Chapter 443: Lost
The road was also quite smooth, and Su Fei also slaughtered a swamp lizard nest that stood in their way, and more than a dozen swamp lizards were chopped melons and vegetables together.
The three of them now have a basic set of experience in how to fight the swamp monsters, and from a single step, a flick of the tail, or even the movement of an eyeball, they can predict their next line of attack.
There are less than fifty meters to reach today's resting place, and Hu Mang can't wait to get excited. The tree feels taller up close than from a distance, and its thick trunk requires two people to hug each other.
However, it should be called a rotten tree, because its crown has completely decayed.
The original verdant crown of the tree has been broken by the decay of the wood, and the thick trunk has been hollowed out, leaving only a lone shell of bark still standing there, making people look like people with their hands cut off from a distance, standing there, making people feel a chill down their spines.
Hu Mang was just about to run over, but Su Fei behind him suddenly grabbed Hu Mang: "Don't move yet." ”
Following the direction pointed out by Su Fei's hand, Xie Yufei sensitively found that there was something wrong with the soil under his subordinates, fluffy and soft, like a piece of bread that had just been launched, and under the fluffy sand, there was a little bit of white stuff, and it was impossible to see what it was with just one foot exposed.
But the Insight Eye saw it really.
That's the white bones of animals!
"Regret it, all retreat. ”
Su Fei greeted Xie Yufei and Hu Mang, and the three of them slowly widened the distance from the tree, and under Su Fei's instructions, the three of them reached out and picked up the fresh mud under their feet and wiped it on their faces to cover up their smell. Su Fei also spent a few minutes grabbing a swamp lizard hiding in the mud from the swamp on the side, and threw it in the direction of the big tree with all his might.
The scene that followed made Su Fei and the three of them feel chills down their spines.
Just as the swamp lizard was about to smash into the tree, a thick humming sound erupted from the depths of the tree hole, and countless black flying insects scrambled to fly out of the hollow tree trunk, gushing out from every hole and even the crack of the tree trunk, and the hollow tree was like a chimney, billowing smoke was coming out.
Not only the trunk of the tree, but also the seemingly fluffy soil under the tree suddenly shook, and countless black flying insects crawled out of the soil and flapped their wings and flew high, dense and endless!
The black flying insects as thick as black clouds all pounced on the falling swamp lizard, wrapping him inside and out into a huge black cocoon. The swamp lizards in dozens of catties were actually wrapped in these black insect clouds and suspended in the air, constantly spinning, as if floating in the water, up and down, and the buzzing sound was endless.
At some point, the black insects dispersed and burrowed back into the hollows and fluffy dirt. The swamp lizard that was originally dozens of catties has only an empty shell left at the moment, and even the lizard armor that is quite hard has been eaten to the ground, and there is no flesh and blood left inside.
Even so, when they fall to the ground, many smaller black bugs crawl towards the wreckage, which are larvae that have not yet grown wings, and will further share in the delicious meal that fell from the sky.
The fresh soil obscured the breath of the three of them, so the black flying insects who were alarmed did not find their scent, but Xie Yufei and Hu Mang still saw their scalps tingling in the back. Her face was as white as snow.
"What is this terrifying thing...... Xie Yufei couldn't help but ask Su Fei: "If we are besieged by this kind of thing, even our Gangfeng Protector may not be able to hold on......
"It's called obsidian, and it's a very common social bug in swamps, with a habit similar to that of bees and wasps, and it's a very powerful carnivorous beetle. Jiang Chao and I specifically mentioned that one of the most unprovoked things in the "human forbidden zone" was the obsidian swarm. ”
"Obsidian is a kind of Gu Gu in Gu poison, but it seems that these obsidian swarms should have also mutated, the size of the swarm is much larger than Jiang Chao and I said, the insect body is larger, and the aggression has become stronger. ”
Su Fei combined Jiang Chao with the Gu poison memories that he fused with himself, and told Xie Yufei and Hu Mang the information about the obsidian.
After all, it is a girl who has a natural dislike for insects, not to mention that there are so many of these guys, seeing that Hu Mang and Xie Yufei's faces are extremely ugly, Su Fei patted the two of them on the shoulder and comforted: "Let's go around from there." However, there is good news, in general, obsidian does not exist in large swamp animals like swamp pythons, and you can rest assured. ”
"But I'm more afraid of that now. Tiger Mang cried with a sad face. She shuddered at the thought that these insects were going to crawl on her.
The three of them cautiously bypassed the edge of the tree, not only that, but even the other small bushes within a hundred meters also bypassed, and they didn't dare to touch it at all.
According to the Jiang Dynasty, obsidian insects are very strict social insects, but at least three to five insect kings will be produced in each generation, and after the death of the old insect king, these new insect kings will start a bloody battle, and one of the new insect kings will lead the whole clan.
Most of the losers will be devoured by the new Worm King, and a few will choose to leave the swarm and set up camp in other nearby places.
Obsidians, like bees, are matrilineal, and the king of insects is female. Ordinary obsidian is like a worker bee among bees, only has the ability to eat, transport, and build a nest, and cannot lay eggs and give birth. The Worm King is different, even if only one Worm King survives in the wild, just laying a nest of eggs is enough to establish a new colony.
However, it also requires a male insect, and if you can't meet a male insect, there is nothing you can do.
Therefore, there may be other small swarms of black Yao insects in the bushes near a group of obsidians, and Su Fei did not dare to be careless.
After walking about half a kilometer, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief, and the obsidian generally did not fly too far from the nest unless they foraged for food, and this distance was safe.
Hu Mang was re-sprinkling himself with Suo Zi powder, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at one of the Suo Zi Forests, and shouted violently: "Brother Su Fei, look over there, there are insects!"
Su Fei was startled at first, but then thought that it was impossible here, insects hated the smell of saozi, and there could be no obsidian nest in this kind of place.
Following the direction of Hu Mang's finger, Su Fei and Xie Yufei looked over, and sure enough, they saw a fat obsidian lying under a tree that was about ten years old. This obsidian is much larger than the average obsidian, and its abdomen is high and bulging, and the shell also has dark green patterns that are different from those of ordinary obsidians.
But it looks like it's dying. Even the peristalsis in the abdomen seems weak.
"It's a worm king!" Su Fei's expression immediately became grim, but he observed for a long time, then picked up a piece of wet mud and threw it to the worm king, the worm king did not react, nor did he startle other ordinary obsidians.
"It is estimated that he was the failed insect king of the obsidian swarm just now, and he was kicked out. ”
Su Fei looked over carefully, and sure enough, he saw that this insect king's body was full of scars bitten by the big jaws of other obsidians.
Waving his hand to let Xie Yufei and Hu Mang wait in place, Su Fei carefully crawled over there, but walked for two minutes in just a dozen meters, but the insect king seemed to be dying, even if he found someone approaching, he only struggled twice and couldn't move.
Su Fei poked a picked up branch in front of the insect king, and the insect king directly bit the branch with its big jaw with a click. Maybe it was really too weak, the big jaw that could bite through the hard scale skin of the swamp lizard didn't even bite off a branch, but was hooked by Su Fei as if he wanted to fish.
However, this insect king may have a bad brain and stubbornness, and he actually bites the branch and does not let go.
Su Fei was overjoyed, took out a special glass jar from the hollow refining stone, fished the obsidian king into the mouth of the bottle with a branch, and then skimmed off the branch outside the bottle. This insect king is really a tendon, and he still bites the branch that "attacks" it.
"Husband, what are you doing with him. Xie Yufei boldly walked over and looked at the Obsidian King who was still fighting with the branches in the bottle.
Hu Mang also carefully walked around the leaves of the tree and approached, his eyes full of doubts.
Su Fei didn't answer directly, but took out the dagger on his waist and cut a cut on his index finger, and then his luck forced a few drops of essence blood out of the wound and dripped into the bottle.
At the moment when the blood appeared, the Black Flare Insect King squeaked like a cheer-exhaler, and instantly let go of the branches and spread his wings, wanting to rush out of the bottle, but the mouth of the bottle was too small, and his wings could not be spread, so he could only spin around in a hurry at the bottom of the bottle.
However, when Su Fei's essence blood dripped into the bottle, the obsidian king immediately pounced on it and sucked it clean.
Su Fei sealed the bottle cap tightly, and then smiled: "This guy is a good thing, you don't know, this obsidian is also quite powerful among insect Gu, and usually Miao Jiang people can only use ordinary obsidian to make insect Gu, which is like me directly using the insect king to do it." ”
"If well trained, this little guy might be of great use in the swamp. ”
Hu Mang was taken aback: "It seems that it will take many years to raise Gu, Brother Su Fei, we won't stay here for a few more years, right!
"No, how can there be years. Su Fei was so excited that he pinched Hu Mang's nose, and as a result, the dirt on his hands was suddenly disgusted by Hu Mang.
"The energy contained in our cultivation essence blood is much greater than that of ordinary people, and the speed of refining Gu is also faster, I only need to feed him essence blood every few hours, and it doesn't consume much for me, so why not." ”
"But I watched it respond. Tiger muttered.
"Hehe, I'll get used to it later. ”
............
After another two days of trekking, Su Fei and the three of them finally arrived at this place covered in golden light, and they also saw the wreckage of the surrounding villages.
The trio split up and searched the entire village, finding signs of human activity, and it was clearly two groups of people. One of the stations was scattered and apparently stayed there for some time, and the village was littered with traces left by their search.
The other group was in a tight formation and very targeted, and they didn't stay here for long.
The first wave of people should be Yuan Qinghua, and they are here to use the mark on his body to open the secret realm.
The second wave is Yuan Jie, but judging from the traces left behind, Yuan Jie has brought a lot of people, and all of them are elite. But more clues are not visible, after all, too many traces have been washed away after a rain.
"Husband, come and see this. Xie Yufei at the back of the house shouted.
Su Fei walked around to the back and saw some equipment scattered on the ground, body armor, helmets, arm guards, boots and torn clothes. Scattered white bones were scattered around.
Someone apparently died here and was eaten clean by monsters.
Su Fei bent down to pick up this bulletproof helmet, and there were still some sharp scratches on it.
"This is the equipment of the Shadow Guard, I saw it last time in the Imperial City that never sleeps. Su Fei threw things into the quagmire on the side: "I don't know how these people died, but it doesn't look like they met obsidian or monsters." ”
Xie Yufei also nodded in agreement: "If it's an obsidian, I'm afraid the body armor won't be so complete." ”
"Whatever he is, we just have to be careful anyway. ”
Su Fei distributed the silencer equipped with the submachine gun in the Sky Refining Stone to Xie Yufei and Hu Mang: "From now on, let's not separate, don't shoot unless there are special circumstances, lest the gunfire cause more trouble." ”
Tiger's nose twitched slightly, as if she was sniffing the smell left in the air, but unfortunately there was nothing left after a rain: "But where are we going now? ”
"That's a problem......"