I Am the Swarm

"Doctor, what exactly do you want to say?" A captain was a little impatient. This guy talked at length, and it seemed that these things had nothing to do with the rescue operation.

"Everyone, I always thought they were simple, mindless beasts. But think about it, the performance of the previous raiders, the last battle, tens of thousands of raiders, none of them escaped until the end. But in the underground , In the passage of hundreds of meters, not a single bug stayed there."

"This kind of performance, to be honest, it is difficult for our troops to do this. So I don't think this is like the behavior of a mindless beast. My previous guess was wrong."

"So, their functions are so subdivided, then, will there be a kind of bugs that are responsible for command and dispatch? They are the brains of the entire Zerg, with a certain amount of wisdom. Therefore, we found them in the raiders. They have almost no brains, because they don’t need them, they just need to fight, and the ones responsible for thinking are other specialized bugs. Perhaps, we can call them thinkers.”

Everyone's faces became serious. The difficulty of dealing with a group of wild beasts is very different from dealing with an intelligent race. No wonder the Zerg are so difficult to deal with, it is. They had believed Dr. Balter's conjecture.

"Besides, where did so many bugs come from? They must have incubators that specialize in reproduction. Therefore, we still don't know how many other types of bugs they have, but I always have a bad feeling, but I can't say What's wrong."

"Doctor, I'm afraid you are thinking too much. Back then you swore that they were just low-level creatures with no brains." A captain said in a strange way. He had some conflicts with Dr. Barter and took the opportunity to disgust him.

"Anyway, I've said everything that needs to be said, everyone try to be careful." Barter didn't argue, those words were indeed said by him, but as he researched, he felt more and more wrong.

"Okay, let's discuss next, how to rescue those patrol members." General Massai finally brought the topic back on track.

An hour later, the meeting ended.

The Rickon tribe started a big operation, a large number of transport ships shuttled between the surface and the orbit of the planet, and continuously transported personnel and equipment to the Great Venus.

The army was in place, and the rescue operation began immediately. There are 11 underground insect nests that need to be captured, and their locations have been ascertained by scouting drones before.

A total of more than 200,000 Riken troops were dispersed to these 11 battlefields.

In fact, according to the data of the worm nest that was contributed before, it is even less than one kilometer from the surface to the "granary" in a straight line. But the roads in the crypt are intricate and require a lot of hands to search, but even so, the number of people who can enter the crypt at the same time will not be too many.

Therefore, most of these armies are kept outside the crypt to prevent the Zerg from counterattacking. On the previous battlefield, when the excavation progress was close to the "granary", the death charge suffered still left some people with lingering fears.

A large number of gunboats are on alert in the air, observing the surroundings to prevent the ground troops from being inexplicably surrounded. Transport ships and rescue ships are all on standby nearby, and even a temporary field hospital was set up five kilometers away from the battlefield.

The Liken tribe was very efficient this time. In just one day, all the work was ready, and the offensive operation was officially launched on the second night.

Because of the Zerg's regular hunting habits, the Rikens first ambushed a wave of hunting raiders at the exit of the cave, consuming some of the Zerg's vitality.

Then, without stopping, the attacking troops, led by the special operations team, rushed directly into the crypt.

In order to prevent the underground cavity from collapsing, explosive weapons should not be used as much as possible inside, so the flamethrower has become the main weapon responsible for fire suppression.

The soldiers wore heavy protective clothing and carried oxygen tanks. When the flamethrower is working, it will consume a lot of oxygen, and the oxygen reserves in the cave are limited, so they have to bring their own breathing equipment to maintain what they need.

Moreover, according to biological experts, the large amount of toxins and oxygen scarcity produced when the flamethrower burns will also cause no small additional damage to the Zerg.

As for whether oxygen consumption will affect the "granary", this issue has been selectively ignored.

Soldiers keep entering, and when they encounter a fork in the road, they will separate part of their troops to continue moving forward.

The battle went extremely smoothly. After they entered the crypt, although they were attacked by the Zerg. But the flamethrower is worthy of the name of a big killer. It can block the passages that are not too spacious. Even if the Zerg can rush out of the sea of ​​​​flames, they are basically seriously injured, and they are replenished by the soldiers following the flamethrower.

However, the attack of the Zerg was not afraid of death, and the flamethrowers did not dare to stop for a while, and the scorched corpses blocked the passage. This caused the team to clear the passage while advancing. Therefore, after two hours, the team has only advanced less than 500 meters. Even the attacking team took three waves because they ran out of fuel and oxygen.

Fortunately, there were not too many casualties in the Ricken army, and most of the casualties were accidentally injured by teammates. However, in the narrow crypt, accidental injuries are inevitable.

And many commanders are watching the real-time broadcast of the battlefield.

"The battle situation is not bad, these beasts still underestimate the power of technology." A captain looked at the video and felt relaxed.

"It seems that Dr. Balter's worries are unnecessary." The captain who had conflicts with Balter said slightly mockingly.

"I didn't expect them to be so vulnerable. We were a little worried before."

"However, with this propulsion method, fuel and energy ammunition are consumed a bit fast."

"Don't worry, it's better than dead people, and as long as we have a safe environment, the factory can be built quickly, and those things can be easily replenished."

"Exactly."

"At this speed, it is estimated that the battle will be resolved tomorrow. I don't know how many people can be rescued."

"It's hard to say. Didn't the biological expert analyze and say that we were able to rescue nearly half of the people before because we kept consuming a lot of bugs, which is why we retained more food. Other nests have not been consumed, and the loss may be greater .”

"The result doesn't matter, does it, we did what they wanted us to do."

"That's right."

At the same time, Cross Base.

Here, because the underground insect nest next to it has been damaged, the Riken tribe has been active here for a long time and has not been attacked again. Therefore, after the raid missions in other places started, most of the troops here have been transferred away, leaving only some troops directly under the Cross base to defend at that huge pit.