It’s a strange invasion, is it okay for me to fight back?

Chapter 442: Giant Earthworm
Huang Yi came over and asked, "Can you use your abilities to search the area? Lisa from Group 6 is missing. I have sent out drones to search, but it's too dark at night and there are too many blind spots, so there may be some that are missed."

Gene shook his head. "I can see the special aura emitted by the polluted body, but there are too many locusts here. Even if we kill a lot of them today, the aura will not dissipate so quickly. The remaining aura of the locusts will interfere with my judgment."

Huang Yi looked at Feng Ling.

Feng Ling shrugged helplessly, "I don't have any clues either. I can see hunters and contaminated bodies within ten kilometers, but I don't see any lone hunters. In this case, the other party is either dead or underground, because I can't search the underground."

"Underground..." Huang Yi frowned and looked towards the valley. "There should be a mine in the mining area, but today's operation, everyone is only hunting locusts in the outer area of ​​the valley."

Feng Ling nodded, "Yes, you asked me to guard the entrance of the valley. Except for the GRU hunters who originally lived in the valley, no one from our rescue team approached the valley."

Leland listened to the conversation between the two and couldn't help asking, "If Lisa didn't enter the valley, where would she be? Could she have been killed?"

Huang Yi frowned even more deeply. "To kill Lisa without alerting the nearby hunters, this cannot be done with just a few locusts. It seems that this place is either hiding a contaminant or alien species that we don't know about, or Lisa has been ambushed by one of our own people."

Leland and Gene's expressions changed slightly.

If he died in one blow, he could not rule out the possibility of being attacked by his own people. After all, when fighting with contaminated bodies or alien species, it would more or less create some noise, so he would not die silently.

Feng Ling tilted his head and thought, "I think the murderer might be a very large pollutant. Think about it, if the murderer is a hunter or an alien, there should be a corpse, right? But if it is a large pollutant, it swallowed the person in one bite, and then it will be completely lost."

Leland shook his head when he heard this. "We have been killing locusts here all day long. If there were very large pollutants lurking nearby, how could no one have noticed it?"

"The polluter can turn invisible?" Gene speculated. "Does he have a card that can block search capabilities?"

Feng Ling tapped the ground below his feet and said, "If the contaminant is hidden underground, we won't be able to find it even without being invisible."

Huang Yi was silent for a moment, then said, "You guys take a rest. I'll go find some locals to learn more about the situation."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left, heading towards the Eshia military camp, probably to find someone to coordinate again.

As the commander of the rescue operation, the sudden disappearance of team members gave him a headache.

Leland watched Huang Yi walk away, and said to Gene beside him: "Let's all squeeze together tonight, three people in one tent. The task of keeping watch cannot be completely handed over to the Eshia army. We have to take turns to keep watch ourselves. Safety comes first."

"Got it. I'll go inform them." Gene nodded in response.

Leland said to Feng Ling again: "Aisha, don't sleep in the truck. If someone attacks at night, there is no shelter here."

Feng Ling bent over, rubbing something on the ground with his fingers. Hearing that Leland was concerned about him, he smiled slightly, raised his hand and patted Leland on the shoulder twice, saying, "No, thank you~"

“…You’re welcome.” Leland’s face turned slightly red, and he covered the place that had been hit uncomfortably.

"Did it hurt you?" Feng Ling asked curiously, "No way? I didn't use much force."

"No!" Leland immediately put down his hand and puffed out his chest to show his strength, "How could it hurt!"

In the distance, the members of the Raging Tide Team shouted Leland's name. Leland hurried away.

Ye Zheng came over and asked, "What were you doing just now?"

"Mark~" Feng Ling grinned at her, "I stuck the spider silk on him. The cat spider inherited my marking ability."

Ye Zheng frowned suspiciously, "Do you suspect something will happen to him?"

"I'm not sure, but didn't he just say that he seemed to be spied on? Maybe he is the murderer's next target." Feng Ling said casually.

Ye Zheng was in a bad mood after hearing this. "We came out to participate in international rescue, but something like this happened. Go to sleep. I'll be on guard tonight. I want to see what's causing this trouble."

Feng Ling raised his eyebrows and teased her: "Tsk, I'm afraid that the volcano will erupt halfway through your guard. Poor sleep will affect your mood. Just leave the night watch to the third brother."

Ye Zheng thought about it, decided not to insist, and continued to rest with a sullen face.

……

The hunters were all uneasy about the sudden disappearance of a team member, but they were all exhausted after fighting in a highly tense manner for the entire day, so after a brief period of noise, the night returned to silence.

Nothing happened all night.

After daybreak, the locust swarms became active again, appearing in every corner of the town.

The action plan remained unchanged. The eight teams followed Huang Yi's request and formed an arc formation to kill the locusts while outflanking the locust swarm.

However, before the operation today, Huang Yi gave a few more reminders: "Team members should try not to separate, work in groups of two or three, and pay attention to safety."

Feng Ling was guarding between the valley and the town, and saw several GRU hunters hurrying towards the town.

There were more than fifty hunters in the rescue team, and Feng Ling could recognize the faces of no more than five of them. However, the GRU hunters were still easy to identify because their clothes were tattered and stained, and their faces looked pale due to malnutrition, like refugees.

Today, the GRU hunters no longer have shovels and hoes in their hands, but knives and guns provided by the international rescue team, and their equipment has been upgraded.

They have to go into towns every day to look for supplies, not just food. For the residents in the mines with limited conditions, even the most inconspicuous items such as glass bottles, iron cans, plastic basins, cloth, etc. can be of great use.

Feng Ling watched the GRU hunters walk away, thinking of the mysteriously missing team members. She asked Huang Yi through the headset: "Sir, should we find these local hunters to learn about the situation inside the mine?"

Huang Yi opened a private channel to talk to her alone.

"I have already consulted them last night. Your guess is correct. There is indeed a monster deep in the mine. Its name is the Giant Devouring Earthworm. This monster used to only exist in local horror legends. But after the alien species invaded the world, the monster really appeared and attacked the workers in the mine, causing great panic in the town."

Feng Ling asked in surprise: "These people know that there are monsters in the mine, but they still live in the mine? Aren't they afraid?"

"It is said that when the town was in chaos, a traveler happened to live in the town. He taught the locals a poem. As long as they recite it once every night, the monster will stay deep in the mine and will not climb up." Huang Yi said in a deep voice, "This information has not been investigated and verified, and I don't know how credible it is, but I think Lisa's disappearance is most likely related to the giant earthworm."