Soon, Littlefinger and Senior Engineer took action separately. Littlefinger mobilized his network to search for traces of desert worms in Scavenger City and even further urban areas.
The senior engineer decided to deal with the desert worms in the heavy metal swamp first.
Both of their actions were somewhat urgent. According to Littlefinger, forcing the mechanical hunters to hunt the radioactive beasts was only the first step. Soon, the security team would organize the mechanical hunters into armed teams to go out and hunt the wandering beasts.
Once you are incorporated into a team, you will have limited freedom of movement.
'puff'
With a slight gunshot, a mud pit suddenly exploded next to a metal worm. The big worm was startled and quickly burrowed into the swamp.
"grass!"
Gao Gong gritted his teeth. He didn't feel it at first, but when the desert worms 'know' that they are being hunted, hunting becomes very difficult.
When these worms are slightly frightened, they will dig into the mud pits. The deeper these mud pits are dug, the more metal content there will be, and some places are even as hard as metal.
Even though the excavator came, it was of no use.
Except for catching five on the first day, Gao Gong's gains were decreasing every day. On the third day, it took him a whole day to catch one.
Except for a few big bugs, the harvest in the past few days has been almost zero.
And according to his understanding, Littlefinger's gains are not as good as his own.
"Although I don't know why you insist on catching such a big bug, your current mentality is not suitable for work."
Huang Yuanli, who had always been carefree, rarely became serious. She sat up and said seriously:
"You take a rest first. I'll go back and ask the tribe for you to see if there is a better way to get rid of these bugs."
The senior engineer took a deep breath, let the cold, rusty air enter his lungs, exhaled it, and then looked at the other person with a surprised look on his face.
"You actually care about people?"
"Nonsense, I'm older than you, right?" Huang Yuanli rolled her eyes. "You should call me sister."
"By the way, this is a new flavor of lollipop, do you want to try it?"
"New flavor, give it to me!"
Huang Yuanli's eyes lit up and she snatched the lollipop away from the senior engineer.
"Is this what sister does?" the senior engineer laughed, and started rubbing the other person's head with his palms. I have to say, given his height, the rubbing was quite easy.
"Hey! I'm warning you! If you dare to touch my head again, I'll let a bee bite you in the butt!"
Huang Yuanli's hair suddenly exploded, her face turned red, and she bared her teeth at the other party.
"I'm going back. It seems that's all I've gained today," the senior engineer stretched and said, "I'll get off work early today."
"That's right, you must balance work and rest, and you can't be opportunistic in life. If you are addicted to walking on the tightrope, you will fall off sooner or later. This is what our professor told me."
Along the way, in order to prove her eldest sister demeanor, Huang Yuanli licked the lollipop while giving advice to the other party in an old-fashioned way.
"You listen to my sister, I will protect you..."
The senior engineer's expression suddenly changed. He bent down and picked up Huang Yuanli. At full speed, he crossed a distance of more than ten meters and rolled into an abandoned house in a few seconds.
"Uh-huh——"
Huang Yuanli's mouth was tightly covered, and she thought that the other party was showing off his bestiality and wanted to drag her to the woods to do something. However, the next moment, she didn't think so.
This was the first time he had seen a senior engineer so nervous.
Then, her pupils suddenly opened wide, and her whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Thick dust and smoke covered the sky, and the high-intensity light pollution produced by radiation diffusion flickered like breathing. The intense heat seemed to be directly facing the crater. Wherever it passed, rocks flowed and gold melted. Whether it was a metal tree or a cement floor, everything melted.
Come on.
The strong energy fluctuation makes it impossible to see the monster's body clearly. Looking directly at it is like looking directly at the sun.
And it itself is a moving group of small nuclear explosions.
The two of them gritted their teeth, and the few seconds seemed like an hour, or even a day.
After the 'nuclear explosion' left, Huang Yuanli's eyes rolled up, her hands and feet trembled involuntarily, and white foam spurted out of her mouth.
Gao Gong's expression changed, he quickly put down his backpack, took out a radiation needle from the bag, and inserted it directly into the other person's neck.
Huang Yuanli finally came to her senses, covered her mouth fiercely, climbed out of the senior engineer's arms, found a sewer and retched.
"Ugh, vomit vomit -"
The senior engineer also felt very uncomfortable. How should I put it? It felt like a handful of cockroaches had been stuffed into his clothes.
He opened the properties panel——
[Re-radiation state: -50% of all attributes, lasting 10 days, with a certain chance of causing cell distortion, severe organ damage, anemia, lesions, premature aging, etc.]
The senior engineer shook his head, took out a radiation needle and pierced himself.
Soon, this situation changed.
[Light radiation state: -10% for all attributes, lasting 3 days, causing mild nausea, dizziness, and arrhythmia]
Huang Yuanli finally vomited all she could, then wiped her sweat and stammered: "That one just now was——"
"At least B, probably A grade."
Whether it is B or A level, there is a title among the players, called boss leader, which means that this kind of monster often has a large enough genetic territory and leads a group of genetic bosses of the same attribute in the territory. They are the same as the largest S-level monsters.
The difference is that the last step has not been taken.
Taking that step is to break through the limit of the second level and reach the third level.
Generally speaking, monsters above level 60 are also called planet monsters.
Huang Yuanli's calves were shaking and she couldn't stand up. "But this is obviously a low-risk area."
According to waste pickers, general urban areas are divided into low-risk areas, medium-risk areas, and high-risk areas.
There must be an A-level monster in the high-danger area.
In the Scavenger City, there are two recognized A-level monsters, one is the 'Red Queen' in the Red Lantern District, and the other is the 'Mechanical Fortress' in the Metal District.
The Red Lantern District where the former is located is a recognized restricted area, and any aircraft flying above will be shot by the Queen.
The latter is the source of one-third of the mechanical and biological beasts in Scavenger City.
If nothing else goes wrong, the scavenger market will soon be divided into an additional high-risk area.
Even if the opponent is not A-level, he must be on the verge of degeneration.
"You should be lucky that it was an A-level monster just now. In its eyes, we are just ants. If it were a B-level or C-level radioactive beast, it would probably attack us on the spot."
The senior engineer let out a breath and said with a heavy heart: "Let's go. In the future, no matter which district the scavenger market is in, it will be very dangerous."
The two of them were very careful on their way back to the city. They stopped and went. The senior engineer released the human-headed dog, and Huang Yuanli released the electronic bee. They did not continue until the safety was completely confirmed.
It wasn't until they reached the edge of the city that Huang Yuanli relaxed and opened her mouth, wanting to say something.
But soon her expression changed again, because the electronic bee that was released came back again, and brought back another electronic bee.
The two electronic bees were flying around each other, seemingly conveying something.
Huang Yuanli's expression changed drastically, and she subconsciously grabbed Gao Gong's arm, "Oh no, our tribe is surrounded by monsters."
The Scavenger City is not completely surrounded by a steel jungle. Before the Mechanical War, it was a famous tourist city that preserved the oldest forest area on the planet. After the war, that ancient forest also became a restricted area with rare human presence.
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The off-road vehicle increased its power and rushed toward the forest along the shabby asphalt road.
The road to the forest is not easy to walk and is full of potholes. Fortunately, the degree of distortion here is not high, at least it does not completely block the road.
"Is it this direction?"
"That's right, Electronic Bee said it was here."
The senior engineer glanced at the electronic bee on the opponent's palm. How did the two communicate with each other? Neural sensing? Domestication of alien species? Or biological conduction?
The trees on both sides are getting taller and taller, and the branches between the trees are intertwined together, like two rows of high walls standing between heaven and earth.
The senior engineer thought of the word "monophobia" inexplicably.
Soon, Gao Gong saw a corpse on the road. The corpse's eyes were white, it had been cut off at the waist, and its intestines were spilled on the ground.
The further you go, the more corpses there are, all of them chopped into pieces. Some corpses' nerves have not been completely dead, causing their hands and feet to still move.
Huang Yuanli fiercely covered her mouth.
"We can't go any further!"
At a corner of the road, the senior engineer slammed on the brakes and picked up a sniper, as well as some equipment that Huang Yuanli had never seen before.
In order to recover from the injury on his palm, Gao Gong had been refraining from beating him. Now two weeks have passed and the previous injury has healed to some extent.
Watching the senior engineer pull out the big knife he used when they first met, and "swipe" a few times, he made a big hole in the tree wall. For some reason, Huang Yuanli suddenly felt a strong sense of security.
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The two took a detour and climbed up the hill. After climbing about a hundred meters, they heard screams and shouts.
"I'll go up and have a look."
The senior engineer swung the steel rope claw and hooked it onto a thigh-thick branch. He climbed up in a few seconds. He repeated his old trick and quickly climbed to the top of the tree. He blinked his right eyelid twice quickly and turned on the aiming mode.
, the field of view continues to expand, passing through leaves and shrubs, and positioning itself above the road.
I saw more than twenty people wearing animal skins hiding behind a makeshift bunker, holding rifles and shooting in the distance.
The ones at the front are particularly tall, at least two meters tall, holding steel bars and hammers. Whenever the mechanical biochemical beasts on the opposite side rush up, they will rush up and push them back.
In the back, several girls about the same height as Huang Yuanli had their eyes closed, and above them, more than a dozen metal sparrows were hovering. Whenever the situation ahead was unstable, these sparrows would charge like small fighter jets.
Hit them back.
The senior engineer opened his vision to the limit and finally saw the monster on the opposite side clearly.