Chapter 172: Sweeping
As soon as the equipment arrived, I ordered the units to be divided into groups and all the troops into seven-man task forces, which had the advantage of being able to cooperate with each other against some of the larger creatures, after all, we didn't know what else was in the woods.
After arranging the team, I commanded several command vehicles next to me to stop beside us, and then set up the monitors inside and everything outside, and received all the visual synchronization signals of our various groups in the screen. When I was done, I called Fayana to my side. "As you can see now, this is our country, and we are the army here."
Fayana nodded. "I can see it. You are not only well trained, but also very strong. We also have human nations there, but no army has the terrifying fighting power of yours. Could it be that all of you ordinary people here are first-level Sword Saints and Holy Demon Guides Beings? β
"I don't know what level you're talking about as a Sword Master or a Holy Demon Guide, but I know that you must be overestimating the ordinary people we have here. To tell you the truth, we belong to the special forces here, we can be said to be improved special humans, compared to the real human beings, we are very different, although it looks similar, but in fact we are much stronger than ordinary people.
So they are very vulnerable to you alien creatures. It's better to be willing to cooperate with people like you, but if they encounter those brainless monsters or hot-tempered ones like Agni, once they are allowed to enter the civilian population, it will inevitably cause heavy casualties, so we can't let them get out of here. β
"So what do you need me to do?" Fayana knew that I had called her over for something.
I pointed to the row of monitor screens next to me. "These things can show what our soldiers see at the same time, and we have no idea what creatures you have there. There is a saying in us that is called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and not being defeated in a hundred battles, which means that as long as you can fully understand the strengths and weaknesses of yourself and your enemy, and give full play to your own strengths and restrain the weaknesses of the other party, you can win a hundred battles and never lose. So now I need you to look at these things here, and as soon as something comes out, you have to tell us right away about the characteristics of this creature, whether it is aggressive, what special abilities it has, where its weaknesses are, and so on, and some other information that is absolutely important to you. β
"It's easy." Fayana said proudly: "Our silver dragons are very knowledgeable, we can accurately identify at least ninety and a half of the demonic beasts on the continent, and most of the remaining half of them are new mutants or some irrelevant low-level biological branches. β
"That's good. Rest assured, we will give you the reward you hope for when this incident is resolved. β
Fayana didn't know what we could give, but she didn't care about it anyway, she just wanted to have a good relationship with us. After all, as an extremely intelligent magic dragon, Fayana has already seen that our group has a lot of power here, and it definitely doesn't hurt to have a proud relationship with the local ruler in an environment that she doesn't understand.
After getting Fayana's confirmation, we also prepared a temporary communicator for her, because we couldn't find the size of her big head, so we had to glue two independent microphones and electronic speakers directly to Fayana's ears and mouth, so that at least we could keep in touch with her.
After getting rid of the headquarters here, I sent my dad and them all to another temporary command post on the outskirts of the base, which is far away from the forest, and if any monsters rush out again, at least this side will have time to escape. Once I was sure that everything was okay outside, I began to search the forest with my pets and the Bell Knight.
Our plan is actually quite simple, enter from one side of the forest and use our electromagnetic induction ability to search for all the creatures in the vicinity. All the creatures in this world, including plants, have bioelectric storage zΓ i, and from the newly captured creatures, the creatures in this forest also have similar characteristics, so we can use the biomagnetic field generated by bioelectricity to accurately lock the location of each creature. The rest of the work is much simpler, as long as we drive these creatures one by one to the prepared capture field outside the forest, we can easily capture them.
After carefully diving into the forest, we began to approach the nearest bioelectric signal.
"This is Number 1, what's going on?" I asked in the battlefield network of electronic brains.
"This is Number 2, and no issues have been identified so far."
"This is No. 3, and it's normal at the moment."
"Attention each queue, the target is not far ahead, watch your feet, don't alarm it."
"Understood."
In complete silence, dozens of us surrounded us from all directions, and at the forefront was Yeyue. Just before entering the forest, Nuwa sent Yeyue's original body, that is, the body of the human body and the snake tail. The size of this body is much larger than that of a human body, so the relative energy index is also much higher, and it is suitable for her to take the lead. Xiao Bai and Bai Lang, who already had a physical entity, followed closely around Yeyue left and right, and their wolf-like bodies were also quite flexible in the dense forest. However, compared to our humanoid dragons, the weapon backpacks on their wolf-like bodies are significantly larger, so their weapons are also larger than ours, and in case they encounter monsters that are difficult to deal with, the two of them are responsible for cleaning up the target for us.
With a long tail in tow, Nightmoon coiled around the trunk of the tree with her nimble body, and soon reached the area near the creature, and then she suddenly turned around and made a stop gesture to us, and everyone around us stopped in place as if frozen for a moment, and we didn't dare to move forward until Nightmoon made a gesture to move forward cautiously.
Finally moved under the trees, I carefully picked up the weeds in front of me, and the creature that had been locked by our electromagnetic induction for a long time finally revealed the true face of Lushan.
It was a large animal, about 1.8 meters tall and about 3 meters long, with a very high back, a head that looked like a pig's head, but there was no hair on its body, and instead it was replaced by several pieces of crust-like shell with an overall structure, which looked a bit like a hybrid monster of a long armadillo and a wild boar. The thing didn't seem to notice us when we got around, as it was busy grazing and seemed to be eating proudly.
Fayana was very conscientious and immediately gave us information and guidance. "This is a heavy armored pig, a docile herbivore, not a magical beast, but it has a lot of strength, and humans in some areas will raise it as a domestic animal, and it can also be used to pull carts and work, but to be honest, the meat of this creature is very difficult to eat."
"Damn, we were cautious and scared for a long time before we dared to approach, but it turned out to be just an otherworldly version of the cow!" One of the bell knights couldn't help but complain, but was glared at by Scott and was silent.
"How are we going to get rid of it?" I asked with a communicator.
"Wild heavy armor pigs are aggressive, but their ears are a weak point, and as long as you hold on to their ears, they won't dare to struggle."
"It's a pig!" The two bell knights quickly jumped out of the grass as prompted, and then grabbed the guy's big ears left and right. As a result, as Fayana said, although the heavy armored pig kept barking, it really didn't dare to move when its ears were pinched. As a result, we were dragged out of the forest.
After the first experience, we began to realize that we couldn't catch them one by one, so we began to disperse, everyone acted alone, first carefully approached the target, and then Fayana provided the monster information, if there was no danger, we could do it alone, and if we encountered something difficult, we waited for reinforcements. This kind of distribution has indeed greatly improved work efficiency, there are really a lot of creatures in this forest, but more than sixty percent of them are ordinary magical beasts that are not dangerous, except for a large group of golden monkeys that make us scramble for a while, basically we haven't encountered anything dangerous. However, this situation began to become abnormal as night fell, as we found that the captured creatures seemed to appear on the outskirts of the forest, and we did not seem to be spotted by us, but they ran out of their own accord.
"Fayana."
"I'm listening."
"Can you feel anything?" I asked, "Why do I think the creatures here are constantly running to the periphery?" Many of the areas we've just cleared have seen new low-level creatures pop up! β
Fayana thought for a moment before she said: "Generally, when this happens, most of the people who encounter this situation are relatively powerful beings in the middle of the forest, but since these low-level creatures can run out, I think those powerful creatures should have discovered you." β
"Why?"
"The monster will only expel the weak creatures around him first when it finds danger, and that creature has driven out these weak monsters and ordinary creatures, which shows that he is in danger."
Ling suddenly said, "The danger may not come from us, maybe there is more than one powerful demonic beast in the forest, maybe they have discovered each other?" β
"It's also a possibility." "But you better be careful, at least for now you can make sure that there is at least one strong creature in the heart of the forest." β
"Okay, we got it."
We didn't pay attention to Fayana's reminder, because according to Fayana, they dragons were already very top-level creatures. If we can take down even dragons, what can other creatures do, no matter how powerful they are?
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the high-level creatures inside to expel the low-level creatures, we collected a large group of all kinds of strange creatures, and then the shipping truck sent by the base didn't even have time to transport them, so we could only temporarily put some of the creatures caught outside the forest first, anyway, the creatures after anesthesia are very honest, as long as they monitor their brain waves at all times, and if they find that they want to wake up, they can replenish some anesthetics.
With the help of a large circle of makeshift lighting, the entire perimeter of the forest is whitened by strong lights, and the creatures inside try to see the people behind the lights through the bright lights, but these lights provide illumination for everyone, but they cause unexpected trouble. At first, we didn't think of electric lights when it was just dark, after all, we dragons have night vision, so it's the same with or without lights, but because the researchers who came later needed to ship the biological specimens we caught, they had to be illuminated, but in the middle of the night, if the lights were on here, it was easy to attract monsters, so we surrounded the entire forest with lights. This method was originally used to deal with criminals, once the police blocked the criminals in a certain building, they liked to light a circle of headlights and could not see anything inside, so that the criminals could not see the target even if they had a gun, and it would be a problem to hit if they shot indiscriminately. But now we're dealing not with criminals, but with a horde of alien creatures, and while the light will make the big creatures hide away because they hate the bright light, something else will lure them in.
"Smack." With a not-so-loud sound, a crustacean the size of a pigeon suddenly landed on one of the bright lights.
"Report." I was resting outside the woods, after all, it was a lot of money to catch so many animals. Suddenly, the cries of soldiers rang out in the communication channel.
"What's the situation?"
"This, we don't know what to say, you better see for yourself!" The soldier synced his visual signals directly to me. This is the benefit of the dragons, as long as one person sees it, everyone sees it.
I was also startled when the eyes of the dragon soldier saw the insects flying in the sky. Not only are these bugs huge, but they are all so hideous that you can't help but want to kill them.
"When did these bugs start gathering this way?"
"Just a few minutes after we turned on the lights. What should we do? β
"Don't go near them yet, stay away from the lights, and we'll figure it out right away." After instructing the people below to pay attention to safety, I quickly relayed the situation to Nuwa, but Nuwa's first reaction was not to deal with these insects, but to first airlift more than 300 protectors.
The Protector is one of our dragons' large biological chariots, resembling a white ball with arthropod-like legs underneath that allow them to move freely. Unlike regular chariots, the Protector is a living creature, though its intelligence is not complete. This guy has a human-like brain, can think, and has a fairly high intelligence, but it has no subjective consciousness at all, that is to say, if there is no command, he will be completely still, not only will he not move, but even his brain will stop working completely, basically similar to a human being in a daze. Inside the protector is a cyborg core, which is actually the cockpit, and dragons can drill into this core to direct the protector to move, defend, or attack. The Protector has no extra limbs to attack, and its main body, the large white ball, is actually a giant electromagnetic controller. It can generate a very strong bioelectromagnetic force field, and it can not only form a protective shield with this force field, but also use it to attack, but this time we mainly need its protective shield.
Because of the continuous acquisition of so many large biological specimens, even Nuwa has neglected one thing, that is, the leakage of ecosystems in the forest. Alien creatures are alien to the earth, just like the water hyacinth that grows in the north will become a catastrophic five species in the south, and it is difficult to guarantee that these very ordinary creatures living on alien planets will not become any terrifying existence on the earth, so generally speaking, we should try to avoid alien creatures from directly contacting the earth's ecosystem, but due to previous negligence, we actually forgot about it. As a result, it wasn't until I saw these big bugs that I remembered that there were many things we hadn't noticed that might be more dangerous than those big guys.
After ten minutes, more than 300 protectors who were urgently airlifted formed a huge shelter barrier, a powerful barrier composed of biological force fields like a glass cover that completely isolated the forest from the outside world, so that as long as nothing dangerous escaped during the previous time, we could not worry about it in the future.
Once the shield was isolated, we opened a small door to the shield, and my pets and I walked in with a few heavily armed scientists. At the same time as we enter the protective shield, a temporary isolation institute is also being established outside the protective shield, and the biological specimens that we come here must be sent here for classification and testing before we can consider sending them to other places.
Inside the protective shield, we cautiously walked into the nearest bright light stand, and a researcher who was with us suggested that we do a stress response test first, so we stopped first. I first asked Fayana to help identify the bugs, but Fayana said that she didn't study bugs at all, and she didn't pay attention to them except for a few monster-level bugs that she could recognize.
Fayana couldn't help it, so we had to come by ourselves, and according to the scientific researcher's suggestion, we got a small work machine from outside. This thing is actually a remote control car with several mechanical arms, and with the powerful radio control ability of our electronic brain, even the remote control can be saved.
The strange-looking small machine first slowly moved under the lampstand, then the workbench began to rise slowly, and finally rose to a height of more than a meter before stopping. The robotic arm on the workbench slowly unfolded under our remote control, and then grabbed a makeshift alloy cage and slowly shrouded it towards a large bug that was picking on the lamp. Contrary to what we thought, the insect did not show any intention of escaping, and was actually put directly into the cage, and then the machine used another mechanical arm to carefully close the cage and lift the light away. The insect was very docile when it was first put in the cage, but as soon as it was lifted, it immediately stopped. The insect that was big enough for a small watermelon vibrated its wings in the cage and began to fly around, the metal cage that was not big was knocked around, the working machine was not originally a hard worker, and the small robotic arm was so small that it couldn't catch the cage at all, and it flew up with the cage. But what we really care about isn't the caught bug, it's the other bugs around it.
Insects are different from ordinary large creatures, and a single insect is actually very easy to deal with, even if it is recognized as the world's top poisonous insect like Black Widow, as long as it can be detected in advance, it is also easy to deal with. What we're really afraid of is that this thing is like a bee, it's easy for you to pinch a bee to death, but if you let its companions find out about your behavior, then you have to be careful, otherwise the whole swarm will chase you and attack you, and then even if you have a submachine gun, you have only one way to escape. The smallest of these bugs here are the size of a full-grown woman's fist, and the biggest ones can grow to the size of a rooster, and if we catch one of them, the rest of the bugs will attack us like crazy, and it won't be fun.
Fortunately, the insect flew in the sky with the cage for a while and then lost its strength and fell to the ground, and then we controlled a machine to pull the cage back. But this is not the end of the truth, after the cage was pulled back, we manipulated the machine qì man to pull out a long needle from the body and then inserted it into the cage of insects, we wanted to see if the death of our companions would provoke these insects to fight, and the results confirmed that these insects are no different from the insects that we have here in the summer around the lamp, it is nothing more than a few laps bigger. The insect that was caught was pierced by the machine qì people with a steel needle more than a dozen holes before it was completely dead, and then we asked the machine qì people to take it out and dismember it into several pieces on the spot, but the nearby bugs were still what to do, and they were not interested in the death of their own clan.
To confirm that these insects are not in danger, we directly took a large net and opened it under the lamp, and then another person took a liquid nitrogen sprayer and sprayed it in the air in front of the lamp, and the low-temperature nitrogen instantly froze dozens of insects into ice cubes and fell into the net, and then the researchers who came with us quickly picked up the insects in the net one by one with special clips and preserved them. It is very fast to catch insects in this way, those insects have no brains at all, and when they see what happened to their companions, they still gather on the lamp in front of us, and they die batch after batch, and we spray for a long time without seeing any signs of insects becoming less. At first, those scientific researchers were like babies carefully put the insects into the jar, but later found that there were too many, and they simply didn't pay so much attention, and directly took a large freezer to pour piles of insects into it, and sometimes found that a certain kind of catch too much simply threw it aside and stepped on it, which is really different from the appearance of treating insects as treasures at the beginning.
After catching the N bugs, the researchers probably felt that there was no need to catch ** anymore, so we began to adopt a more exaggerated way of catching, directly using special nerve gas, which was instantly placed in the vicinity of all the lighting equipment, and then the outside garrison came in to load all the dead bugs into a large cryogenic box and pull them all away at once.
After solving the bug problem, we started to protect the researchers and did other work, although we were so excited by the big creatures that we forgot the general rules, but now we have to do it all when we remember. This time, however, the work is relatively simpler. We first followed the researchers' prompts to collect soil samples at different depths at several specific locations in the forest, and then took a few liters of liquid samples at a small puddle in the forest. After collecting these things, the researchers actually asked us to collect plant specimens, and finally let us bring back a lump of stool that we didn't know what we found.
After collecting all kinds of small plants, the researchers became interested in those big trees, but this time, even the lucky big ones were pulled in to work as coolies. Trees near several of the selected representative trees were cut down, and large chunks of soil were dug up from underneath the target trees, and the entire tree was wrapped up with a special sealing film and transported back to the base.
Although the things we collected look ordinary, according to those researchers, these things can reflect the characteristics of the local ecosystem more comprehensively, so they are all indispensable. Of course, the most important thing is those higher creatures, after all, they are not small, and they may be weaponized. Long Yuan is also a military industrial group, and he is naturally very interested in these natural biological weapons that grow naturally.
It was already dawn the next day after all the mess was collected, but we couldn't rest, because there were still one or two big guys in the middle of the forest who hadn't come out yet, and we wouldn't dare leave until we got rid of these potential threats.
After arranging the security work outside, I led the team and began to approach the depths of the forest. Now my mood can be said to be very conflicted, on the one hand, I hope not to run into too powerful monsters, otherwise the mission may become very dangerous, on the other hand, I hope to meet stronger monsters, because the stronger the monster, the more valuable we can get from it.
We split into small teams in the forest and cautiously approached the target area. In addition to creating an electromagnetic barrier, the protectors outside the forest have another function, which is detection, with the help of the feedback they send back, we can easily locate the location of the creatures in the forest, and then the best of all we can scan the results are more surprising. In the middle of the forest is not just one creature in the middle of the forest, but a group of monsters.
"How can there be six?" I was amazed to see the number of jΓΉ coming back in my head. "Are you sure you're right? Is it really six? β
The dragon soldier who operated the protector immediately replied, "There can be no mistake, we can even see the magnetic field forms of those creatures here. One resembles some kind of bird, one resembles a spider, a semi-upright walking animal, two of the remaining three are quadrupeds, and the last one is a very small object, from which we can only see a vague mass of energy. β
Since the protector has even scanned the general form of the other party, it should be right, but at the beginning, Fayana said that there were at most two monsters in the forest, but now there are suddenly so many more, and the plan we originally made is not suitable for such a scene at all.
After thinking about it for a while, I ordered, "Everyone is on guard on the perimeter, and Yeyue, Ling, and Vina will come close to me to see what is going on." β
"Understood."
The four of us cautiously followed the beast path in the forest and approached the core area of the forest, where not to mention the monster now, not even a single insect could be seen. When we finally arrived at the most central area, we found that it was not a dense forest, but a large clearing, but not a normal glade, but a freshly cleared area. Apparently there had just been a big battle at the scene, and the ground around it was full of lodging and broken towering trees and shattered pieces of flesh that had been blown up, obviously there were not only a few monsters here, there should have been a big monster, or a group of small monsters that had a scuffle here, because the minced meat on the ground was definitely bigger than a whale, and if they were all from one creature, then it must be a big one.
"Looks like all six of them are hurt." Ling reminded me in his head.
I nodded. The situation on the field is now clear. The energy mass pattern scanned by the protector was very accurate, and the six creatures on the scene were indeed similar to the scanned results. Closest to us stood a huge earthy yellow spider, but because its ** was bigger than its head, we couldn't see its positive image at all, only that this thing was definitely ugly. A little to the left of the spider stood a large bird covered in emerald green feathers, and although this bird did not look fierce, the red blood on its beak indicated that its image and behavior were not very reliable. A little past the green bird was the upright walking monster, but unlike what I had thought, this monster didn't look like a mammal, but rather like a large lizard that walked upright, but this guy weighed at least ten tons, and stood there like a small high-rise residential building. The creature on the lizardmonster's side was a somewhat cat-like creature that seemed to be very cute, with snow-white fur and a black cross at the center of its eyebrows. If this guy can be reduced by thousands of times to the point that he can be a cat, but at this current size, even if the King Kong in the American movie touches it, he will only have to escape. Next to the big cat, there was a giant beast with long hair, but it seemed a little out of place with the cat, because the creature looked like a giant rat at all times. The last one, the creature that was not too far to our right, would have almost ignored it if we hadn't been able to rely on electromagnetic induction to determine its location. The little thing was crouching on the trunk of a large fallen tree. This guy has a golden outfit? Colored fluff, with a big belly, and a big tail much longer than its body dragged behind it, at first glance it looks like a fat squirrel, but this little thing can confront the five giant creatures in addition, and its strength may not be so simple.
"Fayana. Do you see any of the images? Tell us what these things are? β
Fayana seemed to be confused by the picture, and it wasn't until I urged it again that she hurriedly replied, "Don't expose your target yet." These are not ordinary goods. The big guy in front of you is a human-faced spider, and the adult body can even kill a lone dragon in the case of a sneak attack. Its carapace is very hard, and normal attacks are useless. It's bought for the abdomen, which is the part that is facing you right now, and it's a very soft place that hurts easily. But these guys usually hide in the hole, and only use to face the enemy head-on, and I don't know how to crawl the mail today! β
"Okay, I got that. Anything else to look out for? β
"This ...... Human-faced spiders will spray venom, their venom is corrosive, it will be miserable if it touches, and there is a silk sac on their **, which can spew out a large amount of white silk, once it is stuck and wants to break it, it will be difficult. By the way, the human-faced spiders are also very capable of jumping, and in addition, they are also very fast, so it is better not to think of it too bulky, otherwise you will suffer. The one next to the spider is the Jasper Bird, and the lonely people generally don't attack people, but the creatures here today seem to be a bit abnormal, so it's best to think about them as aggressive. The Jasper Bird is very fast, especially in the air, not only does it fly very fast, but it is also very agile in emptying. Their feathers can mint most of their magic, plus they fly, so there is little to no way for ordinary creatures to defeat them. β
"Magic immunity?" I know that the game is immune to magic, but the problem is real.
The world they came to has magic, stay here on Earth! We still don't know what their magic is, and we don't even see a single animal here that has ever done magic except that the fire actually spewed fire. So how about this so-called magic immunity? It's a big deal to bomb it down with an anti-aircraft missile, I don't believe it's faster than a missile. "Alright, let's move on to the following."
"Okay. The creature on the Jasper Bird's side was a dragon monster, an endemic species to the Demon Continent, and it shouldn't have appeared in this forest. As I told you, human-faced spiders are not creatures that should exist in this forest, they only live in desert areas, and no one has ever seen such a thing anywhere else.
I've thought about the situation that Fayana said before, but I think it's probably caused by the instability of the space exchange caused by the accident, although it is ostensibly to change the land of this forest, but in fact, it is a few discontinuous empty breakpoints that are randomly selected to switch over, so so many creatures that do not belong to this forest are pulled over. However, the creatures that were thrown to the earth are more worried about being thrown to the research institute of the other world. According to the results of last night's statistics, the entire research institute had 326 people who did not escape, and all of them were thrown into the opposite space, and the chances of survival of these people being thrown over were infinitely close to zero. Think about those demonic beasts, even if we dragons have to deal with them carefully, what do the powerless civilians of the research institute rely on to fight these things?