I Am the Swarm

"Captain, there are no traces of fighting nearby, and the patrol team was subdued in an instant." A team member reported.

A team member who was inspecting the operation platform raised his head: "I found it, Captain, I found the place where the patrol signal disappeared last."

"where?"

"One kilometer to the northwest."

"Send the coordinates to the gunboat. The gunboat pays attention to follow the guard, and each unit pays attention to the surrounding situation. In a group of three, gather the coordinates."

The combat uniforms of the patrol team are not only integrated with the vital signs monitoring system, but also have a locator. The operators of the special operations team can easily find the location where the signal disappeared last through the instruments left by the patrol team and based on the historical information above.

"Captain, there are some indentations here. The marks are very new, and they don't seem to be left by the patrol." A team member found some abnormalities during the march, and a faint passage appeared in the grass. Passing left is slightly different.

"It seems that the direction is right. Be careful, everyone, and be ready to fight at any time. The gunboat pays attention to our surroundings." The captain glanced at the traces and ordered.

Under the cover of the gunboat, the distance of one kilometer passed in an instant, and there was no attack on the way.

"Captain, the signal disappeared near here."

The captain nodded and gestured, and the team spread out and searched the surrounding area carefully.

"Captain, the detector shows that there is a cavity under our feet, and there is a hole underneath." A team member holding a detector suddenly shouted.

"Look around, there should be a hole nearby."

"Captain, here, there is a hole here." A team member stepped off his right foot, only to find a hole hidden in the thick grass on the ground.

The captain instructed several team members to clean up the hole. It was a hole with a diameter of less than two meters. It was originally covered with thick weeds. If it wasn't for the team member carrying a heavy large weapon, he might not have found it.

"Be careful, scout, let a few mechanical spiders go down to see the situation." The captain ordered.

The scout took out a box from his body, and after opening it, several metal blocks unfolded, turning into several mechanical spiders over twenty centimeters in size. He checked slightly, and linked the monitor of the operating platform with the camera device on the mechanical spider. After the picture was displayed, several mechanical spiders jumped into the cave under his control.

The cave is dark and deep. Fortunately, the mechanical spider has its own infrared searchlight and infrared vision, so it can still provide some video images in this environment.

A few mechanical spiders crawled carefully in the cave, and the camera above the head turned around, trying to transmit more information back.

The cave gradually expanded as it went deeper, and when everyone was concentrating on it, suddenly the screen flickered a few times, and then turned into a black and white snowflake screen.

"What's going on?" the captain asked with a frown.

"If the signal is lost, there are two possibilities. One is strong magnetic interference, or the other is that the mechanical spider was destroyed by something. One hit will kill it." The scout said.

"Captain, what should we do?"

For the safety of himself and the team members, the captain had read the relevant information about Daqixing several times before.

Among them, the mission report of Hasimu elite guards, although relatively simple, was indeed the part he focused on. Because of the similarity of the arms, he knew that the tasks he received at that time should have a very high degree of overlap with the tasks that Hasim received back then.

The Hasimu team was completely wiped out in an underground cave, and it was suspected that they had detonated the tactical nuclear bomb they carried with them.

This made him extremely cautious when facing environments like caves at this time.

The danger of going down is extremely high. At the beginning, Hasimu's team was full of 50 people and didn't come back. If he went down rashly, it might not be much better.

Although this crypt might not be that dangerous, what if? There is only one life.

After thinking for a long time, the captain didn't dare to act rashly, so he could only report the situation to his superiors, and briefly talked about his concerns.

"General, the information returned by the several special forces sent out is similar. They followed the traces and finally found the entrance of an underground cave. The detection machine lost contact not long after entering. In view of the previous mission experience, they now Further instructions are awaited."

Hearing the report from the staff officer, General Massai frowned. He also read the information sent back by the cat-eared spacecraft dozens of times, but the cat-eared spacecraft had been active and exploring on the planet for several years, and was only attacked at the end. attacks so often.

In line with the principle of strength in numbers, a battle meeting was urgently held, and many captains and staff officers participated in the meeting and had heated discussions.

"Is there a civilized race hidden underground?"

"It's not like, if there is, how can they turn a blind eye to the satellites overhead?"

"It makes sense. The place where the cat-eared spacecraft was attacked was in the outer orbit of T855, which shows that the other party has space navigation capabilities."

"Could it be that in this galaxy, two civilized races were born? There is one in T855, and one in T853?"

"I don't think so. If there is a civilized race in T853, not only a satellite, but also a monster that can react with fusion, it will not be allowed to exist."

"Maybe that monster is a product of this civilized race!"

"Speaking of which, where did that monster go?"

"It may be sleeping somewhere. Our satellites have marked several suspicious locations, but unfortunately we haven't had time to check them yet."

"Didn't our experts speculate that the monster came from ancient times? Could there be more strange species that survived, but only one was in a dormant state. The battle with the cat-eared spaceship woke them up." A ship Make a point.

When everyone heard this, they all fell silent, secretly thinking in this way, and the meeting fell silent for a while.

"That possibility cannot be ruled out."

"And this possibility is quite large and more convincing."

"If you think so, then this awakened species should be a species that breeds very fast. Our bases are spread across five continents, but they were attacked almost in sequence."

"Hearing what you said, they also have the ability to cooperate remotely?"

"How could there be such a creature?"

"Why is this impossible? Even creatures that can undergo fusion reactions exist, and there is no way they can coordinate remotely. There were such creatures on Riken back then, but the scope of collaboration was not so large."

"I can prove that there is a similar creature in history, which has true sociality, but it became extinct later, but their radiation range is usually only a few kilometers."

"If this is the case, then this creature is much more difficult to deal with than that mobile nuclear bomb."

"What's the use of guessing here? I suggest that we concentrate our forces and capture an underground passage first to see what's hidden inside."

"It makes sense, I second it!"

"..."

"But the troops below cannot be expanded, and there is no advantage in having a large number of people."

"You still have to send an elite team in."

"Since that's the case, we might as well just dig it up. We brought a lot of heavy equipment to transform the planet this time."

"I think it's okay, second."

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

"..."