"Stop moving, all vehicles turn off, everyone goes into silence, Vi, make sure the flying vehicles are invisible, Mia casts a spell, creates a small mound, and only creates the side facing the insect swarm, blocking their view. Fleisen sneaks, wanders around the perimeter, don't get too close to the swarm, Saf is ready to assault at any time, Moria is ready to shoot from a distance, Miridy protects the convoy, don't use the dark canopy casually, don't attack without orders. That's all the commands, you know?"

"Understood. Everyone's answer was concise and clear, no one was joking at this time, even Lin Jing was the same, jokes also depend on the time, regardless of the occasion, jokes of part of the time, it will only make people feel annoying.

"Confirm that the communication facilities are open, test, test, receive? Good, let's get moving. ”

"Boom", the ground began to shake slightly, and a steep arc-shaped soil slope slowly rose from the ground, growing obliquely upwards for seven or eight meters before stopping. From one side of the convoy, there was a towering earthen wall in front of me, which stretched all the way to the top of my head, and I was worried that if it collapsed, the convoy would be buried underneath. But from the other side, the brown mounds that can be seen everywhere on the barren plains are curved to wrap the convoy in it, so that the convoy cannot be seen from the other side.

"Fleison, Fleison, received an answer. Okay, you're in charge of observing the Scout's movements from outside the mound, and report back as soon as you spot the Swarm Scout in view. ”

"Understood. ”

"Wei, help me switch channels, face all members, test, test, confirm that the reception is normal. Don't be nervous, everything is planned, it's just a patrol to avoid a swarm, and there will be many similar situations in the future, so be prepared. Shuer sat on the roof of the car, pressed the small device on his ear, and said with a normal expression, "Actually, there is nothing to worry about, a small patrol can destroy them all in ten seconds, just keep your composure." ”

"It's coming. ”

"Well, don't let anyone do it on their own. Shuer's eyes were fixed on the flat image projected in the bracelet, and after leaving the control room, Wei could no longer make a three-dimensional image like before, so she could only project a flat light curtain in front of Shuer, which generally displayed a map, and half of the screen, "The first smuggling operation began. ”

In the picture, the most common ground insects are six-legged on the ground, their bodies are flying close to the ground, and the mounds have appeared in their field of vision, but for such mounds, both the insects and the queen behind them have long been accustomed to it, and they don't even bother to look at it, so they run forward according to the established route, and when they staggered with the mound, the two sides are still more than a hundred meters apart.

"It's not out of danger yet, and it continues to be hidden. ”

The number of patrols was small, only fifty, and they did not pose any threat to the convoy in terms of number, but they were extremely scattered, not in a compact formation like the main force, but each of them was at least two or three meters apart, bouncing forward, and the line behind them dragged long, like a group of untrained recruits. Such a formation not only maximizes the reconnaissance range, but also seems to have written words on the face such as come and destroy me, so that people can't help but want to destroy them easily, but Shuer is still sensible, knowing that once he does this, exposure is the only result.

No matter how fast the action is, the way the swarm fights is too special, if it is in Pavatiga, it is completely possible to eat this scout force, and by the time the command determines that the scout is damaged, the convoy will already run to the destination. But the swarm's scouts are directly connected to the queen, and any death will immediately alarm their queen, not even with a time delay. Even if everyone moves fast enough, the scouts who are killed will not be able to find the murderer, just like Mia and Duck once did, it is useless, in this world, once a scout dies, except for burrowing spiders, it can only be humans. Therefore, the only way not to attract the Queen's attention is to not be detected by the bugs' scouts.

"Wei, mark the swarm's field of vision, perfect, the smuggling is successful, everyone returns to the team, Mia removes the block, Wei, the convoy starts. ”

Behind them, the scout team of the insect swarm was long gone, it was a foggy darkness, the insect swarm came and went in a hurry, giving people the feeling that it was like a dream just now, and the original silence was restored all around, only the wind on the plain that refused to stop all the time was still howling.

"Hurry up and hit the road quickly. Shuer remained motionless, urging in his mouth, "Let's fight with the bug patrols, don't think it's over, it's just the beginning, and there are still many patrols to encounter in the future, Wei." ”

The map is scaled down, and the location and route of the surrounding patrols are clearly displayed on the map. Within a 10-kilometer radius of the green dot representing the convoy, there are several small red dots moving rapidly, each moving in a very different direction and covering almost all of the space around the convoy.

"Duck and I are wrong, we are used to judging the swarm with human thinking, but in fact, the scouts of the swarm do not start from their main force, there is no problem of unclear command and miscommunication between their different forces, there is no need to think about where to mobilize from, as long as it is bugs, like these patrols, mobilized from various mines and support stations on the spot. ”

"Because of this, when we mistakenly thought that the scouts of the swarm were following the large army, and thought that their patrol was still a hundred kilometers away, they had already spread out a patrol net across the plains, Vi. ”

The scale of the map is reduced again, and the radius of the display is extended to thirty-eight kilometers, and then it can be clearly seen that dozens of red dots, with arrows representing the direction of their progress, have compiled a fine net on the map, and at the edge of the patrol net, the convoy is like a daring bug, and has already successfully stepped into the gap between the nets, and every step after that, you must be careful, once you step on the patrol net, you will usher in a catastrophic end.

"But don't worry too much, just do what you are told, Duck and I have worked out a few routes that will best avoid the entanglement of the patrols until we cross the end of the enemy's main force. ”

Yes, at the end, the swarm is not endless, at least not the swarm that participated in the attack on the human fortress this time, although the number exceeded expectations, the total number of the three main forces of the swarm was likely to be as high as four or five hundred thousand, but when they were divided into three teams and slowly advanced in a dense formation, there was still an end to the team.

Twenty kilometers, the main team in the middle is the longest, but it is only twenty kilometers, as for the other two, it is only more than ten kilometers long, and it is not comparable to the million-insect swarm troops that went to besiege the mutant spider mother seen in the original image.

"There are two difficulties in this journey, the first is how to weave through the patrol net and maintain the speed of progress without being detected, which will take a long time, five hours, six hours? I can't be sure, because I can't be sure when I will be able to meet the main force of the swarm. ”

Shure was right, this period of time would be extraordinarily long, because there were still more than a hundred kilometers away from the swarm, and if both sides advanced at a normal speed, they could cross the position of the leader of the swarm troops in two or three hours. However, the problem is that it is impossible to maintain a normal speed, and between the more than 100 kilometers, the patrols are covered with insects, and the convoy has to stop for more than 10 minutes or even 20 minutes from time to time to avoid scouts, which seriously affects the speed of advance.

"You think it's hard? No, no, no, it's just a warm-up. In the past few hours, we have a large area of space to avoid the insect swarm in a horizontal detour, we have reconnaissance and probe planes that can cover dozens of kilometers around us as eyes, we can always pay attention to the movements of each patrol team, and take advantage of the time difference to smuggle and infiltrate, although it is a bit tricky, but it is not an impossible task. Shuer's voice sounded in everyone's ears through the communicator, "Hehe, I said, this is just the beginning, after the warm-up, the real test, Wei, the main image." ”

As soon as the image changed, the front-line probe sent back the image of the swarm troops. Around the large army, countless air jellyfish are floating scattered, and the troops maintain the same speed forward, the formation of the air jellyfish is not a formation at all, very loosely distributed on both sides of the team and the top of the head, the stealth detector can not get close at all, a little closer, it will be broken by the empty jellyfish, besieged by a large group of remote insects below, and instantly turned into scrap metal.

"Once we meet, our field of vision becomes quite narrow, and we can only observe the small area between the two forces, and it is even more difficult to calculate the movements of the patrol. At the same time, everyone's detour space has also been severely compressed, and there are fewer places to hide than now, while the patrol team is not affected. It can be said that the time that staggered with each other is at most an hour, but this hour is a real nightmare, once it is discovered, the main force is flanked on both sides, everyone should know what the result is. ”

"The bad news is out of the way, and now it's time to give everyone a little bit of hope, once you get through that nightmare time, it's going to be a lot easier after getting past the main force of the biter. There are scouts who have bypassed from the side to reconnoitre, although there are patrols in the rear of the swarm troops, but the number is very scarce, and it will hardly affect us, we can pass at full speed, of course, provided that everyone is still alive at that time. Hehehe, the last sentence is just a joke, don't worry, just do your best, I promise you, we will finally be able to break through the blockade of the swarm and reach the destination. ”

"Huh?" several high-ranking mercenaries looked at Shuer at the same time, reassuring?

"Huh. Shul smiled faintly and shook his head mysteriously.