"Didi!" The alarm sounded suddenly, and the UT-886 drone, which had been cruising over the team, sent an alarm message to each team member: Beware of floating objects ahead, threat value: 0.01.

"This is ......" HE-8, who was walking at the front of the group, also heard a confused voice, "Snowflakes?

The other members of the "kitchen knife" team also discovered that a substance resembling cotton wool was pervading the heavens and the earth, and the further they went, the denser and larger the cotton wool-like substance became.

Craig flashed to the side and stopped, he stretched out his hand, palm up to catch some slowly falling cotton wool-like substance, and then leaned closer to look at it, "It's not snowflakes, it's ash, it should be volcanic ash or something, is there an active volcano nearby?"

Craig's voice just fell.

"Look, look over there!" said Lothar, who had climbed to a ridge with the team first, and suddenly stopped, pointed in a certain direction, and raised his voice.

Craig followed the sound, and after a few leaps, he had climbed from the base of the mountain to the top of the ridge, and the vision ahead suddenly opened up - a huge sinkhole was at the bottom.

Craig said in the public channel of the communication system: "Everyone stop moving and stand by, Lieutenant Colonel HE, you come here." ”

When the team received the order, they all stopped, and the six-headed scout insects that accompanied it also stopped and lingered, and HE-8 had already descended to the sinkhole with the team in front of him, and after receiving the order, he immediately turned back and stood in a row side by side with Craig and Lothar.

In front of everyone is a huge sinkhole with a radius of nearly 100 kilometers, the surface of the sinkhole is covered with a thick layer of gray volcanic ash, and in the center of the sinkhole stands a towering volcano.

The volcano is an active volcano, with smoke billowing from the summit and scorching magma erupting from time to time, and powerful air currents from the ground carry the ash to a height of more than 10 kilometers, and then fall like snowflakes.

"Does it look like a huge porcelain bowl with half a candle lit in the middle?" asked Lothar.

"Like!"

"It's apt!"

"Well described!"

Everyone replied.

"If I'm not mistaken, Team Sparrow actually disappeared at the foot of that volcano, Detective. HE-8 SAID.

"Oh?" Craig furrowed, "but why is the distress signal coming from twenty kilometers away from the volcano?"

"Maybe it's a 'brick-throwing' ploy," Lothar replied, "or maybe the survivors walked twenty kilometers on their own and then sent a distress signal." ”

"What kind of 'brick-throwing' scheme?" Craigge asked, "Is it the intention of throwing bait to confuse and deceive the enemy, to make him ignorant, fall into my trap, and then defeat the enemy?"

"It can be understood that way," Lieutenant Colonel HE said, "the ancient war wisdom of the earth. ”

"Hmph, the second possibility that Lothar just mentioned, the survivors walked twenty kilometers by themselves, I don't think it exists, and if you count it, the 'Sparrow' team has been missing for thirty star days, right?" Craig asked.

"Well, it's been exactly thirty star days today. Lothar replied.

"Do you think a lone prey can survive for thirty days on a planet full of 'hunters'?" asked Craig.

"It's hard!" Lothar shook her head.

"No way!" HE-8 said.

"Then there's only one possibility," said Craig, "what you call a 'brick-throwing' ploy." ”

"Detective, according to your speculation, it should be that the 'Sparrow' team found something on the other side of the volcano and was 'wiped out', which is why the 'Sparrow' team disappeared?" Lothar asked.

"What do you think?" asked Craig.

"Makes sense!" HE-8 replied.

Lothar nodded, "The crux of the matter now is what happened to the 'Sparrows' team, or what they discovered, that led to the 'extermination'?"

Under the crimson "moonlight", behind the Yaojing mask, Craig's eyes were shining, and he smiled without saying a word.

"Did they find out...... Frontline hives?" HE-8 wondered.

"The way to solve the mystery is for us to change our original plan and go straight to the missing coordinates of the 'Sparrow' team on the other side of the volcano, and if there is no gain, we will go to the distress source again," Craig said, "What do you think, two chiefs?"

"Agreed!" HE-8 SAID.

"I agree," Lothar replied, "but I suggest 'doing' those scout bugs before diverting them, and I feel very twisted when I see them." ”

"Okay," said Craig, "after following us all the way, it's so noisy, I've wanted to kill you a long time ago!"

"Then I'll be the two on the left!" Lothar said, and a leap disappeared into the night.

"The two on the right are mine!" HE-8 turned and ran away.

"Ma Dong, the two in the back are yours, and your hands and feet are sharp!" Craig turned to beckon to an armored warrior.

"Alright, look at me!" an armored warrior led the way.

Soon, with several sporadic gunshots, the bright spots of six living creatures in three directions turned into light gray of dead objects on the individual early warning radar of the team members.

A minute later, Lothar, HE-8 and Ma Dong returned safely, and Lothar still carried two half-volleyed hooks in his hands.

"What?loot?" asked Craig with a smile.

"Well," Lothar tucked the hook into her backpack, "I'll stick it in front of Chrissy's tombstone." ”

"How many?" Craig asked.

"Two hundred and forty-five, including these two. Lothar replied.

"You cut it all yourself?"

"Well, it's all of them!"

"That's not a bad record!" Craig praised.

Lothar only shrugged.

"It's good to come back safely," Craig said, looking around, "Brothers, listen to me, we guess that there may be a frontline hive hidden on the active volcano ahead, and if so, then what happened to the three teams missing in Area 837 is easy to explain, this is one of them." ”

"Second, the front-line command is looking for front-line hives, and it would be a big military feat if we were sure that there were indeed ones on the other side of the volcano. ”

"Third, if you go any further, you may die quickly, but there are still more than eight hours before reinforcements arrive, is there anyone who wants to stay and wait for reinforcements?"

When he said the third sentence, Craig looked at Lothar, but Lothar deliberately turned around, pretending not to hear.

There was silence in the communication system.

"Let's go, General," HE-8 broke the silence, "didn't you know that there is a proverb on Earth called 'Life to Death'?"

"Okay, I see, let's go now!" Craig replied.

From the edge of the sinkhole to the active volcano in the center, it was actually only seventy or eighty kilometers, and the "kitchen knife" team had only walked about ten kilometers, and all the members heard the sudden sound of electricity in the communication channel almost at the same time.

"Didi!" UT-886 drone sent another warning signal: Danger! We have encountered strong electromagnetic interference! Threat value: 1.0.

"Everybody go to alternate channel!Repeat: everybody......" Craig's second sentence was drowned out by a shrill clattering sound before he could finish his second sentence.

Craig quickly turned the communication channel into an alternate channel, and immediately heard the spearheads at the front of the group, XT-263 and Berserk-275, taking turns shouting in the alternate channel.

XT-263 Robot Kong: "Report, a large number of bugs have been found ahead, request instructions!"

Berserk-275 Beast King Kong: "The situation is urgent, please open fire......"

Before the words fell, the early warning radar of all the members of the "kitchen knife" team sounded a rapid alarm of "Di Di Di" almost at the same time, and dense bright spots of living creatures could be seen on the radar screen surging from all directions like a tide.

"Free fire! free ......fire," Craig ordered loudly, and the only sound left for the backup channel was the shrill sound - the backup channel was also blocked by strong electromagnetic interference.

Craig then tuned to the third and fourth backup communication channels, but it was still a sigh, and it seemed that it had encountered full-spectrum electromagnetic suppression, which showed that the bugs were carefully planned and prepared.

"Whew!"

"Dada-da-da!"

Four or five kilometers in front of the team, explosions and bean-like cannon sounds suddenly sounded, and the two sides were already close to each other.

"Boom!"

An anti-personnel grenade exploded somewhere ahead, and all members of the "Kitchen Knife" team saw the billowing black smoke and skyrocketing fire, and the battle escalated irreversibly and rapidly.

"The bugs really used electromagnetic suppression, no wonder the three teams failed to send out the distress signal!" Lothar muttered to himself, and with a loud noise, he pulled the safety bolt of the standard "Thunderstorm" ionic hand cannon in his hand.

"Keep in formation!" Craig simply put aside the paralyzed communication system and turned on the loudspeaker to shout command, "Move closer to the top soldiers and get them back!"

Four sounds of "Boom, ......Boom" came from the sky above the "Kitchen Knife" team, and two drones that had switched to "fully autonomous" mode due to interference also opened fire at this moment, and four missiles spewed out four tongues of fire to cut through the crimson night sky and smash into the front end of the surging swarm.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Four explosions sounded in a row, and the bright spots of hundreds of living creatures on the radar screen suddenly dimmed, and the surging momentum of the insect tide was temporarily contained.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the brigade had rushed to the side of the two spearheads.