"Looks like we're in luck!"

Muzi smiled and took the initiative to step forward to pick up the crystal nucleus, and then just as he was just starting. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Wait a minute!"

Fengluo suddenly stopped him with a voice, his eyes fixed on the direction of the crystal nucleus.

"What's wrong, Brother Feng?"

Muzi stopped a little confused.

Before Fengluo could speak, he saw that the crystal nucleus that fell next to the mutant rat leader automatically shook twice at this time, and then suddenly floated into the air, quickly "escaping" along the corner of the wall to the side.

"What's the matter, the crystal nucleus will still run?"

Mr. Jiao's eyes were flustered.

"There are ghosts in the game!"

Boss Meng was also a little puzzled.

"Bang!"

When everyone was still a little flustered or even surprised, the M110 in Fengluo's hand had already let out a gunshot.

"Smack!"

The crystal nucleus fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and at the same time, the system prompt was also brushed in everyone's field of vision.

[You (your team member) killed a level 25 gathering beetle (normal), you gain experience points 16 (xx) ......]

"I see!"

Now everyone understood what was going on, not a ghost, of course, but a monster.

In the line of sight after the wind fell strengthened, he had actually roughly seen the appearance of this monster that stole crystal nucleus.

This is a beetle with a brown body covered with a lumpy black-brown carapace.

But to be precise, it's not quite appropriate to say that they are beetles.

Because their bodies are not globular like the previous self-detonating beetles, but are oval as a whole, with two scorpion-like chelae at the front and six knot-like legs below.

The crystal nucleus burst out by the mutant rat leader was caught by it with a large claw, and it ran rapidly on its six knobular legs.

But because of their brown bodies, it was difficult for people to be noticed in such a dim environment, and they moved against the illuminated walls, so no one could see clearly before.

Then after Fengluo shot and killed one, everyone realized that it was a monster who was "making trouble".

It's just that for the monster's "stealing crystal nucleus", similar to the player's behavior of grabbing equipment, everyone still feels a little discordant in their hearts.

It's become a player to rob equipment, and there will be such a strange thing as being robbed of loot by monsters?

"Ah, look, there's still one over there!"

Because of the strange situation before, Orange hid behind Boss Meng with some fear, and when his head looked away, he found more "stealing operations".

Not only the crystal nucleus, but also some of the larger crystals that were burst by ordinary rats were also secretly grabbed by a few brown gathering beetles and ran quickly.

"Stop them!"

Mr. Jiao shouted, the staff in his hand glowed, and a thorn more than fifty centimeters high drilled out of the ground, sending a brown beetle flying hard.

However, even if it was lifted into the air, the large claws of the brown beetle like a scorpion here clung to the spar.

"Bang!"

It wasn't until Feng Luo, who felt very hot now, exploded it in the air with a shot with great precision, and let the E-grade energy crystal fall.

However, although everyone intercepted one after another, in the end, they were still escaped by a collection beetle.

It crawled into the dark corner, and vanished from behind a pillar the size of two people.

However, before that, Fengluo also got their information.

[Collect beetles, level 25 common.] Species number: JCG-02364, estimated HP: 2800. XP-S3 chip fit: 35%. 】

Compared to the previous self-detonating beetles, this "collection beetle" has a 35% fit, which means that there is a one-third chance of success, but Fengluo is not very interested in them.

Because listening to the name of this beetle, he knew that it was likely to be a support class, and he needed a pet that could help in battle.

However, the appearance of this beetle further proves that there may be something he wants in the ruins of this ruin.

"Huh, weird. How does the sculpture on this root look like a god? ”

Jiao, who failed to chase the beetle at the end, held his staff and circled around the "pillar" twice, and said with some doubts.

"Idols?"

Feng Luo's face fell, and then he walked over quickly.

It is an irregular "pillar" of two people, about four meters high, with the top connected to the ceiling of the parking lot.

The color of the pillar is gray and black, the surface is not flat but undulating, and the middle part looks more like a human figure, so it is estimated that Mr. Jiao thinks it is a "god statue".

The top of the pillar was covered with holes the size of sea bowls, and the hedron gathering beetle probably escaped by running into the hole.

"This look ......"

In the wind fell into his mind, he remembered the building he thought was a portrait sculpture that he had seen through the sniper scope of M110 before, and found that the materials of the two were very similar, both resembling stone but not quite stone.

However, the holes distributed on the two are the same, except that the former has smaller holes, which are only suitable for self-detonating beetles, while the holes in front of you are large enough for collecting beetles to enter and exit.

"I see!"

Fengluo figured out why a large number of self-exploding beetles suddenly appeared behind them, and these guys actually ran out of the pillars, or "gods", among them!

To be precise, it should have run out of the ground, because by shining a strong flashlight on the "statue of the god" in front of you, you can see that the hole actually leads to the underground.

Underneath the entire ruins, it is likely that there are tunnels dug by bugs, or directly borrowed urban drainage systems.

In other words, these beetles are likely to be under the feet of the players at this time.

"However, how do they evade reconnaissance, is it because the passage and the 'idol' itself have the function of isolating reconnaissance? Or ......"

Fengluo thought of another possibility, but he couldn't prove it for the time being.

And at this time, there was a sudden prompt from his communicator that someone had requested a call.

"Old Feng, where are you and how are you doing?"

Mu Wu's voice came through the communicator.

"We hid in the underground parking lot of a building, evading the pursuit of the self-detonating beetles, and there was no attrition for the time being. What about your losses? ”

Feng Luo expected that the damage caused by the sudden outbreak of self-detonating beetle attack this time would definitely not be small.

Although they sent a warning message to the Mu Wu and the commander-in-chief as soon as they discovered the situation, there was not enough time for everyone to retreat successfully.

"The losses are very large, this wave of beetles broke out, three squads were directly wiped out, and even a mecha was surrounded by hundreds of beetles and scrapped, and the total number of people was reduced to ninety-three. If it weren't for the fact that some of the self-detonating beetles had shifted their targets to the positions of the Dragon Yin Mercenary Regiment and the veteran tribe, it was estimated that the losses would have been even more serious! ”

Mu Wu's voice was a little heavy, after all, he had just encountered this situation at the beginning of the mission, which was really a bit unexpected.

"It's a bit more than expected, and that's only in the level 20 area, and it's likely that the level 30 and level 40 areas have similar troubles. Therefore, the boss has decided to hire another 500 players from the veteran tribe and the dragon mercenary group, otherwise maybe the task will not be completed! "Mu Wu said.

"Hmm. Anyway, so much money has already been invested, it's nothing to spend a little more! ”

Fengluo didn't care about this, anyway, it wasn't his own money that was spent.

The attrition of nearly 100 people did have a great impact on the plan, because the death penalty in "War Chronicles" is relatively severe, and in addition to losing one level of experience, you need to wait twelve hours before you can log back into the game.

In other words, even if these people rush back to fight, they will have to wait until tomorrow.

Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of hired players.

"In addition, because the head office of the North District has not been attacked on a large scale by self-explosive beetles, the number of people remaining is relatively large. So I decided to divide five squads to come over and help us catch up with the progress first, so as to avoid monsters gathering in a certain area because one side is too fast. ”

In the communicator, Mu Wu said again.

Fifty people, Fengluo felt a little less, but it was not up to him to decide what the "eldest young master" Dark Night Xingchen who was in charge of the command thought, so he didn't say anything about it.

"By the way, we found out that these beetles may ......"

Fengluo told Mu Wu about the "god statue" that he had just thought of.

"You're saying that these beetles come out of the holes of the 'idols', and that their passages or gathering places are underground?"

On the other end of the communicator, Mu Wu groaned.

"To be precise, I don't think it's really a god statue, it's just a pile of dirt that beetles dig out when they dig tunnels. It is important to know that many insects can use special secretions to make their nests as hard as concrete. ”

Fengluo said.

"It's a bit unreasonable to say that there is a pattern that looks like a god on it, but there seems to be a 'temple' in the center." Mu Wu said.

"Every species has its own style of architecture, and maybe these beetles like to do that. Or, in fact, it is the game company that makes a little trick to increase the atmosphere! "The wind falls.

"If this is possible, then I will immediately ask someone to find out the first "idols". ”