Chapter 40: Returning with a full load
87_87057Just as Bai Qi was stunned, a voice as ugly as metal friction came from behind the Predator's mask, although the voice was unpleasant, but it was in English, "Thank you, human warrior, for your amazing bravery and earning the respect of the Predator. ”
To tell the truth, Bai Qi's strength just now was not strong in the eyes of these Predators, but he used this power, which was no stronger than ordinary aliens, to kill the entire nine aliens, during which the amazing combat skills and incomparable bravery that even the Predators were shocked.
When Bai Qi heard that the other party could actually speak English, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "The enemy of our enemy is our friend, no matter where you come from, as long as you fight this terrible creature, you are my friend." ”
The metallic voice sounded again: "You're right, Xenomorphs are the enemy of all intelligent creatures, and since you have earned the respect of the Predator, you are qualified to cooperate with us." ”
Speaking of this, the Predator removed a square object from his arm armor and said to Bai Qi: "This is an alien gene detector that can detect the exact location of the alien within a kilometer. ”
Bai Qi took a closer look, and it was a thing with a metal shell on the back and a screen on the front.
The Predator pressed a button on the side of the thing, and the front screen lit up, revealing a circle of green light that spread like radar ripples on the screen.
The Predator pointed to the screen and explained to Bai Qi how to use the detector.
Not only can this thing detect the location of the alien, but it is also a communicator that can make contact with the Predator.
Finally, he handed the detector to Bai Qi and said, "I think you should need this thing, if you can kill ...... in the future"
Saying this, he turned around and pointed to the three corpses of iron-blooded aliens behind him, "If you can kill this alien, you can use this detector to contact us, we are willing to exchange something you are interested in for the carapace on this alien's body." ”
As the Predator's words fell, a cold electronic voice sounded in Bai Qi's mind, "Soldier 4587, you triggered the advanced quest 'Predator's Disgrace'"
"Disgrace to the Predator, kill ten Predator Xenomorphs hatched from the Predator's body."
"Will you accept this task?"
Bai Qi hesitated slightly, the silver-glowing carapace of this iron-blooded alien was extremely strong, even the Predator's shoulder cannon could not destroy it, Bai Qi estimated that even if he used the steel heart flow force method, the flying spear thrown with all his strength would be difficult to pierce, unless the green flying spear in his hand could be replaced with a light blue flying spear.
In addition, this alien action is like the wind, the agility is abnormal, when the long tail is waved, the wind is whistling, and the strength is definitely not small, even if it is one-on-one, he does not have the confidence to win.
Bai Qi pretended to learn to fiddle with the probe with the Predator's rugged style in his hand while concentrating on asking the system, "Is there any punishment if you can't complete this mission?" ”
"Nope."
Hearing this answer, Bai Qi immediately accepted the task, and at the same time raised his head and said to the Predator: "Okay, although this alien is very powerful, I am still willing to try." ”
Hearing his answer, the Predator nodded slightly, turned and walked towards his companion.
The Predators quickly cut off the carapace that was still intact from the three iron-blooded alien and broken corpses, put it away, and nodded to the four Bai Qi who were watching them from afar, before turning to leave.
After watching the four Predators disappear into the jungle with the neat steps unique to soldiers, Bai Qi turned his hand and put away the detector, put away one light green card and two white cards from the ten alien bodies they killed, and then cut off the skulls and tail spines of these ten aliens together with Qin Qing and them.
After the four of them divided the skull and tail spines equally, Bai Qi took out a white card and handed it to Heinrich.
Heinrich shook his head and said: "Boss, you don't need to take special care of me, since I joined your team, I hope you can treat me as fairly as everyone else, almost all of these aliens were killed by you, and these three cards should naturally belong to you." ”
Heinrich's answer made Bai Qi very satisfied, this person not only has superhuman combat skills, but also is very strict in dealing with people, should be a good partner.
In the battle just now, since Qin Qing needed to memorize two healing techniques, he could only memorize two scorching ray spells, and two scorching rays obviously couldn't kill an alien.
The Yellow Fur's "Corrosive Arrow" was not powerful enough, and it was only because Heinrich entangled the alien that he could calmly shoot it.
Since Heinrich was unwilling to accept the white card, he asked Yellow Fur to compensate him with a shaped tail spine.
In the next few days, Bai Qi and the others continued to surround the alien lair, searching horizontally for the traces of the alien, and with the Predator's detector, they gained a lot.
This detector can not only accurately detect the number and traces of aliens, but also distinguish between ordinary aliens and iron-blooded aliens, allowing them to avoid risks.
With the detector, Bai Qi and their speed of action increased greatly, and it took them five days to circle around the alien lair.
When they returned the way they came, there were already more than thirty severed skulls and tail spines from the xenomorphs' storage space.
In these five days, of course, they did not only encounter these thirty or so aliens, on the contrary, the aliens they encountered in the past five days, hundreds, often two or three iron-blooded aliens with dozens of ordinary aliens cruising in the jungle, fortunately, thanks to the iron-blooded detectors, they were able to avoid these teams in advance.
During these few days, they also saw many battlefields left behind by the Aliens and Predators in the jungle, and the battlefields were littered with the corpses of Xenomorphs.
According to military statistics, more than 20,000 civilians and soldiers have been abducted and disappeared by the alien in the more than three months since the alien spacecraft crashed, which seems to be inconsistent with the number of aliens they saw in the alien lair on the periphery, and now Bai Qi finally knows where the aliens hatched by more than 20,000 humans have gone.
There was only one day left before the half-month period given by the military, and the four of Bai Qi finally returned to the Nelson base exhausted.
Before entering the base, Bai Qi first asked Heinrich to enter the base to investigate, and after making sure that Zilong and Feng Yan had not returned, and there were no new faces in the base, they returned to the base with confidence.
To Bai Qi's surprise, in just half a month, this base has changed greatly.
A wide and solid red dirt road appeared in the rainforest behind the base, extending straight to the northwest, Bai Qi knew that hundreds of kilometers away in that direction, there was a road to Columbia, and it seemed that the United ** had opened up the passage to the outside world.
The area of the base has doubled, and the walls of the base are no longer rudimentary fortifications, but a twenty-meter high wall, with a slope of thirty degrees on the inside and nearly ninety degrees of vertical on the outside.
The top of the high wall was filled with armored vehicles, and on the roof of the armored car, a rather hideous multi-barreled renotor machine gun was pointed at the outside of the wall.
The center of the base has become a large construction site, where dozens of large machines are neatly parked, and many workers are busy.
Barracks were distributed around the perimeter of the base, protecting machinery and workers.
The large barracks of the Space Soldiers were also relocated to the southeast corner of the camp.
Back at the camp, the four of Bai Qi were not in a hurry to go to the quartermaster office to pay for prestige items, they first took a beautiful hot bath, and half a month of jungle life made everyone smell rancid.
Changing into dry underwear and combat uniforms, the four of them actually had a feeling of being reincarnated, and even Bai Qi secretly made up his mind that he would never enter the mission world of this tropical rainforest environment again in the future.
The four of them returned to the tent, found a no-man's corner, occupied several beds that were joined together, and lay down on the soft bed, and were about to rest, but the loach came up with seven loose people.
The two sides parted unhappily that day, and Huang Mao, who couldn't hide it in his heart, saw the loach, and his displeasure was immediately written on his face.
Bai Qi gently patted Huang Mao's shoulder, smiled and greeted the scattered people.
The other scattered people were somewhat embarrassed on their faces, but the loaches greeted Bai Qi with a smile as if they were nothing, and asked about their harvest in the depths of the rainforest.
Bai Qi also smiled and complained that he shouldn't have listened to the advice of the loaches that day, not only did he not gain anything from going deep into the rainforest this time, but also encountered a lot of unnecessary dangers.
The loaches knew that Bai Qi was dealing with them just by looking at Huang Mao's face.
When the loaches returned to the base a few days earlier, he told Bai Qi that the road to Colombia behind the base had only been opened three days earlier, and that after the passage, a large number of supplies and personnel had entered the base in a steady stream.
Relying on large machinery, in just three days, the base became what it is now.
He also told Bai Qi that although the military has not given a mission to the space soldiers, according to the actions of the military some time ago, everyone speculates that the next step for the military should be to build a road deep into the rainforest along the bombed passage, and finally re-establish a new encirclement on the new bombing ring to further block and squeeze the alien activity space.
The next task of the Space Soldier should be to protect the safety of the engineering team building the road.
Listening to Loach's words, Bai Qi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
He felt that the future of the military may not be just about building a passage to the inner ring.
The existing encirclement on the periphery was built on a rudimentary circular passage cleared by bombers, which only tracked chariots could barely pass, which led to the fact that almost all the barracks stationed on this passage were in a state of fighting on their own. If it weren't for the predator's containment inside, and the space soldiers cleaning up outside, it would be easier for the alien to tear through this encirclement than to pierce the window paper, and even in the eyes of the alien, this is not an encirclement at all, but an incubator settlement.
Although the military did not know the Predator's existence, this did not prevent them from seeing the fragility of this defensive line, so it was as important for the military at this time as it was to open a passage to the inner ring to build a transport road to connect the existing encirclement.
Humanity does not lack weapons and equipment, let alone soldiers, but it cannot be transported in, as long as there is a road, humanity will soon be able to build a steel defense line.
If Bai Qi guessed correctly, the space soldiers in Camp Nelson would definitely be divided into three teams, protecting the three construction teams and advancing in three directions.
The difficulty of protecting these three construction teams is completely different, and the construction team that opens up the new bombing belt to the inner ring is far more likely to encounter a alien attack than the two construction teams that build the outer encirclement connecting the road.
The Babel Space System is extremely rigorous, and each soldier will receive as many rewards as he takes and how much effort he takes. This will result in a huge difference in the final rewards for soldiers who accept different protection tasks in the next mission.
In this way, the task of protecting the construction team that built the road to the inner ring road will become the object of contention, and Bai Qi will definitely be unceremoniously excluded as a few scattered people.
Bai Qi was chatting with the loach while thinking about things, and neither agreed nor refused to the loach's proposal to cooperate again, going around in circles and playing Tai Chi.
After chatting for a long time without results, the loach finally lost patience and left.
Bai Qi also lost the mood to rest, and asked Qin Qing and the three of them to go out for a walk with him