Chapter 328: Into the Tiger's Den
The Tang people are generally tall, with an average height of more than 1.8 meters, and some male Tang warriors, even as high as 2.2 meters, have been trained in a rigid body in perennial combat, which can be said to be mighty and majestic.
This is a deliberate mental roaming that is not related to the battle while the Swordfish Commander leads the team forward, which helps to relax the tension.
When the swordfish didn't arrive at Kyushu Star, he heard that the Tang people were very tall, but after meeting, he found that they were taller and bigger than he imagined, and the swordfish once asked Arlene why the Tang people were so tall, and Arlene replied that it was because the oxygen content in the atmosphere of Kyushu Star was relatively high, 30% of which was rising.
It is precisely because of this that the creatures on Kyushu Star, every time they breathe, they will gain more life energy, so the creatures on it are generally huge, and the gas breathed by humans in the Green Star Sky is slightly less oxygen according to the earth's atmospheric standards.
When they first arrived, many immigrants were not able to adapt to the air of Kyushu, and there were often slight oxygen poisoning, and some squeamish guys even suggested wearing standard breathing cylinders, but they slowly got used to it.
The swordfish kept thinking about inconsequential things, but his attention never left this reconnaissance operation, the goal of Huzi's plan was to find and kill the queen bee, which was the top priority related to the safety of the new Beijing city.
Orbiting satellites have found and locked on to the soldier bee colony in the southern jungle, and from the photos taken by the satellite, it appears to be a small hill, with no surviving vegetation nearby, only dead tree trunks, and no grass growing on the surface.
There is the old nest of the soldier bee clan, and if you want to find the queen bee, you can only go deep into the "tiger's den".
11 strong reconnaissance company marines reconnaissance soldiers, under the leadership of the swordfish, slowly approached the periphery, the swordfish raised his fist, signaling the whole team to stop, here, it means that the reconnaissance operation really begins, the battle can happen at any time, these 12 non-commissioned officers, to destroy the queen bee, eliminate the hidden danger of this soldier bee clan!
The swordfish turned around and made a sign sign to the non-commissioned officers: Follow me.
Then, he turned around again, and the cat bent out of the green forest, into the hive where vegetation began to wither.
The vegetation here is still luxuriant, but the leaves of the plants are no longer dense, but the combat armor of the marines still hides them perfectly, everyone follows the swordfish in the lead and moves quickly, and encounters a lot of strange plants along the way, there are fewer and fewer green gymnosperms, more and more colorful spore plants, and the combat armor of the marines also frequently changes its appearance camouflage.
Swordfish encounters a lot of aggressive plants, but he wisely chooses to avoid them, a qualified scout who knows how to save time, stamina, and energy.
Gradually, the spore plants became more and more sparse until they disappeared, and the Marines entered the glade between the towering dead trees of the gymnosperm and the withered shrubs of the angiosperms, and brown, black, and gray became the dominant colors, and the combat armor of the Marines also showed the camouflage of these three colors according to the change of the color of the environment.
The mood of the marines is getting more and more nervous, inside the helmet, they breathe heavily, the inside of the armor is not stuffy, but their sweat beads are still dripping down their chins, they can't help but be nervous, only 12 people, breaking into the hive with 3 million soldiers, many soldiers are secretly scolding themselves for being crazy.
From time to time, a large number of soldier bees whistled out of the sky, some of which were information bees, responsible for delivering messages; Some are colonies of worker bees, flying to distant places for gathering or hunting; Occasionally, Marines can see swarms of soldier bees flying overhead, twice as large as worker bees, nearly three meters long, with sharp mouthparts and spines, as well as a pair of forefeet with sharp blades.
Whenever the bees pass overhead, the 12-member team must stand still and wait for them to fly by, or they will be spotted.
After walking for dozens of kilometers, the swordfish finally led the reconnaissance team to the foot of the small hill, and after getting close enough to the target, the marines found out what kind of small hill this was, and this was clearly the corpse of a huge bush beast.
The swordfish motioned for the marines to stop in place, and then knelt on one knee, carefully observing the corpse of this cluster beast, there were many holes in and out of it, and there were constantly soldiers in and out of the bee clan.
The huge corpse of the bush beast had collapsed badly, the fully decayed and carbonized roots had long since turned purple-brown, the top and back were tilted at a 30-degree angle, and the edge of one side had touched the ground, but despite this, the swordfish could still be recognized from the appearance, it was indeed the corpse of the bush beast.
It is unknown whether the Soldier Bee sucked all its life force out and killed it, or if the Soldier Bee took possession of its body after its death, and the Swordfish only saw that after the Bush Beast died, the Soldier Bee continued to squeeze all the inheritance it left on the land.
For some reason, a sense of grief and indignation rose in the hearts of the marines, and after coming to Kyushu Star, they fought side by side with the Cong Beasts on the Xiahe Plain, and they had already treated the Cong Beasts as their friends or even compatriots like the Tang people.
The so-called rabbit died and the fox was sad, and seeing the bush beast being treated like this, the marines were inevitably sad and indignant.
This cluster beast has long been squeezed dry, perhaps it is precisely because of this reason that the soldier bee clan is eyeing the Xiahe Plain, they covet that fertile land, and even covet the hundred bush beasts guarded by the Tang people on it.
If this group of bees could capture the Xia River Plain, their population would be at least tenfold larger.
"Keep going." The Swordfish made sign language to the Marines, and the Scouts followed in the Commander's footsteps, carefully weaving their way through the dead branches and bushes, unnoticedly approaching the feet of the Bush.
From time to time, the swordfish looked up at the sky, and the flying teams of soldiers and bees were becoming more frequent and dense, but they were far from the ground and the Marines could clearly see them, but their compound eyes could not necessarily catch the human soldiers blending into the ground environment.
The Marines stood at the foot of the Bush Beast and looked up, and soon found an abandoned hive passage, which was abandoned because the Marines waited in place for 20 minutes and did not find a single soldier bee flying out of it.
This passage was probably abandoned because the body of the bush beast was constantly tilted due to the rotting roots and feet, causing it to get closer and closer to the ground, and from the observation along the way, the swordfish found that most of the soldier bees flew out of the high passage, which helped the Marines a lot.
The swordfish pointed to the passage about 5 meters in diameter and motioned for the Marines to wait where they were.
Although this passage has been abandoned, it must still be connected to the internal pipe network, and the swordfish decided to enter from here, looking for the queen bee, he first climbed up the back of the bush beast along the slope, and quickly entered the entrance of the passage to do reconnaissance.
It was pitch black inside, there were no fingers to be seen, and there was no sound, the swordfish activated the night vision device, a clear picture of green tones appeared on the helmet glass, the passage was very deep, bottomless, the swordfish held an assault rifle, and walked inside for a few minutes, making sure that this was indeed a long-abandoned passage.
Then, he went back the way he came, returned to the entrance of the passage, and said to the Marines below: "Be safe!" Come on!
The Marines have successfully entered the hive passage, and the terrain recorder of the combat armor has begun to record a map of the internal pipe network, and from now on, the Marines can open fire at will to clear out any enemies they encounter along the way, because the Soldier Bees have no hearing, and the sound of gunfire cannot attract their attention, but only if they don't miss a single fish.
The swordfish walked slowly, pointing to the hive in all directions, signaling for the Marines to enter it, clean it up, and make sure it was safe, but after walking a few kilometers, it was only to find that the entire passage seemed to be abandoned.
It wasn't until they reached the fork in the road that the Marines heard the sound of rustling, the sound of the wings rubbing as the bees crawled through the passage.
The Marines hid in the abandoned passage and waited for their time, and they determined that there were three patrolling worker bees, and the swordfish used sign language to signal the Marines to aim at the target's neck nerve area as they crawled by, quickly killing and dragging the body away.
The hearts of the Marines were in their throats, they had been walking for so long, and they were finally about to make a move, but they were generally worried that after they did it, thousands of soldiers who could only hear the sound of gunfire would suddenly pour out of the passage branches in front of them, wrapping them in groups...
It's tingling to the heart.
The swordfish didn't have such worries, before coming, he had already asked Commissioner Arlene clearly, the hearing of the soldier bees was not good, they were all deaf, but it was impossible to say that he was not nervous, the swordfish aimed at the soldier bees crawling on the pendant, slowly raised the muzzle, and finally he even lay on the ground.
"Sudden ——!"
After the swordfish shot a three-point shot, the pendant crawling soldier bee fell, making a muffled sound, it writhed its limbs in vain for a while, and then went straight to the ground, the swordfish was very glad that he asked about the weakness of the soldier bee clan, this blow, beautifully solved a patrolling worker bee.
The weight of a worker bee was about 35 kilograms, and the swordfish picked up the corpse like a chicken, threw it to the marines behind him, and the guys behind were so frightened that they avoided it, thinking that the worker bee had suddenly come to life.
Subsequently, the swordfish concocted the same method and eliminated the other two worker bees, and the soldier bee clan patrolling this fork in the road was all eliminated, and the confidence of the scout team members was greatly increased, although this claustrophobic space was still terrifying, but they were no longer as scared as when they came in.