Chapter 168: 　Ant nest

"Marshal Windsor Bello asked me to inform you that the interstellar defense has been tight recently, and it will take about a month or two to come over." Colonel Bailey said.
Allen was taken aback and said, "What, there is a war?"
"It's the Nirm, our old opponent." Colonel Bailey didn't look so nervous: "They are worried about our planet. There will always be one or two attempts to attack the federal defense line in a year. It doesn't matter, it's difficult. Don't fall for the marshal."
Allen nodded.
"Go ahead, remember, Major Kejies is tough, but his starting point is good, I hope you don't resent him."
Allen grinned: "How come."
Shook his head and went.
Berry left the dormitory, and Kejiesi was leaning against the wall outside the door. Shaking a tin wine bottle, Ke Jies said: "Drink some?"
"You can't drink in the base!" Bailey said solemnly.
Kejiesi shrugged and said: "So I plan to go around the base."
"Come on." Bailey laughed and patted Kejiesi on the shoulder.
After a while, the two drove away from the base. After coming out of the base and driving to a hill on the high ground, Bailey jumped down, stepped on the reddish-brown ground under his feet and said: "Damn, it's really hot."
Kejiesi knelt down, reached out and touched the ground lightly, feeling the heat from his fingertips, and said, "This planet is almost over."
"Anyway, I was dying to see the moment it became a supernova."
"Except for people like the Marshal who have broken through the limit of life and have greatly extended their lifespan, who can see when the Pluto star is truly destroyed." Kejiesi jumped on the front of the car and sat down, poked his hand into the cup, and opened the iron sheet. The lid of the wine bottle was drunk and then thrown to Bailey: "Anyone like that has five fingers in the entire Federation, it's not you or me anyway."
Bailey took a sip and said, "I only hope that I can see the melting pot in my lifetime."
That is where the king of the blade demon is.
"Isn't the Queen of Rose coming soon? I heard that Admiral Meilin has young girls in his hands. Maybe we can start a sorority." Kejiesi said.
Berry laughed and said, "The boys in the base must be so happy."
As he spoke, his face sank and said, "Just now, your brother and some non-commissioned officers provoke Allen."
"is it?"
"But that's not the point." Bailey snorted coldly, "Hubble actually insulted the Marshal by saying something."
Kejiesi's eyes suddenly cold: "Then I am curious, why is he not dead yet?"
"That's because Alan beat him."
"It's really cheap for him." Kejiesi snorted, and then said: "What do I need to do?"
"Of course, you have to warn him not to get too close to the non-commissioned officers in Starling." Berry handed the bottle back to the major: "Their superior is Major Luda."
Kejiesi snorted, and said, "Those who spread death said it nicely. They are not actually for the purpose of monitoring us."
"This is also no way. After all, Admiral Lusen and Marshal Capro are old friends, so naturally they are not very at ease with our new party. This is fine. I am afraid that behind this provocative incident is intentional. It's not easy."
Kejiesi frowned and said: "You mean, they want to use Hubble to provoke a dispute and take the opportunity to hit Alan with a heavy hand against the Marshal? This is too much, I thought at least on Pluto, facing the sword Should the old party put aside some prejudices against the common enemy like the devil?"
"Do you think those old guys are so easy to talk about? Especially the President's attitude is a bit biased towards them now. If I were Marshal Capro, I would definitely take this opportunity to hit us, so as to make up for the disadvantages that we have always put on our heads. Fame." Bailey shook his head: "Don't tell me, politics is much more complicated than going forward to kill the enemy. You remind Hubble, don't let people use it."
Kejiesi nodded and said: "I will give him a deep enough reminder."
Speaking of putting the wine bottle in his mouth, he realized that there was no half a drop of wine coming out. He shook his head and said, "Colonel, you drank a bit hard."
Berry spread his hands, frowning and saying, "Look over there."
Kejiesi followed his line of sight. It was an undulating mountainous area under the blood eagle high ground, and in the distance were some small hills/hills. Some busy figures are moving on the mountain. They are swarms of knife ants, they are heading in the same direction, with clear goals.
"It seems that we have to start sweeping again. I have to say that these things multiply so fast." Kejiesi said.
"The movement of the ant colony is too regular. Could a new queen appear?" Bailey shook his head and said, "Let's detect it first, it's terrible. There are signs of a medium-sized tribe just now, and now it is possible to bring in another ant. As a neighbor, Chao can't relax at all."
"The internship period for those guys is coming, just so they can practice their hands. They can't even handle an ant nest. How can they fight the sword demon?" Kejiesi laughed.
Time is passing in training and learning.
In a blink of an eye, Alan has been on Pluto for three months. On this day, all the recruits gathered in the tactical conference room. Kejiesi stood on the podium, and some pictures appeared alternately on the electronic curtain wall behind it. It was a topographic map of the mountains near the Blood Eagle Heights.
"After our reconnaissance over this period of time, there is reason to believe that there is a nest of knife ants on this mountain. Often there will be a queen in an ant nest. The queen is the only female creature in the ant nest. Its responsibilities are mainly Breeding offspring. During the reproductive period, the queen will continue to mate/mate with the male ants and lay at least a hundred eggs each time. One month later, a hundred strong knife ants will appear in the nest."
Kejiesi said negatively: "But this is not the breeding period of the knife ants. At this time, the queen ants are generally in a dormant state. You have been on Pluto for three months, and now you have to give you the last assessment. It's very simple. Take out this ant nest. I will invigilate the whole process and give scores based on your team’s performance in the process."
"Those who have failed the score, congratulations, you can leave Pluto. Because if this is not even possible, there is no need to push you to the battlefield and die." Kejiesi said solemnly: "What is the problem? ?"
"No, sir!" everyone answered in unison.
Half an hour later, the two transporter trucks drove out of the blood eagle base and walked along the mountain road to the test site. The vehicle stopped near the mountain where it reached the target. 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 over, Kejiesi waved his hand to indicate that the small groups left one after another and entered the mountains on foot.
After the team entered the mountains, they dispersed and flowed between the mountains like an undercurrent. 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. Alan was experienced in hunting for prey, and soon he found traces of knife ants activity. Because of its large size, the traces left by the knife ants are fairly obvious, and it is not difficult to find them if you observe carefully.
In particular, their sharp front FA will leave unique marks on the ground. As long as you find these marks and judge the direction of their progress, it is not that difficult to find the trail of the knife ants. Soon, Ellen and the others followed a few sword ants. These sword ants are biting the limbs of some unknown beasts and moving. Whether it is the smell of the dead beast or the blood dripping on the ground, it is undoubtedly an obvious indication.
Following these traces, at sunset, Allen's team stopped on a small slope. Allen lay down on the ground, feeling the scorching breath of the ground constantly rising from his chest and spreading to other places. He was unmoved, only looked forward with a tactical telescope, and then handed the telescope to Lucy next to him.
In the telescope is a low mountain with a height of only about 20 meters. The mountain on the left is steep, and the on the right is gentle, joining the ground. There are a few strange black trees growing on the mountain, besides, there is no other decoration. It is not difficult to see in the telescope that there are some deep caves at the foot of the mountain, including the upper part of the mountain, and knife ants enter and exit 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 acting as sentinels scattered around.
"What do you think?" Allen asked.
Lucy said: "There is insufficient intelligence. We have to know what is going on in the ant nest before we can make a strategy."
Willick also said: "And we are obviously short of manpower. There are definitely no fewer than three digits in there."
Allen nodded and said: "Let's go into the ant nest to scout. Naz, you go and leave the contact signal, let the other teams come and gather with us to discuss how to destroy the ant nest."
"Knife ants have very poor eyesight~EbookFREE.me~ but they are very sensitive to pheromones, and they can judge friends or enemies by the vibration of the ground. You have to pay attention." Lucy's homework in biological knowledge is very outstanding. Reminded now.
Allen used his fangs to dig out some limes from the ground, let them cool down and apply them to his face, body, hands and feet. The soil of Pluto has a strong smell of scorched earth, which can be used to conceal the original body smell after spreading it all over the body. After getting ready, Alan touched his fangs from the backlit side of the hillside, and Naz returned and left to inform the other teams.
After a while, the sky was dark, and two weird moons gradually rose from the horizon. One is shining with purple light, and the other is near the purple moon. The moon has no light at all, it follows like a shadow like a black hole.
This makes the night light of Pluto star dim, and knife ants with low eyesight return to their nests one after another, while Alan walks in the night, taking cover of the undulating hills on the ground or some dark red shrubs. Going in the direction of the ant nest at a constant speed, not long after, Lucy, who was on the slope, could no longer see Alan.
As the night fell, a knife ant struggling towards the nest. It has wounds on its body, and the second section of its left body is broken, and green-yellow insect sap is dripping from time to time. The two legs on the same side were also bitten off, which made it difficult to crawl, making it impossible to rush back to the nest before sunset. r1058()