Puppeteer [Interstellar]

Most of the students at this stage were still asleep. The violent knocking on the door by a few soldiers woke them up from their wonderful dreams. A group of people were at a loss and crawled out of their warm sleeping bags. Under the loud urging of the staff, they had to quickly put on clothes and protective clothing, put on their backpacks and equipment, and hurried out of the container for assembly.

But after the assembly, the students did not hear Major Gary's speech for a long time.

Because Major Gary is standing on a relatively high rock at this moment, holding a telescope, and looking in the direction Lyle pointed.

The weather on the distant star is erratic, often with strong winds and heavy rain. Even with a telescope, Major Gary can hardly see anything, but he did see something coming from the direction Lyle pointed to. There are many, many Something big and big came over.

Taking back the telescope, Major Gary frowned uncontrollably, a little anxious in his heart. According to the observation, the big thing on the opposite side was coming towards them in a straight line. For the time being, we don't know what it is, whether it is an enemy or a friend. It's not clear, the situation is unknown, so Gary thinks it's better for his group not to rush into those unknown creatures head-on.

But if you want to avoid it...

Major Gary glanced back at the students who were already lined up behind him, his brows were furrowed even tighter, and they were all knotted into a ball, showing that he was very conflicted.

The students' movement speed is not fast and their physical strength is limited. In addition, there are more than 30 people here. If they move as a whole, it will definitely reduce the efficiency of their actions.

And they don't have any means of transportation here, because according to the original plan, this week's survival training is to walk directly on foot, so the academy base will not allocate any means of transportation to the students.

But the speed of the group of "unidentified creatures" on the opposite side is very fast. The speed of "them" can be observed through the telescope. "They" are getting closer. Major Gary calculated the time in his mind. Basically, you can reach this camping point.

At such a fast speed, it seems that there is no chance to run.

Major Gary looked at the group of students in front of him, frowning. He thought, if he can't run, he can only hide.

But such a large place, so many people, where to hide?

There was no time for Major Gary to think about it. He turned his attention to those containers. These metal boxes are not very hard and are easily damaged. There is actually no benefit in hiding them. Unknown creatures outside can easily open them. go in.

Still, these boxes were the only thing Major Gary and the students could use now.

So Major Gary pulled the radio microphone built into his helmet, and began to explain to the students the situation they were facing now and what they should do next in a very simple and clear manner.

"...Calm down and don't panic, start acting according to the assigned group! Disband now! Everyone move!" Major Gary shouted fiercely into the microphone in his helmet at the end, his voice Passed to the headphones built into all student helmets.

As soon as his words fell, a group of students moved quickly and quickly dispersed. These children also realized the crisis of the situation at this moment, because Major Gary's tone was unprecedentedly serious, and his expression was also very dignified.

His dignifiedness made the group of keen children really feel, so they re-entered the container, and began to carry out a planned sabotage of the contents of the container according to Gary's request.

On the other side, the group of "unknown creatures" observed by Major Gary and others with a telescope was approaching the students' camp at an extremely fast speed.

The howling wind and pitch-black environment on the distant star concealed the figures of these unknown creatures.

But when "they" approached, Major Gary and others must be able to see what these "unidentified creatures" are. After careful observation, they will find that they are not really strange things, but old acquaintances of human beings. ——It’s a big wave of bugs.

Yes, it was a large wave of bugs. These bugs probably sensed the traces of human activities, so they rushed directly in the direction of Major Gary and the others. Their speed seemed to be very fast, but they were also quite tired and hungry. Hunger may have reduced their movement speed, so this speed is actually not particularly fast compared to their fastest speed.

The harsh environment on the distant star seems to have hindered the activities of this group of bugs to some extent, and the whistling wind anytime and anywhere seriously interfered with the hearing of the bugs, but this was not a big problem.

They still found this bivouac full of containers.

They smelled that food had been there.

But when they opened their mouths to reveal their fangs, drooling and looking around, they didn't see any trace of human beings. The cold wind on this planet is too fierce, basically the things left on the ground, as long as they are The ones that don't weigh much will be blown away by the strong wind in a short while, and they will be blown to pieces, and then there will be nothing left.

Only the huge container is still there.

A layer of frost was also condensed on the container, which merged with the surrounding frozen soil and ice. These bugs circled around the container for a few times, and they didn't seem to see anything unusual.

Most of the bugs in the swarm are not interested in staying for these containers. Their main goal is food. Although there are some traces of food here, it seems that the number is not large, so most of the bugs are here after simple observation. Just lost interest.

They could feel that there was more food gathered farther ahead, and the warm blood and heartbeat of the food seemed to be ringing in their ears, which made the insects agitated a lot. And started to move around.

The restless swarm skipped over these containers and continued to move forward, but the swarm passed, but a small part of the worms remained, and the remaining worms seemed to be very fond of these containers. Interested, they circled the container several times, and patted the outer wall of the box with their paws, taking off a layer of frost that had condensed on the box.

In order to prevent them from being blown down or damaged by strong winds, these containers are fixed on the ground, and the four corners of the boxes are nailed to death with iron nails. Although the outer shell of the boxes has no defense, it still has some weight, bugs Simply knocking on them won't destroy them.

But soon, some worms discovered that the doors of these boxes could be opened, and the inside of the boxes was dark, but worms were not afraid of the dark, so some worms soon pulled down the doors of the containers and climbed in.

There are a lot of messy things in the box, all of which are mechanical items or daily necessities left by humans. These things seem to have been artificially destroyed, and they are scattered all over the place. The corners are still full of various ice layers and frozen objects. earth.

These things are useless to the bugs, they are just waste.

However, there is still some heat left on these wastes and residues, and the smell of those foods is very strong, which proves that these foods were here not long ago, and they definitely did not leave for more than 10 minutes, but now they are gone up.

The bugs felt strange, where did the food go?It is impossible for human beings to be that fast.

The bugs rummaged through the container and found nothing but the remnants of a pile of rubbish.The bugs felt reconciled and continued to make noise in the container, hissing and howling of different sizes.

But these bugs don't know that right under their feet, under the floor of the container box, the students are in the ice pit dug temporarily under these floors. Squatting down, I didn't make a sound at all, as if I was frozen by the surrounding frozen soil.

To make a sound is to die.

Not only will he die himself, but he will also drag others down to die with him.

So I can only try to be as quiet as possible, and pray that the bugs who are rummaging in the container can leave quickly.

But the bugs are not so easy to fool. Although it is very weak, some bugs can indeed feel the traces of human existence here. The human body temperature is very obvious in this cold environment, just like black spots on white paper obvious.

But fortunately, Lyle saved his hand. He seemed to have predicted that the group of unknown creatures rushing towards their campsite were probably Zerg, so when the students disassembled the bottom plate of the container and destroyed the mechanical items in the container, , He asked all the students to keep the heaters specially.

If the heater is left, the device will continue to create warmth in the container, and at the same time adjust the temperature of the heater to the highest level. The inside of the container will become completely different from the cold outside. Thirty to forty degrees below zero, more than 30 degrees above zero inside and still soaring.

Such an abnormal temperature difference caused the Zergs' heat-sensing senses to temporarily fail. They only felt that the entire container was a huge heating body. Something was wrong, and the bugs gave up and continued to search the container.

After all, the large army has already gone far, and there is still a lot of food waiting for them in front of them. If they go too late, there may not even be leftovers.

The bugs didn't pick anything out of the container, and left after howling a few times reluctantly. When they left completely and couldn't hear the slightest sound from them, they huddled together with Scar and the girls at the moment. Lyle, who was in the ice hole under the container floor, turned on the radio in his helmet and said to Mai:

"They're gone, everyone come out."