Leo and others stared at the scene detected by Stim, their brows furrowed and their eyes suspicious.
I saw somewhere in the picture that suddenly many insects as thick as an index finger emerged from the ground.
They are so densely packed, at least hundreds of them, that they are so intertwined that they give you trypophobia!
These bugs are all golden and look like the color of lava.
His small body was densely covered with black circles, adding a bit of terror.
If we have to compare it to common creatures, then these bugs are like enlarged versions of maggots, and their activities are similar, one arch after another!
They are so small in size and about the same length as an earthworm. No wonder the detectors were unable to detect them moving underground in advance.
No one has ever seen this kind of creature. Even Leo, who is familiar with the universe monster manual, can't recognize it.
"Look, these are the bugs those dinosaurs are afraid of!" Peter pointed at the screen and shouted.
In the picture, as more and more bugs emerge from the ground, the escaping dinosaurs and other creatures go crazy. They desperately avoid these strange bugs emerging from the ground, and are extremely afraid.
But there are more and more bugs, and there are always animals that will encounter them.
A giant wolf-like dinosaur was squeezed by other animals and accidentally stepped into a pile of insects.
This dinosaur is more than five meters tall, covered in armor, and weighs at least ten tons. It is usually the king of the forest.
If it were placed on the earth, this wolf-shaped dinosaur would definitely crush a tank with one kick. At this time, it fell into the pile of insects. According to common sense, the insects should be crushed, and the juice would splash out, and the ground would be covered with yellow and white.
But the fact is that the yellow monsters don’t know what they are made of, so being stepped on by such a heavy dinosaur is nothing. Instead, these bugs instantly crawled all over the huge claws of the wolf-shaped dinosaur, and spit out unknown liquid from its sharp head.
, instantly inserted into the dinosaur's body.
The dinosaur immediately raised its head and roared. The foot that stepped into the insect swarm melted at a speed visible to the naked eye. The next moment, the entire body lost its balance and fell to the ground.
The densely packed yellow strange insects climbed up the dinosaur's body and penetrated into its body.
The wolf-type dinosaur died like this.
Moreover, such a large dinosaur corpse disappeared within a minute, leaving only a pool of unknown yellow liquid, with corroded white bones faintly visible in the liquid.
The yellow monster emerged from the almost invisible corpse of the dinosaur and began to "hunt" other beasts again.
"hiss!"
The picture was so disgusting, bloody and cruel that everyone gasped.
"Captain, what should we do? Do we want to take action?" Carol asked with wide eyes.
Leo took a deep breath: "Inform the ordinary members not to act rashly, these strange insects are not something they can deal with.
Carol, and Lilith, follow me to the shield boundary, and first test the physical strength of these monster insects and the corrosive power of their body fluids.
The others will go to the legion camp, each leading a group of regiment members, and wait for my orders."
Everyone followed Leo's arrangement and left. Leo put on the Viper Armor, took Carol and Lilith, and went through the portal to the air outside the boundary of the shield.
Fortunately, these strange insects can't fly, so Leo and others are safe standing in the air.
"Shall I go down and try first?" Carol asked Leo for his opinion.
Leo nodded in agreement. Carol's ability came from the space gem. When the protective energy was activated, her body was so hard that even vibranium could be crushed.
There is absolutely no danger in letting her go for the test, which is why Leo specially brought Carol here.
Carol smiled, her body lit up with light, and she leaned towards the ground.
When Carol landed, the yellow monsters near her immediately swarmed towards her, but were blocked by her protective energy shield.
Although these bugs couldn't hurt it, they were disgusting enough, so Carol flew up again, suspended half a meter in the air, and raised his hand to aim at the place on the ground where the bugs were densely populated.
Energy gathered in Carol's fist, and a beam of extremely compressed photon cannon was fired out, blasting a large crater into the ground.
But except for a dozen strange bugs that were directly hit and died due to the high temperature, the other bugs were blown to the ground, turned over, and continued to squirm as if nothing happened.
Seeing this, Carol straightened up her figure again, gathered strength with both hands, and after adjusting the energy, suddenly fell towards it.
With one palm move that fell from the sky, everything within a radius of twenty meters touched the ground, just like when she first came to Io Star, she ran away and captured a base with a radius of one kilometer.
This blow was so powerful that the yellow monsters it hit exploded one after another and became part of the flat floor.
Carol had almost completed the test, and flew back to Leo to report: "The skin of bugs is very hard and has high toughness, far exceeding that of ordinary steel. At the same time, its tolerance to temperature is also very strong, exceeding
It takes a high temperature of 8,000 degrees Celsius to scorch them."
Leo nodded calmly, then took out a piece of primitive vibranium from his storage bracelet and threw it into the pile of insects on the ground.
The original vibranium contains vibration energy, which is the essence of life. These greedy yellow monsters seemed to smell the essence of life and immediately rushed towards the original vibranium block. Dozens of insects covered the vibranium block in the blink of an eye.
After waiting quietly for ten seconds, Leo raised his hand and used telekinesis to pull away all the fat bugs, revealing the piece of vibranium just now.
Fortunately, the vibranium was intact.
Seeing this, Leo lowered his flying height, took out a palm-sized vibranium container, and used his mechanical power to put seven or eight strange insects into the vibranium container for study.
At this point, Leo had an overall estimate of the threat of bugs.
If Leo and his core members wore vibranium armor, they would be invincible and have the means to effectively kill these bugs.
but,
There are too many bugs!
Ordinary legion members are not equipped with full-body vibranium armor, which means that they have no power to protect themselves against these bugs.
Just relying on Leo and a few people to get rid of the pests will not be able to get rid of them completely no matter what.
Carol had obviously thought of this, and she looked at Leo: "Do you still want to take action? Or evacuate now?"
"You don't need to take action, and you don't need to evacuate. Just be prepared and wait patiently. These bugs can't make big waves,"
Leo was full of confidence and began to express his speculation.
"Since the various beasts on Io have noticed the threat in advance and fled collectively to the mountains, it proves that the same crisis has happened many times before, and these crises have been left in the memories of various animals on Io, and even
It’s already engraved in their genes!
Since these bugs couldn't destroy the entire planet before, they definitely can't do it this time!
There are definitely natural enemies of these bugs on this planet, and everything is interdependent. Let us wait and see what happens, and then decide what to do next when things are over."
"Captain, what you said makes sense," Carol's eyes lit up after Leo reminded her, and then she guessed, "Do you think the natural enemies of those bugs are the various birds on Io?"
Birds eat insects, and the birds on Io are huge, and most of them build their nests on mountains rather than in trees.
Those animals fled to the top of the mountain, which seems to be consistent with the speculation that "birds are the natural enemies of strange insects".
Leo understood that Carroll's guess had some truth, but he never expected any conclusions.
So he shrugged: "Who knows, let's go back first and wait and see what happens through the monitoring satellite."
Carol nodded in agreement.
Lilith, who came over to make soy sauce, also had no objection.
But at this moment, Stim's alarm suddenly sounded in Leo's mind again:
"Buzz~ Warning, warning! Master, the detector detected obvious fluctuations in the underground magma layer. The specific situation is unknown, but there are living things in the magma layer."
As good fortune never comes alone, misfortunes never come alone, and the second alarm also rang randomly:
"Buzz~ Warning, warning! Master, the consumption of the energy shield in the underground part has suddenly increased. It is initially judged that there are many strange insects gnawing on it, and the energy supply is about to be unable to keep up!"