Volume Five, 08: Zerg Raid

When they really entered the confines of this magical building, everyone was amazed by the spectacular thing that stood in mid-air.

In the narrow strip of spaced out of the forest, the huge blue translucent crystals floated one after the other at half-height of the trees, surrounded by three-dimensional structures of gold or silver metal, mostly rings, mitsubishi cones, and various polyhedral shapes, adding more color to the monotonous blue glowing background.

They don't have a connection in the usual sense, but they are closely connected, and the separate parts always follow the crystal in the middle, as if there is an invisible force manipulating, which makes it all the more mysterious and attractive.

"No wonder those scientists spend a lot of words praising these buildings when they go back, it's really beautiful."

Almost everyone is lamenting, just as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the history books will leave a deep impression on anyone who takes this course, the kind of gigantic structures that are free from the shackles of general structures and look like they are suspended in the air, and often evoke endless human beings to think about how "they" built these great things, what "they" abandoned this place for, and what "they" will leave in it.

As is the case today, these three questions are all that is on the minds of most people.

"The change in gravity is more complicated here, you see that no, the surrounding trees are taller than the ones outside, according to visual inspection. It's probably more than 500 meters above, it should be the effect of these lights, and even the planetary creatures living here have mutated to varying degrees, not to mention the bigger, there are some more special things"

"The electronics are completely unusable, and we've lost contact with the Space Prison completely, which means that they can't help us at all even if there is any danger, such as a sudden and widespread shelling from the air. Turning these things to ashes along with us"

At this time, of course, the only one who can still joke is our brother Chen. He looked around and checked his equipment rather calmly, occasionally using a greedy wolf-style Gauss rifle to fire a few shots at some of the creatures who were watching them from a distance, and the game was a bit of a jump, contrasting with the peaceful aesthetic atmosphere at this time. It seems extremely discordant.

I didn't see the crowd indulging in beautiful things. All use a kind of "mud and dirt!" Angry eyes looked at him.

"Okay. No need to look at it, it's time for us to go in now. The highest-ranking member of the Cobra Force said helplessly, under the interference of this extremely strong sense of presence. Naturally, they all detached themselves and returned to reality.

"But it seems that there is no place to go up, and those guys who have been here before have not left any explanations, do you want us to try to climb the tree in the most primitive way?"

The middle-aged man, who had automatically become the commander, hesitated and said, the mechanical power armor they are equipped with is capable of short-term flight, but the problem is that the electronic device that controls this function has basically failed, and in the face of these buildings floating in the air, it seems that they can only climb the trees first, and then transfer them from the adjacent trees to those crystal things, fortunately, there are many vines and branches and leaves around these trees, so there is no need to test the proficiency of everyone's primitive skills.

It's just that the process is very cumbersome, which is more cumbersome than climbing a few hundred meters up the stairs.

"Probably that's all there is to it," Kenan echoed, with five members, he was naturally the number two in the 26-man squad, and after the commander finished speaking, he took the opportunity to show his presence, "but it's better to use those vines to make some winding tools, the surface of these crystal structures looks smooth, without the strength to support us, we are afraid that we will fall." ”

At this time, it is often a good time for those guys with other purposes to jump out and brush up their influence, and take advantage of the difficulties they face to show their abilities and characteristics. Kennan has such a plan, and he will establish enough trust in the early stage to facilitate the follow-up process, so as to isolate Chen Xi and An Yumo.

However, Brother Chen had a different opinion.

"Don't be that troublesome."

He pointed to several native creatures of Tifa Planet who had been frightened by the bullet before, and said, "See, they seem to be fleeing to it now, and they are already using the gravitational change path here to fly, I'm afraid that for them who have lived here for a long time, this is a very safe place." ”

"Ugh"

After getting Chen Xi's reminder, they also found that even though they don't have wings, some creatures here can also make various changes in the air, using the parts of the adjacent branches and leaves to fly towards the crystal, obviously as Chen Xi said, they are very familiar with the environment here, and as soon as they are frightened, they instinctively hide in a place that they think is very safe.

"Well, there's a better way to do it." The commander spread his hands and made an expression of surprise, but his eyes were full of surprise and eagerness. This feeling of being able to fly without external force is probably a great temptation for anyone. Even if there was a choice of going up the stairs or elevators now, they would be willing to try it, provided of course that the chief did not prohibit him from speaking.

Only the five people on Kennan's side had ugly faces, and it was obvious that on the road of cultivating influence, Brother Chen was already ahead of everyone.

They were going to a crystal building in the center of the gathering area, which was larger than the surrounding ones, and the crystal part that was the main body was more than two hundred meters in diameter.

In the process, he captured some of the native creatures that lived nearby, drove them to escape to the crystal, and memorized the route completely. And after the first flight of human beings without the help of external forces, everyone finally came to this huge crystal.

There is no real entrance here, because after animal experiments, it was found that most of the crystal structure is actually hollow design, which looks like a smooth part of the surface. In fact, it is a translucent energy cover, covering the outside of the hollowed-out crystal structure, like a frame structure building with the glass curtain wall removed. It may be because they have completely abandoned this place, and all things, including themselves, can pass through this layer of energy and enter it without hindrance.

At this point, Kenan and the others' faces darkened, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face to what they had just said.

If you really make a rope-like winding thing out of vines, the biggest possibility will be to stage a tragic version of Tarzan of the Apes. Under the reverberating force of traction. Plunging headlong into it, the result is that whether it hits the ground or the pillars between the floors, it will be very embarrassing.

"Those damn bastards. I didn't even say anything about the entry process here. Is it deliberately making us ugly! As soon as the words came out. As Kenan's teammate, Comoros realized that he had said the wrong thing, because most people, including Kenan and others, looked at him with an angry eye. Then he immediately realized that he was at fault, and that this kind of abuse was unforgivable for a group of victims who had sacrificed their lives to find human allies in the midst of a tragic war.

I just love this kind of pig mate.

Of course, Brother Chen would not let go of this opportunity to fall into the well, and sneered: "Before the accident, who knew that their actions would be discovered by the Zerg and they would not be able to come back?" And I think it's actually very cute, when you encounter an unlucky thing, and let future generations share the same unlucky experience, so think about it, and I feel less depressed, and even I prefer to see that when we go to a certain place, we can see a notice board that says that the outside is not a crystal but an energy cover, and it can still be worn through. ”

Brother Chen was only halfway through his words, Kennan knew that he was going to suffer, this innocuous joke was obviously able to arouse the childlike innocence of most people, and for a group of scientists who had already sacrificed, it was also more able to arouse the empathy and sympathy of others, and as soon as he finished speaking, the angry eyes that looked at him had all turned into hatred.

"I'm going to you to death." Kenan wanted to go back in time and slap Comoros in the face and tell him to shut up. After this sentence, he stopped trying to win the trust of this group of people, and his sense of existence could be blown up, but it was all negative. Because compared with ordinary people, criminals are actually more able to distinguish between good and evil, and they are more able to respect this kind of dedication that is related to the fate of all mankind.

Then, around the corner, they did come across a notice board, spraying black paint on the protective sheet taken from the back of the mechanical power armor, but it was not the kind of joke that Chen Xi said, but an instruction.

"Later, if you see this paragraph, it means that we should have hung up, but as long as you get those key contents, the location of the crystal's control room in the central area, the relevant clues and important things are also there, and they have all been packed, so please send them back."

The content is written in Morse code, and I think that the group of scientists knew the danger of this trip, and after feeling that they could not bring back these things that were important to the entire human federation, they left this reminder.

"Since everything is there, let's get in quickly." In order to prevent Chen Xi from talking about this again, Kenan quickly changed the topic.

With the instructions, many unnecessary search processes were saved, and everyone walked quickly all the way, from the lower position to the central area, and soon saw the things mentioned in the content.

There are a large number of metal components covered with three-dimensional crystals, and many metal plates with strange words written on the surface. There are a lot of things, and if they move them down, it may take more than a dozen trips to move them all.

"Looks like we're going to have to be busy."

But at this moment, all of a sudden, a continuous explosion sounded, accompanied by a violent shaking, and everyone became unsteady because of this violent shaking.

Before he could figure out what kind of attack he had suffered, an even more powerful explosion appeared.

There was a flash of blue light on the periphery, and then, they followed the huge crystal body with a diameter of more than two hundred meters, and began to fall to the ground with crystal fragments scattered all over the sky.

……

At the same time, the nearly five hundred follow-up people had already come to the periphery of this crystal building, that is, the place where Chen Xi and the others saw the light blue light at the beginning, but before they could continue to move forward, some faint vibrations came from the ground.

"Holy, could it be a nearby volcano?"

Most of them were taken aback, but immediately laughed at their overreaction.

Before coming. They had more or less read the information of Planet Tifa, and knew that earthquakes rarely occurred on this planet, which was protected by surrounding planets and larger moons, and that there were earthquakes of a relatively large magnitude caused by active volcanoes. However, it was clear that the distance of this eruption was relatively far, and after it came here, the tremors were already very weak, and only a few ground cover plants were shaking, and there was nothing wrong with the tall trees around them.

However, unlike this group of rookie criminals who had basically never dealt with the Zerg head-on, a small number of professional soldiers on the ship suddenly changed their faces. Then they all crouched on the ground and felt something. And the next moment they jumped up in terror, spread their legs and ran to other places.

Of course, these people are running on the side. On the other hand, he did not forget to remind others: "The first two hundred meters on the left." It's a tunnel bug. The position was moving rapidly towards our feet, and now it was all spread out for me to form defensive fire. Aim at the ground! "But the sound was so poignant that it almost sounded like a cry when it came from the wind.

"What! Tunnel bugs? ”

The slow reaction is still constructing the concept of a pit worm on the spot, wondering about the sudden actions of those people, but the fast reaction is already running away. In this process, no one will drag those who can't react to run with them, because they know very well that in such a fast place that has become a battlefield, helping those who don't even know the danger will only hurt themselves. Even those veterans who reacted early on, countless cases of death that should not have happened told them with cruel facts that the emergence of that kind of comradeship was never in such a situation of being raided.

Within four seconds, a terrifying catastrophe struck.

"It's out!"

With a scream, a large, rapidly rotating jagged blade emerged from where they had been standing, and as the protrusion continued to elongate, it became larger and wider. Before they could escape, they could scream before the bone blades lined up on top tore through the mechanical power armor outside, and then plunged inside, the whole thing was stirred into flesh and blood, mixed with the countless soil and gravel that kept falling, and scattered out of range.

In less than a second, a hole thirty or forty meters wide appeared in the place where most people had stood before, and at least forty or fifty people died in the blink of an eye.

"All of them, fire!"

Before the tunnel worm that had been drilled out had expanded from a form of rolling together into a long ribbon covered with bony blades, the rest of the people, led by the veterans of the Federation who had suffered a lot from this kind of thing, had already used high-speed ammunition to come up with an unprecedented fire.

Suddenly, a dense rainstorm of bullets bombarded the pit worms, crackling sparks and a large number of flying blood and flesh became everything around, and occasionally a burst bomb with special ammunition could blow up a body part half to a meter in size.

In less than a second, the tunnel worm that had previously caused massive casualties had become a tattered skeleton with little good meat left.

But no one breathed a sigh of relief, and under the command of the commander, everyone adjusted the direction of the muzzle of the gun again to the position of the hole.

"Watch out for the hole, there will be a lot of bugs coming out of there, and besides, get ready for a penetrating bullet!"

Before the words fell, the countless insects that poured out of the cave mouth like a tide became the only ones in their sight, not only the massive special insects they had seen before, but also a kind of insect with a head in the body and many sharp claws and limbs below.

This is another class of the Zerg, cockroaches, not only can they burrow into the ground to move, but also can use the powerful jumping power attached to the lower limbs to move around on the terrain with high-rise structures, and what is even more terrifying is that they belong to the long-range attack class, they have an extremely perverted body recovery ability, and the life element material stored in the fat body like a bun can repair the limbs and recover wounds in a short time, unless it is to concentrate a large amount of firepower or quickly solve it with heavy weapons, otherwise, it will only be dragged to death by their play consumption.

Used on the huge, wooded planet of Tifa, it clearly represents a bad truth.

"This is a premeditated ambush!"

The major commander shouted. At this time, two special flares were fired into the air by them at an altitude of thousands of meters, and a striking yellow smoke burst out to remind them. One shot means that there is danger of being attacked, two shots are very dangerous in the face of an unsuspecting surprise attack, and three shots are to inform others that they will retreat if their side is not good.

This is something that has been agreed upon at the beginning, but the latter is unlikely to occur. Because in the battle against the Zerg, running away is the stupidest and worst thing to do, and in the twenty-year war, countless facts have been used to prove that no ordinary soldier can escape the pursuit of a large number of bugs. Even standing shots, which are the most effective at killing, can't be blocked, and trying to survive in a mobile state is a dream.

Therefore, there are only two outcomes for them to encounter with the Zerg, either their own people will die, or not a single insect will survive in their sight.

On the other side, Chen Xi and others suffered a more serious situation.

With a loud boom, the main body of the crystal, which had fallen to the ground, was tumbling and breaking and collapsing the trees along the way, and then ploughing out traces of terrifying destruction up to two hundred meters wide on the ground. But this is not the only difficulty they are facing at the moment, how to get out of the tumbling crystal, because at this moment, there is an oversized horror guy outside the main body of the crystal.

It is more than forty meters high, more than fifty meters long, the head is topped with a triceratops-like bony shell, and the hideous collision horns that spread out on all sides are extremely terrifying, half the size of the body, covering the entire head, only the part of the mouth is exposed, and in the front and back of the mouth full of fangs and an acute angle at the tip, there is a pair of huge curved jaw horns, the scale is equally amazing, each one is more than thirty meters long, and it is constantly destroying the main part of the crystal.

The current continuous tumbling was of no use to it, in fact, except for the initial impact that fell from the sky and smashed the main body of the crystal directly, and then most of the trees were broken and cut by its shaky jaws, and it was now clinging to the main part of the crystal with its powerful lower limbs with thick cuticles, just waiting to completely destroy the huge structure.

This is the most well-known and terrifying type of ultimate ground class of the Zerg that mankind has known so far, the brute beast. (To be continued......)