The fiery red afterglow of the setting sun shone obliquely on the horizon, and a few remnant clouds were as red as blood, illuminating the battleship with a magnificent glow. The smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield has not yet dissipated, and the residual smoke rises.

The skin of the stubborn beast outside the crack of the battleship was covered with the corpses of the outer skeletons, and the bubbling brown blood gathered into a stream that slowly flowed down, and the stream gradually dried up under the sun, leaving only twisted, ugly black-brown marks, like ancient totems.

Under the twilight of the west, the battlefield of slaughter has added a bit of tragic depression.

"This day has finally passed." Ye Fei stood in the evening breeze and looked into the distance, and there was a faint melancholy in his heart.

In less than a day, the Yangtze River, which spanned nearly 30 light years, became a falling wreckage, a powerful stubborn beast turned into a huge corpse, and thousands of people were thrown on this primitive planet where birds don't, making people involuntarily feel like a world away.

"It's a pity that those shells are gone, how good it would be if they could explode?" The black bear squatted beside Ye Fei and said regretfully.

The heavy artillery used solid shells, and the rapid-fire guns were not so much cannons as super-large caliber heavy machine guns, and the power of solid shells was not high, but the psychological pressure brought to the Outer Bone Man by a range of more than ten kilometers was far greater than the actual lethality, so that the Outer Bone Man withdrew again and again, and was not relocated until it was nearly twenty kilometers away from the battleship.

Their camp was well chosen, right by a large river.

"What are they busy with? Hunting and cooking? "Scissors has been keeping an eye on the enemy's movements," this is the ninth. Not enough to eat? ”

After the Outer Bone Man evacuated, Ye Fei did not send anyone to harass him, and when the sun set in the west, three more groups of Outer Bone Man arrived.

The four groups of outer skeletons converged into one place, with a total strength of more than 40,000, but they did not attack rashly. Instead, a large number of exoskeletons were sent out to mobilize to capture native beasts, especially those who were as big as dinosaurs, which were the focus of their capture, and the large native species that inhabited nearby were considered to have fallen into blood mold.

Just half an hour. The ant-like cohesive Skeleton Man dragged back nine large beasts of more than ten meters. The largest of them was about thirty meters long, and it took thousands of bones to barely drag it back to the camp.

"There are more than 40,000 exobone hybrids, and nine may not be enough to eat, besides. And tomorrow morning! Ye Fei teased.

The scissors tapped thoughtfully on the forehead. Pointing to the helmet chiseled and screaming: "So the Outer Bone Man is a carnivore?" He quietly calculated in his heart. When will I have the opportunity to nag and nag the veterinarian about everything I saw today, the veterinarian kid must be interested.

Humans have never seen how to eat and lodging the Outer Skeleton Man in the field, and today is an eye-opener.

As he spoke, the landing craft No. 7 flew above the ship's ridge. Aiming at the cross sign that had just been drawn not long ago, it slowly lowered.

The black bear showed his signature smile: "It's the saber back!" ”

"Let's go, let's see." Ye Fei said.

Fifty or sixty people came down from the landing craft that landed, but only one was wearing combat armor.

The "leader" saber stood up and saluted meticulously, but Ye Fei directly gave him a warm hug, "It's hard work." ”

The saber hesitated for half a second, and the two arms finally fell on Ye Fei's back: "It's not hard, it's all as it should be." ”

The two separated, and Ye Fei said in a deep voice: "Just say a lie, your own people, you don't need to play that set of falsehoods." You're going to have to work hard today. ”

The nine landing craft flew back and forth throughout the afternoon, sending back hundreds of officers and men, and by this point, half of the ship's personnel had been rescued.

"Commander, you say, promise to complete the task." Saber immediately made a statement.

"Good!" Ye Fei's nostrils burst out with two rough breaths, "I know that it has been more than ten hours since the battleship fell, and no one in the whole group has had a chance to rest for a while." But the enemy is running out of time for us. Saber, hold on and pick up your comrades as soon as possible. ”

It takes about thirty hours for the Giants to rotate around in one week, and after the end of the day will be a night that lasts about fifteen hours, and the vision of the Exoskeletons is much stronger than that of humans, and the night has little effect on them, and the danger faced by the surviving warriors will be multiplied exponentially.

"Yes!" Saber replied without hesitation.

The rest of the survivors are all located in remote areas, and the rescue is relatively difficult, and today is destined to have a sleepless night.

"All the landing craft are under your command, go quickly." Ye Fei said, "Be careful, we've lost enough manpower." ”

The saber left in a silent salute.

Night flight is not a simple matter, and night flight in unfamiliar airspace is even more dangerous, but Ye Fei and Saber also have no choice.

Ye Fei looked at the landing craft that had lifted off again and sighed faintly, his chest was like an asteroid.

The teams that were out of the world had already regained contact with the warships, and they also proposed many ways to save themselves, such as the team in the northern region proposed to sneak over the blockade line of the Outer Skeleton at night; Take a life raft down the river and quietly go south; Bypass the Exoskeleton occupation zone and so on. But in Ye Fei's opinion, no matter what method is, there is no guarantee of 100% avoiding the Outer Bone People, let alone the ubiquitous natives.

Rather than letting the fighters take risks, it is better to wait for the landing craft to slowly transport the fighters back, even if the outer skeleton finds out that the landing craft will only stare dryly, why not?

Just hard for the fighters of the commando.

The dangers faced by expatriates increase as darkness falls, but what about warships?

If the Outer Bone Man attacked the battleship at night, it was hard to say whether the warriors would be able to hold the rift as they did during the day, and in the final analysis, there were still too few available manpower.

After thinking about it, Ye Fei still made two preparations, on the one hand, he ordered the soldiers with combat armor to seize the time to rest, and on the other hand, he carried out military democracy and mobilized the soldiers to come up with ideas and solutions. Then there is the arrangement of technical personnel to install high-power lighting equipment near the crack.

In fact, the radar on the armor is better than the lighting equipment, but only one of the Ninth Squadron guarding near the rift is a genuine commando, and the others are copycats, and their training time is too short, and they can't play with the complex equipment on the combat armor at all, so they can only try to create a familiar combat environment for them. lest the darkness of the night affect their already insufficient combat effectiveness.

Originally, Ye Fei didn't expect the crew who had never participated in the front-line battle to put forward any constructive suggestions, but a few fighters who were engaged in skills got together and really came up with a few good ideas.

Ye Fei did not hesitate to promote in the line of fire, ordering those soldiers to be responsible for implementing their good ideas, and dispatching all the people who could be drawn to cooperate.

After everything was arranged, it was already completely dark, and there were stars in the sky without the slightest pollution, but unfortunately it was impossible to see which one was the sun.

There are only two bone mounds in the moonless sky, reflecting the cold sunlight, making the ground faintly bright, so that you don't lose sight of your fingers.

Ye Fei didn't know what to do, and he always felt inexplicably uneasy in his heart, as if he had forgotten something important. Captain Ye, who had never been able to calm down, almost thought about it, and didn't figure out what was wrong. I just think it's related to the Exoskeleton Man. So he simply brought scissors. The two of them quietly slipped off the battleship together, and took advantage of the night to touch the camp of the Outer Skeleton.

When the black bear got the news, the two masters had already disappeared, and he was so angry that he jumped to his feet. Scolding scissors is not interesting enough. It's such a fun thing not to bring him!

Have the heart to follow the past alone. But as soon as he left, there was only Ni Hong left as a squadron leader in the rift, and neither his rank nor qualifications were enough. In case the Outer Bone Man rushes to attack at this time, the rift defense line will not be a mess?

In the end, the black bear could only accept the ruthless reality of "being abandoned", and stayed on the city wall honestly, constantly thinking about how to get "justice" after Ye Fei and Scissors came back.

However, Ye Fei and Scissors were not easy at all, the reason why they didn't call the black bear was because they were afraid of his bad personality.

After the two left the battleship, they slid down the beast mountain from the side.

When the stubborn beast touched the ground, it was taken by the battleship, and the impact on the ground was not serious, and the impact only lifted a layer of soil a few hundred meters near the landing point.

The two silently walked through the ground made of sparse soil at the foot of the Beast Mountain, carefully searched with night vision devices, and confirmed that it was safe before diving into the dense jungle outside the "crater".

I have to say that the vegetation of the giant star is very interesting, clumps of patches, or curly or coarse, with small leaves growing in rows on the stems of the plants, a bit like ferns on the earth.

Fortunately, the plants here are also green, which doesn't make people feel too weird, but I don't know if the green of these plants comes from chlorophyll.

"Chief, where are we going?" Scissors found that Ye Fei was walking in the wrong direction, and asked in surprise.

If it wasn't Ye Fei who led the way, I'm afraid he would be able to think that this was to surrender to the Outer Bone Man, even if it was impossible for humans to surrender to the Outer Bone Man.

"What? Do you want to touch it directly? Ye Fei teased with a smile.

I don't know what Lu Dao is for, but after making the decision to carry out armed reconnaissance, the uneasiness in his heart immediately disappeared.

Scissors was stunned when he heard this: "Don't touch it directly, but still go around in circles?" ”

", the Outer Bone Man is hunting everywhere, and the jungle is almost full, so go straight over and not hit the muzzle?" Ye Fei reprimanded angrily, "It's useless to say, just follow me." ”

Exoskeletons are homeothermic creatures like humans, but the temperature of their exposed bone armor is lower than the real body temperature, even infrared night vision devices are not easy to distinguish, and the black light blindly crashes headlong into the jungle where I don't know how many enemies are hidden.

I couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Ye Fei's gourd, so the scissors could only hold the gun tightly and follow Ye Fei's buttocks.

Ye Fei carefully bypassed the large bushes and dense trees, and walked for about ten minutes, not to mention, before finally hearing the sound of gurgling water in front of him.

"It's here!" Ye Fei said.

"Where is this?" Scissors are inexplicable, are we going out to reconnoitre, what are you doing by the river? Bathe?

Ye Fei used a waterproof rubber sleeve to cover the muzzle of the rifle, and slowly got into the water with the rifle on his back: "The camp of the outer bone mongrel is in the upper reaches of this river, hurry down." ”

Scissors suddenly realized, and hurriedly followed Ye Fei's example and cautiously grounded.

The enemy can throw a large number of Exoskeletons into the jungle, but they can't even let go of the water, right? After all, the Exoskeleton Man is still a terrestrial creature, not an amphibian, let alone a variant of fish.

The current of the river was a bit rapid, but the heavy armor was a powerful weapon against the current, and the two men sank to a depth of more than four meters, and the buoyancy of the water made them both move much slower than usual.

Stepping on the cobblestones at the bottom of the water, the two began to move towards the upper reaches of the river. In order to reduce the resistance of the current, the two of them had to bend down and move forward hand and foot together.

But this kind of resistance is not much smaller, and Ye Fei began to regret not bringing a propeller.

"Hey, chief, this planet is primitive, and there are primordial benefits, you can see the water in this river, so clear that you can see it all the way." Scissors crawled forward while looking for something to say, and accidentally turned over a rock the size of a pumpkin, and a slender aquatic creature suddenly jumped out of the mud layer under the stone. Suddenly the bottom of the water was muddy.

Ye Feiha laughed: "It's clear enough!" "The armor insulates the sound from within. No matter how loud you laugh, you won't be exposed.

The muddy water was quickly carried away by the current, and Scissors held back a laugh: "Damn, even the fish are here to join in the fun." He didn't even know if it was a fish that suddenly appeared just now, and he didn't know if there were any fish on this planet. It's just habitual to say so.

"Hehe......" Ye Fei was about to tease a few more words. Suddenly, I saw a black shadow five or six meters long silently emerging from behind the scissors. Immediately startled, "Be careful! ”

"Huh?" In the water, the radar did not work, and the scissors did not notice anything unusual behind them.

Ye Fei's eyes turned red suddenly. A serrated saber with a half-foot-long draw, kicked his legs and jumped towards the scissors: "Bend over!" ”

The scissors didn't have time to think about it, and subconsciously did as Ye Fei instructed, bent his waist at ninety degrees, and a violent stream of water happened to pass behind him, causing the scissors to stand unsteadily, and he almost fell to the bottom of the water as soon as he turned over.

Ye Fei, who rushed to the side of the scissors, slashed the black shadow with a knife, the saber slashed the black shadow, and the sense of blockade was extremely obvious, Ye Fei, who did not believe in evil, immediately strengthened the output of the auxiliary power system, and the sense of blockade disappeared, and the black shadow was cut through with a knife.

The black shadow writhed violently, and in the blink of an eye, it was swept away by the current.

Scissors was apprehensive: "What is this?" ”

"I don't know what to do!" Ye Fei held the saber back, "There are a lot of weird creatures in this place, be careful not to get hit." ”

The accuracy of underwater shooting is poor to the home, and the bullet completely loses its power after a few meters from the chamber, or a saber is a little more reliable

Scissors hurriedly pulled out their sabers, and the two lifted their spirits, one left and one right, covering each other's advance.

Fortunately, the anomaly did not recur, and after advancing some distance, the river widened significantly, the current became much smoother, and the speed of advance was greatly accelerated.

Every once in a while, Ye Fei would find a hidden position and poke his head out of the water to see if the Outer Bone Man would attack at night. It took the two of them more than two hours to approach the camp of the Outer Skeleton, but fortunately the enemy had not moved during this time, otherwise the reconnaissance would have been abandoned halfway.

There was still some distance from the river occupied by the outer skeleton man, the two of them became more and more careful, turned a river bend, and the scissors found that the river water in the distance was actually full of milky white fluorescence, and they were stunned: "Boss, I'm not dazzled, right?" ”

"No, I saw it too." Ye Fei stopped advancing, adjusted the telephoto magnification, and pulled the fluorescence in front of his eyes.

I saw that the thick tubes in the river in front of me were criss-crossed, and there were countless fetal sacs that emitted faint fluorescence around the tubes.

Ye Fei was taken aback, and couldn't help but be afraid for a while, everything he had encountered on Mars appeared in front of his eyes again, and he finally understood that he would be uneasy about what he was doing - the Outer Bone Man captured large native beasts not to eat them at all, but to create new combat individuals, just like the giant insects that were short-lived on Mars.

That's not good news!

Too much time had passed, so long that Ye Fei subconsciously ignored that the Outer Bone Man had the special ability to build "new species" anytime and anywhere.

"Withdraw!" Ye Fei commanded softly.

The discovery of the fetal sac is equivalent to the completion of the reconnaissance mission, and now it is time to send the news back as quickly as possible and be prepared to deal with it.

Everything in front of him also evoked the memories of Scissors, and he silently followed behind Ye Fei, leaving quietly as when he came.

The return trip down the river is much faster than going upstream, and the current will propel the two of them forward with a slight jump at the bottom of the water, but in half an hour, they are back in the water device.

Along the way, Ye Fei didn't say a word, and the scissors were not in the mood to speak, the two rushed back at full speed after leaving the water, and returned to the safe and sound defense line in one breath, Ye Fei saw at a glance that there were more than a dozen more people on both sides of the rift, and the bottom was welded on the armor of the extra-large iron mushrooms, and more than a dozen soldiers were busy around these big mushrooms.

"Hey, boss, you're finally willing to come back!" The black bear, who had been waiting on the city wall and had slept for a while, yawned and said.

"You went to play with the two of us?" Scissors reproached dissatisfiedly, "Hurry down, right away!" ”

The black bear was stunned for a moment, Scissors usually didn't dare to talk to him like this, and Ye Fei didn't mean to answer him at all, which was also very abnormal, he immediately realized that the situation was wrong, switched to the confidential channel and asked in a deep voice: "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Fei casually chose a photo taken during reconnaissance and sent it to the black bear: "Acquaintance, right?" Do you remember? ”

"I,!" The black bear was shocked, "This is a bad dish." ”

I can't tell what exactly is in the fetal sac in the photo, but I can think of it as a butt that the outer skeleton man is definitely building a new combat unit after losing the battle during the day, and he is far away from the battleship.

The current combat power of the battleship can't be hidden from the black bear, even if there are tens of thousands of ordinary exoskeletons, they may break through the battleship, and the enemy will make a bunch of large combat creatures, how can this battle be fought?

"What should I do?" The black bear asked, furrowing his brow.

The most critical question now is what the Outer Bone Man has created, and whether his own strength can be dealt with.

"What else can I do?" Ye Fei gritted his teeth, "Scissors, follow me to the missile nest and give them a hundred!" ”

"Boss, are you trying to ......" Scissors' eyes lit up.

Ye Fei snorted coldly: "The outer bones of the dog day don't give us a way to live, and Lao Tzu won't let them have a better time, let's dismantle the missile!" (To be continued......)

PS: Cheekily ask for conditional book friend subscription support! The news says that MH370 has been wrecked, and I send condolences to my compatriots who died! But personally, I don't think there is a glimmer of hope until the wreckage of the plane and the remains of the victims are found - none of the Malaysians' words are true, and I don't believe them now.