126 worms
"What the fuck is this?" The Major, who had always been calm, was like a lion-headed goldfish in heat, and his two bloodshot eyes almost jumped out of their sockets.
The others were no better, stunned and dumbfounded.
The giant alien object had been blown open by the canister, and this time he controlled it well, breaking open the shell without hurting the contents inside.
I saw that the carapace more than 20 centimeters thick was divided into seven hexagonal lattices in the shape of a honeycomb, each cell was filled with an unknown liquid, and the liquid was soaked in milky white translucent something about the size of a person, which looked like a mutated extra-large insect.
It is debatable whether this thing is biologically an insect or not, but ordinary people can tell the difference between this and habitually classify it as an insect.
Five of them remained motionless, as if they had been killed, and the remaining two were slowly moving translucent arthropods in the liquid.
"Drag these two out of me, and send them out immediately!" The Major quickly regained his composure, he didn't know what it was, but the Outer Skeleton had slaughtered countless civilians just to provide nourishment for this thing.
He had a desire to destroy this thing immediately, but the human being's understanding of the Outer Bone Man was too limited, and it was definitely needed from above.
Several warriors leaned over and dragged the giant worm out of the nest with the fiber cord attached to the magnetic buckle.
The giant insect fell to the ground with its back down, splashing water and twisting violently - it was only then that everyone could get a full view of the giant worm.
At first glance, the round giant insect looks like a beetle, and its entire back is oval, but it is not divided into three segments like an insect, and the whole dorsal armor is tightly knit, like a clumsy blacksmith mistakenly beating an oval-shaped cauldron and clasping upside down on the ground.
And the legs are not stretched out of the body like the earth species, but are evenly distributed on both sides of the body like centipedes, judging by the length, all the legs are shrunk under the body, and if they lie on the ground, they will never show any of them.
If it weren't for the retractable head on one side of the oval, I'm afraid it would be difficult to distinguish the head and tail.
When the giant insect's carapace came into contact with the air, its milky white color rapidly darkened, deepening at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the translucent carapace quickly turned into a dark green hard armor.
Before everyone realized the significance of such a change, the giant worm's body suddenly shook, and it turned over from its back-shell state, and several soldiers who tied it up were not paying attention, and they were actually dragged to the ground by it.
"Tie it up!" The major yelled, and seven or eight warriors pounced at the same time, so many people, even the weight and armor weighed at least two tons, but the carapace of the giant insect could actually hold up, and they tried to shake off the warriors on their backs one by one.
"Major, you can't go on like this!" Song Qi said anxiously.
He had been in a panic in his heart, afraid that this thing was threatening.
The major immediately decided: "Cut off its leg for me!" ”
A few sabers were immediately stuffed under the body of the giant insect, and it took a lot of effort to cut it indiscriminately, even if the auxiliary power was fully opened, it took a lot of hands and feet, and finally cut off all the legs of the giant insect, even this could not reassure the major, and commanded the soldiers to come to a big tie, which was disproportionate to the body.
With the experience of the first one, the second one is easy to do, cut off the legs and feet directly in the liquid, tie the rope and pull it out.
The dead ones were not wasted, they were all made out and ready to be sent to the ground.
The major looked thoughtfully at the giant insects tied into a pile, and then at the mountains of corpses of the outer skeletons, and suddenly called the four detachment leaders to his side, and whispered: "You see, these alien mongrels don't seem to be protecting this ...... Well...... Worm fetus? He couldn't think of how to call this thing the most appropriate, and after thinking about it, he felt like a ** who was pregnant with septuplets.
Not everyone is used to being called an alien, and many people still call it an alien until now.
The eyes of several team leaders were once again focused on Ye Fei, and Ye Fei, who had fought from beginning to end, had the most say in this question.
Ye Fei felt that his qualifications were shallow, and he didn't want to open his mouth first, but the reality made him have to speak first: "Encounter this, uh, before the worm fetus, the battle has been very easy, but after arriving here, the outer bone mongrels suddenly all appeared." He didn't say yes or no, he only talked about the process of fighting, although he wanted others to judge for themselves.
"You kid." The Major smiled knowingly, "Whatever these bugs are for, it's not a good thing. I suspected that there were other worms in the cave, so I left two people to watch the worms and wait for the engineering team to move them while the others moved on. ”
"Yes!"
The soldiers immediately took action, because the other three detachments were all fully loaded, even the one who withdrew was replaced with a new armor and rushed back, only Ye Fei's subordinates were scattered, and the task of staying behind was undoubtedly handed over to Ye Fei.
Ye Fei briefly thought about it for a while, and ordered the veterinarian, scissors and monkey's will.
The veterinarian and the monkey accepted the order without objection, but the scissors were in a state of flux and did not want to stay here and watch the bugs.
Ye Fei can't say anything, he has his own reasons - the veterinarian knows the outer bone man best, and it is natural to stay, the scissors have the most outstanding visual power, and it is perfect to cooperate with the veterinarian, and the monkey is to supplement the strength.
There are only two people, and the strength is too thin.
The jar is good at blasting, and when it comes to insect fetus, the black bear's firepower is not only needed by Ye Fei, but also by several other detachments.
The team set off quickly, and before leaving, Ye Fei quietly told the veterinarian and scissors, and retreated immediately once there was danger, no matter how important these broken insects were, they couldn't compare to their own brothers.
The brigade disappeared into the depths of the cave, leaving behind the ubiquitous emergency lights that illuminated most of the cave.
The two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, chatting with each other. Only the two of them were guarding a large pile of corpses of the outer skeletons, and suddenly there was a strange feeling of a grave keeper in the middle of the night. After a while, the two of them didn't know what to talk about, and the veterinarian germinated and hit the idea on the giant worm again.
Scissors is too lazy to care about him, as long as he doesn't move the two alive, whatever the veterinarian tosses - Scissors has always thought that the veterinarian's knife technique is not like a doctor, but more like a second chef in a hotel...... Still not a monk.
The cave system is unusually large, with many forks in the road. The major did not want to commit the taboo of dividing the troops, so he always followed the thick "blood vessels", and sealed the fork in the road with bombs and mines, so as not to accidentally be copied by the outer skeleton people.
Ye Fei and the only two remaining subordinates became the followers of the major, and there were other detachments in front of them.
After zigzag forward three or four hundred meters, the team found another worm fetus, and there were many outer skeletons guarding it, but the number was much less, and only two Gatlings were used to solve the battle.
This time, the major didn't want to ask for more specimens, so he directly ordered the jar to blow up the worm fetus.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and then went down the blood vessels, and the blood vessels actually led into a puddle of water.
The commandos were not frogmen, but at the Major's order, everyone plunged into the water without hesitation - with armor, they could go in the water and fire!