Chapter 1303: Heart of the Swarm (12)

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Marsala, outside of Blackwater Outpost.
After the huge battlecruiser appeared and took control of the situation, the rangers who had been retreating stopped one after another and gathered spontaneously towards Renault's position.
"Commander... Is it collecting diazepam from the air?" Jimmy asked stupidly.
"No, it is just preventing the spread of diazine. This collection method is not efficient at all." Renault confirmed the number of people in the lower part, and looked up at the battleship: "Could the'Keha's children' also noticed this. There is a problem with the mine? But their channels must be different from ours."
Although not the largest, but the most famous federal resistance organization, Renault is still more concerned.
After their home planet Keha was bombed, they announced that they were in a state of permanent war against the Tyronnian Federation, that is, they would not accept any terms of peace talks. As long as the Tyronnian Federation still exists, the two sides will have an endless relationship. Nova once revealed that within the federation Other forces that did not deal with the group of parliamentarians who ordered the bombing tried to contact Keha’s children, but were firmly rejected, and they were also helpless.
However, the
Keha’s children
did not carry out indiscriminate attacks on the Tyrannian Confederation like those so-called "resistance organizations" in the name of resistance and piracy. They only targeted military installations directly under the Tyrannian Confederation. As well as the attacks on civilian facilities solely funded by the "Mobius Foundation", they are not only destroying, but also collecting all kinds of materials. It seems that where to establish their own secret base, the external manifestation is, Every time they take official actions, their strength has improved significantly, which makes the federal lawmakers who they define as enemies feel like sitting on pins and needles.
In this way, the reason why the
Keha’s children
will appear here is also very simple: these secrets sneaked into Marsala, and the intelligence of the federal secret forces that was going to be unfavorable to the
Renault’s Rangers
was intercepted by them. They Originally, I might just want to destroy a secret mine and receive some diazin by the way, but I never expected bugs to appear here.
So... the final question is, what would they think of "Renault's Rangers"?
Chchchchch--
Renault was thinking about what kind of attitude he should use to negotiate with the "Keha children", but suddenly felt a tremor on the ground. The collapsed mine ruins not far away, centered on the eruption site, collapsed again. At the same time, There was a group of strange bugs with nearly a hundred in those locations. They were very similar to their melee counterparts at the beginning, but the speed seemed to be slower, but the skin was dark and hard, and they had a good defense against firearms.
"Damn it, shoot free!" Renault directly raised his gun and aimed.
Obviously, the "worker ants" and "queen" who have been lifted off are making the bugs evolve in the direction of defensive bullets. If it weren't for the sudden eruption of diazine, wait for these evolved version of the bugs to take shape and rush over. , They are afraid that the group will be destroyed here.
Da Da Da-Ding Ding Ding-
Bullets hit the pitch-black shell of insects, just like hitting stones, and even occasionally ricocheting occurs. If you don’t see enough attacks, you can still knock these insects on the ground and cannot move. Renault would doubt that it was something. The steel carapace is gone.
"Don't try hard, retreat one by one, and fight while retreating." Renault commanded calmly. After all, the speed of these insects is short board, as long as the kite-flying tactics...
Boom!
A fiery flame fell from the sky, setting off a fierce fire storm beside Renault.
"What—" Renault's first reaction was that the battlecruisers in the sky fired their cannons and intended to kill them all at once, but immediately realized that if they fired their cannons, they would not be inaccurate and the power would not be so small.
Then, there was only the last possibility... Renault commanded the Rangers to spread out while adjusting the helmet sight distance.
Sure enough, at the entrance of the collapsed mine, four or five weird-shaped bugs appeared again. They looked like...four-legged spiders, but they were about the same size as an infantry vehicle, and there was a volcano-like shape on the torso. The weird organ. When Renault looked over, he happened to see the organ shrinking and stretching out, spraying a blazing line of fire into the sky. The line of fire traversed a parabola and slammed into the position where Renault stood before. The second group would continue. Burning fire storm.
"Hey! Cowboy! Have you seen it? They have evolved power armor and mortars~" Teckis yelled in the channel while shooting at the approaching "Armored Bug".
"I saw it," Renault replied helplessly: "The original plan was cancelled. The attack on the black bugs was mainly delayed. They retreated to the temporary base and prepared to leave by car-the mayor, get the vehicle ready."
"Ah... okay, okay." The mayor of Settlement No. 47 replied again and again with a waking appearance.
Circumstances have changed. Now that the "Keha children" have arrived and have ideas about the mine, they will certainly not let these bugs go and communicate... if the other party thinks it is necessary to talk to their little " The local sheriff’s exchanges can also be discussed after the crisis is resolved.
"[It doesn’t have to be so troublesome, Chief Renault.]"
At this time, a cold and majestic voice sounded in the channel.
Although there is no evidence, Renault believes that this should be the voice of the "Acturus Mengsk".
Whoosh whoosh
Accompanied by the voice, a group of things that looked like metal scattered from the high-altitude battlecruisers, falling very precisely between the "armored bugs" and Renault's rangers.
In the next second, the landing "metal sphere" stretched out, first protruding four feet from the lower half to grab the ground, and then the upper half quickly deformed and combined into a...flamethrower.
When this series of actions were completed, the armored bugs had already rushed in front of them, and these strange devices immediately spewed raging flames around them. The shells that had been hit by the bullets were instantly ablated and deformed, and the bugs were wearing these shells. They screamed and ran away, but soon turned to ashes in the fierce burning.
Just-collapse! The "four-legged spider" at the entrance of the mine unwillingly launched an attack on the suspected fire-breathing turrets and successfully destroyed some of them, but before they had a second round of shooting, a new "metal ball" fell from the sky again , Slammed straight into the vicinity of the mine and spread out quickly.
This time, the metal ball is not a flamethrower, but a strange weapon like a single-barrel nail gun. Their attack frequency is not high, but each shot can completely penetrate the "four-legged spider". In less than a minute, these biological versions of "mortars" were completely paralyzed.
"[I think we have to talk, Chief Renault]." The voice said again.
Damn, I only said to talk after I wiped out these bugs easily, this is definitely a threat in advance.