316 Bugmen
It's really like a worm tomb, but how exactly did it come to be?
The wormholes elsewhere were all mined, and dozens of spaceships joined in the operation of digging up the worm corpses, forcibly opening a huge gap in the circular mountain. Below, there were still endless insect corpses, their body size had reached twenty or thirty meters, and their insect shells were hard and could not be broken easily.
"At this time, if someone tells me that this whole mountain is made up of all the insects on the floating island, I will not doubt it!" William couldn't help but say.
"It's entirely possible!" Cheng Ying, the commander of the combat system, also said solemnly.
Everyone agreed, no wonder there were no bugs in all the wormholes, and they all died here. They all doubted that it was a god-level powerhouse who made a move and directly wiped out this Zerg with powerful and unpredictable means? Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the scene seen so far, and it is impossible for the insects to commit collective suicide here in a clear hierarchy!
The monitoring spacecraft in the distant sky issued a warning that the sinking trend of the floating island has reached the end and is about to rebound and start the stage of large low tide again, when the part of the floating island that is only exposed to the sea is only more than 5,000 kilometers in size.
In this case, at least there was no need to worry about flooding, so the excavation continued.
Judging from the situation seen so far, the distribution of insect corpses is very regular, the closer to the bottom of the center, the more advanced the insects, and the strange place must be at the bottom of the center of the mountain. So after digging a corner of the edge, Guan Tong ordered a change of way, built a conveyor belt, and used a large shield machine to dig a 20-meter-wide tunnel from the foot of the mountain to the center. After all, it is simply not realistic to dig up tens of kilometers of mountains in half.
But they quickly ran into problems. The small insect corpses at the beginning are okay, and they can be shielded in large areas. But after digging for two kilometers, the corpses grew bigger and bigger, and the shells were so hard that they stuck the shield machine and couldn't move forward. Moreover, the excavated passage is very unstable, and the insect corpses above will fall down and may collapse at any time.
A group of leaders and experts scratched their heads, did they really want to dig dozens of kilometers of half of the mountain?
In the end, Guan Tong gritted his teeth and ordered to dig a sinkhole from the center of the top of the mountain. Although it is difficult to transport the exhumed insect corpses, after all, as long as you dig five kilometers deep, it is better than digging dozens of kilometers of mountains.
The fleet began to move ants, digging a large pit with a caliber of one kilometer under the center. Later, they found that it was actually faster to dig like this, because the insect corpses behind them were often tens of meters large, so they simply used energy to pull the rope out one by one, and even some warships joined the ranks of lifting and dismantling.
Soon, the size of the insect corpse reached more than 100 meters, which was already the size of a high-level insect soldier, indicating that it was close to the time to reveal the truth. Everyone is looking forward to it, and at the same time lifting their minds in order to cope with any unforeseen situation.
The scene here was transmitted back to the branch at the same time, and the other senior management of the branch also nervously followed the progress.
On the first day, the top layer was excavated to a depth of one kilometer, and on the second day, as the size of the insect carcass increased, the excavation efficiency was greatly improved, and three kilometers were dug in one fell swoop. On the third day, five kilometers were dug ......
This is not right, it has been dug nine kilometers deep, long beyond the height of the mountain. However, the insect corpses continued to grow, reaching more than 200 meters, but it still seemed that there was no end in sight.
"Damn, this place was a huge valley at all, filled with insects and piled up high to form this mountain." Everyone reacted, and at the same time they were even more afraid of the Zerg.
How many bugs do you have to pile up to make such an effect!
Excavations continued, and the scope was further expanded.
Looking at the bottom and around the pit from the inside of the pit, the densely piled up insect corpses can frighten people's faces to turn pale, and the more timid people dare not look at it. On the maintenance spaceship, many female soldiers were scared and had nightmares.
After digging for another three days, the diameter of the mouth of the big pit reached 5 kilometers, and it went 10 kilometers underground, and insects with a body size of more than 500 meters began to appear, resembling cockroaches.
"This is a female worm, at least level 5 or above!" There are experts who note in the Fleet channel.
Subsequently, more and more corpses of female worms were found, some like cockroaches, some like snails, some like praying mantises, and some like centipedes...... They have all evolved hard shells and terrifying weapons, not soft and weak maggots. It is estimated that even if there is a maggot type, it has been corrupted and decomposed.
It seems that this time it is really close to the bottom, and this bottom is hard to copy!
Ling Qi drove the maintenance spaceship forward. In order not to let people say that he was in the way, he also used his mechanical arm to grab a worm shell, and then used an energy traction rope to lift another and move it out of the pit.
"These advanced insect shells can be developed for many applications, whether they are civilian or military, and each warship and ship should bundle one or two to take home!" Guan Tong said at this time.
Those battleships received orders to lower their altitudes one after another, and collected some high-grade insect shells that had been hoisted out on the periphery of the pit. But these insect shells were so big that they could not be stored in the warehouse at all, so they had to tie them to the hull with energy cables as Guan Tong said.
"Engineer Ling Qi, please leave the big pit, it's not your job." Chen Fan also said at this time.
How could Ling Qi be willing? He was ready to steal once he was sure that this was a ninth-level wormhole...... No, it was to pick up some slime crystals of the ninth-level female worm, so he said enthusiastically: "It's okay, I can't be idle, hurry up and help!" ”
Chen Fan was speechless, just such a pit, there is no room for many spaceships to operate at the same time, didn't you see that the battleships and many spaceships on the side were idle? In fact, at this time, there were only twenty warships in charge of escorting the insect shells, and those technical teams were tired and were resting on them to wait for the results.
But Ling Qi was not lazy, but took the initiative to work diligently, and he couldn't blame him, so he had to helplessly not see it.
"We're going to help too!" Someone said on the fleet channel that then two more battleships joined the ranks of moving corpses and insect shells.
It was Qu Shaocheng and Weng Jiahong, their joining disrupted the original sequence, and there were some disorders in the work that was originally as orderly as ants moving, so angry that Guan Tong scolded the two for adding to the chaos.
However, the two of them went their own way, made up their minds to be hard-working children, and stubbornly participated in the porterage. Other battleships had to withdraw several ships in order to restore coherence to work.
In the battleship, Qu Shaocheng was contacting Ling Qi: "What are you seeking?" You guy doesn't see a rabbit or a hawk, you must want to do something, otherwise you wouldn't be so positive. ”
Ling Qi shouted in his heart, no wonder they came up. He wondered in his heart, when did this guy know himself so well?
Naturally, he would not admit his intentions, and said with a disdain for Qu Shaocheng: "I was already positive, didn't I see that I had been actively doing maintenance a few days ago?" ”
Qu Shaocheng narrowed his eyes, as if this was indeed the case, but he still subconsciously thought that Ling Qi's move was a cattiness. So, he and Weng Jiahong resolutely did not leave the big pit, and even cut the queue behind Ling Qi, which provoked Guan Tong to scold again.
At this moment, as another battleship lifted a huge insect shell of eight hundred meters, the scene below kept everyone's eyes open.
The thick crystals reflected bright light, which made people's eyes uncomfortable, but they didn't look away, and they didn't have time to think about why the corrupted and decomposed insect body didn't fall a layer of mortar on top of the crystal.
Everyone's eyes were firmly attracted by a person standing proudly on the crystal.
No, it's not human!
Everyone in the fleet was terrified, and they could see clearly that this humanoid creature had a triangular mantis head, and it was a wormman!