Edge of the Apocalypse Chapter 168: Ant Nest

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"Marshal Windsor Bellow asked me to inform you that the interstellar defense has been tight recently, and it will take about a month or two to come over." Colonel Berry said.

Allen was taken aback and said, "What, there is a war?"

"It's the Nirm, our old opponent." Colonel Bailey didn't look so nervous: "They are worried about our planet. There will always be one or two attempts to attack the federal defense line in a year. It’s okay, it’s hard to trouble the Marshal."

Alan nodded.

"Go ahead. Remember, Major Kejies is strict, but his starting point is good. I hope you don't resent him."

Ellen grinned: "How come."

I shook my head and went.

Berry left the dormitory. Outside the door, Kejiesi was leaning against the wall. Shaking a tin wine bottle, Ke Jies said: "Drink some?"

"You can't drink in the base!" Bailey said solemnly.

Kojis shrugged: "So I plan to go outside the base."

"Come on." Berry laughed and patted Ke Jies on the shoulder.

After a while, the two drove away from the base. After coming out of the base and driving to a hill on the high ground, Bailey jumped down, stepped on the reddish-brown ground under his feet and said: "Damn, it's really hot."

Kojis squatted down, reached out and touched the ground lightly, feeling the heat from his fingertips, and said: "This planet is almost over."

"Anyway, I was dying to see the moment it became a supernova."

"Except for people like the Marshal who have broken through the limit of life and have greatly extended their lifespan, whoever can see the real destruction of Pluto." Kejiesi jumped on the front of the car and sat down, poking his hands into the cup. , Opened the lid of the tin wine bottle, took a sip, and threw it to Bailey: "That kind of person can get five fingers in the entire Federation, anyway, it's not you and me."

Berry took a sip and said: "I only hope that I can see the melting pot in my lifetime."

That's where the king of the blade demon is.

"Isn't the Queen of Rose coming soon? I heard that Admiral Meilin's hands are all young girls, maybe we can have a sorority." Kejiesi said.

Berry laughed and said: "The boys in the base must be so happy."

Speaking, his face sank, and he said: "Just now, your brother and a few non-commissioned officers provoke Allen."

"Really?"

"But that's not the point." Berry snorted coldly, "Hubble actually insulted the Marshal."

The gaze in Kojies's eyes suddenly cold: "Then I am curious, why is he not dead yet?"

"That's because Alan beat him."

"It's really cheap for him." Kejiesi snorted, and said, "What do I need to do?"

"Of course, you have to warn him not to get too close to the non-commissioned officers in Starling." Berry handed the bottle back to the major: "Their superior is Major Luda."

Kojis snorted, and said: "Those who spread death speaks very nicely. They are not meant to monitor us if they assist in defense."

"This is no way. After all, Admiral Lusen and Marshal Capro are old friends, so naturally they are not very at ease with our new party. This is fine. I am afraid that behind this provocative incident is Intentionally, it's not easy."

Kojis frowned and said: "You mean, they want to use Hubble to provoke a dispute and take the opportunity to hit Alan to hit the Marshal? This is too much, I thought at least on Pluto, Facing the common enemy like the sword demon, should the old party put aside some prejudices?"

"Do you think those old guys are so easy to talk about? Especially the President's attitude is a bit biased towards them now. If I were Marshal Capro, I would definitely take this opportunity to attack us, so as to get back from being crushed by us. Unfavorable reputation on the Internet." Bailey shook his head: "Don’t say it, politics is much more complicated than going forward to kill the enemy. You remind Hubble, don’t let people take advantage of it."

Kojis nodded and said: "I will give him a deep enough reminder."

Speaking of putting the wine bottle in his mouth, he realized that there was no half a drop of wine flowing out. He shook his head and said, "Colonel, you drank a bit harshly."

Berry spread his hands, frowned and said, "Look over there."

Kojis followed his line of sight and saw that it was an undulating hilly ground beneath the blood eagle, and in the distance there were some sporadic dwarf hills/hills. Some busy figures are moving on the mountain. They are swarms of knife ants, they are heading in the same direction, with clear goals.

"It looks like we have to start mopping up again. I have to say that these things multiply so fast." Kejiesi said.

"The movement of the ant colony is too regular. Could a new queen appear?" Bailey shook his head and said, "Let’s detect it first, it’s terrible. There are signs of a medium-sized tribe just now, but now it’s possible to move again. Come to an ant nest as a neighbor, I really can’t relax at all."

"The internship period for those guys is coming soon, just let them practice their hands, they have to even the ant nest can't be taken off, how to fight the sword demon." Kejiesi laughed.

Time goes by in training and learning.

In a blink of an eye, Allen has been on Pluto for three months. On this day, all the recruits gathered in the tactical conference room. Kejiesi stood on the podium, and some pictures appeared alternately on the electronic curtain wall behind him. It was a topographic map of the mountains near the Blood Eagle Heights.

"After our reconnaissance during this period of time, there is reason to believe that a nest of knife ants appears on this mountain. Often there will be a queen in an ant nest. The queen is the only female creature in the ant nest. The main responsibility is to breed offspring. During the breeding period, the queen will continue to mate/mate with the male ants, and at least one hundred eggs will be laid each time. One month later, a hundred strong knife ants will appear in the nest."

Korjes said in a negative hand: "However, it is not the breeding period of the knife ants. At this time, the queen is generally in a dormant state. You have been on the planet Pluto for three months, and now you have to give you the last one. Item assessment. It’s very simple. Take this ant nest away. I will invigilate the whole process and give scores based on your team’s performance in the process."

"For those who have failed the score, congratulations, you can leave Pluto. Because if this is not even possible, there is no need to push you to the battlefield to die." Ke Jies said solemnly: "Also What's the problem?"

"No, sir!" everyone answered in unison.

Half an hour later, two transporter trucks drove out of the blood eagle base and walked along the mountain road to the test site. The vehicle stopped near the mountain where it reached the target. If you continue to move forward, the car engine will attract the attention of the ant colony. The soldiers got out of the car and lined up. After checking it over, Kojies waved his hand to indicate that the small groups left one after another and entered the mountains on foot.

After entering the mountain, the team dispersed and flowed between the mountains like an undercurrent. Kejiesi did not give the exact location of the ant nest, so how to find the ant nest is also an assessment of the soldiers. Alan was experienced in hunting for prey, and soon he found traces of knife ants. Because of its large size, the traces left by the knife ants are fairly obvious, and it is not difficult to find them as long as they are carefully observed.

Especially their sharp forefoot will always leave unique marks on the ground. As long as you find these marks and judge the direction of their advancement, it is not that difficult to find the trail of the knife ants. Soon, Ellen and the others followed up with a few sword ants. These knife ants were biting the limbs of some unknown beasts and moving. Whether it was the smell of the beast's corpse or the blood dripping on the ground, it was undoubtedly an obvious indication.

Following these traces, at sunset, Allen's team stopped on a small slope. Allen lay down on the ground, feeling the scorching breath of the ground constantly rising from his chest and spreading to other places. He was unmoved, only looked forward with a tactical telescope, and then handed the telescope to Lucy next to him.

In the telescope is a low mountain with a height of only about 20 meters. The mountain on the left is steep, and the **** on the right is gentle, joining the ground. There are a few strange black trees growing on the mountain, apart from that, there is no other embellishment. It is not difficult to see in the telescope that there are some deep caves at the foot of the mountain, including the upper part of the mountain, and knife ants enter and exit these caves.

During the 15 minutes they observed, dozens of knife ants entered and exited the cave at the foot of the mountain, and dozens of giant ants acting as sentinels were scattered around.

"What do you think?" Allen asked.

Lucy said: "Insufficient intelligence, we have to know what is going on in the ant nest before we can make a strategy."

Willik also said: "Moreover, we are obviously short of manpower. There are definitely no fewer than three digits in there."

Allen nodded and said: "Let's go, I will enter the ant nest to scout. Naz, you go and leave the contact code, let other teams come and gather with us, and discuss how to destroy the ant nest."

"Knife ants have poor eyesight, but they are very sensitive to pheromone, and they can judge friendly or enemy by ground vibrations. You have to be careful." Lucy's homework in biological knowledge is very outstanding, reminded now .

Allen used his fangs to dig out some limes from the ground, let them cool down and apply them to his face, body, hands and feet. The soil of Pluto has a strong smell of scorched earth, which can be used to conceal the original body smell after spreading it all over the body. After getting ready, Alan touched his fangs from the backlit side of the hillside, and Naz turned back and left to inform the other teams.

The sky was dark after a while, and two weird moons gradually rose from the horizon. One is shining with purple light, and the other is near the purple moon. The moon has no light at all, it follows like a shadow like a black hole.

This makes the night light of the Pluto star dim, and sword ants with low vision return to their nests one after another, while Alan walks in the night, taking cover of the undulating hills on the ground or some dark red shrubs. Going in the direction of the ant nest at a constant speed, after a while, Lucy, who was on the slope, could no longer see Alan.

The night is low, and a knife ant makes its way to the nest with difficulty. It has wounds on its body, and its second section on the left side of the beetle shattered, and blue-yellow insect sap was dripped from time to time. The two legs on the same side were also bitten off, which made it difficult to crawl, making it impossible to rush back to the nest before sunset. r1058