"Sudden ......" In the fierce gunfire, the machine gunner Kiel pulled the trigger tightly, not daring to relax in the slightest.

He could feel the violent vibrations of the recoil transmitted to his shoulders.

The red-hot bullet shot into the dark stone crevice, and disappeared into the darkness. It wasn't clear, but Kiel was sure he had hit something. Because there was constantly a shrill scream coming from inside.

Kiel didn't dare to relax and shot inside desperately.

In just a few moments, the 200 rounds of ammunition were all gone. Kiel shouted at the moment: "Change the bullet~!"

The deputy shooter Weir hurriedly untied a bullet belt from his body, and pressed the open receiver inside, because he was too nervous, he had already rehearsed thousands of movements, he was actually unfamiliar, and he pressed it twice and did not install it.

At this time, several other people raised their rifles and kept shooting into the hole, suppressing possible enemies inside.

At this time, the squad leader, who was lying on the ground with his head in his arms, took advantage of the gap in the ceasefire of the machine guns and jumped up from the ground.

He was nimble like a monkey, and he ran wildly towards the crack in the stone, and at the same time, he hissed and shouted: "Retreat, retreat, all exit~!"

After the cartridge belt was loaded, Kiel slammed the receiver cover with great force, pulled the bolt, and prepared to continue firing, but when he heard the order to retreat, he picked up the machine gun and turned and ran.

This is one of the great things about the Heavy, they are always given priority when retreating, being the first to retreat, and when they find cover, they turn around to cover the rest of the retreat.

The slope to the ground was too steep to run straight up, and from it hung a rope, and Kiel was half-lying on the ground, holding on to it with one hand, and pushing the ground with both feet, awkwardly climbing upward.

The sub-shooter, Will, pushed his ass against him from behind, pushing him forward with all his milky strength.

He could hear the sound coming from the cracks in the stone behind him getting louder and louder, and he didn't know how many things were still following.

Without the powerful firepower of the machine guns, those few rifles alone can only provide cover for shooting, and cannot suppress those things hidden in the dark.

The squad leader fired two more shots into the darkness, and immediately pulled out the grenade on his waist and shouted: "Grenade~!"

The soldiers unanimously lowered their rifles, drew their grenades, and then pulled the fuse and threw it into the hole.

Immediately, they all held their heads in their hands and lowered their bodies as much as possible.

A few seconds later, I heard a loud '......boom, boom, boom'.

An exploding fire burst out from the crack in the stone, and the thick smoke rushed out of it with a heat wave, and the gravel fell like a torrential rain, making a crackling sound, and smashed on the body and hurt.

However, the soldiers of the first battalion, one company, and two platoons did not care about this, let the stones fall on them, turned around and rushed to the slope, dragging the rope and running up.

Anyway, the stones can't kill people, and if you run slowly, you might die.

As soon as they jumped on the ground, before they could catch their breath, the squad leader threw all the remaining three grenades on his belt into the ground in one go.

Then jump out a few meters away, crouch behind a rock and wait for the explosion.

Before he could stand still, he heard a violent explosion.

The smoke from the explosion rushed out of the ground, and at the same time spewed out a large amount of rubble, scattering it in all directions, causing the surrounding soldiers to scream and rush to dodge.

Fortunately, after the explosion, there was silence all around, and there was no sound at all except the whining of the wind.

The soldiers stood around the pit, all staring at the bottom of the pit, and opened fire at the slightest movement. But they waited for a long time, until the smoke in the cave cleared, but there was still no movement.

Everyone couldn't help but wonder: What's going on?

At this time, the commander of the first company ran over from the side with a quick step.

He grabbed the squad leader and yelled at him, "What did you find down there?"

The squad leader had a shocked expression on his face, shook his head blankly and said, "I don't know, there is something down there anyway."

We walked a few dozen meters down the passage and then I felt movement ahead. It was big, and there were a lot of them, like a hornet's nest, and I felt something was wrong and retreated, and the stuff chased us......"

The company commander scolded angrily with a dark face, and said, "Hell, you said this, how can I report it to the top?"

The enraged company commander was about to scold this idiot when someone next to him shouted, "Hey, boss, you'd better come and see this." ”

The company commander couldn't help but be stunned, and then threw away the squad leader and strode over.

I saw a few soldiers surrounding something on the ground, the expression on their faces was very strange, and when they saw the company commander coming, they took a step back and gave up the middle position.

The company commander lowered his head to the ground and asked, "What did you find?"

"That's it, chief. One of the soldiers gestured with his foot to a black curved branch on the ground.

The company commander frowned, and the accustomed surname was ready to roar: These bunnies, a branch is also worth making a fuss about~!

Although the surface vegetation of the wasteland is scarce, there are many vines growing underground, and it is normal for them to be blown up by the explosion.

The soldier squatted down and stretched out two fingers, carefully pinched the branch from the ground with only his fingertips, shook it in front of the company commander, and said, "I think this thing should be alive." ”

From one end of the branch, thick green droplets were dripping down, and the viscous liquid pulled out a long line, and the head showed white flesh, which looked like tendons or something.

The company commander couldn't help but be taken aback, and then looked intently.

I saw that the surface of the branch was still densely covered with barbs, which were not only hard, but also extremely sharp. Obviously, this can't be a vine.

The company commander said a little frantically: "What is this?"

"I think it's like...... Maybe it's the legs of some kind of insect. There were soldiers in the crowd muttering quietly.

"Hiss~!"

There was a sudden gasp around him.

If one leg of an insect is so big, then the whole body must also be increased by a hundredfold.

Someone said blankly: "One leg is so big, this worm must not be at least the size of a pig~!"

"Hey, in this way, if you catch and slaughter it, will you have meat to eat?"

"Slaughter you big-headed ghost, such a big insect, it's not bad if you don't be slaughtered by it and eat meat. ”

“......”

Kiel swallowed a mouthful of saliva, covered his mouth and rubbed it vigorously, then looked at the squad leader and comrades next to him.

Everyone was like him, their faces turned white with fright, and they were afraid for a while at the thought that they had just been surrounded by a group of insects the size of an unknown number of pigs, and almost fed them all with insects.

Kiel thought for a moment, silently took out his cigarette, lit it and took a puff, then shoved it into the mouth of the dazed Will, and patted him on the shoulder.

The company commander was silent for a moment, then turned around and shouted nervously: "Come on, go and blow up this hole for Lao Tzu." Be vigilant. Herald, report to your superiors, we've found something strange. ”

"Yes~!" everyone agreed, and they took action one after another.

Several sappers made several holes in the mountain wall on either side of the stone crevice, filled them with explosives and detonated them.

The crumbling rocks will fill half of the cavern, blocking the passage through the cracks in the stones, so that even if there are monsters in the cave, they will not be able to get out.

And the herald quickly informed the regimental headquarters in the rear, where there was a radio station to contact the Sailfish camp.

More than an hour later, a squadron of flying whistled from afar, landed on the rocky beach, and a large group of people walked down from it.

Kiel and the rest of the Skeleton Division stood on the lookouts, and the first to appear was a group of orc grenadiers in armor.

It was followed by a dozen robed mages and priests. Each of them held a staff in their hands, and the magic crystals on the end of the staff shone in various ways in the sunlight. At a glance, you can see that these are definitely ruthless characters with high mana.

The combination of Panzergrenadiers and Mages has always played the role of a reserve, and wherever there is a situation, they fly there as soon as possible to extinguish the fire.

To the surprise of the soldiers of the Skeleton Division, there was actually a pretty figure in the crowd, which turned out to be a woman.

There are only a few female surnames on the front line and at the Sailfish camp, and most of them are crew members of the war fortress.

However, this slender woman was very familiar to the soldiers.

He has long blue hair and always has a delicate and innocent smile on his face. It was the young and beautiful Miss Vera, Lord Lorraine's personal secretary, or personal watchman.

In the legend of the security army, Miss Vera followed Lord Lorraine inseparably, and it was on the orders of Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine, the eldest lady of the Grand Boss, to prevent Lord Lorraine from stealing food outside.

The soldiers couldn't help but be shocked, since Miss Vera is here, then ......

They all looked at the man beside Vera.

Sure enough, the person standing next to Miss Vera was the target she was closely watching, Lord Lorraine, the big boss of the security army.

Lord Lorraine stepped down from the war fortress, took a deep breath of cold air, and suddenly felt refreshed.

Behind her, Vera was wearing a fur coat that looked warm, and a tall gray-blue leather hat, let out a white breath, rubbed her white and tender little hands, and looked around curiously.

In this large-scale search operation, the three main divisions of the security forces undertook the most important tasks and have always been at the forefront. Their firepower was strong enough to reassure Lord Lorraine.

Ever since he discovered the cave grabbing monster from the Demon Realm, Lord Lorraine has been interested in similar things, and when he heard the telegram sent back by the skeleton master from the front that he had found the monster, the Lord immediately decided to come in person.

After discovering the strange insect legs, the company commander led the whole company to carefully search the ground within the explosion range, and found a lot of strange things, all of which were sent to Lorraine at this moment.

Spread across the ground were half of a worm's leg, a few curved carapace fragments, and a pincer-like thing covered with inverted teeth.

Lord Lorraine crouched down to observe these things carefully, picked up the large pincer-like thing and knocked it hard, and found that they were as hard as iron, and from the outside, this thing looked very much like the mouthparts of insects.

If you are bitten by this pair of pliers, I am afraid that the bone will break in an instant.

Judging by the remains alone, they may belong to one or several dangerous creatures.

Lorraine looked up at Vera, who shook her head with a bitter face and said, "No impression, I can't see it." ”

Just from a few pieces of wreckage, it seems to be obvious what kind of animal this is, and it is really difficult for Vera. In fact, even experienced biologists may not be able to tell what kind of animal it is from the remains.

Lord Lorraine threw down the remains of the monster, clapped his hands, and said, "Okay, then we'll find the monster." ”

The orc grenadiers and mages sprang into action, scouring carefully along the cracks in the ground.

Beneath the surface, the crevices are wide enough to accommodate two people running side by side, but on the ground, they are only palm-wide, and they are intermittent.

The mages used spells such as the Mage's Eye to investigate deeply, guiding everyone along the stone crevices to explore northward.

Finally, after an hour, the mage noticed something strange underground, threw an orange smoke bomb here, and returned to Lorraine, where he found a large hole in the ground, which seemed to have something moving, but there was no light in it, and nothing could be seen.

Lorraine pondered for a moment and said, "Can it be exploded?"

The sapper captain next to him carefully asked the mage about the geological structure of the stone crevice, and then patted his chest and promised: "It can be exploded, the shape of an inverted funnel underground, and the explosives in the stone crevice and several different points can blow up the entire roof of the cave." ”

Lord Lorraine approved the plan of the sapper captain, and with the assistance of the mages, the sapper squad worked with great efficiency.

They first mapped out the general extent of the cave, avoiding the thick rock layers at the top, and picking out the weak points.

There are ready-made explosives in the war fortress - when dealing with the monsters underground, I found that the power of the grenades is a little small, so the current orc grenadiers are now embarrassed to go out without carrying a few boxes of explosives.

Fearing that the explosives would not be strong enough, the sappers even used a bombshell on a war fortress.

After these arrangements were made, everyone retreated two miles away, and the war fortress flew into the air, condescending to watch.

The sapper captain installed the detonator and detonator, and then relinquished the power to light the oversized firecracker to Lord Lorraine.

Lord Lorraine didn't feel anything, but Vera was very interested, and she was eager to try it next to her, and her little hands couldn't help rubbing back and forth.

"It's better for you to come. Seeing this, Lord Luo didn't want to file her positive surname, and immediately gave up the position in front of the detonator.

Vera cheered and said, "Young Master, you are the best." ”

Then he squeezed Lorraine to the side, raised his white and tender little hands and blew, holding the handle with both hands, staring ahead, and pressing down hard.

Immediately afterward, I saw a flame rising into the sky in the distance, followed by a vibration from the ground, and the flame rolled upside down into the air, and then the explosion of 'boom' came.

There was a roar that resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the rubble flew all over the sky, even smashing into the vicinity of the Skeleton Division soldiers who were two miles away.

It wasn't until ten minutes later, when the smoke from the explosion gradually faded, that the soldiers of the engineering team stepped forward first, and they wanted to check if there were any explosion points.

A few minutes later, the sappers made a safe gesture to the rear, and Lord Lorraine and the Skeleton Division approached.

The ground has collapsed into a large pit with a diameter of several tens of meters, and the pit is filled with stones, and there is a height of twenty or thirty meters from the bottom of the pit to the ground, which shows the huge amount of this underground space.

The Skeleton Division's soldiers raised their middle fingers to the bottom of the pit and yelled excitedly.

But Lord Lorraine in the crowd was in trouble, it seemed that all the monsters were buried under thousands of tons of stones, how to catch one and use it to identify?

Do you want the soldiers to turn over these stones?

Think about it and know it's impossible.

The lord pouted, it seems that he can only run for nothing today.

When Lorraine turned to leave, there was a rattling sound from the stones at the bottom of the pit, and the stones kept rolling.

"There's something down there~!"

Someone exclaimed, and everyone cheered, and they all crowded to the edge of the pit again, stretching their necks and looking down.

The stones were rolling more and more, and something wanted to push through the pile of rubble above.

The soldiers above looked at each other, with surprise on their faces, what kind of monster is so tenacious, thousands of tons of stones can't kill them?

With a "hula" sound, a black shadow sprang out of the rubble, jumped onto the surface of the stone pile, and let out a sharp cry of "snort".

"Monster~!" there was an exclamation from the crowd, and someone raised their guns and shot at the monster.

The monster was shot twice and fell to the ground, green liquid oozing from its body.

At this time, Lorraine could see clearly, it should be an insect, if there was an insect in the world bigger than a wolfdog.

It appears to be a combination of an ant's head and a cockroach's tail, with a mouthpiece like large pincers on its head, a pair of sharp claws in front of it, and six black legs in the back.

Before Lord Lorraine could ask Vera what it was, the rubble burst open, and countless of these monsters poured out of it like fountains, screaming noisily.

The Skeleton Division's soldiers were all startled, and they picked up the guy and shot at the giant insects.

But there were so many of them that they kept crawling out of the rubble, climbing up the crater wall, and quickly climbing upward, the large pincers at their mouths closing one by one, making a clicking sound, as if they were demonstrating.

Lord Lorraine secretly said in his heart: It seems that he really stabbed a hornet's nest or a monster's nest.

In the face of the monsters gushing out like fountains, the fire of the rifles was clearly insufficient, and the soldiers had already begun to throw grenades into it.

The officer shouted: "Stand back, back away, give way to the shooting space~!"

Against them, machine guns are the best option.

The orc grenadiers stood in front of Lorraine with machine guns in their arms, and persuaded Lorraine to retreat to safety.

Lord Lorraine disagreed, patted the half-orc grenadier captain beside him, and said, "Isn't it just right, go try your new toy." ”

The grenadier commander grinned excitedly, showed a mouthful of yellowed teeth, and roared angrily: "Little guys, go and move our new guys out~!"

He threw off his hat and strode back into the fortress of war, and when he came out again, he already had a long metal pipe in his hand, and a thin tube under the tube, burning with blue flames, and a huge backpack on his back.

It can be seen that the set of equipment is very heavy, and he walks very slowly with every step.

A dozen orcs in the same equipment as him walked with heavy steps, against the retreating crowd towards the monster.

The officers of the Skeleton Division jumped to their feet in the back, and the stupid big guys just blocked the view of the machine gunners.

The first monster jumped out of the pit, opened its large pincers and let out a scream, and then rushed towards the nearest target, and behind it, dozens of large insects followed in an instant.

The orc with the metal pipe in his hand sneered, pulled the trigger under the pipe, and with a "whew", a fire dragon erupted from the mouth of the pipe, enveloping more than a dozen large insects in blazing flames.

The flamethrower, a weapon developed by the Alchemy Research Institute as early as a year ago, was locked in the warehouse as a technical reserve, and when it came to dealing with monsters, it was the first thing Lord Lorraine thought of.

There's no better weapon to take on enemies in the caverns than the flamethrower.

The others followed suit, and a dozen fire dragons surrounded the pit, setting fire to all the monsters that climbed up.

The orc grenadier laughed heartily and fired from side to side with the flamethrower, and all the monsters that rushed up were ignited by the flames.

There was a scream like a monster rubbing glass from the flames, and the ignited monster was wrapped in a ball of fire and rushed out of the fire dragon of the jet, but it didn't take a few steps before it fell to the ground, turning into a burning corpse.

Orc grenadiers armed with flamethrowers marched forward, deadly nets slaughtering a monster that was glued to it.

The last dozen or so men stood on the edge of the pit again, spewing flames into the pit until they ran out of fuel.

The bottom of the pit turned into a burning brazier.

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