The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

2321. "Ant Colony" Plan (Part 1)

"Hey, Joseph, what are you thinking about?" An Imperial Army soldier walked over and asked another tall soldier.

The soldier named Joseph looked at the huge V-150 Planet Defender cannon through the night. Under the occasional flash of red firelight on the horizon, the cannon now looked like a huge mountain, thick, dark, and Calm and suffocating.

"My hometown, the planet Duka, also has such a beautiful red sunset." Joseph said with emotion, "I was thinking that maybe in a few days, when the officials surrender, we can go home."

"Haha, make no mistake, that's firelight, not sunset." The imperial soldier said, "Haven't you seen enough of this kind of firelight? There was a meteor shower all night yesterday. It was all destroyed in outer space. of space station fragments.”

"Meteor Rain is good. When they can't hold on here, they will naturally surrender. I heard that the Dawn Principality treats prisoners well. Maybe I can apply to return to my place of origin." Joseph said.

"If you really become a prisoner, you might as well settle in the Principality of Dawn. They are recruiting immigrants on a large scale." the soldier said.

"I still want to go back and see my wife." Joseph took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one for himself, and threw the rest to other soldiers.

There are actually things similar to cigarettes in the Milky Way, but they use cigarettes made with trace amounts of spices. In contrast, this kind of cigarette, which is a specialty of Dawn Planet, has been very popular among the soldiers and people at the bottom since more than ten years ago.

A soldier took the cigarette, took out a flameless lighter, lit it, took a puff and said, "Have you ever thought about whether your family can still live a good life if you are no longer an imperial soldier? The planet Duca is close to the outer ring. Come on. Maybe you are captured on the front foot, and the tax collector on the back foot will take people to your house to collect taxes. "

Joseph was a little irritated when he heard this. He muttered something and looked into the distance again.

Another soldier followed his gaze and looked over. The sky over there was blazing with fire, turning the night red. "The Ninth Industrial Zone, it seems that there won't be able to survive tonight. Once the industrial zone is broken, the capital district will open up." . What about we knock those engineers out and tie them up? As long as they can't repair the cannon, we won't have to participate in the battle."

However, as if he was joking with them, as soon as the man finished speaking, the huge V-150 Planet Defender cannon slowly rotated and made a dull rumble.

"This belly-popping thing is so damn unlucky." Joseph spat and greeted, "Let's go back to the base first, so as not to be late when we call for a gathering later."

The group of soldiers began to get back together. Anyway, after several years of military career, they still had some discipline. However, at this time, they discovered that one person was missing.

"Where is Cafu?" asked Joseph.

"He has been sitting there, he must have fallen asleep..." Another soldier turned around, only to see a man sitting on top of a cargo box, with his back to them, leaning on the rock motionless.

He walked over and called, "Hey! Cafu, get up! The cannon is almost repaired, go back and gather!"

However, at this time, only the soldier named Kafu was seen. His body began to tremble and twitch, his head was twisting from side to side, his neck bones were cracking, and he was breathing loudly. "Hey...what's wrong with you?" The soldier went over and patted Kafu on the shoulder.

However, as soon as he took the shot, Cafu suddenly stood up, and his body began to twist abnormally, and the muscles on his body were squirming. Not only that, as he continued to squirm, his body began to get bigger! It's as if every muscle and bone in the body was torn and broken by the ancestors, and then put back together to become bigger!

"You...ah...this..." The imperial soldier was completely frightened.

At this time, Cafu slowly turned around. At this moment, his body had become more than three meters tall, making him a giant! The muscles on his body were knotted, and a large amount of meat was piled up unnaturally, but it was as hard as steel. Moreover, his right hand is still growing, and a large amount of mutant material has accumulated crazily, making his right hand even bigger than his body!

"Ouch!!!!" The monster let out an extremely terrifying howl, then swung its right hand violently, and whipped the soldier away with a snap like a giant braid!

The huge force smashed the soldier into pieces at this moment, and countless blood spurted out like rain.

"He has turned into a monster!! Quick! Kill it quickly!!" Joseph reacted the fastest, shouted loudly, and immediately picked up the blaster rifle in his hand and opened fire.

The blaster beam hit the monster, exploding small craters, but they were quickly filled with new tissue. This kind of light weapon had no effect at all!

Other soldiers also raised their guns and fired, but their distance was too close. The monster rushed over in a few steps, waving its huge right hand in a sweep, and two or three more soldiers were knocked away. Under that huge force, there was no chance of surviving being whipped by this huge arm that was three to four meters long!

"Run! Go back to the base!" Joseph shouted while shooting, directing everyone to retreat towards the base.

But soon, they heard a lot of screams, gunshots, and explosions coming from the base! Immediately afterwards, a terrifying monster rushed over from the other direction.

The monster looked even more terrifying! It seemed to have mutated directly from its back, with a new head growing directly from its back, causing the entire upper body to be squeezed onto the chest! This looked extremely disgusting. And on that upper body, there was an engineer's clothes hanging, so it was very obvious who this monster was.

As soon as it saw the team of soldiers here, the head growing on its back suddenly bulged its cheeks and spurted out a large mouthful of green pus!

An imperial soldier was caught off guard and was sprayed all over his body, and he immediately let out a shrill scream! In less than a minute, his body was corroded by the pus.

"Run! Run!" Joseph was already scared out of his wits, and he retreated in a panic while shooting. At this moment, he didn't care about other comrades, all he wanted was to leave here as soon as possible!

Looking towards the base, there was a raging fire over there, and it was obvious that the base had also been attacked, and it was most likely this kind of monster!

Where did these monsters come from? If it was a virus, how did it spread? Joseph didn't know, and didn't want to think about it. Now, he just wanted to escape from here as soon as possible.

However, he didn't run far. When he passed the field hospital, a bag of corpses suddenly jumped up, and then a terrible mutant tentacle stretched out of the bag! This tentacle directly entangled Joseph, and the tentacle began to crack again, growing a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, and then swallowed Joseph's head in one bite!

At this moment, the orbital defense base of the V-150 Planet Defender Cannon has been completely captured by more than a dozen monsters! There were soldiers running around everywhere, and they couldn't organize an effective defense at all.

The sudden mutation and sudden attack made them helpless!