After clearing the three patrol worker bees, the reconnaissance team entered the passage, but the fork in the road led to four different directions, and the swordfish was a little hesitant to disperse the reconnaissance team to improve the reconnaissance efficiency.

But the swordfish quickly dispelled this idea, this is just four new channels, I don't know how many branches will be in the future, the strength of the reconnaissance team is only 12 people, to the back is not to disperse into one person and one channel, that is not realistic, there are 3 million soldiers in this hive, 12 marines, only when they are gathered, it is possible to complete the task at the same time, escape alive, it is definitely not a wise way to disperse the troops.

After making a decision, the swordfish turned around, made sign language to the marines, and motioned for them to open the face helmets, and after the team members opened the face helmets one after another, they were tightly together, and the sword fish lowered his voice and said: "Let's go together, but everyone should observe carefully, this hive is too big, we don't have enough manpower, we can't conduct a carpet search."

I can only use my brain to determine the location of the queen bee through the information I observe, where do you think it will be? ”

"Captain, I think it should be in the middle, right?" One of the marines replied in a low voice: "Go to the middle, there is a good chance of finding it, as long as we pay attention to the distribution and whereabouts of the soldier bee tribe, it is best to find the drones, as long as we find the drones, we will not be far from the queen bees." ”

Swordfish looked at it and saw that it was the captain of the Prowler Squad, this guy was a non-commissioned officer who stood out among the recruits, and he had a lot of ideas, and what he said made sense, so he immediately adopted his advice.

The Swordfish motioned for everyone to buckle up their helmets, chose a passage in the direction of the road, and continued to move forward, the Marines walked all the way, going around and around, smoothly approaching the central part of the internal pipe network, they encountered many soldiers and bee enemies, but each time they successfully cleared the passage to connect the side rooms, eliminated all the enemies, and hid the corpses in the side rooms.

Half an hour has passed, and the reconnaissance team is very close to the center, but they have never found any clues about the queen bee.

They had encountered worker bees, information bees, and several teams of soldier bees, but they had never seen a single drone until they had entered the center and were hiding in a cleaned side room, and finally decided to stop and discuss.

Swordfish motioned for the Marines to open the helmet glass mask again, and whispered to the prowler, "Do you think the queen bee is above or below?" ”

"Below!" The prowler replied affirmatively, in fact, the swordfish also felt the same, the queen bee was the core of the entire soldier bee clan, how could she not hide herself deeper!

"Let's go down then!" Swordfish said to all the Marines, "Do you dare to go? ”

"Captain, what's the point of not daring to do this, I see that these soldier bees are all simple-minded, well-limbed guys, let's go to the center, they haven't noticed us yet!" The Marines said one after another.

The swordfish shook his head at them solemnly and said, "Don't be careless about the enemy, don't forget how the Delta Company didn't have it." ”

Hearing this, the Marines put away their slackness and pride, they buckled up the glass of their masks, and advanced vertically to the depths, becoming more cautious, and the reconnaissance team was deeply rooted in the enemy's heart, and it was impossible to be too careful.

…

The reality was not as rosy as the Marines had imagined, and some of the patrolling worker bees found the bodies in the side chambers emptied by the reconnaissance team, and they quickly passed on their findings.

The internal network of the hive is like a neural network, and the soldier bees in it are neural units, which are connected to each other, and quickly spread the information widely, and this information is finally transmitted to the queen room, where it is received by the queen bee's antennae.

The queen bee's dark compound eyes lit up with a red light in the darkness, she raised her head and hissed, and a wave of information spread out from her tentacles, instantly spreading throughout and covering the entire hive! The soldier bees who received the queen's order raised their tentacles to receive the order, and then swarmed to the center, and they received the order to defend the bee back room.

The information bees crawled out of the nest one after another, recalling the soldier bees that were on guard and patrolling outside; The worker bees were ordered to evacuate the core of the backroom and enter the honey wax, food, eggs, and pupal storage rooms to guard the logistics and offspring of the bee clan.

These orders were issued in an instant, and the entire hive seemed to be on first-level alert, and changes took place rapidly, but the reconnaissance team was not aware of it.

…

The reconnaissance team advanced all the way down, but found some anomalies - the passages in the lower part of the center were getting wider and denser, the passages were connecting fewer and smaller side rooms, the spacing between the passages was getting thinner and thinner, and many passages were intertwined, and the commander Swordfish silently wrote down all the information he observed, which could save the team at a critical moment.

There are fewer and fewer soldier bees that can be seen in each passage, and there is not even a single bee in the passages of some levels.

If something goes wrong, there must be a monster, the swordfish has some bad premonitions in his heart, and he keeps gesturing to his teammates, signaling them to be vigilant, and after descending a few more floors, the marines suddenly felt a tremor on the right wall, and then, a dull rustling came from the right wall.

The sound was tense, and it sounded like thousands of soldier bees crawling by! The swordfish chuckled in his heart, the secret path is not good, looking at this situation, the soldier bee clan should have noticed the existence of the reconnaissance team!

The prowler even opened the helmet mask and said directly, "Captain, we have been discovered!" ”

"Prowler, the Soldier Bee just noticed someone sneaking in, but they don't know exactly where we are, right?" The swordfish also opened the glass of the helmet and asked the prowler, who frowned and nodded slowly.

The swordfish continued, "Since they have poured in here, it means that the queen bee is also here, marines, we must find the queen bee before the bee rescuers gather near the queen bee!" Check weapons and ammunition and get ready for battle! ”

"Yes, sir!"

The 12 Marines of the reconnaissance squad were no longer cautious, but ran all the way down, and all knew in their hearts that if they could not find the queen bee before these soldiers who returned to the queen bee, they would die without a place to bury.

And this situation soon came, when approaching a fork in the road, the swordfish was so excited by the scene in front of him that goosebumps were all over the body, only to see that outside the dozens of wide passages connected by the fork in the road, there were countless soldiers and bees with sharp teeth and a length of between 4 and 5 meters!

At such a close distance, their compound eyes had already found traces of humans, and they all screamed and rushed over, and the marines instinctively retreated, only to find that a large number of soldiers and bees were also surging behind them, and the reconnaissance team was surrounded!

"Captain Swordfish...", the trembling voices of the Marines rang out in the team's communication channel.

"What are you afraid of!!" In fact, it was impossible for the swordfish not to be afraid, but he still forcibly calmed his mind, pressed the liner of the helmet with his chin, and quickly issued an order to the panicked marines, the reason why he was able to achieve the position of deputy company commander of the Black Scourge Strong Reconnaissance Company was for a reason, Augustine valued his calmness and impatience:

"Prowler, prepare to blast on the spot, others, build a defense for the Prowler and buy time to blast! Brothers, since there is no road in all directions, let's blow up a road! ”

"Yes, sir!"

The Marines responded, and in addition to the prowlers, 11 soldiers, including the Swordfish, blocked the front 5 and 6 in the front and 6 in the front and back in two directions, they turned off the night vision devices, lit the lighting rods that emitted blue light, and threw them out vigorously, and then, the assault rifles were in full swing, and the dense fire net shot one soldier bee after another into a hornet's nest.

However, there were too many soldier bees, and no matter how fierce the firepower of the marines was, they could not stop them from continuously compressing the living space of the reconnaissance team, and in less than 1 minute, there were already sporadic soldier bees engaged with the marines in short combat!

"Prowler, hurry up!!" The swordfish slammed the compound eye of a soldier bee with the butt of its gun, forcing it to retreat, and then shot through its central nervous system with precision, resulting in its death, and only then did it have time to urge the prowler on the demolition mission, and after saying that, the other soldier bee immediately pounced.

Seeing a Marine beside him being dragged away by several soldier bees, the swordfish was simply anxious!

"That's it!" The prowler shouted as he withdrew from the blast range: "Detonated soon——! ”

"Boom ——!" After a loud bang, the blasting point was blown open a gap leading to the way of life, this gap was very large, a radius of ten meters, the marines did not wait for the swordfish to give orders, they jumped in, the two last to jump off the soldiers, in mid-air was caught by the soldier bees, ripped off limbs, and then was pierced through the chest and abdomen by a sharp thorn, dark green poisonous juice through the body.

The team's vital signs report column showed that the vital signs of the two fighters had rapidly decreased until they had become zero percent.

The marines who escaped death did not have time to grieve, and after landing, they hurriedly threw out their lighting sticks, and under the light blue fluorescent light, the marines found that this was a wide side room, like an underground palace.

When they looked down, they saw thousands of long bees lying on the ground, which had no wings and could only crawl on six legs, but their body length was close to 10 meters! There were no sharp mouthparts, no foot sickles, and no sharp thorns in the abdomen, but this terrifying appearance still made the Marines terrified!

But then, a shout from the prowler instantly ignited the fighting spirit and courage of the desperate marines: "Swordfish chief, I'm sure these are drones!" The queen bee is nearby! ”