I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

The mercenary noticed from the computer's notification that the person at the sixth automatic machine gun emplacement had fallen, which troubled him. He then used the communication function in his helmet to speak to the mercenaries patrolling outside:

"This is the monitoring room. The sixth automatic machine gun emplacement has been blown over by the wind. Can anyone go and help it up?"

After hearing what was said in the monitoring room, the two mercenaries on patrol replied to the other mercenary:

[This is Group 3. We're going to scaffold the automatic machine gun emplacement. Communication complete.]

After hearing someone reply, the mercenary in the monitoring room also replied:

"Received. Please stay in touch. Call ended."

After saying that, the mercenary in the monitoring room also paid a little attention to the surveillance videos of the automatic machine gun emplacements in other places. To be honest, he was a little worried that perhaps some enemies had secretly infiltrated.

Meanwhile, at the No. 6 automatic machine gun emplacement, two mercenaries from the third patrol group also arrived. They saw the automatic machine gun emplacement lying on the ground, shaking continuously. One of the mercenaries went forward, placed the fallen automatic machine gun emplacement on the ground, and secured it firmly.

Just as the mercenary pulled his hand back, he noticed that there seemed to be something on his hand. Upon closer inspection, he saw that his hand was covered with a red, sticky liquid that didn't look like blood. After all, it felt sticky to the touch, almost like glue.

"My God, what the hell is this thing?!"

Just as the mercenary was wondering what was in his hand, a snapping sound came from behind him, making him turn around. He then saw his companion's neck being snapped. The creature that snapped his companion's neck was a being made entirely of scarlet tentacles. The mercenary could clearly see the eyeballs and sharp teeth-like things on those writhing tentacles. The moment he saw the tentacle monster, he felt as if all the eyeballs on that tentacle monster were focused on him, which made the hairs on his body stand on end.

When the mercenary saw this, he took out his weapon and aimed it at the tentacle monster in front of him. But before the mercenary could pull the trigger, one of the tentacle monster's tentacles pierced the mercenary's throat with a whoosh, just like a harpoon.

The mercenary was suddenly rendered speechless as Heller's tentacles pierced his throat and spine, causing him to lose consciousness and fall into eternal darkness.

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In the monitoring room, the mercenary guarding the room saw that the view from the No. 6 automatic machine gun emplacement had returned to normal. He then contacted the members of the third team and said:

"Automatic machine gun emplacement number six is ​​operating normally. Third team, you can return to your patrol route. Communication over."

After speaking, he waited for a reply from the third group of mercenaries. However, after a few seconds, he still didn't hear a response from them, which made him a little nervous. With some anxiety, he communicated with the third group of mercenaries again and said:

"Uh... guys, did you hear that?"

Then, the mercenaries in the monitoring room heard the third group of mercenaries reply:

"We heard that. The signal was a little bad just now, but it's fine now. Call over."

Hearing what the third group said, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, nothing went wrong, otherwise he would have been a little worried that it might be the natives of Pandora attacking.

To be honest, he would rather fight the ferocious beasts of Pandora than deal with the native Pandora who were skilled at ambushing people with poisoned arrows and spears.

Just as the mercenary in the monitoring room breathed a sigh of relief, the two mercenaries from the third group were now walking towards the mercenary camp in a very strange manner. The protective suits on their bodies still had traces of blood that had just been spilled, making them look quite terrifying.

If any mercenaries were to come at this moment, they would certainly be terrified. In fact, these two mercenaries were being controlled by Heller. Heller used his tentacles to parasitize the corpses of those human mercenaries, allowing those tentacles to control the actions of the human mercenaries.

Besides his actions, Heller also possesses the memories of those mercenaries and can control their speech, making him a terrifying being in a sense.

Soon, the two mercenaries controlled by Heller arrived at a tent in a mercenary camp. Inside the tent, eight mercenaries were resting. The mercenaries controlled by Heller walked over to the sleeping mercenaries.

Then, tentacles emerged from the controlled mercenaries' bodies and stabbed them hard in the necks. The mercenaries' bodies began to convulse. If you looked closely, you could see something wriggling inside the mercenaries' EVA suits, which looked extremely daunting.

A moment later, the convulsing mercenaries stopped convulsing, quickly got up from their beds, grabbed their weapons, and went out together, scattering towards the other mercenary camp tents.

Chapter 555 [Tentacle Siege]

Da da da————!

"Fire! Fire!"

On Pandora's night, besides the incessant gunfire, heavy rain was falling from the sky, but it was all drowned out by the sounds of gunfire.

At this moment, in the mercenary temporary camp, a squad of mercenaries is fighting against mercenaries infected by Heleya below at the site of a temple ruins built by the Svik people.

As for why they fought... the reason is quite simple. After all, mercenaries are human too. There was one night owl among them. When this night owl mercenary saw the mercenaries controlled by Heller enter the tent like zombies, he was so frightened that he let out a scream like a duck's quack.

Suddenly, all the mercenaries in the entire mercenary camp were awakened, and a scene resembling a zombie crisis unfolded.

Zelu and the others in the system space also felt it was a great pity.

Pandora, watching the mercenaries in the video who had finally realized what was happening, said with great annoyance:

"Ugh! Why does a night owl have to be reading a novel at this hour?! Won't this perfectly good assassination attempt be exposed?!"

Regarding the exposed infected mercenaries, Tetagon, who was standing to the side, rested his chin on his hands and said without much reaction:

"It doesn't matter. The real 'pawns' have already been delivered to those mercenaries. All that's left is for those mercenaries to deliver the pawns to Ambrose Company."

Hearing Tetagon's words, Pandora had nothing more to say. So Pandora added a downpour to the mercenaries' heads, making the surroundings even darker and demoralizing them. After all, it was raining heavily in the dark, not to mention there was a large group of infected mercenaries outside with scarlet tentacles that looked like zombies.

The mercenaries guarding the temple ruins were also firing wildly at the infected mercenaries, but the infected mercenaries below were not stupid and quickly hid behind cover, ignoring the mercenaries' attacks.

After seeing that most of the monsters remained in their cover and did not come out, the mercenary captain leading the group ordered everyone to cease fire.

"Cease fire! Stop firing! Don't waste bullets!"

Upon hearing the mercenary captain's words, the mercenaries stopped their attack. Just as the captain had said, the monsters were hiding behind cover, and their weapons couldn't penetrate the metal plates that were several centimeters thick. Continuing to fire like this would only be a waste of precious ammunition.

The mercenary captain quickly ordered his mercenaries to check their ammunition reserves. Then, all the mercenaries reported their remaining ammunition supplies. After hearing everyone's ammunition count, the mercenary captain felt a little more confident. Fortunately, the ammunition was sufficient; otherwise, he wouldn't have been confident that he could hold out until the transport ship arrived.

"Communicator, how long will it take for the transport ship to arrive?" Hearing the mercenary captain's words, the communicator turned to look at him and asked:

"They said there are about 20 minutes left!"

After hearing the messenger's reply, the mercenary captain addressed the mercenaries around him:

"Did you hear that! We can evacuate in 20 minutes. Everyone, stay calm! Don't waste a single bullet."

Hearing the mercenary captain's words, the other mercenaries calmed down a bit. To be honest, they were a little scared before. After all, who would have encountered a scene like this, which resembled a biohazard? In addition, most of the mercenaries had watched zombie movies and were terrified of such things.

If we're talking about which is more feared, the natives of Pandora or the infected mercenaries, then it must be the infected mercenaries.

After all, the mercenaries, being native inhabitants of Pandora, knew perfectly well that those people were just aliens, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

However, the infected mercenaries were a different story. They didn't know what those scarlet tentacles were, and the power they displayed terrified them. After all, the unknown is the most frightening thing.

After the infected mercenaries below realized that the other side was not firing, two of them extended tentacles. The eyes on the tentacles could observe the mercenaries peeking out from above the temple. So, Heller controlled the two infected mercenaries to rush up the building that resembled a Mayan temple.

Although the infected mercenaries walk in a very strange way, with the "hands and feet" made of tentacles, they can rush from below to above in a very contorted way.

When the mercenaries above saw two infected mercenaries rushing up, they picked up their assault rifles and pulled the triggers, unleashing a hail of bullets that rained down on the two infected mercenaries.

As the infected mercenaries were hit, flowers of blood bloomed on their bodies, but it was of little use. The infected mercenaries were already dead, so these attacks were basically ineffective in stopping their movements unless they broke the tentacles that held them in place.

Then the mercenary captain took out his large-caliber rifle and pulled the trigger on the two infected mercenaries.

Boom!

With a gunshot, one of the infected mercenaries was hit in the head, and his entire head disappeared instantly. The powerful impact sent the infected mercenary flying and rolling all the way to the foot of the temple.

The other infected mercenary was cut in half and went down with the mindless infected mercenary from before.

The mercenaries cheered upon seeing this, but just then, they saw the two infected mercenary corpses that had fallen to the ground stand up again.

The mercenaries were stunned by what they saw, even the mercenary captain was terrified. Were these monsters immortal?!

The mercenaries' morale dropped once again; after all, nothing is more terrifying than a monster you can never kill.

Although it instilled fear in the mercenaries, the mercenary captain quickly recovered and said to the other mercenaries:

"Don't be afraid! Those monsters can't climb up. As long as we break their arms and legs, they won't be able to climb up! Our goal isn't to destroy these monsters, but to retreat!"

Hearing the mercenary captain's words, the mercenaries' fear lessened slightly. That's right, as long as they prevented the monsters from coming up, they wouldn't need to fight them to the death.

Chapter 556 [They took death with them...]

After about ten minutes of defense, three members of the mercenary squad on the temple were injured. As the infected mercenaries tried to storm the top of the temple, the infected mercenaries controlled by Heller took out the weapons and equipment of the previous mercenaries from their original tents. The mercenaries attacking from a distance were immediately frightened by the infected mercenaries.

This is absolutely bizarre!

Because the infected mercenaries can use those weapons, the mercenaries' defense work has become much more difficult. Originally, the mercenaries only needed to defend themselves from the infected mercenaries climbing up the temple, but now they also have to be careful of the infected mercenaries' gun attacks, which makes the mercenaries feel very scared.

As mercenaries, they were well aware of how terrifying those weapons were. Even the infected mercenaries had difficulty hitting them with these weapons, and they were still worried about being hit by stray bullets.

The mercenary captain directing the battle turned to his communications officer and said:

"Has the transport ship not arrived yet?!"

In response to the mercenary captain's question, the communications officer responsible for contacting the transport ship quickly replied:

"A few more minutes! The weather is slowing us down even more!"

Upon hearing the communicator's words, the mercenary captain couldn't help but exclaim "Damn it!" If it weren't for this torrential rain, they might have already left this hellish planet on a transport ship.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaa————!!”

With a terrifying scream, an infected mercenary crawled up from the side, its tentacles covered in sharp teeth and its large mouth emitting a scream of "Aaaaaaa". Seeing this, the other mercenaries frantically attacked the infected mercenary, but to little avail.

Although many attacks pierced the bodies of the infected mercenaries, they did not cause any damage to Heller's tentacles. The mercenaries controlled by the tentacles then used their weapons to fire at the other mercenaries. Fortunately for the mercenaries, only one unlucky fellow was hit in the knee during this barrage.

The mercenary captain then took out a shotgun with a drum magazine and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the infected mercenary who had run up to him. With each shot, the infected mercenary was forced back a step, and finally, under the onslaught of the shotgun, the infected mercenary was battered and bruised, and the captain also knocked the infected mercenary back down.

After seeing the tentacle monster defeated, the mercenary captain quickly ordered his troops to reinforce the defense on this side. At the same time, he pulled the mercenary with the injured knee to the medic for treatment.

The mercenary captain then returned to command his men in battle. As the fighting continued, the mercenaries began to suffer casualties and run out of ammunition. Just then, a huge transport ship arrived at their location.

The mercenaries cheered upon seeing this. As long as the transport ship was there, its 30mm machine guns would be enough to shred those disgusting monsters into pieces. The mercenary captain immediately ordered his men to maintain firepower while bringing their wounded comrades, including the injured mercenary captain, onto the transport ship.

After the wounded left, the mercenaries began to board the transport ship one after another. Soon, after all the mercenaries were on board, the transport ship closed its hatches.

In the driver's cab, the mercenary captain addressed the drivers:

"Shoot those monsters with the machine guns!"

After hearing the mercenary captain's words, the pilots nodded to show they understood. Then, as the machine guns on the transport ship were aimed at the infected mercenaries, the radar on the control panel in front of the pilots started to sound.

The driver was stunned for a moment when he saw this. Then he checked the radar and saw a dense array of reaction signals, which made him curse, "My God!" Then the driver and the mercenary captain looked up and saw a large group of winged squid flying towards them.

Upon seeing this scene, the driver cursed and quickly steered the transport ship to retreat. Although the winged squids were not aggressive, they tended to seek out warmer, brighter places when they were in dark and cold environments. In such situations, the transport ship's thrusters were their best option.

After all, a transport ship had previously been harassed by these flying squids, resulting in a crash. Fortunately, the transport ship did not fly too high off the ground, so there was no fatality. This can be considered a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

But now they're making their escape.

Soon, under the pilot's control, the transport ship quickly turned around and flew towards the space station.

After the transport ship departed, the tentacles on the infected mercenaries on the ground ceased their agitation and fell silent, watching the transport ship fly away overhead. Pandora, inside the system space, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said:

"Phew~ Those guys finally took Heller away..."

Tetagon, standing to the side, shook his head and said:

"No, they took death with them."

Upon hearing Tetagon's words, Zelus, standing nearby, looked puzzled and said:

"Hmm? Why does that sound so familiar?"