Yuan Zhi took the military ration pills and blood-enhancing pills, and her complexion improved a lot. Meng Xiang felt relieved. He put down the nuclear bomb box, took off his heavy helmet and military uniform, and let Yuan Zhi cushion them. He loosened his muscles and bones, and his skin was still stinging from the scratches on the ground, but Meng Xiang would not cry out in pain in front of Yuan Zhi, because compared with Yuan Zhi's injuries, his injuries were nothing.
They had been hiding behind the big rock for a long time, but there was still no sign of completing the task, so Meng Xiang was naturally anxious. Yuan Zhi looked at him with a smile, and suddenly, her face changed, her head swayed slightly, and her eyes turned to the right.
Meng Xiang was stunned for a moment, then he understood. He hurriedly pulled out the Desert Eagle, tiptoed close to the stone surface and looked behind it. He saw a worker insect climbing up the hillside with a rustling sound, occasionally stopping to sweep the ground with its tentacles. He was just a little panicked, because according to the original plot, the worker insect was just a small part of the brain worm, with almost no fighting power, not to mention there was only one. He had the Desert Eagle in his hand, so he didn't have to be afraid at all.
The worker insects crawled along the ground, sniffing the ground like dogs, as if looking for something, and gradually approached the big rock where Meng Xiang and his team were hiding. Meng Xiang was so nervous that his palms were sweating, and he held the Desert Eagle tightly in both hands. As long as the worker insects approached, he would immediately shoot.
The strange thing is that the worker insect had already crawled towards the boulder, and it crawled faster and faster, as if it had determined that there was someone hiding behind the boulder. But about 10 meters away from the boulder, it stopped, pointed its two tentacles at the boulder, and then turned around and crawled down the mountain.
Meng Xiang breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned around and said to Yuan Zhi: "It was a worker insect, it has already left."
"Left? I heard it coming towards us, why did it leave suddenly?" Yuan Zhi lowered her head and thought for a moment, then suddenly showed a panicked look. She stretched out her injured left hand with difficulty to take Moye out of the space bag, and shouted to Meng Xiang: "Hurry up and chase it and kill it. It's a detective bug. If it escapes, a large number of stink bugs will soon surround us."
Meng Xiang was stunned for a moment, picked up Moye and quickly ran to the front of the big rock. The worker insects were not crawling very fast, and they were still within the shooting range of the Desert Eagle. Meng Xiang raised the Desert Eagle and aimed and fired repeatedly. The gunshots cut through the silence of the sky and echoed around.
This Desert Eagle has unlimited bullets, so Meng Xiang was not stingy. After several shots, two shots finally hit the worker insect's back. The worker insect twisted its body, its claws dancing, and crawled faster.
Meng Xiang was about to continue shooting when he heard Yuan Zhi sighing for a long time. A desperate voice came from behind the boulder: "Why are you shooting?"
"Why? Because the worker insect has gone far away. But it was shot twice and has lost half its life. I will go down and kill it." Meng Xiang didn't understand why Yuan Zhi said that. He was about to run down the mountain, but he heard Yuan Zhi say faintly behind the rocks: "Don't pay attention to the worker insect. This worker insect is obviously just a transportation tool for the brain worm, but it has become a detective insect and found us by smell like a dog. Unless we fly up to the sky, we can't hide anywhere."
"Why not just kill all the detective workers? The Desert Eagle can hurt them." Meng Xiang was about to run away, but he remembered that he had the precious sword Moye in his hand. He knew that he had made a serious mistake. He couldn't help but hit his head with the Desert Eagle and cursed: "Damn it, why am I so stupid? The Zerg are very sensitive to sound, why did I still shoot?"
"Forget it." Yuan Zhi said in a desperate tone: "As a newcomer, you are amazing. The Lord God will not let us stay quietly on the ground. Even if we kill one detective bug, there will definitely be 10 more coming later. The Lord God's goal is to let the Zerg find us."
Meng Xiang walked dejectedly to Yuan Zhi and sat down without saying a word. He blamed himself for his recklessness.
"Swish..." There was another sound of bedbugs crawling, which aroused the nerves of the two of them. Meng Xiang gritted his teeth, walked to the big rock and leaned over to take a look. This time it was not worker insects, but three bedbugs, which crawled and stopped, gradually approaching the big rock.
"Damn, they are three stink bugs. I've had enough. Let's strike first." Meng Xiang yelled. When the three stink bugs were less than 20 meters away from the rock and were opening their pincer-like jaws to demonstrate to Meng Xiang, Meng Xiang had already pulled the trigger.
"Bang!" A clear gunshot sounded, and a bullet accurately hit one of the bedbugs between its jaws. This is where the central nervous system of the bedbug gathers, just like the human head. The bedbug twitched its limbs and lost its fighting power.
Meng Xiang's accuracy was due to his shooting training on the warship and the fact that he was not far from the stink bug, but it was limited to the first shot. Next, he once again showed his spirit of wasting bullets, pulling the trigger continuously, and bullets shot out of the muzzle of the Desert Eagle, finally killing the remaining stink bug.
"Newcomer, run away quickly. You may be able to escape alone." Yuan Zhi shouted behind the stone, but Meng Xiang replied heroically: "Abandoning a young girl for my own life, how can I do such a thing?"
"You... Thank you." Yuan Zhi was so moved that she shed tears like pearls, but Meng Xiang secretly complained. Although he said it so righteously, he had actually discovered a flying insect coming from afar in the air. The flying insect was staring at him in the sky, how could he escape? Moreover, the frightening "rustling" sound at the foot of the mountain had already entered Meng Xiang's ears, and 10 stink bugs at the foot of the mountain had already revealed their ugly bodies.
Meng Xiang knew that these bedbugs were just the vanguard, and soon tens of thousands of bedbugs would swarm in. They had to move, but everything had to be done after the bedbugs in front of them were dealt with. Of course, he had to remain alive.
The simplest way is to launch a nuclear bomb, but using the only micro-nuclear bomb to bombard the more than 10 bedbugs in front of them is obviously a bit like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. Moreover, if they look at the long-term, the nuclear bomb is now their life-saving weapon. If they are really besieged by thousands of bedbugs, the nuclear bomb may create a chance for escape.
Rather than waiting to die, it is better to take the initiative to attack. The Desert Eagle has a range of 200 meters, and the bedbugs on the hillside are less than 50 meters away from the big rock. This distance is enough to pose a threat to the bedbugs. Meng Xiang squatted beside the rock, holding the heavy pistol in both hands and shooting desperately.
But bedbugs are so resilient that as long as their central nervous system is not damaged, they can still retain 70% of their combat effectiveness even if they are hit by bullets in other parts. When the bedbugs were only 10 meters away from the boulder, Meng Xiang could only incapacitate three of them.
Seeing the bedbugs dancing with their sharp limbs and about to pounce on him, all the nerves in Meng Xiang's body were aroused. Every scene in "Starship Troopers" where humans were dismembered by bedbugs emerged in his mind. The extreme sense of terror made him feel the approach of death. In an instant, all kinds of scenes from the past emerged in his mind.
"Am I going to die again?" This thought emerged in Meng Xiang's mind, "No, how can I die so miserably?" He threw down the Desert Eagle, took a step out from the bottom of the stone holding Moye in both hands, and slashed at the stink bug walking in front with a knife.
A black light flashed, and Moyeru chopped on the tofu, effortlessly cutting off the stink bug's forelimbs and long jaws. The green stink bug's body fluids spurted out, splashing Meng Xiang with filth.
Like a bird with its wings detached, the bedbug let out a "sizzling" cry and swayed left and right as it retreated. The six bedbugs on both sides did not dare to act rashly, but moved their front legs forward and backward, threatening the enemy in sight.
Meng Xiang had already given it his all. The big rock as a cover from behind left him with no blind spots. As long as he focused on the bug in front of him, he would have a chance to win. The pressure of death filled him with strength, and his fear was blown away by the knife just now.
These stink bugs are not very smart and do not know how to rush forward. Otherwise, even if Meng Xiang had three heads and six arms, he would not be able to withstand the siege of six stink bugs. Meng Xiang held Moye and stared at the stink bugs in front of him that were glaring at him covetously. Suddenly, he felt very proud, as if he experienced the pleasure of "one man guarding the pass, invincible against ten thousand men".
But he was so complacent that he forgot that there was a flying insect in the sky that had already launched an attack. Hearing a buzzing sound on the left, Meng Xiang was startled and instinctively leaned to the right.
"Crack!" Meng Xiang only felt a gust of wind blowing from his left side, his body lightened, and a red stream of water spurted out from his left shoulder in front of his eyes. A sharp pain almost made him faint.
His left arm had been neatly cut off by the flying insects. Fortunately, he bent to the right, otherwise his head would have been cut off.
The blood drove all the bedbugs crazy. They seemed to realize that the enemy in front of them had suddenly become weak, and they all raised their forelimbs and pounced on him. Meng Xiang looked at the flying insects floating in the sky, and the panic and fear on the eve of death suddenly disappeared. It seemed that an invisible substance was spreading in his body, and the sharp limbs of the six bedbugs froze in front of his eyes.
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