You didn't encounter any danger during your exploration deep into the underground. Those sandworms only appeared to wander over occasionally, and you didn't find many other traces in the tunnels it dug.
"Go in that direction. That's the direction where the underground tunnel is dug. Let's go there and confirm." Yuzu, who was pulled out, pointed in a certain direction to provide guidance for the team.
"Okay! Let's go."
"Drive slowly." You reminded.
Sitting in the car again, Hu held half of the bone blade fragment found by You in his hand and looked at it curiously.
After leaving the main body, Sen Bai's bone blade appeared a little dull in color, and even became a lot brittle, as if it could be broken with a little force.
"Living bone armor..." Tiger shook his head, "How can there be such a perverted race in the world."
The car moved forward slowly, and Song Ying soon discovered the existence of the underground tunnel again.
"there."
"good."
Following the same pattern, Yuzu went down alone again.
One or two explorations cannot confirm the true direction of movement of those sandworms. Even if the underground activity tunnel collapses, it can still be followed to a certain extent to confirm where the sandworms have gone.
"very messy……"
"It seems like it's more than just a sandworm... make it longer."
"Hmm~ There is indeed more than one, at least three...four."
After reaching the ground, Yuzu took a deep breath and pointed in one direction again, "Over there."
…
"there."
…
"there."
The behavior of insects is irregular.
Every time Yuzu goes down into the tunnel, he adjusts the direction for everyone.
The passages that bugs occasionally dig out of the ground are the core source of information for their tracking.
Bai E has been watching the excitement. These teammates have been training for much longer than him. In some professional abilities, they are much better than him.
Moreover, he also has the ability of "Insect's Hive Mind" to penetrate into the enemy's interior. Even if there are any bugs ambushing underground, he will most likely be able to detect them in advance.
It is equivalent to a humanoid early warning device, protecting Yuyou's personal safety.
It's just that this kind of tracking efficiency is definitely not efficient. Occasionally when encountering a long distance, the sandworms don't leave the ground to drill upwards, and You will doubt your own judgment.
Occasionally correct, occasionally move on, go back and forth, move forward little by little.
Before understanding the responsibilities and general characteristics of the evolution of this new type of Zerg bug, no one knows the purpose of these sandworms' daily actions.
Maybe it's just hunting? Maybe it's exploring the underground world of bugs? Who knows.
Fortunately, the tracking direction is not towards the insect nest, otherwise it is still open to debate whether to pursue this clue and continue tracking.
As time passes, the light gradually becomes dim.
The transport vehicle was parked quietly on the ground, and the visibility at night was too poor, so no one planned to continue tracking it.
"These sandworms seem to have the same concept of 'organization' as we do." You summarized his guess based on the actual findings at hand, "There may be occasional independent actions in an area, but their general direction of action
It’s consistent. And the sandworm detachment we’re tracking currently seems to be at least eight.”
Bai E sat in the back row and put forward his own opinion, "Maybe it's not because of the 'organization', but because of their 'hive will'?"
Bai E, who possesses the "Hive Mind" himself, feels that he may have a deeper understanding than anyone else in this regard.
Insects seem to be extremely powerful, but in the last battle on the Zerg battlefield, Bai E also discovered one of their weaknesses that was not a weakness.
The existence of the Hive Will allows bugs on a battlefield to obey the commands of those node bugs and mobilize responses at any time. However, if the management of the Hive Mind is lost, the intelligence of the bugs themselves is quite low.
The bloodthirsty instinct can even allow them to attack without distinguishing between friend and foe. Once released beyond the range that the Hive Mind can manage, those low-IQ bugs that act solely on instinct will probably kill themselves in a short time.
Are sandworms a type of insect with high intelligence or low intelligence?
There was no conclusion at first, but judging from the last encounter and the conclusions Yuzu observed this time, there is probably only one reason why these things appear in groups - they need a core brain.
Node bugs that can assume the command ability of the center of the will of the worm nest are rare even among the worms. Every group of sandworms that goes out needs a node bug to follow and command to ensure that they will not completely escape the control of the worm nest when they are released from the worm nest.
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The last time I saw the explosion rate subtitle of the sandworm head-on can also support this speculation from another aspect. The experience of this thing is only higher than that of ordinary bee bugs, and is far less than that of mantis bugs, which can be called team commanders.
, and this is also the prerequisite for their larger size.
It's not that they don't want to, it's that they are not allowed to act alone.
This is of course good news for humans. If each of these elusive sandworms operating underground had its own intelligence and could disperse and fight, humans would be in big trouble if they wanted to deal with their attacks.
But if they are just low-intelligent existences like bee bugs and worker bugs, then they must move in groups under the control of node bugs, and they will lose their greatest advantages - concealment and suddenness.
"What Xiaobai said is more fundamental."
Insects do not have messy issues such as human management, status or even worldliness. Everything is done for the most basic efficiency. They have no reason to restrict their actions for unnecessary "orders".
Hu took a pen and paper and took notes by himself. These personal speculations can also be submitted.
The intuition of the frontline soldiers is sometimes more accurate than the calm thinking of the think tanks at the rear.
"So the sandworms themselves are not node creatures, but they are accompanied by another more powerful node creature?"
"Is it a mantis?"
"I'm afraid not." Song Ying shook his head.
It's too low-key to have a mantis following you while traveling rapidly underground, and it's a question of whether you can keep up.
"Perhaps our goals need to be a little broader."
Listening to the chatter of his teammates, Bai E didn't say anything anymore, but looked at the underground tunnel entrance left by the sandworm not far away with his eyes a little lost.
'The node creature of the sandworm...have you seen it last time?'
Like a slideshow, scenes from the last time he piloted the Insect Sea appeared in Bai E's mind.
Although the situation was tense at that time and Bai E's attention was focused on avoiding it, the images once captured by his eyes will never disappear, but are buried in the deepest part of his memory and generally will not be excavated.
After possessing psychic powers, Bai E found that his memory management ability had become much stronger.
When recalling something, those memories will pass through your mind one by one as if it happened live.
So every sandworm that I saw rushing out of the earth was filtered through my mind one by one.
Bai E tried to recall whether there was a different one among them, one that was obviously different from the other sandworms.
'No……'
'No……'
'No……'
When Bai E's eyes were misty, free spiritual energy escaped from the periphery of his brain.
As if there was a brief entanglement with the echoes of time and space left in the air, just for a moment, a blurry dark scene flashed in my mind.
ferocious……
huge……
Bai E didn't even have time to remember more details of the brief scene, only these two key words slowly echoed in his mind.
"noob?"
"noob?"
A gentle call came to my ears, and the mountains shook Bai E's body.
"Ah?" Bai E blinked and came back to his senses, and found that his teammates were all looking at him with concern.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"It's okay..." Bai E smiled cheerfully, thinking of Yueying's words——
"Spiritual sense..."
The spirit can communicate with all things, and its extremely focused thinking that is closely related to its own destiny will occasionally connect with time and space or the memory fragments of other living beings to obtain information that it has never seen before.
Of course, it has occasionally been proven that the so-called "spiritual awareness" is closely related to the "unholy whispers" of high-dimensional space.
There is no final conclusion for this completely untechnical thing, and what you see will completely vary from person to person.
Bai E shook his head, trying to recall the blurry scene he saw at that moment, but found that it seemed to have disappeared in a dream after waking up in the morning, and he could no longer recall any of it.
Only that feeling surrounds my heart.
Spiritual awareness...
Spiritual awareness...
Spiritual awareness!
With a thump in his heart, Bai E suddenly remembered the dizzy spell he had felt not long after he was sitting in the car during the day.
At the time it felt like something was broken... Now that I think about it, could it be that my spiritual sense was calling the police?
Bai E glanced around, his eyes full of doubts making his teammates feel a little strange.
