While Ral and his troops were busy getting acquainted with their new companions in the hidden hut, the chaos was growing far across the Republic's capital. In order to avoid detection, Lal's troops were virtually isolated from the rest of the world except for their daily reconnaissance, and their only communication with the outside world was through regular contact with their superiors. When there is any movement in the vicinity that needs attention, his superiors will notify him in time. But other than that, Lal knew almost nothing.

It took about a week for Lahr's B platoon to get used to working with his new companions. Although it is difficult to say what kind of combat power they can exert now, at least they should not be fighting infighting.

The only problem was that all of a sudden, the platoon was a little bloated. Because each person is assigned a worm, it is equivalent to doubling the number of people in the entire platoon. The most troublesome thing is that they found that the bug whisperer device is not equipped with a corresponding command system, so that any superior officer who wants to know the status of the insect under his command can only find out by asking the soldier to whom the insect belongs, and he can check his own insect status and tell him.

After this flaw was fed, the above did not come up with a perfect solution, but chose to issue each officer a new set of power armor, this new armor of the Worm Whisperer device is equipped with a command system that can be seen from the UI is quite rudimentary, through which they can check the status of the insects carried by each soldier under their command.

After a week of training, Ral's platoon was finally given its first official mission: to reconnoiter a nearby secret facility hidden underground.

With the help of the insects, after reading the mission briefing, Ral decided to adopt a new method - having the cockroaches carve a way underground to the secret facility, which would prevent them from being discovered as they advanced on land.

However, they soon discovered a problem, although the cockroaches were digging fast, the cockroaches were too short to dig holes for themselves and their puppies. With no good tools at hand, they came up with a stupid solution: let soldiers in power armor carry or even lift cockroaches to dig holes.

The power armor's hydraulics are indeed enough to drive and dig while carrying cockroaches, but who will dig holes with cockroaches becomes a big problem. While holding their posture and mechanically following the pace of the cockroaches for a period of time or even a few hours, they endure the cockroaches digging up and sprinkling their power armor on their bodies, and it will take a few minutes for the power armor to turn into dirt and dust for archaeological relics. They basically work hour-long shifts, and every time they let the people in the platoon fight who lost the cricket fight go.

In addition, they were not idle, they gathered all the soil dug out by the cockroaches and piled it up in a corner of the warehouse. Someone got some hay and leaves from outside, and built a simple nest for these insects. Like these big-headed soldiers, these insects have to sleep in the Chase bunk. People in row B generally refer to it as a "kennel".

And even in just a week, some ingenious guys have already begun to add accessories to their own insects. Most people still think that their jumping worm is a small pack beast, after all, the strength of the jumping worm is also amazing, and it can carry a lot of things. However, a few girls in the platoon have begun to sew clothes for their own jumping insects - the first jumping insect to get a tailor-made dress is a jumping insect named "Alice" from a female medical soldier in Class 14 of the B platoon.

Soon this style was learned by the other girls in the platoon. But the old men don't know what to make clothes for the jumping worms, they don't plan to make clothes, and they don't know how to make clothes, they choose a more direct way. On the third day of the jumping insects, some people have already begun to add patterns to the jumping insects. At first, it was painting, but then a guy in the platoon who knew how to tattoo began to collect money for jumping bug tattoos. On Miles' back was the Imperial emblem of the tattoo artist - the cockroach was motionless when it was tattooed, because it was tattooing its back with a thick biological carapace, and the cockroach was almost insensitive to it.

However, it is true that no feelings can be cultivated in a week, and even now some people are reluctant to have more in-depth communication with their jumping insects, because many people remember that their brothers, relatives and comrades-in-arms died at the hands of the insects. If it weren't for the superiors, the order, they didn't want to have any intimate contact with the insects at all. One Marine openly objected to the admission of fellow Worms and rejected any form of Bug teammates. Until now, he had been the only Marine in the platoon who didn't have any insect buddies, and he himself seemed to be happy with the arrangement so far.

Of course, there are other entertainment activities, in addition to the above-mentioned fighting crickets that use jumping insects as crickets, some powerful guys in the platoon, such as the strong men who are marauders, like to wrestle with jumping insects, or it can be said that they use jumping insects instead of bullfighting. The jumping insects that are in a state of explosion at any time when the Marines are ordered to enter the combat state and those who have unloaded their power armor and are naked are fighting. The main thing is to see who knocks whom down first. Generally speaking, the human side mainly resists the fangs that grow on the outside of the jumping worm, and then picks up the insect and throws it to the ground, or dodges when the jumping insect rushes over, and then directly knocks down the jumping insect from the flank while it is unprepared; On the other hand, the jumping insects are much simpler, they are not allowed to use hoarseness, and after claw grasping such lethal weapons, their most effective weapon is their own impact power, which is basically similar to that of a bullfight, constantly sprinting back and forth - but fighting these jumping insects does not need to take a special red cloth.

As for the current win rate...... It's about 0 to 30, and humanity hasn't won a single game so far.

In short, these are just means to pass the time at leisure. The insects have gradually become a little closer to the humans they obey. Perhaps after losing their permanent berserk state, they were finally able to calm down and make good use of the brief peaceful time to enjoy life. Sometimes some of the hoppers will leave the kennel and go to sleep next to their partner – or just lie there and listen to their partner's chatter.

The excavation lasted about eight hours. If you only walk in a straight line, it will probably take less than an hour to get it, but this is Yumoyan, not any inaccessible wild planet in Koplu, there are all kinds of pipelines and lines underground, and they have to dig around those places many times, otherwise they will be detected by the relevant departments of the republic.

But at least they made it to the facility they were looking for without any danger. They dug into the walls of the facility and stopped. The concrete walls of the facility are not something that cockroaches can break through. The excavators in front quickly reported the news to Ral, who was about to fall asleep, and Ral, who was about to fall asleep, was in good spirits after receiving the news. He immediately gave the order and mobilized Platoon B.

In order to ensure that the back road was not cut off, he left two squads, one to guard the warehouses and huts on the surface, and the other to guard and patrol the passages they had dug out. The remaining two classes, Four Eyes and Miles, were tasked with following Ral to the facility.