January 4, 2071 8:00 p.m. - 70 kilometers south of Shariz Star Base 027 ——— Skull Sinkhole underpass———

"it! How are there so many! ”

Carrying Miss Xu, Mark ran much slower than usual, and there were corpses on the ground, and the many tailed "black lizards" behind him were not slow, and the distance between the two sides was rapidly shortening. From time to time, Mark threw a grenade behind him, and the explosion was able to stop the "black lizards" from advancing, but it could not hurt them, the "black lizards" were so agile that they dodged backwards when they saw the grenade, and seemed to be very familiar with this weapon.

"Damn! I've only been gone for a few minutes! ”

With the exit in sight, Mark jumps out of the underground passage using an electromagnetic bullet jump, and throws all the smart grenades on his body on the way he runs, and these grenades with dynamic capture devices will explode whenever a non-friendly unit approaches. The skull sinkhole is several kilometers in diameter, and Mark's climbing rope is a kilometer to the right of the entrance to the underpass, and once the tailed "black lizards" emerge from the underpass, Mark may be able to fight on his back.

"Woo-woo-captain, can you hear me?"

Mark had tried a telecommunication call in the underground passageway, but there was no response, and the repeater plugged into the top of the wall didn't seem to work, but Mark ruled out the possibility because he could now communicate with the outside world.

"Whew-Mark, I can hear you, we've heard from Dr. Railton and are on our way to the Skull Sinkhole, and we're expected to be there in ten minutes."

"Captain, hurry up, a lot of dangerous protists are chasing me!"

"Boom-" "Boom-" There was a grenade explosion at the entrance of the cave, and Mark yelled that it was not good, these "black lizards" seemed to be unscrupulous about casualties, and it seemed that escaping from the underground passage was quite exciting for them.

When the "black lizards" rushed out of the underground passage, Mark was still two hundred meters away from the climbing rope, and many of the "black lizards" hissed and climbed up the wall, and their target was exactly what Mark was targeting: the top of the wall.

"I'm rubbing! How can the indigenous creatures be so smart! ”

Although he had run under the climbing rope, the portable climbing rope he carried could not bear the weight of two people, so Mark had no choice but to tie Miss Xu to the climbing rope first, and use the remote control system to make the climbing rope run on its own, pulling the weak Miss Xu up.

"Click-"

Opening the insurance of the AGH14, Mark pouted.

"Looks like there's something to do."

"Bang bang ———"

There was a burst of strafing at the steep hanging wall, and many of the "black lizards" that were climbing were hit by Mark and fell from above. The "black lizard" barely survived half of its life, and the taller one fell into a corpse, or a pool of flesh and blood. Mark laughed, replaced the empty magazine, and continued to fire at the "black lizards" that were rushing wildly, he was not worried about being surrounded, because he could easily get out of the encirclement.

The radar showed that two "Malada" were approaching quickly, but Mark did not bother to contact them, because in front of him, there were dozens of extremely fast tailed "black lizards". A tailed "black lizard" (for convenience, hereinafter referred to as the black thorn lizard) pounced, but the slender tail pin flung at Mark's head from the side, and Mark did not care about the black thorn lizard's claws, but used the butt of his gun to block the path of the black thorn lizard's tail thorn. "K-" The sound of gold and iron clashing sounded, a hole several centimeters deep appeared on the titanium alloy butt of the AGH14, and a huge force came from the butt, and Mark's hand holding the gun shook for a while, but with this force, the muzzle of Mark's AGH14 turned to the black thorn lizard in the air.

"Bang bang bang-"

After several shots, the black thorn lizard was blown out of the head, flew over Mark's head, and slammed into the stone wall behind Mark.

"Come on, come on!"

The AGH14 in his hand kept spitting tongues of fire, and Mark killed many black thorn lizards on the way to the charge, but more "black lizards" rushed up without fear of death, and they would not stop until Mark was killed. However, our insidious Comrade Mark was not going to fight with them, throwing down a smoke bomb, Mark jumped to the hanging wall with an electromagnetic bomb, and at the moment when he was about to reach the limit of the jump, he suddenly grabbed the climbing rope that was put down, and then controlled the climbing rope to rise.

"Hiss-" "Hiss-"

Numerous "black lizards" hissed in a smoke screen, but none of them knew that Mark had left the battlefield from the most unlikely direction.

"Hmph, a bunch of fools, they don't know how to look up."

Just as Mark was triumphant, a hiss suddenly came from above Mark's head.

"Hiss-" "Boom-"

A black lizard gave Mark a claw fiercely, and although he tried to dodge his body, Mark's shoulder still couldn't dodge, and he was hit directly by the black lizard's claws, making a loud noise.

The black lizard struck Mark with one claw, and the claw that hooked the rock wall exerted its strength again, erecting its body and preparing to make up for another claw. However, Mark didn't plan to give it a chance. With a kick on the hanging wall, Mark grabbed the climbing rope and did a somersault, kicking the "black lizard" in the head, and kicking it flying. Mark also fired two more shots at him, and the AGH14's 8.5mm armor-piercing bullet easily pierced the head of the Black Lizard. The dead "black lizard" fell straight down, and the "lizards" who had been groping in the smoke screen for a long time finally found their target and pounced on them together. After a frenzied attack, it was discovered that it was only the corpse of a companion.

"Hehe, you didn't even notice me."

"Hiss-" "Hiss-Ang————"

Retracting the climbing line, Mark soon approached the top of the overhanging wall and couldn't help but smile dumbly when he noticed that none of the "black lizards" had caught up. However, in the next second, his smile froze. A large number of "black lizards" roared and rushed up from all directions, and the number was already comparable to the cluster charge of the Zerg. Quickly climbed to the top of the wall, Mark carried Miss Xu, who was lying on the ground gasping, and ran quickly in the direction of the 027 base, the soles of Mark's feet were full of lightning, and he used the electromagnetic continuous acceleration to the extreme, just to escape. Well, a small life is indeed more important than face.

After running two kilometers, Mark had to put Miss Xu on the ground and stop. It's not that he wants to stop or be safe, it's that the battery is running out of power in just two minutes, and he has to stop and replace it.

"Sir, leave me alone, let's go, I still have a gun on me, and I can avenge Uncle He and them."

"No, you're not a soldier, and I won't leave you. Take off your engineering armor, I think you're wearing a spacesuit that's good enough to handle the environment of Sharitz. ”

"They're dead! It's all for me! I want to avenge them! ”

"Smack-" Mark's resounding slap made Miss Xu sit on the ground with her face covered. Although the battle armor blocked the pain on *, the mental pain was completely imprinted on Miss Xu's face. Since she was a child, no one has beaten her, and the most serious one was only reprimanded by her father twice, but this stranger who saved herself "You are not the eldest lady of the Xu family now, you are just an ordinary human being chased by strange creatures." Someone once said that if someone is willing to die for you, then you must not stop it, let alone die first. Because, that will only make them sad, and finally die because of revenge for you. Senior He, Xiaomu, and Xiaoyu, they all died for you, and if you want to die now, you will live up to the hopes they placed on you. Take off your armor and follow me! ”

Miss Xu was speechless when Mark was replacing the high-energy particle battery, and in between Mark's replacement of the high-energy particle battery, she obediently took off the broken armor, took the necessary items out of the armor, and lay on Mark's back half-crouched there. Carrying Miss Xu on his back, Mark looked at the number of unknown creatures on the biosource detector and chose to flee without hesitation. The two "Maladas" were less than two minutes away from here, and they couldn't fight the black monsters comparable to the "mimics".

Although he was running forward, Mark still had the strength to speak, and the protists were still some distance away from him, so he spoke to Miss Xu. "Miss Xu, I'm sorry, I was too rude just now, please forgive me for being rude."

Miss Xu shook her head and said faintly, "I have armor protection, it's nothing." You're right, my life was bought by many people with their lives, and I live and I live for them. ”

"I don't know what you've encountered in the underground passages, but judging from the current situation, the protist race you have brought out will complicate the struggle on Sharitz. It's presumptuous, but I'd like to ask what you've found in the underpass. ”

Miss Xu, who was carried by Mark and had never had intimate contact with the opposite sex of the same age, was flushed, although it was a secret discovered by the family, but without the help of the army, their Xu family would not get any benefits. Although this soldier named Mark is only a warrant officer, judging from his armor performance, he is at least B1, which does not match his rank at all. Moreover, if he acts alone, it is very likely that he will be the heir of a certain high-ranking military official, and he will go to the grassroots level to experience training. After thinking about it, she decided to talk to her.

"We're in the underpass" Miss Xu was about to tell them what they had found in the underpass, when an uninvited guest barged in.

The originally flat ground suddenly trembled, and a strong sense of crisis made Mark subconsciously adjust the output power of the high-energy particle battery to the maximum, and the muscles of his whole body tensed. "Boom-" With a loud bang, a behemoth burst out of the ground, and the thing rushed out of the ground at Mark's feet