From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man - Chapter 373

c364 “Rebellion” “Attack” “Weaponization”

Two hours later.

The area where Argos is located has completely lost the illumination of stars.

And because of the lack of natural satellites, the night of Lethe is much darker than the night of the earth.

Fortunately, Argos has developed infrastructure and many street lights, which can prevent local residents from “walking in the dark”.

And on the east side of the surface starport is the temporary garrison of the colonial marines.

This was originally a warehouse for stacking goods, but the recent tense situation in Lethe, coupled with the rampant alien insect plague, has left a lot of such warehouses empty.

So it is natural that it was temporarily requisitioned and transformed by the Marines.

After the Marines complete the recruitment and training of new recruits, and then wait for their mother ship Otago to complete the renovation, they will leave here according to the orders of their superiors and continue to devote themselves to the war of suppressing the rebellion.

At this moment, the garrison is also in a “closed-door” state like the entire city of Argos.

The new recruits of the Marine Corps have already finished their training and are enjoying their rare free time every day, either resting in the barracks or going to the cafeteria for meals.

At the main entrance, two Marines and an automatic machine gun are on duty.

Looking down at the entire garrison from the air, the main body of the warehouse has been transformed into a barracks, with the Marine Corps’ dormitories, headquarters, equipment warehouses, etc. set up inside.

In the open space outside, there is a simple vertical take-off and landing apron, and two UD-4 landing craft named “Cheyenne” are parked.

In addition to the landing craft, there are two M577 armored personnel carriers and several engineering and combat exoskeletons parked next to the apron.

The UD-4 Cheyenne landing craft is the most commonly used and largest landing craft of the Colonial Marine Corps.

The landing craft is “sturdy and durable”. Although it looks very clumsy, its maximum speed can reach Mach 10.

It can also carry an M577 armored personnel carrier with plasma cannons and rotary machine guns, or a whole fully armed combat platoon.

In addition, the transformable and extendable wings of the Cheyenne landing craft can carry different types of air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles.

So when the Cheyenne landing craft unloads the Marines to the ground, it can also provide sufficient firepower assistance for the Marines.

The combat exoskeleton is a single-soldier armored “vehicle” used by the Colonial Marines and assigned to the elite company.

After all, in the “Alien” universe, many colonies have dangerous terrain, and armored vehicles like the M577 cannot accompany the Marines in combat.

In order to allow the Marines who go deep into narrow terrain to maintain an absolute firepower advantage, the Colonial Marines specially developed this combat exoskeleton with a “battery life” of about five hours and powered by hydrogen batteries.

An experienced Marine Corpsman controls this type of exoskeleton to achieve the same combat effect as an armored vehicle or a main battle tank.

Apart from these vehicles and equipment, a high-voltage power grid and automatic machine guns are set up at the outermost perimeter of the garrison to provide basic security for the Marines who are resting, training and living.

At this time.

“Woo~!”

A Marine Corpsman on duty at the main gate yawned sleepily.

Then he said to his comrade beside him with sleepy eyes: “It’s another ordinary day.”

“Why, do you want to find something to do?” The comrade turned his head and said:

“Didn’t the captain send three combat teams to the sewer to try to lock the nest of those insects, and he will send two teams tomorrow.

Why don’t you volunteer and take the initiative to participate?”

“Uh~!”

The Marine Corps who yawned couldn’t help but shiver all over when he thought of the pictures and videos about the aliens on the local network, especially the tragic scenes of the dead with their chests broken open.

Then he shook his head and said, “Goodbye, we will be able to leave this damn place soon. I don’t want to die before leaving.”

“Hahaha, I’m glad to know.”

The comrade smiled and replied, “Me too. When I leave this damn place, I have to find a girl who is fun to play with and relax. It’s too depressing here.”

He and his comrades are not locals of Wangchuanyue, so they don’t care much about the alien insect plague on Wangchuanyue.

Especially, the superiors have issued orders, so they have no idea of ​​fighting for Wangchuanyue.

However, their captain and 1/3 of their comrades are locals who were born and raised in Wangchuanyue, so they tried their best to contain the spread of aliens.

It’s a pity that their company, including the recruits, has only more than 200 people. What can they do to contain it?

The only thing they can do is to try to find and eradicate the alien nest of Argos before the company leaves, and strive for a certain safety environment for the local residents.

As for the “locking the insect nest” that the two just mentioned, their captain used his own power to send a combat team of 5 to 7 people to cooperate with the special police of the Argos Police Department to go to the blocks where disappearances occurred frequently and go deep into the sewers under the blocks.

But the aliens played “hide and seek”.

Whether it was the Marines or the local special police, they could only capture the figures and traces of suspected aliens, but they were unable to capture them.

Now, three combat teams composed of more than 20 Marines and more than 60 Argos special police are still wandering in the sewers of the eastern blocks.

Tomorrow morning, their captains will send two more combat teams led by veterans and new recruits to the eastern blocks for support.

It seemed that the captain was bound to “burn clean” the alien nest in Argos.

Beep——!

Suddenly, the two automatic machine guns set up at the main entrance sounded a crisp reminder.

? ?

This moment caught the attention of the two Marines.

They all raised their M41a caseless pulse rifles and pointed their muzzles at the deserted street ahead.

Moreover, a single-eye screen with infrared night vision function stretches out from the right side of their helmets.

However, the monocular screen showed no abnormalities.

“Are they bugs? I remember the intelligence said that our screen scanning is ineffective against them, and we can only use the dynamic detector to lock them.”

The Marine who just yawned asked in a low voice.

“I don’t know. It may be that the machine gun has an old problem again, but to be on the safe side, it’s better to start whining first?!”

The comrade beside him was about to report the situation, but found that he could not say any words. It seemed that an invisible hand covered his mouth!

With a muffled sound of “Bang!”, the comrade’s eyes rolled up and he fell into coma.

? ? ?

Sensing something strange about his comrades, the Marines immediately wanted to turn their guns.

Unfortunately, the next second, he encountered the same situation and fainted.

only saw

In other words, if you use the individual soldier system produced by Atlas and turn on friendly force identification, you will see more than a dozen advance teams wearing exclusive nano combat uniforms already occupying the main entrance of the garrison.

The automatic machine gun with motion detection function was also manually turned off by the advance team.

Although the nanosuits of the advance team have the most advanced concealment effect in the human empire, the slightest movement caused by the movement of the advance team and the movement of air cannot be completely covered up.

That’s why two advance team members are needed to act as decoys and stand on the edge of the automatic machine gun locking range, while the remaining advance team members directly “physically” stun the Marines on duty, that is.

Knocked out.

The more expensive tranquilizer bombs can be used, but they are not necessary.

The person responsible for leading the team is Xiaoqiang, who is accustomed to being taciturn.

“.”

At this moment, Xiaoqiang was able to “see at a glance” all the details of the entire garrison with the help of orbital drones and the Yelang 14th Fleet that had taken off and turned on stealth mode.

The real-time location of every Marine in the garrison is displayed on the helmet screen.

Seeing this, Xiaoqiang directly used the screen to mark the areas that each advance team member was responsible for.

And he was preparing to go to the headquarters in the barracks and personally capture the captain in charge of the colonial marines.

After giving the order, Xiaoqiang quickly headed towards the barracks.

If you rely on the perspective of an orbiting drone to look down, you can see more than a dozen advance team members, like ghosts, quietly approaching the Marines stationed in the area.

Either a hand knife or an elbow strike caused the resting and relaxing Marines to fall into the most “sweet” sleep since they were born.

Located in the command post on the second floor of the barracks——

“Ta-ta-ta! Sir, we are ambushed by insects and need support!!”

There was heavy gunfire and urgent calls for help from the Marines.

The sound source comes from the communication amplifier of the console.

“Ouch——!”

At this time, the alien’s high-pitched, piercing howl also resounded through the command center through external speakers.

Seeing that his subordinates were in danger, the bearded captain quickly responded:

“This is the base! We have received a request for support, hold on, support will arrive soon!”

With that said, the captain turned around and walked outside, and ordered the remaining officers:

“Sound the emergency muster alarm, notify the ground crew and pilots, and prepare two Cheyenne transport boats immediately!”

“Yes! Captain!”

The officers, having received clear instructions, set out to carry out the captain’s orders.

The captain was about to leave the headquarters, go to the equipment depot to put on armor, pick up weapons, and personally lead the team to the eastern neighborhood for support, but he ran into Xiaoqiang who was like an “invisible human wall”.

? !

Although the captain didn’t know what was going on, he instinctively prepared to perform an over-the-shoulder throw.

But Xiaoqiang is faster.

He raised his right hand, controlled his strength, and punched the captain directly.

thump!

? ?

The sound of the captain falling to the ground caused the officers present to get up.

Immediately afterwards

Thump—thump—!

The officers fell to the ground and fell asleep one after another, and no one could clearly see Xiaoqiang who had beaten them to death before falling asleep.

Phew——!

With a slight electronic sound effect, Xiaoqiang instantly completed his set goal and took the initiative to remove the optical camouflage.

“.”

Xiaoqiang, who had completed the prisoner mission, slowly approached the control console.

“Sir!!” At this moment, the Marine’s urgent cry for help sounded again from the communication:

“We can’t hold on here anymore! The bugs are clicking! The number of bugs is beyond expectations! There are just too many!

And they also have little bugs that look like scorpions! The crawling speed is so fast that we can’t do it at all. Woo! Woohoo! ”

At this moment, the communication was quiet again, with only some noise coming from the external broadcast.

However, Xiaoqiang’s face under the helmet gradually became serious after listening to the other party’s call for help.

Because in the content of the call for help, there is the keyword “little scorpion-like insect”.

Xiaoqiang, who learned the details of the alien through the Intelligence Department, knew that it was a “facehugger”.

In a small and dim space, the threat posed by the face hugger is no less than, or even stronger than, that of an adult alien worker bee or soldier.

They are small in size, know how to be patient and ambush, and are very good at sneak attacks.

Just like the Marines on the other end of the communication, the Marines who were attacked must have focused their attention on the larger worker bees and soldiers, and naturally had no time to be vigilant against the sudden attack of the face hugger.

And in this operation planned by Xiaoqiang, there is an item called “rebellion of the Colonial Marines”.

Moreover, even if there is no target requirement, as a human being, we cannot stand by and watch our compatriots who are attacked by aliens.

Then.

Xiaoqiang opened the communication and said:

“Captain Sigurd, there are Colonial Marines ambushed by aliens near you, please spare some manpower for rescue.”

At the same time.

In the underground network system of the eastern block, the space is considered to be very spacious in the drainage ditch;

Puff——!

Swish——!

The sound of the flesh being hammered and torn by brute force is particularly “pleasant”.

I saw more than a dozen Space Wolves wearing Titanium Power Armor, slaughtering a group of “local humans” with bare hands.

“Oh my God! They are monsters! Monsters!”

“No, don’t kill me! Don’t!”

And how could the “local humans” have ever seen “big guys” who are more than two and a half meters tall, strong and weigh nearly a ton?

Especially from the moment these big guys suddenly visited, they unilaterally slaughtered “them” without saying anything.

At this time.

Wearing a widened and thickened, customized Titanium IV Power Armor, Logan Sigurd stretched out his left hand and grabbed the neck of a “local” without even turning his head.

Then he raised his hand slightly and easily lifted the “local” with one hand.

“Let it go”

Crack——!

Before the “local” finished begging for mercy, Logan gently exerted force and crushed the other’s neck directly.

Its head rolled directly from Logan’s right hand, and its body also collapsed to the ground.

Logan glanced at the locals whose bodies were separated, and cursed in a metallic tone:

“Let you go, you bastard, let you go, you rapist, you rubbish, fuck!”

Just as Logan cursed, the hundreds of “locals” gathered here were actually cultists who regarded the aliens as “messengers of God”.

Moreover, the cultists also built a “breeding base” here to detain the local residents they abducted, and then let the face huggers they captured parasitize and “fertilize” them.

They even built a biological laboratory, and there were researchers in white coats, using professional instruments with the Weyland Tanggu logo to study the young aliens.

Cooperating with the mercenaries who had long been solved by the wild wolves.

Obviously, Weyland Tanggu Company wanted to use the colony of Wangchuanyue to study and test the biological weaponization of the aliens.