Chapter 100: The Brave
There is no day or night in the abandoned world, and only the feeling rests in the "night".
The night was destined to be unpeaceful, with giant insects tumbling and grinding on the ground, roaring endlessly.
The special forces who were keeping vigil in the cave vigilantly listened to the movement above, and the thin men Zhao Wen and Li Fei did not rest, they were distracted in the dark with their eyes open. Thinking about it a lot, eventually the sultry discomfort pulls their minds back to reality.
-- I have to go back alive first.
The amplitude of the ground shaking is increasing.
"Boom!"
"Ahem!" The special forces who were lying down with their guns and clothes all jumped up, and the dirt on the roof of the cave fell on their faces.
Jian Hua also woke up, and when he opened his eyes, he couldn't see the situation in the cave clearly. The soil in the northwest is relatively dry, and the free dust is scattered everywhere, choking everyone to cover their mouths and noses.
"What's crazy about that bug?"
"Quick, take supplies and retreat to the passage!" The captain snapped.
Everyone was in a hurry before they carried a round of belongings, and the thin man carrying the battery light saw that the bumper of the car supporting the roof of the cave was shifting.
"Not good! Let's go, leave things alone! β
Then a rock smashed at the thin man's feet.
The roof of the cave was suddenly covered with flames, like a red brocade, and like an upside-down sea of fire, and the dazzling light was refracted through the smoke and dust, and the outline of the head of a giant insect appeared behind it.
"Block the entrance!"
The last to escape into the passage was the captain, who jumped forward, and immediately the special forces who had been waiting sideways for a long time desperately filled the chair sofa.
There was a layer of ice in the crevices, and a lot of mycelium.
The mycelium, which had not had food for a long time, couldn't help but gnaw at the thin man's ice-based ability, and when the giant worm rushed over, the mushroom with the ice slag slid directly into its mouth, colliding with its teeth and making a strange noise.
"Steady, don't panic, keep retreating!" The captain's calm instructions.
The width of the passage was limited, and the giant insect slammed open the broken car seat, poking its head into the passage, and the stench rushed towards it.
The lethality of this smell is simply impossible for humans to resist, and the air circulation in the cave is limited, and the "poisonous gas" emitted by the giant insect makes the captain's body shake and almost fall headlong.
The fat mushroom cap plugged the giant worm's mouth.
It angrily grinds the foreign object with its teeth, and the twisted and deformed mushroom turns into hyphae, and then becomes a mask to cover the mouth of the giant worm.
More hyphae grew along the walls of the cave, tangled around the giant worm's head, and they joined up with their tentacles as the mushrooms devoured each other due to lack of energyβthe hyphae on the tentacles were intermittent and scattered to fill the new mushroom nets.
"Suck my powers!"
Li Fei urged the flame flow to approach the passage, the temperature rose, and everyone was sweating.
The mycelium unceremoniously extracted the flame energy, and the thin man followed with an ice blade.
Alternating between hot and cold, the giant insect frantically hit the cave, and the captain who was helped up by everyone slapped himself hard, only to recover from the muddy nightmare brought by the stench, and said weakly: "Withdraw!" β
"But there's no place to hide from the giant worms when we get back to the ground......"
"The passage will collapse! After the death of the earth-based powerhouse, the solidity of the cavern decreased. β
If you don't leave, you'll be buried alive in the dirt.
But out of the cover of the burrow, the giant insect can chase its prey to its heart's content, and when everyone is making a conflict, they are suddenly pushed to the side by the mushrooms that emerge from their feet.
"Tie up the worms in the burrow!" Jian Hua activated the ability, and the mycelium spread to the "open room" that was smashed by the giant insect, growing all the way along the giant insect's body.
"Click...... Click......"
In the smoke and dust, only Li Fei could see what was happening.
The giant worm's teeth are falling out.
"Wait, aim for its mouth!" Li Fei attributed the results to the alternating "baptism" of hot and cold.
The thin man made up several icicles in the direction pointed by Li Fei.
"Come on, the passage can't hold on!" The captain of the special forces squad urged them in the back.
"Five more minutes!" Jian Hua didn't look back, the crazy mushroom quickly resisted the falling pieces of dirt, and now only some sand slipped from the edge of the cap.
With less worries, Li Fei was able to control the frequency of fire and ice attacks more calmly, and he kept reminding the thin man with his voice, and at the same time, the cave was filled with a strange clicking sound.
With the size of a giant insect, it can swallow three people in one bite, and the powerful force when the big mouth is closed is estimated to be able to crush people into meat patties, and now the tooth extraction can at least ensure that when fleeing for their lives, they will not be bitten because of their clothes and flesh, and a layer of blood will be torn off, so that they will lose their combat effectiveness due to serious injuries.
The giant worm finally felt bad, and it struggled to retreat desperately, and the passage vibrated even more violently.
Eventually, the mushroom completely supported the falling sand, and the giant insect pulled its head back, roaring at the mushrooms scrambling to squeeze out of the passage, and began to burrow its head into the ground.
This bug also wants to fight a tunnel war and sneak up on them from underground?
"Jump on top of the mushrooms!"
Everyone did the same, even Li Fei and Zhao Wen were no exception, although after hugging the mushroom stalk, everyone's mood was very complicated.
In order to stabilize the ground, large and small mushrooms have grown another layer on the floor of the passage, and now everyone is completely in a "mushroom house", with mushroom caps everywhere.
Even in the tropical rainforest, it is rare to see this kind of sight in the northwest.
A ball of flame condensed in Li Fei's hand, and he waited for Jian Hua's ability feedback to "see" where the giant insect was about to break through the ground from, and gave the giant insect a ball of high-temperature flames.
"It's digging for dirt...... It's not going to this side, it's not trying to drill the tunnel, it's ......"
Jian Hua paused suddenly, and everyone could hear the movement of digging outside, as well as the obvious sound of swallowing.
The thin man thought of something, his face became ugly, and his hand clenched into a fist on the fungus cap, and the mycelium shook and directly entangled him. Jian Hua waved his hand to disperse the mycelium surrounding the thin man, and said to everyone in a deep voice, "It is eating your buried corpses." β
The captain looked regretful.
Burying people in the burrow is to believe that after the incident, even if all the people here are dead, the state can judge the giant worm based on the wounds on the corpse, and the backup of the mission diary is also "buried".
If you know that the giant worm will crash into the hole and devour the corpse, it is better to have the fire powerhouse cremate the dead.
The giant worm didn't hit the mushroom at the entrance of the passage again, and it slowly left.
"It only swallowed the one who just died, and you mentioned earlier, and buried one of the unfortunate victims?" Jian Hua turned his head and asked.
The captain nodded, and described to Jian Hua where the next two bodies were buried.
The giant insect is not far away, but it is not found, it seems that the dead ability still has the power that has not dissipated, and the dead person who has been dead for several days is gone, and the giant insect has shown several times that it is very sensitive to the strength and weakness of the ability.
Li Fei was still thinking deeply, and Jian Hua suddenly shouted: "Be careful! β
The giant insect pretended to be "eating and leaving", it went around in a circle, suddenly attacked, and smashed its head on the cave above Li Fei, and the mushrooms were crushed by this force and collapsed a few points.
The mycelium scrambled to wrap Li Fei up, as if he had put on a protective suit, only his eyes, nose and mouth were exposed, and not even a single hair could be seen.
The mycelium isolates the ability fluctuations, and the dual effect of the mushroom house and the mycelial protective suit allows the giant worm, which is not easy to use its tentacles, to divert its direction to attack the cave above Jian Hua's head.
Jian Hua calmly put on protective clothing for himself and the thin man.
The giant insect that lost its target slammed into the ground angrily, and just when the captain was worried about whether the mushroom house would be able to hold up, the giant insect left in a huff because it did not want to be entangled in the mycelium.
Afraid that it wouldn't be able to think of killing again, the three of them could only continue to wear mycelium protective clothing.
Under the light of the fireball, they were like mummies.
Special forces with guns in their hands: ...... Let's put out the flames, the mummy sitting on the huge mushroom, I can't see it.
They touched the mushrooms around them, and realized that the mushroom was a very good "secondary ability", which could be used as a "building material" when it mattered.
"The giant worm will definitely come again, seventy percent of the hole has collapsed, and we are trapped here." The captain said with a stern expression, "If it makes a desperate attempt to collapse this place again, we will have to go to the ground." β
"Can mushrooms grow in clearing?" Thin man consults about the speed of construction of "temporary shelters".
Jian Hua shook his head lightly: "There is a strange wind outside." β
Rolling up to the ground, you can blow the mushrooms into silk at one time, how to resist the attack of the giant insect?
The hearts of the people sank.
The levitating fireball hung in the passage, and the mushrooms around it desperately stretched out their mycelium to reach out to the fireball, showing their greedy nature. Jian Hua stopped them from swallowing the "light bulb", the mycelium was unwilling to go, and many white silks "sticked" near the fireball, making the quietly burning fireball look like the eggs of alien creatures, and it was not necessary to synthesize it with a computer to make a science fiction movie.
Li Fei found that he was still in the mood to appreciate this "weird" beauty.
Filmmakers can't resist the impact of excellent pictures and perspectives......
The magic eye can't see through what is behind the mycelium, Li Fei doesn't know Jian Hua's current expression, but he feels that Jian Hua is not as anxious as others, and the indifferent aura around him is back, as if he doesn't care about the life and death of so many people, including himself.
If it was in the past, Li Fei would feel that Jian Hua was unapproachable, and after getting to know Jian Hua in various "depths", Li Fei guessed that his lover was now distracted.
-- What details have been overlooked?
Li Fei frowned slightly, recalling the process of the giant insect attack, and after half a minute, he blinked his eyes and asked cautiously, "There are mycelium on the corpse?" β
Everyone was silent, and the thin man suddenly realized that their abilities were useless to the body surface of the giant worm, and the giant worm had a double oral structure, but the mycelium was eaten by the giant worm, which was different! Could it be that it also has steel and iron bones in its body?
"There was only a tiny wisp that came down from the corner of the giant insect while it was digging up the corpse." Jian Hua said absentmindedly, he closed his eyes as if he was feeling something, "Its connection with me has been cut off, I don't know the current situation......"
"Boom!"
There was another loud bang overhead, not from the top of the cave, but with something heavy on the ground, and the giant worm let out a long hiss.
The captain immediately decided to go out and check it out.
"I'm coming!" The thin man volunteered, and he also had a mycelium protective suit.
Passing through the passage made by the mushrooms, the thin man who climbed to the ground saw a hole in the sky at a glance - the giant worm had slipped out of it, its huge body twitching, piling up a mountain of flesh on the road, and it was possible to see the swirling hollow directly, and a manic wind blew from it.
"Oh no, we've got to plug that hole!"
ββ¦β¦β
The people who crawled out when they heard the sound were dumbfounded.
The sky near the hollow was already pitch black, and the black range was still expanding, and although I didn't know what it was, it really didn't bode well.
The body of the giant insect bounced like an electric shock, pumping and pumping, irregularly, causing an earthquake to shake.
It is several hundred meters long, and the back half of its body is covered with a triangular hook, like a leg and like a stable body, and now the hook is either curled up, some open, and waved uncontrollably.
The hard shell of the giant insect was actually scratched by these hooks, and the skin and flesh had been peeled open, oozing iron-gray β‘β‘.
Jian Hua urged more mycelium to burrow through the wound and kill the monster as much as he could.
"Blocked?" Can mushrooms grow twenty meters tall and then hold up to the sky?
"No, there's a strange substance in the cavity that swept the mycelium away." Jian Hua's face was pale, what he said was half-true, and he felt that the mycelium had actively burrowed into the void, just like when he had traveled through space to forage for food.
Seeing that there were more and more dark β‘β‘ in the sky, and the wind blew the three "mummies" to reveal their true faces, and they could only burrow back into the ground.
"Woohoo!"
In the wind and sand at the end of the road, a short figure rushed out.
Corgi has short legs, but runs fast.
It screamed at the sky, and the black β‘β‘ suddenly froze, then quickly receded like a tide, and finally the hole began to shrink, and by the time the corgi ran in front of everyone, the hole had completely disappeared, and on the other side of the road, only the dying giant worm was lying on the other side.
"Wang?" Corgi's nose moved, recognizing Jian Hua, and it stuck out its tongue and licked Jian Hua enthusiastically.
Li Fei: ......
All:......
It's hard to describe the feeling of being saved the world by a dog.