Interstellar Survival: Invasion

ward us.

“Shit! Those monsters are back! Watch out, Canyue!” Zhang Bao'er shouted.

The monsters were standing between us and the outpost.
I knew very well how powerful these germs were.
Upon recalling how the laser gun had hurt them earlier, I fired my gun at them unhesitatingly.

The laser beams shot forth and struck the monsters.
The beams punched through the monsters, but the remaining cloud-like monsters continued to gather.
To make things worse, the moving ice chunks were also quickly gathering in front of us and combining with the damaged cloud monsters, repairing the damage I did with my laser gun.

“Shit, these germs came prepared.
They seem capable of self-restoration,” I said.

After resisting the first round of attacks, the germs continued to slowly advance, seemingly trying to encircle all of us.

“Watch out, everyone.
Don't allow them to surround us or we will all lose our sense of direction,” I warned.

At that time, Zhang Bao'er and Old Du had arrived beside me.
Us brothers faced the slowly approaching germs and madly fired at them, trying to slow their approach.
Zhang Bao'er led the others to fire at the approaching moving ice chunks.
Under our cooperation, the cloud monsters became smaller and smaller.
Even their self-restoration was slowed down considerably by us.

“Fire at will, everyone.
Don't bother saving energy,” I shouted.
Seeing how the cloud monsters kept shrinking, we increased the intensity of our attacks.

Through the openings between these shrinking cloud monsters, I could see Anxashe also firing at the monsters.

“Three more minutes and we'll be able to clear the way,” said Zhang Xingxing after making a rough calculation.

We attacked without holding back, eventually fully eliminating all the ice chunk monsters.
The opening before us grew larger and larger.
Before long, there would be enough space for us to run through.

Suddenly, the ice volcano erupted fiercely, sending a large number of ice chunk monsters into the air.
The newcomers rushed toward us rapidly.
If they were allowed to come in contact with the cloud monsters, all our previous efforts would be wasted.

“Old Du, Bao'er, cover us with flamethrowers.
We'll start running through,” ordered Zhang Xingxing.

My heart skipped a beat.
Judging by the size of the opening thus far, there was still not enough space for us to run through.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from “pawread dot com”.

But since the crisis was approaching, Zhang Bao'er and Old Du did not hesitate to use their flamethrowers on the approaching reinforcements, slowing them down.
Then, I saw Dondon take the lead to rush forward.

Dondon was a small fellow, so he was able to easily run through the opening.
Seeing that, the rest of us focus-fired on the remaining two germs in front of us.
Our cluster laser guns and mounted rifles attacked madly, flooding the germs with laser beams, tracking bullets, and even cluster bombs.
Instantly, we tore the opening larger.
At that point, numerous ice chunk monsters had approached after braving the flame attacks.
We grabbed the opening and rushed through.

“Old Du, Bao'er, run!” After we ran through the germs, the outpost was right ahead of us.
We turned around and continued attacking the rapidly closing opening to provide cover fire for both Zhang Bao'er and Old Du.

Under the cover of our concentrated firepower, the two successfully ran through before the gap closed.
I heaved a breath of relief after the two were through.

“What are you doing? Can't you see me running through the enemy? Why did you fire at me?” complained Zhang Bao'er.

“Stop wasting time.
Enter the outpost.
Dodo, shut the door behind us,” ordered Zhang Xingxing.

We turned and ran toward the outpost with the germs hot on our tails.
After all of us entered the outpost, Dodo hurriedly shut the door.
I could see the tentacle of one of the cloud monsters.
It was reaching into the outpost, but it was severed when the door was closed.

I hurriedly took the severed part as a sample and kept it in a glass vessel I carried in my backpack.
When I looked up, I noticed that everyone had been too focused on escaping and had not noticed the tentacle.
Tired, everyone sat down on the floor.
We were exhausted, but at least we were safe.
If the cloud monsters had succeeded in surrounding us, escape would have been difficult.

“For a planet so small, this is quite a dangerous place.
Even some germs can be so harmful,” said Temo, still feeling the lingering fears from our intense escape.

“How can those monsters be called germs? They are basically beasts.
How can germs be so big?” complained Domo.

“They are ancient germs.
From the evolutionary history of organic life, ancient life forms would be much larger than their modern-day counterparts regardless of whether they were normal animals or germs,” explained Dodo.

“Dodo, I managed to collect a part of the germ's body.
Can you perform an analysis on it?” I requested.