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While Chen Biantao was deep in thought, the brawl on the beach was gradually heating up.
The huge beach quickly turned into a mess, and the humans in the port city got a moment of peace. Taking advantage of this time, soldiers from Senjiu Camp and Dijiu Camp began to treat the wounded and gradually closed the defense line towards the trestle. It is impossible to retreat. They are all professional soldiers. For them, escaping is definitely more uncomfortable than death.
Along the way, they stepped over monster corpses scattered across the beach. Many people had never seen so many black beasts before, and the soldiers' eyes widened in shock.
Guangdong and Guangxi are tropical areas. They knew that snakes, ants, and poisonous insects were common here, but they did not expect that there would be so many. It was as if they had stabbed all the snake and crab nests in Hong Kong Island.
The brief period of peace was like the halftime break of a game. When humans had time to comment on the black beast, a stone crab with extremely large claws somehow got close to the wooden box.
When it reached the wooden box, it was also attacked from all directions, but perhaps because its crab shell was thick enough, or its evolutionary direction was more defensive, it was not attacked immediately. Crushed by all sides.
After successfully picking up the wooden box, it slowly exerted force, and a crack appeared on the small wooden box.
"Click, squeak."
It may not even take a second for the crack to develop into a through-hole that splits the entire wooden box. In just an instant, the wooden box began to deflate visibly to the naked eye. The wooden grille on the surface of the box kept making popping sounds, and it was obviously on the verge of breaking apart!
"Oh no, that giant stone crab got the wooden box."
"No, we must not let it succeed!"
The movement of the giant rock crab immediately attracted the attention of the soldiers of the Yanjiu Infantry Battalion, but Chen Tieyi discovered it earlier than they did. Chen Tieyi, who had been paying attention to the fighting situation at the wooden box, knew that he could not delay any longer, so he dropped the other giant rock crab that he had beaten beyond recognition and rushed towards it quickly.
Upon seeing this, the sergeant of the 3rd Battalion of Iwajiu hurriedly shouted: "Close the defense line and prepare to support the deputy commander!"
The others immediately turned their guns, and hundreds of people went upstream, always ready to meet Chen Tieyi.
Unlike the Dijiu and Senjiu who guarded the outer battle circle, the Yanjiu Infantry Battalion was originally a unit directly under Chen Tieyi and had been fighting with him near the trestle since the battle for the Jiaorong core. At this time, it was the closest to the wooden box. A group of people!
But just as they charged forward with full firepower, a large sinkhole suddenly appeared on the left wing of Camp Iwajiu. More than a dozen soldiers lost their footing and fell into the cave, and then screams were heard. But before the shocked soldiers came forward to check, a large black mist suddenly flew up from the entrance of the cave!
No, that's not black mist, it's a "cloud" composed of a large number of dense fire ants! This batch of fire ants all have wings, and their body length is not much larger than the ants before the disaster, but their number is extremely large, at least tens of thousands!
"Asshole! It's those fire ants! Why are they here?"
"They must have been dug out from the ground. Damn it, they didn't retreat at all, they just kept digging under our feet!"
"Kill! Fight with them and avenge your dead brothers!"
"Wait! They're not targeting us. Look! They're going to the crates."
"No, the Iron-clad Commander is in danger, let's go quickly!"
The warriors in the early stages of the catastrophe could not yet understand the attraction of the gelatinous core to these mutated creatures.
Obviously, the red fire ant swarm does not just leave and come back. In fact, unless the gelatin core is absorbed by the creatures present until every last one is left, none of these mutant beasts will retreat. The charm of evolution will make any creature lose its mind. They can disregard life and death and step on the corpses of their companions to get to the top. How could they become deserters at the critical moment?
Under the cover of a swarm of ordinary flying ants, thousands of large mutant ants of the kind seen before quickly crawled out of the cave entrance.
There are fist-sized soldier ants marching in a hurry on the ground. They are orange-red in color, have sharp mouthparts, and well-developed upper jaws. If they encounter obstacles, they will raise their thick upper jaws to cut them off. Even some small mutant snakes are not immune.
In mid-air, male fire ants as big as the palm of a hand flapped their wings and flew. Their wing feathers were wide, their joints and feet were covered with barbs, and their bodies were covered with hard bristles. When they hit the soldiers' faces, they were left with a row of lacerated wounds, and many of them were unable to avoid them. , blood suddenly flowed from his face.
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"Come on fire!"
At the critical moment, Chen Jiayi jumped up to the soldiers of Yanjiu Camp and waved to attract a ball of flames, which went straight towards the flying ants.
"Squeak, sizzle..."
In the flames, a large number of mutated flying ants landed on the ground and turned into piles of charred powder. But who would have thought that those huge soldier ants and male ants would not be affected! They broke through the fire curtain and came to the human battle formation with a body of flames, causing quite a bit of chaos. However, the flames on their bodies were gradually extinguished, and their bodies were as bright as if they had been coated with tung oil!
"Fire resistance!" Chen Jiayi exclaimed, and her pretty face under the witch hat suddenly became livid.
Flame has always been the most effective way to deal with mutated insects, but this time it failed. If even fire didn't work, did she know what else could stop these ferocious little guys?
A flash of panic suddenly flashed through Chen Jiayi's heart.
Red imported fire ants, red fire ants, is the word "fire" confirmed here?
In desperation, Chen Jiayi had to draw a ball of seawater to extinguish the fire for the soldiers. For now, she could only save people first and then think about other things.
At this moment, a male fire ant flew towards her, so Chen Jiayi used fire wire to make a knife and cut it in half instantly.
"it works!"
Her eyes lit up and she noticed that the physical defenses of these mutated fire ants were not strong.
"Warrior Iwaji!"
"exist!"
"Use your shield to block, and others to shoot with the back of their swords! Do you hear me?"
"yes!"
The soldiers who had figured out the strategy raised their shields to block the fire ants, and at the same time used the broad backs of their swords to beat each fire ant into a pulp. Chen Jiayi flew to a high place, controlling the wind silk blade to attack the male fire ants in the air. Constantly killing.
These fire ants are obviously the elite of the ant colony, and they must be under the control of the queen to be able to hide until now. Due to the special nature of the ant colony, the queen is the intellectual core of the entire colony. She can make countless red fire ants appear at this time, which is obviously determined to win the droplet.
The increasingly bad fighting situation made the female officers far away on the warship unable to help but feel worried.
She stared at the melee on the beach with wide eyes, and murmured: "Sir, do you know what those droplets are? Why do these black beasts look like they are crazy."
"I don't know what it is," Chen Biantao replied honestly, "but since these beasts are fighting for it, it must be something good."
He continued: "And even if we can't get it from Hong Kong City, we can never fall into the hands of these black beasts. Yue'er, look at the scale of these mutant beasts. If we hadn't come here today, we would never have thought of it." A herd of millions of black beasts has formed around the port city. If the black beasts make trouble sooner or later, we will suffer a lot!"
"But how should we get those droplets back? Or destroy them directly?" She asked, "Do you still remember the mysterious vortex discovered in Wan Chai District last month? My subordinate just let someone touch it, and the result was The man's organization collapsed on the spot and turned into a pool of blood and mud. Although this thing looks gorgeous, it might be poison like that mysterious vortex! "
"No, our method was probably wrong that time." Chen Biantao shook his head and said, "Do you remember that there were a few small black beasts resting next to the vortex and did not come into direct contact with the vortex. Maybe they were like them. The correct approach is to work and rest nearby, slowly capture the free crystal core energy, and slowly increase the promotion speed."
"Sir, I have told Tieyi to try to use equipment to carry him away without direct contact. If something cannot be done, I don't want to see him risk his life to seize the treasure."
Looking at the other party, Chen Biantao's eyes were firm: "Yue'er, you have a careful and steady personality, which is good. But you must also know that the world has changed. If you choke and refuse to eat, you will fall behind and be beaten! Only by having the courage to try can humans survive in this new world. Go further. This is the risk that Hong Kong City must take if it wants to become stronger!"
Hearing this, the female officer was greatly shocked.
She understood that Chen Biantao might have anticipated the current tragedy before joining the war, but he still chose to send troops. Is it really worth sacrificing the lives of countless good men in Hong Kong City for the sake of an illusory treasure?
For the first time since the disaster, confusion appeared in her heart.
