Westeros III was once a warm world. On this planet that is very suitable for human habitation, there were more than one billion residents, but now this number has soared dozens of times.
In order to accommodate so many refugees, the machinery of the Mechanical Commission simply carved out complex passages under the city and reinforced them with metal plates. These tunnels meandered in all directions like a maze, with a total length of several kilometers. The underground passages in different cities vary in size. Some are spacious enough to allow a tank to pass through, while others are so narrow that they can hardly accommodate an adult's body.
Living in a dark and humid underground is obviously not a good choice, but people who have seen Tyron's terror rarely complain about the harsh environment.
Almost as everyone in the Westeros galaxy retreated to No. 3, huge fireballs fell from the sky like meteorites, and ferocious beasts were wrapped in swollen and mucus-filled pods.
The moment it landed, the pod sac broke and countless terrifying creatures surged out of it. They only had one thought, chewing, tearing, slaughtering, and swallowing.
However, this time Tyron seemed to have learned from the previous tough battles and adopted another strategy for the large strongholds that humans have defended. It is this strategy that has caused great trouble for human defense.
Now Ricas follows Jacob to deal with a "trouble".
It was a Tyron creature marked as "fatal danger" by the Mechanical Society, called the Trampworm. This monster can move quickly and quietly in almost any environment. It is extremely good at hiding whereabouts. It likes to track individual prey and swallow its brain after forcing its prey into a desperate situation. The Mechanical Society cannot know why they have such a hobby, but some sages speculate that these creatures steal the victim's memories by eating their brains.
This statement is not unfounded. At least after swallowing enough brains, they will be extremely familiar with the environment and terrain.
What's even more disgusting about this ability is that it is very similar to some of the functions of Space Marines.
Shilicheng is the second largest city in Westeros. Its name comes from many rock pillars around the city when the city was established. Although most of the city was destroyed during the expansion of the city, several of them were still retained in the center of the city. The city is located on the edge of a river. The surrounding terrain is open, with only a hill with an altitude of less than 500 meters. After receiving refugees, the entire city population reached 31 million, while the entire city area was only 410 square kilometers, which was crowded to a terrifying level. In order to defend against the Mechanical Council, several temporary walls were built to form a defense line with the original walls of the city, but it also further narrowed the city area. In addition, a large number of mines were sprinkled in the fields and plains outside the city. When Tyrons flocked, they were greeted by more than four million troops, five companies of spacemarines, and millions of temporary militias.
In this case, Tyron naturally did not get any benefits, but the frontal attack only provided cover for the infiltration in the dark. At some blind spots of defense, some things slipped into the city in the darkness of the night.
Due to the high population density, homicides are naturally common, so no one cares when the first weird body is found.
A few days later, the victims began to become militia officers, but no one cared about it.
Until a battalion commander of the auxiliary army disappeared in an alley and was found to have lost his brain half a day later, the matter finally attracted the attention of Space Marines, and after investigation, it was confirmed that it was done by Tyron Biologics.
Bahram immediately judged that only the worms could do this by being able to act like ghosts in a crowded city.
But in order not to cause excessive panic, he could only send a team to deal with this thing.
Jacob and ten others were hunters who hunted the worms, and the worms also received a new title - the gangster.
After tracking for several days, they finally approached this thing. The worm was much smaller than normal. It was probably to adapt to the narrow terrain of the city, and it also built the nest underground of the city.
The underground of Shilicheng is actually a refugee camp. Although it is managed, the lack of materials still makes this terrain like hell and becomes a breeding ground for crime.
Prostitutes, thieves, drug dealers, and gangs all emerged in a very short time.
But the Space Marines are all focused on missions and do not care about the curious and fearful eyes in the darkness.
However, this beast was really cunning. It actually set up a trap in the passage. When the team chased it into a drainage channel, the support beam above its head suddenly collapsed in overwhelming burden, and a huge amount of construction waste instantly separated Ricas from the large army.
And for some reason, the communication seems to be disturbed...
So he could only walk alone in the dark canal, stepping on the untreated sewage that had not crossed his ankles, and the stench was everywhere, but he didn't care, holding a bomb gun in his hand, constantly scanning the front.
He is looking for a way to meet with his companions.
During the process, the sound of water dripping is endless, enough to make people feel cold on their backs, as if a terrifying monster could be rushed out of the darkness at any time.
Rikas held his breath and had a premonition that had caused him to escape death several times in the desert.
So he slowed down...
Listen...
observe...
Suddenly, the water surface rippled abnormally, and the sound of dripping water was a little dissonant. It seemed that a foreign object fell into the water. Ricas immediately turned around, raised his gun, and fired.
Before it landed, a series of explosive bombs hit the chest of the monster lying on the top like a spider. Chitin fragments and sticky pus splashed everywhere, and the dark canal immediately echoed in the dark canal.
The next second, water splashed everywhere, and the landing monster waved its claws to attack Ricas. Ricas tried to dodge, but the worm was too fast and hit the right shoulder armor with one claw. The broken pottery steel splashed everywhere, but it did not penetrate.
The miniaturized Likat was covered in black carapace, and a pair of jagged spikes with segments grew on his shoulders. In theory, this blow was enough to tear an adult into three segments, but due to its shrinking size, its strength was not enough to pose a fatal threat to Rikas.
"Go to die!"
Ricas raised the bomb gun in his hand again and opened fire at the monster's face.
But the opponent jumped horizontally to the side, and then the two sharp claws passed by like huge scissors in the dark. Ricas was shocked by this force and took a few steps back. He lowered his head and found that the chamber of the explosive gun had been torn apart.
So he threw his weapon on the shore and pulled out the chainsaw sword.
The Tyron beast rushed towards him, and Riccis quickly dodged to the side, pressing the chainsaw tightly against the monster's body.
Accompanied by the roar of the chain saw, in this confined space, the roar of the serrated chitin was deafening, and then a scream, one of the monster's limbs was removed, but its counterattack was also very fast, directly hitting Ricas' chest with an extra limb, almost piercing the armor. At the same time, the other hand grabbed his wrist holding the sword and struck it right with force - swallowing a large number of people's heads, and it even produced some fighting ability.
Chapter completed!