"Why isn't the Firebird missing?" Ken asked the Rooster, "Aren't you following him to the rear?"
"Yeah," the wild chicken panicked. "We were walking together just now, so I turned my head."
The gray wolf looked around with his assault rifle in hand, but there were spider webs everywhere and the light was dim, making it difficult to find people.
Kent was a bit impatient. Just as he convinced them to continue the task, there were fewer people left. He ordered a warning while holding a gun and breathing rapidly.
"Captain, there's nothing around, it must be up..." Tom was trying to persuade him to calm down when the wolf shouted, "Spider!" and then fired.
Everyone looked in the direction of the gray wolf and saw a spider, all black and covered in fine hair on the surface, crawling out from the back of the table legs and bouncing towards the gray wolf. The gray wolf was quick eyed and aimed at the muzzle, shooting it in the air, and then its shattered body with mucus hit the gray wolf.
"Attention, once a threat is detected, you are free to fire!" Kent became angry and quickly searched everywhere with his gun, just to find the missing firebird.
"Discovered spiders at eight o'clock!" This is the report from the mooncake.
"At three o'clock, we found spiders, 5 in number, firing!" The sound of the assault rifle firing was accompanied by the shouts of the pheasant.
"At five o'clock, I found a spider." Lu Feihang reported in a low voice.
The team found spiders everywhere around them, which were different from the spider cubs just now. They were larger in size, each about the size of a basketball, jumping towards them one by one.
"Mooncakes, flamethrowers." Kent ordered decisively, "Cover and burn ahead, clear the way. The others cover and follow each other, and go to the mission site as soon as possible."
"Yes!" The mooncake responded loudly, while lighting the flamethrower.
At this point, they could no longer care about being careful as they advanced forward. Whether it was spider webs or spiders, they were all burned to death on the road ahead. The team had to reach the safe behind the factory director's office chair at the fastest speed.
The number of spiders is increasing, and it's a bit difficult for bullets to hit these bouncing little things. Fortunately, they don't mutate enough. Although they have sharp teeth, they can't penetrate these special combat uniforms when they bite on people, it's just a bit troublesome and disgusting.
At Tom's suggestion, Zhao Xin, dressed in Jade Rabbit Type II armor, walked at the end of the team as a key defense officer, taking on most of the spider bites.
This armor can't even bite through the jaws of mutated soldier ants, let alone these spiders.
Zhao Xin is still timid, even though he is wearing hard armor, he is still trembling and timid. If it were Tom, he would have left the team long ago and calmly endured the harm for everyone.
In order to stabilize his heart, Tom could only hand over Yang Caishan to Kent and accompany Zhao Xin to the rear.
"Just ahead, that's the safe. Everyone, hold on a little longer, accelerate forward!" Kent's shout carried a hint of joy. "Wolf, help Mooncake build a firepower defense position in front of the safe."
"Understood... Hey, not good. The third soldier ant was caught in a net and left behind. It can't move anymore, and two heavy machine guns are still on its back."
Kent immediately ordered, "Mooncake, go rescue soldier ant number 3, retrieve supplies, and the others continue to advance."
Heavy machine guns are an important component of firepower positions, although their firing rate is not high, their killing power against these spiders is limited. But Kent anticipated that a larger mutated spider would inevitably appear, and it would be time for this weapon to unleash its power. So it is imperative to retrieve the heavy machine gun.
The mooncake carried a flamethrower and cleared the path all the way, while the gray wolf followed behind, taking care of the spider that his tongue of fire couldn't care about. Gradually approaching the mutated soldier ant trapped in a spider web, flapping its limbs haphazardly, the mooncake rudely swung it with its tongue, without any concern for the heavy machine gun on its back.
Because that temperature can burn spiders and spider webs, it's not a problem for this fire-resistant mutant soldier ant or heavy machine gun.
"The mooncakes are clearing the cobwebs and will soon be able to retrieve supplies!" The grey wolf looked out of joy, feeling a bit detached from the team this time, which made him a little worried, but fortunately, there were no dangers along the way.
"Mooncake, you're going to give me the flamethrower to play with later. Roasting spiders would definitely be great... Ah..." The gray wolf chatted with the mooncake while in neutral, but suddenly a black shadow fell from the sky and pressed him to the ground.
Looking back at the mooncake, it was a spider larger than a human. Its slender eight legs spread wide to lower its body and press down on the gray wolf. Its sharp teeth immediately bit open the wolf's throat.
"The grey wolf has fallen, the grey wolf has fallen!" Mooncake shouted to report the situation while using his tongue to sweep towards the black spider.
The great fire did not cause any harm to it. In the midst of the flames, it continued to tear at the head of the gray wolf, and blood splattered out, immediately evaporating from the blue tongue of the fire.
"Damn it, no, this thing is not afraid of fire," the mooncake cursed and shouted, "We need support, we need support."
Captain Kent rushed over and fired bullets from his assault rifle, hitting the big spider one by one. At first, there were a few sparks, but soon he shifted the fire to the spider's eight single eyes, causing it to lose three eyes in an instant. The pain caused it to swing violently, and it turned around to grab the nearby spider web and climb up.
"Damn it, it's about to run, Captain, kill it." The mooncake shouted angrily, and Kent's bullet hit it again, sparking sparks in the belly of the big spider, which was very hard.
At a critical moment, a long needle flew straight in, and then the big spider fell down.
Kent had already run up to it, stepped on its struggling abdomen, and stuffed the muzzle into its jawed mouth, cursing in English while pulling the trigger. The mucus splattered and the big spider struggled a few times before stopping moving.
At this time, many ordinary spiders attacked again, all of which were treated with fire tongues by mooncakes, and then they leaned against Kent, covering each other.
Kent crouched down and watched as blood continued to emerge from the wolf's throat and mouth. He could only sigh and pull off the tag around his neck, directly ending the wolf's pain with a shot.
"Go back to the team," Kent said.
Zhao Xin on this side of the team accelerated his defense under Tom's instructions, avoiding the insufficient defensive firepower caused by the departure of mooncakes and gray wolves. The fine needle that had just pierced the spider was thrown by Tom.
Although the bullet power of the assault rifle has been enhanced, it still cannot break through the hard shell of the spider's abdomen. Fortunately, Tom's fine needle, thrown with a full force of 100, broke through the defense. It can be seen that the bullet power of the assault rifle still cannot reach 100 times the output of manpower. It's impossible to put this in the previous firearms.
But now that people are small, their strength is also weak. A powerful gun, like a heavy machine gun, cannot be carried by an ordinary person.
Kent and Mooncake returned to the team with ants and said, "The wolf is gone. Mooncake is clearing the way and continuing to advance. We must get the mission items as soon as possible!"
"Pay attention to your head!" Tom added, most spiders form webs on the ceiling. If you want to come down, you just need to use spider silk to hang yourself down. The spider that attacked the grey wolf just now used this move and achieved an unexpected effect.
"How do you pay attention? It's dark above your head. This miserly and damn factory owner, his office is so dark, his heart must be even darker." The vulture couldn't help but complain, "No wonder the factory is so small."
"Shut up!" Kent cursed, "Pay attention to your head, FUXK, big spider at four o'clock, fire!"
A large spider fell from the right rear side and was discovered by Kent as soon as it landed. Immediately, all five guns of the team were aimed at it, but instead it braved a barrage of bullets and quickly crawled over.
Tom let go of the gun with a click and said, "Stop firing, I'll go!"
Just now, with a force of 100, even a fine needle thrown from the air can penetrate its tail. If it were a close cut, the effect would be better. As Tom approached the team, he had to adopt a burying tactic.
As soon as both sides met, Tom's big knife struck head-on. Surprisingly, it was blocked by the two shorter appendages on its mouth.
A power swing of 100 is not a joke for this type of creature, even though it deviated from Tom's chopping, its two appendages were also cut off in response.
After the attack was resolved, the spider's tail curled up and spat out spider silk towards Tom.
The most famous technique of spiders is to spray spider silk and form a web. When Tom planned to engage in close combat, he always defended it with this move.
So the spider silk spray did not hit Tom, who was already on guard. He turned around and dodged a cluster of bright silk shot from the spider's tail.
Tom's turn and move was not just to avoid, but as he turned around, his big knife swung open, sweeping the longest right limb of the spider from the side like a whirlwind. The slender limbs were not hard, and the blade snapped in response to the sound. The big spider stumbled and fell to the ground.
After the sweeping was completed, Tom turned the blade and swung it straight down, forcefully hitting its head.
The head of a spider is hard, but it has no protection in one eye and is easily chopped apart. Then Tom continued to chop, using the broken eye wound as a breakthrough point, and with 100 strength, he used his weakness to split his head in half.
The heavy body collapsed with a loud bang, and eight feet lost muscle control, curling up in a circular arc. At the same time, due to its harder and heavier back shell, with light weight on top and no leg support, it naturally flipped over and formed an eight legged upward position after death.
This is also why many multi legged insects and other organisms, such as cockroaches, mosquitoes, flies, etc., tend to turn their backs and feet upwards after natural death.
The spider's shell was hard and couldn't be pierced by an assault rifle. Tom didn't have the time and effort to break through the body and retrieve crystals. After killing this mutated spider, he immediately retreated to the team and followed everyone towards the safe five meters away.
"Well done, Duan Fei!" Kent praised, "Zhao Xin and you are responsible for melee combat, while the others are responsible for cleaning up small spiders."
"Understood!" replied the vulture, as the ten man team had lost two of them and they had to continue moving forward.
Ordinary spiders are the size of a basketball, constantly emerging from every corner and ceiling. Everyone can only shoot and retreat while shooting. During this time, there are occasional larger mutated spiders that fall, which Tom discovers and reports in advance. Then Zhao Xin tries to charge up and engage in physical combat with the opponent, while he sweeps the formation on the side.