Chapter 593: Subspecies
At three o'clock in the afternoon, on the outskirts of Sewage Town.
By the time Qi Lin arrived at the intended location, hundreds of players had already gathered in that area, and the target of this hunt, the echinoderm salamander, was lying on its stomach in a dry riverbed a few kilometers away, seemingly completely unaware of the fierce battle that would ensue.
Qi Lin noticed that the size of this echinoderm salamander was a little small, with a body length of less than ten meters, only about half of that of an adult echinoderm salamander, as for the skin that should have been black and brown, it showed a strange blue-purple color, in such a dry environment, the body of the echinoderm salamander was still covered with a layer of viscous substance, and from time to time there were a few bubbles, which would burst after expanding to a certain extent, just like an asphalt pool exposed to the sun.
The salamander is a creature that can breathe through its skin, so the appearance of these bubbles is not surprising, but the only thing that makes Qi Lin feel a little puzzled is that the skin of this "echinoderm salamander" is very smooth - as the name suggests, the reason why the "echinoderm salamander" is so called is because its skin is covered with flesh thorns, and under these flesh spines are all independent venom glands, which store the deadly fluid secreted by the echinoderm salamander.
"This doesn't seem to be an echinoderm salamander......"
Since the mastermind has turned off almost all of the game's accessibility functions, neither Qi Lin nor other players can use their brains to know the correct name of this monster - perhaps the echinoderm salamander is more famous, so those who discovered the monster mistook it for the echinoderm salamander.
Actually, you can't blame these players - the juvenile echinoderm salamander doesn't have that obvious flesh spines, and the salamander is also on the small side, so those people think of it as a juvenile echinoderm salamander.
But Qi Lin understood...... Juvenile echinoderm salamanders must not leave the swamp, their skin is not fully developed, once they enter the dry area, the water in the body will quickly evaporate through the skin, and finally dehydrate and die, but from the current situation, this salamander has not been dehydrated at all.
"Is it a subspecies ......?"
In the wasteland, due to the difference in environment and conditions, many mutated organisms will definitely have a large number of subspecies when they evolve, and the subspecies may not be much different from each other, but there are also subspecies that are so different that people can't associate the two creatures at all.
The salamander in front of him, if Qi Lin guessed correctly, should be one of the subspecies of the echinoderm salamander......
There are many subspecies of the echinoderm salamander, but if it is said that it can move for a long time without restriction in an arid environment, it seems that there are only two in Qi Lin's impression.
"Sandstorm Salamander" and "Wasteland Hunter".
Sandstorm salamanders can be ruled out directly, and the kind of guy who lives in desert areas is covered in hard cuticles, which is more appropriate than a salamander.
Then only the "Wasteland Hunter" remained, Qi Lin had never seen this subspecies of salamander, he had only heard some hunters talk about it in conversation - the Wilderness Hunter belonged to the highest IQ among the salamander monsters, and his stature was relatively petite, but his agility value was very high, and his toxicity was more intense, in addition, Qi Lin knew almost nothing about the detailed information of this monster.
However, Qi Lin knew that this was not an echinoderm salamander, and as for those players who were going to hunt it, they didn't seem to realize the seriousness of the problem at all, and in their eyes, this was just a "juvenile echinoderm salamander" that was easy to bully.
The Wasteland Hunter is no less dangerous than an adult echinoderm salamander, and if it were to be treated as a "young beast", players would have to pay an unimaginably tragic price.
On the other hand, the equipment of the players, except for the cannon fodder who was sent to death with melee weapons, most of the people's firearms are very simple, and only the equipment of those mercenaries is passable, but they are all some old antiques such as Type 56 and 81 bars, and there is no new large-caliber rifle.
However, the three power armors of the Sewage Town Mercenary Regiment were all taken out, but it was a pity that although these three power armors were painted with various domineering totems on the outside, and the shoulder armor and helmet were full of hideous spikes, Qi Lin could see at a glance that all of these power armors could only be regarded as the lowest-grade junk goods.
Except for one T-46 modification, the other two are all patchwork miscellaneous goods, and even the weapon is just a 12.7mm heavy machine gun welded to the mechanical arm.
Combined, the combat strength of these hundreds of players may not be able to defeat a reinforced platoon of the defenders of the Herrens Line.
The attack was launched at 3:25, and the cannon fodder players with maceheads and machetes rushed forward with a roar when they were still seven or eight hundred meters away from the salamander, and the other players who followed had no choice but to shoot.
At a distance of 800 meters, not to mention these players with junk weapons and bad marksmanship, even the regular army of the old era did not dare to guarantee that they would be able to hit a target no more than 10 meters in length with those old rifles that were more than 100 years old at this distance.
Ninety percent of the bullets fired by the players were halfway through the ground, and the remaining 10 percent of the bullets with a range of 800 meters didn't know where they flew.
All in all, not a single shot hit that subspecies of salamander.
The mercenaries also fired a few shots from time to time, but they were all very rare bullets, and all of their weapons were turned to semi-automatic firing mode, but those guys with shotguns and iron sand kept firing at the air.
The three power armors that were supposed to be at the front moved to the back of the line, let alone fire, and these three power armors didn't even put down their guns, just coldly watched the cannon fodder rush towards the subspecies salamanders.
For the first player to attack the "Echinoderm Salamander", the Sewage Town Mercenary Group gave a bounty of 1,500 resource points - this may not seem like much to Qi Lin, but in the eyes of the players at the bottom, 1,500 points is enough for them to do anything.
Although these cannon fodder who rushed up to death were full of energy, they were indeed too anxious, eight hundred meters, many people had already consumed a lot of physical strength after running most of the distance, let alone fighting mutant creatures.
When there were still two or three hundred meters away from the subspecies salamander, the speed of the cannon fodder slowed down significantly, but at this time, the subspecies salamander, which had been closing its eyes and recuperating, finally moved-