I Am the Swarm

"Is there any evidence?" asked a captain.

"Of course, please watch these videos." Dr. Balter operated the instrument in front of him, and played a few videos on the large screen at random.

Judging from the screen, the video was shot in the middle of the night. In the darkness, a group of Zerg were carrying their prey. They moved out collectively to hunt some small creatures, and then quickly carried them back to the cave.

"This was taken by our small drone. The shooting time was yesterday during the Great War. Of course, the shooting location was on several other continents." Dr. Balter explained.

"What does this mean?"

"This shows that their hunting time is extremely fixed. Perhaps in their time, this kind of bug was only at the bottom of the food chain. During their long-term hunting operations, they summed up the time period in which the hunting loss was the least, and then engraved it into the The instinct has been preserved until now." Dr. Balter said, after a pause he added:

"Just look at the creature that spits out fusion energy. If these bugs lived in the same era as it, they might not even count as food."

Many captains and staff officers nodded one after another, feeling that the analysis by professionals was indeed in place, and these speculations were reasonable.

"If that's the case, then they're much easier to deal with."

"Yes, but look at the battle video, can they really achieve such an exquisite cooperation with such a backward communication method?"

"That is the case, which shows that this is really a terrible creature."

"Hmph, it's just a group of low-level creatures. We're just not familiar with them this time, so we were caught off guard."

"That's true."

"Dr. Barthes, do you need any help with the several studies you just mentioned?" General Massai asked suddenly.

"Related aspects, as many people as possible, and a large amount of experimental materials, preferably live." Dr. Balter said after thinking about it.

"No problem, I will arrange people to capture this lair first. I believe that with their heavy losses today, the difficulty of attacking them will be greatly reduced. At that time, I will order the special forces to capture as many alive as possible." General Massai replied.

The general's order was quickly carried out. Not far from the original assembly site, the Rickon tribe once again used incendiary bombs to clear a large open space.

Transport boats continued to deliver metal modules and soldiers here, and it didn't take long before the place became busy.

Although there had just been a big battle next night, the blood of his colleagues still remained on the ground there, and the wreckage left by the explosion was still emitting black smoke.

But the engineers at the new construction site didn't worry too much, because they felt that they had already figured out the life and rest of the underground creatures, and they believed that it was absolutely safe during the day.

The Zerg is a nocturnal creature and has strict hunting times. The results of expert analysis have been known to everyone in a short period of time, so there is no pressure on everyone for daytime activities.

The construction site was in full swing. With the increasing number of manpower, a large number of construction machinery was assembled, and giant excavators 30 to 40 meters high began to work.

The huge bucket can dig hundreds of cubic meters of soil and sand off the ground at every stroke, and then put it into the same huge metal cargo box, and finally, one or more transport ships will lift it away and dump it in the distance.

Soon, a huge pit more than ten meters deep was dug out. As the pit got deeper and deeper, the area of ​​the construction site also expanded a lot.

At the same time, a large number of ordinary troops and special forces guarded closely around the pothole to prevent the Zerg from rushing out suddenly.

When the time came to the middle of the night, the deepest part of the pit had reached more than 30 meters, and the giant excavator could only expose a small part of the top roof.

During the excavation process, many underground passages were dug out, especially after reaching 20 meters underground, the number of underground passages increased linearly, densely packed and extending in all directions.

So much so that the Riken tribe had to slow down their excavation speed, and the escort troops also arranged for some soldiers wearing heavy protective clothing and holding flamethrowers to approach and defend.

Fortunately, the accident did not happen. The Zerg seemed to follow a strict hunting time. Even if the tunnel was destroyed, none of them rushed out.

However, as their hunting time approached, these giant excavators had to evacuate the pits one after another, because if nothing else, this place would soon become a battlefield.

The construction machinery and personnel were successfully evacuated under the cover of the guards, and the soldiers immediately rushed into the potholes to arrange some defensive facilities.

The mines from last night were not planted today, because the bugs were too light to trigger them even if they ran over the mines.

So today the soldiers replaced it with more sensitive trigger mines. These small things are not as powerful as landmines, but they are more dangerous. Even the soldiers themselves dare not enter the minefields after they are laid.

"Captain, I think it's better to just throw bombs into the passage, or pour molten iron, and see how they come out." A special forces member said in the communicator while setting up the defense line.

"Are you stupid? If there are holes, they will come out of the hole. You blow up the hole and block it. Do you know where they come out? That way we will be more passive." Winter scolded.

"So that's how it is." Winter's words made the team members admire him very much. He secretly said that he was worthy of being the captain, and he was thinking thoughtfully. His adoring eyes seemed to be able to pass through the barrier of the mask and let the people around him feel it.

However, Wen Te was a little surprised. He had raised this question to the officers before, and the other party answered him in this way...

Time is approaching.

"Here we come!" The scout who had been staring at the monitoring equipment was the first to warn.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

Explosions continued to sound, and the insects were hit head-on as soon as they rushed out of the hole, and the induction thunder completed the first wave of killing. These bombs, which are generally only the size of an egg, are the few gunpowder weapons that are still installed by the Ricken tribe, but they are very powerful, and the killing radius of each bomb can reach three meters.

The limbs of these Zergs are relatively fragile. Under such a powerful explosion, there are basically only two endings: being killed on the spot or losing the ability to move.

"Fire!"

The supreme command at the scene gave an order, and the overwhelming red energy beams attacked the bugs in the pit. Under the double blow of the induction thunder and the energy beams, the bugs suffered heavy damage.

"Haha, did you see that these low-level creatures without brains just caught us off guard before?"

"Yes, they really come out to hunt at a fixed time, which is really easy to target."

"Looking at their appearance, they are completely like a turtle in a urn."

However, there were too many bugs. Regardless of the casualties outside, the number of bugs rushing out of the hole has not decreased, and the deaths and injuries of the same kind did not dampen their momentum at all.

Just like that, the bugs managed to clear the entire minefield by forcefully relying on numbers, and quickly climbed up the soil wall of the pit, approaching the defense line of the Riken soldiers.

"Strange, ordinary creatures, should have retreated timidly by this time."

"Maybe it's because they are too low-level and have not yet evolved the emotion of fear."

"These alien creatures may not fully apply our theory."

"They're going to rush up!"

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