What is a sand devil?
To put it simply, it is an arthropod from an alien planet, a bit like a centipede on Earth, mixed with the characteristics of an earthworm.
It has a violent personality and likes to eat food with metal substances. It is a subterranean carnivorous creature that spends its life eating and searching for food.
Their bodies never completely leave the ground, only their heads and tentacles emerge to attack. In addition to physical attacks, they can spray toxic chemicals and emit infrasonic blasts to create shock waves.
In fact, the Star Alliance has not come into contact with this kind of creature. It can be found everywhere in the customs of loading and unloading ports in major cities - when they were young, they had sand devil spores.
Sand devils reproduce through spores, which can remain dormant for thousands of years and survive long drifts in space until they return to the atmosphere.
Although they had no previous combat experience, due to the thorough customs inspection, the Star Alliance Navy actually had the impression of the sand devil bugs only hearing their sounds but not seeing their form.
Dealing with adult insects like this time... I'm afraid this is really the first time.
"Damn it! Why are the sand devils here?" Although everyone was very shocked, they did not forget the steps they should take, find a good position, and launch a fire attack.
But soon, everyone's expressions changed from shock to horror, because the intensive rifle firepower had no effect on this long insect.
The Sand Demon Bug's welcome counterattack was also very sharp. A mouthful of biological acid enveloped two team members who were close together.
The sand devil's shell is as bulletproof as buildings and bunkers!
The acid was extremely corrosive and sticky. It damaged the armor of two people in just a moment and made the struggling team members scream in pain.
"ah!!!"
Hearing this, Xie Yuan's heart sank. Such screams can lower morale the most. He immediately stepped forward and shouted to Ryder, "Cover me!"
After saying that, he raised his assault rifle and fired back at the sand devils, while running towards the injured two people. The sound of Ryder's "covering fire" came from behind him.
Under the cover of "burst" firepower, Xie Yuan immediately ran towards the two of them. The mess in front of him made Xie Yuan feel sick. In a pile of green mucus, the armor of the two team members was completely damaged, and they were lying in the mucus not knowing whether they were alive or dead. .
Mucus is poisonous too!
Holding back his nausea, Xie Yuan quickly dragged the person out and to a safe area. Someone soon gave the two people emergency first aid.
"Ah hoo!!!" The people present cheered, but unfortunately they were all happy too early.
Because at the next moment, "Bang Bang Bang Bang" jumped out and dozens of large and small sand devil insects were inside and outside the colony.
Sand devils are actually social creatures!
"Help! Ahhh!" Everyone looked at the sound and saw a huge sand devil suddenly grabbing a colleague who was relatively close to him and pulling him into the ground.
The people next to him could only watch as he screamed and was dragged down to his death.
This tragic scene was so horrifying that everyone present fell into a trance of fear.
Then, the sand demon insects seized the opportunity and attacked with a wave of acid, and several more people were trapped in the slime ball without knowing whether they were alive or dead.
"Everyone, get back inside the building!" Ryder yelled with his voice hoarse. He kept pouring firepower on a few sand devil insects that were near the front. At the same time, he called on the heavy firepower in front to fire on some long bugs inside to cover the team members. They seek shelter in buildings.
After one of the mechanical turrets originally temporarily installed on the upper floor was finally adjusted to a suitable angle to cover the internal fire, it was equipped with the engineer's automatic floating turret, which finally suppressed the rampant arrogance of the sand devil swarm.
But everyone did not dare to be careless and retreated to their own buildings first. Everyone used a specific channel to talk.
Listening to more than two dozen calls for help, ranging from those who were injured and needed medicine, to those who had lost their weapons and huddled in the building feeling unsafe and needed support, and then there were those who had weapons and wanted to get supplies for a charge.
The situations are varied, and shouting them out together is like a demonic sound piercing your ears, just like a child in kindergarten crying for father and mother.
Xie Yuan, who couldn't stand listening, could only take a pile of medical drugs and replace it with a shotgun from a guy who was being treated. In the battle just now, everyone discovered that the best way to fight this kind of super monster is to use a shotgun to attack their soft tissue when they lower their heads.
For example, the soft tissue in the tentacles and mouthparts, the exchange of fire just now is not without gain, at least the large sand devil insects are indeed difficult to kill with an assault rifle.
However, small sand devil bugs that have just grown up can be killed. The chitin of their carapace may not have grown so strong, so the bullets from the assault rifle can penetrate into its interior and cause damage.
When we just retreated, we saw that among the monsters, almost all of the fallen monsters were young ones that were green in color and short in length, and there were only one or two that were lighter in color.
"What are you going to do?" Ryder called to Xie Yuan.
"Give them some help, otherwise the morale of the entire team will collapse." Xie Yuan put his supply bag on his back and prepared to go out.
"No, it's too dangerous..." Ryder was about to stop him, but his expression suddenly changed, and then he changed his words, "I'm with you."
"No, you have to fulfill your duties as a superior," Xie Yuan refused.
"This is an order!" Ryder turned to the team member who had quarreled with him before and begged, "Can you help me take care of order here."
The Marine stared at Ryder angrily for a few seconds before softening: "Okay, but you owe us an explanation. I need to get answers about everything you concealed."
"I swear I'm not hiding anything," Ryder added after looking at the team members' eyes after explaining, "but I personally did find something wrong. If Xie Yuan and I come back, I will tell you."
"……Ok, I will wait for you."
Ryder picked up another supply bag, pulled the gun bolt, and said to Xie Yuan. "Come on, let's go out together."
Come and try it quickly. 】
Xie Yuan responded with a shrug.
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It wasn't until after going out that Xie Yuan discovered that a group of people had fallen into a very dangerous situation.
"Hey!!!" Several Sand Demon Insects erupted into a very harsh chirp, which made Xie Yuandu feel very uncomfortable, let alone Ryder.
People couldn't bear it and half knelt down.
"Eat some of this!" Seeing that his companions were trapped, Xie Yuan "brought" several grenades from his backpack without hesitation, and accurately threw them into the mouths of the screaming insects one by one.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" A series of explosions filled the sand demon insect with happiness, and it happily began to wave its body and retracted to the ground.
"I think we have temporarily repelled their attack." Ryder, who finally recovered, looked around blankly and came to a conclusion. He also looked at Xie Yuan with admiration, "Thank you for the grenade and your throwing. The ability is really good.”
"I don't accept this compliment." Xie Yuan shook his head, disapproving of the credit. He felt that these sand monsters were more likely to be guided by some strange substance, as if the explosion just broke their ability to receive information.
But Xie Yuan wasn't sure, and he wasn't even interested in talking to anyone else. When it came to his own abilities, he had always hidden them very well.
The technology in this world is beyond imagination. Maybe he is being monitored without knowing it, which is not impossible.
But then, Xie Yuan encountered a problem, which was raised by Ryder.
It turned out that the reason he came out was because the fort team, which was under fire suppression, had suffered heavy casualties due to the bombardment of sand devils inside and outside. Half of the people were killed and injured. They were no longer able to support them and were in urgent need of manpower.
Now Xie Yuan is faced with two choices: transfer to the fire support team, or become a supply soldier?
Both are important... where to go?
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