Chapter 26: The Hive

December 17, 2070 at 21 o'clock __ Shariz Star __ 300 meters underground in the Great Rift Valley of the Centipede __

There are still a lot of fluorescent plants in the cave, but they don't look good, they seem to have been trampled, maybe they are zerg, maybe protozoa. It's been 3 hours since he encountered the Zerg, and Mark doesn't know how long he will have to walk like this, but his instinct tells him that he can't stop, and he has to keep walking. After walking about fifty meters, El suddenly stopped, walking in front.

"El, what's wrong?" Pointing ahead, El whispered, "Shhhh "Shhh We communicate by radio, and the ghosts outside can hear it?! "Uh......" "Get out of the way, I'll see." As he spoke, Mark walked from the back to the front, and El and Watts were still half-kneeling, meowing with agh12 to the dark cave in front of them. "There are no fluorescent plants, it should be the end, cover me." Before anyone else could object, Mark was already hunched over and touched forward. He also heard the slight noise ahead, and he didn't dare let his teammates take the risk. "Mark, be careful!" "I will."

"I don't understand why the biomorph detector isn't responding." Watts' voice came over the radio, startling Mark. "! Don't you know it's underground? Such a thick rock formation, you can probe it for me! "I was wrong......" "Wh-" Slowly pulling out the saber, Mark put down the AGH12, just now he changed the detection mode to the ground penetrating mode, the detection distance of fifteen meters, a small red dot appeared on the detection map. Slowly moving forward, Mark walked to a three-way crossing, and the big dog was behind the left corner.

"It's just one, I can do it." The first hand-to-hand combat with an adult dog, Mark's nervous whole body sweated, although it was eliminated by the built-in life-sustaining system in time, but that feeling could not be eliminated. Behind the corner, the big dog was still munching on a "big mole", not noticing the approaching Mark behind him. "I can do it!" With a loud shout, Mark pounced on it. "Huh?" Hearing some noise, the big dog with its back to Mark turned its head suspiciously, and in the last moments of its life, it saw a sharp saber.

The 60cm-long saber stabbed through the big dog's eye, and the tip of the knife drilled out of the back of the dog's head, and Mark completely pierced the big dog's head. "Whew-whew-huh-" gasped for breath, slowly loosening the big dog's neck, and Mark suddenly sat down on the ground. "Almost, almost made the big dog bark." The big dog's blood and brains flowed to the ground, and Mark didn't care about the nausea, he held the handle of the knife and was about to pull the knife out, and at the moment of drawing the knife, the blood and brains mixed and splattered out. "I'm going, it's disgusting. Guys, I've got it. Looking at the filth on the armor, Mark couldn't help but frown.

"Mark, well done." "Dude, that's awesome." El and Watts, who came nervously with their guns, breathed a sigh of relief and beckoned behind them, and the three James followed, and Stephen also took Mark's AGH12 by the way. "This kind of corner can be detected with the Earth mode of the bioprobe, which I just discovered." Looking at the smiling crowd, Mark reluctantly took his saber and rubbed it on the big dog's corpse a few times, and then said: "This 'big mole' is the one that escaped from us just now, it was killed here and the other one didn't, judging from the traces on the ground, they encountered a large number of zerg." Perhaps, there is a worm nest nearby. Everyone shuddered in unison and looked nervously at the deep holes on both sides.

Standing up from the ground, Mark continued: "Judging from the traces on the ground, there are at least two hundred zergs chasing out, and if we meet them, we will basically be done playing, so follow me this way." "Listen to you." Taking the AGH12 handed over by Stephen, Mark led everyone in the direction where the Zerg was rushing.

As the road widened, the traces of Zerg activity became more and more obvious, and the ground was covered with a gray fungus blanket. The fungus blanket was sticky, and Mark and they walked on it with a lot of speed. "Damn, you're really right, Mark, why don't you touch the Zerg lair and send them to death?" Even though he was injured, Stephen still had the same bad mouth, and Mark replied very unhappily: "Then why do you go back and fight with those pursuing Zerg?" , the Zerg have all been killed, and the hive is empty, don't you see it? This is Zerg territory, and they'll soon find out about the big dog I killed, and they'll search for us in an organized way, and we'll really be done with it. Now we still have the strength to fight, the Zerg lair must have a way to the outside, and the Zerg who go out must go straight to our large army, we can find it according to the traces, as long as the luck is not back to just meet the Zerg assembly, we can live. Damn, what am I talking to you fool? Stephen was speechless for a while, so he could only continue to follow.

Getting closer and closer to the hive, Mark and the others couldn't help but get nervous, and even the injured Stephen picked up AGH12 with one hand, guarding against the Zerg that appeared at any time. Finally, when the width of the cave exceeded thirty meters, the view widened. After a few trotting steps, Mark saw a sight that he would never forget.

"Tick-" (the electronic notebook is opened) "I don't know how to express my shock, this is the first time I've seen so many eggs piled up, and their numbers are growing. The Zerg, known as worker bees, are constantly taking eggs out of those large and small forks and piling them up here. Well, there is also a freshly hatched Zerg there, a big dog, I didn't expect the big dog to be so small when it hatched, it's really only as big as a dog. The larger eggs should have been stinging snakes or venom monsters, but unfortunately we don't have enough bombs, otherwise it would have been a big deal to destroy this place. After writing this paragraph, Mark and his teammates opened the insurance for AGH12.

"Mark, what are you going to do?" El couldn't find the north for a moment, and looked at Mark. The hive is an inverted cone, with a loop spiraling upwards at 35°, with many caves connecting from the inner wall to the loop, with Mark at the top of the cave. Judging from where Mark and the others were, there were at least three hundred Zerg guarding here, but it was not difficult to deal with such a large hive. Mark observed for a while, then pointed to a cave at the bottom and said, "Look there, the hatched zerg were taken away by the worker bees, and the way we left should be there." "Shall we just kill it?" "Hmm......... Watts, you kill, we'll watch. "Squeak-" A worker bee suddenly hissed, and a large number of adult zerg rushed to the top of the insect tide, and Mark and they seemed to have been spotted.

At this time, Watts asked weakly: "Brother, are we going to kill us now?" Mark hung a climbing rope on the cave wall and said viciously, "Kill!" Definitely going to kill! You've got to kill it! Let's go! With that, Mark jumped off the loop with the cable in one hand and AGH12 in the other. All keep up. El followed, holding the rope and sliding down. Haha, I'm coming! James laughed and followed, grabbed the rope and jumped down. Watts thought in pieces: "Dead brother, dead brother, dead brother...... I'm afraid of heights! As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and jumped down, leaving Carl and Stephen looking at each other. Standing on the edge of the ring road, watching the Zerg get closer and closer, Carl couldn't help but say, "Let's jump too." "me, you madman! How can a twenty-meter cable slide to the bottom of the nest! "Well, he's using El's cable again." "I'll go! Let's jump too! Saying that, Stephen grabbed the cable and jumped down, Carl was stunned, and said that the quality of the cable was really good enough, and he jumped down.

Landing on the edge of the ring road, Mark pulled the trigger on the two big dogs rushing towards him, and the roar of AGH12 broke the silence of the space. "Da Da-" "Snort-" The two big dogs fell in response, and without thinking about anything else, Mark fastened the cable he had taken from James to the loop with his climbing paws, grabbed the rope and continued to slide down, leaving the rest of the big dog for the others. Mark and they are lucky, there are no venom monsters and stinging snakes here, otherwise it would not be so easy to escape.

After using four cables, Mark and the others finally reached the bottom, and the fools who rushed to the top of the hive finally reacted and reflexively chased after Mark and them. "Hurry, hurry! Let's run! "A butt smashed over a worker bee that pounced, and before Mark could make any other moves, El's refill arrived." "With just one shot, the worker bees are done." "So brittle? I'd like to strafe it. After receiving the rest of the people down, Mark quickly ran towards the passage that might lead to the surface, at this time, they may be five hundred meters underground, and it is very difficult to run back to the surface.

As he ran past the pile of eggs, Mark couldn't help but throw all the high-explosive ** on his body there. Before the Zerg pursuers arrived, Mark and the others ran into the cave, and then he pressed the button. "Detonate!" "Boom-" In the deafening explosion, at least 6,000 insect eggs were destroyed under the six kilograms of high-explosive **, which is really a good deal.

Taking the lead in the front, Mark had a faint sense of foreboding. "No, didn't we escape?" Looking at the pitch-black road ahead, Mark held AGH12 tightly. "Whatever lies ahead, I must kill them alive, because there are still people waiting for me on Earth!" Silently reading in his heart, Mark yelled at everyone: "Why hurry up!" There is hope for breaking out of the hive! "Rush!"