As early as the convoy started to slow down, Xue Hua had already noticed something was wrong. Wasn't it that he was competing for time with the sandstorm?
Why is it slowing down?
It was not until later that the convoy came to a complete stop, and from the window of the caravan he saw that the caravan's guards began to gather and put up a defensive posture as if facing a powerful enemy, Xue Hua knew that they were going to be in trouble.
"What happened? Do you want me to go out and take a look, Master?" Annie frowned and took out her Arctic Horn battle bow.
"No, no need, just stay in the car for now. Someone will come to us later. Also, Mr. Kane, these books of yours..." Xue Hua squinted at the scene outside the car window,
In fact, the field of vision has shifted to a certain king insect.
Through the investigation of the King Insect, he has figured out the threat they face, which is a very fast black sandstorm.
Although the psychic vision of the monitoring king insect did not reveal any abnormal phenomena, he instinctively felt that something was wrong with the oncoming black sandstorm.
Except for the color, this thing seemed to be no different from an ordinary sandstorm in other aspects, but Xue Hua always felt that it didn't look like a sandstorm at all.
"Hey...if it comes to a time when even Warev has to use a 'car wall' to resist the coming disaster, these old friends of mine...just think of it as making their last contribution to mankind...
..."
Kane sighed. He felt that the caravan was moving towards the inner ring, and the caravans in front and behind were also shortening the distance. All the vehicles in the entire caravan were connected together and formed a circular car wall.
This kind of vehicle wall defense line is the last method of self-protection for caravans operating in the desert. Because the cost of this method is too high, no caravan is willing to use this method unless it is a last resort.
Because this method is equivalent to making the final choice between goods and human lives. Whenever vehicle walls are used for defense, the remaining goods of the caravan are basically less than 10% of the total.
This is definitely a huge sacrifice for a caravan.
Since Warev was able to make such a realization, even if Kane felt sorry for these books, he would not be able to ask someone to help move them away at this time.
After hearing this, Xue Hua unexpectedly looked back at Kane, then nodded, and once again focused his attention on the strange black sandstorm in the king's field of vision.
"Isa, is there any way to analyze the composition of the sandstorm? This doesn't look like a natural disaster..."
"Master, the psychic vision of the Monitoring King Insect did not detect traces of psychic energy in the sandstorm, but using the thermal vision, a large amount of heat energy was detected in the center and bottom of the sandstorm. The shape of this heat energy is very regular, like some kind of
Unknown creatures are following the sandstorm, or..."
"Maybe sandstorms are made by this thing! Okay! How big is that thing?"
"If the individual of this creature is calculated according to the thermal energy outline, it is about one-half the size of a hive lord. The whole body is spindle-shaped. No other limbs are found from the thermal energy imaging, but the tail of this creature is very long.
It accounts for about one-half of the entire body length."
"Isa, if this guy created the sandstorm, then the swarm needs to get this guy's biological samples, so I need you to come up with a tactical plan for me. Can you do it?"
Xue Hua squinted his eyes and looked at the black sandstorm that was rapidly approaching the location of the caravan. Even without the king insect's vision, he could already slightly see the black storm line on the horizon with his naked eyes.
"Understood, the plan is being formulated..."
"Very good. Now I don't have anyone who can be used. For the time being, I can only let the insect mothers take over the command."
"Master, since your itinerary is about to enter a biological area rich in genetic resources, the adjutant recommends that you awaken Dehaka from hibernation. Dehaka is the master of essence collection and the special operations commander of the insect swarm.
It can be of great help to you in the next battle."
"Really? Very good, let's wake up Dehaka too!" After several days of expansion of the collection scale, the insect swarm base in the mountain has successfully filled the resource hole left by the previous hatching of the insect swarm fleet.
Now, Xue Hua's pockets are once again bulging, and the resources needed to awaken a high-level commander are not a problem at all.
Therefore, he did not hesitate to inject the resources needed for awakening into the dormant capsule.
When Dehaka woke up from hibernation, Xue Hua also transferred his spirit to Leviathan in time.
In the command chamber, Dehaka, who had just woken up, was waiting for him.
"My awakening is to swallow the essence. I will serve you and swallow more essence!"
Seeing Xue Hua's figure appear in the command chamber, Dehaka swore in a strange voice that he was willing to serve the swarm.
This guy was the leader of a primitive zerg tribe on the planet Zerus before joining the swarm.
It was very clever and cunning and hid aside to observe the battle pattern of the Zerg, and then led the tribe to join the Zerg swarm, and before the Queen of Blades Sarah Kerrigan destroyed the leaders of the other four original Zerg tribes and the Zongzu.
During the battle, this guy played a lot of roles.
Therefore, after the battle on the planet Zerus, the Queen of Blades left it alive and allowed it to take its own tribe and merge into the swarm to better collect the essence necessary for its evolution.
Dehaka itself is also a primitive zerg. As for what race it is, no one knows.
However, it was supposed to leave the swarm and return to Zerus after the final battle to lead the entire primitive zerg tribe of Zerus, but I don’t know why it appears here again now.
But regarding this question, Xue Hua didn't bother to ask more. He only knew that now this powerful original zerg leader would once again appear on the battlefield on behalf of the zerg and bring him victory.
Dehaka's first-level commander skill is called "Essence Collection". This skill allows Dehaka to collect essence substances scattered on the battlefield. It can store these essence substances in its body and use them to strengthen itself when needed.
, or recover from your injuries.
Dehaka's secondary commander skill is called "Environmental Mutation". This skill allows Dehaka to temporarily mutate himself into a more powerful form by consuming essence. Dehaka in this form will change according to the current battle.
You can obtain several different combat skills based on the situation. These combat skills are all very powerful and can turn the tide of the battle or make the final decision.
As the last high-level Zerg commander to awaken, Dehaka's ability is beyond doubt.
But as a primitive zerg, Dehaka has a shortcoming that is not a shortcoming.
That is, it cannot connect to the main hive mind.
The original zerg that rejected Abathur's transformation had their own pride and traditions, but these prides had brought additional trouble to the swarm's command system.
In order to solve this problem, Abathur, under the instruction of the Queen of Blades, injected a special pheromone into the Overlord Bug. This pheromone can connect with the "useless" sniffing organs in the original Zerg that have not been degraded.
, and then issue orders from the Lord and Queen to them.
However, this method of contact still has big problems, such as the inability to transmit overly complex information, easy interference due to environmental factors, etc.
However, its biggest problem is that it cannot transmit over very long distances.
In other words, if you want to contact Dehaka's troops, you must either send a mother insect next to it, or send a king insect to follow them all the time.