Chapter 12: The Meeting

In this spacious cavern, his back against the wall, his shotgun vigilantly in his hand. He had a terrible cut on his arm and multiple abrasions on his body, but he still stood and clung to his firearm.

But the two group members who were on the Zuihou side were not so lucky, they were on the Zuihou side of the team, and they were the first two people to directly face the bugs. At this moment, the two veterans were lying in this spacious cave, their land armor as fragile as chopping vegetables under the scythe, and one of them was particularly badly wounded, the soldier named Erwin had lost an arm, a large hole in his chest was cracked, and blood was constantly spurting from the large hole in his chest. A throbbing worm cut off one of his arms to stop him from shooting, and then pierced him in the chest by the way, allowing him to get here alive because his heart was not hurt in his chest, and because the cardiotonic was working.

"Commander!" Manness's voice rang in his ears, and Frank looked sideways, holding a white cloth and a syringe filled with medicine, "You need to bandage it, and this is a heart booster." Manise added.

“xiexie！” Frank barely managed to squeeze out a smile and took the object from her hand, he took the drugged cloth and bandaged himself at the largest wound on his right arm, and then injected a cardiotonic into his left arm, the effect of which was quickly apparent.

"Commander! I guess we've been exposed, what's next? Manise approached him and asked for the next command.

"You're right." Frank said and nodded, "Then it doesn't matter, anyway. At least we don't have to be sneaky now. ”

"In that case." He pulled the trigger from the gun in his hand and loaded the bullet as he heard the same sounds from the group around him. "Corporal. Gather the brethren now, and it's time for us to go. He looked at Manise, then turned his attention to the path ahead. Manise meticulously carried out his orders.

"Report! Sir! ”

It was loud and everyone could hear it clearly. "Say!" Manise's voice followed.

"Els's injuries are serious, I'm afraid he won't last long."

Frank immediately put away his gun and walked towards the source of the sound, he saw the badly wounded team member, he had lost an arm, the armor in his chest had been torn open and bloody, his face was extremely pale, he was shivering in a cold sweat, he was lying on the edge of the cave wall. Another member of the team was beside him and helped him.

"Soldier" Frank crouched down.

"Sir!" Els struggled to squeeze out two words, the effect of the cardiotonic was weakening, but he endured the severe pain, and his words made cold sweat break out on his forehead, "Sir! Do you still have K-2 bombs? He asked.

"Yes!" Frank just said one word succinctly.

"Please give me one, sir! I'm coming to the back of the temple. Els struggled to speak, but he still stared at him. The members present were gloomy for a while, and everyone understood what he meant, obviously. He knew where he was and if he continued to follow the team, he would be a burden to the squad as a member of the Rangers. As a veteran who survived the "union war", he would rather die than be the one who dragged down the team, which is a personal obsession.

"Sir!" Erwin said again, every word he spoke. Every word was going to take a heavy blow, and one of his eyes stared straight at him.

"Agreed! Soldier! Frank held on to his remaining arm, the armored arm long since it had been removed. A small black piece like an electric plate appeared in the soldier's hand, it was the K-2 bomb, "Will it be used?" Soldier! Frank said. Erwin nodded forcefully, and the K-2 bomb was held tightly by him.

He didn't have too much of a fight, and the next moment, Frank immediately got up and shouted, "Forward!" "The entire team, except for Erwin, immediately disappeared into this spacious cave.

"The glory of dying is also a well-deserved death." Erwin muttered to himself as he looked at the vanishing ranks. He casually saw a cigarette and a lighter beside him, and Erwin's face couldn't help but smile a little, he knew that it must have been left for him by his best friend Jonathan, because only he knew what brand he liked to smoke.

Time passed little by little, and Erwin already felt that he was dying, and finally, from another part of the cave came the roar of a beast, to be exact, it was the sound of jumping insects, they had cut through the buried tunnel, and were rushing wildly, their speed, Elwin knew it all too well.

On the other side, Frank's keen intuition sensed the danger coming from behind him, and the whole team immediately stopped, and after a while, the others also felt it, it was a sound coming from behind, it was the roar of insects, and the two soldiers in the back immediately turned their guns, and the whole team tensed their nerves.

In the spacious cavern, Erwin reluctantly lit a flame with a cigarette in his mouth, and then he took a deep breath, and in addition to the roar of insects in his ears, there was also the sound of "dripping". The next moment, a jumping insect leaped into the spacious cavern, its hideous upper and lower rows of canines mixed with saliva, a pair of scarlet eyes like flames, two sharp bone scythes on its back that could easily tear apart the combat armor of marines, and a pair of almost transparent wings on its back, like the wings of a dragonfly. This is a strengthened jumping worm, which is larger, stronger, and faster, especially with the blessing of two pairs of wings. It didn't pounce on it immediately, but hovered back and forth in front of him, which was more terrifying than immediately pounced and killed the other party, as if it was releasing its fear and letting the shadows hang over it.

Erwin exhaled lightly, his face showing a hint of enjoyment, and then he focused his gaze on the bug, "Do you like it?" Ugly! Take it if you like it! Erwin said, and then he flicked his finger, and the cigarette butt in his hand flicked to its head, it seemed to be instantly enraged by Erwin's action, and the next moment it suddenly roared, and a pair of tentacles nearly thirty centimeters long trembled straight and powerfully, and it pounced frantically towards him, and at the same time, a large wave of insects poured into the spacious cavern, followed by an earth-shattering loud noise.

The strong vibration quickly sent back to the surrounding area, and all the members of Frank's team felt the strong vibration from behind, and the roar of the bugs was drowned out by the sound of collapse.

Frank didn't say a word, he took another step and continued on his way, and Manise immediately gave a drink to the crowd, and everyone was up to action again.

They came to a fork in the road, which could be walked on both sides, and Frank paused as he stood at the fork in the road, "this way," he told his men, and then walked to the left, the message of the dream tugging at him, drawing him closer and closer to her, and his feeling became stronger and stronger, and he felt that he should not be far from where she was.

The whole insect-woven web is like a labyrinth that cannot be reached by entrances and exits, one by one, they twist and circle, extending in any direction, Frank relies on the guidance and intuition of dreams to pass through one fork after another, believing in dreams, and choosing the side with the strongest intuition.

During this time, they encountered several waves of insect swarms, each of which was a small team attack, and Frank judged that this was because of the narrow corridor, which made it impossible for the Zerg to open up a huge envelope formation, and his troops quickly dealt with the attacking insects. But it is not without a cost. Peter, who survived the first attack, was unscathed in the second attack, and the third as well, but in the third attack he was attacked by a jumping worm that suddenly emerged from the hole wall in the center of the group, and he was injured in the middle of the group, and the bone sickle of the jumping worm pierced his skull and his head, and the other soldier was cut in two by several jumping worms, and then he was torn into a blur of flesh and blood.

The Zerg attack in small detachments is constrained by the narrow winding tunnels, and these caves are naturally generated, with no signs of being modified by the Zerg or anything else. There were six people left in the group, and they walked and stopped, twisting and turning in the sharp corners of the knife, and disappeared in a ribbon at the end of sight. The corridors in the insect-woven web are unpredictable, and it is only a matter of a moment that they go from being as wide as a road to being as narrow as a corridor. The occasional cracks and caverns in the ground lead them into one other "level" after another, but there are also many deadly traps within these crevices or caverns. Fortunately, there is Frank, who has a keen eye and is able to avoid many pitfalls.

In this way, he led them further into the insect-woven ground web.

"There is an enemy!" Frank paused suddenly, and the other team members immediately alerted, they came to another fork in the road, this is not a three-way crossing, there are five or six small lanes on both sides of the main road, the deeper they go, the more lanes there are with insect nets, and his intuition tells him that he is getting closer and closer to Kellygan's location.

"Jim? How do you get the news? Frank said suddenly, and after a while, Renault's surprised voice came from the communicator on his ear, "Is there a signal?" Can you receive a signal? Where are you? ”

"I suspect it's near you, I found you, but you didn't find us, so communicate first to avoid accidental injury." Frank said.

(To be continued...... ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― (One more today!) (To be continued......)