Chapter 15: Deep in the Jungle
Stoor led the way with a large army of insect swarms toward what he called the "training site for the exterminators."
Along the way, this guy was afraid that the insect mother would regret it and take back the glory and wealth of the rest of his life, so he kept slapping the horse along the way, and all he spit out was sycophants praising the "insect god Xue Hua".
Now that the insect swarm in Green Screen City is nearing the end of the operation to clear the insecticidal cult stronghold, it is afraid that there will be a pest exterminator who has slipped through the net to warn the training point and let them move their positions again, so this hard-won opportunity to catch the other party's fox tail will be in vain again.
Outside the city of Green Screen is a vast jungle, and the trees in this jungle are tall and stout, even the shortest of them are five to six meters tall, and the older ones grow to more than ten meters.
Because of its special geographical environment, most of the water veins are buried deep under the vast land, and the ground vegetation here not only has a very developed root system, but also has a very thick and tall branch on the surface in order to get more and more sunlight.
This characteristic makes the forest floor of the Great Continent World not very high in tree cover, but the canopy is very dense, walking in this vast jungle of giant trees is like walking in a palace supported by countless huge wooden pillars, the top of the head is completely shaded by the trees, and only the fine sunlight can penetrate the dense canopy to reach the surface.
The swarm followed Sdur deeper and deeper into the heart of the jungle known locally as the "Sea of Trees of Cayuda" outside Green Screen City, and as they got deeper, the surrounding light began to dim.
By the time they finally reached the very center of the jungle, the surroundings had become so dark that they could even be described as missing their fingers.
All units in the swarm can see normally in the dark, and Stoil, who leads the way, has good night vision due to the Weeper nature, so they have no intention of using lighting items despite the darkness around them.
Stoor had been walking through the jungle for hours with the swarm, and the closer he got to the core of the jungle, the more uneasy premonitions welled up in his heart.
None of the native ferocious beasts of the surrounding giant continent world dared to provoke the swarm, so this premonition of danger should not come from a possible attack by the beasts.
He'd only listened to Miside's drunken talk about how to get into the training site, but he didn't have the courage to test it himself.
However, he was fairly confident in the information he had gathered, so the slight premonitions of danger didn't stop him from moving forward—at least not immediately.
Stole had been scrutinizing his surroundings, looking for the sign that Middled had mentioned.
As long as he finds a special way to enter this sign, he will be able to find the training point with the swarm, and thus pocket the glory and wealth of the rest of his life and the honor of being a brother and sister to the king!
Thinking of this, Stoul's courage grew, and he carefully searched every tree trunk around him, hoping to find the thing he was looking for.
"Giant landers! How far are we from our destination? ”
The mother's hoarse questioning voice sounded behind him, and a trace of sweat suddenly overflowed from Stoul's hairy face.
According to the information he had gathered, the training point of the Exterminator Sect should be near here, so why couldn't he find the sign that Miside said no matter how much he searched?
"No... Not far away, Messenger, we'll be there in ...... soon."
Steele responded to the mother's question with some weakness, and began to look even harder for the mark that he had never seen before.
"I hope so, otherwise... You should know the fate of bluffing His Majesty the Insect God! ”
While the mother insect threatened, she mobilized the infected who followed underground in the mind of the main nest to monitor the spiritual energy of the surroundings, wanting to see if they could locate the training point by relying on the spiritual energy fluctuations emitted by the "exterminators".
Of course, it didn't suspect that this was a trap set by the Sect of Extermination, but the powerful power of the insect swarm gave it enough confidence, and with the fur-level spiritual power that the Giant Land people now mastered, no matter what kind of trap it was, it would not be able to affect the insect swarm.
Just as the infected of the swarm began to detect psionic fluctuations in the forest underground, Sdur, at the front of the team, suddenly let out a terrifying scream!
"Ahh What is it! ”
Hearing his exclamation, a cold light flashed in the worm mother's dim yellow eyes, and the two pairs of sharp arthropods behind her opened up in an instant, and the light purple psionic light instantly lit up at the tip of the arthropods!
"Help!" Steel's screams quickly turned into terrified cries for help, and a faint wave of psionic energy suddenly rose from the roots of all nearby trees!
In the next moment, countless thick tree roots sprang out from under the soil of the forest floor like giant snakes, dancing wildly in mid-air and smashing into the ground troops of the swarm!
At the same time, the swarm troops under the ground were soon attacked by these wildly growing roots, and the trees of the entire woodland seemed to suddenly become living creatures, and began to frantically attack all the creatures that broke into them!
The lower half of Steel's body was tightly wrapped around a vine as thick as a grown terrestrial man's arm, and the root was dragging him back, as if trying to drag him into the roots of some giant tree.
"Help me! I know how to deal with these trees! ”
He let out heart-rending wails and cries for help as he desperately threw out his last hole card.
These trees were the means of external defense of the training points mentioned by Middled and him before, and in order to make his intelligence more valuable, of course, he also got the information to crack this means of defense.
Mother Worm was about to give up on the useless creature, but Stoul's shouts managed to get her attention again.
"Break that root." It stretched out its hand and pointed at the ones that had almost dragged Stor into the dirt, and two explosive spines flew out of the swarm behind it, directly blowing them off on the spot.
The rescued Stoor hurriedly broke away from the remains of the tree roots that were wrapped around his body, and ran back to the protection of the swarm.
"Tell me, what are you going to do with these roots?"
The mother squinted her eyes and asked Stole, who was barely alive, as she commanded the swarm to resist the attack of the roots.
It found that while the swarm could easily repel the attack, it couldn't kill them all, even if the exterminators knocked down all the thick trees around them, which made the attack even more violent.
It's as if the whole forest is suddenly on the side of the Exterminator Church, and all the trees are fighting against them.