their attack on the bugs. The battle in the front hall was just a small test, and a cannon fodder rookie like Ji Tianping only needed to aim his gun roughly at the hatch and fire, and then insects would rush out and die. It's too simplistic.
When there was no more bugs at the hatch, Captain Andrei's voice came online. "Your men are really good at slaughtering insects, and I've never seen such firepower in any United Earth Army....... Presumably, the armor on your body will also be quite good, and it will definitely be better than the appearance of the Combine Army. “
"Alright, don't praise us, the bugs in the front hall should be cleared."
Andrey: "Yes, they have nowhere to hide. Next I'll open the isolation door and go right through the hallway, which is a complex area with a restaurant, housing, and meeting rooms. You can also fire as much as you want, be careful of the complex structure inside, there may be bugs hiding in every corner. They are cunning and have just destroyed most of the surveillance cameras. “
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"These bugs, learn very quickly......."
Well, Ji Tianping understands that the next battle will definitely be much more dangerous. The bugs learned to breach surveillance after only the first round of combat with the Marines. Fighting in the hull of a ship, you will inevitably be ambushed by bugs or something. Ji Tianping gave an order to his good brothers: "Fight steadily, completely clear a small area one by one, open the way with firepower, and avoid close combat." ”
"But don't forget to bring your bayonets!"
Ji Tianping led one hundred marines into the front hall, and the four hundred marines were divided into four teams and gradually advanced in turns, and the complex interior of the ship was not conducive to squeezing too many people in one go.
"Comprehensive area, restaurants and housing or something, then use guns and grenades to clear the way, and let those bugs obediently make way for us."
"Andrey, open the door!"
The isolation door swayed and retracted into the cracks on both sides, and then ...... Then the expected scene of the insects swarming out did not appear.
Ji Tianping, who originally wanted to stand on the pile first, was a little surprised, "Bugs, hiding again?" ”
Just as Ji Tianping was about to lead people to break through, Andre's signal came in. "Commander, watch out for the top of your head, I just cast a sonic detection on the cafeteria, and I detected a slight sound signal densely lined up on the ceiling of the cafeteria, possibly the heartbeat of bugs."
Ji Tianping: "Lying down, the way to play from the sky? Thank you, Captain Andrey, we almost fell into an ambush. ”
Then Ji Tianping beckoned to the good brothers behind him: "Brothers, prepare to take a picture of the cockroaches on the roof!" Gun grenades ready! “
The Marines in the first row, together with Ji Tianping, stopped at the location of the isolation door, and then moved their arms forward, raised the muzzle of their guns, and aimed almost vertically.
"Bang-bang-bang-"
The fired grenade smashed into the roof of the restaurant, emptying a patch of bugs and blasting them to pieces, as well as shaking off more creepers clinging to the roof. The second-row Marines quickly crossed the first row, grabbed their rifles and fired a barrage of spike bullets, knocking the insects to the ground one by one.
At this moment, the insects also knew that there was no roof to hide, and they fell one after another, as if they were in the next insect rain. The battleship's dining room is huge, and it is estimated that there are as many as seven or eight hundred bugs in ambush here.
Ji Tianping and the Marines in the first platoon had already changed into new weapons at this moment.
"Molotov cocktails ready! Feast of roasted insects! “
The incendiary grenade fired from the grenade launcher formed a wall of fire ten meters away from the marines, who gradually entered the field and occupied a small area in the antechamber.
Molotov cocktails and spike bullets continued to fire at the surging bugs, and behind the wall of fire were the screams of the bugs being beaten to pieces. Gradually, however, the bugs adopted another, crazier tactic than ever before.
"Commander, the bugs are using their companion's corpse as cover, moving forward!"
"Prepare for bayonet melee combat!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the Marines raised the broad-edged bayonets of their spike rifles, and the insects were covered in fire and rushed over the wall of fire under the cover of their comrades' corpses.
The Marines in the first and second platoons shouted all sorts of slogans and mixed up with the bugs in close combat. Ji Tianping also wanted to have a bloody battle with the bugs, but as soon as this idea came to him, he was immediately held down by the marines behind him, and then immediately dragged behind.
"What are you doing? I am your commander! How can you ...... without my command? ”
"Please forgive me, Commander, if you accidentally die here, our good brothers....... will all be wiped out at once. ”
The Marine's broad-bladed bayonet easily pierced the bug's body, but in the last moments of their life, the militant bugs would also use all their energy to insert their forelimb blades into the Marine's power armor. In the eyes of the swarm, the seemingly sturdy armor is still as light and thin as paper.
The sacrifices and battles of the first and second platoons of marines were not worthless, and it was because they chose hand-to-hand combat with the swarm that the marines were able to maintain the line and not be scattered by the swarm. When the spike rifles and incendiary grenades in the back row continued to fire into the cafeteria for more than ten minutes, the whole world fell silent. Behind the wall of fire, there was not a single movement of insects.