Chapter 179: Pitch-Black Zerg

In the end, the two of them could only fail to come up with any countermeasures.

There was too little intelligence, and they had never seen this Zerg that had appeared for the first time.

These reasons left Jia Zhenliang and Li Fan with no choice but to first have each position heighten their vigilance, but they did not report it upward, because the intelligence previously submitted to Ji Bu did not meet the standards of the Human Alliance, which had led Ji Bu to lecture them at length and demand that they must have images as reference in the future.

"Let's collect intelligence first; otherwise, it will be difficult to ask the Commander for more supplies next time," Jia Zhenliang finally said with a shrug.

Sixty-Sixth Corps.

Xu Fenqiu was sitting on a chair with a face full of worry; the Legion Commander had just called him over earlier and said that he and his team were suspected by the high-level officials in the Inner City of having connections with the Alien Race. Although they had not yet placed his squad under control, after this Zerg invasion ended, his combat squad would very likely be taken to the Inner City.

"Captain, what are you thinking about? Why such a long face?"

Chenjie saw his Captain sitting in the tent looking miserable and walked in with a smile to ask.

"Oh, it's nothing, just thinking about when this Zerg attack will end."

Xu Fenqiu's train of thought was interrupted, and he squeezed out a smile to say to Chenjie.

"That's hard to say; under the current circumstances, no one can be sure."

Chenjie sat down opposite Xu Fenqiu, looked at Xu Fenqiu's appearance, and said jokingly.

"By the way, Old Xu, Yingfang went home a while ago, and his younger brother was scouted by a high-level official in the Inner City who wanted Yingzhou to go to the Inner City—guess what happened?"

Xu Fenqiu looked at Chenjie's expression and said with a smile, "In any case, he definitely didn't go to the Inner City."

"Eh? How did you know? Old Xu, your news has been quite well-informed lately."

Chenjie looked at Xu Fenqiu with a look of surprise and asked.

"Damn it, since you've already asked me that, how could he still go to the Inner City? By the way, that kid Yingfang should be arriving today, right?"

Xu Fenqiu cursed with a smile and said to Chenjie.

"Holy crap? I said, how did I forget something? I'm supposed to go pick him up—I'm off, Captain!"

After being reminded by Xu Fenqiu, Chenjie slapped his forehead and hurriedly got up to walk outside.

"So you just forgot what you were supposed to do after you walked in?"

Xu Fenqiu watched Chenjie's departing back and shook his head with a smile.

Once Chenjie's figure disappeared from sight, the smile on Xu Fenqiu's face gradually faded.

Just now, Chenjie said that Yingfang's younger brother, Yingzhou, had also been scouted by a high-level official in the Inner City who wanted him to go to the Inner City; he wondered if it had anything to do with them.

Sixty-Sixth Corps, Position No. 4.

"Commander, it has been about a month since the last Zerg attack, and they haven't made a move during this period. I don't know what kind of tricks these Zerg are up to again."

Inside the position's tent, several Captains were reporting today's situation to the Commander; everything was calm and peaceful, and not a single shadow of a Zerg could be seen.

"Do not lower your guard. In the past few days, I have already seen that the vigilance of some soldiers has dropped significantly. On the battlefield, this is extremely fatal! You must make the soldiers pull themselves together!"

At this moment, one of the Captains below said to the Commander.

"Commander, we don't want it to be this way either. The current situation is that our supplies are half of what was expected. You reported it, and the answer received was that they were supporting other important positions, and since our position's defense isn't very important, it was cut in half."

"That's right, the soldiers' meals have been reduced to a level that barely keeps them from being hungry; if we encounter a Zerg attack now, our soldiers won't be able to resist at all."

Another Captain chimed in to agree.

"I have already reported the situation you mentioned to the higher-ups. The superiors have already told us that our next batch of supplies will not be reduced. Tell the soldiers to pull themselves together and not to slack off."

Hearing what the Captains below said, the Commander also closed his eyes with a headache, and only spoke after a few seconds.

Meanwhile, outside the position.

Under the pitch-black moonlight, the soldiers on guard duty looked at the darkness in the distance and chatted idly.

"Damn it, I didn't get enough to eat at dinner tonight; I'm already a bit hungry now."

"Exactly, do they think we aren't important here, so they started reducing supplies?"

"Alright, alright, both of you say less; the more you talk, the hungrier you'll get."

Although the soldiers within the position were all at their posts, it was obvious that they had strong opinions about the reduction in supplies, and the frequency with which the searchlights on the guard posts swept outward had clearly decreased.

Outside the camp, a group of Zerg with pitch-black shells were slowly approaching this position; at the lead was one with a pitch-black exterior, with only scarlet eyes dotting a glimmer of light in the darkness.

"Children, although Mother is not very attentive to me, as long as I am the first child to capture a position in this war, then Mother will surely be very happy! The children have a coating that prevents human reconnaissance; who would have thought those humans really wouldn't notice!"

Speaking of this, the few antennae on the head of this pitch-black humanoid Zerg began to wiggle excitedly, and it opened its mouth, which could split into four petals, to writhe a few times, emitting a low sound.

The surrounding pitch-black Zerg possessed pitch-black shells, six thick and powerful insect limbs supported their nearly 6-meter-long bodies, and there was a pair of sharp pincers in the front.

Under the cover of their pitch-black shells, this group of Zerg did not let the soldiers on guard duty discover them, and even the instruments on the watchtowers for detecting Zerg did not sound an alarm.

At this moment, a soldier's ear twitched, and he felt that something was not right.

"What's wrong? Why such a solemn expression?"

The comrade beside him asked with a smile.

"Something's not right; I think I heard the sound of shells rubbing slightly."

"No way? Every time the Zerg attack, we get the least of it; how could they possibly attack us? If they wanted to attack this position of ours, they would have to pass through at least three other positions to get here. It's impossible; if there were, the other positions would definitely have sounded an alarm."

Seeing that his comrade was a bit too nervous, this soldier patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Is that so?"

"It must be. Our instruments for detecting Zerg haven't sounded an alarm, so don't be so nervous; nothing will happen."

Although his comrade was still comforting him, the soldier still wanted to be safe, so he used the searchlight on the guard post to sweep outside a few times, yet there was nothing unusual.

"See, I told you it was nothing."

Seeing that his comrade had still cautiously checked outside, the other soldier also shook his head and said a word.

Just behind a back slope not far away, this group of pitch-black Zerg had already finished assembling, waiting for the leading humanoid Zerg to issue the order to attack.

And that humanoid Zerg, upon seeing the situation where the human position had just shone a searchlight outside, could not help but sneer.

Stupid humans, you will pay the price for your arrogance; the reason I have given this side the smallest attacks for so long is for this very day!