Chapter 24: The Flood War (1)
The last Far Colony within the human sphere of influence that has not yet been conquered by the Covenant. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Although this place escaped the fate of being burned to glass by the Covenant cruiser, today ushered in an even more terrifying scene.
Now the surface of the entire planet is covered with an astonishing number of flood demons. And those cities that originally belonged to human habitation have also begun to nest.
It turned out that three days ago, with a human transport ship that gave a rescue signal, after a forced landing on this planet. The human colony here has encountered a Resident Evil event that is far more dangerous than the Covenant invasion.
There weren't any people in the huge cargo compartment of the personnel transport ship. Instead, a large number of flood spores gushed out, and they began to rush into the nearest human city at the first time.
Then there was the indiscriminate mass infection, which the residents of the city had never expected to face.
As a result, a human city, which was originally still vibrant, was completely transformed into a flood demon's lair in less than twenty-four hours.
The rapidly growing army of Flood Demons immediately began to pour towards other cities inhabited by humans. At this time, this faraway colony did not have much strength for defense.
Because of the previous battle with the Star Alliance, only a small number of troops remained in the colony. The Flood Crisis that broke out in other colonies has not yet been widely spread by the human government.
And the Star Covenant also stopped continuing to attack the human colony because of the sudden outbreak of the Flood Demon. However, it was impossible for the two sides to exchange information, so the UNSC side tried to prevent the surprise attack of its biggest opponent. Or put the main force in the position of defending the Star Alliance fleet.
Therefore, for the flood crisis that has begun to spread, only a small fleet has been sent to deal with it. Because in the UNSC's view, these creatures are not up to the clean-up force composed of their own advanced equipment.
As a result, the UNSC, which had missed the best opportunity, could no longer stop the further spread of the flood demon in the initial stage of the event.
At this moment, only the last major city on the planet, New Cape Town, remains. And the city is also in danger at the moment, because the flood demon army is pouring in from all directions, and it is besieging this metropolis with a population of eight million.
Although the city of New Cape Town has the largest space port in the colony, it is in the face of the danger of the Flood in a short time. The citizens here simply didn't have time to retreat, because the enemies were moving too fast.
And in the outer space orbit of the colony, there is no fire support from UNSC warships. Therefore, the dense army of flood demons can rush towards the city unscrupulously.
At the very edge of the city, the last 5,000 Marines on the planet have tanks and other weapons ready. And on the ground more than ten kilometers away from them, a large group of flood demons could already be seen roaring.
Looking at the dangerous Flood Demons who were gradually approaching the best range of their weapons, the Marine Corps front commander immediately gave the troops an attack order: "Start attacking!" ”
As soon as the order was given, a large number of attack planes immediately appeared in the sky, flying towards the area where the flood demon was located in front of them at an extremely fast speed. The machine guns and rockets under the fuselage also began to fire lethal fire at the enemy.
Suddenly, those flood demons in the middle of the charge were immediately hit by the attack from the sky. Explosions suddenly appeared in front of them, and a puff of smoke quickly obscured the view.
Those flood demons who were hit by firepower, although their bodies have been mutated, have become extremely strong. But in the face of incoming rockets, there is still nothing they can do. was immediately blown to pieces, but the remaining guys were not frightened by the scene in front of them at all, and still rushed to the city in front of them as if nothing happened.
Just as those attack planes were about to turn around and attack, a barrage of anti-aircraft missiles suddenly shot out from the Flood Demon army.
The attack aircraft unit, which did not expect such a scene at all, had to hurriedly dodge the incoming missiles with all their might.
It's a pity that it was obviously a little late at this time, because the attack aircraft was too low from the ground. There is no way to make the best dodge moves, so their fate can only be described as tragedy.
Suddenly, a series of explosive fireballs appeared one after another in the low altitude, and the anti-aircraft missiles controlled by the Flood Demon Army were all wiped out in an instant.
The Marines who saw this scene in the distance were stunned. They had no idea that those strange creatures that parasitized humans would actually operate modern weapons.
And this result is not a good sign, after all, everyone on this planet before only regarded the flood demon as a special parasitic creature. There is no intelligence at all, and attacking humans is only a matter of biological instinct.
But judging from the scene that took place, the previous judgment was completely wrong. These parasites in front of you are simply dangerous species with a certain amount of intelligence.
Unfortunately, it was too late to find out, so the Marines present immediately after the scene were horrified to find that the strong electromagnetic interference had spread around at this moment. Their communication system and fire control radar encountered strong interference at the same time.
By this time, the Flood Devil's footsteps had once again narrowed the distance to the city, and the Marines did not need the commander to issue orders this time. He had already automatically started to use the weapon in his hand and shoot at those terrifying enemies.
Although they knew that the Flood Demon in front of them had an absolute numerical advantage, these Marines guarding the front line had no intention of flinching, because behind them were thousands of citizens waiting to retreat.
If the defensive line collapses, then the ordinary citizens behind the marines will only be swallowed up by the surging flood demons.
The sound of explosions and bullets began to appear on the edge of the city. The dense bullets and tank fire caused the ground in front of the city to quickly be filled with a large number of corpses of flood demons.
At present, the individual weapons of the Marines have basically been replaced with equipment such as air-burst bombs and electromagnetic railguns. Therefore, it has destructive power, which is an energy weapon that will never be inferior to the Star Alliance.
Relying on such dense firepower, the Marines succeeded in slowing down the Flood Demon's pace. Subsequently, in the midst of the flood demon army, there were explosions one after another.
It turned out that the mines planted by the marines in advance were also stepped on by the flood demons, and the strong explosion power immediately blew up the advancing flood demon army, and the formation gradually became scattered.
After seeing that the Flood Demon's offensive was interrupted in one fell swoop, some Marine soldiers in the defense line immediately began to use cloud burst bombs to bombard the Flood Demon army.
Over the years, the use of individual cloud burst bombs by human forces can be regarded as perfect. Especially when it comes to enemy infantry units, it is very effective.
Immediately, two kilometers ahead, blast waves began to emerge one after another. The flood demons who rushed to the front directly blew down a large area.
However, contrary to the expectations of the Marines, only a small number of the Flood demons were burned to death, and most of the wounded were able to move on.
And the hypoxic suffocation effect caused by the explosion doesn't seem to have much effect on these parasites. They continued to move at the same speed as before, towards the city.
In the midst of the Flood Demon army that was suddenly advancing, a series of rockets suddenly fired. These weapons were not accurate, but they managed to hit the Marines' defenses.
Suddenly, a powerful blast wave hit the Marine Corps' defensive line, setting off a deadly whirlwind. It turned out that the flood demon was also using a cloud burst bomb.
knocked a lot of Marines to the ground, and at the same time, instantly cleared a large area of the originally dense firepower on the human side. The Flood Demon Army, which had lost its firepower, certainly wouldn't let it miss this great opportunity in front of them. Immediately speeding up, he finally rushed into the defensive line arranged by the marines in one fell swoop.
Then the most terrifying scene of the flood demon appeared, this special parasitic creature, began to quickly parasitize the target creature. Even the Marine Corps soldiers, who have become corpses, are the objects of the Flood Demon Spore Parasitism.
The speed at which the Flood Demon parasitizes other creatures is very fast, compared to the speed at which the T virus transforms humans into zombies, it is simply incomparable.
The Marines' tirelessly laid defense line was shattered by the Flood Demon Army, and soon the screams of human despair resounded in the city.
The Flood Demon Army, which had lost the Marines' block, began to frantically pounce on those ordinary citizens, and quickly launched a parasitic operation.
Apparently these Flood demons are ready to transform all the humans in this city into their own kind. For a time, the whole of New Cape Town was filled with the sound of crying and shouting.
However, all this was quickly broken with a huge explosion, and a conspicuous mushroom cloud had slowly risen in the camp of the Flood Demon army in the distance.