Chapter Twenty-Eight: Evacuation Blocked
Obviously, these alien creatures are not what they know, these bugs are not exactly sapient creatures, and their goals are very clear - to kill, devour, evolve.
However, none of the humans in the Kprushi region are aware of this.
Mar Lhasa, northern Akilo Plain, 16:44 local time.
There is an extremely rich vein of silica crystals, which is one of the top five of the 86 crystal mines in Mar Lhasa, but the miners here have all died, and this mine is also occupied by the Zerg, no one knows that these insects are going to occupy this place, is there anything they want here? But there is nothing living here except the glittering silica and earth.
In the sky above this mine, a giant creature left a terrifying huge projection on the ground, this creature was like a giant jellyfish, countless giant tentacles fell limply, its back was covered with two rows of hideous and terrifying curved bone sickles, these white sharp teeth were like a giant scythe stuck in its back, and the main body of this giant creature bulged out on both sides of two bloated unknown materials, like lumps and cysts, and exuded a sickly purple color.
His head seemed huge to outsiders, but it was much smaller than its entire large body, and if you didn't look closely, it thought it was one of the tentacles, its head had two main eyes and six other compound eyes, and its mouth was covered with canine teeth and sticky with disgusting purple mucus, which would flow from time to time.
This giant creature is the "king bug".
This alien creature has a keen sense and a not-so-remarkable intelligence, and it serves as a messenger to coordinate other alien creatures in battle, which is the main purpose of its existence.
And the ability of the king worm is by no means the only one.
The king worm suspended above the mine moved slowly, such a behemoth, it had no wings and no other flying tools, how it was suspended in the air, and could still move, this will always be a mystery.
At this moment, two sickly purple cysts on its main body suddenly began to wriggle, and it became faster and faster.
In the next second, a purple substance erupted from its mouth, and these disgusting substances instantly enveloped the entire surface of the mine.
This is a purple fungus blanket, it contains an incomparably rich organic biomass, most of the time, the Zerg is to devour this organic biomass to maintain life activities, this is also an organic life, it is alive.
The king insect in the air frantically spitted out this substance, this disgusting purple substance was like a waterfall spraying out of the mouth of the king worm, and the fungus blanket on the ground quickly began to spread, in which the tiny blood vessels were pulsating, and emitted purple rays, these fungus blankets began to penetrate, devouring the minerals on the surface, and then growing rapidly, and then spreading again.
Five minutes later, a creature the size of a jumping worm slowly came to the fungus blanket, this is a worker bee, the gene sequence in this organism has the ability to break the group, in short, the gene sequence of this kind of alien gene is not stable, their gene sequence can be recombined to mutate into a variety of different organisms, the premise is that it needs enough biomass to mutate.
I saw the worker bee crawl to a central point on the fungus blanket, and then remained motionless, and the next moment, the purple fungus blanket began to spread, and then wrapped the worker bee, and the worker bee's genes began to be broken, and then began to mutate, so that the worker bee also died.
The new genetic sequence is recombined, it frantically devours the biomass on the fungus blanket, it begins to thrive, its growth speed is terrifying, its body wrapped in the fungus blanket is expanding with a speed visible to the naked eye, expanding, it is frantically devouring the organic biomass in the fungus blanket, and the speed of devouring is getting faster and faster with its growth.
A few more king worms floated in the air, their sickly purple air sacs wriggling, and then the fungus blanket began to pour frantically down from their mouths, all of which spilled onto the growing giant creature on the ground. In just three hours, its body has changed from the size of a worker bee to the body of a king insect that can now levitate in the air, and, looking at this situation, it is still growing rapidly, and it is still getting bigger, and its huge body is like a giant purple heart, beating frequently.
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Backwater base.
"We need to evacuate this planet, it's full of bugs, don't even think about taking Mar Lhasa!" Frank's voice was a little muffled.
They have successfully reached the backwater base, which has also been violently attacked by the insect swarm, and the two main intersections have been filled with the corpses of bugs, but they are still pouring in endlessly, the backwater base is certainly easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if the bugs' worm sea tactics continue, it is only a matter of time before they are lost, and it seems that they have no intention of stopping.
"We have to evacuate Mar Lhasa!" Kellygen said helplessly, it is impossible to stop the ferocious attack of the swarm with three capital ships and this ground force alone.
"I'm going to inform the high-orbit capital ship that we need to board the ship!" Kelly Root immediately turned on the communicator to communicate with the fleet in outer space.
"This is the Reagan!" The main panel of the communicator shows the bridge and captain of the USS Reagan.
"Captain! We need to evacuate the surface, you send a transport plane to pick it up, the inhabitants will leave with us, we need more transport planes! It is better to send a transport ship to the surface. Kelligan said that all the transport planes at Backwater Base had been dispatched to the colonies for evacuation operations.
"We have detected that there are many groups of Zerg in the planet's atmosphere, these creatures are extremely aggressive, they can even cause damage to capital ships, they can also leave the upper atmosphere and enter outer space, they must be eliminated to ensure safe boarding!" With that, the captain transmitted the image they had detected to the backwater base, and the creature unfolded a pair of red, blood-colored bone wings in a "T" shape.
"It's an alien dragon!" Frank recognized it at a glance. These terrifying creatures are simply demons in the sky, they are velociraptors in the sky, they fly even faster than warplanes, and their maneuverability is even stronger than ghost fighters. This creature will shoot out one or more blade worms from its tail to strike air or ground troops, blade worms are extremely violent symbiotes, after breaking away from the allosaurus, they will quickly collapse into multiple pieces and splash at the enemy, and have high strength and corrosiveness, if the defense line is not strong enough or the number of attacking dragons is large, then it will basically face a terrible situation of total destruction.
"What are you going to do? Captain! Kellygan was silent for a moment and said.
"We've got to get rid of these aerial aliens before we're sending a transport plane to pick you up. You must not be in the air until these creatures are removed! The captain solemnly warned.
"Got it!" Kelly Root ended the communication.
"A tough battle is inevitable! I need to deploy to prevent these things! Frank paused for a moment before leaving the command center.
"Start the prevention and control battery! The SCV repaired the damaged anti-aircraft tower as soon as possible, sent some people to refine the new prevention and control battery components, and built new prevention and control batteries around the main intersections on both sides and the fourth, sixth, and seventh districts and the command center as quickly as possible.
The Ghost Fighters are all in place, ready to wait for the threat from the air! ”
After the deployment, Frank came to the front line, the soldiers armed with electromagnetic rifles did not hesitate whether the bullets would be wasted, and there were dozens of SCVs on both sides of the road nervously setting up temporary bunkers.
Heavy firepower siege tanks were deployed on the 321 heights, and the output of these ** firepower relieved the great pressure on the marines guarding the intersection.
Renault found Frank on the front line, "We're going to lay so much prevention and control equipment?" He was puzzled that it was better to use this energy to focus on striking alien troops on the ground.
"Beware of the oncoming monsters in the air!" Frank quickly unloaded a magazine, and his vitality output alone could almost top five Marines.
"You mean... How many of these aliens can fly? Renault looked at the other with a look of surprise.
"Answer correctly, but no reward." He looked at Heights 321, "Go over there and build a few prevention and control batteries, and go there as soon as possible." "There is no room for fire in this place.
"How many locals haven't made it to Backwater?" Frank asked, he was very worried that the transports full of people would not be intercepted by the allosaurs, which was terrible news.
"There are not enough transport planes, and we can only transport them back and forth in batches, and more than 200,000 people have safely arrived at the backwater base, but there are still tens of thousands of people waiting for rescue." Renault had been keeping an eye on the people of the colonies, so it was now clear to him that at least half of the people on Mar Sala had died in these xenomorph attacks, and that none of the three weakly defended colonies survived the Zerg army's breach of the line.
"Damn! Look at this jiashi, those aerial aliens are definitely no worse than the ones on the ground! Will the people of the colony be able to arrive safely? Renault looked worried, "Let's hope they're lucky!" ”
……
Several waves of transport planes had already arrived in the nine colonies with survivors.
"Quick! The transporter is coming! Move fast! It's zuihou in waves, we can evacuate! ”
This colony Zuihou was all boarded by a wave of people, and with their departure, it was instantly occupied by the Zerg, and they also traveled around the colony, trying to find some living creatures, but there were no living creatures here except them.
Upper atmosphere.
"Whew! Shout! Shout! ”
Three transport planes full of local people shuttled through the white clouds side by side, a strong sonic boom echoed in the space, and the speed of the transport planes was very fast, and it fled away in an instant. In the next second, the shadows of more than a dozen creatures shuttled through this cloud, and their flight speed was simply terrifying, even faster than the transport plane in front.
It was a group of dragons, and the three transport planes full of people were targeted by them, and they were shuttling through the clouds at high speed, and the three transport planes in front of them were getting closer and closer, and they were completely unaware of it.
(To be continued....)
(PS: Now I have to revise the first few chapters of Volume 2!) What a bitterness! But tomorrow it will start to erupt! Sorry, sailors! )