Sizzle sizzle—

Snap snap snap—

Outside the "Bird's Nest" base, insects kept touching the electric grid and being electrocuted by the high-voltage current.

However, even the strongest electric grid couldn't withstand the overwhelming swarm of insects. Soon, a gap was breached in the first electric grid, and the insects poured in through the gap.

Bang--

Snap—

Zhang Fan shattered the pincers of a one-star soldier cockroach squad leader with an armor-piercing bullet.

grass.

It missed; it didn't hit the head.

Pull the bolt, eject the spent cartridge, load the round, and chamber a chamber.

When Zhang Fan took aim again, the squad leader had already disappeared.

A squad leader can only command a dozen or so insects, and there are at least a hundred insects around, which means that there is at least one two-star cockroach squad leader among them.

Once the leader of the insects is defeated, the other insects will scatter like headless flies.

But not only the two-star squadron leaders, but even the one-star squadron leaders were nowhere to be seen. They were all crawling on the ground, hiding behind the bodies of other insects.

It seems that Captain Bug is quite intelligent; after suffering a few losses, he has learned to hide himself.

The swarming insects crawled onto the nearest production chamber.

Zhang Fan watched helplessly as the production pod in the distance was surrounded by about a hundred mutated insects, layer upon layer. Then, within minutes, the production pod was slowly devoured by the insects, turning into a pile of rubble, just like foam dissolving.

The production compartment had already been emptied; there was no food inside. Zhang Fan ejected the armor-piercing round, replaced it with a high-explosive round, pulled the pin, loaded the chamber, aimed, and pulled the trigger—

Bang--

boom--

The high-explosive shell exploded after hitting the insect, which was directly cut in two and died instantly. The flying shrapnel embedded itself in the bodies of the surrounding insects, knocking off many severed limbs.

However, as long as they are not hit in a vital area, the other insects will still quickly crawl to the next production chamber as if nothing happened.

Bang--

With a soft "plop," the first one-star soldier cockroach tumbled over and trembled on the ground.

It can be clearly seen that the armor-piercing projectile penetrated its chest and abdomen from the upper side, almost pinning it to the ground.

Other insects quickly crawled all over the production chamber.

Bang--

boom--

A high-explosive shell sent several insects flying.

Several mutated insects died, but Zhang Fan didn't care. He was already in the zone. Almost at the same time as pulling the trigger, he reached to the side, grabbed another armor-piercing round, pulled the pin, loaded it, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

Bang--

Another armor-piercing round hit the squad leader who was hiding under the mutated insect that had been blown away.

"I told you to hide!"

Zhang Fan repeatedly pulled the trigger, firing all the remaining high-explosive rounds in the magazine, blasting the bugs on the production compartment to scatter everywhere. Then he changed the magazine and continued bombarding.

Zhang Fan didn't use high-explosive shells to kill the cockroach captains because their vital parts had hard exoskeletons, and if it wasn't a direct hit, it was very likely that he wouldn't be able to kill them with one shot.

However, Zhang Fan wanted to keep the crystals on their foreheads, so he used armor-piercing bullets, which had strong penetrating power but a much smaller kill radius.

Pfft.

Another squad leader is unable to move.

Seeing that the compartments inside the electric grid were crawling with insects, Zhang Fan knew this couldn't go on. He threw a few smoke bombs into the swarm of insects below, and green smoke began to spread.

These fumes contain insecticides, and although they can only kill smaller worker cockroaches, other larger insects also dislike the smell.

As the thick smoke spread, the insects began to scatter.

I've found you!

Zhang Fan kept his eyes fixed on the swarm of insects, and the moment the two-star cockroach squadron leader peeked out, he immediately pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The two-star soldier roach quickly scurried away the moment it surfaced, but the high-explosive shell still hit its back, tearing off a large chunk of its carapace.

The insect, its back aching, turned and scurried rapidly toward Zhang Fan.

Holy crap! It didn't even kill me in one shot.

The insect's hard carapace absorbed most of the damage from the high-explosive shell, leaving only a dent in its back and failing to penetrate deeper.

Zhang Fan aimed at the insects and pulled the trigger repeatedly.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The high-explosive bomb exploded on the ground, kicking up the surrounding soil, and the two-star soldier cockroach crawled forward at high speed in an S-shape.

Although it was over a meter in diameter, it crawled quickly close to the ground, leaving Zhang Fan with a very small area to aim at. Several high-explosive shells hit the muddy ground next to it.

rustling sound—

The sound of insects' limbs scraping across the sand came from the ground. Zhang Fan's magazine was empty and he needed to reload.

However, the two-star cockroaches had already climbed to the base of the signal tower where Zhang Fan was located and were climbing up the tower base.

Zhang Fan removed the empty magazine, replaced it with a new one, and before he could reload, the two-star cockroach used its strong hind legs to leap into the air, opening its huge, sharp pincers like scissors, and pounced on Zhang Fan.

At such close range, Zhang Fan could already see the sharp jaws of the two-star soldier cockroach's mandibles. The AWP was suitable for long-range shooting, but not for close combat, and there was no time to load and aim it now.

Holy crap!

Is she that smart?

Zhang Fan suspected that this was not a coincidence, but rather a perfect opportunity that the insects had painstakingly seized.

His outstretched pincers were less than a meter away. If the two-star cockroach tightened its pincers the next second, he would probably be cut in two.

At the critical moment.

Zhang Fan quickly released his grip on the AWP with his right hand, pulled out the Desert Eagle from his right thigh, cocked the gun with his heel, raised the gun, and fired.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

All five bullets were fired.

At such close range, all the bullets hit the head of the two-star soldier cockroach; even the toughest carapace couldn't withstand the powerful destructive force of the Desert Eagle.

The two-star cockroach's face was smashed to pieces, and its body fell from mid-air, landing right at Zhang Fan's feet, its outstretched pincers still wrapped around Zhang Fan's body.

Pshaw, garbage!

Zhang Fan kicked the bug, then drew the dagger from his waist, pried off the two crystals on the forehead of the two-star soldier cockroach, kicked the rest off the signal tower, then cocked his gun and aimed at the bug below again.

Without a leader to control them, the insects below scurried about indiscriminately.

After Zhang Fan used armor-piercing rounds to kill the remaining insect squad leader, dealing with the remaining small insects was only a matter of time.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

After shooting down the last bug, Zhang Fan sat on the signal tower with his sniper rifle in his arms. The searchlight could no longer see any of the bugs.

The horizon in the distance is beginning to lighten, it must be getting light soon.

I guess I made it through the night again?

Looking down at the "Bird's Nest" base, now a scene of utter devastation, Zhang Fan felt no joy whatsoever.

During a break, Zhang Fan looked up outside and noticed a dark line stretching out in the distance.

Those were countless mutated insects.

Even out of the corner of Zhang Fan's eye, he saw the four-star male cockroach commander in the distance, whose size far exceeded that of ordinary mutated insects. His expression immediately turned ugly, which meant that there were at least a thousand insects in this batch.

They really don't let people rest...