Chapter 1244 - Only So-so! (2/2)

However, the situation took another twisted turn, and the Devil Worms that emerged from underground caught Celestial Trade by surprise. The one hundred Pathfinder T-2s were then deployed to eradicate Devil Worms which provided armor protection for vulnerable targets.

The movement outside the colony attracted the attention of the Devil Worms nearby.

When the Devil Worms felt the tremors from the surface, they drilled out from the oxygen supply layer. Like the mythical earth dragons that roamed in the ground in old legends, they accelerated to the source of the tremor, before they penetrated out from the ground and bit down on the “new neighbors” they haven’t even encountered yet.

“REEEEE-!”

The muffled screeching of the Devil Worms sounded like cries of pain. The two pairs of sickles hit the sturdy armor but only left a crack the size of a thumb.

The large-scale rapid-fire guns began to rampage with glaring lights emitting from the fearsome barrels. The shells accelerated to multiple times the speed of sound, then instantly ruptured the armor of the Devil Worms and turned those bugs into sieves. Devil Worms crawled out from the ground one after another, just like worms after a storm, they bit toward the vehicles.

However, the unintelligent creatures were unable to comprehend the stupidity of their behavior.

The sickle that could slice granite was stopped by the Grade-A steel. Unable to break the armor of the vehicle, it at most posed interference to the attack of the vehicles. But when the bugs realized this point and started their retreat into the ground, it was already too late.

Inside the spaceship, the captain who had ended communication with the colony locked onto the red dots on the satellite map.

Life detection device.

The maximum depth of detection for underground creatures was only five kilometers, but for those Devil Worms that sensed the tremor on the surface and already moved upwards, they were within range.

When the armored units of Celestial Marines completed its assembly, he immediately ordered.

“Depth five kilometers, launch the underground seeking missile!”

“Roger!”

As soon as an order was issued, the crew members in the bridge immediately began to execute.

“Weapon is loaded!”

“The coordinates are locked!”

A long stripe-shaped object was separated from the SS Expedition. After it had fallen for some distance, an orange-red flame suddenly surged out from the silenced engine at the tail.

Under the dual action of gravity and engine propulsion, the missile began to accelerate as it crossed the distance of 17,031 kilometers before it smashed into the sand dune.

When the dust dissipated, the sand dune was quiet, much like in the silent bridge…

On the holographic screen in the middle of the bridge, the red dot that was the focus of everyone’s attention quickly descended.

When the altitude value jumped to negative five kilometers, the gunner calmly said.

“Hit confirmed!”

Almost at the moment when he finished this sentence, the flame was like rolling magma, engulfing the rock and tunnels with Devil Worms lurking into an ocean of fire.

Thousands of degrees of high temperature even ignited the air, even the metamorphic rock could not withstand such a high temperature, as the rock directly liquefied into magma. The magma dripped into the next layer and formed into pointy stalagmites.

No creature could survive through this purgatory.

Even the species that survived over 3.7 billion years lost to the weapons of the civilized.

The raging flame quickly dissipated.

A string of red dots that marked life on the screen also extinguished.

An officer walked to the captain and stood upright, clean, and neat.

“A total of twenty-seven Devil Worm kills confirmed!”

The captain listened to the report from the first officer, then nodded. There was a sense of pride hidden deep in his pupils.

Devil Worms?

Alien species?

In front of the iron hoof of Celestial Trade.

They are only so-so!