Chapter Seventy-One: Desperate Escape
From the moment the black clouds covered the sky, humanity understood that no matter how advanced their technology was, they were no longer the rulers of this world, but they must be the destroyers of this world.
A large number of spilled radioactive elements, discarded nuclear fuel, the radiation area left by the explosion, and all kinds of unnamed chemicals have turned the originally beautiful planet into a poisonous star.
In order to survive, humans have built walls and used various technologies to purify the air, water and food.
But for other creatures, the only way to adapt to the environment in a very short time is to use the constant death to force genes to survive the strongest offspring, and the wild beast is born.
Perhaps the wild beasts did not create an exaggerated monster like Godzilla, but some of the strange beasts that live in groups are also the existence that humans fear the most.
For example, the jungle wolves that Zhang Lan once encountered, with a high degree of cooperation and group combat, allowed them to easily wipe out the human regimental formation.
The Flame Army Ants that survive underground are more terrifying than the Timberwolves, they are extremely staggering in number and food, and several giant towns built by humans in the desert area have been destroyed because of their rage.
Humans often deal with them very simply, if they find the existence of flaming army ants in one place, they don't care about the lives of the local people, and the ultimate weapon will inevitably be airdropped here, turning everything to ashes.
Luckily, this terrifying beast of the wild has always been confined to desert areas, and it seems that it cannot adapt to the climate of the plains, limiting its expansion.
Everyone is very well-behaved, just stay away from the desert, but the group of flaming army ants that appeared in front of Zhang Lan's eyes can be regarded as completely subverting the human perception of them, obviously they have gotten rid of the shackles of the desert and sneaked into the inland area.
And now, Zhang Lan only needs to think about one thing, how to survive in this cave where ten thousand ants are entrenched.
"Listen, activate the EMI." Zhang Lan calmly ordered in the headphones.
"Boss, are you serious? Once EMI is activated, our contact will be cut off and we will not be able to locate your location. The crew member driving the four-legged spider tank reminded.
"The Flame Army Ants use the electronic signals of their tentacles to communicate with each other, and if you can't find us, they can't find either." Zhang Lan insisted.
"Boss, don't hurt us. Even if I die, I want to keep a whole corpse! "Brother Xin in the heavy armor is about to cry.
"Brother Xin, I say it one last time, at any time, under any circumstances, I have no intention of taking you to death. We must live, live to be the commander of the fifty, the centurion, the thousand, the commander, and even the commander of the three armies of the Loose City, understand? Zhang Lan, who was running, turned around, and the calm tone was like introducing what he planned to eat tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
"Since you want to be a general, why did you choose a soldier like Brother Xin?" Nightingale wondered.
"That's right! That's right! I'm so timid and afraid of death, why did you choose me? Brother Xin hugged himself and cried.
"Because you're afraid of death enough, you'll be as tenacious as a bed bug at any time, and that's a gift." Zhang Lan ran faster.
"Why do I think he's scolding me?" Brother Xin looked sideways at the nightingale next to him.
"Don't be left behind, Xin Bug!" Nightingale struggled to catch up with Zhang Lan.
"! I don't want that nickname! Stop screaming, it's disgusting! "Brother Xin, no, the Xin bug is charging at full power.
At this time, the tank on the cliff outside the mining area fired four bright missiles into the sky, which landed vertically at the door of the main mine cave in the Morro mining area.
The four missiles even plunged into the concrete surface, and the blue missile began to rotate around it, and a powerful electromagnetic field quickly formed, turning into a circle of blue light that spread around, and the strongest shock wave hit the mine.
A swarm of crawling flaming army ants were all stopped by the impact, and stood in place like headless flies, touching each other with their antennae, losing the connection of bioelectronic signals, and only through this primitive wired connection could information be exchanged.
"It seems to have worked, the footsteps are very noisy and have no regularity." The three men in the rush stopped after the explosion, and the nightingale leaned over the railroad tracks and listened to the sounds outside.
"We've also been reimbursed, and the communication is completely unusable." Xin Bug tried to video connect, but it was all snowflakes, and his electronic radar also lost its effect, but fortunately, the heavy armored system was not affected, otherwise he could only be exposed to the air like Zhang Lan and Nightingale.
"Electromagnetic interference has a limited effect and can only destroy their ability to work together, but they are still very dangerous individually." Zhang Lan took out a piece of the remains of the ants just now from his pocket, and carefully observed their shells under the illumination of the lamp, "Their shells are very special, different from the records, theoretically they can be easily killed with ordinary ammunition, but our armor-piercing bullets cannot penetrate normally." ”
Zhang Lan said, pulling out a self-fired bullet from the center of the head, the forehead of the military ant was dented, but it was not broken, from the side, the thickness of this shell was only about 2 mm, and Zhang Lan's bullet was at least prepared for 20 mm thick armor plates.
"It's evolution, this wild beast is not a kitten or puppy that we have at home, and every day a new subvariant is born." The nightingale walked over and took the wreckage and looked at it carefully, "The outer shell shows signs of metallization, how did they do it?" ”
"It's best to catch one and study it." Zhang Lan stood up.
"You're catching wild boars, huh? They all move in groups. Xin Bug said, "Let's escape first!" ”
"This time, I agree with Xin Bug." Nightingale threw the wreckage back to Zhang Lan.
"You command, I will do it, let's go!" Zhang Lan smiled and didn't insist.
Soon, they came to the weak area that Zhang Lan said connected to another branch mine.
Naturally, this kind of work was left to the most bulky of guys, and the size of the mine made it impossible to use tools like explosives, unless everyone wanted to bury it here forever.
"Why? Let me? ”
Xin Bug depressedly manipulated the armor to dig the hard wall, tired or not tired, or the armor was very hot, all of a sudden it was like a steamer, sweat was absorbed into steam, spewing out from the exhaust hole behind the armor.
"Who told you to wear such a thick one? Heavy armor, of course, does heavy physical work. Nightingale said rightfully.
At this moment, the Xin bug that punched the mine wall suddenly hit the air with a punch, and a huge hole was broken in front of him.
"Ahh Xin Bug planted directly and tried to reach out to grasp the rock wall to fix, but the four walls covered with slime couldn't catch it at all, "Help!" ”
"Don't move!"
The nightingale hurriedly pulled his bow and leaned into the hole to aim, and a hook and lock arrow grabbed the heel of the Xin bug, and the entire heavy armor hung upside down in midair.
At this moment, he had fallen out of the pit and came to a strange space.
"Hey, are you dead?" The nightingale shouted into the pit, Zhang Lan grabbed the rope and stepped on the steel frame next to it to stop the fall of the Xin bug.
"Not dead, but ...... Guess what? The Xin bug hanging upside down in the air was shocked.