Two rays of sparkling light as they scurry through the 44th floor of the Lost World

It was Liu Wuxi, who was driving a hoverbike, and Li Ang, who was riding a fear warhorse.

The two drove through a winding tunnel, and more than a dozen drones flew in the air, scouting the road ahead and drawing maps.

“...”

Liu Wuxi, who hung the motorcycle helmet on the back of the hovering motorcycle, glanced left and right, and there was only the roar of the engine and the sound of horse hooves in the dim space.

To be precise, starting an hour and a half ago, the 47th, 46th, 45th, and 44th floors of the Lost World suddenly fell silent.

The machine beast disappeared,

The security guards who had penetrated into the cracks in the walls and pipes were nowhere to be seen, not even when Liu Wuxian and Li Ang took amber-like energy from the edge of the 47th floor wall of the Lost World.

What's going on?

Liu Wuxian silently pondered all kinds of unreasonable signs and thought about the reasons behind this.

After the security guards disappeared, she and Leon dug up the pipes in the 47th floor of the wall, which contained layers of metal like dragon scales.

The further you dig in, the stronger the metal becomes,

It is through the cracks in the layers of the metal that the amber energy flows.

I don't know if something happened to the Lost World Energy System,

Or Liu Wuxian and Li Ang's operation mistakes,

In short, the amount of amber energy flowing out of the pipeline is much less than before, and when it is extracted by a conduit, it can only barely extract a share of a gasoline barrel.

Perhaps, this is why the security guards disappeared ... One.

Liu Wuxian glanced at the comic called "When the Stars Return to Their Places 3" placed in the suspended motorcycle basket.

This comic was found by them from the lair of the security guards on the 47th floor, in the abdomen of a security guard's corpse that they had previously shattered and dragged away by their companions.

Leaving aside the content of the comics, the appearance of the comic paper alone is very strange.

Such a brand new paper is certainly not handed down from the period of the collapse of civilization in the lost world.

I don't know if the security guard has the 3D printing function,

Or somewhere in the lost world, where a factory for making paper is housed...

The sound of wings flapping into the air approached, and thirty birds flew from the corner of the tunnel ahead, chirping.

"Left."

Leon spoke, patting the dreaded warhorse on the neck, and the latter splayed his vigorous hooves, leaped over a protruding piece of metal wreckage, and swerved lightly into the corner.

These flying birds are the same model as the biological weapons he used in the Shengnan King script mission and the realm corridor stage a long time ago.

But there is no psychic communication function,

Compared to other hive units that have removed most of the restrictions,

There are also extremely different differences in appearance shape, anatomical structure, DNA information, etc.

The newly hatched hive unit, whose chromosomes are adulterated with nucleotide sequences from a considerable number of Earth's humans and the indigenous inhabitants of the Lost World (taken from the bones of the dormant pod),

Even if other forces capture the hive unit (which is usually difficult, the hive unit is set up to disintegrate and explode on its own after being captured) and conduct DNA analysis, it will be considered that the swarm is native to the Lost World, or an experimental species.

Or it may have evolved after an exotic creature devoured the corpses of Earth players and the natives of the Lost World.

Hundreds, nearly a thousand, of bird-shaped reconnaissance biological weapons just fit the level of strength possessed by the identity of "Li Risheng".

Players of the same level who have summon skills are almost at this level - Li Ang chose to act with Liu Wuxian and use the [Summoning Technique: Dread War Horse] skill in front of the detector camera, just to further strengthen the impression that "Li Risheng is a second-tier player with summoning skills".

Cut your identity from the hive.

"Right."

Leon reminded him and ordered the birds to explore the way forward again, and drove the Dreaded War Horse around the corner towards the passage from the 44th floor to the 43rd floor.

In the link of the divine power established by the hive relying on the evil god figure, the messages sent by hundreds of brain worms echoed,

The battle situation between the hive and the beast, the battle loss ratio of the hive unit, the genetic dismantling process of the aboriginal bones of the hive unit, the tracking and monitoring of the player by the hive reconnaissance unit, the disposal plan of the hive to the captured player...

The Lost World's absorption of divine power is relatively weak, but it is not completely absent.

The farther away they are, the greater the consumption of the information transmitted by the Divine Power Link, and the worse the effect.

Therefore, Leon only let the Scout Bugs fly to each floor, and for the Brain Worms, he arranged for them to go to the 46th floor first, and eliminated the security guards stationed there with the advantage of troops.

Before Liu Wuxi, he discovered the secret of the energy pipeline - the amber energy is transported from the lower layer to the upper level.

After discovering this, Leon ordered the hives to relocate en masse, crossing the 45th, 44th, 43rd, and 42nd floors to the 41st and 40th floors, and building a total of four new hives based on the abandoned city close to the edge walls.

For the sake of mobile warfare, organs such as the hive factory can be dismantled, packed and taken away by heavy and fortress-level soldiers.

The giant elevators scattered here and there also make it easy for the hives to move.

After the hive was established, the energy pipeline was immediately collected in a fish-fishing manner, and the amber energy was fully exploited.

According to the map of floors 55 to 38 developed by Scout Soldier Bugs, the Lost World is olive-shaped, narrow at the top and bottom and wide in the middle, with a total of 50 energy pipelines that envelop the Lost World.

There are two hive cities on the 41st and 40th floors, each of which controls and mines three energy pipelines, making a total of twelve pipelines.

This behavior immediately attracted the attention of the security guards.

The security guards on the upper and lower floors were collectively dispatched to attack the hive.

After the previous waves of attacks were repulsed, the security guards of all types immediately changed their mode of action, driving a large number of machine beasts to start a war. The two sides fought a fierce war around the hive city, and countless machine beasts, soldiers and insects died.

The number of Lost World's Beasts is difficult to calculate, but the number of Beasts that can be called upon by the security guards is limited for a fixed period of time. It takes time to deter the MechBeasts, and it takes time to drive the Mechbeasts to the Hive.

The portable hive hatchery factory can collect dead insect corpses on the battlefield, absorb, digest, decompose, and use the incubator to quickly mass produce - the energy of amber with extremely high calorific value is comparable to that of an accelerator.

It can not only provide energy for the hive factory and accelerate production, but also fill it into the body of a high-level hive unit, saving biomass energy and saving the time required for incubation and modulation.

In the local battlefield, the hive undoubtedly occupies the lead (the speed of the replication and reproduction of machine beasts is much faster than that of the current robot assembly line, but compared with the hive hatching factory, it is still too slow).

With the help of the intelligence network established by the scout bugs, the brain worms analyze the strength of the machine beast army summoned by the security guards, and plan the production work.

It has always maintained the strength advantage of the four hive cities occupying a local area, and will not be swallowed up by the torrent of machine beasts.

Once the hive has collected the energy from the pipes on that level, it can move again, using the giant elevator to continue to the lower floors, mining the amber energy there and producing more units.

Located on the 45th floor, Li Ang can not only remotely control the hive with his divine power,

It can also allow the identity of "Li Risheng" to maintain the connection of divine power and draw a line with the hive while continuing to march to the floor below.

All the links are in Li Ang's calculations, but his mood is still dignified.

Bang!

There was a loud and dull sound above the dome again, and the dome shook and trembled, and the rubble splattered and fell.

"The time interval between loud noises has been shortened again."

Liu Wuxi's voice was still clear in the roaring engine of the levitation motorcycle, "It's been two hours and forty-nine minutes since the last sound." ”

"Is the gradient accelerating down?"

Li Ang frowned slightly, and muttered, "Maybe it's really as guessed, the Lost World is gradually compressing the player's activity space..."

Some of the soldiers and insects he sent out to the upper floor to detect before have determined that the upper floor has indeed collapsed, and the cause of the collapse is still under investigation.

However, there is another piece of information in his hand, which is more special.

In some security guards of various models, there is a series of comics of the same type "When the Stars Return to Their Places".

After this period of war with the Mecha Beasts, the Hive captured a total of seven copies, three of which were identical, and four of which were 2, 3, 6, and 8.

The protagonist is a pink-skinned humanoid creature, and a humanoid clownfish who is the adopted son of the former, the comic book style is amazing, and the story style is similar to a road movie.

The two seem to be traveling through a wasteland world that has lost order, with some kind of purpose in mind, to a special location.

The hive tries to capture and control some security guards to get more information about the lost world.

So far, however, none of the security guards have been effectively captured - they have all disintegrated on their own when captured.

As for those players who accidentally get involved in the war between the hive and the machine beasts, and are finally captured by the hive...

Killing directly is the most wasteful, and may allow hive units to gain player qualifications, giving rise to swarm players who can travel through many worlds, and thus risk Leon losing absolute control of the hive.

In the previous war between the hive and the beast, the hive was already exposed to the sight of other players.

Fortunately, these people are also like Leon's plan, and they believe that the hive is a native creature of the lost world (such as an out-of-control creation in the laboratory, such as a machine beast), and no one would think that such a large scale of biological weapon race would be controlled by some or even a player.

Since it is exposed, it is necessary to maximize the benefits.

After a short thought, Leon immediately issued an order to the brainworms in each hive, telling them to immediately begin to torture, interrogate, study, and analyze the captured players.

(The Evil God Figure is placed in the No. 1 Hive on the 41st floor, and other Hive Cities use psionic energy to connect with the No. 1 Hive, and then the brain worm of the No. 1 Hive relays the information to Leon with the help of the Evil God Figure)

Players who can squeeze into the top 300 have more or less unique skills.

As long as the hive can guarantee absolute control over these players, the potential benefits far outweigh the risks.

Of course, Leon is not a demon after all,

does not cut the player into slices,

As long as the value is squeezed out, it will still allow them to leave the lost world safely - as for what form of life to leave, it is not within Leon's consideration.

As the summoning time of the Dread War Horse was about to end, Leon slowed down, turned over and dismounted, and threw a carrot to the horse that was about to disappear.

Taking a few steps forward, he looked at the deep and dark tunnel in front of him, leading to the lower level, and said in a low voice: "Ahead is the passage from the 44th floor to the 43rd floor." ”

Liu Wuxian also got off the hoverbike, picked up the comic of "When the Stars Return to Their Places" that could not be put in the backpack bar, put it into the backpack, and said softly: "There are many scratches left by the crawling beasts at the edge of the tunnel.

And the traces are still very new. ”

Li Ang said in a deep voice: "Judging from the number and density of scratches, the machine beasts in this layer, I am afraid, for some unknown reason, went through this passage to the lower layer, and finally disappeared. ”

“... I had a sense of foreboding. On the floor below, there seems to be a huge shadow of evil and deep..."

Liu Wuxian silently stared at the dark tunnel, paused, and said slowly: "Let's go, after all, we have to go to the lower level." ”

"Hmm."

Li Ang nodded, reached out and pressed the metal ruins on the side of the road, refined two iron chains, fixed them on the wall, and together with Liu Wuxian, held the iron chains, and landed deep in the tunnel.

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"The swarm... Large shares... The Ant King... Help..."

In the communication equipment, there was an intermittent and noisy voice, which lasted for a moment, and the signal was interrupted, leaving only noise.

A dark-skinned young man with fangs in his mouth stood on a pile of ruins, holding a communicator in his hand, his face slightly changing.

He is [Big Black Sky], ranked 42nd in the personal combat power rankings, belonging to the European Heavy Industries Group, and like Nina of "The Wind Chaser", he is from India.

But unlike the latter, he is a Brahmin in real-world India, born into an aristocratic family, and has a lot of influence in all walks of life in northern India.

Correspondingly, he has a power system inherited from the legendary Daikokuten Mahagara.

"The swarm..."

Da Heitian read the voice coming from the communicator of the European Heavy Industries Group, turned his head to look at the man in the suit sitting in the corner, and said in a deep voice: "Ant King, why did he say your name?"

The swarm that has been chasing us before, is it related to you? ”