I Am the Swarm

The bugs in the pit, relying on the cover of their companion's body, did not dodge or dodge, and insisted on resisting the fierce firepower, and slowly approached the top of the pit.

"Heavy fire support! Flamethrower!"

Seeing that the worms were approaching the Riken defense line, the on-site commander calmly gave orders.

The gunboats in the sky were already ready to launch. After receiving the order, a thicker red blaster beam descended from the sky, wantonly bombarding the insect swarm below.

On the edge of the pit, a group of heavily armored fire-breathing soldiers also stepped up. They aimed their guns at the bottom, and the fuel spewed out. With the help of combustion accelerant, a raging fire was ignited.

The bugs rushing forward were immediately burnt to charcoal, some fell from the soil wall, and some were even stuck to the soil wall. Coupled with the aerial bombardment of the follow-up insect swarm, the attack of the insects was quickly repelled, and they were pushed back to the entrance of the cave.

Soon, time passed in such several attacks and defenses. Although the bug organized several charges, it still didn't have much effect.

Finally, retracting completely into the hole ended the fight.

In this battle, the insects suffered heavy losses, leaving behind tens of thousands of corpses.

Apart from the loss of some ammunition and energy, the Rikon tribe did not die in battle, and most of the wounded soldiers were accidentally injured by their own people.

This time, they can be said to have won a big victory.

The Riken people held a small-scale celebration for this, and the special operations team went to hunt hundreds of bull demons and brought them back. After processing, everyone involved in surface construction and combat was full.

This is precious natural meat, and many Riken people have never eaten it in their entire lives.

Time passed quickly, and soon came the third night. After another day of intensive construction, the depth of the pit on the ground had reached 70 meters, and the area had also expanded to nearly one square kilometer.

In the middle of the night, the bugs once again rushed out bravely, but the soldiers of the Riken tribe, who had already gained experience and preparation, resisted more comfortably and easily than yesterday.

After the Zerg dropped tens of thousands of corpses again, they retreated into the crypt, and the soldiers who already had combat experience did not panic at all this time, so there were no accidental injuries.

"They seem to have run out of skills." During the discussion meeting, a captain watched the live video and said.

"Do you expect a group of low-level creatures to perform well?" Another captain laughed.

"That's right, I really overestimated them at first."

"However, their number is somewhat unexpected. After two days of consumption, the number still seems to have not decreased." A staff officer questioned.

"This is indeed a problem, but as long as we work steadily, we will be able to dig into their old nests in a short time and see where they will hide."

"That's right."

A week later, the depth of the pit has reached 300 meters, and the scope of the construction site has also reached three square kilometers. These days, the Rickon have dug up and destroyed numerous Zerg underground structures.

During this period, the Liken tribe also organized several times to enter from the entrance of the crypt, trying to explore the internal situation. But in the relatively narrow underground passage, their elite soldiers were no match for the raiders in the dark.

However, they wiped out a large amount of the Zerg's vitality every night. These days, at least more than a hundred thousand bugs were killed in the pit.

But even so, the number of bugs still did not decrease.

Like a routine task every night, the two sides tacitly engage in offensive and defensive battles one after another.

"Their IQs are too low. After such a long time, don't they know that this way is not going to work?" In the video conference, a staff officer wondered.

"Did they think they could use up our ammunition?"

"Perhaps, didn't Dr. Balter say that after dissection, their brains were found to be very small?"

"But it always feels a little outrageous."

"Yes, there are too many of them. How big are their underground lairs? What do they eat to maintain such a large population?"

"Maybe they can grow crops by themselves, haha, when I looked at the biological data, I saw that there were bugs that could grow food in our home planet."

"Maybe they have another cave exit, and their sphere of influence may be beyond our imagination."

It's just that things change all the time inadvertently.

On this day, when the engineering team was continuing to dig the pit, it was suddenly attacked.

The bugs rushed out of the crypt like crazy.

Although the instrument called the police in advance, the speed of the bugs was too fast. And because of the "tacit understanding" cultivated over so many days, the security forces were so lax in their defense during the day that they didn't react until the bugs rushed into the engineering team and killed a large number of Riken tribesmen.

However, by the time they reacted and were about to shoot, the bugs and engineers had already mixed together. Shooting at this time may cause a lot of accidental injuries, and no one dares to take this kind of responsibility.

They had no choice but to rush forward and shoot at close range, and some soldiers even took out their melee weapons...

Perhaps it was the smooth fighting these days that made them forget the horror of the raiders, and they dared to rush up to fight with them. But soon, the raiders' small-scale flashes and movements and the sharp blades on their forelimbs reminded them of the fear of being dominated.

For a moment, the battlefield fell into a one-sided massacre, but this time the role of the massacred was replaced by the Riken tribe.

In the end, the riot was suppressed, not because the Rickens repelled the Zerg, but because almost all the people they entered were dead.

In this counterattack, the bugs seemed to be crazy, and they didn't know how to retreat at all. Groups of bugs swarmed out, not only killing all the Riken tribe in the pit, but also rushing towards the top of the pit.

Seeing the situation in the crater, the highest commander on the scene urgently ordered that there were only a few of his own people and engineering equipment left, and opened fire with all his strength.

For a moment, energy beams rained down, and at the same time, dozens of incendiary bombs were thrown down.

The soaring flames ignited, and within a short period of time, the bugs were burned into coke. But the Zerg didn't intend to retreat at all this time, and when the flames subsided a little, the bugs continued to rush out again.

"Are they crazy?" Faced with such an unexpected situation, the captain and staff were summoned urgently to watch the live broadcast of the battle remotely.

"It changes their routine."

"Could it be that they have been paralyzing us before? Waiting for us to relax our vigilance before striking back?"

"Not necessarily!" Dr. Balter suddenly said: "Their brain capacity does not support them to have such complex thoughts."

"But what's going on with this situation now? Judging from the video, we have suffered heavy losses this time." Indeed, because of the insensitivity of the Liken tribe, not only the construction team and the security team sent for close combat were wiped out this time, but Even the engineering equipment was bombed and incendiary bombs, and most of them were destroyed.

This was their heaviest loss, and the number of casualties may reach tens of thousands.

"Maybe it's because we've dug into their core!" says Dr. Barthes.