After receiving the news, Halsey learned the hard way and immediately revised his action plan. Instead of blindly pursuing depth, he asked each ship to lower the inclination angle of the ice cave and wait until the ice cave touched the bottom of the sea before sending giant ants down to dig the hole.
There are dozens of kilometers of ice caves, but you still can't avoid the filaments in the soil?
After receiving the order, each ship immediately moved its position, picked a position close to the shore, and started digging the ice cave again.
In order to determine the depth of the ice cave, each ship must stop for a few minutes at regular intervals, and the drone determines the depth of the ice cave.
Half an hour later, the first bottomed ice cave appeared. The cave was 32 kilometers long and 21 kilometers vertically deep.
Halsey immediately sent the giant ants in, and it was more than an hour after the giant ants arrived at the bottom of the cave.
Seeing the giant ants starting to excavate the seabed, the veteran general who had been fighting for many years actually felt a little nervous and full of expectations.
Halsey was not the only one who was full of expectations. All the international fleet officers and soldiers near Ganymede were paying attention to the excavation of giant ants. Soon after, Huo Qiang, who received the news, and Chinese officers and soldiers were also concerned about the development of the situation on Ganymede.
It can be seen from the pictures sent back by the drone that the giant ants' digging speed is very ideal, and the progress is faster than expected. After a while, a hole with a diameter of more than two meters and a depth of more than ten meters was dug out on the seabed.
burrow.
This depth was exactly where the velvet appeared. Halsey stared at the screen tightly, not wanting to blink.
It happened that at this time, the time limit for the giant ant's outdoor activities had expired, and its digging movements were getting weaker and weaker. Halsey was heartbroken and wanted to get into the screen to dig the hole for the giant ant.
"Send another transport ship down, right here!" Halsey pointed at the ice cave and said fiercely.
A transport ship jumped out of the formation and landed steadily on the ice cave. The ant colony, which was more than a hundred kilometers away, immediately moved towards the ice sea.
Waiting patiently for the ant colony to arrive, the excavation work finally got on track, fifteen meters, twenty meters, thirty meters!
Until then, there was no abnormality. When the dawn first appeared, Halsey's heart that was hanging in the air finally fell to the ground, and her eyes glowed with excitement: "Speed up the progress, all ants, please take action!"
Each ship took action quickly, and the haze that had been hanging over the international fleet disappeared in an instant. The sun shone in everyone's heart, and their faces were filled with excitement and joy.
Soon after, good news came from several other ice caves.
However, at this moment, Halsey suddenly ordered the fleet to evacuate Ganymede and move towards Europa!
Although the giant ants avoided Velvet, the excavation cannot be completed in a day or two. There is no need to leave so many battleships here, so Halsey decided to lead the main force of the fleet to Europa, leaving only a few battleships to manage the ant colony.
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For safety reasons, these warships cannot approach Ganymede yet and must withdraw beyond the range of the thin light.
In this way, the international fleet divided its forces again.
Thirty-two hours later, the giant ants dug through the hole left by the aliens, and the ant colony rushed into it frantically.
The remaining warships immediately dispatched more giant ants, and all ant colonies that could move to the ice sea were moved there, and as many giant ants as possible were sent into the burrows.
Just a few minutes after digging through the ground, the giant ants encountered a group of unnamed giant insects. These alien giant insects were ferocious in appearance, huge in size, and full of oppression.
The giant ants had no fear at all and launched a brazen attack on the insect swarm. As a result, the seemingly powerful giant insects turned out to be a group of cowards. They were frightened by the giant ants and ran away in one breath.
How could the giant ants let go of the fat meat that finally reached their mouths? The ant colony chased it hard, and the two sides staged a life-or-death mad chase in the hole.
After a while, a few giant ants caught an alien giant insect. The giant ants planned to have a good meal, but they didn't expect that the giant insect's carapace was too strong, and when it gnawed it with its supersonic giant jaws, something appeared.
A string of sparks cannot be chewed through at all.
At this time, the aliens' counterattack also came. Another group of giant insects emerged from nowhere and pounced on the ant colony. The two sides came and bit each other, insect legs and shells flew around, and insect blood and insect flesh splattered everywhere.
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In less than two hours, the ant colonies that entered the battlefield were exhausted, but the ant colonies in other directions were too far away to catch up. The remaining personnel of the International Fleet were helpless and could only watch the ant colonies being destroyed.
When the drone following the ant colony was destroyed by the giant insect, the battleship lost its image of the underground. The drone sent down again only found the blocked passage and could no longer enter the tunnel.
Although the ant colony was destroyed, they proved that there were still aliens entrenched beneath Ganymede, which brought the operation to a less than perfect end.
This discovery also sounded the alarm for the Jizhou fleet. Callisto seemed to have been destroyed by bombing, but only aliens knew the actual situation.
After spending so much money on an expedition to Jupiter, it ended up being an anticlimax. How can we explain it when the time comes?
But having said that, even nuclear bombs with a yield of more than 200 million tons have been used. Is it necessary to use 300 million tons, 400 million tons or even one billion tons of nuclear bombs to explode again in the future?
Huo Qiang didn't want to leave any clues for the future, but he couldn't think of a way to break the situation, let alone the frustration in his heart.
This is not the only thing that makes him feel aggrieved. He is not young anymore. This time he followed the fleet on the expedition to Jupiter. It is an exception. When he returns to Beiyue Continent, he will probably never have a similar opportunity in his life, let alone command on the front line in person.
Combat.
Being a general but not being able to fight on the battlefield was like stabbing Huo Qiang in the heart.
If this expedition destroys the satellites occupied by aliens, even if it destroys only one, it will be a consolation. On the other hand, if none of them are destroyed, and aliens appear on these satellites again soon, he should
How to explain to the superiors? How to explain to the people?
With such a mood, the Jizhou fleet flew close to Europa.
Aliens from Io and Ganymede had already flown to Europa. The fleet landed immediately after arriving and drilled into several huge holes in the ice.
After all the alien spacecraft were drilled in, a large amount of seawater gushes out from under the ice holes, and the water surface condenses at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it freezes into new ice caps in a short time.
Everyone who saw this scene was stunned and couldn't figure out what the aliens were doing under the ice.
After dealing with aliens for so long, humans have a very good understanding of the situation on Jupiter. Ganymede has always been the most important stronghold of aliens. Even though the fourth expedition almost destroyed Ganymede, it did not
Change this.
Behind Ganymede is Callisto. Europa has always been inconspicuous, and Io is simply a foil.
But reality slapped mankind hard. Europa is not unimportant, but it is too important. It is simply the last trump card of aliens on Jupiter!
