Chapter Twenty-Eight: Take the Initiative

December 17, 2070 22:29 - The Great Rift Valley of the Shariz Star Centipede - Where the main human forces are located -

Sitting in the trench with his head resting on agh12, Lao Liu couldn't help but yawn and squinted into the distance. In the distance, the "sun" belonging to the star of Sharitz, the star SC620 slowly emerges from the horizon. The black storm was still raging in the sky, and the sky was all dyed black, but where SC620 rose, the sunlight pierced through the black clouds, giving light and hope to the life of the shattered planet of Sharitz.

The Chagu defense line has returned to its previous state, but there are many more corpses of the zerg. Many warriors were busy on the small plains, building the corpses of the Zerg into a wall of insects, which they used to block the next round of attacks that the Zerg did not know when. "Commander-in-chief, the statistics are out, a total of 174934 Zerg have been annihilated. Among them, there are 15 thunderbeasts, 4,509 venom monsters, 10,350 stinging snakes, and the rest are big dogs. Commander-in-chief, we've had a lot of success. "Well, the Zerg's Worm Sea tactics can't play an advantage in this kind of place, we have taken advantage, and it's not something to be proud of to achieve such a result. What are the casualties of our army? "During the charge, 17 fighters were hit by the serpent's cone bullet and were slightly wounded. When the thunder beast was finally encircled, a venom monster suddenly popped out of the corpse pile, two warriors were sprayed, most of the armor was destroyed, and now half of his life is still hanging, but I estimate that it will be difficult to hold out until the reinforcements arrive, and the other troops have no losses. "Well, we can't just wait like this, we have to find a way to kill more of the living force of the Zerg. What did the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft see? The staff officer looked at the data under his hand and said: "There are no traces of Zerg infestation in the north and west, and there are many caves in the east, and more than half of the Zerg came out of there. There are traces of heavy exchange of fire to the south, and it is estimated that our troops are there. For the time being, the drone will only detect these, commander-in-chief. "Well, that's enough. We have just smashed a large-scale attack by the Zerg, and the Zerg will not attack in a short time, I want to send a force of about 100 people to the south to search for those scattered troops, what do you think? "I don't have any opinion, it's up to the captains of each team." "Well, let them come to the command for a meeting." "Yes."

Three minutes later......

"Everyone, the current situation is not optimistic, the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, we are in a situation of being passively beaten, if we want to turn the passive into the active, we need to send troops to find the point of dispatch of the Zerg, try to consume the living force of the Zerg, there is still a day or so that the black storm will disappear, the passive defense will definitely not last that long, I want to hear what suggestions you have for the attack?" None of the captains spoke, and none of them wanted their team members to go out on adventures. "I understand, but if we don't attack, wait until we run out of ammunition, and it's really over. There are at least four million Zerg under this centipede rift, and we won't be able to run until they are mobilized. Ladies and gentlemen, no longer hesitate! Lao Liu, who had been silent, finally spoke. Divide into teams to fight in a short distance into the hole, the cave is relatively narrow, if you can't beat it, blow up the hole, and then run away. It can block some holes and delay the attack of the Zerg. "Captain Liu's plan is more conservative, is there a more radical plan?" No one answered. The commander-in-chief was a little disappointed, but did not show it, and continued: "In this case, let's follow Captain Liu's battle plan. The 1-5 squad went to the southern region to search for the remaining lost squads, and the rest of the odd troops went to the caves in the eastern region to explore and fight, and it was best to find the Zerg nest and beat it hard. The even-numbered troops and the 'Ripper' troops stayed here, so it was decided, and the action began in ten minutes, so let's go back and prepare. "Yes."

Ten minutes later, Lao Liu assembled his team in the trench. "Lao Liu, are we going out to find Mark and them now?" "Our mission is to go to the caves in the east to sweep the Zerg, and there will be other troops going to the south to find them." "Hmm...... Do you think they're still alive? "I believe in them." "We all are." Scanning the position, it can already be seen that some individual soldiers who did not find the team left the defense line in advance on the "wind horse", and their task is to build a communication network for the traveling troops, guarantee. A single radio has a range of only two kilometers, but if it can be relayed through a single radio, the communication range can be increased, and multiple radios can even form a communication network. Lao Liu looked at the horizon in the distance, the rising SC620 was about to submerge into the black storm, and the darkness would once again cover the earth. Turning around and glancing at the team members who were ready to go, Lao Liu said in a deep voice: "It's time, it's our turn, guys, act!" "Oh-" All the attacking troops began to move, and billowing smoke and dust reappeared in the Rift, only this time human......

Twenty minutes later, a cave in the east ......, "Sato, what's going on ahead?" "More than forty big dogs, gathered together to rest, haven't found me yet, are we going to go?" "Well, you wait for us to come over and kill them in one go." "Understood." After a trot with the team members, Lao Liu came to the rock where Sato was hiding, and observed the situation of the Zerg through the rock through the thermal imager. "The number has increased a little, but they are all big dogs that are close to maturity, and it seems that the main force of the surface zerg in land warfare has been defeated by us, and even the half-sized zerg has been sent. Listen up, everyone can use a maximum of three bullets, and if they don't kill it, they will use knives to solve it, and if you can't get rid of these zergs, don't go back to the defense line. "Yes!" "Up!"

"Da-da-da-da-" Lao Liu suddenly jumped out from behind the rocks and fired three shots at the big dog in the underground hall, three bullets shot into the head from the eyes of the three big dogs, and the three big dogs died instantly. "Da-da-" There was a short, rapid gunfire in the cave, and many big dogs died from accurate headshots. "Kill!" "Rush!" "Whew-" Sato shouted and rushed towards the big dog, and the big dog also howled as if demonstrating, and they launched a counter-charge against Sato. "Snort-" "Knock-" The team members took advantage of the big dog that was not yet fully mature, and the team members all fell down with a big dog in the front row of the stab, and only Wan Lian, who had a weaker fighting quality, was pushed back when he stabbed the big dog and hit the rock wall. "Snort-" A bayonet stabbed Wan Lian's big dog, and Lao Liu dragged Wan Lian up from the ground. "Lao Wan, are you okay?" "It's fine, little thing. Drink-" With a loud shout, Wan Lian threw the agh12 in his hand, and a big dog that tried to sneak attack was nailed to the rock wall. "It's flat." "I don't want you to owe me a favor, keep fighting!" "Kill!"

With the hard work of the team members, the Zerg was quickly wiped out, and the team members began to clean up the battlefield to avoid any fish that slipped through the net. While cleaning the battlefield, Ivan accidentally disembowels a large dog, and the dog's internal organs are spilled all over the ground. Since he had already made it disgusting, our Comrade Ivan simply didn't do anything, pulled out his saber and planned to get some Zerg ribs to make bone ornaments, and as soon as he pulled out a piece of ribs, Ivan was stunned and didn't move there for a long time. "Captain, come here, there's something special here" Lao Liu felt very strange, what special things could be in the corpse of the Zerg? However, he still hurried to Ivan's side in two steps, wanting to see what Ivan was holding in his hand, and the moment he saw it, he was also stunned. "This is a fragment of Watts' armor, the military horn has it, they don't! I don't believe they won't die so easily! Those guys are scourges, scourges for thousands of years! Quick, let's go inside the cave, they must still be around! Fast! "Yes!" The teammates may be in danger, and everyone's hearts are shocked, and they immediately abandon their work and follow Lao Liu to the depths of the cave, hoping to find Mark and them. What Lao Liu didn't know was that the lair deeper underground of the Zerg had already sent a large number of troops and was attacking the ground.

At the same time, the discharging search and rescue force reached the southern part of the Great Rift Valley, "Commander-in-chief, we have reached the area where the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft have reconnoitred, where there are traces of fierce fighting, and the corpses of the Zerg have been built into a hill. We found the wreckage of the 47th and 50th 'Rippers', the pilot has been killed, caused by a blunt object, and the Zerg may also have thunderbeasts. There's still some armored wreckage of marines here, no corpses of damned zergs. There are no survivors, commander-in-chief, requesting instructions on the next step. "By radio relay, the commander-in-chief received the message a few seconds later." Spread out and search, not too far, within a kilometer, call repeatedly by radio, hoping that a survivor will receive it. "Yes, Commander-in-Chief." The 100 marines of the search and rescue team were divided into 10 squads and scattered in a radial formation, intending to search as many forks as possible.

The search was not targeted, and the team members inevitably became scattered, with one team member muttering over the radio: "I don't understand, why doesn't the spaceship fly directly to the Arctic base, and have to go around these dangerous areas to be happy?" Another member of the team also thought of this and chimed in: "Yes, although vertical landing consumes a lot of energy, and it is understandable to land diagonally, but it is also too far diagonal." Could it be that there is something on the spacecraft that does not dare to be sent directly to the Arctic base? "Well, well, I saw some strange shadows when I was on the ship, like ghosts. Isn't it?" the team members said a word, and soon the radio public channel became a pot of porridge, and it was not until the temporary commander-in-chief of the search and rescue team spoke that the radio public channel fell silent. This initiative seems to be a bit counterproductive