Chapter 19: Upheaval, the sandworm is insidious
Zhang Qingyang did not blindly run into it, the reason why he chose this crack is because in the direction of the breakthrough, only this one still maintains the natural landform features, and the rest of the passages are built by insects.
As he broke into the crack, he waved his hand and spilled a deadly sword light, briefly illuminating the space around him, and at the same time, he also split several sandworms lurking inside and preparing to sneak attack, screaming and falling backwards.
The few people who followed closely behind saw this scene clearly, and they were all shocked, insects are really everywhere!
The crack is only a gentle slope of less than ten meters inward, and then there is a bottomless cliff that falls sharply downward!
Zhang Qingyang's expression was indifferent, as if he had expected this, he steadily waved the rat bone sword to tear open the net laid by the sandworm, and jumped to the gravel cliff opposite the cliff, his feet popped out claws to stabilize his body, and waved at the partners behind him.
"I'll come first!"
Lu Zhi did not hesitate to jump over, and was caught by Zhang Qingyang in mid-air and swung downward, throwing an arc at a precise angle, and falling into another hidden gap that sank more than ten meters.
Zhu Yang covered his teammates, his eyes condensed a bright beam of light and shot into the deep valley, beating a sandworm that quietly climbed up along the inner wall of the cliff and falling off the cliff, and then shrugged down and jumped down, spreading his wings and gliding to change direction and drill into the gap.
Jiang Zijun was silent, carrying Hu Ying's fluttering whereabouts to follow, while Zhao Feiyu hung in the air to help his companions break the rock at the entrance of the crack, and dozens of tons of rockfall rumbled and blocked, and then drilled into the gap with Zhang Qingyang successively, and continued to move deeper.
Zhu Yang couldn't help but whisper: "The insects are getting smarter and smarter, and they actually know how to surround three queyi." ”
Lu Zhi said with a smile: "Don't think that only we humans are making progress, and sandworms are always evolving." ”
Zhang Qingyang deeply believes that with his understanding of sandworms, the survival ability of this creature in the harsh environment is much stronger than that of humans.
However, this time he went deep into the sand sea to explore it personally, and he faintly had a sense of urgency that the wind and rain were about to come. This buffer war zone is so dangerous that it is very different from the situation described in the textbooks.
The real battlefield is probably even more terrifying.
The sandworm has been dormant for many years, but I am afraid that the war will be restarted again.
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After a few hundred meters of twisting and turning, it turns sharply into an underground river channel, where the water of the river from nowhere converges into a small stream, which flows deeper into a pitch-black hole**.
It's so quiet that there's not a single bug, the damp air condenses into dew on the stone walls, and the smooth surface washed by countless years of flooding makes it easy to slip if you don't pay attention to it.
Zhang Qingyang raised his hand to stop everyone's footsteps and motioned to Lu Zhi to probe the direction of the wind.
Lu Zhi used his keen sense of smell to find a trace of dry air flow from the air.
"Good, we found the exit from that direction. ”
Zhang Qingyang made a decision immediately, and everyone did not doubt him, chasing Lu Zhi behind him and going upstream, carefully avoiding the pits and dark passages, and after turning hundreds of meters, he found a natural cave that was as spacious as a stadium.
Above the stalactite-strewn cavern, a crack stretched across the dome.
There should have been a stout stalactite here, which somehow collapsed into a pile of rubble, and was covered into a mound, by the spilled sand above.
Zhang Qingyang circled the cave as fast as he could, and at the same time, Jiang Zijun carefully shook the ground, and the two came to almost the same conclusion.
The geography of this cave is very bad, the most critical support pillars are destroyed, and the slightest movement can lead to the collapse of the whole body and bury them alive underneath!
"Hell, how could a bug come up with such an ingenious trap?"
Zhu Yang felt that the whole person was not good, which was completely beyond the common sense introduction of ordinary sandworms in class.
Zhang Qingyang was also a little puzzled, according to common sense, only a high-level king insect at the king level could be born with such a high IQ. And if a king-level sandworm had arrived here, the seventy-first outpost would have already issued a war alarm and gathered a large army to clear it.
"Record it first, and report it back to the academy, the rest just depends on a few of us, and we can't interfere for the time being. ”
Zhang Qingyang was very self-aware, suppressed his surprise, and led everyone to the vicinity of the abrupt sand dunes.
But just as they approached, there was a sudden slight vibration from under their feet, like a very thin tile cracking, and they would not have noticed it unless they were sensitive enough.
Zhang Qingyang had a kind of earth-shattering shock, and a flash of spiritual light flashed in his mind, and he shouted: "Everyone be careful to trap!"
It's a mortal trap!
No wonder there is not a single sandworm inside, the geological environment of the entire cave is carefully designed, as long as the slightest increase in external forces will destroy the precarious balance, resulting in the collapse of the whole.
Zhang Qingyang figured everything out the moment he noticed the crack in the ground, and the insidious and cunning of the insects was beyond imagination!
Between the lightning and flint, he used the bridge of the soul to convey his thoughts directly to everyone, and at the same time waved his tail to wrap Lu Zhi and Jiang Zijun, and cast a dragon to swim around the world "whoosh" to the stalagmite more than ten meters away on the side.
In the next second, the entire hillock crashed into the bottomless abyss along with their foothold!
Immediately afterwards, the nearby stone pillars and stalagmites collapsed one after another, smashing and smashing the ground into pieces.
Zhao Feiyu fluttered his wings and gave Zhu Yang the strength to ascend in time, and the two flew to follow Zhang Qingyang without losing a single bit.
Zhang Qingyang's four claws picked at the stone pillar and ran upwards with all his might, and with the blessing of the Longyou Four Seas Body Method, he jumped to the dome with a few vertical jumps, and the stone pillar collapsed at the same time as he shifted his shape, and the rock canopy above "clicked" and cracked, and fell violently!
The canopy is a thick layer of rock, and above the rock is a heavy layer of sand, overwhelmingly pressing down, sealing all the gaps that can be breached, and the natural mass of thousands of tons alone is enough to make them ten dead!
At the critical moment, Zhang Qingyang's heart became more and more calm, and the bridge of the soul drove the powerful spiritual force to run at full speed, with the help of the overflowing qi and blood as a bridge, stretching to the periphery of the body, doubling the efficiency of perception and information acquisition, and invisibly, the physical and mental adaptability of the whole person soared significantly.
He flickered with a faint red light, opening up a round qi and blood realm in the sky, and under the near-death crisis of annihilation, he burst out with unprecedented potential!
"Give it to me...... Open!"