Chapter Eighty-Seven: Worm to Worm
"What's going on again?"
"There's a whole bunch of strange creatures on our side, you wait for me for a while, and I'll see if there's any threat."
"Then hurry up, this boulder guard is very capable of restoring, and he will be completely demobilized in a few moments!"
"I'm doing my best."
The most annoying thing about the world's big melee is that there are too many battlefields, and our guild is originally a big stall, and we have to take care of everything, so we really don't have the skills. After hanging up Rose's connection, I quickly took off from the walls and flew towards the new horde of enemies. Just now, on the battlefield on the European side, the British and French forces suddenly changed their formations, and all the attacking troops instantly retreated like a tide, and were replaced by a new type of troops, but this did not cause me much restraint, because there are so many of them. Generally speaking, the number of advanced classes is limited, so if you see a large group of certain creatures at the same time, it just means that the thing is not very powerful, but today this law may be slightly modified, because I saw the creatures that surprised me the most.
"Corpse bugs?"
I stopped before I could fly over the enemy's head, and the rancid smell in the air forced me to stop early. In fact, I can clearly see the enemies below at this distance, but their images are very scary. Those who are moving forward are not new species, but the corpses of enemies who have just died before. These corpses did not turn into zombies, and they were not skeletons with rotten flesh, but real corpses. These walking corpses are no different from normal corpses, they are real dead people, the difference is that they have a group of roundworm-like black worms on their bodies. These disgusting bugs burrowed in and out of the corpse, driving the corpse forward.
Compared with the general loss, the corpse of the corpse insect control zhì is much worse in terms of attack power and defense power, and the only advantage is that the speed is slightly faster, but the overall combat power is still far lower than that of ordinary zombies. But the problem is not in the corpses, but in the bugs. Don't look at these little things in the underworld, they are known as the lowest level of magical beasts, but even there, no one dares to approach these guys, and the main reason is the quantity.
When you're fighting a corpse that's been taken over by a corpse, it's not what happens to the corpse, it's what happens to the corpse when you knock it down. Generally speaking, when you defeat the corpse of the corpse worm, the corpse worm will make the corpse explode, this explosion is not very powerful, but the flesh and blood sprayed will have a strong corpse poison, and it will be very troublesome to get a little bit of it. The ultimate goal of this explosion is not to spray you with stinky flesh and disgust, but the real horror is that the corpse worms will be sprayed everywhere with the explosion, and eventually they will cover a qiΔ object within a radius of thirty meters and immediately find the nearest occupying flesh and burrow into it. You must know that the corpse worm after the corpse explosion has already parasitized once. At this point, they will gain the ability to parasitize directly**, so even if you don't die, they will be able to burrow into your body, eat your body and soul, and eventually turn you into a living corpse, and as the number of parasitic creatures increases, these guys will continue to evolve. The strongest corpse worm ever recorded had parasitized more than 30,000 creatures, and it seemed to have been blown apart by a magic crystal cannon. Anyway, as long as this thing doesn't die, it can continue to evolve, and no one knows how far it can evolve in the end. There was also speculation that the corpse worm might become the strongest creature in the game if it continued to evolve, but generally few people believed it, and the evolution requirements of this thing are getting higher and higher. Therefore, it is unlikely that it will evolve into that kind of cadaveric worm.
Anyway, it's a problem for us that the other side has got so many corpse worms, and while I'm not afraid of these things, most of our players and NPCs can't do anything about it. Although they can get a high battle loss ratio by fighting with their staff, their numbers are already so large that they don't take the number seriously at all, so even if they die a hundred people and kill a million corpse insects, it will be a loss. What's more, corpse insects also have a super nasty habit of splitting and reproducing, a corpse worm parasitizes into a creature, and when the creature explodes, at least one or two thousand corpse worms come out, and this reproduction rate is definitely more terrible than locusts. It can be said that as long as there are enough corpses, corpse worms are immortal.
Before they could climb under the walls, I flew back to the walls quickly, and as soon as Ashford saw me, he immediately approached me and asked me what I had seen. Corpse bugs. All of them are corpses of corpse insects. β
"Corpse bugs?" Asford was stunned for a moment. "Isn't that thing undomesticable? Aside from being a demon pet, I haven't heard of anyone who can command the corpse wormland. But how many corpse worms will it take to be able to subdue them? Even people like you can't bring many corpses. So much, unless the other party uses corpse worms as magic pets, it's almost the same. But that's impossible. β
I also nodded, "Corpse worms can evolve though. However, the characteristics of corpse worm land determine that corpse worms are only useful when there are enough corpses. This is almost useless in the general leveling and PK state. In other words, unless it's a battlefield like guild warfare that can produce a large number of corpses. Carrying corpse worms as a pet land player is almost equivalent to wasteland. Imagine how an ordinary person could want such a demon pet? What's more, the first-level corpse worm is useless at all. The process of making them evolve is not so simple. Who has time to level up with a corpse worm? Besides, what if some guilds send someone to train a corpse worm? This thing had almost no attack power on its own before level 800. And even if you practice it, it's nothing more than a stronger demon pet in guild battles. But so what? Is the input and output completely disproportionate! Unless......! β
"Unless what?" Ashford asked nervously.
"Unless someone has trained a corpse worm that can command other corpse worms. His own ground corpse worm doesn't need to be too high-level. As long as there is enough land to live in other places, corpse worms are fine. Ashford instantly understood the way to the ground. It's easy to say. Zero is a game where there are no rules except for the big rules. There's never been any regularization here. You can find patterns, but there will be no rules. Especially things that are inherently variable. The evolution of corpse insects is typically unstable in this case. Their direction is random. In other words, in the same way, several corpse worms level up together, and the final evolved abilities may be completely different. For example, as mentioned earlier, the corpse insect that was killed by the magic crystal run is the direction of the development of its own combat power. If a player makes a special evolutionary control zhì other corpse worm ground corpse worm. That's hard to say.
Although the origin of the corpse insect was confirmed. But we still can't attack effectively. The previous battles had left too many corpses on the battlefield. With the nature of the Corpse Wormland, they are almost invincible in the current environment. Even if we can wipe out some of them with magic and cannons, it won't make much difference to the overall situation. In desperation, I had to contact Rose first to tell her that I couldn't get over. Let her find another animal tamer to try first. Who knew that I talked about the matter with Rose, and she actually sued sΓΉ that I had a way to deal with it.
When Ashuford heard that there was a way, he hurriedly squeezed over and asked, "Is there any way?" β
"Do you remember Nuwa's gift?" Rose asked me.
I thought for a moment, then asked tentatively, "Queen, you say?" β
"That's right. It's been a long time since you've been to see the Queen, so you don't know how her little brothers are doing now, right? Sue sΓΉ you and I have just been. Definitely scare the hell out of you. β
"But aren't all the new Zerg she created near Steel City? How am I going to get here? The enemy has already arrived in the city, and now I'm afraid it's too late to transfer troops, right? β
"That's it. You listen to me, I'll call you first, and then I'll take you away. Guaranteed to catch up with the enemy siege. β
Ashford heard Rose's words and immediately pushed me and said, "Hurry up then!" We'll be done when those disgusting bugs crawl under the walls! β
"Okay!" As soon as I finished speaking, a circle of pink magic teleportation circles flashed around me, followed by a heart-shaped magic circle that flickered, and I immediately disappeared in place. When I appeared next to Rose, I saw a group of people chopping down a huge mountain of rocks on the ground. "What are they doing here?"
"This is the boulder guard, this is to prevent him from quickly healing his wounds and getting back up. Hurry up and help get it done first. β
"Oh." I reached out and threw a catch skill, and it worked the first time. This big guy is now in a near-death state. The summon success rate itself is high, and with my super luck and charisma index, it's naturally a very simple thing. After watching the small stone mountain turn into an earthy yellow stone, I stretched out my hand from afar, and the stone flew directly into my hand. "Okay, what now?"
"Give me this first." Rose took the stone-man Earth Demon pet egg, hugged me, and said, "Take me to Union City." "I turned the teleportation ring and appeared directly on the main teleportation array of Union City. Rose continued without pause: "Use the transnational teleportation array to go to Steel City. β
"Understood." We quickly changed the teleportation array and sent it back to Steel City, and followed Rose to the ground part of Steel City with me. To be honest, as soon as I exited the underground exit, I was immediately startled by what I saw. Steel City was originally an underground city under a sand dune deep in the desert, although we later developed the surface part, but in general Steel City is still a sand city located in the center of the desert, but the scene in front of us is completely a tropical primeval forest. Huge trees are everywhere you look, their branches tangled above us and obscuring the sky. Serpent-like vines dangled from their branches, and in between they hung a large number of unknown fruits. Even our feet were covered in a soft layer of moss, and it could be said that there was nothing nearby to have anything to do with the desert except the heat. "Damn, how did this change here?"
"It's not all caused by Nuwa's gift!" Rose explained, "Nuwa is the god of life, and her specialty is to manipulate life, and as a result, your queen has developed the Zerg system after receiving some of the gifts. At first, it was just a few disgusting bio-chemical buildings. However, after that, various small animals and plants began to emerge, and now a huge biological system has basically developed. The high temperature in the desert and the super sunlight bring powerful energy, which is the basis for the development of the Zerg. These plants absorb solar energy and convert it into bioenergy, small insects eat plants to reproduce, then medium-sized creatures eat these small bugs, large animals eat medium-sized creatures, and finally those creatures used for combat eat large creatures, so that an energy chain is formed, and finally solar energy is converted into a large number of fighting creatures. If it weren't for Nuwa's ability, I wouldn't have imagined that such a large area of primeval forest could be created in a desert area! β
"Actually, there is no shortage of water in desert areas," I said. All plants need to grow is light and water. It's just that the desert can't hold water. That's why it's hard to grow plants. Nuwa is nothing more than creating a plant that can grow quickly and store its own water. That's right. How large is this forest now? β
Rose said, "Actually, this forest only appeared three days ago, and the queen had been familiar with the true power of Nuwa's gift before that, and then when she understood that power, she gave birth to these things within three days. In fact, the forest is still expanding, and its edge is not far from the edge of the desert. β
"Stop now."
"It's useless for you to shout at me! Let's go to the Queen, she's the foundation of these things. β
"Okay, let's go right away."
Today this forest has given me a lot of excitement, but not only has it appeared so quickly, but even the queen has become very strange. When I saw her, she had turned into a large tree, with only half of her body exposed from its trunk. It was as if the lower half of her body had grown into the trunk of a tree. After questioning, I learned that this forest was not a forest at all, and that they were actually the body of the queen. Every plant in this forest is equivalent to a cell of the queen, and those creatures that live in the forest are her children or parasites.
Although the Queen of the Earth has lost the ability to move in this form, she is definitely the strongest in the guild when it comes to vitality. No one can say that they can uproot such a large forest. And as long as the queen still has a part left, she can trouble breeding again. However, due to the limitations of her nervous system, she can only grow to this size at most, and it is impossible for the forest to expand indefinitely. But I was still a step late, because I wanted the forest to be a little farther away from the edge of the desert, or at least not to let outsiders know that the desert had become a forest. But according to the queen herself, the edge of the forest had reached out into the desert. Although it has stopped growing, the forest has actually reached the bottom of the walls of the player's city on the edge of the desert, and it will be a few hundred meters longer to enter the city. This thing wants to be kept secret, and Ben has no hope, so a large movie is there and the blind man has seen it!
After listening briefly to the Queen's description of her current situation, I told her about the current situation. The Queen can't follow me around in parasitic form now, but she can communicate with me anywhere in the world through a psychic connection, and she can command her children remotely or let me command the little bugs. For this matter, the queen just gave me a very special bug and told me to take it and put it in front of the city wall, and she will take care of it after that.
Although I'm not sure how strong the queen is now, I am very convinced that Nuwa's gift will not be too simple, so I also indirectly believe that the queen should be able to cope with this kind of thing. Besides, time is not in a hurry, so I can only return to Iron Cross City first. Asford was already mad when he saw me appear, and although the ground artillery on the city wall had regained its ability to fire intensively after replacing the power core, it had little effect on blocking corpse insects. Corpse insects can be used to fill up the opponent's advantage in numbers, and the damage caused by artillery fire is not a loss to them at all.
"Did you find a solution?" Ashofudra asked me.
"It's up to you." I threw the little worm out of the walls, and the spherical worm, which was not much bigger than an apple, smashed straight into the ground outside the walls. Then there was no sound.
"That's your solution?" Asford asked, looking at me.
I was just about to explain when I suddenly felt the ground under my feet seem to be shaking, and the tremor became more and more obvious, and soon even Ashford noticed the obvious change. We quickly ran to the city wall and looked down, only to see that the place where the little insect had landed was gradually rising, and the ground was indeed shaking. With the increasingly violent vibration, a small mound gradually appeared on the ground, and then when the mound rose to a height of more than a meter, the top suddenly exploded, and everyone heard a rustling sound, and countless black beetles poured out from the top of the mound like a blowout.
"This thing is your savior?" Asford asked me suspiciously. "Are you going to use worms to make worms?"
"I'm not sure, let's see the situation first."
The black beetles on the ground erupted faster and faster. The entrance to the hole, which was originally only the size of a spring, was torn into a hole larger than the manhole cover of the sewer by the insects. And the hole is gradually expanding at a faster rate. The black beetles that rushed out of the hole quickly rushed along the ground and the army of corpse insects facing forward, and from our side, we could only see a black torrent quickly meeting the army of colorful corpse insects in front. When the two Zerg armies collided, there was no terrible battle. However, the scene was still watched by many players who almost vomited.
As soon as the corpse of the corpse came into contact with the black beetle, it swung its weapon and intended to slash the black beetle in front of it, but the number of beetles was about the same as that of the corpse worm, and the size of these corpses was not suitable for attacking these small beetles that were less than the size of a palm, so the effect could be said to be minimal. But on the other hand, the target of the little beetles is not the manipulated corpses, in fact, they almost did not attack the corpses, but the moment they touched the corpse, they bit out a passage from the corpse's eyes, ears, mouth and other weak points and drilled into the corpse, and everyone saw that the corpses that were drilled into were dancing a strange break dance in place as if they had been electrocuted. This strange convulsion lasted for about a few tens of seconds, after which the corpses began to fall down in pieces, and then a large number of black beetles burrowed out of the corpses and began to move on to the next target. It is definitely not possible to deal with these exploding corpses for ordinary players, but the black beetle directly attacks the corpse worm itself, which determines that the problem that players can't solve is nothing to them. In front of these black beetles, the corpse worms are like a flock of sheep colliding with a flock of lions. All we saw was a large black patch, like locusts crossing the border, and all the corpses were brought down. This process actually happened very quickly, and you could almost see the black striker moving forward at the speed of a human run, and the corpse worms behind were even hesitating to rush forward. Although these mentally retarded corpse worms cannot think about overly complex things, they can still perceive danger.
Asford watched as our beetle was invincible, and spun around me excitedly. "Ziri, where did you get these bugs? It's just amazing! β
I coughed softly. Then he said, "Actually, these are my minions. "What?" Asford was stunned for a moment. "All of these?"
"No, their mother body is my ground parasite, I can command them earth mother, and their mother body can teleport them anywhere. The premise is that I have to bring the kind of little bug that I just threw out. That thing was actually a teleportation bug. It can open a spatial teleportation channel between me and the mother. The advantage is that it can be activated anytime and anywhere, and it doesn't consume any additional energy, but the disadvantage is that I can't get by except bugs, so I can't use it to transport troops. β
"Damn, insects aren't soldiers? These things gnaw at corpses so fast, I guess they can't gnaw much slower, right? β
"From what I know, their intelligence is relatively poor, so their parent body can't precisely control their behavior, and they can only roughly define a range, and if they target people, they may end up like that." I pointed to a skeleton beneath the walls.
"It's horrible!"
While Asford and I marveled at the strength of the bugs, the black beetles had swept away most of the corpse worms along the way. Because all of the corpse worms' attack methods are almost ineffective against the black beetle. So the battle is basically a one-sided massacre, or the black beetle is having a dinner party, and the corpse worm has no power to fight back anyway. However, just as the battle was about to end, a large dirt bag suddenly bulged in the corpse worm's position, and with a bang, a piece of land the size of half a basketball court flew into the air, and then a huge fat worm like a mountain tunnel came out of the ground. It has an earthy yellow skin and short, thick keratinized protrusions underneath it. It seems to act as a leg. Of course, the most disgusting thing is its head, because this place has a large round mouth like a black hole, and on the edge of that mouth grows seven or eight rows of chainsaw-like teeth, which is very terrifying.
"Damn, I finally know who's in command of those corpse worms." This will make Ashford and I understand who is the controller of the corpse worm, because the big guy who just came out is clearly a corpse worm, and there is a person riding on its back.
Just as we sighed that the big guy had finally come out, the giant corpse worm suddenly raised its head and shrank downward, and then squirted forward, and a large cloud of yellow-brown material was sprayed out by it. These things evaporate quickly, forming a cloud-like layer in the air. The black beetle flipped over almost as soon as it touched the edge of the cloud, and the three pairs of arthropods kicked in the air a few times before never moving again.
"Damn. Why is this guy so poisonous? Ashford found that a large number of black beetles had been brought down by the poisonous mist, and immediately screamed nervously.
"Don't worry. The mother of these beetles shares my sight, and she can see what we see. I'm sure she'll do it. β
"I hope so!"
Sure enough, I was right. It was impossible for the queen to reproduce only one creature, but the black beetles suddenly moved and ran back, and the large hole of the beetles stopped popping out. After a pause of about a few seconds, the hole burst open with a thud, and a huge head protruded from it.
"What a big wasp!" Before Asford could say this, the ground was completely turned over, and a wasp with a length of more than forty meters burrowed out of the ground and flapped its wings twice before immediately flying.
Seeing the wasp rush into the poisonous mist, it was not affected in any way, and rushed directly over. The large corpse worm on the other side may have realized that this enemy was not easy to deal with, and it suddenly raised its head and slammed into the ground before burrowing into the ground. The wasp rushed to where it had been standing and didn't care, but the big corpse worm suddenly sprang out of its head and spewed yellow-green slime at the wasp, and as soon as the thing touched the wasp, it immediately burned the wasp's body with green smoke.
"Looks like your wasp can't do it!" Asford said.
"There should be follow-up creatures. The biggest feature of the Zerg is biodiversity, which you can see in a moment. "Before I could finish speaking, there was a deafening bang in the hole again, but this time there seemed to be something special.