Chapter 283 Brain-Eating Insect Mother (3/3, updated with w word!)
The light blue river of parasites exudes little bits of fluorescence, which is a phenomenon of activated biomass luminescence.
Shark Shark and Andor did not travel together. It was not that they were afraid of the brain-eating worms. A prepared first-level monster could easily excrete it from the body. This was only possible for monsters that were near death and comatose, or that really had massive bleeding wounds.
will be parasitized.
Ian sent Shark and Andor to take a safer long-distance route, which was also to prepare an escape route for future operations - there was more than one river leading to the water-cooling intersection area. If something went wrong in the next operation and they needed to escape, there was one from
The underground river above the interaction zone is safer than the Parasite River.
As for the pirate captain, Ian was not worried that the other party would escape. Not to mention missing a leg, the young man was very sure that the other party did not know the way. If he wanted to get out of the ruins, he could only wait for them to come together.
Moreover, even if he escapes by chance, he will have to face many pursuits. It is better to obey the instructions obediently, which can also serve as a tainted witness for the Ellen family.
Except for these two, humans who can walk along the coast, Ian, Isengard and Master Gosei, still have to pass through this nearest direct passage.
This time, the three of them were really well prepared.
In order to prepare for Patrick's possible surprise attack, Master Gosei prepared several bottles of anti-mine medicine on the spot using materials picked up along the way, and each person always had two bottles in hand.
In addition, there are also physique-enhancing and strength-enhancing potions, each bottle is a high-quality product, which makes Ian couldn't help but sigh, and he also understands the gap between himself and a real alchemist master.
——The other party was able to prepare an elite potion even in this situation. It seems that I can no longer use "no tools" as an excuse in the future.
Then he used a silver chip to record the video, which wiped out all the skills of Master Gosei.
——They’re all good, they’re all mine!
With the alchemy skills displayed by Master Gosei along the way, Ian feels that it will be really easy for him to become an official alchemist when he returns to Harrison Port!
"This river should be the recycled water that flows from the water-cooling interchange through the backyard of the ruins after being 'purified', cooled naturally, and then sent back."
Walking along the bank, looking at the densely packed micro insect eggs in the river, Ian said with some emotion: "But who knew that the intersection is likely to be blocked by insect nests, and the purification facilities have also become a constant discharge of insects.
The corrupting facility of the egg... Thousands of years have passed, and things have changed too much."
The river water is warm and releases water vapor, which is indeed the characteristic of cooling water. Ian did not expect it at first. The main reason is that there are too many geothermal sources and it is difficult to connect them together.
"There is the sound of artillery ahead."
Master Gosai raised his head. His strength had not yet fully recovered, but the Cloud Shaper's high perception had begun to take effect.
The surging wind between the rivers brought him news, which made the old man frown: "Guns, artillery, poisonous rotten odor, and the vibration of giant objects - the battle is very fierce!"
"That's just right."
Ian accelerated instead.
After walking up the River of Parasites for a while, they turned into another large river, and the putrid smell gushed out from the river, which made people palpitate.
The river of parasites flows out of this big river, and after the rancid smell is reduced, there is a strange sweet fragrance.
If you observe carefully, you can see the corpses of many monsters and beasts in the river. They have become the nests of brain-eating insects and are constantly twitching. There are obvious traces of fire weapons on these monsters.
Later, Ian and others saw many decaying piles of bones in the upper reaches of the river, with amorphous slug-like creatures climbing in and out, and huge shelled insects floating in the water. They noticed Ian and his party.
The queen did not come close, but huddled into her nest.
"Be careful."
But Ian issued a warning. He raised his sword and slashed to the side. He immediately heard the clang of metal colliding and the sound of broken bones.
It was a giant praying mantis, with a whole body of brass color and a ferocious face. The large scythe in front of its hands was extremely sharp, and there were serrations on the blade.
It had just been lurking in the shadows trying to make a surprise attack, and it was its arrival that made the other monsters cower.
The right sickle of the giant brass mantis had been cut off by Ian's sword, but it did not flinch, but fluttered its wings and pounced again, slashing wildly with both arms.
This was the first time that Ian saw this giant zerg in Nanling, which was said to be only found in Canaan Moore. He observed that this zerg had already reached the first level of strength, and the pair of sickles were the material for potions.
Level, but unfortunately it is difficult to refine into potions. At best, it can be polished into sublimated weapons.
He didn't care, gathered some strength, and struck out with his sword. It was like a huge stone falling from the sky, and with a 'clang' sound, the brass mantis was shattered into pieces.
After the mantis died, a long black worm crawled out from the mantis's corpse and tried to dive into the water. Isengard stretched out his hand, and a ball of black-red corrosive fire burned it until it curled up, and then dissolved into a ball of biomass.
"Ironworm? It's also a brain-eating worm? How many forms does this parasite have?"
Ian was a little surprised because the silver chip showed a variant of the Brain-Eating Worm—a parasite that could actually change its shape depending on the target of its parasite.
This kind of memory attachment used by the Sequoia people in the past has now been transformed by the Great Elder into an extremely ferocious and weird psychic Zerg, which is ever-changing and difficult to resist.
The firefight in front became more intense, and from below, the noisy waterfall and the vibration of the giant's rapid movements could also be heard.
Everyone walked forward faster.
The flow of the big river is not very fast, but several of its tributaries flow to a rift valley on the side and fall into waterfalls. The sound of fighting comes from the rift valley.
When they came to the rift valley and looked down from a high position, Ian and others saw that a battle was unfolding at the bottom of the narrow rift valley.
The terrifying giant golden centipede charged, and the cliff wall rumbled, which changed the expressions of the Feiyan soldiers who were forming formations and pouring firepower for defense. They were using three portable alchemy cannons to fire alternately to suppress the giant golden centipede's forward momentum——
But the effect is not great. The giant golden centipede's weight and armor are too thick, making it really difficult to stop it.
What really prevented the Giant Golden Centipede from moving forward was the joint attack of the two Ascended Ones.
An ascendant of the Red People holds a supercharged long sword that is constantly rotating in his hand. He is constantly attacking the blade foot joints of the giant golden centipede, hindering the opponent's progress. Now he has knocked off several blade legs.
However, the number of blades is a tragic number for all attackers. As long as the giant golden centipede is slightly targeted, the ascendant of the red people will be in danger.
Another nun from the Psychic Church was controlling a huge alchemy machine gun, firing a firestorm-like barrage of elemental bullets.
The ultra-high-heat explosive heat flow always locked on the single eye on the top of the giant golden centipede's head, causing the giant steel hand to continuously evade.
"It's actually a maintenance machine for dredging?"
Seeing this giant golden centipede, both Master Gosei and Isengard looked solemn, but Ian looked strange: "Looking at the drill structure on the arm, it should be sent here to clear the cooling interface channel, right?"
?The one on the back is the cockpit... Sure enough, the driver has been parasitized by brain-eating insects."
The giant golden centipede's lethal bladed legs and sharp scales, as well as its destructive drill bit, are essentially tools used to clear mountain collapses and large pipe blockages. It can turn itself into a drill bit or even a miniature shield.
The mechanism opens a path through all kinds of sediment or biomass waste, just like earthworms to clear various difficult-to-solve causes of blockage.
But it is obvious that this former maintenance tool has been turned into today's war machine. Facing this giant centipede that can penetrate the mountain, even if the opponent does not have any other weapons, it is extremely difficult for the soldiers of Feiyandi to deal with it.
"who is it?!"
Fighting the giant golden centipede with all his strength, the captain suddenly felt something. He raised his head and looked above the rift valley. His thermal vision allowed him to clearly see Ian's face.
"It's you?! You're a brat from the Setar Empire, the guy who killed my deputy!"
For a moment, old and new hatreds welled up in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said, "How dare you follow us here?! Damn it, I should have killed you with all my strength from the beginning!"
Although the giant golden centipede in front of you has the second level of strength, it has no other weapons. It is just strong and powerful enough. Although it is an extremely difficult enemy to face the well-prepared Feiyan Special Forces, it is not an extremely difficult enemy.
It's not that it can't be solved.
As for Ian and others, they are not only members of the enemy country, but also their competitors in this exploration. Under anxiety and tension, he has begun to speak a little unscrupulously.
Of course, Ian was very concerned about this threat. He took out his water gun and fired at the captain and the formation at the rear from a distance.
Buzz!
The high-pressure water flow penetrated the atmosphere condescendingly. It did not go towards the captain, but penetrated a Feiyan soldier behind who was controlling the alchemy cannon, causing him to let out a tragic wail.
The corrosive water flow first penetrated his armor, and then turned into a blunt blow of water with huge force inside the armor, shattering his bones, and bright red blood and internal organs spurted out from the soldier's mouth.
His chest and abdomen were completely crushed.
Ian was speechless and fired another blow. This time it hit the inside of an alchemy cannon. Isengard's corrosive corrosive dragon blood corroded part of the inside of the muzzle. Although it was not much, it could still
Reduces this gun's efficiency and accuracy.
After that, he stopped and said nothing.
At this moment, Ian has sensed that there are many parasitic beasts approaching from the distance. The giant golden centipede should be the gatekeeper of the insect nest and the guardian of the rift valley that must pass through to the cooling interaction port. Once it will
If the intruder is held back, the other guardian parasitic beasts in the insect nest will be dispatched and come here to besiege the enemy.
"Now your firepower is about the same. Let's hold off this maintenance machine and the parasitic beasts that will follow."
With a slight nod, Ian took Isengard and Master Gosei and continued to move forward under the gaze of the captain who was almost ready to spit fire.
As they advanced, the sound of galloping beasts came from the lower reaches of the rift valley. The parasitic beasts roaring with hunger, thirst and ferocity were running towards their goals. This number far exceeded that of Ian and others in the Giant Golden Mushroom Cave.
The total number of parasitic beasts of Warcraft seen around.
"Good guy, with this amount, it's hard to cut."
Master Gosei sighed with emotion, his tone obviously filled with schadenfreude - when he was young, it happened to be the time when the Setar Empire and the Feiyan Kingdoms were fighting a fourteen-year silent war, and the old man had a favorable impression of the Feiyan Kingdoms.
Well, at the very least, he is someone who is not worthy of being looked at.
It wasn't their worry anyway and they moved on.
Not long after, the end of the rift valley.
A brilliant light is flashing.
This is an extremely empty underground hollow area. A large fluorescent blue river is surging here. The land along both sides of the river has crystallized, and clusters of bright crystals are emitting ghostly fluorescence that flickers on and off.
On both sides of the rift valley, rivers converge here, turning into waterfalls and splashing their water mist.
Strong radiation permeated the place, and even the hollow stone walls were covered with all kinds of colorful crystal clusters, and some of the crystal clusters were built into a nest-like shape, densely distributed along both sides of the river.
That is where the parasitic beasts that guard the insect nest live. They feed on the nutrient-rich parasite river water and bathe in the high concentration of radiation here.
The river is extremely hot, and extremely dense water mist rises, shrouding this bright and dazzling area filled with radiant crystals of various colors.
Looking up, the three of them let out a slight exclamation.
Because behind the dense mist, there is a majestic and huge nest. This nest with a metallic luster looks like a termite nest, but it is two hundred meters high and is simply a hill.
Its upper and lower ends were hidden in the mist, and the river gushes out from a water wheel structure in the lower part of the nest. It seems to be driving several water turbine generators to generate electricity, making the whole body of the insect nest flash with blue electric light.
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In the middle of the nest, there is a huge blue crystal prism that goes straight into the center of the nest, gathering a steady stream of power savings.
——No, not crystal.
Ian raised his hand solemnly, activated the ring of silence, and then led the two of them into the shadows.
——That's an insect shell.
The huge crystal trembled slightly, and the parts that looked like prisms and corners began to loosen, revealing the soft flesh and flesh at the bottom that exuded dots of radiant fluorescence, and arcs visible to the naked eye were flashing on it.
——This is the shell of the Brain-Eating Insect Hive Mother Insect.