I Am the Swarm

"Ha, I thought they didn't need to eat, so there are so many hidden here."

"Good guy, this is a big granary."

Looking at the ground, wall, and even the white silk tumors hanging on the top of the cave in the distance, the team members started discussions.

But at this time.

"Ah!!!!" There was an exclamation.

Winter moved the fastest, and stepped over in a few steps.

"What's the matter?" The soldier who exclaimed was not a member of his squad, but a soldier of the ordinary security force, but his rank was much higher than him, and in this case, he was qualified to ask about the situation.

"Sir, there's someone inside." The soldier pointed at a white fibrous tumor tremblingly and said. The soldier saw Winter's actions just now, and out of curiosity, he also separated a tumor, but he was frightened. It seems that he is still a recruit. Although he has experienced some battles, his mental quality is still slightly lacking.

Hearing his words, Wen Te hurriedly looked in through the gap separated by the white fibroids, only to see a pair of big eyeballs looking at him without blinking, very penetrating.

If it wasn't for Wen Te's strong mental quality, he might have screamed when he saw this scene rashly, but even if he didn't scream, he was so shocked that he took two steps back.

He calmed down a little, and looked forward again. With mental preparation, I looked more carefully this time, and saw that the person wrapped in the tumor was indeed a Riken tribe.

His light blue face is a little pale, and his big eyes reveal panic, doubt, happiness, etc., letting Winter know that eyes can convey so many emotions.

His whole body is shrunk in the tumor, it is not known whether it is because of the white silk restraint or other reasons, even if he is discovered by his kind, he still remains motionless and keeps his mouth shut.

If it weren't for his big eyes, Winter would have thought he was dead.

Winter hurriedly called several team members over, and everyone worked together to cut off the white silk tumor and liberate the fellow.

However, for unknown reasons, even after removing the restraints, the Riken tribesman remained motionless.

A special forces member stepped forward and took a small instrument to shine on his face a few times. Soon, a string of information was displayed.

"Captain, the patrol member who disappeared at the beginning!"

Winter was also surprised. Although he had already guessed in his heart, after knowing the exact answer, he still couldn't help but sigh secretly, this guy is really lucky.

After all, it has been nearly ten days since the day they disappeared.

It's been so long that I haven't become a papa, what is it if it's not fate?

"Carson, go out and report the situation right now. Others will separate all these tumors. Be careful when cutting them. There may be your colleagues inside." Winter gave an order.

Carson is the communication soldier of the Special Forces. After receiving the order, he trotted towards the road he came from with the instrument on his back. While running, he adjusted the instrument to check whether it was out of the range of magnetic field interference.

Fortunately, there were no twists and turns. After the base received the message from the communications soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Kloss reported the situation urgently. Because this is not just a problem with this lair. At the beginning, there were missing patrol members around all the ground bases. If they still have the possibility of survival, then the matter is more serious.

"Clos, tell everyone about the situation." Just a few minutes later, a meeting was called urgently. Fortunately, it was all video conferences. The captain and staff officers were all on standby on the ship to be so efficient. .

"Everyone, news came from the special forces team that just broke into the underground cave. A cave suspected of being a Zerg granary was found below, and a missing patrol member was found in it. Moreover, he still has vital signs, but he is unable to move for unknown reasons. I can't speak." Klos gave an overview of the situation.

Everyone was a little silent.

"Captain Cross, did you find only one person?" a staff officer asked.

Kloss shook her head and said: "The scene is very complicated, and the search and rescue work is still going on, but due to the blocked communication, the specific situation is unknown."

Everyone was silent again.

"Then wait a little longer." A captain said with a sigh.

For a while, the video conference seemed to turn off the sound system, and there was a silent silence.

As time passed, the engineers urgently built a wired transmission cable in the passage, and more and more images and information from the underground were transmitted back.

Huge underground cavities, white silk threads, wrapped nodules, etc., were presented to the conductors participating in the meeting one by one.

The rescued patrol member was not the only lucky one. In the follow-up search and rescue, many survivors were discovered one after another. After hours, all the capsules in the cave, including those hanging from the ceiling, were separated one by one with the help of small instruments.

In the end, a total of 112 survivors were found.

We must know that because the anomaly was first discovered at the Cross Base, the loss was the smallest. At that time, a total of 21 ten-man patrols were attacked, and now almost half of the survivors have been found, which is already a very high proportion.

This is a bit difficult to deal with.

Except for Kloss, everyone else has some headaches, especially the commanders of the other bases who are in a dilemma.

Although most of the missing patrols are recruits. But even so, people must be saved. It's fine if you don't know the news, but since you know it, no one dares to say no to help.

Because no matter who it is, when they are in this situation, they don't want to be given up by their own people. If someone dares to say no to rescue, at least they will be called ruthless and unjust, and at the end of their military career, they will be targeted at worst. In this kind of operation that is light-years away from the parent star, being targeted by colleagues is not a big deal. good thing.

But if you want to save it, the trouble is even bigger.

Now this crypt has been exhausted for nearly ten days before the special forces can successfully break into the "granary" of the Zerg. If you want to replicate this rescue elsewhere, time will not allow it.

Because these patrol members were captured at about the same time, I am afraid they will not be able to persist for another ten days. If anyone proposes a safe rescue and digs down slowly, it is no different from murdering them.

In this way, rescue can only send troops to go deep into the crypt and fight all the way as fast as possible. But the underground passage is the territory of the Zerg. They tried to break into the crypt before, but suffered heavy losses.

But now, they want to send troops to directly attack several Zerg lairs that they didn't know about before, which is why the commanders are silent.

Although rationality told them that giving up those patrol members was the best choice, in fact, in a civilization where each member was an independent intelligent individual, this kind of operation was simply impossible to implement.