Chapter 94 The Maggot Nest (Encountering the Enemy)
Xue Hua regrets it now...because he just accidentally stepped on a sandworm egg...
Is there any mistake?
Doesn’t this thing have a blood volume display in the game?
Why the hell did it break with one foot?
Xue Hua clearly remembers that in the game, the eggs laid by sandworms, which look like pustules growing on the ground, have health, and the health is quite thick. Melee characters with poor weapons can instantly
I still can't kill these eggs.
But why are these eggs so fragile now?
He actually broke it with one foot?
And he just stepped on an egg, so why were the sandworms in the entire passage staring at him with red eyes?
The springtails are about to rush in front of you!
Xue Hua was stared at by hundreds of sandworms whose eyes suddenly turned into blood red, which made him feel terrified.
However, something even more exasperating for him was yet to come.
After these sandworms stared at him for a while, they neither became violent nor mutated. They just suddenly accelerated their movement speed and crawled all over the passage.
And as they crawl, the ovipositor on their tail is still popping eggs to lay eggs.
The eggs they laid quickly filled the entire tunnel, and they still looked like they couldn't stop at all, with no intention of stopping at all.
The springtails don't care what these guys are doing, they just want to rush up, jump on the enemy, and tear them apart.
As a result, the springtails almost stepped on the eggs of the sandworms and rushed over.
And just when Xue Hua was guessing what these sandworms wanted to do, the sandworms suddenly stopped laying eggs, and then the hedgehogs gathered together and opened the pair of intimidating pincers on their heads towards the springtails.
, looking like he was ready to fight to the death.
At the same time, Isa told Xue Hua that it had just detected a large number of special sound wave signals coming from the sandworm gathering point.
These sound wave signals seem to have the effect of causing the larvae in the eggs to hatch in advance.
Let the larvae hatch in advance?
As soon as Xue Hua heard this, his mind went numb.
He looked at the dense piles of sandworm eggs that covered the entire corridor in front of him, and instantly felt like his head had grown three times bigger.
And at the same time that he noticed these eggs, these feces eggs began to pulsate extremely violently.
"It's about to hatch!"
This thought had just arisen in Xue Hua's mind when a slight sound of skin and flesh tearing came from above the corridor.
Before he had time to look up, he discovered that in the corridor ahead, a large number of sandworm larvae crawled out of the eggs everywhere like "bamboo shoots" after the rain. These guys were nearly one meter long when they hatched, and their mouths were the same.
It's a pair of big pliers.
Their overall appearance is exactly the same as the adult sandworm, except for some differences in size.
And the most important thing is that each of these sandworm eggs can hatch at least two and up to four larvae...
This also means that there are suddenly thousands of sandworm larvae in the passage in front of them.
Under normal circumstances, this amount would be enough for the insect swarm to charge.
But the problem is...this is not a normal situation!!!
This narrow insect passage is too restrictive, and the sandworm larvae on the opposite side are only one meter long, but they are arthropods, and their overall body shape is a bit like centipedes. They are flat insects, so they can
A slowly moving "insect wall" is piled up layer by layer, and this "insect wall" will also spit out venom...
No matter how powerful the springtails are, they can't fight off thousands of sandworm larvae stacked on top of each other with a dozen or so!
Therefore, Xue Hua had no choice but to retreat backwards with the springtails, and quickly found his adjutant in the main hive mind to find a solution.
The narrow terrain is too restrictive, and the inability to widen the terrain is even more troublesome. Many Zerg units can easily solve the current dilemma Xue Hua faces, but those units are basically unable to get in because they are too large.
Of course, the poisonous banelings came in...
But Xue Hua is afraid that if he uses poisonous blasters to explode, it will directly blow up the insect passage in the mezzanine of some ghost space. What if he is given a different time and space drift?
Haha.
After discussing with Isha for a long time, Isha, who has a lot of war experience, finally came up with a good idea.
This method is - infected people.
But to say that it is an infected person is not to say that it is the infected person, because the infected person is also too large to enter the insect tunnel.
The method Isa mentioned was actually to use the life-limited "mutants" hatched by infected people.
These mutants are all dressed like human marines. To be honest, even Xue Hua is baffled by their equipment.
Obviously since he came to this world, he has never encountered any human marines from the Terran Empire. Why do the mutants hatched by the infected still look like this?
However, this is irrelevant now. Xue Hua only needs to know that these mutants can use the C-14 assault rifle they are equipped with that is driven by an unknown principle to provide long-range fire cover for the springtails. This is enough.
And this is Isa's plan.
The reason why springtails are now suppressed by sandworm larvae is entirely due to the lack of long-range fire cover.
Although the venom sprayed from the mouths of the sandworm larvae has little effect on the Zerg units, if the number is too large, it will still be unable to withstand it.
However, if a long-range attacker comes to distract some of the sandworm larvae for the springtails, then the springtails can seize the opportunity and rush directly in front of the "worm wall".
Once within the melee range, it is very easy for the springtails to kill these sandworm larvae.
Even though he is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, don't forget that Xue Hua is not a freeloader. Damage amplification curses, corpse explosions, etc. are also skills that can cause huge damage.
And the most important thing is that Xue Hua can resurrect those springtails that died in battle at any time.
However, due to the narrow terrain nearby, it is impossible to summon the Zerg psionic troops to replenish his mana, and he has long lost the habit of carrying potions with him, so it is better to use this "blue" sparingly...
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The plan was immediately implemented after it was drawn up. Isa ordered some of the infected who were waiting outside the nest to throw the mutant hatching egg sacs directly into the nest, and ordered the hatched mutants to quickly move closer to the master.
Xue Hua, on the other hand, continued to retreat backwards with the springtails, slowly luring these larvae towards the entrance of the nest.
The plan was executed smoothly. The sandworm larvae were chasing after Xue Hua. Large amounts of venom kept spraying on the walls of the passage, making the entire passage filled with a nauseating acid.
Stink.
After continuing to retreat for a certain distance, Xue Hua suddenly stopped and turned around, half-kneeling on the ground. The springtails also lowered their bodies, quietly gathering strength in their hind legs, and quickly prepared for a charge.
At the same time, several light green light strips swept out from the passage behind Xue Hua and hit the swarm of sandworm larvae hard. In an instant, dozens of larvae were killed directly, and a large number of larvae were killed.
Sandworm larvae are knocked off a sand wall.
The entire sand wall suddenly stopped moving and began to shake.
Seeing this, Xue Hua quickly issued an attack order. The springtails, who had been waiting for a long time, kicked off their hind legs and rushed past their long-range attack range at extremely fast speeds before their opponents could recover and entered the melee combat area.
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Xue Hua also stood up and retreated to the group of alienated bodies that came to him. He waved his staff and placed one curse after another on the heads of the sandworm larvae, which intensified the damage.
With Xue Hua assisting in the battle, the efficiency of the springtails in killing enemies was greatly increased. The sandworm larvae were not an opponent of the springtails in the first place, but now they were cursed with a damage-increasing curse, and they suddenly began to die in large areas.
Of course, the counterattack of the sandworm larvae did not cause damage to the springtails, but all the springtails that fell to the ground would be resurrected instantly by Xue Hua.
So at the end of the fight, there was no loss of strength on the springtail side, while all the sandworm larvae died in just over ten minutes.
After the battle was over, Xue Hua didn't even have time to clean up the battlefield, so he continued to move forward with the springtails.
He didn't forget that those sandworms were still alive.
He didn't want to wait a little later, and there would be another army of thousands of larvae waiting for him there...
However, when he led the springtails to the place where he had just met the sandworms, what he saw in front of him suddenly made him fall into a state of confusion.
what happened?
There should be only one road here?
It's impossible to go the wrong way?
But here... there was no such fork in the road just now?
