Chapter 774: Fierce
It doesn't get much scarier than that.
Du Tianhao only felt cold hands and feet. He was well aware that the wall could be arguably the most trustworthy foundation for the entire defensive force. Once this defense is breached, or a bottom-up slope appears outside, it means that the swarm of Tyranid insects outside, which is as dense as the sea, can easily break through and kill everyone, including himself, without any obstacles.
"Grenade! Everyone throws grenades there, the more the better, and blast all these corpses from under the wall! ”
Du Tianhao roared like madness, while dodging a bug that pounced in mid-air, its spiky tail was pumping horizontally towards his throat. Without having time to think about it, Du Tianhao wielded the chainsaw sword, and under the action of the high-speed engine, the steel sawtooth turned its fangs again, with a sharp and piercing whistle, directly penetrating into the carapace of the worm, it suddenly let out a piercing scream, and a large area of light gray biological slime splashed in the air, and then a cloud of rotten flesh and bone fragments that were far removed by the rotating sawtooth.
The sinners heard Du Tianhao's words, so they threw their fragmentation grenades over the breastwork, trying to collapse the mountain of flesh and blood. The powerful grenade had its intended effect, and piles of corpses were lifted high by the blast energy and flew in different directions. The stumps of the dead were flying in the air, as well as various organs in the bodies of the bugs.
An eye hung on Du Tianhao's chest. He picked up the orb with a small amount of tissue and blood with his fingers, stared at it for a few seconds, and then pinched it with all his might.
To saw Marshall standing on the wall, grabbing the barrel of his laser rifle and swinging it from side to side like a club, smashing the rushing creatures down the wall. There was plenty of ammunition in the defensive area, and Marshall obviously didn't have time to reload the magazine, so he simply used the weapon as a club. Admittedly, this approach has worked very well. Looking at this guy who is said to like to use other men's buttocks, especially the old man's buttocks, as an entrance, Du Tianhao feels like he is watching the performance of professional players in the professional baseball game of the United States. Marshall slammed the bugs that swooped down on the top of the wall as baseballs. Also thanks to the laser rifle of good quality and exceptionally hard. The bugs that were hit by the butts of their guns would let out a terrible scream and then crash to the ground like the ball in a home run that flew far beyond the rule line.
I don't know which bastard threw another grenade and exploded. Caught off guard, Du Tianhao only felt a lot of damp dirt falling on him from behind. He subconsciously reached out and wiped it, and found that his neck and shoulders were covered with blood-soaked mud. Then, it was as if something had collapsed in the direction where Marshall was. Then there was a grenade, another explosion, and the pile of corpses exploded in the direction of the outside of the wall, scattered on the ground.
At the base of the wall, only pools of blood were left.
The bugs retreated. They left the wall and looked for a new way to attack. But it didn't end there, as another group of creatures rushed towards the frantically scheming criminals at the top of the wall. It's blazing fast, unexpected, and even incredible. On the ground, some swift insects with strong hind legs like fleas appeared. They began to accelerate, almost flying over the scattered corpses, jumping directly over the top of the wall, and landing into the courtyard beneath the wall. The danger of this kind of ghost thing was obvious, Du Tianhao desperately pulled the trigger despite his shouting, quickly replacing one energy magazine after another, and everyone was doing their best to shoot these swift insects before they rushed to the wall. The stormy lasers were very dense, creating an effective death barrier in front of the position. But there were too many insects, and they jumped towards this direction without fear of death. In the end, twenty or thirty alien swiftworms came to the wall. They stopped there for less than half a second, and Du Tianhao saw that the insects contracted the powerful muscles on their hind limbs, and then bounced away, flying over the city wall at a height of more than two or three feet, and the four deadly knife-like front claws stretched out in front of them fiercely, swinging down in the air.
Suddenly, the guards on the top of the wall let out an extremely painful scream.
The insect kept its claws through Marshall's shoulder, piercing it alive. Marshall, with his reddened eyes and screaming with all his might, grabbed the creature's forelimbs with one hand and jerked it to his chest. It took him almost all of his strength, and the Swiftworm's hook tore off a chunk of flesh from Marshall's shoulder. It was indeed a big piece, Du Tianhao saw this scene, and estimated that the area of the skin and flesh was at least more than half a square meter, and even the shoulder blades of Bai Sensen on his back were exposed.
Marshall went completely berserk. With his other hand, he pulled out a needle from his lower back, bit off the gum sleeve of the needle with his teeth, and plunged the needle into his stomach, injecting all the liquid into it.
This is a military distribution item unique to the 13th Punishment Regiment. This is a violent drug, which is extremely damaging to the brain and body, and can even cause cerebral palsy and complete blockage of the central nervous system, leading the whole person to become an idiot, or simply a waste person who is permanently incapacitated. But its effect is just as obvious, in the most dangerous times, it can make the injector generate incredible ferocious strength and spiritual conviction, and transform from a weak person into a humanoid monster more powerful than a savage ape-man. This effect usually lasts for five minutes and no more than six minutes at most.
Both of Marshall's eyes turned completely blood-red. He put his arm tightly on the throat of another swiftworm that was about to rush past him, and then shouted, and jumped under the wall, taking the two xenomorphs with him. The overwhelming insect suddenly overwhelmed Marshall, and he completely lost his sense of pain, turning into a machine that relied on biological instincts. Everyone saw it: Marshall's body was covered with at least dozens of bugs of different forms. But he was undaunted, smashing his fists, spoaching with his feet, opening his mouth and biting with his teeth, using all kinds of primitive and savage movements against these aliens.
Eventually, a particularly strong sickle sliver shaved off Marshall's skull with its claws. From behind, Marshall looked like his hat had suddenly been taken off, and he was suddenly a head shorter. With the last of his strength and consciousness, he grabbed the sickle worm's claws with both hands, snapped them off, and opened his mouth to bite off the ugly monster's throat.
Du Tianhao couldn't care about greeting others. A sharp claw with jagged teeth swung towards his thigh from the side, but Du Tianhao's chainsaw sword was one step ahead of the claw, sawing the carapace forelimb off fiercely. Du Tianhao felt that he had gone crazy, and instinctively pulled out his pistol and shot through the one on the left side of the insect's red glass eyes. Then, writhing all over, it fell from the top of the wall.
The battle that followed turned into a vague daymare. It was filled with constant cuts, slashes, stabs, and screams of pain that would never stop kicking, shooting, and never stopping. Beast-like faces and scorching breaths, oncoming claws, biting fangs, blood, viscera, and severed arms were everywhere on the pavement, from imaginable objects to real biological fragments. There were no more biological samples than here, and even the most discerning Imperial researcher could find any test material he wanted on this extremely rich battlefield. Everyone didn't have a break, so they kept fighting. Until the arm becomes extremely heavy due to fatigue, until the brain is so stuck and numb that it can no longer process any signals. Everyone just fights on instinct and nothing else. Even talking and breathing became a luxury.
To Tianhao began to understand Nikolai. Those words that Cage had said to himself in his mental consciousness.
He had never heard of the name of the "Grilynd IV" space before, and he didn't know exactly what was going on. But as long as you look here, look at the eyes, you will understand that any place that has experienced the Zerg war will become extremely tragic and bloody.
The Zerg's offensive momentum finally slowed down, and this time the attack was firmly blocked. As the Tyranid creatures receded from the desolate plains, a weary cheer began around the gatehouse and spread rapidly throughout the defensive positions.
This is the preserve of survivors. Everyone is using this way to show that Lao Tzu is not dead. At the very least, the mouth retains its most basic language functions.
To was perhaps the only one who remained silent.
He allowed his sinners to cheer with the crowd, not wanting to speak or dissuade. Although he believes that there is nothing to celebrate now. This does not mean being able to survive the next battle. "Luck" has always been a rare thing, and since it is given to you for the first time, it is difficult, or even impossible to give you a second time.
Otherwise, man ceases to be a human being, but becomes a god himself.
Du Tianhao felt an indescribable sour numbness surging up on his body. This is the after-effects of high tension and fierce fighting. He rummaged through his backpack and took out two tablets of neuro-release hormones. A criminal soldier next to him handed over the kettle very timely, and Du Tianhao chewed the pill very hard before swallowing it. Soon, a faint sense of relaxation began to wander inside the body, and the brain became clear and calm.
It is said that this pill was extracted from the corpses of Tyranid bugs. While this fact is disgusting, its products work very well.
The horror and despair of almost being killed by the abuse insects before began to slowly crawl out of Du Tianhao's fresh memory. It's definitely not a pleasant thing to do, and it's mixed in with too many gory images of other sinners when they die. Du Tianhao stood up from the blood-soaked wall and began to walk around, hoping to find something different to fill the holes of cruelty and madness in his head, forcing himself not to think about how close he was to death this time.
There are many things that can be done: sorting out ammunition and corpses, concentrating the bodies of the dead, and moving infantry fighting vehicles to other important areas...... Oh, and those battle nuns.
Hell, why did Lao Tzu think of their white and smooth butts and thighs again? Those women are not easy to mess with, and they are far more powerful than Tuke's old woman's wife, who has a strong ability to absorb her lower body. Hell, there has never been such a terrible place on earth. Lao Tzu must have come by mistake, I must still be sleeping and not waking up. Where is Gao Liquan? Where is the Pyramid Ship?
Just as all kinds of crazy and chaotic thoughts were turning in my mind, Du Tianhao and I saw the colonel walking towards here from the other side of the passage. His face was still as grim as usual, Du Tianhao, no, it should be Nikolai. Cage, never saw even a smile on his rocky face.
"Cage, take your men and clean up the bodies in the passageway, I'm going to send a flamethrower team to clean up the walls now. Those bugs are too dirty and too many. The next time they come, they must not be left with any offensive convenience. ”
With that, the colonel walked away without looking back, and continued to give orders to the others he saw along the way, separating those who could continue to fight, and those who needed the emperor's mercy, that is, those who were wounded.
That's it, not a word of thanks.
Not even a sentence of "Well done, Cage, you kept the wall, great!" ”
Only more orders, more work, more battles and deaths awaited everyone.
To Tianhao began to understand why Nikolai. Colonel Cage called Colonel "The Old Rock Devil." Not only Cage, but almost everyone who knew the Colonel, and was familiar with his style, had no good impression of the Colonel. There were all sorts of ridicule and even unpleasant nicknames, but strangely enough, the Colonel seemed to know nothing about it, and had never punished the criminals for anything like that.
Du Tianhao ordered a few people by name, and began to throw the corpses off the wall, and then, from a distance, he saw that the flamethrower team mentioned by the colonel had begun to work. The soldiers armed with high-temperature flame guns were really pitiful, and their piles of corpses turned into piles of ashes. The air was soon filled with black smoke and scorch, and the corpse quickly turned black, then a cloud of ash. The temperature of the flame was too high, and there was no terrible scene of the charred barbecue that Du Tianhao imagined. He looked at it for a while and felt bored, so he left all these things equivalent to barbecue to the Pyro to worry about. And himself, leaving the wall, went to the colonel.
Du Tianhao wanted to know, how long will this cruel and bloody battle last?
He was thinking about the retreat right now. It's not because of timidity and fear, it's just that I'm disgusted and disgusted by every qiē here. In addition to the charred corpses, there was rotten flesh and bones everywhere, and blood-soaked dirt. Even when the biological war on Earth was at its most intense, Du Tianhao had never seen such a tragic scene.
That's right, the colonel did say that he would defend with all his might. But he remained silent on the question of when to retreat. This does not bode well. To Tianhao must know more about this matter.
He found the colonel outside the fortress. This stubborn old man with an indifferent expression was talking to Nashanio. The latter is a priest, who is the specific person in charge of this base. It seems that there is a heated argument between the colonel and the clergyman.
"I don't know what you think. I know what you mean, and I know that you are not wrong in doing so. But these people need care and treatment, and you can't just let them continue fighting. They're hurt, you know? Hurt! ”
Nasanio looked angry and spoke loudly. He kept waving his arms and making large movements that were large enough to represent his inner thoughts.
"I understand, but I still have to tell you, priest, that if these people cannot continue to fight, then they are already dead. We need to deploy everyone in our hands to combat positions. As long as the Tyranid swarm appears, someone dies every minute. There was a shortage of manpower everywhere in the place, and the rate of loss of personnel was much faster than projected estimates. Of course I knew they were hurt. But it doesn't matter. Both the heavy machine gun and the combined cannon need to be manned, and there will be more guards on the fence. They can't get out of there for even a minute, no, a second. ”
The Colonel replied to the priest in his deep, shrill voice. This was also the first time that Du Tianhao had the opportunity to observe him well after the battle began. The Colonel's uniform was soaked in blood, alien blood, human blood, but it didn't look like a drop had come out of himself. The colonel didn't have even the slightest scratch all over his body, really, not even a single piece.
How the hell did this old bastard do it?
Du Tianhao instinctively opened his mouth wide, feeling a chill leak from his spine, and then tried to stop thinking about it.
To be sure, the Colonel is a real human being. On this point, the top commander of the 13th Disciplinary Corps could never be mistaken. Moreover, there was a priest standing opposite the colonel. When it comes to how to distinguish alien monsters from heretics, clergy are blessed with special abilities.
What else can be said about him?
A strong and courageous colonel?
Or a clever and cunning colonel?
Priest Axanio's face flushed with anger. He was obviously going to continue arguing, but the Colonel raised his hand and interrupted him.
"You don't understand that these people don't deserve your mercy. It has been like this since the beginning, it is like it is now, and nothing will change in the future. Since they are injured, it means that they themselves have to endure the ordeal. It is a kind of atonement. So, you don't have to have any guilt and pity for them, they don't deserve you to do this. Besides, there was a priest standing opposite the colonel. When it comes to how to distinguish alien monsters from heretics, clergy are blessed with special abilities.
What else can be said about him?
A strong and courageous colonel?
Or a clever and cunning colonel?
Priest Axanio's face flushed with anger. He was obviously going to continue arguing, but the Colonel raised his hand and interrupted him.
"You don't understand that these people don't deserve your mercy. It has been like this since the beginning, it is like it is now, and nothing will change in the future. Since they are injured, it means that they themselves have to endure the ordeal. It is a kind of atonement. So, you don't have to have any guilt and pity for them, they don't deserve you to do this. ”