Here, in the north-central region of the Northern Plains, a snow-covered land.

The perennial cold makes life here seem very monotonous, just like the snow white that connects the sky and the earth, and there is dead silence and coldness everywhere.

As far as the eye can see, there are only a few trees with gray-white bark that are tenaciously rooted in this land, most of them are seven or eight meters or more than ten meters high, their torsos are straight, and even their leaves and branches are white under the rendering of snow.

Birch, a very common tree.

Because of a song, Susha remembered the name of the tree.

In the midst of this birch forest, there is a small northern town that has been abandoned for a long time, and the years have cast a dilapidated color on the city, and the city is empty, as if no one has ever lived here.

But, today, a skirmish of contact took place in this small city far from the populace.

"Bang!"

A brass-colored bullet slammed into the concrete façade of a building, sending up a cloud of gray dust and punching an egg-sized hole in the dusty wall.

More bullets hit the underside of the hole, a swift worm.

"Whew-"

The swift insect eats pain, its eyes are fierce, its expression is fierce, the corners of its mouth full of fangs are dripping with pus, and there are already more than ten bullet holes on its body, each bullet hole is bleeding, and the injury is very serious, but it still has combat power, and its vitality is shockingly tenacious.

After a frantic roar, the bug went violent, its limbs erupted with unimaginable force, and it leaped to its feet and rushed desperately in the direction where the bullet had come from.

It was a window, on the third floor of a dusty concrete building.

It seemed to want to pounce, jump into the window, and bite the shooter who fired the shot to death.

However, bullets continued to shoot out of that window, like a long series of metal raindrops, with deadly force, and hit the bug's body hard.

"Bang-bang-bang-"

A rain of bullets flew in, and one of them hit the bug's left front leg, shattering its bones with a click, splattering blood.

Due to the fracture of the left front leg, the high-speed moving insect instantly lost its balance, fell to the ground suddenly, and rolled more than ten times in a row, leaving a long series of blood marks on the cold street, and the breath of life dropped a lot.

The insect roared unwillingly, its long narrow eyes full of fierce blood, lying on the ground, staring at the window.

"Phew!"

A bullet hit him in the head accurately, bursting into a burst of blood and ending his life.

No matter how unwilling he was, the worm could only fall, and his upright head fell heavily.

After death, its limbs were still twitching unconsciously, as if it could still come back to life, and nearly twenty bullet holes on its body were bleeding.

Of course, it's impossible to come back to life.

Its unwilling roar before it died was just to summon more companions to come and hunt the humans in the city together.

"Zerg ......"

High in the distance, Su Xia's eyes were calm, and he watched this scene quietly.

"There are a lot of bugs in this city, and there is probably a nest nearby."

Although the distance was still a little far, with the help of the Life Perception Glasses, Su Xia saw that there were at least a hundred low-level Zerg in the entire city, and there were also many bugs in the nearby jungle.

They roared and roared wildly, along the deserted city streets, like a swarm of locusts, at great speed, constantly rushing to the spot where the gunshots rang out.

At this moment, in this deserted and cold town, there are more than a dozen locations where gunshots are fired.

"More than a dozen gunshots rang out, all concentrated in a building in the center of the city." Su Xia looked from afar.

The building, which was eight stories tall and looked like a former office building, was also dusty, with a layer of snow on the roof and nearly half a meter of snow below.

The window where the fire was fired was on the third floor to the north of the building.

On each side of the building, there are three or four firing windows, constantly killing insects from all directions.

Gunshots continued, tongues of fire erupted from windows to windows, and worms fell in a rain of bullets.

"Oh shit, why are there so many bugs?" In the window just now, there was a young man's complaint, mixed with the sound of a bullet being loaded, and the howling of the cold wind, which sounded a little faint.

"Haha, little Peter, are you scared?" Another voice sounded from inside the window, a middle-aged man, somewhat rough.

"I'm not afraid, I killed one just now!"

The young man snorted, showing off his achievements, but then complained: "This gun in my hand has not been well maintained, it was stuck just now, and when I go back, I will change it to a better one." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a brass-colored bullet spun out of the chamber and hit the brain of another bug with a thud, bursting with a stream of plasma.

The young man's hit rate was improving, and he seemed to have adapted to the gun in his hand, and he also calculated the current wind speed and direction.

"Hey, it's another one!" The young man snorted, "When I go back, little Maria will be proud of me, and I will propose to her with the fangs of the worm just now." ”

"Little Mary likes handsome and strong Alexander, my poor little Peter, you are too thin and not strong enough to stand a chance." The middle-aged man said sympathetically.

"Hmph, little Maria likes warriors, and I'm a warrior too!"

The young man ignored the middle-aged man's words, and the bullet was loaded, and another shot accurately hit the worm that was about to pounce.

On the side, the middle-aged man was also shooting, repelling the approaching bugs.

Although the words of the two were relatively relaxed, their faces became heavier and heavier, because in their field of vision, the number of insects that appeared was increasing, and it seemed that they could not finish killing them.

Not only in their direction, but also in the other three directions of the building, facing more and more bugs, the gunfire became more and more urgent.

"Bang bang! Bang bang! ”

Worm after bug roared and fell, struggling unwillingly, roaring wildly, leaving blood and slime everywhere.

If the killing speed can't keep up with the speed at which the bugs appear, the building can be lost, and all of them will be a meal for the bugs.

"Damn, how many bugs are there?"

It was a brutal defensive battle, with far more attackers than defenders.

The madness of the attacker is also far greater than that of the defender.

……

In the distance, in the sky outside the city, Su Xia looked calm, did not make a move, and kept observing the situation on both sides.

He just sent some nanobots over so he could get more information.

"In the building, there are a total of twenty-eight people, all of whom speak the language of the northern plains, and they should have lived here all year round.

"The guns they use are not the standard firearms of the human subjugation camp, nor are they ordinary small workshop products, but the products of decades ago, before the age of psionic energy.

"They don't have uniform clothing, and a few young people are thin and seem to have experienced malnutrition, and if they join the subservient camp of the Cyborgs, they won't be hungry......"

Su Xia was observing and thinking, and his vigilance was always very high.

I don't know if it's because it's too far away, the system hasn't popped up a prompt, even if he sees the shared screen of the nanobot, there is no prompt content.

In the center of the city, in the building, there are many old army green ammunition and weapon cases, some of which are printed with the date and number of production.

Su Xia looked at it and saw that there was a box with a production date, which turned out to be seventy years ago.

"A batch of old munitions, all kinds of markings are in the northern language." Su Xia pondered, "It should be what they found from this city, it is the military material buried in the ground of this city. ”

These people don't seem to be subservient to the camp, like some kind of rebel group.

The Terran soldiers who submitted to the camp had uniform uniforms and standard weapons, so they would not use these old firearms.

"In addition to military supplies, there are also some canned food, which are also decades old, and they may have found them from underground bomb shelters." Su Xia looked at the shared picture, "But there are no fresh living materials, and there are no traces of human life, which means that they don't live in this abandoned city, but just come to look for supplies, maybe they know that there are materials here, or they may come to try their luck......"

These people, who don't know whether to say lucky or unlucky, found supplies in this abandoned city, but they were surrounded by the Zerg.

The jungle around the city is full of Zerg creatures that have scurried out, and the number is already nearly a thousand.

And there are already five or six hundred low-level bugs on the streets of the city.

"Whoa—whoa—"

Their roars were one after another, with ferocity and cruelty in their voices, and each one ran frantically towards the building in the center of the city, as if they didn't know what death was, and the one in front was dead and the one behind pounced.

Around the building, there were more than 100 broken insect corpses, and the white snow was stained dark green with blood.

The cold wind howled, and the foul smell of blood wafted through the wind.

In the building, the twenty-eight people, their faces were not very good-looking, some were frowning, and some were worried, changing ammunition in a depressing atmosphere.

Everyone knew that if they continued like this, those bugs outside would break through their defenses sooner or later.

Hold on to the end only to death.

In the face of a large number of bugs, Breakout is also dead, and may die faster.

No matter how you look at it, waiting for everyone's final result, there is only one way to die.

"There are more and more bugs, and there should be a low-level or even mid-level hive in this area." A middle-aged man with glasses said.

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have let everyone come along, I didn't do a good job of reconnaissance." A man of about 30 years old blamed himself.

"I don't blame you, these hateful bugs are so weird." Another said.

"Yes, I've scouted before, but I didn't see any bugs."

"Well, little Peter wants to go back and propose to little Mary."

"Haha, little Peter hasn't given up yet?"

“……”

Everyone's eyes were focused on the thin young man, and they all laughed a few words, making the atmosphere a little lighter.

However, this ease is temporary after all.

"If you really can't do it, just retreat to the underground passage, the bottom is accessible in all directions, and you should be able to hold it for a while, as long as you guard the entrance."

"It's a pity that the other exits of the underground passage have collapsed, and only the entrance and exit deep in the basement of this building remain, otherwise we can exit through other exits."

"Perhaps, we can use explosives to ...... those blocked exits."

"Be careful!"

"Little Peter!"

Suddenly, someone shouted, and his face changed sharply.

A bug entered the building at some point, like a silent assassin, and unknowingly reached the third floor where they were.

At this moment, the bug was at the top of the stairs, less than ten meters away from the young man named Peter.

"Whoa—"

With a fierce glint in its eyes, it bared its fangs and pounced.

This short distance only takes a fraction of a moment for a class like the Swift Worm, which is extremely explosive and fast.

"Little Peter!"

"Get out of the way!"

Everyone's faces changed, they looked anxious, and they yelled hoarsely, but it seemed that it was too late.

"Huh?"

Little Peter turned his head and saw the insect that was rushing forward, but the muzzle of his gun was still pointed out of the window, and a trace of panic flashed on his thin face, and the whole person froze for a moment, and there was no time to do anything.

Is he going to die here today?

He panicked in his heart, subconsciously closed his eyes, and did not dare to look directly at his death, only hoping that the process of death was not too painful.

"Dear Mary, you love the spring wind, and when I die, I will turn into a soft wind to protect your ......"

Thinking like this, a gentle and beautiful girl's face flashed through his mind.

But at this moment, there was a sudden click, as if something hard had been forcibly cut, and a crazy roar followed.

This kind of roar is very familiar to Little Peter, and it is the unwillingness of the insect before it dies.

What happened?

Little Peter found that death and pain did not befall him, but chose the worm that pounced on him.

"I'm not dead?"

He opened his eyes and touched his cheek and body in surprise, still a familiar feeling, and there was nothing missing in it.

On his clothes, there was some warm blood that did not belong to him, but to the worm.

The worm had been torn apart, as if it had been cut by some sharp object, its torso was broken, its limbs were separated, and the section was extremely smooth and flat, as if it had been cut by a machine.

"I was saved, and the one who saved me was ......"

The joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe made little Peter's body tremble slightly, and he looked around and found that the rest of the people looked shocked.

They were dumbfounded, and they all froze in place, as if they had seen something incredible.

Little Peter looked again at the cracked worm corpse in front of him.

He knew very well that these friends on his team did not have the ability to directly cut the worm open.

"What are you doing in a daze?"

An unfamiliar voice, suddenly sounded outside a certain window, attracting everyone's attention.

They all turned their heads and looked at the window.

Through the broken glass, they saw that it was a man in a black robe, with no expression on his face and a calm gaze.

At this moment, everyone was stunned for a moment, and Qi Qi thought of a name.

Or rather, a codename......

(End of chapter)