Chapter 196: Underground Breakout
Needle tip to wheat mang!
Xiao Ming's blow used the Nine Dragons force, and the power in his body was stored eight times in an instant, and after a collision, he actually collided with a cow worm.
The alarm from the scanning system was already flushed, and the flickering red light was seeping out like blood.
"Damn, don't scream, I know how many bugs there are!" Bigmouth knocked on the scanning system terminal on his arm, swearing.
What is displayed on the terminal is no longer a red dot, but a piece of red.
Team 177 stepped on the head of the swarm. The terminal count has reached six digits, and it is still refreshing upwards, and the last three digits are jumping like crazy.
"Damn, we've stepped on a worm nest. Retreat, retreat!" Podol shouted angrily: "Xiao Ming, come back quickly!"
"You retreat, I'll come when I kill the cow worm!" Xiao Ming was still fighting with the cow worm, if he didn't kill the cow worm, the 177 team wouldn't even have a chance to escape.
Podol glanced at Xiao Ming and found that although the others were in the swarm, but except for the cattle insects, no insect could get close to him, as long as he was within one meter of Xiao Ming, the Nayajiao spear would suddenly kill, point on the head of the insect, and kill him with one blow.
And the cattle insect was also defeated by Xiao Ming, and it didn't have the majesty that matched its size.
Xiao Ming had already used the invisible dark fire, and every time he attacked, the dark fire would be directly sent into the insect's body, which would be fatal in an instant. It's just that the damn cow worm has an extremely keen sense, once the Yajiao gun has a dark fire, it won't contact Xiao Ming at all, and the cannon fodder-like spider insect will rush up frantically to launch a suicide attack. to entangle Xiao Ming.
Unless Xiao Ming burns it directly with a dark fire. Otherwise, it won't work. But Xiao Ming is very clear. HSS executives must still be monitoring 177, and he doesn't dare to guarantee that there are no HSS people in 177, and even with HSS means, he can control someone in 177 without that person knowing it.
This can be seen only from Revinia's methods.
For the sake of the overall situation, Xiao Ming can't use his abilities in a bright way.
"Headquarters, headquarters, I am the captain of the 177th squad of the third regiment of the ninth brigade. Puda area, 0285.3376.1124 area found a large insect swarm, there is a live insect nest here!" Podor grabbed the communicator and roared. Damn the higher-ups, the information was completely wrong. According to the situation given above, Team 177's current position will have to advance another thousand kilometers to reach the bug-dense area, which is also the planned target location. Prior to this, according to intelligence, only sporadic bugs were encountered.
But now, hundreds of thousands of bugs are pouring out of the ground like a black-red tsunami. Surrounded Team 177.
There was a serious disturbance on the other end of the day, and it only came back for a few moments.
“1...... Reply...... Coordinate...... Zizi ......"
"Damn it. We must have bumped into the worm mother, otherwise there would be no such insect that interferes with the signal of the sky!"
In 2533, before the photonic revolution, humans used old frequency wave signals, which were interfered with by a kind of jammer from bugs. However, this kind of interference insect often only appears during the general battle, and usually guards the insect mother.
It wasn't until after the Photon Revolution that the new Photon Tianxun protocol came into use, and the interference of insects no longer played any role, which made this interference bug withdraw from the stage of insect swarms.
And in 2533, as long as you encounter a disturber bug in a small-scale battle, it is basically equivalent to meeting the worm mother.
"Captain, we are surrounded, what should we do?" The members of 177 were more accustomed to Podol's command, and at this critical moment, they all forgot that the current command was in Xiao Ming's hands.
But it doesn't matter, even if everyone remembers this incident, there is no way to ask Xiao Ming. Because Xiao Ming is fighting with cattle insects.
"Xiao Ming blocked the cattle insects for us, we have to break through immediately, otherwise we will only have a dead end!" The situation now is that no matter which direction they break through, it is not a good choice.
"Where do we break through?" asked Big Mouth.
Podol did not speak, because he did not know the answer.
"We go into the wormhole. In the passage, the number of bugs we face decreases. Even if the bugs make holes, there will be movements. It's better than being on the ground!" Remidios, who had never expressed an opinion, suddenly spoke.
Remidios, who has always given people a soft and weak feeling, showed a queenly demeanor at this time. The external weapons on her power armor don't know what's going on, each shot can result in a bug, and those that are hit will all turn to ashes as if they were directly hit by Remidios.
At this moment, no one dared to refute the words of Remidios.
"Yes, let's go into the wormhole! I'll open the way, Captain, you and Hans will follow. Remidios, trouble you and the cannon, Xiao Feng presses back!" Xiao Ming appeared beside everyone.
Not far away, the cow worm didn't know when it was blown up to only half of its body.
"I'll go, Xiao Ming, you killed a cow worm so quickly?" Ao Yin couldn't help but ask.
"I stuffed a bunch bomb in its mouth!" Xiao Ming said lightly, and then said to Podol, "Captain, I decide!"
Podol gritted his teeth: "Xiao Ming and Remidios are right, as long as we enter the wormhole, we will have a chance to live, go!"
"Artillery, open the limiter of the shoulder cannon and bombard with maximum firepower, we need a gap safety period!" Xiao Ming said loudly.
"Understood!" the cannon replied, opening the shoulder cannon's limiter.
The purpose of the limiter is not to overload the energy weapon and explode itself, but now what 177 needs is heavy firepower.
After turning on the shoulder gun limiter, the cannon lowered the shoulder gun to the ground and turned on the automatic mode. With no restrictions at all, the shoulder cannon with an attack energy of 1,000 fired frantically at a rate of one shot per second, and the powerful attack power immediately suppressed the attack of the swarm.
However, this method also determines that the life of the shoulder cannon has entered the countdown, and it will not exceed forty seconds. The shoulder cannon will self-detonate due to overload. But the last one blew itself up. Also needed by the 177 squad.
177 burrowed into the worm path, and Xiao Ming opened the way in front.
The worm path is very large, about ten meters in diameter, and more than thirty spiders can rush up at the same time, but this is also better than on the ground, if it is on the ground, this number may be turned to three hundred, and this is just to say that spiders. Add in the killer bugs, exploding bugs, and screamers, and Team 177 can't survive for more than half an hour. Even if Xiao Ming and Remidios are there, the two of them may be able to break through, but none of the fighters of 177 can escape.
This was not the result of Xiao Ming and Remidios being willing to choose, so they ended up choosing underground.
With firepower suppression in the distance, and Xiao Ming's invincible spearmanship in the distance, the 177 squad successfully entered the insect path and went all the way down. Heading towards an unknown location - not completely unknown, because Xiao Ming can know the density of the swarm through soul searching. In addition, the new Soul Search Technique has the ability of Soul Searching, so Xiao Ming can even know the general structure of the passage in the worm's nest, although the scope of the Soul Search Technique is drastically reduced underground, it is still much better than the scanning system that does not work.
The insects in the worm tunnel are endless, and they rush up to trap Team 177 in the passage. For insects, humans dare to burrow into their base camp, it is simply tricks to die, and they must kill these humans as quickly as possible.
But what the bugs didn't expect was that under the leadership of two powerful perverted sharp knives, the survival rate of Team 177 underground was far greater than that on the ground.
Xiao Ming's one-man switch, ten thousand insects are unstoppable. And the last Remidios is with two guns in hand, and the swarm is not close.
Both of them have already used their strongest combat power without completely revealing their secrets.
The insects in front and behind all fell in batches, and Team 177 quickly shuttled through the insect path. The insects are also crazy, the spiders on the ground are frantically digging holes, trying to dig out the 177 team, but Xiao Ming chose a passage that goes all the way down, and the insects are not so fast to dig them out from the ground. Who told the insects to avoid human reconnaissance, the shallowest insect path is also fifty meters underground, and the depth has reached thousands of meters?
Team 177 is far from a kilometer deep now, but there are two or three hundred meters, this distance, coupled with the rich minerals in the Puda area, the ground is quite hard because of various slag reasons, so even if it is a bug, it is impossible to dig out 177 in a short time.
The attack on the ground will not be fruitful for a short time, but the battle underground is becoming more and more intense.
The rest of the 177 were already shooting with all their might, and they knew very well that going to melee combat by themselves at this time would be a disadvantage at all, so they were all just shooting desperately, and they only needed to shoot. In fact, the warriors of 177 had already seen that if there were only Xiao Ming and Remidios, they could directly kill the encirclement of the insects, whether it was underground or on the ground.
Xiao Ming and Remidios stayed for 177.
The warriors were moved in their hearts, and they could only repay the friendship between the two with a more desperate battle.
Kill, kill, kill!
"Kill it, brothers!" Bodol roared as he held a C-14 hybrid automatic rifle.
The C-14 hybrid automatic rifle is a hybrid gun type of energy bullet and kinetic energy bullet, and it is also the army standard weapon of 2533, and the bullet fired is a compressed high-explosive energy mass mixed with 8 mm. It is extremely lethal to insects below the insects. The only drawback is the amount of ammunition carried - kinetic energy bullets can never be compared to energy bullets in terms of ammunition.
However, this time 177 was well prepared, and there were two fierce men before, Xiao Ming and Remidios, which also made their ammunition consumption less than expected, so even if they were full of firepower at this time, it was enough for them to hold out for a long time.
The team continued to rush forward. The sound of gunshots and shouts of killing, as well as the roar of insects, became the main theme in the insect path.
"Not good!" Xiao Ming suddenly shouted, and one rushed forward, and the invisible dark fire burned directly, and hundreds of spiders and insects were suddenly decomposed into nothingness, and everyone's eyes were clear.
But everyone's heart sank at this moment.
Impasse.
After the spiders that blocked everyone's view were killed, everyone found themselves on a dead end.
"It's okay, let's kill it again. Go the other way. This damn wormway. There is no normal road at all!" Xiao Ming, who was afraid of leading the way, blamed himself. Loud voice.
Other fighters also expressed their understanding. In this case, who dares to say that he will not lead the way wrong.
"No, Xiao Ming didn't take the wrong way, the road has changed!" said Remidios suddenly.
Xiao Ming said bitterly: "Indeed, I didn't take the wrong road, this road was originally open, but the insects blocked it." It seems that the bugs have understood that only a few hundred bugs in the passage will not be able to stop us. So they just blocked the whole passage! So now even if we go back and change the way, the result will be the same!"
Everyone's faces changed.
"Then what are we going to do? Let's just go back to the ground! we can't sit back here anyway!" said Gatling, the gunner, without stopping.
"I have a way to open the passage, but the bugs will definitely keep blocking it, so the only way is to open a passage that the bugs can't think of, and then connect to other passages. It's impossible for the bugs to block all the passages around us in such a short period of time!" Xiao Ming said.
"You're going to open the way, how?" asked Podore.
"I need ten minutes to prepare. During this time, everyone needs to block the attack of the insects!" Xiao Ming needs a while to recover his soul power. He is now a materialized soul body, and the things that originally consumed true qi and physical strength were actually transformed with soul power to achieve the same effect.
Therefore, the soul power is far more consumed than that of him in his full state. To use the Darkfire to open the way, he had to recover first.
"Good. We're blocking for ten minutes!" Podol didn't ask Xiao Ming what to do. He believes in Xiao Ming!
"Remidios, you need to rest, too. I had a hunch that there would be more fierce battles to come. The two of us are the main force, and we must ensure the greatest combat effectiveness!" Xiao Ming looked at Remidios. He knew that the time queen, who was already the master of the personality, was in control of her body - or, strictly speaking, the time queen in a semi-awake state. Otherwise, Remidios wouldn't be like a different person.
"I understand, I will protect the Dharma for you, you can adjust with peace of mind!" Remidios nodded.
Podol made some adjustments to the team, in a group of five, three people shooting, two people in close combat, taking turns to guard the passage behind them, Xiao Ming and Remidios could not make a move, but none of the 177 fighters complained, they knew that if it weren't for Xiao Ming and Remidios, they would have died.
Hans led the first wave of five fighters to the top, and only when the soldiers of 177 personally faced the crazy onslaught of the bugs, they could more deeply understand how much pressure Xiao Ming and Remidios had blocked for them. In just three minutes, Hans couldn't stop the five, and Podol pressed up with the second group. Let Hans hurry up and change the ammunition and regain his strength.
Ten minutes, in normal times, ten minutes just passed in a stunned effort, but at this moment, even ten seconds would seem longer than the previous ten days, and the warriors in front of them would be attacked from all directions every second, except for behind them, everything else they needed to worry about.
Fortunately, the soldiers of 177 cooperated tacitly, and they all dared to use their lives, but they all persevered in this crazy ten minutes, and there were no casualties.
"Now it's okay!" Remidios struck again, C-14 growling again.
While other people's C-14s would have taken three or five shots to kill the bugs, even if they hit the vital points, Remy Dios' C-14 would have killed them if they hit the bugs - no matter where they hit - and they didn't miss a shot.
As soon as Remidios made a move, he blocked all the bugs that the 1177 warriors needed to be blocked by the cooperation of five people.
"Captain, please prepare the black gold, use all our black gold, we will blow up this passage and prevent the worms from chasing us quickly. In this way, Xiao Ming will have enough time to clear the way for us!" Remidios, who was in the semi-awake state of the master's personality, was still full of the aura of a queen, and her words were very plain, but they made it impossible for anyone to question and resist.
"Okay, I see. Cannons, prepare black gold, give me all the use!" Podol did not hesitate, and commanded loudly.
Black Gold Bomb, the most powerful physical explosive invented by humans at the end of the Dark Age of Star Beasts, at the same dose. The Black Gold Bomb is far more powerful than all of humanity's physical bombs (not counting nuclear power. Humans have developed the Energy Body Nuclear Energy Bomb. Physical nuclear energy has long been phased out, because the energy utilization rate of physical nuclear bombs is actually quite low).
Its advantages are threefold.
First: the manufacturing cost is cheap and the manufacturing speed is fast. If there are enough materials, a standard military factory can produce 10,000 tons in 20 hours.
Second: safe, without any radiation side effects, and at the same time, in the absence of an ignition device, it is a harmless semi-gelatinous fluid, not corrosive. It's not toxic, it's harmless, and it's hard to imagine how powerful it is.
Thirdly, it has two explosion modes to choose from, which can be selected in direct explosion mode and low-explosion and high-temperature mode, which can be used in a wide range of applications.
Therefore, until Xiao Ming's time, black gold was still the first choice for ground operations of mobile units in the army.
The cannon pulled out five black cylinders with a diameter of five centimeters and a length of twenty-five centimeters from the safety box on his body, which were the black gold bombs issued by Team 177, if they exploded together, it would be enough to wipe out all the lives within a radius of one kilometer.
"Four are set to low-explosive high-temperature mode and one is set to high-explosive mode. Set it up and leave it to me!" said Remidios.
The cannon is set as promised. Then he honestly handed over the black gold bomb to the petite Remidios.
"You follow Xiao Ming first, and I'll be there later!" said Remidios.
The warriors of 177 nodded honestly, and there was not even the slightest thought of rejection or hesitation in their heads.
Came to the rear. Bodol found that Xiao Ming put his hand on the ground, and something invisible spread out, and the ground quickly turned into nothingness, and a passage with a diameter of three meters appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
"My dear, what is this?" Oin was dumbfounded.
"I guess it's an ability. Before, I only thought that Remidios was a supernatural being, but now I can be sure that Xiao Ming is too!" Hans said.
"Everyone must keep it a secret, Xiao Ming and Remidios have been pretending to be transformers before, there must be a reason. If you come back alive this time, you must keep it a secret for them, you know?" Podol thought a little further and told the soldiers earnestly
"Captain rest assured. Xiao Ming and Remidios are one of us, and whoever dares to betray them, I will be the first to spare him!" said with a big mouth patting his chest.
Everyone nodded approvingly.
The dark fire that had been upgraded to the Chaos Fire could control the burning speed, as long as Xiao Ming could afford the mental power, so in less than a minute, Xiao Ming had opened a passage that was a hundred meters away from them diagonally below them, and there were no insects.
"Everyone, go inside, there are no bugs in it!" Xiao Ming put away the dark fire and said to everyone.
Bodol took the lead and chose to drill in. The rest jumped in without hesitation.
"Remidios, it's okay!" Xiao Ming saw everyone jump in and said to Remidios, who was pressing the formation.
Remidios nodded, waving his hands. An invisible shockwave spread out to the swarm of insects in front of them, so the insects touched by the shockwave were immediately deprived of all their time and turned into flying ashes. Remidios then opened the black gold bomb and threw it out gracefully - only four low-explosive and high-explosive ones were thrown, but the high-explosive one remained in his hand.
Then Remidios returned to Xiao Ming's side, and the two jumped off the passage, and while jumping, Remidios casually inserted a high-explosive black gold bomb into the entrance of the passage.
"We have three minutes, run!" said the two as soon as they landed.
Podol didn't ask why, they just ran immediately.
Three minutes passed quickly.
I heard a loud noise behind me, and the entire passage shook, as if there was an earthquake, the passage opened by Xiao Ming collapsed instantly, and the passage where the 177 team was located was also peeled off layer by layer, breaking inch by inch. But luckily, Remidios' calculations were perfect. In three minutes, Team 177 ran to a safe place, and in addition to being disgraced by the falling dirt and dust, they finally managed to avoid the danger of being buried alive.
As soon as the explosion stopped, everyone looked up from a defensive stance, you look at me, I look at you, and laughed out loud.
"We survived, I really didn't expect that we would survive surrounded by swarms. Hahaha, it's so TMD's cool!"
Even if they jumped into this passage, everyone never thought that they would survive, but now they are not only alive, but there are also many people, and the parts on everyone's bodies are also complete. No less arms and legs.
"Check the ammunition, check each other's power armor. Podol let out a long sigh, immediately issued a new order, and then said to Xiao Ming: "Xiao Ming, I know you have the ability, whether you can leave this damn place alive this time depends on you!"
Xiao Ming nodded cautiously: "I will, captain!"
Podol patted Xiao Ming's shoulder: "You do your best, don't work too hard." I know you and Remidios have a bigger mission. Don't ask me how I see it, I can see it anyway, so live well. You know what I mean!"
Of course, Xiao Ming understood what Podol meant, that is, to let the people who choose to give up 177 and save their lives when they really have no other choice.
But if you understand it, whether you can do it when the time comes, Xiao Ming himself doesn't know.
"Captain, there is no problem with the power armor, the energy crow has been replaced. There are also three standards for ammunition per person on average. But our Wuposture robot is gone. Everyone's food and water will last only one day!" Bigmouth reported to Podore. (To be continued......)