Chapter 45: The Rat Tide Strikes
In the process of continuous decline, Li Chen has already come to a conclusion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the current state, an ordinary person jumping from the hole to the ground is only equivalent to jumping from a height of about 2 meters on the ground.
No wonder Tashi dared to enter here.
"Arnold, keep activating the contact signal, I want to know the status of the communication at all times. Mark the coordinates and support at any time! ”
"Yes!" With Arnold's voice, a small green light lit up in Li Chenzhi's head. As long as the light is on, it means that the God of War can contact Li Chen at any time, and Li Chen's spatial coordinates will be fed back to Arnold every second. In an emergency, if there is a large enough space near him, the medium-distance space fighter in the small battleship that stays outside and is known as the Hider can come to Li Chen's sky at any time through space jumping.
Li Chen will always remember the first lesson given to new cadets by the legendary marshal of the Rice Empire when he was in the first class of his military academy.
A question asked by the battle-experienced marshal at the time: As the best soldier, what should you mentally prepare before the war?
When the students shouted in unison, "Sacrifice for the country, die in the starry sky", the marshal's answer was "Wrong, excellent soldiers are fully prepared before the war with the mentality of not wanting to die!" ”
After many years of war, Li Chen deeply believed in this truth and was cautious, I don't know how many times these four words saved Li Chen.
After falling for an unknown amount of time, suddenly in Li Chen's sea of knowledge, countless things like human ears suddenly appeared on the walls of the cave that were smooth at first.
It's not a fungus, it's not a plant, it's not a living thing, but when Li Chen found these things, his eyes suddenly sharpened. And the robot warriors obviously discovered these things, and the weapons in their hands were immediately activated, and the energy beam was already in the muzzle of the gun, and it was possible to shoot out at any time.
Demon Ear!
One of the most hated mushrooms of all intelligent beings in the Rice universe is the common enemy of all intelligent life forms in the entire Rice universe - the larvae of the Moor's earworm. As long as you see these things that look like human ears, it means that there are a large number of magic ear worms in its vicinity.
Moor-eared worms, a strange creature. Able to travel short distances in the positive and dark universe freely, it looks like human ears when it is young and cannot move, and it is born completely by relying on adult insects to catch living things and water them with biological blood, and if they stop watering, they stop growing but do not die, and they are waiting for the next watering.
As adults, the mojo worm transforms into a shuttle form, without wings but able to move freely with the planet's magnetic field. However, within 12 years of reaching adulthood, if no sapient creature is found to parasitize, the adult Moor-eared insect will turn into a black liquid. This liquid mutates any living being, giving the plant its biological characteristics, and the creature quickly turns into a powerful zombie at the behest of an adult Moor.
This is not the horror, the most terrifying thing is that if the Moorite parasitizes into the intelligent life, it can quickly integrate into the brain and completely turn the intelligent life into the parasite of the Moordia Insect, and the Rice Universe calls this category a demonic creature.
For example, if the mojo worm parasitizes humans, the demonized people can live naturally in human society, and even their closest relatives will not be able to detect the abnormality.
Demonic people feed on human blood to maintain the vitality of their bodies, and those who are sucked by them will become zombies when infected by their saliva.
Demonic people will also slaughter a large number of human beings and use their blood to cultivate other larvae to grow, because they are good at camouflage, extremely fast and difficult to kill unless they crush their hearts and heads, so in the Rice universe, even if the two sides are fighting fiercely, if the hostile forces of life and death find a demon ear worm on the battlefield, they will immediately stop fighting and work together to search the battlefield, even if they turn over thousands of feet, they must turn the demon ear worm larvae out of the ground and completely kill them under the light of ultraviolet light.
Looking at the robot's movements, Li Chen did not give the command to attack. Anyway, the larvae don't move, and it looks like they haven't been fed with blood for a long time. I'll wait until Tashi returns. That is, a problem that can be solved by an ultraviolet spotlight bomb, and it is not possible to startle the snake now.
Finally, 82 minutes after the Zhi Brain timed, Li Chen's spiritual force field found the ground. Commanding the robot to activate the levitation device and put it on top alert, Li Chen and 15 heavily armed mechanical warriors finally landed on the ground.
It was still as dark as it had been when it had entered, but it was like daylight at the end of a dark culvert in the distance. Li Chen's spiritual power scanned the top of his head, and the dozens of Chinese soldiers who entered the cave were still slowly falling.
Li Chen suddenly realized a problem: in this underground world, there must be other passages to return to the surface. There must have been people who have been in and out of this place many times in the past, and the Chinese military is very familiar with everything here, otherwise it would be impossible for Tashi and the soldiers to jump down recklessly and without any defense, otherwise how would these people who jumped down return to the ground so deep underground?
Seeing that the communication with Arnold was still normal, he ordered all the soldiers to activate the detection devices throughout their bodies. Under various devices such as infrared, microwave, magnetic field, weak electron, and sound waves, Li Chen believed that no one could sneak attack them.
A group of people formed a standard team and walked quickly and cautiously to the white light.
This is another very strange place, the entrance of the cave is closed by a wall of light, and the naked eye can't see what is behind the white light at all, and even Li Chen's spiritual power seems to have lost its feedback ability after it is probed.
Will you be unable to get in touch with Arnold after entering the back?
At this time, there is no way to retreat. Li Chen extended his spiritual power along the passage to the transport ship to find the cabin where he placed his outdoor equipment. Although it has not been used for a long time, there is still no problem with the various equipment inside. Li Chen snickered, and then took the backpack, tent, rope, and cane equipment in front of him. After thinking about the various characteristics of the demon ear and the demon man, he took a few knives from the transport ship, an automatic rifle on the earth side, and dozens of boxes of ammunition, and put them into the glove space. He made a gesture for the mechanical warrior to follow, and took a stride through the white wall of light.
Perhaps after the mysterious black-and-white barrier line, Tashi's signal appeared again, not far from Li Chen, and was moving rapidly. But Li Chenzhi's green light in his brain that meant to contact Arnold had gone out, and there was no response to the call with the headset, so he completely lost the connection with Arnold.
Li Chen didn't make any attempt to contact Arnold's slave, because he was so stunned by what he saw that he forgot to contact Arnold and forgot to chase after Tashi.
It's an incomparably large space, no, it's supposed to be a miniature planet.
A luminous object in the sky, which resembles a miniature version of the sun, hangs high above it, and is called a luminous object rather than a star because it only shines and does not feel any heat emitted.
The sky was blue, and a few white clouds wandered lazily around in the air, without any regularity, sometimes to the left and sometimes forward, but then suddenly retreating.
The ground was covered with towering trees, with only branches but no leaves, replaced by thin thorns half a meter long. There are no plants on the ground, but they are covered with blue mushrooms, and the densely spread flat ground is like a blue carpet, without a trace of undulation, and there is no end in sight. There was no trace of any other creature on the carpet, except for a line of footprints that were supposed to have been left by Tashi and stretched into the distance.
In the distance was a huge, steep mountain, but the top of the mountain seemed to have been shaved off, and a huge square house that radiated a silver glow sat on the top of the hill.
Other than that, there were no signs of life. There was no sound in the whole space, and it would be better to describe it as lonely, deserted, or lifeless.
At this time, the report of the comprehensive support robot's environmental analysis was sent.
Nitrogen (N2) accounts for about 48%, oxygen (O2) accounts for about 51%, noble gases account for about 0.969% (helium HE, neon Ne, argon argon, krypton KR, xenon XE, radon RN), carbon dioxide (CO2) accounts for about 0.001%, and other gases and impurities account for about 0.03%.
Li Chen nodded, it was a suitable place for human beings to live. This was the first time that Li Chen had discovered that there was another small habitable planet in the center of a planet. Earth is such a strange place. Could it be that the Taoist legends are all true, and this is the center of the flood famine?
Squinting at the mountains ahead, he looked at Tashi's straight-line distance of only 2 kilometers. After trying the headset and brain to maintain close contact with the mechanical warriors, he ordered the raid team to enter stealth mode, first guarding Tashi nearby, and staying where he was, taking back the mecha and switching the black combat suit to the normal black outdoor suit, from a majestic warrior to an adventure enthusiast.
Two machetes hung from the belt, and they were modeled after the Katsura katana. Kazhuo knife can be described as a fine product in the hidden knife, Tashi once gave a meat cutting knife, Li Chen liked it very much. Later, Li Chen deliberately asked people to go to Diqing, and bought a few of each of them and brought them back as a collection. Later, he simply asked Arno to make two imitation katana swords from an alloy specially made of battleship armor, which happened to be placed in the transport. Li Chen fell in love with Kadro's rough lines, exquisite handles, and scabbard. Now I will give Tashi a handful, as a Kham man, it is the easiest to play with the Tibetan knife.
A Rice Empire dark matter knife is tied to the outside of the left thigh, the blade is 18 cm long, if it is combined with Li Chen's mental method, it can stimulate a knife more than 1 meter long, which is enough in an emergency. A handful of Otto Jungle One was tied to the outside of his right thigh and was given to Tashi later. After turning his glasses into the usual outdoor windshield sports glasses on Earth, he tightened his backpack a little and teleported to about 1 kilometer in front of Tashi. The tent was set up, and he set up a small horse and waited for Tashi to come.
It's been a long time since I've seen Tashi, and now his beard has grown, his face is much thinner than before, and he looks like he's suffered a lot, but it adds a lot of charm to a mature man. Judging from the pace of his walking, he is full of strength and elasticity when he walks, and although he carries a large backpack of 70 liters, his center of gravity is very stable. Looking at the machete on Tashi's waist and the ice axe hanging on his backpack, Li Chen smiled, it seems that Tashi did not come in without a little precaution.
As he walked, Tashi carefully observed his surroundings.
Although the blue fungus brings peace to people, Tashi knows that there are countless dangers lurking here. From Zhang Pojun's mouth, Tashi knew that there were zombies, a carnivore with infinite strength and strange shapes, a huge rat tide that appeared irregularly, a swarm of bees, corpse birds, and even tentacles like octopuses, all of which cut off the rescue of the scientific research team.
But ......, Tashi's eyes seemed to be smiling like a girl. "Fool, I'll go back to my hometown to look for you after I've collected plant samples, wait!"
"Dolma, wait for me, I will definitely find you."
Dolma is Tashi's girlfriend and Zhang Pojun's sister. Tashi met this beautiful Tibetan girl through a gathering organized by Zhang Pojun. The two fell in love at first sight and soon fell in love, and after graduation, the two entered the stage of talking about marriage. It's just that when the two planned to go back to Tashi's hometown to hold a wedding, and Tashi, who had returned to his hometown in advance, was preparing for the wedding lively, he received a call from Zhuoma and learned that Zhuoma's mentor had urgently notified him to go to Lop Nur to conduct a scientific research project, which was very short and would definitely be able to come back before the wedding.
But the beloved girl has disappeared here, and Tashi, who has not been able to contact him for a long time, simply came here from his hometown in Ganzi and met Zhang Pojun, who was also anxious. Only after entering the cave did his girlfriend and their mentor enter the cave for a week, they encountered a rat tide in the cave and could not return. I can only wait for the rat tide to recede, but this terrible rat tide has lasted for more than ten days, and it is estimated that the materials inside were consumed a week ago.
It is also possible to encounter monster attacks .......
Tashi learns that the military is mobilizing forces to carry out another large-scale sweep of the underground caverns, but the exact timing has not been determined. Tashi, who was worried about his girlfriend, was in a hurry, and after learning about the situation in the cave, he sneaked in. He is the world's best extreme sports master who has been genetically adjusted by Li Chen, and he has unintentionally allowed him to break through the military's defense.
Now it seemed that the rat tide had receded, and it was so calm, but Tashi felt countless pairs of eyes watching his every move. Although he was extremely nervous in his heart, he was determined to find his girlfriend, so he could only increase his pace, hoping to climb the front and take out the mountain before the alien creature reacted.
As he was walking, Tashi suddenly saw a tent 200 meters ahead, in front of which a man was standing waving to him. Picking up the binoculars and looking at them, Tashi was overjoyed.
"Fourth!" He clasped his hands together and yelled at the people in the distance.
"Tashi, Tashi Delek!" There was a greeting in Tibetan from the opposite side, it was the fourth, yes.
Tashi was overjoyed, and didn't think about why Li Chen was in front of him at all. I only know that the youngest brother in my dormitory is a very mysterious master.
When he climbed Mount Everest for the first time, Li Chen fell into the ice crevasse several times due to inadequate technical movements, but he returned to the climbing route in an unbelievable way.
Tashi swore that Li Chen was definitely not an ordinary person, have you ever seen a person who fell into a deep ice crevasse and climbed up again like a gecko along the immensely smooth ice wall?
The first time, Tashi watched Li Chen fall in pain, nervously looking for a route to rescue .......
The second time, Tashi was deeply remorseful, but there was a hint of anticipation in his heart......
The third time, Tashi wondered, why didn't this kid remember the lesson and do it again......
On the fourth occasion, Tashi did not react and continued to do his own thing.
With the fourth child here, Tashi has more confidence in finding Dolma.
When the two brothers met, they were naturally very enthusiastic. Li Chen didn't say why he was here, and Tashi didn't ask, this was a tacit understanding between the two.
Knowing Tashi's purpose and looking at the photo of his future sister-in-law, Li Chen quietly ordered the raid team to fan out a search. I also fully released my mental power, 10 kilometers, 50 kilometers, 100 kilometers, 500 kilometers, 1000 kilometers .......
In Li Chen's sea of knowledge, a large number of zombie tribes have been found more than a dozen times, there are tens of millions of ugly-looking and strange-shaped creatures, tens of thousands of adult devil-eared insects gathered by a black pool, and several small villages that have been broken, but no trace of human existence has been found, and there are not even any bones left of any creatures.
Odd......!
Li Chen did not give up and increased the scope again, but still found nothing. It was a sudden excitement in his heart and the discovery of a problem. In his sea of knowledge, the palace on the top of the mountain and the mountain had disappeared!
"Isolate the Circle!" Only the isolation circle that can isolate all kinds of detection forces is enough to shield people's spiritual power, but how can this thing appear here?
Demon ear worms, magic circles, Li Chen suddenly felt a kind of excitement in his heart, everything was related to the Rice Universe civilization in some way. Otherwise, why did the Demon Ear Worm in the Rice Universe appear here, and if there was indeed an isolation circle in any place, then there must be some kind of secret in the non-galactic universe here.
"Fourth, what's wrong with you?" Just when Li Chen was excited, Tashi's concerned question came from his ears.
"No, where did you just go?" Jun blushed and embarrassedly explained to Tashi.
"I said, let's go to the highest mountaintop palace, where the base camp of the scientific research team is, Senior Brother Zhang Pojun said after getting drunk."
"Let's go, let's go early." Hearing Tashi say this, Li Chen put away the tent with Tashi's help. Then the two of them walked one after the other towards the high mountain.
Anyone who often walks outdoors knows that looking at the mountains runs dead horses. Especially going to Qingqing. Hide. For people on the plateau, you can see mountains in the distance, but when you drive there, you can walk along the road as if you are walking on flat ground, and you don't feel that you are ascending. When you get closer, you will find that the mountain you have seen before is only a thousand-meter-high peak.
Li Chen and Tashi are like this, at first the two of them still said two words from time to time, but then neither of them spoke. Just stared a few meters ahead of the footsteps, concentrating on the road. Occasionally, the cane strikes startled a few fat, rat-like animals, which instantly slipped into the blue fungus and disappeared.
Tashi also laughed and said: The rats here are too fat.
But Li Chen's face became more and more solemn, because in the scanning system carried by his Zhihai and Zhi Brain, a large number of small animals were surrounding him and Tashi in a circular shape, constantly shrinking and surrounding, but the number in front of them was still relatively rare, but also under the supplement of the animals surging from the left and right, the thickness of the encirclement was rapidly increasing.
Swarm! In the distance, a large number of wolf-like animals were gathering in this direction, but they were a little sluggish. In the distance, some birds and black hornets the size of sparrows were also congregating, but they showed no signs of moving this way, as if they were building a backup echelon. Could it be that there are intelligent beings behind this who are directing their actions?
Look at the mountain from the palace, it should be more than 1 kilometer away.
"I know it's not easy here." Li Chen sighed in his heart, and ordered the raid team to stop the search and return immediately, continue to be invisible and form a defensive formation to protect him and Tashi in the middle, and open the infrasound shockwave weapon specially used to mass-kill beasts, snakes and insects.
Infrasound, sound waves with a frequency of less than 20 Hz (Hertz) are called infrasound. Infrasound waves of certain frequencies are easy to resonate with organs because they are similar or even the same as the vibration frequency of organisms, which is very harmful to organisms and can cause death when dangerous.
The infrasonic gun carried by the mecha warrior can emit two types of infrasonic waves: one is the neural infrasonic wave, whose oscillation frequency can resonate with the biological brain in a very short time, strongly stimulating the brain to make it nervous and insane; The other type is visceral organ type infrasound, whose oscillation frequency is similar to the natural oscillation frequency of biological visceral organs, which can make the internal organs resonate strongly and make their muscle tissue oscillate into minced meat.
As long as the infrasonic weapon is activated, within the set enveloping distance, the muzzle control program will automatically quickly emit fan-shaped infrasound waves of different frequencies from high to low, and automatically select one or several fixed frequencies according to the resonance caused by the target to finally achieve the purpose of maximum lethality. According to Li Chen's experience in exploring uninhabited planets many times, in an unfamiliar environment, as long as the target has biological tissue, the only thing that is most lethal and effective in killing the target in a large area without destroying the environment is the infrasonic weapon.
After walking for less than 2 minutes, more than 800 meters away from the mountain, Li Chen and Tashi had to stop, because the rats were already approaching less than 15 meters away from them. Looking at the black pressure around him, every cat size and hairless mouse, Li Chen's heart moved. Because he found out that these mice were the product of genetic changes by some kind of technology.
Compared to rats on Earth, the rats here have no ears, a head larger than a body, a more pointed mouth and very slender and sharp teeth, with staggered upper and lower teeth to expose the mouth. Li Chen didn't doubt their bite force at all, because the reason why their heads were nine years older was because the muscles in their mouths were too developed.
"Fire, 3-meter range mesh defensive shooting" Without hesitation, just before the rat swarm attacked, Li Chen issued an order to prepare for an attack and at the same time punched straight forward to kill him, making a gap appear in the encirclement of the rat swarm in front of him.
At this time, the infrasound waves in the hands of the mechanical warriors were also activated in unison, and all mice that crossed the 3-meter line quickly died. But the dead rats were also devoured by their own kind, leaving not even the bones behind. There were too many rats in the blue fungus, and in less than a minute, within Li Chen's line of sight, there were already all black pressed rats, and the layers of rat walls in the innermost circle were already 20 centimeters thick.
And in Li Chen's sea of knowledge, the demon ear worms in the distance are driving away zombies, and the large alien beasts are also rapidly approaching this side, the ground is already faintly trembling, and the encirclement is still slowly shrinking.
Tashi's face was pale at this time, and he only held the machete in his hand, and he had no time to think about why after Li Chen's punch was struck, the rats to his left and right and behind him would also die. Under the high level of fear, Tashi could only cry out in his heart: God will kill me!
If it was a large carnivore, Tashi firmly believed that with his own ability and the ability of the fourth, the two of them would definitely be able to kill it smoothly. But in front of me, there is a swarm of rats! More ants can bite an elephant to death, let alone a rat with sharp teeth. Looking at their size, it is obvious that they have been mutated.
Li Chen grabbed Tashi, who was already weak in his legs, with one hand, and kept killing the rats forward with the other hand, and the two of them slowly moved towards the mountain. Now he has two choices: one is to expose his details in front of Tashi, completely kill these alien creatures, or teleport away; The second is to take Tashi out and kill it!
Obviously, Li Chen still didn't have any intention of exposing too much inhuman power in front of his friends at this time, how could he hide himself to the greatest extent and be able to protect Za Anran from the palace in the distance?