From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Two hours later.

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

And because of the lack of a natural satellite, the nights on Lethe are much darker than those on Earth.

Fortunately, Argos has well-developed infrastructure and numerous street lights, so local residents don't have to walk in the dark.

On the east side of the surface starport is the temporary base of the Colonial Marines.

This was originally a warehouse for storing goods, but the recent tense situation in Wangchuan Yue, coupled with the rampant alien insect plague, has left many such warehouses empty.

So it was natural for them to be temporarily requisitioned and transformed by the Marine Corps.

Once the Marines have completed recruiting and training new soldiers, and their mother ship, the HMS Otago, has completed repairs, they will leave in accordance with their superiors' orders and continue to fight in the war to quell the rebellion.

At this moment, the garrison is in a "closed-door" state, just like the entire city of Argos.

The Marine Corps recruits had already finished their training and were enjoying their rare free time each day, either resting in the barracks dormitories or going to the cafeteria to eat.

At the main gate, two Marines and an automatic machine gun were on duty.

Looking down at the entire garrison from the air, the main body of the warehouse has been converted into a barracks, with Marine Corps dormitories, command posts, equipment depots, 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 there.

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 by the Colonial Marines.

The landing craft is "rugged and durable" and although it looks very clumsy, it can reach a maximum speed of Mach 10.

It can also carry an M577 armored personnel carrier equipped with a plasma cannon, a rotary cannon, or an entire fully armed combat platoon.

In addition, the Cheyenne landing craft's deformable and extendable wings 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 the Marines with sufficient firepower support.

The combat exoskeleton is a single-soldier armored "vehicle" assigned to elite companies by the senior Colonial Marines.

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 to maintain absolute firepower advantage when advancing deep into narrow terrain, the Colonial Marines specially developed this combat exoskeleton with a "battery life" of about five hours and powered by hydrogen batteries.

For an experienced Marine to operate this type of exoskeleton, the actual combat effect can be comparable to that of an armored vehicle or main battle tank.

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

at this time.

"Ugh~!"

A Marine standing guard at the main gate yawned sleepily.

Then he said sleepily to his comrade beside him: "It's just another ordinary day."

"Why, you want to find something to do?" The comrade turned around and said:

"The captain has already sent three combat teams to the sewers to try to locate the insects' lair, and he will send two more teams tomorrow.

How about you volunteer and take the initiative to participate?"

"Uh~!"

Zhang Ha's Marine couldn't help but shiver when he thought of the pictures and videos about the aliens on the local Internet, especially the tragic scenes of the dead with their chests broken.

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

"Hahaha, good 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 were not natives of Wangchuan Moon, so they did not take the alien insect plague on Wangchuan Moon seriously.

Especially since their superiors had issued orders, they had no intention of risking their lives for Wang Chuanyue.

However, their captain and one-third of their comrades were locals who were born and raised in the Moon of Oblivion, so they tried their best to contain the spread of the aliens.

It’s a pity that their company has only more than 200 people including the new recruits. How can they stop them?

The only thing that can be done is to try to find and eradicate the alien nest in Argos before the company leaves, so as to create a certain safety environment for the local residents.

As for the "locking down the insect nest" that the two had just mentioned, their captain was using his own power to dispatch a combat team consisting of 5 to 7 people to cooperate with the special police of the Argos Police Department to go to the neighborhoods where disappearances occurred frequently and go deep into the sewers under the neighborhoods.

But the alien played hide and seek.

Both the Marines and the local special police could only capture the suspected alien figures and traces, but were unable to capture them.

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

Tomorrow morning, their captains will send two more combat teams consisting of veterans and new recruits to provide support to the eastern district.

It seems that the captain is determined to "burn clean" the alien hive in Argos.

Beep——!

Suddenly, the two automatic machine guns set up at the main entrance gave a clear warning sound.

? ?

This instantly caught the attention of the two Marines.

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

In addition, a monocular screen with infrared night vision function extends out from the right side of their helmets.

However, nothing abnormal was shown on the single-eye screen.

"Is it a bug? I remember the intelligence saying that our screen scans are ineffective against them. We can only lock them with a dynamic detection device."

The Marine, who had just yawned, asked in a low voice.

"I'm not sure, maybe the machine gun has had its old problem again, but to be on the safe side, let's make a sound first?!"

The comrades beside him were about to report the situation, but they found that he could not say anything, as if an invisible hand was covering his mouth!

Then there was a muffled "bang" sound, and the comrade's eyes rolled up and he fell into a coma.

???

Noticing something was wrong with his comrade, the Marine immediately tried to turn his gun around.

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

I saw

In other words, if one uses the individual soldier system produced by Atlas and turns on friendly force identification, one can see that more than a dozen advance team members wearing exclusive nano combat uniforms have already occupied the main gate of the garrison.

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

Although the advance team's nanosuits have the most advanced concealment effects in the human empire, the extremely slight noises caused by the advance team members when moving, as well as the air flow, cannot be completely concealed.

That's why two advance team members were needed to act as bait, standing at the edge of the automatic machine gun lock range, while the rest of the advance team members directly "physically" stunned the Marines on duty, that is.

Knock out.

You can use more expensive tranquilizer bullets, but it's not necessary.

The person in charge of leading the team was Xiaoqiang, who was usually taciturn.

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At this moment, Xiaoqiang can use the orbital drone and the Wild Wolf 14th Company fleet that has already taken off and turned on stealth mode to "see" all the details of the entire garrison.

The helmet screen displays the real-time location of every Marine in the garrison.

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

He was about to go to the command post in the barracks to personally capture the captain in charge of the Colonial Marines.

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

If you look down from the perspective of the orbital drone, you can see more than a dozen advance team members approaching the Marines in the garrison silently like ghosts.

Either a knife strike or an elbow strike made the resting and relaxing Marines fall into the sweetest sleep they had ever had since they were born.

In the command post on the second floor of the barracks——

"Tattatata! Commander, we are in an insect ambush and need support!!"

The air was filled with the sound of dense gunfire and the Marines' urgent cries for help.

The source of the sound comes from the communication speaker on the control console.

"Ow—!"

At this time, the alien's sharp and piercing howls also resounded in the command center through the loudspeaker.

Seeing his men 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, the captain turned and walked out, and ordered the remaining officers:

"Sound the emergency assembly alarm, notify the ground crew and pilots, and prepare two Cheyenne transport boats immediately!"

"Yes! Captain!"

The officers, having received clear instructions, set about carrying out the captain's orders.

The captain was about to leave the command center and go to the equipment storehouse to put on armor and pick up weapons, and personally lead his team to the eastern block for support, but he ran into the "invisible human wall" of cockroaches head-on.

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Although the captain didn't know what was going on, he instinctively prepared to do a shoulder throw.

But Xiaoqiang is faster.

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

thump!

? ?

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

Immediately after

Plop—plop—!

The officers fell to the ground one after another and fell asleep. None of them saw the cockroach that had knocked them unconscious before they fell asleep.

Phew——!

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

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

"Sir!" At this moment, the Marines' urgent call for help came through the communication again:

"We can't hold on any longer here! The bugs are rattling! The number of bugs is beyond our expectations! There are just too many of them!

And they have little bugs that look like scorpions! They crawl so fast that we can't catch them. Woo! Woo!"

At this point, the communication returned to silence, with only some noise coming from the speaker.

However, Xiaoqiang's face under the helmet gradually became solemn after hearing the other party's cry for help.

Because the call for help contained the key words "small insects that look like scorpions".

Xiaoqiang, who learned the detailed information of the alien through the Intelligence Department, knew that it was a "facehugger".

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

They are small in size, know how to be patient and ambush, and are extremely 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 soldier bees, and naturally had no time to be vigilant against the sudden attack of the facehugger.

Among the operations planned by Xiaoqiang, one was to "incite the Colonial Marines to revolt."

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

immediately.

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.

Located in the underground network system of the eastern block, in a drainage canal that is considered to be quite spacious;

puff--!

Tsk-!

The sound of flesh being hammered and torn apart by brute force is particularly "pleasant to the ear".

More than a dozen Space Wolves wearing Titanium Power Armor were seen slaughtering a group of "local humans" with their bare hands.

"Oh my god! They're monsters! Monsters!"

"No, don't kill me! Don't!"

And how could the "local humans" have ever seen a "big guy" who was more than two and a half meters tall, strong and weighed nearly one ton?

Especially from the moment these big guys suddenly visited, they started to slaughter "them" unilaterally without any explanation.

At this moment.

Wearing a widened and thickened customized Titanium Tank Type 4 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 picked up the "local" with one hand.

"Let it go"

Snap——!

Before the "local" could finish his begging for mercy, Logan gently exerted force and crushed the man's neck.

His head rolled directly from Logan's right hand, and his body fell limply to the ground.

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

"Let you go, you bastard, let you go, you rapist, you bastard!"

Just as Logan cursed, the hundreds of "locals" gathered here are actually cultists who regard the aliens as "messengers of God."

In addition, the cultists also built a "breeding base" here to detain the local residents they abducted, and then use the face huggers they captured to parasitize and "fertilize" them.

They even built a biological laboratory, and there were researchers in white coats who used professional instruments marked with the Weyland Yugu logo to study the alien juveniles.

Cooperate with the mercenaries who were already dealt with by the wild wolves.

It is obvious that Weyland Tangu Company wants to use the colony of Wangchuan Moon to research and experiment with the biological weaponization of aliens.