Chapter 11 .，！
Despite the seemingly small power of the Fireball spell cast by Hank the Teacher, the few raptors hit by it immediately exploded, and the flames splashed everywhere, igniting the area dominated by the Grease spell. The fire quickly spread to both sides, forming a wide wall of fire, burning fiercely and billowing with thick smoke. This undoubtedly gave the temporary team more time to regroup, as the raptors behind would either have to cross the sea of fire or go around it.

However, the raptors were simply too numerous to ignore any obstacles!

The sea of fire was extinguished by the relentless advance of the raptors, who used their flesh and blood as fuel. The only way to describe these attacking beasts was as a swarm of insects!

A tidal wave of insects!

The short retreat of a few hundred meters became an extremely tragic death passage.

None of the four machine gunners who came to reinforce survived, and the first casualty of the team occurred here. A contractor was pounced on by a raptor and instantly submerged, not even uttering a cry, like a stone sinking into water without a ripple.

Tulip's Alaskan giant bear also met the fate of cannon fodder. Although this big guy could kill a raptor with one paw, it couldn't escape its doom once surrounded by a large number of raptors. Its flesh and fur were quickly torn off by the raptors' frantic claws. If Tulip hadn't used her unique chain weapon to retrieve the giant bear's dropped item: the Giant Bear Soul Vessel, then the bear wouldn't even have had a chance to be resurrected. Of course, it's worth mentioning that this woman was the first to escape into the base.

In this battle, Fang Senyan performed in a mediocre manner, neither disappointing nor surprising. On the other hand, Mogansha and Joel showed great strength, especially Joel. The last shot he fired while covering the rear obviously used a skill. Its power was comparable to a heavy artillery bombardment, creating a huge crater of hundreds of square meters in the ground. This attack alone killed at least a hundred raptors. Without this terrifying shot, it was hard to say whether there would have been more casualties in the team.

When the two mechanical siege heavy tanks rumbled into the base, the base gate slowly closed. Several SUVs also gathered around, hurriedly carrying out repairs and extinguishing fires on the two tanks. The piercing sound of welding spread out with the sputtering sparks. All the armored machine gunners also rushed to the walls of the steel base, and the five bunkers began to operate at full capacity, frantically reaping the lives of the insectoids that were surging in like a tide.

All the contractors received a prompt:

"Hidden mission: Rescue completed."

"The survivors of the Bearing Base have safely returned to the Steel Outpost Base."

"You have received a reward of +2 merit points and +1 potential point."

At this time, the contractors naturally wouldn't miss this great opportunity and flocked to the top of the steel wall, shouting loudly and venting their previous frustration by firing wildly. If the insectoid creatures killed dropped keys and insectoid cores that could be exchanged for reputation, they would automatically be picked up into the owner's Nightmare Imprint space, without the embarrassment of not being able to pick them up.

For contractors like Fang Senyan and Reef who lacked long-range attack methods, they could also pick up standard electromagnetic rifles and start sweeping—the dense insectoid sea below would definitely not have the problem of bullets not hitting. However, probably because they were using human standard rifles, the insectoids they killed would only provide reputation, and no keys would drop.

According to Fang Senyan's current pitiful 2 Charm value, killing an ordinary raptor would only earn him a mere 2 reputation points, while Tulip, with a Charm value of around 25, could earn 7 reputation points. The difference was obvious. Fortunately, Fang Senyan was in a team at this time, and he could also obtain 1 reputation point for each insectoid killed by the others, so the increase was still relatively rapid.

Suddenly, he saw a series of +3+3 numbers popping up in his reputation, and immediately understood that Mogansha had shared half of his insectoid killing reputation value with him, which was the limit that a temporary team could reach. With Mogansha's help, Fang Senyan's reputation increase speed naturally soared.

Suddenly, Fang Senyan noticed several +15 numbers suddenly popping up in his reputation, and then no more +3+3 numbers popped up. Obviously, Mogansha had killed several high-reputation things and then suffered a strong counterattack. Fang Senyan was about to drop the weapon in his hand and go to see what was happening when he heard a very strange sound in the distance, as if something was inhaling. Then, he suddenly felt a chill on the left side of his body and immediately pounced to the right with all his strength.

Less than a second after Fang Senyan pounced out, the place where he had been standing earlier suddenly made a "sasha" sound, as if rain was pouring down from the sky. Immediately afterwards, a large pool of dark green liquid shot over. The liquid seemed to have extremely strong corrosive properties. Even the metal railings showed dense bubbles after being stained with it. The originally smooth and hard steel railings quickly turned into a mass of rotten branches and finally decayed into slag, as if a gust of wind would blow them away.

"Damn it!" Although Fang Senyan had sensed the danger in advance, he was still splashed by a few drops of the dark green liquid, and his skin ulcerated. The Nightmare Imprint directly prompted him that he was suffering continuous damage from acidic venom, reducing 3 points of health every 5 seconds for 15 seconds.

At the same time, continuous screams began to be heard on the surrounding base walls, and it was obvious that there were casualties among the machine gunners. Fang Senyan looked towards the outer insectoids and saw several insectoid creatures with obviously larger bodies surging in the outer circle. Their skin was brown, and they were in a semi-upright state, using symmetrical gray-white ground-grabbing bone spurs on their huge tails to contract continuously, thereby generating forward force to crawl forward. There were obvious gill-like structures on both sides of their heads, and the acid was sprayed into the distance through the breathing/inhalation process of the muscular gills.

"This should be the Hydralisk." Fang Senyan had seen the illustrations of this creature on the screen in the base center before. It was a more advanced insectoid creature than the raptor, and the acid it secreted was very disgusting and also quite lethal. Once attacked by a group of Hydralisks, even bunkers made of alloy steel could not withstand it and would easily catch fire and explode.

More importantly, with the addition of the Hydralisks' firepower suppression on the outer walls, the raptors could frantically attack the metal walls of the base. Once a breach was made, then the collapse of the entire base would not be far away.

At this time, Joel's sniper rifle once again played a huge role. Once the gunshot sounded, a Hydralisk would definitely be hit, either exploding and dying on the spot, or at least being blasted far away and immediately leaving the battlefield without being able to fight again. However, the number of insectoids was truly infinite, and the firing frequency of a sniper rifle could never be as high as that of a machine gun.

After gritting his teeth and persevering for a few more minutes, a metal bunker on the left, with its back against the base wall, finally couldn't withstand the joint attack of the Hydralisks and raptors, caught fire, and finally exploded with a bang. The machine gunners inside hadn't had time to recover from the dizziness of the explosion before they were swarmed by the ferocious raptors and torn into pieces!

Immediately afterwards, a steel wall on the west shook a few times, making a teeth-aching sound, followed by the sound of the raptors' claws frantically scratching, as dense as drumbeats! Just listening to it made one feel a burst of palpitations!

Hank the Teacher happened to be standing above that section of the steel wall. Before he could react, the steel wall had already collapsed with a bang! A group of raptors rushed in with a combination of climbing and scratching. The raptors behind were even more crowded over like a tide. It was a situation of complete collapse.

But Hank the Teacher screamed wildly, and a ring of fiery red flames erupted from his body, raging like a storm. The nearby raptors were blown away at the same time, turning into ashes in the air without even making a sound.

But this spell also exhausted his energy, causing him to collapse to his knees. And the raptors that were attacking like a tide in the distance came overwhelmingly, without the slightest hesitation or fear, sweeping in with that madness, bloodlust, and ferocity!

At this critical moment, a stout figure suddenly appeared on the roof of the metal steel supply station next to him. The figure's left hand held a giant shield shimmering with silver light. The shape of the shield was very strange, like the head of a long, flat creature. His right hand held a black, misty short sword. It was Reef! His whole body was also shimmering with an indescribable light, as if an invisible armor was flowing on the surface of his body.

Then, he jumped directly down. With the point where his feet landed as the core area, it immediately went out in all directions. Although the supply station was only about four meters high, the commotion that Reef made when he landed was simply comparable to a Transformer jumping off a skyscraper: a powerful shock wave was generated with his feet as the center. Several raptors were rising into the air, baring their fangs and claws and rushing straight towards him. They were directly hit head-on by this shock wave and flew out seven or eight meters.

"Go!" Reef shouted loudly at Hank the Teacher with bloodshot eyes.