Chapter Seventy-Seven: Starfall
The group of jumping insects that attacked had been completely wiped out, but their combat team had also suffered heavy losses, and less than ten people survived. If it weren't for the fact that both of their bodies had been strengthened by the Nightmare Energy many times, they might have become some of those stumps and flesh on the ground at this moment.
With more than two-thirds of the team reduced and all of the surviving team members wounded, the leader of the squad decided to move closer to the larger force to the west, and although doing so would shrink the human defenses again, it was unknown how many times in the previous seventy-two hours.
They were all part of Marian's cruising fleet, and on that day, they were ordered to escort two maintenance teams to the XK-3 colony to relieve the communication interruption, but as soon as they entered the gravitational circle of the XK-3 colony, they were suddenly attacked by a large group of unknown creatures.
The upper body of these monsters resembles that of a giant moth, except that the wings and mouth have sharp, barbed fangs, the wings are mainly made of epidermis, and its tail is long, segmented, curved and slightly thick, with a bulging/large gland in the tail with a deep hole in it. There is an indescribably shiny slime on their bodies, which seems to have been brushed with a layer of crystals, which is obviously why they are able to survive in space.
They suddenly appeared around the fleet, and before the fleet commander could give the order to attack, a large swirling ball of acid whizzed from all directions.
The surface of the acid actually has swirling ripples, and there are pus-like bumpy boiling pits, which are full of green emerald liquid, once it approaches the vicinity of the spaceship, it will explode, and the sky will be like rain, and the green liquid will immediately drench the spaceship all over the body, and soon the entire spaceship will be corroded to the point of fire and smoke, and then explode! In the mysterious and deep cosmic space, a magnificent fireworks were formed.
The fleet was caught off guard, losing nearly half of its ships in the first attack, and the remaining ships had to make an emergency landing on the XK-3 colony planet. The monsters pursued after them, and only six ships were left to successfully descend on the planet's surface.
However, they did not know at the time that what awaited them was another, even more cruel hell
The XK-3 colony planet was once known as the pearl of the Eastern Colony Star Domain because of its ecosystem that is closest to that of the Earth. It has a perennial population of more than 300 million people and is distributed in more than 70 colonial cities around the world.
About 70 percent of the planet's surface is oceanic, and the remaining continents are nearly half unexplored and pristine. Lush greenery fills the entire planet, the scenery is picturesque, the climate is pleasant, and everywhere is a scene full of life, a beautiful and peaceful new world.
However, this beauty and tranquility were shattered by a catastrophe that fell from the sky. On this day, a meteor shower of considerable scale visited XK-3, and countless black meteorites fell through the atmosphere to the surface of the planet.
The XK-3 colony has a large amount of uninhabited land on it, so it didn't cause much damage when the meteorite fell. It's just that for some reason, the entire planet's electronic communication facilities were interfered with by unknown signals at the same time, and all communications were completely paralyzed.
The garrison troops on the planet immediately sent five teams to the site of the recent meteorite fall to investigate. Until this point, humanity had not realized what it was encountering.
The team of nearly 100 members of the five investigation teams disappeared until the evening of the next day, when a cratered investigation team aircraft that had been corroded by something corroded the shell was forced to land in the city of Digoman, not far from the jungle of Central Koria.
Although the commander of the garrison did not fully grasp the meaning of this news, out of vigilance, he nevertheless issued a global combat readiness directive.
Three days later, the humans who had just completed the arming were shocked to find that the preparations they had made before were far from enough.
Bugger! Countless huge alien insects surged from the jungle, from the desert, and from the ocean like a flood that burst the embankment, brutally destroying everything that dared to appear in front of them.
The smallest of these terrifying alien insects is no less than an adult, and the largest even exceeds the BKY-75 heavy transport aircraft. Some bugs have sharp claws and hard nails; Some bugs can spray an extremely corrosive acid; There's even a giant bug that can be airdropped to a designated destination like a transport plane
The battle almost began to heat up, and humanity was desperate to find that the high-tech weapons they were proud of did not have the slightest advantage in this war, and these alien insects seemed to be completely born for war, and their powerful individual combat power, terrifying numbers, and fierce fighting style easily broke the defense line of the human coalition army.
Cities are falling rapidly, and every minute humans are reduced to food for insects. Human beings, who were already at a disadvantage, were completely paralyzed by communications, unable to call for help, unable to dispatch in a unified manner, and could only be forced to fight separately, and finally annihilated one by one in the vast sea of insects.
When Marian's cruising fleet escorted the maintenance team of the General Directorate to the XK-3 colony planet, there were almost no survivors of its kind, and they were greeted by countless Zerg fangs and butcher knives
XA-37 front satellite, Shen Hao, who had finished a day's routine training, returned to his barracks. With his physical fitness, this kind of recruit training was simply easier than that of a child, so his watch quickly attracted the attention of the leading officer.
After the recruit training that day, he was called aside and practiced alone for three hours. However, this kind of training is still just a piece of cake for Shen Hao. The leading officer was quite shocked by Shen Hao's appearance, and immediately reported it to his superiors, and two days later, Shen Hao was specially transferred out of the recruit training camp and became a member of the regular army of the Federation.
It's been a week since the XK-3 colony lost contact with the outside world, and the Marian's cruising fleet, which had been ordered to go, didn't send any news back. Things seem to be going in a rather bad direction, the Federal War Department has begun to make pre-war preparations, and the three nearby fleets have entered combat readiness and are simultaneously approaching the XK-3 colony planet.
Although not much information has been released among the general population of the Federation, the atmosphere within the army has become completely tense.
On the narrow marching bed, Shen Hao tossed and turned, although more than a hundred years of experience told him that he must be calm and calm, but a restless feeling has always lingered in his heart and cannot be dispersed. If it weren't for the faint sense from the bloodline inheritance, Su Yue and Xiao Mo would not be in danger of their lives for the time being, and he would have been unable to help but grab a spaceship and rush directly to the XK-3 colonial planet with unknown circumstances.
Shen Hao lay upright on the narrow marching bed, but he didn't feel sleepy at all, and he grinded until the early hours of the morning, he couldn't lie down anymore, so he simply dressed and got up. There is a curfew in the barracks, but there is a small open space near the barracks for movement. Shen Hao pushed open the door, tightened the uniform on his body and walked out.
The sky was as clear as ever, and an astonishing blood-red "full moon" hung high in the sky. Shen Hao knew that the adjacent XA-38 former moon, because most of the surface of that planet was composed of reddish-brown rocks, it would only show a blood-like scarlet color under the reflection of stellar light.
The Blood Moon was in the sky, and the surrounding stars were somewhat eclipsed, except for the meteors that streaked across the sky from time to time.
Meteor? Shen Hao suddenly found a rather strange thing, since just now, there seemed to be a lot more meteors in the sky, and what was even more strange was that the interval between each meteor seemed to be quite regular, not at all like a normal astronomical phenomenon. A sudden sense of uneasiness came over me.
Shen Hao looked around, there was still silence around him, 2,000 meters away to the southwest was the Armament Office, and the soldiers at the sentry post had just taken a shift, if they touched it now
The uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, Shen Hao no longer hesitated, and rushed in that direction in a flash. The dark military uniform gave him some cover in the night, and the whole person was like a ghost, hurrying through the shadows of the night.
The distance of 2,000 meters was not too far for Shen Hao, but in order not to alarm the patrolling soldiers, he still slowed down. Violating the curfew and risking to approach the Armament Department can be big or small, and can be taken directly to a court-martial, where it will be punished as espionage. It's just that Shen Hao is quite confident in his perception of danger, although he doesn't know where the crisis will come from, but no matter what, he has to get some weapons that can defend himself when the real crisis comes.
Suddenly, a dazzling white light illuminated Shen Hao, who was hidden in the shadow of a building, and Shen Hao looked back in horror and found that the source of the white light was not the patrol's searchlight, but from the distant starry sky.
It was a huge meteorite, about the size of two or three football fields, and it was falling from the sky with a blazing white flame. In Shen Hao's shocked gaze, he slammed into the barracks area where he was before.