Chapter 049: Beast's Lair?
While Maier followed the bald Lee and pretended to be a secret businessman, Hao Yi was leaning boredly on a rough rock, watching the POWs mechanically dig for the cheap ore.
He had no worries about whether Meier would be able to convince the bald Lee, for although he had only been here for two days, he knew the plight of the prisoners of war. Once there is hope to escape from the sea of suffering, even if this hope is slim, Haoyi dares to guarantee that any ordinary prisoner of war will be moved, not to mention that the bald Li is not a simple character.
The marines who were supervising them next to them only glanced at Haoyi from time to time when they saw Haoyi being "lazy", but they did not "run away" because of this. If other prisoners of war had dared to be so blatantly lazy, perhaps the guards would have pounced on him with their teeth and claws and rewarded him with a violent beating.
Obviously, Haoyi's "identity" made him enjoy different treatment invisibly.
"Clank, smack!" Watching the prisoners of war wield old-fashioned tools such as worn-out pickaxes in their hands, digging into the unusually hard ore layer at once, Hao Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
In an era when technology is so advanced, it is clear that people are mining in such an ancient and inefficient way, which is a physical perverted torture of prisoners of war. I don't know which vicious person could come up with such a bad way to deal with these poor prisoners of war. Haoyi even had the urge to pull it out and throw it into the insect nest to feed the ugly larvae.
But even if he was so indignant in his heart, it was more of a helplessness.
This is the real society, where the weak eat the strong, and the king loses. The victor can often have many reasons to abuse and destroy the so-called "enemy" he has defeated as he pleases. However, at the very least, the Union army is not yet blatantly "killed", which may be the reason why these prisoners of war willingly engage in this kind of perverted labor that is meaningless to them.
Inadvertently thinking of the alien insect, Hao Yi suddenly remembered the jumping insect he encountered in his hometown of Laidian Town, and the strange roar he heard in the prisoner of war camp the night before.
According to Meier, since about a month or two ago, the valley where the POW camp is located has heard the occasional strange roar late every night. The roar was very strange, it was not the roar of any familiar animal at all, unlike tigers and jackals, and any kind of animal beast known to man would not let out such a low roar that made people palpitate.
And this strange roar is quite familiar to Hao Yi, who has all the information about the insect in his mind. He knew that this palpitating roar must have come from some kind of alien worm, and maybe even the queen of the alien nest.
Obviously, this nameless mountainous area is also shrouded in the shadow of the terror of insects. God knows when, the insects will pounce on the unsuspecting humans with their claws and bloody mouths. In addition to his own reasons, this is also an important reason why Haoyi wanted to encourage Maier and other prisoners of war to escape from prison en masse.
Out of the idea that he didn't want the prisoners of war to be too afraid, Haoyi did not disclose these things to Maier and others. Of course, the main reason is that Hao Yi didn't know how to explain to them the kind of extraterrestrial zerg that they had never seen before, which was extremely brutal and bloody.
"I hope it's still time!" Looking at the busy prisoners of war in a daze, Hao Yi subconsciously recited a sentence in his heart.
"Ah, what the hell is this?"
However, at this moment, the surprised cry of a prisoner of war interrupted Haoyi's thoughts. Like a thunderbolt, the exclamation of the prisoner of war immediately caused a commotion in the crowd. Hao Yi was shocked, and hurriedly got up with some difficulty, and squeezed through the crowd to the prisoner of war who was facing a hole the size of a basin with a stunned face.
There was a sticky reddish-brown thing left on the edge of the small hole, sticky like the internal organs of some animal, and a fishy and disgusting smell wafted faintly from the depths of the dark hole.
"I'm X!" When he saw the strange hole, Hao Yi's heart couldn't help but chuckle, and his face suddenly changed and he scolded in a voice. That viscous liquid layer Haoyi had also seen it when he was in Melsa. It was none other than the outer nest blanket used by the insects to occupy territory. Once it appears, it means that the nest of the insect is not far from here.
"What the hell, what the hell?" A bold prisoner of war gently scratched off a fungus blanket with a pickaxe in his hand, held it to his nose and sniffed it, then threw it on the ground with a frown, and muttered: "It smells so bad on dog days, it can't be that beast that doesn't have long eyes pooping here, right?" ”
......At this moment, a low roar followed the disgusting smell from the depths of the hole, and the prisoners gathered in front of the cave were stunned for a while.
"Quick, get out of here!" Haoyi, who was awakened, changed his face again, and hurriedly shouted to the prisoners of war. While shouting, Haoyi hurriedly pushed away the crowded prisoners of war beside him, signaling them to hurry away from the hole.
"What are you afraid of? Isn't it the lair of some beast? The daring prisoner of war stabbed the broken hole with his manuscript in disdain, and muttered disdainfully. The other prisoners of war also looked at Hao Yi's strange behavior with blank expressions, as if they all felt that Hao Yi was a little "timid".
"Damn, if you're not afraid of death, just stay there!" Hao Yi was suddenly angry and anxious, but he didn't know how to explain to these prisoners of war, so he stomped his foot and threw down a vicious threat, and hurriedly squeezed through the crowd to run towards the entrance of the mine.
Probably frightened by Hao Yi's cruel words, or out of trust in Hao Yi, some of the prisoners of war began to follow Hao Yi and threw down the tools in their hands and rushed out.
"What to do, what to do! Don't want to work anymore? Look for death! The marines who were supervising them in the distance saw a crowd surging out, hurriedly waved their assault rifles in their hands to stop in the middle of the road, and shouted loudly.
"Sir, this mine is not safe, can we change the mine to work!" Seeing this, Haoyi's heart moved, and he hurriedly smiled at the head of the guards and said.
"No, go back to work right away! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will be unkind to you! The small leader's angry voice came from the loudspeaker outside the CMC armor, and the eight-millimeter black muzzle of the spike rifle immediately touched Hao Yi's nose.
"Woohoo......" At that moment, another low roar came from the broken hole behind him. Then there was a faint tremor coming from the ground, which seemed to be the movement of some kind of large animal as it ran.
"Sir, it's too late! There's a man-eating monster in there! This sudden change startled the prisoners of war and the marines present to look at each other for a while. Hao Yi was even more anxious, and in a panic, he pointed to the wormhole behind him that was inadvertently dug by the prisoners of war, said a loud word, and then squeezed through the thin human wall composed of several marines without saying anything, and ran quickly out of the cave.
Haoyi didn't want to face those brutal insects in his current state. He can't use even a little superpower on his body, and he is also trapped by this strange set of torture instruments, once he encounters a strange insect, then he can only wait for death.
Haoyi's actions immediately caused a chain reaction. Although they didn't know what kind of man-eating monster Hao Yi was talking about, out of fear of unknown threats and instinct for survival, the rioted prisoners of war immediately crowded over the wall of the marines and ran out of the cave with Hao Yi.
"What's wrong?" Haoyi just ran a few steps, and two figures bumped into him, and it was the two Maier who went to the secret business outside the cave under the pretext of going out.
"It's too late, let's run out first!" Haoyi hurriedly pushed Maier to turn around, motioning for him to follow him out.
"Da Da Da!" At this moment, there was a sudden burst of gunfire behind him, and the crowd of prisoners of war who were rushing out suddenly froze, and they looked back in amazement, and saw that the muzzle of the rifle in the hand of the Marine leader towards the top of the mine was faintly emitting a puff of green smoke.
"It's all fucking to Lao Tzu zhanzhu! No one is allowed to leave their jobs without an order! For a while, only the little leader was heard roaring angrily in the mine: "Whoever dares to run out of this mine for a single step, don't blame the old men for not having long eyes!" The tail of the word "ah" of the "little leader" dragged on for a long time, probably because he was irritated by the inexplicable "**" of the prisoners of war. With his vicious threat, the marines guarding the exit of the mine raised their rifles in unison and aimed them at the frozen prisoners of war, and the sound of pulling the bolt of the gun was clearly heard in the mine.
"Old eight, old ten, go over and see what the hell is going on!" Seeing that the POWs were stunned by themselves, the little leader softened his tone and waved his hand to point out the two Marines and motioned for them to check what was going on with the strange hole.
"Boom, boom!" However, just as the two Marines stepped forward with their rifles in their arms, the tremors from the ground became more and more obvious, and some gravel powder fell from the bottom of the mine to the heads of the prisoners of war. The movement like a landslide made the faces of the prisoners of war turn pale one by one.
"I'm X, looking for death, them!" Turning around and looking at the black muzzle in the hands of the platoon of marines, Hao Yi's heart was anxious, and he gritted his teeth and whispered a curse.
"What's going on? Is there any monster? Maier, who was also pale, saw Haoyi's anxious face, vaguely guessed something, and asked urgently.
"Boom!" Before Hao Yi could respond, there was a sudden sound of a heavy object hitting the cave wall behind the hole, and the hole, which was originally only the size of a basin, suddenly flew with rubble and suddenly expanded.
"Bang-bang!" The two Marines who had been ordered to check on were also startled by the movement, and were hesitating whether to shoot at the cracked hole, when suddenly there was a loud noise, and among the rocks, a huge black shadow like a calf, mixed with a foul smell, roared out of the large hole that shattered, and suddenly knocked the two stunned Marines to the ground.
"Woohoo...... The entire cavern was filled with the sound of a terrifying roar......