Chapter 9: "Apocalypse"
Xue Hua asked about the latest progress of the suppression of the rebels in the Giant Continent World, and Isha immediately reported to him the latest information sent from the Worm Mother Aranoda.
With the main force of the Second Fleet already in the vicinity of the planet, the swarm forces of the Giant Continent World have now completely unleashed their hands and feet, and have begun to carry out a comprehensive liquidation and suppression of the stronghold of the "Church of Extermination" on the surface and underground of the planet.
The Weenose people, the main indigenous inhabitants of the Giant Continent World, are mammals who are extremely good at digging underground passages, and although they are used to living on the surface, they are also quite adaptable to underground life.
From Abasser's genetic analysis report, it can be seen that the Weevils are supposed to be a kind of advanced intelligent life evolved from a kind of "burrowing ape lizard" unique to the planet, this creature is born with the dual habit of surviving on the ground and underground, their eyes can adapt well to the dull or low-light environment, and the four huge claws can also be used well for digging.
Inheriting most of the original genetic advantages of this evolutionary ancestor, the Giant Continent was covered in thick, long-haired bast tissue, eyes capable of seeing in the dark, and a sense of smell developed enough to distinguish between different flavors in the soil and odor information released by their own kind.
And the Greatlanders use tools and armor, which allows them to dig caverns and tunnels much faster than their ancestors did.
In addition, the Giant Landers are able to endure high temperatures of up to 60 degrees Celsius and low temperatures of about -14 degrees Celsius, and they are able to survive tenaciously even under the thick ice and permafrost at the poles of the planet.
But the Giant Land people also inherited the weakness of their ancestor "burrowing ape lizard", which is also the weakness of the vast majority of non-aquatic creatures in the giant land world, that is, fear of water.
The Giant Continent people can tolerate drought, in fact, because of its vast land area, 40% of the surface of the giant continent is desert and wasteland, because of this living environment, the Giant Continent people are particularly drought tolerant, they can only rely on nutrients from food for half a year without any water supplement.
But they are very afraid of water-filled environments.
Although they also need to drink water, it is limited to drinking from the mouth, and the amount required is not large, or even unusually small.
The Continentals can't learn to swim, and their lungs are capable of purifying the foul air underground, and even filtering all kinds of toxic gases, but they can't do anything about liquids.
Although their lung capacity is not small, the phloem on the surface of the body is not as waterproof as human skin.
Once the Giant Land is submerged in water, their epidermis will infiltrate a large amount of fluid into their bodies within a few minutes, causing their own blood to be diluted, and their internal organs and brain will quickly develop extensive edema.
A normal Giant Continent can survive for years in an arid desert by digging up plant roots and stems for nutrients, but cannot stay in a bucket of water for five minutes.
So they never bathe, because that's suicidal for them......
Similarly, when digging underground tunnels, it is possible for the Julu people to dig through the underground water veins and cause the entire tunnel to be submerged by groundwater, but the Julu people with a keen sense of smell can keenly identify the water vapor and humidity in the air when digging tunnels, so as to avoid the excavation direction that may be excavating into the water source area.
But this instinctive acumen won't help them avoid the swarm's tactical clearance.
After learning of the weakness of the Giant Landers, the Mother of Worms, Aranoda, brutally injected a large amount of water into every found underground stronghold of the "Church of Extermination", and then when the cultists and rebels in the stronghold fled wildly due to their instinctive panic about the water, the swarm forces would kill them all mercilessly.
Through the use of this tactic, the Church of Exterminators' out-of-the-box strongholds soon began to be uprooted in large numbers, with only a few of the deeper, more remote, and secretive strongholds surviving.
The devastating Church did not stop there, and their "Pope", the deserter who was "favored" by the will of the world, sent a message to his remaining congregation, telling all the congregants to remain calm and hidden, and to do their best to protect the stronghold.
At the same time, he also blatantly declared that the so-called "Judgment Day" would soon come, when all the insects that "invaded" their homeland and those who "fought for the tiger" of the Makatata Kingdom would be annihilated by the "divine punishment".
He "advises" all the Greatlanders to use this as a threat to incite them against the rule of the Swarm, and says that if no one does, they will not be blessed by the "true gods" when the "Day of Judgment" comes.
Naturally, his remarks directly angered the princes and nobles of the Makatata Kingdom, and some officials of the Makatata Kingdom who had been ambiguous or sympathetic to the "Church of Extermination of Insects" began to publicly declare their opposition to the church.
However, his remarks unexpectedly provoked quite a stir among the people of the kingdom, and some of the people of the Great Land began to join them for fear of the possible "divine punishment".
And it turns out that this guy's remarks don't seem to be entirely false, and shortly after he made these remarks about "Judgment Day" and "End of the World", the swarm's Overseer King Worm detected violent geological movements and a large number of traces of psionic energy gathering in multiple locations in the Continent World.
Further investigation of these anomalies by the swarm revealed that there were large underground veins in the areas where these geological activities took place, and samples collected from psionic sites also observed permeable biological forced evolution.
The former is likely to cause large-scale changes in the entire topography of the Giant Continent World, and if these geological activities continue further, there is a high probability that the Giant Continent World will be submerged by the ocean created by the massive gushing underground water in the future.
This would be a deadly threat to most of the creatures of the Continent World, as well as to the Elephant Trunk people.
And not only that, the tracking and monitoring of this series of geological activities by the monitoring king worm also shows that these geological activities have signs of extending to the various large towns of the Macatata Kingdom, if these geological activities continue to develop according to the current law, then the large cities and important towns of the Macatata Kingdom will become the hardest hit areas of the so-called "divine punishment" in the near future!
This phenomenon has clearly shown the trajectory of the will of the giant continent world, which has begun to cause a catastrophe of extinction in order to fight against the colonization of the swarm!
However, if the world will of a planet with the existence of higher intelligent life is determined to destroy all the higher intelligent life on the planet, then it is tantamount to self-destruction.
For only the spirit of life and the higher intelligent life can sustain the continued existence of the will of the world.
Therefore, in order to preserve the last ray of life for itself, the world will of the giant land world of course also left a "back door" like "Noah's Ark" in this disaster.
This backdoor is a large collection of psionic energy that has gathered abnormally.