Chapter 19, Eating the Mushroom Blanket

Sitting on the truck in front of him, Li De looked at the scenery outside the car window. Several soldiers in the same car were passionate, singing military songs along the way. Later, more and more people joined the ranks of singing, and Li De had to sing all the way.

After a day's march, the vanguard reached an open field more than 30 kilometers from the target heights. This area was selected by the command in advance, and after deep scanning by strategic satellites, it ensured that there was no ambush underground. It's to prevent previous sneak attacks.

As soon as the large army arrived at their destination, they immediately began to get busy. A large number of steel plates were laid on the ground. These steel plates are to make the ground level so that some defensive weapons and improvised buildings can be placed, and on the other hand, to prevent the Zerg from sneaking up.

The engineers and soldiers built makeshift barracks and tents, prepared meals, and finally completed all the work before sunset.

Li De was assigned to a marching tent at night, and there were three other people in the tent besides him.

After dinner in the evening, the soldiers of the cannon fodder regiment sat around the fires, and there were also men and women hugging each other, and timely pleasure was more popular in the army, because tonight may be the last night of their lives.

Li De also sat by the fire in front of the tent, and together with three temporary roommates, as well as a few comrades from other tents next to him, they talked about their hometown.

Listening to everyone else talking about their past, he thought about the days when he was picking things up in the garbage heap.

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, General Douglas personally came to the front and organized the first wave of attacks. Shortly after sunrise, the human army departed from the barracks and formed a position a few kilometers away from the ground of the Zerg Blanket.

At ten o'clock in the morning, a gunshot broke the silence. The troops rushed out of their positions like a tidal wave, and at the same time, air force units and long-range strikes were also dispatched.

Dozens of ghost fighters in the air remained above the ground forces to prevent threats from the air, and huge rockets and missiles flew first towards the Zerg positions.

Hundreds of combat vehicles brought up the sand and dust in the sky, and in front of them were dozens of armored vehicles, armed off-road vehicles, and multi-purpose infantry fighting vehicles of a mechanized battalion.

Behind the mechanized troops, there are cannon fodder units sitting inside armored transporters.

In the rear were armored units, heavy tank and howitzer vehicles, the absolute workhorses of this offensive force.

Li De's D Company was arranged to attack in the third wave this time. Listening to the rockets flying overhead, the blood in my heart began to boil.

After a long-range strike, the Zerg's position instantly turned into a sea of fire, a sharp roar sounded, and the Zerg also began to counterattack. On the ground of the fungus blanket of the Zerg, a group of pit vipers suddenly emerged, spitting acid at the human troops with their teeth and claws. Some huge Zerg defenses, spitting out green acid.

A large amount of acid rained down on top of the human troops, and the infantrymen's combat uniforms could not resist at all. White smoke rose from the surface of the armored vehicles. At the same time, a large number of small flying insects also flew out of the Zerg base. When these fly into the human legion, they will self-detonate, causing a lot of damage.

The mechanized battalion of the first echelon of the human army had approached the Zerg, howitzers and armor-piercing shells were pouring on the Zerg defenses, and a large number of Zerg died, but more Zerg came from the rear. And the human mechanized battalion also suffered heavy losses under the defense of the Zerg.

In the Zerg's defense system, there is something called a tongue, which can stick its long hard thorns into the ground and then emerge from the ground out of nowhere. Hard, sharp spikes can pierce light vehicle turf or tip them over. These tongues cause great trouble for human soldiers.

Li De had just gotten out of the armored personnel carrier at this time, and charged forward with the brothers of Company D beside him. Not long after they left, the armored personnel carrier they were riding in was pierced by the tongue and turned into a ball of flames.

There was a curse in the headset, and the recruits did not dare to move forward when they saw this. The cigar-stipped company commander drove the timid recruits forward like a duck, cursing foul language.

The mechanized battalion and the fighters of the first echelon in the front used their lives to open a hole in the defense of the Zerg.

Destroyed chariots were everywhere, and the ground was littered with human and pit viper corpses. Stepping through the mess, the soldiers of the third echelon had already reached the ground of the fungus carpet.

Stepping on the somewhat soft and slippery fungus blanket, Li De suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart.

After advancing about 100 meters, despite the fire support of self-propelled artillery and howitzers in the rear, after paying the lives of another group of soldiers, Li De and his D Company rushed to the front.

Li De saw with his own eyes that the swarm of pit vipers was retreating, spitting acid in this direction. Looking at the huge pit viper of more than ten meters, revealing a hideous face, Li De also felt furious in his heart, and hurriedly greeted the other party with a grenade.

Dodging to the left, Li De avoided a cloud of acid, but the person on his right was not so lucky, half of his body was stained with acid, and let out a miserable scream.

Immediately, a military doctor came up, injected painkillers, and applied ointment to the area touched by the acid, temporarily stopping the injury. On the other side, another person shouted "military doctor", and the military doctor ran up quickly.

Li De used guns and guns together, shooting desperately. Suddenly, a tremor was felt, and a group of giant mantis emerged from the ground and came into close contact with the soldiers rushing in front.

The human soldiers began to panic. Some of the inexperienced recruits were frightened by the sight and did not know what they had done wrong, and some tried to shoot at the bugs, but they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people, so they hesitated to fire. The bugs, on the other hand, are on a killing spree, wielding their long sharp legs and huge mouthparts at humans.

Li De dodged the attacks of the two bugs and shot diagonally upward, attacking at close range, and the armor-piercing bullet pierced the hard carapace of the bugs. Other soldiers also began to use this method to prevent harm to their comrades.

Countless white balls of light flew through the sky, flashing with lightning and flying towards the positions of the human armored forces. I saw a large group of huge beetles more than ten meters tall appear behind the Zerg, and those beetles used their tails to face the human camp.

The balls of electricity are coming from their tails. The electric ball fell into the formation of the armored troops, and there was a huge explosion. Several howitzer trucks were blown up on the spot to scrap metal.

The humans fought back, howitzers and rockets beckoning at the giant beetles. For the first time, the long-range firepower of both sides went head-to-head.

Li De is quite active in the front line. He's already killed five giant mantises. When preparing the equipment before, the company commander only gave them three magazines each, and now that the bullets have run out, he is crouching next to the corpse of his comrade next to him, searching for ammunition on his body.

After finding five magazines, Li De was about to get up when a spike of his tongue came out of the ground. Fortunately, Li De reacted quickly, turned sideways to the right, and the spike scratched his lower abdomen, and blood flowed out.

And just as the spike retracted, the long spike swayed from side to side, hitting Li De and sending him five meters away.

Li De screamed, landed on the ground, and fell to the ground covered with a fungus blanket. He only felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, and he could even feel that the blood was flowing out. When Li De was about to call the military doctor, he inadvertently ate a mouthful of mushroom blanket.

The fungus blanket is composed of a bacterial organism secreted by the Zerg mother nest, and these bacteria that grow on the body fluids secreted by the mother nest can provide good nutrients for the larval Zerg. At the same time, these bacteria also provide a preferred living environment for other Zerg creatures.

However, this is for bugs, for the human digestive system, these bacteria are absolutely deadly viruses.

NND, Li De scolded in his heart, why was he so careless. Swallowing the fungus blanket, Li De also felt as if his stomach was burning, and a burning sensation came out of his stomach. He clenched tightly, the muscles of his face contorted like cramps, and tears flowed down his face.

Li De, who almost fainted, was helped up by his companions and sat on the ground. The soldier who helped him sit up saw that there were blood stains in his lower abdomen, and quickly tore Li De's clothes, but what he saw was indeed an intact abdomen and eight-pack abs.

"Are you alright?"

"It's fine." Li De replied with some difficulty.

"That's good, hurry up, it's dangerous here."

Li De also quickly got up, full of doubts. He also felt that his recovery speed did not seem like something that humans could have. Thinking of the mouthful of mushroom blanket I just ate, it seems to feel good in my mouth.

Take another bite and see? No, how could I have such an idea? Li De shook his head desperately, and ran the thought out of his head.

But after running two steps forward, taking advantage of the fact that his teammates around him didn't care, Li De bent over, picked up a fungus blanket with one hand, and observed it carefully.

Looking at the dirt-like thing in his hand, Li De pursed his lips, looked up to see that no one around him was paying attention to him, and ate it again.

This time he really felt the smell of the fungus blanket. It's a bit like a mixture of artificial protein meat and spinach, and it's not too bad! Li De comforted himself in his heart, after all, his behavior was beyond that of humans.

After eating the fungus blanket, there was no previous reaction in the stomach. When I felt that I had discovered it during the previous meditation, I could suddenly feel the energy inside my body.

Does this have the effect of enhancing "power"? It was as if he had discovered a big secret.

But looking at the chaotic battlefield around him, it is impossible for him to feast here. So with an automatic rifle, some rushed to the front line.

The war continued, when the middle route army was fighting with the Zerg, the north and south also launched attacks, and for a time the human race besieged the high and low plains from three directions, and the defense of the Zerg was overstretched.

By the afternoon of the battle, everyone was very tired, and General Douglas gave the right order to retreat.

The soldiers in front returned to their camp under the cover of artillery fire, leaving behind the corpses all over the mountains and fields, lying quietly, telling about the tragedy of the day.

No one wants to fight the Zerg at night, those big bugs have very good night vision, even if they are equipped with night vision devices, humans will only expose more weaknesses in the dark.