At this moment, what appeared in front of Xue Hua was a fork in the road with two forks.
But he clearly remembered that the road he took before was always a straight road, with no forks to speak of?
If there is, in such a narrow terrain, he will definitely see and remember it.
Could it be that he has already passed the place where he just encountered those sandworms?
But this isn’t right either?
Logically speaking, the corpse projected by the monster will be disintegrated within ten minutes after death. Although the springtails did retreat in a hurry without engaging with the sandworm larvae, the remains of the eggs on the ground should also be
Is it a type of "corpse"?
However, as he walked along the way, he didn't see even a single insect egg remnant...
"I really saw a ghost..." Xue Hua frowned and muttered to himself.
Forget it, let's go see it separately.
He thought for a long time but couldn't figure out the reason, so he simply ignored why there was a fork in the road here, and directly sent a team of springtails to go along the left fork, while he himself led a team of jumpers.
The insect explores the fork on the right.
More than ten minutes later, Xue Hua led the springtails into a slightly larger "connection point"-like room from the fork in the road.
The place here is relatively spacious, and there are three forks in the road ahead again.
Seeing this scene, Xue Hua rolled his eyes and observed the forked road explored by another group of springtails from the main hive mind, and found that the group of springtails had indeed stopped at a "forked road transfer station".
"Fuck you, I'll go! Why are there so many intersections down here?"
This discovery immediately made Xue Hua feel a little pained. He was thinking about whether he should continue to divide his troops and explore.
If the troops were to be divided, there would be no problem on his side, but the springtails on the other side couldn't withstand being divided into groups several times...
There are monsters down there, and if the troops are spread too thinly, they may be in danger of being defeated individually.
However, before he could decide whether to continue exploring all the forks, the swarm of springtails he led was suddenly attacked.
The attack came from the rightmost of the three forks in front of him, where a large group of death beetles were pouring out from the fork.
But this time, the insect swarm dealt with it more easily.
Because it was located at a slightly wider connection point, Xue Hua directly brought out other Zerg units such as Hydralisks, Cockroaches, and Insect Mothers. The appearance of these units greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Zerg Swarm.
So the group of death beetles was like hitting an iron wall covered with steel spikes, and within half a minute, they all got their lunch.
However, Xue Hua's side was really easy to deal with, but the springtails on the other side were in trouble.
Just when the swarm he led was attacked by death beetles, the swarm of springtails exploring the other side of the fork also soon suffered a wave of attacks from a large group of eager ones.
Since there is no humanoid soldier like Xue Hua standing by to support them, it becomes very difficult for this group of springtails to deal with these small monsters.
They fought fiercely for nearly half an hour before finally managing to eliminate all the flying insects in the air.
But they themselves also suffered losses. Three springtails were eventually drained of their body fluids by the overwhelming crowd of eager people and turned into three mummies.
The experience of the springtail unit reminded Xue Hua that in such a mezzanine passage that extends in all directions and has an unknown total area, it is obviously unwise to divide the troops at will. He himself can ensure that the troops in his hands can always be obtained in a timely manner.
In addition, you may not even lose any of them, but the troops assigned to explore other forks may be attrited due to various reasons.
And it cannot be replenished in time.
If this continues, the allocated troops will become less and less in the encounter, and eventually the entire army will be annihilated somewhere on the fork in the road.
It's not that the swarm cannot accept such a loss, it's just that this loss is meaningless.
There are still an unknown number of forked roads here. If the troops assigned to explore cannot reach the end of a forked road, the purpose of exploring the forked roads will not be achieved.
So instead of doing this, it would be wiser to go straight to the black road...
Xue Hua, who wanted to understand, ordered the springtails on the other side of the fork to return to him, and then prepared to find a fork in front of him to continue walking.
But at this time, a strange situation occurred.
The team of springtails that he ordered to return actually got lost as they approached him!
This is so damn funny!
Can Zerg units get lost?
Even if there is no king insect to guide the way, relying solely on the connection of the main hive's mind, the Zerg troops will not make such a ridiculous tactical mistake as "getting lost".
However, when Xue Hua concentrated his attention and extended his will to the team of springtails, he was surprised to find that the "lost" of the team of springtails seemed normal.
Because behind them, the fork in the road they came from has now become a dead end, and the entrance is blocked by a wall covered in mucus that is no different from other walls here...
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Damn! Isn’t this a ghost tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty?
How come there are walls growing in the passage to block the road?
Wait... could it be from my side too?
Xue Hua couldn't help but cursed when he thought of this, and hurried back with the swarm of insects, only to find that the passage he had walked through was now blocked "naturally".
I'll beat your lungs out!
Xue Hua was so painful that he sat down on the back of a springtail, causing the springtail to whimper in frustration.
Now I am a fool, and I understand that there is definitely something wrong with these damn passages.
How many normal underground passages have you seen that automatically branch off and even automatically block the retreat?
If this kind of passage is used in the tombs of princes and nobles, then who can touch the golden captain?
Xue Hua raised his head and glanced at the sand walls dripping with mucus. While he was feeling depressed, he suddenly had an idea.
He stood up, walked to the edge of the sand wall, took out a small spoon from the inventory and scraped a few times on the mucus all over the wall, and then took the spoon back to the connecting point of the fork - it was pretty good here.
's existence.
In the connection point, he summoned a mother insect, then handed it the spoon and asked it to pass the thing back to Abathur's laboratory, so that Abathur could test it and see what the mucus was.
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Perhaps they can find a solution to their current predicament from the test results.
The insect mother quickly complied, and Xue Hua also asked Abathur in the main hive mind to first analyze the sample he sent and find out what it was.
After doing this, he took the springtails and chose one of the three forks to get in, ready to continue exploring.
No matter what Abathur's test results are, he has to move on. Staying where you are and doing nothing is obviously the stupidest thing, because that won't make your situation any better.
However, continuing to act without preparation is also a foolhardy act, so Xue Hua was smarter this time. He left an insect mother and some insect swarm troops at the connection point, and told the insect mother that if they
If any abnormality occurs on the fork you enter, you must report it to him in time.
In this way, if their escape route was blocked again, he would at least know how it all happened through the insect mother.
However, this time, another situation that made him even more unexpected appeared in front of him.
After he led the springtails on the fork in the road safely for more than ten minutes, a bright light suddenly appeared behind a corner in front of him. When he turned the corner and looked, he found that not far behind the corner,
