Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

"yes!"

Receiving Ruth's order, the crew began to control the Totem Glory to move forward, and the scenery outside the porthole also changed with the movement of the ship.

First it lowered the height, and then it got closer and closer to the space gate, until the bridge passed through the edge with blue arc light and came to the sky above the Gobi at the other end of the space gate.

This side is also at dawn, and the rays of the rising sun are pouring over the desert. It seems that the entire planet is extremely dry and lacks moisture.

At the same time, there are boundless and dense black and yellow "oceans".

If you observe carefully, you can find that this "ocean" is composed of insects that cannot be counted, and the unit of quantity is billions. Even the blue sky is covered with oily, shiny green giant "mosquitoes" with a pair of sickle bones.

Moreover, in the sea of ​​insects on the ground, there are many black beetles that are even bigger, six meters high, and at least ten meters long.

These are like the light and medium tanks of the Zerg, and they can even spew flammable liquid from their mouthparts, and then use bioelectricity to create extremely high-temperature spray.

However, with such a large-scale scene, Fenris' Metropolitan District 19 has no impact.

The reason is very simple, because the engineering department seized the time to build a 30-meter high-rise building after the space wolves contained the situation and dispatched the wolves, wolf cubs and auxiliary troops to break through the space gate and gain a foothold in the Gobi at the other end. A wall of five meters and a width of sixteen meters separated the swarm-infested planet from Fenris.

At the same time, the engineering team is still erecting an energy shield generator every 400 meters on the fence, thus raising a defensive barrier to cover the entire space gate, directly cutting off the possibility of bugs invading Fenris again.

As for digging underground?

The space gate is located on the surface, even if the bugs dig to the ends of the earth, they cannot directly bypass the barrier and reach Fenris.

The residents of District 19 have long been transferred to a safe area, and have been continuously transformed by the Ministry of Engineering, preparing to build a permanent base for hoarding supplies and gathering troops.

After all, once this space gate is opened and the public is in the world, then the galaxy at the other end of the space gate is already equivalent to human territory, so it was a permanent military base in the early stage. In the future, District 19 may be converted into a large transfer station. However, The current nature is still to facilitate the expedition.

At this time, the Totem Glory that Ruth was on could pass through the defensive barrier unimpeded and directly above the sea of ​​insects.

"Roar!!"

The flying insects immediately launched an attack on the Totem Glory, and even the beetles on the ground were trying to shoot down the Totem Glory by spraying high-temperature slurry. This...

It's literally "zero harm".

No matter what kind of attack it is, it can't break through the ability shield that the Totem Glory automatically raises. In other words, even if the shield is not raised, the purely physical attack of the bugs can destroy the paint on the surface of the ship. Scratch it.

So, when the Totem Glory completely passed through the space gate and came to the sky above the planet, it deployed a row of missile launch bays on the right side of the ship, and immediately launched an "ordinary" missile.

"Shua~——!"

The moment the missile exited the cabin, it first stayed in the air for half a second, then quickly rushed through the sky with a white tail flame, and then...

Ri~———!

The bright blue light burst out of the warhead "silenced" everything around it. You couldn't hear the howling of bugs or the roar of the engine. Even between the sky and the earth, there was only "blue and white" These two colors.

"Boom——!"

There was a violent bang, and the blue fire ball rolled from top to bottom, burning everything. The sky and the ground were all engulfed by high temperature, including the Totem Glory that launched the missile.

! ! !

After the bugs saw the catastrophic scene, they may be out of instinctive fear, or they may be out of "superior" retreat orders, scrambling to turn around and flee.

The sea of ​​insects retreated.

But no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't escape the spread of the fireball, and soon, with the Totem Glory as the center, a radius of 30 kilometers was uniformly reduced to a piece of scorched earth.

After the fireball dissipated and the air "retracted", only black lumps, crystal slag, and fragrant "bug barbecue" were left in the area. As for the Totem Glory, which fired missiles and created the fireball, it continued to ascend unharmed , like hurrying to go to low-Earth orbit outside the atmosphere.

At the same time, more and more Zeus-class, Achilles-class and other types of hulls passed through the space gate in turn, and the ground troops also dispatched many super-heavy vehicles such as the Mammoth and siege tanks to pass through the space gate. And the towering wall came here to escort and protect the personnel of the engineering department to set up another frontline base.

On the other hand, there are millions of engineering sentinel robots that look like octopuses, but they don’t need the escort of ground troops. “They” follow the set procedures and form a team of five to scatter in all directions, looking for available minerals, A barrel of raw materials to assist the engineering team in building the frontline base.

There is no need for an escort because although "their" has the word "engineering" in their name, "they" have extremely strong individual capabilities.

Therefore, if a bug encounters an engineering sentinel, the first thing to do is to run away and report the message, instead of confronting the engineering sentinel, otherwise it will be torn and dismembered by these robots.

Just now, the warhead of the missile launched by the Totem Glory carried a plasma incendiary bomb. The destructive power of the explosion was far weaker than the plasma bomb of a tactical weapon. However, the plasma incendiary bomb was the best "screen clearer" against biological enemies. "One of the means.

And Russ mobilized nearly one-third of the legion to serve as the main force of the expeditionary force. There were about 35,000 Astartes (non-reserve), more than 5 million legion auxiliary troops, and nearly 100 million UNSC troops. Army, Navy.

The defense of the Oslo sector will be temporarily replaced by the legion champion Logan Grimner under Ruth's command, and Corax and Angron, who are "neighbors", will also help their brothers to be on guard at all times.

Moreover, Russ also left the Space Wolves' home world, the Hrafnkel, in the Oslo sector, theoretically, without worrying about any foreign invasion until the end of the expedition.

Shortly after.

In the low-earth orbit about 300 kilometers away from the surface, the Totem Glory has arrived here with some ships to berth.

And here, you can also overlook the surface of the planet, which is an endless desert and Gobi, and you can hardly see the green that represents vitality, but there is a lake with an area comparable to the Mediterranean Sea.

Inside the bridge.

Russ crossed his arms and stood by the center console waiting patiently. After only ten seconds, the center console showed him a holographic thumbnail of the planet under his feet, and on the right side of the thumbnail, it also showed A string of brief text messages.

Through the scan of Totem Glory, Russ can know that the planet's atmosphere and gravity are suitable for human survival, but it is more suitable for the group of bugs.

The scan results also show that this planet seems to be a colony of bugs, because there is an intricate network structure under the surface, which shows that bugs have already built nests under the surface, and there are also human buildings and human activities on the surface. Mark of.

At this moment, the thumbnail suddenly enlarged automatically, and it was locked on the area about 900 kilometers east and south of the space gate.

Zoom in again.

The thumbnail shows that there is a metal building with its back against the cliff and higher than the ground surface. Judging by the continuously scanned shape, its style is completely in line with human aesthetics and structure. Most importantly, the scan also detected human and digital buildings. Endless traces of firefights.

Humanity?

Ruth raised his left eyebrow, thought for a few seconds, and then asked, "Which battalions have left the space gate?"

"3rd, 9th and 13th Battalions, sir." A crew member immediately reported.

"Humm..." Ruth muttered with a slight frown, thinking about which battalion he should give the first victory of the expedition to.

A little tangled.

The palms and backs of the hands are full of meat...

"Forget it." Russ was too lazy to entangle, and he was too lazy to engage in the so-called balance like his elder brother Robert. He directly marked the word "01" on the thumbnail, and ordered the bridge correspondent: "Notify the third, The cubs of the 9th and 13th Battalions rushed to the 01 area to carry out the deworming operation, and rescued and captured the humans there alive, whoever killed more and saved more, I will give the first merit to him!"

"Yes, sir!"

The communications officer, who had long been accustomed to his own Primarch's command style, conveyed Ruth's casual orders to the 3rd, 9th, and 13th Battalions without any hesitation.

at the same time.

Moored not far from the Totem Glory, on the bridge of the 13th Battalion flagship Beowulf...

"First come, first served?" The commander of the second company standing next to the center console was a little dazed, but... this is indeed the style of their primarch and even the entire legion.

"Dad! Let's have a good kill!" Sarah Kerrigan was quite excited. She didn't expect to be able to fight the enemy just after arriving in the parallel universe, and she couldn't wait.

As for the title "Dad"...

Over the past few decades, Sarah has completely regarded her adoptive father Gen Rosigold as her "dad".

"It's time for a big kill." Gen Luo agreed with his daughter's point of view, twisted his neck, moved his joints, looked out of the porthole with one eye, and ordered loudly: "The whole battalion goes to the 01 area, do a good job." Ready for battle!"

"Wow!!!" Sarah and the company commanders shouted loudly.

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East and south of the space gate, about 900 kilometers away.

"The sun is shining brightly".

The stars shine directly on the entire area, and also illuminate the endless sea of ​​insects.

I saw a military outpost built of silver metal, with towering metal walls and above the ground. It was already surrounded by layers of insects, and there was no hope of escape at all. Unless they could get air support, the soldiers stationed in the outpost would , only to be devoured by bugs, and then dismembered by bugs.

Negative emotions such as despair, terror, and confusion shrouded the entire outpost.

"Da da da!" There was a loud gunshot.

"Howl! Howl!" But the sound of gunfire was insignificant compared to the howling of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of bugs, but the scene of hundreds of soldiers firing salvos was still shocking.

These soldiers who belonged to the Federation of Earth Citizens and seemed to be abandoned by the Federation, or were used as bait, wore dark gray and purple combat uniforms, silver mechanical bones, and black armor on key parts of the body.

However, although the helmet visor can provide all kinds of real-time data, and can also cooperate with the mechanical skeleton to provide shooting assistance, but the shape is quite similar to the old helmets used by humans in the main universe at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, which is somewhat nondescript.

In addition to these standard infantry, there are also many heavy soldiers wearing large mechanical skeletons, heavy artillery and large-caliber machine guns on their shoulders and arms, and carrying ammunition boxes and shell boxes on their backs.

Overall, just looking at the equipment of these abandoned soldiers, the military equipment of the federal government should be similar to that of Umbrella's private army from 2010 to 2015, barely.

However, if the federal government has a population of trillions (one trillion), or even one capital (one quadrillion), and this is the basic equipment of federal soldiers...

That strength is not bad, at least much stronger than the humans in the Zero One Universe (Matrix).

now.

On the edge of the fence of the outpost, a lieutenant wearing tactical glasses, a Mediterranean hairstyle, a firm and serious face, and a lieutenant whose left forearm was replaced by a prosthesis emptied the magazine and immediately withdrew from his position to reload.

When the lieutenant had replaced the magazine and was about to continue walking forward, he looked around at the sea of ​​insects that could never be killed, which made his already dignified expression even more gloomy. The rather young corporal shouted:

"Brother Rui! Go ask where our evacuation flight is?!"

"Yes, sir!"

It was said that this corporal named Rui Ge relied on the mechanical skeleton, jumped off the metal fence nearly ten meters high, and ran towards the communication room in the center of the outpost.

Not long after, only half a minute, the lieutenant heard a report from Rui Ge in his individual communication: "Sir! Frost still can't get in touch with the fleet!"

"..." After receiving this reply, the lieutenant, who is an officer and also possesses a good sense of political "smell", naturally knew that he and his "Roughnecks" company had been used as bait by the top federal officials.

After all, the order he received was that the whiskey outpost was harassed by a small group of bugs, and he and his men needed to rush to support.

Moreover, intelligence indicates that the "L-03" planet they are on belongs to the yellow zone, in other words, there should be less than 200 million bugs.

However, when they came here and learned from a major general who was hiding and living, it was a fake distress signal released by the worm control communication officer. Coupled with the situation in front of the worm mountain and sea of ​​worms, it directly proved that the worms have a good reputation. "IQ".

And they, after the high-level proofs were completed, were reduced to dispensable children. After all, to rescue them requires the mobilization of the fleet and the dispatch of a bomber fleet and a series of operations. This is much more costly than sacrificing them. .

Fuck, is human life worthless? !

"Look, Lieutenant! Help! It's support!" Suddenly, a long-faced soldier shouted excitedly, pointing at the sky.

?

The lieutenant looked in the direction the soldier was pointing, and through the auxiliary vision provided by the tactical glasses, he indeed found an overwhelming flying formation, but...

Not a single Federation model.