Lu Rankong hung up the terminal, his face darkened, and he took out a cigarette box from his trouser pocket in annoyance.
He held a cigarette in his mouth and searched his body for a lighter. He raised his hand to ask a soldier not far away for something, but he put his hand down again and just stared blankly ahead with the cigarette in his mouth.
The soldiers regained their spirits and began to laugh and joke again. The sound came into my ears like background noise, blurred as if through deep water.
"Xiaokong, guess what delicious food your mother made for you today?" The woman squatted in front of him and asked gently. Her figure was against the sunlight, and her facial features were blurry and unclear.
“Is it chicken wings?”
"Xiao Kong is really smart. He guessed it right at the first try."
"Then mom, you have to reward me by letting me eat one more."
The woman touched the top of his head, her palm warm and soft, "Then mom will reward you with one more."
Bang bang bang!
The continuous and rapid gunshots woke him from his thoughts. He jumped up faster than his brain could react and grabbed the ion gun behind him.
The moment the arthropod interstellar beast came into view, it flashed and rushed out.
Lan Yu fired at the big cockroach. The bullets sparked on the black and hard shell and made a crisp metallic sound.
The giant cockroach's huge body trembled at the frequency of the bullets, and it took a few steps back while waving its tentacles.
“Stop, stop.”
Someone was shouting to stop, but Lan Yu turned a deaf ear to him, his finger firmly on the trigger, and the ion gun kept spewing flames forward.
Until a hand grasped the barrel of his gun and pushed it upwards, all the bullets were fired into the air, and then the safety was clicked.
A figure rushed out from the side and rushed to the big cockroach that had just stood still. With a bright light, an insect head as big as a washbasin with hair and antennae rolled to Lan Yu's feet, and a sticky transparent liquid splashed onto her leather boots.
Lu Rankong stood in front of Lan Yu holding a dagger, frowned at him, and asked, "What's wrong with you? The bullet can't penetrate the hard shell of the Jie insect. Only the neck is soft. Just cut off the head. Don't you have this common sense?"
Lan Yu pursed his lips with a pale face, held the gun tightly, stepped back, and said in a hoarse voice: "I forgot for a moment..."
"Forgot?"
"Just... I got a little too excited about killing."
The soldiers also stood up and looked over here. Several captains ran over and walked around the mound to take a look. One of them reported, "Colonel Lu, Colonel K, there are several bodies here. They died within the past two days. Judging from their clothes and weapons, they are the missing patrolmen."
After saying that, he walked to the headless corpse of the worm, kicked it, and said bitterly: "It was killed by this bastard."
Lu Rankong did not ask Lan Yu any more questions. He walked to the corpses, squatted down, and looked through them while muttering, "These patrolmen are second-class soldiers, veterans who have served for more than three years. Even if this Jie insect is invisible and attacks again, they can't all be killed--"
He suddenly stopped talking here, squatted there with his whole body tense like a bent bow, then slowly stood up and turned his head to look at the open space beside him.
Lan Yu instantly realized that something was wrong. His heart was pounding. He looked around vigilantly and turned on the safety on the ion gun.
Suddenly remembering Lu Rankong's words, he put the gun behind his back again and pulled out his dagger from his equipment belt.
Several captains also held their breath, drew their daggers, and stood back to back.
The surroundings became quiet. Lan Yu could only hear her own heartbeat and the breathing of several people. She could also hear the sound of wind blowing past her ears, stirring up a cloud of dust.
At this moment, a hundred meters away on the right, the air began to distort as it did at the beginning, and spread layer by layer into the distance. It was like someone had thrown a stone onto the water, and the surface of the water where it bounced began to ripple.
"Jie worm!" A captain beside Lan Yu shouted, "Everyone, pay attention, there are Jie worms appearing."
The soldiers stood up and prepared themselves, each with a dagger drawn and facing in this direction.
Lan Yu took a deep breath, and seeing that Lu Rankong was still standing beside the corpses without moving, she quietly moved a few steps to the side and stood with the captains.
"There are also Jie insects here. There are also Jie insects here." A loud roar came from the direction of the soldiers.
Just to their left, the same air fluctuations occurred. Gradually extending out and connecting with the right side.
Then, a transparent shape slowly emerged in the air, becoming clearer and clearer, and gradually revealing the appearance of a Jie insect.
Tentacles were trembling everywhere, and the entire deep black hard wings were shining in the sun.
Everywhere the eye looked, there were Jie insects. They were swarming around and covering the entire sky, and had already surrounded the two camps.
Lan Yu couldn't help but feel her scalp tingling and her legs trembling when she saw this scene. This was a thousand times more terrifying than going home, opening the door and turning on the light, only to be greeted by a house full of cockroaches. She wished she could faint on the spot so that she wouldn't have to face what was happening before her.
"There are probably hundreds of them." One soldier's voice began to tremble.
"Maybe more than that..."
"Why are there so many Jie insects? Aren't they staying on the planet Kulun?"
"Colonel Lu, Colonel K, are you going to send out the mecha?"
Lan Yu was in despair and didn't say anything. Lu Rankong turned around and saw that all the Jie insects had already revealed their shapes and were moving. He turned around and shouted, "Everyone listen up, get out the mechas!"
Out of mecha?
Lan Yu regained her composure and saw that Lu Rankong and several captains around him quickly dispersed and each of them clicked the metal ring on their hands.
The metal ring flashed green light, and at the same time, several huge steel machines suddenly emerged from the open space in front of them.
Lan Yu couldn't tell what the machine was until they entered the open hatch and closed it. The machine stood up from the ground, revealing an appearance similar to hands, feet, and a body. Then he understood.
I have seen this movie.
A loud rumbling sound was also heard from the direction of the soldiers. The ground seemed to be shaking, and two-story-high mechas rose from the ground.
They were all in a uniform dark blue color, with their respective digital logos written on them, and had a cool metallic glow throughout.
The Jie insects had fully revealed their bodies, but they did not move. They just used their long bent legs to dig the ground impatiently, raising clouds of dust.
Lan Yu quickly raised his left wrist and looked for the button on the metal ring. Now he had to transform into a mecha and get in quickly.
But the metal ring was very smooth and fit tightly against the wrist. There was no button or even a joint to be found.
He was anxious, so he brought his wrist close to his eyes to take a closer look and poked it randomly with his fingers.
At this moment, a sharp whistle came from the insect swarm, like a hacksaw piercing the eardrum. All the insects bent their hind legs, raised their front legs covered with barbs, and were ready to pounce.
clang clang clang!
A series of steel sounds were heard, which were the long swords that popped out from the wrists of the mechas.
It is a full meter long, with a sharp blade and blood grooves carved into the blade.
The two sides confronted each other, and a war was about to begin.
Lan Yu's sweat ran down his forehead. What the hell was this thing? How can I trigger the mecha to start?
He was backing away while poking the metal ring, when his back suddenly hit an obstacle. He lost his balance and staggered two steps. He quickly reached out to hold onto the large square pillar next to him.
Looking up, I saw a shadow above. It turned out that I was holding the right leg of a mecha and standing under its crotch.
hiss--
The sharp whistling sound rang out again. Lan Yu just felt something was wrong when she saw the big cockroaches collectively spread their wings. At the same time, the mecha above his head shouted: "Attack!"
The voice changed a little after being transmitted through the loudspeaker, but he still recognized it as Lu Rankong.
The Jie insects flapped their wings and leaped towards the group of mechas, covering the sky in darkness, like a swarm of locusts passing by.
The mechas also took off into the air, and the large square pillar where Lan Yu was hiding left the ground. He reached out in panic to grab it, but found nothing. He looked up and saw three numbers on the back of the mecha.
——666.
The mecha collided with the Jie insect, wings and steel knives flew together, and the sound of metal clashing and the scratching sound of spikes scraping across the metal surface were heard from all directions.
The soldiers were well-trained and used long swords to chop at the part where the head and body of the Jie insect were connected. The insect heads were constantly chopped off and rolled to the ground.
Lan Yu leaped on the ground with difficulty, paying attention to the huge insect corpses under his feet while being careful not to be trampled into a meat patty by some running mechas.
No one noticed him. At this moment, he was like a tiny ant, helpless in the flood, struggling to find a place to stay.
Bang! A bug leg suddenly fell in front of him, and Lan Yu almost fell headfirst into the pile of hideous spikes. He leaned forward several times and barely stopped.
He raised his head and his eyes met a pair of inorganic crystal eyeballs, and the blood in his body instantly flowed backwards.
The maggot on the opposite side rolled its eyes, waved its antennae in the air, hissed from its mouthparts, and raised its two sharp front legs and swung them at him.
Lan Yu dodged to the left, and her front legs, as thick as a bowl, slid past his chest with a fishy smell. Then he jumped from the left to the back of the Jie insect, took out the dagger in his hand, and slashed the neck covered with thin scales.
A sticky liquid spurted out, and the insect head and body separated and fell to the ground, with the two long tentacles around its mouth still trembling.
He suppressed his nausea and fear and was about to go around the insect corpse in front of him when he was discovered by the Jie insects in front of him. Seven or eight of them pounced on him aggressively in an instant.
He wanted to turn around, but at that moment, he heard the sound of flapping wings behind him.
It was too late to escape, a group of Jie insects had already appeared in front of him, leaving him with no way to retreat.
He only had a short dagger in his hand, which could be used to deal with one or two, but he didn't know what would happen if there was a group. But he couldn't care less about that now. He could only grit his teeth and rush towards the nearest one.
Ignoring the resistance and discomfort in his heart, he grabbed the insect head's hair with his left hand, and his right hand flashed quickly, and when he let go, the insect head fell off.
While the insect's body was still sliding forward due to inertia, he had already flashed behind the other one and raised his hand to stab the insect's neck.
The sharp dagger pierced through the fine scales, and with another push, the dagger cut through the flesh, and dark green and black mucus flowed out along the blade.
The two Jie insects fell down almost at the same time, but at this moment, other Jie insects also rushed over, and the serrated leg in front was already in sight.
It was so close that Lan Yu could clearly see the tiny scales on the barbs.
The spikes had already touched the skin of the face, and the bent forelimbs were like the god of death's scythe, cold and cruel.
Time seemed to stop and the picture was infinitely magnified, reflecting the despair and fear in his eyes.
However, the expected pain did not come. The sickle broke with a snap, and then the other Jie insects beside him fell to the ground with a scream, and their heads and bodies were separated in an instant.
The threat of death was dispelled, time resumed flowing, Lan Yu turned his eyes dully, and saw a sharp long knife pulled out from the insect corpse in front of him.
The tall black mech stopped in front of him, its iron head drooping slightly. Lan Yu seemed to be able to see the doubts in its owner's heart from those mechanical eyes.
"Why don't you get out of the mecha?" It was Lu Rankong's voice.
Lan Yu opened her mouth, her voice was hoarse as if mixed with sand, "I like physical combat."
The mecha was apparently frozen for a second, but said nothing more. It stepped over his head on its metal legs and flew towards the swarm of insects in the distance.
The ground shook with every step he took, with a huge 666 on his back.
Lan Yu couldn't hold on any longer and sat down on the ground with weak legs.
His clothes were soaked with sweat and his whole body was shaking like he had the hiccups. He simply held the dagger in his left hand and pinched his trembling wrist with his right hand, trying to calm it down.
With a little force, the metal ring on the wrist suddenly rotated half a circle to the right. After a slight mechanical sound and a pause, the metal ring flashed green light.
With a loud bang, a black mecha suddenly appeared in the open space in front of him.
Standing majestically and silently, with three gold-plated numbers printed on his chest.
——999.
Two more Jie insects rushed over. Lan Yu quickly stood up to block them, pushed away the swinging front legs with a dagger, and then stabbed forward, stabbing the dagger into its protruding mouthparts.
As another Jie insect pounced, he let go and flew into the open entrance of the mecha.
With a bang, the entrance closed, and the hatch made a sharp scratching sound almost at the same time.
Lan Yu stood up, panting, and quickly looked around the interior of the mecha.
The interior is not big, with only a few square meters of space, and a small round table in the middle that can accommodate one person.
He tried to step onto the small round platform, and just as he stood still, a three-dimensional display screen appeared in front of him. The above is the scene outside the mecha, and there are virtual control keys on the lower right.
There was a crunching sound coming from overhead. It was the Jie insect that landed on top of the mecha and was trying to cut the mecha open with its sharp forelimbs.
After observing the complicated virtual control keys for two seconds, Lan Yu decisively reached out and pressed a lot of buttons.
The soldiers outside were waving long swords and fighting with the Jie insects.
The corpses of insects with their heads and bodies separated were scattered all over the ground, and broken limbs and wings were everywhere, but even so, the Jie insects still continued to pour in, rushing towards the mecha one after another.
The mechas were not in very good condition either. They were covered with scratches and some of the metal shells had serious cracks, revealing the components inside.
Lu Rankong controlled his 666. He just chopped down two Jie insects that pounced on the fuselage, and then he pulled down one on the top of the mecha next to him. He chopped it down with his knife.
"Colonel Lu, we can't keep killing like this. We can't kill until tomorrow morning either." The captain beside him pulled the long knife out of the insect corpse with force. "Besides, everyone's physical strength can't keep up, and some mechas have also been damaged."
Another soldier heard this and asked in confusion, "What's going on with these maggots? In the past, there were only a few every year, and the patrols easily dealt with them. Is this a mass migration now?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sharp hissing sound again from behind the insect swarm, as if it was giving urgent orders. When the Jie insects heard the sound, they rushed up even more desperately.
Two mechas couldn't hold on and fell to the ground with a loud bang. Fortunately, with the help of the soldiers beside them, they were able to stand up again from the insect siege.
Lu Rankong looked back at the battlefield behind him. "Don't worry about the reason for now. There is a king among these Jie insects. I have to kill it. If we let it go from here, when they reach the town outside the desert, the consequences will be disastrous. But I can't do it alone. I need a strong helper."
"I'll go with you..."
"I can..."
"Colonel Lu, let me go."
The surrounding soldiers operated the mechas to fight the Jie insects and volunteered to fight.
"You can't do it. You're not strong enough. If you can't kill the Insect King, you'll be in danger." Lu Rankong swung his left arm and killed another Jie insect. He looked around and said, "I just saw K going crazy. The colonel was going crazy. He didn't get into the mecha and ran around. I'll call him over."
A mecha soldier from the second battalion flying at low altitude heard it and shouted proudly, "Colonel K has entered the mecha and is about to start a massive killing spree. Look, he's on the right."
As soon as he finished speaking, a fierce drum beat sounded from the right, accompanied by a loud and high-pitched bass and a hoarse male voice, echoing on the battlefield.
This is fucking crazy, who can play rock music at this time? Everyone, including those who were fighting with the Jie insects, couldn't help but look back.
I saw a black mecha with 999 printed on its back standing there motionless, with its head and body covered with Jie insects.
It turned out to be Colonel K?
That's okay.
Lu Rankong also looked over, his face full of disbelief. He yelled in shock and anger: "K lunatic, is your condition getting worse again?"
Lan Yu was also startled by the sudden sound of music. He wanted to turn it off quickly and pressed the button on the virtual console. As a result, there was a lot of chaos and the music was still playing at a high volume.
The entire body can be seen from the display.
There seemed to be more Jie insects standing overhead, and the sound of them scratching the outer shell of the mecha could not be suppressed even by the heart-wrenching song.
He pressed the buttons one by one, trying to pop out the two long swords.
Forget about the music, kill the cockroaches first.
Lu Rankong started to run towards Lan Yu, and along the way he saw the black mecha suddenly pick up the mortar and retract it. Take out the ion gun and take it back. Raise the flamethrower and retract it.
It was not until two sharp long blades came into view that Lan Yu felt relieved and decisively pressed the largest green button.
Please, this is the start button, please.
The mecha suddenly vibrated, and a halo enveloped his entire body. Lan Yu looked down in surprise and heard the sound of a Jie insect sliding down above his head.
The mecha leader also lowered his head.
Success...
Lu Ran was filled with rage, and felt that even the Jie insects were not as hateful as the black-hearted K. It would be fine if he didn't kill the Jie insects now. He just wanted to kick the stupid mecha over and give it a good beating.
Just then, he saw 999 suddenly move.
The black mecha suddenly rushed into the sky, turned around and somersaulted a few dozen meters away, grabbed two Jie insects that had slipped off its body and had not yet spread their wings, and threw them to the ground.
His speed was so fast that one could not see clearly how the iron arm moved. One could only see other Jie insects being caught one by one and falling to the ground like dumplings.
The beetle fell heavily to the ground, raising yellow dust.
Amid the deafening heavy metal rock music, the mecha dived toward the ground, and two long blades popped out in the air, reflecting the sun's light.
"I will tear apart the black sky and earth, and bring a timely rain to this place..." the rock singer roared at the top of his lungs.
With a tremor, the mecha fell to the ground and the long sword was swung high.
"You are so arrogant and smoky in front of me, and the rain is like your gushing blood..."
The long knife drew an arc in the air, chopped down, and stretched out, and seven or eight insect heads flew high at the same time.
The black mecha maintained the posture of bent knees and raised sword without moving, looking as majestic as a god of war, and the 999 on its body was particularly eye-catching.
It took Lan Yu several seconds to react. She stood up in a daze, pressed her violently beating heart with her hand, and bent over to breathe.
But in the eyes of others, the tall mecha stroked its left chest with its iron arm and leaned forward slightly to make a farewell gesture.
Lu Rankong slowed down his pace and suddenly laughed briefly, "Fuck you, you're so pretentious."
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