"Marshal Windsor Bello asked me to inform you that the interstellar line of defense is relatively tight recently, and it will take about a month or two to come back." Colonel Bailey said.
Allen was surprised and said, "Why, is there a war?"
"It's the Nirm people, our old opponent." Colonel Berry's expression didn't seem to show how nervous he said: "They care about our earth, and there will always be one or two attempts to attack the federal defense line once or twice a year. It doesn't matter, it's hard Not the marshal."
Allen nodded.
"You go to work, remember, although Major Kejiesi is strict, but his intention is good, I hope you don't resent him."
Allen grinned: "How could that be?"
shook his head and went.
Bailey left the dormitory, outside the door, Kejies was leaning against the wall. Shaking a tin wine bottle, Ke Jiesi said, "Have a drink?"
"Drinking is not allowed in the base!" Bailey said in a deep voice.
Ke Jiesi shrugged: "So I plan to go around the base."
"Come on." Bailey laughed, patted Kejies on the shoulder and said.
After a while, the two drove away from the base. Coming out of the base and driving to a hill on a high ground, Bailey jumped off, stepped on the reddish-brown ground under his feet and said, "Damn it, it's really hot."
Kejiesi squatted down, reached out and touched the ground lightly, feeling the heat from his fingertips and said, "This planet is almost over."
"Anyway, I died watching the moment it went supernova."
"Except for people like Marshal who have broken through the limit of life and greatly extended their life span, who can see when the Pluto star is really destroyed." Kejiesi jumped on the front of the car and sat down, put his hand into the cup, and opened the iron cover The lid of the wine bottle took a sip before throwing it to Bailey: "People like that can be counted on 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 Abyss of the Furnace in my lifetime."
That's where the king of the Blade Demons is.
"Isn't the Rose Queen coming soon? I heard that Admiral/Admiral Mei Lin's hands are full of young girls, maybe we can have a sorority." Ke Jiesi spread his hands.
Bailey laughed and said, "The boys in the base must be crazy about it."
As he spoke, his face darkened, and he said, "Just now, your brother and a few non-commissioned officers provoked Allen."
"Yeah?"
"But that's not the point." Bailey snorted coldly, "Hubble actually insulted the marshal."
The gaze in Ke Jiesi's eyes suddenly turned cold: "Then I'm curious, why is he still alive?"
"That's because Allen hit him."
"It's really cheap for him." Ke Jiesi snorted, and said, "Do you need me to do anything?"
"Of course, you have to warn him not to get too close to Starling and those non-commissioned officers." Bailey handed the bottle back to the major: "Their superior is Major Luda."
Ke Jiesi snorted and said, "Those who spread the death sounded nice. What they did to assist in the defense was not actually to monitor us."
"There is no other way. After all, Admiral Lu Sen and Marshal Capulo are old acquaintances. Naturally, they are not very relieved about our new party. This is nothing. I am afraid that behind this provocative incident, there is intention. That's not easy."
Ke Jie
Si frowned and said: "You mean, they want to use Hubble to stir up disputes, and take the opportunity to hit Allen hard to hit the marshal? This is too much. I thought that at least on the star of the underworld, facing the sword demon This common enemy, the old party should let go of some prejudices?"
"Do you think those old guys are so easy to talk to? Especially the President's attitude is a bit on their side now. If I were Marshal Capulo, I would definitely take this opportunity to attack us, so as to get back the unfavorable pressure we have always had on our heads. Fame." Berry shook his head: "Let's not talk about it, politics is much more complicated than going up to kill the enemy. You remind Hubble, don't let anyone take advantage of it."
Ke Jiesi nodded and said, "I will give him a deep enough reminder."
As he put the bottle to his mouth, he realized that not a single drop of wine came out. He shook his head and said, "Colonel, you drank too hard."
Bailey spread his hands, then frowned and said, "Look over there."
Ke Jiesi looked along his line of sight, it was a rolling mountain under the Blood Eagle Highlands, and there were some scattered low mountains/hills in the distance. Some busy figures are moving on the mountain, they are swarms of knife ants, they are heading in the same direction with a clear goal.
"It seems that we have to start sweeping again. I have to say, these things multiply really fast." Kejiesi said.
"The movement of the ant colony is too regular. Could it be that a new ant queen has appeared?" Bailey shook his head and said, "Anyway, let's do some scouting first, it's terrible. There are traces of a medium-sized tribe just now, and now another ant may move in." As neighbors, you really can't relax at all."
"Those boys' internship period is coming soon, just let them practice their hands. If they can't even take out an ant nest, how can they fight the sword demon." Ke Jiesi laughed.
Time passes in training and learning.
In a blink of an eye, Allen has been on Pluto for three months. On this day, all recruits gathered in the tactical meeting room. Ke Jiesi stood on the podium, and some pictures alternately appeared on the electronic curtain wall behind him, which were the topographical maps of the mountains near the Blood Eagle Heights.
"After our reconnaissance during this period of time, we have reason to believe that there is a knife ant nest on this mountain. Often there will be a queen ant in each ant nest. The queen ant is the only female creature in the ant nest. Its main duties are Breeding offspring. During the breeding period, the queen ants will continue to mate with male ants, laying at least a hundred eggs each time, and a month later, there will be hundreds of strong knife ants in the ant nest."
Ke Jiesi said with his hands behind his back: "However, it is not the breeding season of sword ants. During this time, the queen ants are usually in a dormant state. It has been three months since you have been in the Netherworld, and now I will give you the last assessment. It's very simple, take away this ant nest, I will invigilate the whole process, and give scores based on the performance of each of your teams during the process."
"Those who failed the score, congratulations, you can leave Pluto. Because if you can't even do this, there is no need to push you to the battlefield to die." Ke Jiesi said in a deep voice: "What's the problem? ?”
"No, sir!" Everyone answered in unison.
Half an hour later, the two troop transport trucks left the Blood Eagle base and headed for the assessment site along the mountain road. Near the target mountain, the vehicle stopped. If you keep going, the car engine will attract the attention of the ant colony. The soldiers got out of the car and lined up. After checking it once, Kejiesi waved his hand, and the teams left one after another and entered the mountain on foot.
After the team entered the mountain, they dispersed
, flowing like an undercurrent in the mountains. 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. Allen has rich experience in finding the whereabouts of prey, and soon he found traces of knife ants. Because of their large size, the traces left by the knife ants are quite obvious, and it is not difficult to find them if you observe carefully.
In particular, their sharp front feet will always leave unique marks on the ground. As long as you find these marks and judge their direction, it is not difficult to find the traces of knife ants. Soon, Allen and the others followed a few knife ants. These knife ants were biting the limbs of some unknown beasts and moving. Whether it was the smell of the animal corpses or the blood dripping on the ground, they were undoubtedly the most obvious indications.
Following these traces, at sunset, Allen's team stopped on a small slope. Allen lay on the ground, feeling the scorching breath from the ground continuously rising from his chest and spreading to other places. He was unmoved in the slightest, and only looked forward with a tactical binoculars, and then handed the binoculars to Lucy next to him.
In the telescope is a low hill, only about 20 meters high. The mountain on the left is steep, while the slope on the right is gentle and joins the ground. There are a few dark and strange trees growing on the mountain, and there is no other embellishment other than that. It is not difficult to see through the telescope that there are some deep caves between the foot of the mountain and the mountain above, and the knife ants come in and out of these caves.
During the 15 minutes they observed, dozens of knife ants entered and exited the cave at the foot of the mountain, and there were more than a dozen giant ants scattered around as sentinels.
"What do you think?" Allen asked.
Lucy said: "Information is insufficient, we need to know what's going on in the ant nest before we can formulate a strategy."
Willick also said: "And we obviously don't have enough manpower, and the ants in there will definitely not be less than three digits."
Allen nodded and said, "Well, I'll go into the ant nest for reconnaissance. Naz, you go and leave the contact code, let other teams come and gather with us, and discuss how to destroy this ant nest."
"Sword ants have poor eyesight, but they are very sensitive to pheromones, and they can judge friendly troops or enemies through the vibration of the ground. You have to pay attention." Lucy's homework in biological common sense is very outstanding, and she reminded immediately.
Allen dug some lime from the ground with his fangs, let it cool down and applied it to his face, body, hands and feet. The soil of Hades has a very strong smell of scorched earth, and it can cover up the original body odor after applying them all over the body. After getting ready, Allen touched down from the backlit side of the hillside with his fangs behind his back, while Natsu turned back and left to inform the other teams.
After a while, it was dark, and two strange moons gradually rose from the horizon. One is emitting misty purple light, and the other is near Ziyue. This moon has no light at all, and it follows like a black hole.
This made the night light of Pluto star dim, and the knife ants with poor eyesight returned to their nests one after another, while Allen stepped into the night, using the undulating hills on the ground or some dark red shrubs as cover. Heading towards the ant nest at a constant speed, after a while, Lucy, who was on the slope, could no longer see Allen.
As night fell, a knife ant struggled towards its nest. It had wounds on its body, and the insect shell on the second segment of its left body was shattered, and blue-yellow insect liquid dripped out from time to time. The two limbs on the same side were also bitten off, which made it difficult to crawl, so that it could not return to the nest before sunset.
(end of this chapter)