According to the information feedback from the main hive mind, the thousands of hydralisks that Xue Hua placed behind to help the king insect escape had just been suddenly attacked by a large group of monsters from the oasis jungle.
These incoming monsters are also very familiar to Xue Hua. They are the insect-type monsters that once caused Xue Hua extreme pain in the game - water and fertilizer warriors.
If all the monsters in the Aranok Desert were ranked on a ranking list of "the most troublesome for professionals", this guy would definitely be ranked first, and his status is almost unshakable.
Especially for melee professionals, the intimidation of a large group of water-fat warriors is no worse than that of the Hell Demon King - anyway, no matter who they encounter, they will die...
It is no longer clear what the original prototype of these monsters, which look very much like giant beetles standing upright, were before they were contaminated by the energy of hell.
Because no scholar can remember that such a vicious creature existed in the desert of Aranok.
They move quickly and have thick armor, and unlike in the game, in reality, these beetle-like monsters actually have insect wing sheaths.
This means... they can fly!
Yes, although they can't fly far or high, they can indeed perform short-distance gliding flights. This ability undoubtedly greatly enhances their maneuverability.
Coupled with the fact that they "discharge" when hit, which is exactly the same as in the game, it's not too disgusting, right?
Generally speaking, if a professional team of about five people encounters more than thirty water and fertilizer warriors during the expedition, they will have to take a detour. However, if they are unfortunately discovered by these monsters first and have to
In a battle, you will basically have to use up all the medicine supplies in your team before you can barely win the battle.
Because their short-distance gliding ability will make it difficult for melee professionals such as paladins and barbarians in the front row to block their raids on the back row of the team, and once long-range professions such as Amazons and mages are approached by these monsters, they will
It is basically impossible to concentrate on taking advantage of long-range firepower.
Moreover, these monsters not only have powerful defenses, but also have sharp teeth and mouths. The fragile little bodies of long-range professionals cannot withstand a few bites from them.
Therefore, unless there is a necromancer or a summoning druid in the team, no professional team is willing to provoke these disgusting things.
Fortunately, this kind of monster usually only appears near oases with water sources, and it is difficult to see them in the vast desert.
No one knows why this is, because the projection of monsters should not have any requirements for the living environment under normal circumstances. They are not real creatures, they are just projections of energy materialized.
So they don't actually need to eat or drink water. The reason why some monsters eat the corpses of humans or other creatures is just due to their biological instincts.
But no matter why, this is good news. At least those professional teams who are not prepared to explore remote oasis areas do not have to worry about facing swarms of such monsters.
However, for those who are already in the oasis area and have even encountered these beetle monsters, this news is obviously of no use.
What these unlucky guys have to do is to find a way to save themselves immediately to avoid becoming a delicious meal in the mouths of these horrible bugs.
Of course, everything mentioned above has nothing to do with Xue Hua. Although these monsters are indeed difficult to deal with, are the insects vegetarian?
As for the insect swarm that is about to reach the tenth level of upgrade and evolution, not to mention the incoming water and fertilizer warriors are only a few hundred, even if there are tens of thousands of them, it only takes a few minutes for the insect swarm to eat them all.
The lightning-charged bullets released by them will have no effect at all on the Zerg units that have greatly increased resistance. At most, they can only slightly paralyze small units such as springtails.
The reason why Hydralisk issued an "attack" alarm like Xue Hua did was not at all due to those water-rich warriors.
To be precise, he is not an "ordinary" water and fertilizer warrior.
The threats to the Hydralisk group are actually more than a dozen elite water-fat warriors with blue halos on their bodies. These elite monsters are larger than ordinary monsters of the same type, and their carapace also looks shiny. Their mouthparts are very
Sharp, the front ends of the two sharp and slender appendages are covered with sickle-shaped claws.
However, the most eye-catching thing is their translucent bodies.
That's right, these elite water and fertilizer warriors are like ghosts, their bodies are actually blue and black translucent. Xue Hua can even see the jungle behind them through the bodies of some of them.
What the hell is this?
Ghost water and fertilizer warrior?
Xue Hua was a little stunned: Is this another new monster that has never appeared in the game?
However, regardless of whether they are a new type of monster or not, these dozen elite monsters have already disturbed the entire Hydralisk group.
Because the thorn needles shot by Hydralisks cannot hit their bodies at all, even if the thorn needles hit them, they will only pass directly through their bodies without causing any damage to them.
On the contrary, their attacks can actually hurt the Hydralisks - more than a dozen Hydralisks have fallen to the claws of these weird "ghost" water-fat warriors.
"Isa, can you analyze it? What are these?"
While Xue Hua ordered the swarm to come forward immediately to support, he frowned and asked his adjutant for advice in the main hive mind.
"Master, all the hostile creatures currently faced by the insect swarm are not pure 'living bodies'. They are just projections of energy materialized under the influence of the rules of the world. Most of these projections have physical properties.
It is a combination of materialized energy with dual characteristics of energy and energy, but there are also a very small number of hostile creatures that have very few or no physical characteristics, and only have pure energy characteristics.
The form of this kind of monster is extremely unstable and can gather and disperse according to its own will, so it is difficult to cause effective damage to them by physical means..."
Isa quickly explained and quickly gave a solution to the problem - the inhibitory spores of the toadstool can effectively inhibit the morphological changes of these monsters, because no matter what form they exist in, they always need
Those that consume energy, as long as the energy in the target area is evacuated, they will no longer be able to absorb the energy consumed by changing forms from the outside world.
After receiving the suggestion, Xue Hua immediately summoned the toadstool bugs and asked them to release inhibitory spores directly to the area where the bug swarm was located.
Hundreds of inhibitory spores quickly exploded among the insect swarms, and a light blue inhibitory mist quickly dispersed.
As expected, this move was extremely effective. The ghost water and fertilizer warriors who were contaminated by the antibacterial mist immediately re-condensed from their transparent form into a solid form.
Then, the Hydralisks seized the opportunity to directly focus their fire with armor-piercing needles. After a burst of lightning, all the elite water-fat warriors were beaten into a sieve.
Without the interference of these troublesome monsters, the remaining ordinary water and fertilizer warriors were not enough for the insect swarm to fill their teeth, and were quickly overwhelmed by the cockroach swarm and springtail swarm.
As for the trapped king insect in the sky, when the Hydralisks got rid of the trouble and began to use their anti-air firepower again, those eager ones soon followed in the footsteps of the water and fertilizer warriors, and there were large swaths of small insects.
Falling from the sky like rain, the black "clouds" around the king insect thinned out at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After more than ten minutes, this "hospitable" oasis leaf forest finally returned to a calm state, but the corpses of monsters and burnt trees on the ground showed that nothing happened here just now.
