Section 69 Rotting maggots
It should be admitted that . Qb(5), com, and the pace of the unknown creature is really slow. Until the panting Xia Dong stood in front of Tianxiang, they still couldn't enter the effective detection range of the senses. "Yes... It's a rotting maggot. We... WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US ... Large quantities of... A large number of swarms of rot maggots. Xia Dong, who was out of breath, clubbed his knees with both hands, and reported his experience hoarsely to Tianxiang.
"Rotting maggots?" Tianxiang couldn't help but wonder a little, how could this kind of thing, which was completely feeding on rotting flesh and blood, suddenly run near his base? According to their living habits, they should be concentrated in dark and damp areas. The mud-and-rock, rather dry mountainous terrain should never be a reasonable place for large numbers of putty maggots. To them, this kind of place is as foreign to them as land is to a fish. Of course, it's not uncommon for fish to leave the water source. As long as there is enough to attract them on the shore, hungry fish will surely rush to shore in a desperate frenzy. In order to be able to eat a full meal before starving to death.
It's better to suffocate to death without water than to starve to death.
Rotting maggots are no exception. As long as there is something enough to attract them, adventure seems to be an effective antidote to the dullness of life." Oops, how did I forget this? Tianxiang, who was meditating, patted his head as if he had suddenly realized. He finally understood. The reason why so many rotting maggots are coming towards the direction of the base.
The food of carrion maggots is carrion. Those are merely sprinkled with a layer of floating dirt, intended to be used as nourishment for man-eating plants. The smell of their decomposing corpses can be carried by the wind to great distances. Even the foul-smelling liquid mixed in the soil can be driven by scattered underground water sources to spread far away. Of course, this kind of disgusting smell is something that hunters will avoid. But for the carrion maggots who like to eat this thing. But it's a wonderful taste comparable to a big meal. "Close the base gates. All bring weapons and defend at the hilltop fortress. Fang Xu, Su Ya, and Li Wenming, take your people and transport as much ammunition as possible to the top of the mountain in the shortest possible time. To deal with these things, you need enough bullets. β
It's too late to hide. Even if Tianxiang can remove all the humanoid carrion corpses piled up outside the base before the rousten maggot swarm arrives, the rotten maggots that are extremely sensitive to the smell will still find the living people hidden in the base. It's entirely possible that they're spending time trying to get more than a hundred pieces of fresh food, not to mention, even if the entrance to the ground at the foot of the mountain is completely closed, what about the access to the top of the mountain? Wouldn't they have thought of climbing into the base from here? Tianxiang really didn't have the courage. Use yourself, your clansmen and your life to test the wisdom of the rotting maggot.
The huge maggot swarm has finally entered the detection range of the senses. A disgusting maggot that is white and fat. Tumbling back and forth in Tianxiang's mind. The thick liquid that covered their bodies soaked the ground where they were going. Although the sight seen from the "eye of the heart" does not smell anything. But Tianxiang still felt that even from such a long distance, he could still smell the pungent stench from them. "Fire! Blow them up! β
This is not only the order of Tianxiang, but also the idea of all the hunters gathered at the top of the mountain. By this time, they could already see the maggots emerging from the grass on the opposite hillside.
Two PZ92s each fired a full shell. Despite the different locations, Tianxiang was pleased to see that the cannonballs had exploded accurately among the wriggling swarms. Splashed shrapnel under the action of the explosion. They burrowed into the soft body of the worm. After penetrating all obstacles, he rushed out again, plunging headlong into the body of the adjacent worm.
At this time, there is no need for any aiming at all, only a general direction, and I am afraid that even the most skilled, no matter how bad the gunner in the world, can become the person with the highest hit rate.
The maggots were stacked so crowded that the two cannonballs were far more powerful than expected. Tianxiang was pleased to see that the surface of the bodies of more than sixty insects was overflowing with bloody green blood. Their wriggling speed slowed down significantly. Slowly, though, they didn't die. They continue to move forward, albeit at a rather slow pace.
Even the maggots, which were in the center of the drop point, and whose bodies were almost completely torn apart by the explosion, were still moving forward with an instinct. It can be seen that they are on the verge of death, and they are still gasping in the direction of the foodγγγγγγ As for the other rotting maggots, they were not at all impressed by the unexpected attack. They didn't stop at all, they still squirmed, swarming in the direction of the humanoid carrion. Perhaps, in their eyes, the death of a few more companions means that they can eat more!
"Terrible thing!" Tianxiang shook his head in a muttered manner, and once again pressed his arm heavily towards the operator of the two gun emplacements.
"Keep shooting, don't stop." The whistling shells exploded one after another in the swarm of rotting maggots. Broken white insect corpses, accompanied by a large amount of black soil, were scattered on the ground, intermingled and wrapped into inexplicable lumps flowing with a thick green liquid. Others, they fell directly on the swarming maggot swarm, forming dirty alternative patches on the white and rolling fat body. The neat swarm of rotten maggots was blown to the ground, and the white "sea of maggots" that spread all over the mountains seemed to reveal dozens of black reefs of different sizes after the tide suddenly dropped. It's just that, driven by the "maggot waves" that followed, these poor reefs naturally could not be the mainstay, and could only disappear among the maggots in the sky with great unwillingness.
"Fang Xu, you are responsible for keeping an eye on the gun position for me, and you must not stop firing."
"Xia Dong. Bring your men with me. By the way, tell Li Wenming and let his people come over, those sniper rifles are useless against rotting maggots. They're not afraid of that thing at all. "It's true that a sniper rifle with a long range and a powerful fire won't do anything at all against the maggots. Tianxiang himself fired a few shots, but to his chagrin found that the rotten maggot that was hit didn't care about the bullets that burrowed into his body at all. They had continued to push forward for a long time, and when they realized that their blood was almost completely gone, they fell headlong in the grass, unable to get up again.
If there are only a few rot maggots, long-range sniping is indeed an effective method. But the problem is that the front of the roast maggot swarm is already less than five hundred meters away from the foot of the mountain.
Although their main food is rotting corpses, this does not mean that they have no interest in the living.
They must be stopped, and they must not be allowed to move any further. At the north and south ends of the hilltop fortress, Tianxiang placed eight machine guns according to the firing position. At this time, he didn't care about that much. According to his order, all machine guns in the northern passage were transferred to the south. He must use the machine gun's design speed advantage to counteract the terrifying numerical threat of the roster maggot swarm.
The GAU449 six-barreled rapid-fire machine gun is a weapon with quite good performance. In the Encyclopedia of Weapons and in many ancient military books, its terrifying rate of fire has been described and praised quite accurately. In particular, according to some computer data, this machine gun is fully capable of firing more than 20,000 rounds in one minute. The Iron Curtain formed by that bullet alone is in itself an extremely powerful means of defense. Member Zoely's hand-fired artillery was still firing, and the various light weapons in the hands of the clan were also firing at the nearby maggots within effective range. However, large beads of sweat were dripping from the heads of Tianxiang and the heavy, especially their eyes, which were staring at the approaching group of maggots, almost bleeding.
It's not that they don't want to shoot, but they don't dare to shoot. Because, it wasn't until all the machine guns were moved over that Tianxiang realized that he had made a big mistake in the panic.
Bullets, bullets for machine guns. In the fortress on the top of the mountain, there are only six boxes of machine gun ammunition in reserve.
A box of 5,000 bullets, six boxes is 30,000 rounds. But for the entire sixteen GQUU449s, the average one is less than half like a bullet. Especially with their terrifying rate of fire, this bullet is pitiful. It's not even enough for them to consume for a minute.
"Who did it? Bastard! Tianxiang's anger was justified, and before that, he had repeatedly told his people that they must ensure that the ammunition of the hilltop fortress was stocked. Although the warehouse where the weapons are stored is only a few tens of meters away from the top of the mountain, it is entirely possible that this distance can cause unintended death at a critical time.
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A somewhat panicked voice rang out from nearby. didn't look back, Tianxiang also knew that it was Li Wenming. "Don't talk nonsense, take someone to move the bullets. Collect bets, be quick! β
Tianxiang didn't get angry as expected, he just gave a new order loudly in a violent manner, and at this time, it was far more useful to do something remedy than to lose his temper and hold him accountable. Heavy artillery fire caused heavy casualties to the slow-moving rot maggots. The maggots, which had already rushed to the foot of the mountain, began to attack the hunters on the top of the mountain. They opened their mouths with only one sucking and swallowing function, and pounced along the ancient asphalt road strewn with rocks and dirt towards the fortress hundreds of meters away.
Without Tianxiang giving orders, everyone picked up the guns in their hands at that moment and threw bullets at the oncoming group of maggots. The bursting fire function of the assault rifle was vividly used at this moment, and one with an empty magazine also emptied all the ammunition in his stomach in the almost profligate fire of the hunters. The machine guns around Tianxiang still did not fire. According to his order, instead of having sixteen machine guns consume ammunition at the same time, it was better to concentrate ammunition and first ensure the supply of one point of fire. Especially in the current situation of ammunition supply, such a powerful weapon must be put to last use.
It may be that it feels a great threat from the top of the mountain, or it may be due to the fact that the rot maggots themselves are too hungry. Suddenly, without warning, they changed direction. He retargeted the pile of humanoid rotting corpses buried in the floating earth at the foot of the mountain. A mass of rotting stinky flesh is obviously more tempting in the heart of a chewworm who has no eyes and only touches and smells than an assault rifle pointed at his head.
Death is not terrible, but what I am afraid of is that in that unbearable hunger, I will be strangled to death by the violent contraction of the stomach pouch. As for bullets, what is there to be afraid of? It's just a knock on the brain, it doesn't hurt or itch. This is obviously a much easier way to die than starvation. The humanoid corpse was less than two hundred meters from the entrance at the foot of the mountain. It is a soft floating soil, which is quite suitable for plant growth. What's more, it's the way to the base entrance and exit. Cover it with a man-eating plant that does not appear to be in any danger to form a powerful and effective means of protection. That's what Tianxiang thinks.
It's just that this seemingly perfect plan was disrupted by tens of thousands of rot maggots. Buried in the ground, the carrion was only a thin sprinkle of dirt. For the ground, just to prevent the smoky smell from escaping. After all, even a hungry maniac would never put these things in his mouth. They have no other purpose than to be cultivated as a man-eating plant. The nose of the rotting maggot is extremely bright, and even rotten flesh buried several meters deep in the ground can be accurately found by them through the deep layers of soil. Not to mention the carrion looming out of the ground. The hunters stationed at the top of the mountain were a little frightened to see that under the arching of the rotting maggots of hundreds of leaders, the humanoid corpses that had been piled up on the ground had formed a small hill, and the surface was covered with a thin layer of soil, which had gradually begun to collapse. They swayed and tilted, and finally fell to the ground with a bang, as several maggots excitedly burrowed into them to feast on them. Smashed into pieces of yellow-green, disgusting, foul-smelling liquid. The corpse of a person, as long as it has been dead for more than a few hours, has become stiff. At room temperature in ancient times, it quickly entered a state of gradual decay. The temperature in the dark world is a bit more humid and cold than in ancient times. But it's not exactly cold. After death, the corpse, for more than a certain period of time, will still inevitably have to run water and decompose. Especially these humanoids who have been dead for more than half a month, and the muscles on their bodies have long been rotten to the point that they are no different from paste. Just a few days ago, a member of the hunting team who passed by accidentally stepped on one of the corpses, and his entire thigh fell into it on the spot. In a panic, he hurriedly grabbed for a while, but as a result, he only caught rotten corpses thrown around. It was as if I had inadvertently fallen into a soft puddle of mud. If it weren't for the person next to him who grabbed his hand in time and rescued him, I'm afraid. This unlucky guy will be directly submerged in the highly decomposed corpse on the spot. According to his own recollection afterwards, those originally powerful humanoid muscles were like foam floating on the surface of the water, and they could be passed with a light touch. Without any resistance, the fingers can feel the bones in it. He'd tried, and with a single stroke, he could get a whole bone out of a pile of wet rotten flesh. As for the ligaments and the tougher parts of the body, they were pitifully wound around them like a few tattered strips of cloth. These things are the favorites of man-eating plants. Of course, it is also the favorite food of carrion maggots.
Tianxiang closed his eyes helplessly and shook his head gently. A few minutes ago, he had already retracted his thoughts. The scene of a group of fat bugs competing for a bunch of polyps will not leave a good impression on anyone who watches it. What's more, the probing thoughts in the brain have been repeating a few simple words repeatedly. "Look" he almost wanted to hit the wall. "Happiness", "Good Food", "Good Food"γγγγγγ And so on, over and over again, but if you're facing a table of delicacies, of course, it's a different story. But after all, it was a group of rotten maggots, or a group of rotten maggots that were licking and eating stinking rotten flesh. Of course, along with it, there is also a piece of "bar both-bar both-" flesh lips moving.
From the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, it is only a few hundred meters, and it is really impossible to see clearly for the eagle with excellent visionγγγγγγ The human brain is sometimes so incredible. While enduring the nausea, Tianxiang inexplicably remembered the delicious earthworm stew. In a trance, he suddenly remembered that the body of an earthworm seemed to be similar to that of a rotting maggot machine. It also walks the same soft cotton, the same smooth skin, and the same roundness. They also all move forward with a contraction** arch. Moreover, they also eat meat, they just don't know itγγγγγγ
A burst of yellow water recited from the bottom of his heart instantly rose down the throat to Tianxiang's mouth. So that he could no longer endure the one-handed pestle and vomited wildly.
"Bullet γγγγγγ Did the bullets arrive? Li Wenming, where are your bullets? Bastard, I'm γγγγγγ I want bulletsγγγγγγ I... I... I'm going to kill these damn things, I'm going to kill them allγγγγγγ β
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