Volume 1 Unheard of Stars Chapter 26 Locust Attack
"Whew, whew, whew!"
Jiang Luo and Diana ran out of the woods, stopping to gasp.
Although the locusts in the forest did not chase after them, the rustling sound in the distance was even more frightening.
"Senior, do you mean ......?"
Jiang Luo nodded, "We must inform the troops of this situation, if there are too many of those big locusts, we may fall into the same danger as Sioux City again." β
When Jiang Luo told Captain Chen, he was in disbelief at first, until the people downstairs exclaimed, he looked down through the window on the second floor, and in the open space outside the factory under the moonlight, there were several large locusts more than one meter long, their scarlet compound eyes were staring in the direction of the factory, and Captain Chen felt as if he was looking at himself.
Commander Chen set up a police post, and twenty-five soldiers quickly gathered together and stood in a row in the factory. And those who were sleeping quickly got up from their sleep, and they had long been accustomed to this state of getting up and running away at any moment on the way to escape.
"You can see the big bugs outside, but we can't be sure what they're like yet."
Captain Chen explained to everyone, but he had to catch a specimen from outside, because Expert Sun said that as long as he provided a specimen, he would be able to figure out what the situation was, and this and the giant mosquito specimen he caught between him would become precious scientific research materials.
The soldiers crept out from the side of the factory, and the guns and ammunition on the three military trucks when they retreated from Sioux City were enough to deal with these large, mutated bugs that were one meter long, after all, they were not as terrifying as the giant mosquitoes.
The soldiers aimed their rifles at the five locusts present, and the red-eyed mutants had no sense of impending danger, and as soon as the guns rang out, they were hit by a dense rain of bullets, and were already shot when they reacted and tried to bounce and dodge.
The square was like locusts, they bounced two or three meters and then fell to the ground, dark green blood flowing from the holes in them.
"Annihilation!"
The soldiers examined the scene with guns raised before one of the locusts was carried into the factory.
Expert Sun carefully probed the big locust and observed it carefully, this locust was not much different from the situation described by Jiang Luo, the pair of hind limbs as thick as human thighs were like two sharp machetes, and there was a cold front reflected in the moonlight. The locusts, magnified countless times, looked so hideous, like some kind of alien creature.
He tried to cut the back of the locust with a scalpel, but found that the back armor was so hard that it could not be cut. A soldier stabbed his back armor with a military dagger several times.
"Hey, that's hard." Regiment Commander Chen took a breath of cold air, if it weren't for the soldiers and guns, I'm afraid it would be difficult to be the opponent of this big locust by relying on cold weapons alone.
"No, this is an ordinary cotton locust." Expert Sun looked at it for a while, and let out a puzzled voice.
The cotton locust is the big green locust, also known as the downhill mountain, which is the protagonist of the most common locust plague in the countryside. And this kind of locust usually appears in swarms, and there are five of them here, which means that there must be a group around here!
"It's very likely that this was also mutated because of the meteorite stimulus."
Before Expert Sun finished speaking, he heard a worried voice say, "Let's get out of here now, I always feel that this place is very dangerous." β
"You don't have to think about it, the danger is already here!"
Jiang Luo followed the gaze of Commander Chen, and saw that in the square where the corpses of the four big locusts were originally stored, the same kind attracted by the bloody smell of the big locusts had already densely laid down in the square, and they were scrambling to gnaw around the four corpses of the same kind, and they also made a "clatter" chewing sound.
"This locust shouldn't take the initiative to attack humans, right?" The people who discovered the existence of locusts in the factory seemed to be taking chances.
Soon the carcasses of the four locusts were devoured, and the big red-eyed locusts looked at the factory, as if they had found something particularly delicious, and each one of them vibrated their wings with excitement, and their tentacles were still shaking.
"Shhh
The swarm of locusts bounced three or four meters high from the ground, spread their wings and glided, and rushed towards the factory doors and windows.
"Close the door!"
It was too late to start closing, and many large locusts flew in before the four-meter-long iron gate closed, and they were like a group of monsters that harvested life, and every time they bounced up their hind legs, they cut off their arms and thighs or even cut them in two.
A bloody scene was unfolding, and the people in the factory were screaming and rushing towards the back door.
"Don't mess around! Don't mess around! β
Commander Chen also tried to maintain order, but it was useless for him to shout loudly, and in the not very wide room, the soldiers did not dare to strafe and shoot.
The twenty-five soldiers could only shoot with their rifles at the large locusts lying on the ground and gnawing at their corpses, but it was not very effective, because the speed at which they killed the locusts could never keep up with the number of locusts that poured in outside the door.
Among the more than 100 refugees, there will always be a few who run last unlucky, killed by the siege of the locusts, hooked by their sharp forelimbs, and then chopped into pieces by their knife-like hind limbs.
One or two of the soldiers who shot the locusts on both sides were killed by the locusts, and under the command of Commander Chen, they fought and retreated, and finally withdrew from the factory after losing six of their companions.
And the moment they withdrew, they also detonated the explosives in the factory, and the locusts all over the ground were blown up into the sky with a huge roar. But this was not the end of the story, as the locusts that had not yet entered the factory crossed directly over the factory and pounced on the retreating troops behind the factory.
"Let them get in the car!" Head Chen gritted his teeth and made a very weak decision.
"But there are so many people, there are not enough cars for our three cars!" A soldier with a gray face asked.
"Throw all the resources and weapons on the three cars! Take only the rifle and ammunition box and leave the car to them. Commander Chen ordered.
The soldiers quickly sorted out the supplies on the three military trucks, including food and some military supplies, but the three trucks could hold more than 70 people at most, which meant that more than 10 people who ran behind would be abandoned.
Those who saw from afar that the truck was about to start were eager to grow their legs, and some even pushed others down in order to run ahead of them, and they scrambled into the trunk of the military truck.
Already after the locusts, the soldiers unloaded piles of supplies and weapons with their backs against the carts, and fired wildly at the approaching swarms of locusts. But no matter how frantically they put out, the swarm of locusts did not decrease, and soon after one was shot down, there would soon be a new influx, and the soldiers lost most of them in the fierce battle, and only about ten were left to hold on to resist the tide of insects.
"Let's withdraw! Remove! β
Commander Chen roared angrily, there are only a few soldiers left, and they can't all be here.
He emptied the last bullet and threw an incendiary grenade to ignite all the supplies, and a sea of fire temporarily slowed the pace of the locust swarm's attack, and they ran towards the forest under the leadership of Commander Chen, and soon followed by a group of locusts.
Just when they were almost desperate, they found a pond and after jumping into the water, they managed to avoid the pursuit of the locusts.
After the first two trucks drove out for 100 meters, the last truck still did not start, because the last truck could not be loaded, and the extra ten people could not get into the car, so they blocked in front of the truck and did not let the truck start.
At this time, a few kilometers away in the sky, a group of black and oppressive insect tides were rushing towards the car.
"Isn't the army stopping them from behind?"
"Those soldiers must have been greedy for life and afraid of death, and they ran away!"
"It's over, we're done!"
"Close! Close the door! β
At this moment, the people in the carriage wanted to close the rear door, but the people outside the carriage struggled to pull the door to prevent them from closing.
"Don't let us in, we're going to die!"
It was the section chief who said this, and at this moment, a group of men led by him were all red-eyed, like outlaws, pulling the iron door of the rear compartment with hideous faces.
βBANGοΌβ
Suddenly a gunshot rang out, and all the people pulling the iron door instinctively squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, and the section chief fell straight down, and at this time a bloody hole appeared in his forehead.
Li Xing took the opportunity to close the iron door, it was his younger brother who had just shot, and the pistol was brought out of the magic capital.
He even has a gun?!
Everyone's hearts sank, no one thought that he would dare to let people shoot and kill people in public!
Those who reacted from the shock of the gunfire only then realized that the iron door had been firmly closed, and the army of locusts that was getting closer and closer behind them made them even more frightened, and they banged on the back door of the carriage.
"Please, open the door and let us in!"
"Open the door, as long as you open the door, I will give you everything!"
"Open the door, please......"
But no matter how the people outside asked, Li Xing and his younger brother who were guarding the iron fence at the back door were unmoved, and when the locust army was a few hundred meters away, they could only run forward desperately without cover, but where could they run past this locust army, and soon, in the screams outside the carriage, more than a dozen people all lost their lives.
And the people in the carriage were all full of fear, because through the iron wall of the car body, they heard the sound of their limbs touching the iron wall, and it is conceivable that the car must be crawling with locusts at this moment!
"Driver, why don't you drive?"
"No, it seems to be blocked by this group of locusts, and it can't be activated......"
Listening to the crackling sound coming from outside the car, the people in the car felt like they were trapped in an iron cage, and the outside of the cage was full of man-eating monsters.
After about half an hour, the sound outside finally stopped.
"Let's see what's going on!"
Li Xing pointed a gun at the outermost person in the carriage and said.
"No, if you go out, you'll die!"
The man waved his hand and shrank into the crowd inside, but the man behind them pushed them out again.
"If you don't go, I'll kill you now!" Li Xing pointed a gun at him.
Under Li Xing's threat, the man could only comply, and he cautiously observed the outside through a gap in the iron door of the rear compartment, and through the color moon, he could see the asphalt road outside, and there were no insects.
He breathed a sigh of relief and opened the door wider, but there were still no bugs.
He boldly stepped out of the carriage and looked around, and there was not even a single body except for the blood stains on the road.
"The locusts seem to have flown away......
Li Xing then got out of the car, and sure enough, the locust left after discovering that he couldn't help the iron lump.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time they felt that the carriage was stuffy and crowded, and everyone was ready to get off the train to rest.
But after most of the people in the carriage had gone down, they heard a familiar rustling sound in the woods by the side of the road, and a hideous head poked out of the woods, which caused many people to scream.
"They're here again!"
The people in the carriage who had not yet gone down simply closed the iron door.
"Cao!" Li Xing, who was checking the condition of the wheels, scolded, just like he had done before, he didn't expect the people in the car to open the door and let him in, so he turned around and ran.
"Brother, quick!"