Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 447: Giant Centipede
The soldier did not pull the trigger - these Type B mutants moved too fast, and shooting in this situation would not only be difficult to hit, but would also waste precious "active ammunition". Unlike the ammunition of automatic weapons, each bullet of the sniper rifle contained one unit of "active cells of flesh-eating worms", in order to achieve the most fatal effect possible, each bullet had a "charge" of four units.
In this operation, the soldiers were only given two magazines of "active cell sniper bullets", which only contained 20 rounds in total. In the first round of battle, he had already used up four rounds.
His fingers were pressed against the trigger guard, tapping it lightly, keeping the crosshairs closely following the Seed of Erosion, and his breathing rhythm was constantly .
He was waiting, waiting for the target to slow down.
The eight drones had already flown over the mutants, and the quadruple heavy machine guns began to roar - although the bullets of these heavy machine guns were loaded with conventional warheads and could not kill the seeds of erosion, the kinetic energy attached to them was real... The 12.7mm caliber machine gun bullets were enough to break an adult in half when hitting a person, but when hitting these monsters, it only slowed down their charge speed slightly.
"Launch the remote-controlled guided missile!" the officer ordered.
Accompanied by several white trails, more than a dozen remote-controlled guided missiles were launched by the drone. The missiles arrived in an instant at a distance of less than 200 meters, and a series of deafening explosions rang out on the battlefield.
The power of the missile is not comparable to that of a heavy machine gun. The type B mutants closest to the explosion point were immediately blown away and fell heavily to the ground.
This is the best opportunity!
The soldier aimed at a mutant that was blown away by the shock wave of the explosion, and pulled the trigger the moment it landed. He fired two shots in succession, and the two active bullets penetrated the mutant's body almost at the same time!
Eight units of "flesh-eating worm active cells" would have killed this type B mutant even if they hadn't hit the "nucleus" - as expected, after being shot, it tried to get up from the ground several times but failed. After a few seconds, its limbs began to twitch violently and its whole body was shaking, like a patient having an epileptic seizure.
Its skin began to crack, and a large number of rotten tentacles and translucent turbid tissue flowed out from under the cracked skin. The originally plump and firm muscles quickly deflated, and dark patches like corpse spots spread rapidly on the body.
The soldier stopped paying attention to the mutant that was dying and focused on other targets. He silently said in his mind, "The twenty-first one."
Another round of bombing came. This time, the charging formation of the Seed of Erosion was much more dispersed than before. The shock wave generated by the explosion only blew away one Seed of Erosion that was hit by the missile. As for the other Seeds of Erosion, they were at least slightly affected by the air waves and fragments and were not greatly affected.
"The drone should have two rounds of missiles left, and fourteen rounds of active ammunition..." the soldier thought to himself, and quickly pointed the gun at the Seed of Erosion that was hit directly.
"Twenty-second..."
At the moment the soldier pulled the trigger, the wall of the base suddenly shook. The sudden change caused his gun muzzle to deviate several degrees, and the shot hit an open space more than ten meters away from the target.
"What's going on?" The soldier raised his head quickly and found that everyone else also looked confused - at this time, the shaking not only did not stop, but it was getting more and more intense.
"The ground is shaking!" A machine gunner not far away hugged the bulletproof armor plate stuck on the wall tightly and shouted, "Aftershock... This must be an aftershock!"
"Everyone! Fasten your seat belts! Don't panic! Aftershocks of this magnitude will not cause any damage to the base! Prioritize dealing with the remaining enemies in the northwest!" the officer shouted loudly. He pulled out a seat belt from his waist and buckled it on the metal ring on the top of the wall. He held the telescope in one hand and held the parapet tightly with the other hand. His legs were spread apart, and with the strength of his waist and back, he pressed his body tightly against the back of the parapet.
The wall was still shaking, and the soldiers could even hear the teeth-grinding friction sound from the pins at the joints of the armor plates - although the foundation of the base could withstand aftershocks below magnitude 6, the wall would still collapse if the connecting parts of the armor plates broke due to metal fatigue.
The officer's words were just to reassure the soldiers, but they also understood that the most urgent task was to get rid of the erosion species that were approaching the base. They were the main threat - even if the wall was not collapsed by the aftershocks, as long as any of these type B mutants crossed the wall, it would be a massacre.
However, when the soldier looked into the distance again, he was stunned - the ground in the distance did not shake. It seemed that only the support base and a small area around the base were shaking.
"No! This is not an aftershock!" The soldier stood up and pointed in the direction of the mining area. "There is no movement a few hundred meters away! Only the ground beneath our feet is shaking!"
The officer obviously also discovered this problem. He looked at the ground below with a hint of surprise, but at this moment, the wall at the other end suddenly collapsed!
Tons of armor plates weighing several tons, supporting frames, expanding foam used to fill the walls, and the soldiers standing on the walls, all fell into the huge hole that suddenly appeared on the ground. The diameter of this hole was more than ten meters and it was still expanding. The edge of the hole was still cracking, and a large amount of rock shattered. Several soldiers who did not have time to run to a safe area were left with nothing under their feet and were swallowed up by the hole in the blink of an eye.
Finally, when the diameter of the hole expanded to nearly twenty meters, the shaking stopped...but for the soldiers stationed at the support base, the nightmare had just begun.
With a creepy sliding sound, a giant centipede several dozen meters long crawled out of the cave , stood up, and looked down at the soldiers standing on the wall.
The back of this giant centipede is covered with a hard shell with a metallic luster and covered with fine bristles. Both sides of its body are densely covered with thousands of pairs of tiny parapods - of course, this smallness is only relative to the centipede's huge body. In fact, each parapod is thicker than a human thigh.
Just a few glances at these rhythmic warts were enough to make one's scalp tingle, not to mention that some of the warts had human bodies hanging on them - they were the soldiers who had just fallen into the big hole. Their bodies were pierced by the warts, but they were not dead yet. They were hanging in the air, waving their limbs in vain, and constantly uttering painful wails from their mouths.
The abdomen of this giant centipede was filled with faces - thousands of human faces, including men, women, young and old, but their expressions were the same. Apart from distortion, pain and madness, the soldiers could not think of more adjectives to describe these faces.
“What…what is this?!”
