Chapter 648: The Swaying Heshan Rescue Society
On the deserted land covered with yellow sand, a team was walking hard. Among them were slowly moving armored vehicles, dragging a lot of supplies, but more people could only walk on the dry land full of gravel.
This team had thousands of people, they were well-equipped and disciplined. The combat members on the periphery were all wearing uniform bulletproof vests and holding fully automatic weapons. The women and children inside also remained quiet. Many children were held by their mothers, sitting in armored vehicles, looking outside quietly, their dark pupils reflecting the world full of yellow sand in the distance.
As the line of sight got closer, the long-faded signs on the armored vehicles could be seen - 'Heshan Rescue Society'.
The word "Rescue Society" had a special meaning in the Fifth Era. It often referred to the native humans who survived in groups in the cracks between the new races.
In order to avoid being completely destroyed by the new race that was already powerful and blessed by the dark sun, the rescue society formed by these native humans had to come up with various ways to survive under harsh living conditions. Discipline, sacrifice, and unity, these beliefs are almost integrated into the blood of every member.
This is of course not because the members of the rescue society are born noble, but all the rescue societies that did not do so, had traitors, and surrendered were eliminated by the favored race ruled by the dark sun.
Despite the large number of people, the members of this team remained silent, and only the low roar of the armored vehicle could be heard.
A slight south wind blew, and the ground rolled up waves of sand and gravel particles, causing some women and children to cough. Then they pulled up temporary black scarves to use as masks.
Just as they were moving forward, waves of vibrations and shaking came from the distance of the earth, which made the team stop quickly. Many people didn't say anything, but their expressions gradually became nervous.
"Are they still catching up..." After consultation, several high-level members of the rescue society asked the entire team to stop and began to arrange a defense line.
Heavy steel shields slammed heavily on the ground, pressed into the gravel, and fixed with brackets at the rear. The advancing convoy also turned around, and the armored vehicles were arranged in a line to fit in with the shields in front, forming a second line of defense.
Looking down from the sky, the team slowly formed a tight elliptical array, and connected the outer circle into a shield steel wall with no dead angles.
If you don't know, you will definitely be puzzled as to why such a formation is formed in the empty wilderness, but this question will soon disappear.
In the distant land, the vibrations became stronger and stronger, and cracks gradually appeared on the dry ground and spread everywhere, like a sleeping giant awakening underground, its heart beating constantly and hitting the earth's crust.
One sound...
two sounds...
three sounds...
the cracks became larger and larger, and the vibrations became more and more intense. Suddenly, like a black tide overflowing from the ground, countless dense insects drilled out of the cracks in the ground and spread in all directions. More of them flapped their wings and jumped into the air, forming a black fog covering the sky.
Such a scene would make intelligent life shudder, but this team in the wilderness was used to it.
The trunk of the armored vehicle was opened, and the dark red scraps inside were exposed to the scorching sun. Then the high-pitched command spread throughout the team.
"Raise the rust!"
The members carrying special equipment put their rough fingers on the box, and then the red rusty scraps rose under the action of magnetism and spread over the sky above the team.
"Insert the geomagnetic fulcrum!"
Black magnet spears were inserted into the ground, and they were arranged into neat hexagons. Then the invisible magnetic field spread under the action of extraordinary power, and the red rusty scraps in the sky suddenly changed, forming a surrounding rust curtain wall, and these scraps rotated with each other, like a meat grinder grinding flesh and blood.
At this time, the black insect swarm in the distance had spread to this side. Countless black insects flapped their wings and emitted buzzing sounds, swooping down towards the steel curtain like a cloud covering the sky. For a moment, tiny sparks burst out, but more of them were black insect meat and juice that were ground into pieces of iron, continuously rolling down from the air and piling up outside the position.
The huge magnetite meat grinder rotated, constantly consuming the attacking black insect swarm.
Even though the defending team had the upper hand, the battle was far from over. The black insect tide crawling out of the cracks in the ground in the distance was still endless. In order to eliminate these insects as much as possible, many combat members of the team came to the back of the shield wall with black iron cans on their backs.
One by one, long black tubes stretched out, and the turbid corpse oil was sprayed into mist under the action of the compressor pump, and then ignited.
The huge ring of flames with black smoke appeared on the ground in an instant. Under the billowing smoke, the dark red hot flames licked and devoured the many black insects that attacked, burning their wings, and their bodies fell into the fire, making a crackling sound, and then they were also ignited.
Countless black insect corpses piled up in the wilderness, and the burnt and stench of the smell could be clearly smelled more than ten miles away. Their number far exceeded the branch that attacked the Stone Forest Fort. Perhaps this was the main force of the insect tide.
The dead insect bodies made bursts of crackling sounds in the high temperature, and the pheromones in them rushed to the sky with the high temperature heat flow, like a beacon, constantly attracting other insect swarms within a radius of hundreds of miles.
From morning to dusk, in six hours, I don’t know how many black insect tides were burned. The fighters holding the nozzles had blisters on their hands from the high temperature and were sweating all over their bodies. Many people were already at their physiological limits.
Just as the whole team watched the insect swarms in the wilderness gradually become sparse, thinking that hope was slowly coming, another surge of surging buzzing sounds came from the distant sky, and this time it was no longer those fragile black insects that died when burned, but flying insects close to human size.
These flying insects with black and yellow veins are like wasps, but they are more flexible and ferocious. The black front feet are like sawtooth blades, and the two rows of vertical teeth secrete a variety of toxins that can infect and kill people. The strange patterns on their bodies give them a special ability to resist high temperatures. Even high-temperature air waves of hundreds of degrees cannot kill them on the spot.
When these bugs appeared, many people in the rescue team showed despair.
"Heshan Rescue Society!"
A combat member shouted loudly, like thunder in the team.
"Heshan Rescue Society!"
Someone shouted their name again. In the fifth era of almost complete despair, these rescue societies were the only salvation and hope for the original human beings. For the meaning behind this name, I don't know how many people have sacrificed for thousands of years. Many people's names have long been forgotten by time, but the symbol with shields and fists has been passed down.
One by one, members holding automatic rifles stepped forward to replace those exhausted flamethrowers. These combatants were covered with airtight armor, revealing only a pair of black eyes, staring at the vicious swarm of insects flying in the distance.
"Start injecting serum."
The commander's order was issued, and a needle with light red liquid was inserted into the blood vessels beside the neck. The cold liquid entered the body, and then the blood vessels of the whole body began to become hot, the muscles bulged like earthworms, and the nerves reached unprecedented excitement and calmness.
Pain began to leave them, fatigue began to leave them, weakness began to leave them, and all the beauty of life began to leave them.
His eyes were bloodshot, and the temperature of the steel in his hands continued to rise during the continuous shooting. The flying shells were endless, and bullets one after another penetrated the atmosphere, tearing the bodies of the vicious insects and smashing them into pieces.
Then more swarms of insects swooped down from the sky and crashed into the array full of bullets and flames. These insects born for killing were also very tenacious. Even if their bodies were mutilated, they exerted their last life activities, tearing open the gap with sharp saw teeth, and their crazy mouthparts danced in the flames.
The swaying and shining beliefs and the instincts rooted in genes intertwined on the battlefield. The battle continued, and at this moment the two were deadlocked.
(End of this chapter)
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