Chapter 826 - Retrieving Eggs from the Fire
If the sovereignty of the desert peninsula had not continued to use firepower to intercept, the number of monsters that escaped would have been even higher.
Fortunately, the local sovereignty is not short of money. After the army reaches the effective shooting range, the ammunition reserves are open to supply, and they can build vigorously.
Although the on-the-spot combat effectiveness is impressive, it does not mean that the long-range skills are not good. At any rate, you can always find a few experienced professional players to achieve continuous fire coverage in a decent manner.
At this moment, large-caliber heavy artillery and anti-aircraft formations have been continuously dragged over, and the erection work has begun. Not only are they preparing to release the three-dimensional blockade of the "wormhole cloud", they even want to drive the artillery shells into it. Inside the dark cloud.
Five minutes and 15 seconds after liftoff, four tactical jets arrived over the planting base that was ravaged by monsters and began preparations for beyond-visual-range combat.
The soldiers and horses have not moved, the food and grass have gone first, and the intelligence has been earlier.
The reconnaissance drone formation that arrived first locked onto each monster and marked them one by one in the three-dimensional holographic projection of Flagship No. 2.
A raging fire rose on the ground. "Aloe vera" is an economic plant with a high oil content. Although it also contains water, once it is ignited, it will set fire to the whole camp, and the momentum will not be much worse than igniting an oil well. .
Although some of the monsters that pass through the "wormhole cloud" can run, drill, swim, and fly, they often do not have special abilities and none of them can cast spells. No, it's just that they are tall and strong, have rough skin and thick flesh, and have ferocious looks. Occasionally, there are one or two Spraying acid or being toxic themselves, it is the alien bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma, viruses and other microorganisms they carry that pose the greatest threat to Blue Star's ecology. Once cross-species infection occurs, the consequences will be disastrous, so in the aftermath work, there is no need to The elimination of harmful substances almost accounts for the main energy.
It's not monsters that cause fires, it's humans.
A bi-wing agricultural aircraft fell into the sea of fire, and some wreckage was vaguely visible. It may have caused a fuel oil leak during the fall, which ignited the entire "oil aloe".
With dry weather and strong winds, the fire became increasingly uncontrollable.
I don’t know if the pilot of this biplane survived, but judging from the actions of the monsters on the ground who were still devouring the "oiled aloe vera", they were probably in danger.
The fire that occurred in the "Oil Aloe" planting base is not a big deal. Most of the passengers on the "Snow Mountain" large armed magic square spacecraft are capable people. Just invite a few and they will be ready in minutes. Put out the fire.
But before that, all those monsters need to be wiped out.
When the four tactical jets were still 12 kilometers away from those flying monsters, they fired two salvos of combat missiles in succession, releasing a total of 16 short-range universal programmable combat missiles.
This low-level general-purpose missile specially distributed to military contractors is suitable for the active guidance of artificial intelligence AI. With the monster's flying ability and speed, a short-range missile with a maximum range of 30 kilometers is still overkill.
When the flying monsters noticed the missile approaching, they were completely unable to dodge. Huge fireballs exploded in the sky one after another. The monsters were blown to pieces in the air, and countless flesh and blood debris fell to the ground like raindrops. .
The whole process from the launch of the attack to the end of the air control took less than a minute. The short-range combat bombs easily destroyed their respective targets without even using any extra energy.
At this time, the tactical bombers finally arrived and dropped multiple 500-kilogram high-explosive aerial bombs on the ground.
The reserve quantity of this kind of conventional bombs is relatively small. After all, Chen Fei still prefers to stock up on ton-level thermobaric bombs or incendiary bombs, which are extremely powerful bombs. Whenever he is in doubt, he throws one. If one shot is out of control, then use two shots, even the subsequent biochemical disinfection procedures are omitted. No microorganisms can survive in this high temperature and high pressure environment, and the monsters are often burned to the point of being burned to the bone.
The pale white halo of the shock wave swept across repeatedly. Afterwards, the land-based monster that had no time to escape was torn to pieces by the shock wave and the spreading flames without any resistance.
The descendant syndrome of excess firepower is that the damage caused by the unavoidable bombing of the "Oil Aloe" planting area far exceeds the damage and devouring of the monsters just now, and causes a greater fire.
The previous fire scene was completely extinguished by the shock wave, leaving only the lingering smoke. It is unknown whether it will rekindle.
"Command Center, the 19 monsters visually observed have been eliminated. Now we are launching combat robots to clear the area and confirm the results."
After all, it is an undefended planting area. Just in case, Chen Fei asked Zai A small landing craft with a combat robot landed, searching for fish that had slipped through the net.
The combat robot is not a human being. Firstly, there is no need to worry about casualties, and secondly, there is no need to worry about biochemical contamination. When you come back, you can take a hot bath with disinfectant and it will be a good robot again.
"To record the results, please pass on the live video of the combat robot."
The correspondent lady maintains close cooperation with Chen Fei. The intelligence and data of both parties are shared, connecting tactics and strategy. level of information exchange.
"'Adam', share the optical image of the combat robot."
Chen Fei asked the artificial intelligence AI "Adam" to simultaneously send the video data link required by the command center.
The scene was a sea of fire, and the infrared thermal imaging picture was almost useless. At such a short distance, the radar module was overqualified and far inferior to the reconnaissance drone in the sky. Only the optical module was of practical significance. .
The pictures transmitted back simultaneously by the 50 combat robots are similar. As humans, naturally there is no way to process multiple threads in parallel like artificial intelligence AI. We can only select a part of them, five video pictures.
There were no humans at the scene, and not even the remains were found. According to the information passed by the local authority, there should be 20 employees in this planting base, and the employer's family of 5, for a total of 25 people. But these people are now one None are seen, life or death is uncertain.
"No humans found! Well, what are these!"
50 combat robots searched the planting base for a long time, but still found nothing, but Chen Fei seemed to suddenly discover something unusual. .
The artificial intelligence AI "Adam" immediately immobilized the combat robot on the scene and began to restore its movements.
More than a dozen charred eggs appeared in the field of vision of one of the combat robots.
"Ostrich eggs? Are they baked? Suck!~"
Yan Ling was slobbering in a disgraceful manner as an S-level superpower. Whenever he saw something baked, he couldn't help but react conditionedly.
Before the harmful microorganisms are identified, most organisms from alien planets cannot be eaten.
Tasty is not about eating indiscriminately, and eating indiscriminately will kill the tribe.
"Is it possible that there are ostrich eggs in this place? This head seems to be bigger than an ostrich egg."
Miyoshi Gakusen walked to the three-dimensional holographic projection and stretched out his hand to gesture. After a moment, he turned back to Chen Fei and said firmly: "It is 3 centimeters larger than the average diameter of an ostrich egg."
The egg diameter is sometimes a few millimeters different, and it's a different kind of creature, let alone 3 centimeters.
Looking at the monk's confident and affirmative tone, he knows astronomy and geography at the top and mud in the sewers at the bottom. He is so erudite and talented that it is a pity to do dark work all day long.
"'Rookie,' bring back all those eggs!"
The command center responded immediately.
It is larger than an ostrich egg, which means that it is probably the eggs laid by those monsters. This is very important information.
Once sufficient food is obtained, these monsters can't wait to start multiplying. As an oil crop, "aloe vera" is not only an important source of fuel oil, but in a sense is also a very high-quality food that can be eaten by humans, especially Compared to monsters.
"Received, start the collection process."
Chen Fei instructed "Adam" to control the combat robots to collect a nest of about thirty eggs one by one.
There is biological collection equipment on the small landing craft, which can just be used to store these eggs that are burnt on the outside. I did some inspections by the way.
The albumen and yolk in the egg have begun to embryonate, and slender blood vessels have appeared in the part close to the eggshell. Based on the estimated egg laying time, combined with the hatching data of oviparous animals on Earth, it is used as a reference for comparison. , the artificial intelligence AI "Adam" quickly gave a time interval.
Incubation cycle: 2-3 days
This made Chen Fei take a breath of air-conditioning involuntarily. The embryonic cycle of Blue Star Biology is based on 7 days, and the egg-laying incubation cycle is basically a multiple of 7 days. For example, chickens live for 21 days, ducks live for 28 days, and geese live for 28-35 days.
Of course, there are also faster ones, such as the platypus, which takes 10 days, and the maximum hatching time for other species is usually only about three days.
But no matter what kind of egg-laying animal, the size of the adult body cannot be compared with these monsters.
If the larval stage of these monsters is like the incubation stage, growing as fast as blowing up a balloon, there is absolutely no doubt that they will pose a threat to all creatures in Blue Star. I am afraid that only the reproduction rate of the mutants can Fight against these alien monsters.
Maybe these monsters are mutants of alien planets, cancer cells born on living planets, multiplying rapidly with geometric efficiency, greedily demanding natural resources to satisfy their hunger. (End of this chapter)