Chapter 023: Mysterious Monster

"How can it not be possible?" replied a squad leader.

"Sir, you don't know what's going on here." Another one said with an indifferent expression. "There won't be any large insect tide here. It's the largest insect tide in fifty years. How many bugs do you think there are? More than a hundred, which is not enough for these brothers to practice their marksmanship."

Shen Zheng looked at the two captains and somewhat understood their disapproval, but understanding did not mean support.

Ever since he received this mission, he had felt uneasy for no apparent reason, as if there was some terrible danger hidden in this seemingly stable mission. He attaches great importance to this feeling of his, because it is this feeling that allowed him to protect his team members without casualties in the previous defensive battle.

"What if there is an exception this time?" He looked at the two squad leaders, "At that time, can you be responsible for the lives of three hundred soldiers?" [

The two team captains looked at Shen Zheng and saw something in his cold eyes that made their bodies shiver, so they finally became nervous and stood up straight.

"Don't ask me to repeat this order a third time." Shen Zheng said, "Otherwise someone will accept military sanctions."

"Yes!" The two team captains saluted hurriedly. After Shen Zheng turned around and left, they both let out a sigh of relief and looked at each other.

"How...are you feeling?" one asked.

"I broke out in a cold sweat!" one replied.

"Me too……"

Under Shen Zheng's supervision, before dark the next day, all the weapons in the entire small fortress were in place, and all the soldiers were assigned to corresponding positions. The night shift was also carefully arranged, and the entire small fortress was completely in a state of emergency preparation.

In this state, two more days passed and nothing happened. Just when the soldiers thought they could relax and breathe a sigh of relief, the insect sound discriminator suddenly issued a warning, and the signal of a large group of insects came from far to near, coming here.

"Oh my God!" A team leader looked at the insect sound discriminator and shouted in surprise. "How is that possible? Where did they come from? Fall from the sky? Come out of the ground? They are only one kilometer away from us, how come the insect sound discriminator has just discovered them?"

"Prepare for emergency battle!" Shen Zheng, who had been guarding the insect sound discriminator, stood up and strode towards the fortress wall, looking at the direction where the insect sound signal appeared.

There are continuous mountain peaks, with countless stinky sage growing crazily, and tall trees mixed in, blocking people's sight. Shen Zheng squinted and looked there. After a moment, a warning sign suddenly appeared in his mind. He pointed at a hillside covered by big trees and shouted: "Bombard that place with long-range artillery, quickly!"

"Yes!" While the two team captains were still surprised, Shen Zheng's soldiers had already completed the work of saluting, contacting the artillery, and explaining the location and ordering the artillery fire. In an instant, the only three long-range artillery in the small fortress roared one after another, turning the hillside into a disaster place with rocks flying and flames scattered.

Among the rocks, there were fragments of insect beetles, and among the scattered flames, there was the whine of insects.

"Hit, hit!" the two team captains shouted desperately.

"Order the machine guns to prepare!" Shen Zheng gave the order decisively.

"Yes!" This time the two team captains did not hesitate anymore, but hurriedly issued orders to the subordinates operating the machine guns. The eleven machine guns immediately adjusted their angles and aimed at the hillside.

The long-range artillery was still roaring, and the insect tide finally stopped hiding and poured out directly from there. From that hillside, nearly three thousand insects rushed in like a tide. Although the fire from the three artillery pieces was fierce, the number was too small to pose much of a threat to the insect tide.

At this time, the machine guns began to fire intensively.

"Thank you for forcing us to be prepared, otherwise this time we would be..." A team leader wiped his sweat and felt lingering fear. [

"Stop talking and prepare for close combat!" Shen Zheng quietly stared at the insect swarm in the distance. The black carapace slowly emerged from the skin and wrapped himself up. Two sharp blades came out of his left and right arms. The ten fingers turned into sharp claws, and explosions began to condense in the palms of both hands.

The two team captains couldn't help but swallowed when they saw this.

Oh my god, how many worms are there? Is this...is this still a human being?

Under the machine gun fire, several bugs were torn into pieces, but more bugs, under the cover of their companions, stepped forward on the corpses of their own kind, arrived under the fortress, and then climbed up the outer wall. Climbing up, after sacrificing several of the same kind, they finally reached the fortress defense platform.

Close combat inevitably unfolded. Three hundred human soldiers faced more than a thousand bugs, with an average of four to five bugs per person. Everyone knew that this was an extremely dangerous battle and did not dare to be careless. .

Shen Zheng's one hundred soldiers have already taught the defenders here the fighting method of forming a battle group in groups according to Shen Zheng's previous instructions. Now these defenders are grouped according to this method to fight against the insects, and each other Taking care of him, there wasn't much danger for a while.

Shen Zheng raised his hands and fired out several bursts, which bloomed among the insects crawling around the city. He then fired the spear with one hand, causing the limbs and armor of several insects to fly away.

He no longer restrained his power, and the insect power came out like a tide. The sharp claws, sharp arm blades, and strong fists flew up and down, sending the fierce insects into the abyss of hell.

Everything seemed to be going so smoothly, as if they could hold on for a little longer, this insect tide would be completely suppressed.

But Shen Zheng inexplicably felt a trembling sense of danger, as if he was walking barefoot on the edge of a cliff and could suddenly fall into the abyss at any time.

What was going on? Shen Zheng smashed the head of a thorny claw insect with a punch and looked around. There were insects all around, surrounding the human soldiers, but they could not bring disaster to humans.

The danger did not come from them, never. Then who could it be? Where could it be? Why couldn't I feel it this time?

This feeling troubled him and made him feel restless. He frowned and looked around, constantly sending insects into hell, but the uneasiness in his heart could not be relieved.

At this moment, an extreme sense of danger suddenly made his hair stand on end, and he couldn't help shivering. He felt that something was coming from under his feet, trying to swallow him up and pull him into the abyss of hell.

"Get out of the way!" In a hurry, he yelled, pushed a team leader away from him, and jumped into the air with all his strength.

At this moment, the platform under his feet was suddenly smashed by a silver shadow. Amid the flying rocks, the silver shadow soared into the air and attacked Shen Zheng in the air.

At this extremely dangerous moment, Shen Zheng's vision became extremely sensitive in an instant. He stared at the silver shadow flying below, and his heart suddenly tightened.

What is this?

The silver shadow was a monster with a body length of more than three meters, surrounded by the hard shell of insects. The reason why it is called a monster is that although it has the shell of an insect, its body is very different from that of an insect. It has a long neck, and its body is divided into a head, thorax and abdomen. It does not have too many claws, but has four limbs.

The limbs were thick and strong, with sharp claws on them, and the big head had red compound eyes like insects, but under the eyes was a big mouth like a lion's mouth, with a thick tongue sticking out of the mouth and sharp teeth shining.

Is this an insect or an animal?

Shen Zheng was in shock and had no time to think about it, because the guy's big mouth had already opened and bit his body fiercely. Shen Zheng suppressed his shock, quickly bent his body in the air, then stretched out, and flew to the side with the leaping skills of the stinging claw insect, avoiding the bite of the monster. [

The monster missed the bite, and the red eyes immediately flashed a fierce light. It fell to the ground and roared, and suddenly pounced to the side and attacked a team leader.

The team leader also had the ability of the blade-foot insect. A pair of slender bone blades on his arms flashed coldly in the sun. Seeing the monster pounce on him, he did not retreat, but roared and greeted it, with his right arm forward, and slashed at the monster's head with a knife.

But the monster just tilted its head slightly to avoid the slash, and its sharp claws pressed directly on the captain's chest, using the momentum of the pounce to push the captain to the ground, and the sharp claws directly pierced the captain's chest fiercely. Regardless of the sharp stabs of the claws, the power of the pounce of the claw alone had already broken the captain's sternum, and the huge impact force also caused spider-web-like cracks on the concrete floor below.

Blood spurted out of his mouth like a fountain, and the captain stared unwillingly, raising his head desperately, as if he wanted to make a final struggle, but finally fell softly.

"Asshole!" At this moment, Shen Zheng had just landed and stood firm in the distance. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but burst into anger. He raised his hand with a roar, and dozens of lances flew out in succession, hitting the monster.

The monster turned its body suddenly, and those prisms hit its shell and were immediately detonated. All the sharp points of the prisms were flattened, losing their attack power and falling far to the ground.

What a strong defense!

Shen Zheng was slightly surprised. You know, to achieve this level of defense, the shell of this monster must be at least as hard as the steel armor on his body. And judging from the distance and damage of those prisms, they seemed to be much harder than the steel shell on his body.

The monster's eyes were like insect eyes, without eyelids. Red light flashed under the hard red shell. It slowly raised the claw that had crushed the captain's chest, and blood dripped from the claw to the ground, ticking.

Shen Zheng's expression gradually became cold, and the fluctuations in his heart gradually subsided. The insect power surged in his body, filling every part of his body, but the head of the head was in a peaceful state, like the eye of the storm in the storm - the wind started from here, but this place was the most peaceful.