Chapter 1243 - Reinforcements Have Arrived! (2/2)

But other buildings were not so lucky.

The farms in the colony were left with countless holes. The newly built ranch was completely torn apart with all the crops and livestock inside eaten.

If it weren’t for the fact that the colony was wise enough to not put all of its eggs in one basket, and still maintained an indoor breeding center and an open-air farm within the main building, food for the colonists would be another urgent issue.

Fortunately, these Devil Worms were only interested in moving creatures. Otherwise, it would have been disastrous if the brine desalination device was destroyed.

Addicted to the new taste, they roamed near the colony every day to seek for more prey.

Now, even travel for the staff was difficult. Other than the Marines’ missions, all activities outside were forced to terminate.

No one knew where the bugs would pop up from, and no one dared to gamble if they were there or not.

“The study of Mine 071 was the wrong decision. If we didn’t wake up the monsters from underground, we could have been safe.” A blond female stood in front of the Marines, full of emotions, “And now, everyone’s work has been affected!”

She was a colleague of James and an employee of Future Mining. The Marines acted quietly and politely around Future Group employees, but an order remained an order and no one could change this.

“You can go explain to the headquarters. Celestial City needs more specimens, and we’re just following the order.” Zhang Hai buckled the last button of his kinetic skeleton, checked the safety on the Gauss rifle, and then gestured to the soldiers behind him to walk around the woman.

Zhang Hai was the captain of this team of Marines. He commanded the past missions.

He was aware of the recent uneasiness in the colony and understood the rationale.

He also did not feel great about those bugs that suddenly popped out of nowhere. No one knew more about how annoying and difficult those worms were to deal with. A soldier already died in the post and another one was still receiving limb regeneration treatment in the emergency room.

Maybe the tension in the colony could be alleviated once reinforcements arrived.

However, Zhang Hai thought that even when the expeditionary forces arrive, it would still be futile.

The worms would not directly engage in combat at all. They were like seagulls, skipping on top of the water, flying away after a single blow, and barely stopping on the surface at all. Even if more Marines landed on Mars, what could they do without knowing how to drill holes?

However, Zhang Hai, who was preparing to board the vehicle, saw the icon of [Mission Terminated] on the AR screen of his helmet.

He was not the only one that saw the same message.

The other six Marines who already gathered into the vehicle also saw it.

“The mission is canceled? What happened?”

“I don’t know…”

“It’s the command from the Space Command Center.”

Just as Zhang Hai frowned, and thought he should ask Captain Hong Zewei if the task should still continue, he heard an exclamation.

“Wait… look above! What is that?!”

Zhang Hai suddenly looked above and followed his comrades’ sight.

Through the transparent graphene dome, black figures emerged above the colony one after another. Just like a meteor shower, the figures gradually enlarged in everyone’s surprised expression.

“Reinforcements?” With surprise in his tone, someone muttered.

“Sh*t, they are finally here!” A soldier said with relief.

It’s reinforcements!

Zhang Hai was also emotional.

The transport ship that carried a thousand Marines finally arrived on the Mars synchronous orbit!

Although he didn’t think these people could not bring too much change to the status quo on Mars, even he could not deny the boost in morale he received from seeing them.

At this point, the issue bothering him for so long finally went away.

In the days to come, at least his team would no longer be fighting alone.