Section 233 Scorched Earth
The clods of soil on the ground continued to arch up, meandering and swimming, constantly approaching Chen Xing. That's the scorched earth earthworm moving through the shallow soil. They usually dig through the soil of their territory in dense cobweb-like tunnels to move and catch their prey.
Chen Xing looked left and right, found a large stone, rushed a few steps forward, and jumped up. Earthworms can drill into soil, but not stones, and he still understands this common sense. Then launch a charged shot, shooting at the arched position.
"Da Da Da!"
Three points of light shot into the earth one after another, and a dull howl was immediately heard. Black dust rose into the sky, as if across the curtain in front of you. A massive body leapt from the ground, writhing wildly. Psionic bullets pierced its tough skin and tumbled through its flesh, causing great pain.
Chen Xing's muzzle moved up and down with its dark flesh ring, and the trigger was pulled at the moment of locking. That is the weakness of the scorched earth earthworm, which resembles the seven inches of a snake, and is called the "life ring". The scorched earth earthworm has a strong regenerative ability, and as long as the life ring is still there, it can grow back into its body.
The lifering was hit continuously, splattering red blood. The scorched earthworm burrowed into the soil again and fled into the distance. Chen Xing would let it go, quickly unloaded the sniper rifle, pulled the bolt, pushed in a steel-core armor-piercing bullet, concentrated his energy, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
In the short, hidden tongue of fire, a steel core bullet with a blue body came out of the chamber. At great speed, the surrounding air distorts and deforms, forming a circular stream of air. Then it breaks through the soil and shoots into the rubbery body.
I only heard a "whoosh", and the scorched earth earthworm raised its head and broke through the ground. Chen Xing pulled the bolt of the gun, and the smoke-emitting bullet casings flew out and landed on the stone and bounced a few times. Load again, shoot!
The power of the 7.62 mm bullet is far greater than that of the 5.56 bullet, the former is to kill the enemy, while the latter is to kill, there is an essential difference in tactics. Although the 12.6 and 20 mm are more powerful, they are also heavy and inconvenient for individual soldiers.
The second bullet pierced the life ring, and the scorched earthworm twitched and struggled on the ground. Chen Xing made up another shot, and finally died.
I have to say that Chen Xing's skills and equipment are very suitable for survival in the Black Earth Continent. If you change to a regular mercenary, it will take at least a team of three or four people to complete the kill, and it is not as easy as him.
The first is reconnaissance, Chen Xing has a sense of danger, and he is very restrained against this kind of creature that mainly attacks sneak attacks, which can be said to be a natural enemy. If it had succeeded in its sneak attack just now, even if it couldn't bite Chen Xing's leg, it would still be able to wrap its body around him. But Chen Xing dodged in the first time, and the scorched earth earthworm not only failed to attack, but also exposed himself.
The second is combat, most of the mercenaries are learning psionic armor, the skin of scorched earth earthworms is as thick as tires, ordinary bullets and cold weapons are difficult to penetrate, and grenades and bazookas cannot cause much damage. In this way, it is necessary to prepare at least a gun of more than twelve millimeters in caliber. Similar to the "elephant hunting", it is large and bulky, and it is very difficult to carry. If it's okay somewhere else, the Black Death Continent can't drive, and people can be tired of carrying a gun just by carrying it.
Under normal circumstances, it would take two brawlers to hold the scorched earth earthworm, a precision shooter and a support hand to work together to complete the kill at no or very little cost. And now, Chen Xing can kill the scorched earth earthworm alone, which is enough to explain the problem without using a trio.
Chen Xing pulled out a long knife and cut open the body of the scorched earth earthworm little by little, revealing the light yellow flesh inside. A foul smell came out, like an overnight egg yolk, and it stinked so much that people wanted to vomit. Chen Xing took out a towel from his backpack, dipped it in some water, and covered it on his nose before continuing to dig.
He did not use a cleaver, on the one hand, the skin of the scorched earth earthworm was too thick, almost ten centimeters, and the blade of the cleaving knife was not long enough; On the other hand, if the knife is used too much, it will be dull, and the "intestines" are used to kill, not to do these things.
As for the sheathed knife snatched from the elite bone warrior, it itself was used for chopping, and the last time it was cut on Wu Hao's gun, it had already broken a corner, so it simply broke the can. This kind of "flat fragmented complex dark light pattern blade" is made of multi-segment folding, to put it bluntly, it is covered and forged layer by layer with thin iron sheets, and the blade is very sharp, but it is easy to break and cannot be repaired.
Chen Xing didn't cherish it much because he could use it day by day, so now it has become a butcher knife.
In the depths of the life ring, Chen Xing dug up a red crystal nucleus, the size of a pigeon's egg, crystal clear in the sun, exuding a beautiful luster.
Power crystal nucleus, the market price is about 1 gram for 1 gold coin. In some marginal areas, it can be used as gold coins. Chen Xing wiped it on the trouser tube and put it in the money bag. There was still a stench on his hands, but he ignored it and continued walking. He was now like he had been dug out of a pile of coal, and it didn't matter if he was clean or not.
Before the cataclysm, the land of Xiaodongzhou was very fertile, the kind of oily black soil that could grow opium poppies. After a few rounds of nuclear bombing, the vegetation died out and the land hardened, gradually becoming what it is now - the ground is covered with black ash all year round, and only a few plants survive.
There are more than 10 species of radiation-loving black moss, scorched earth shrubs with water storage bladders, Dead Sea aspen that does not die for 3,000 years, asura fire trees that are resistant to high temperatures, and black soil mushrooms and mutant poppies.
After resting for a while and re-strapping his gun, Chen Xing continued to move in the direction of the safety station. In this environment, he did not dare to sleep in the wilderness, and went to the safety station first.
The wasteland of the Black Death Continent is very difficult to walk, the ground is full of rubble, some are half a person high, some are the size of a football, you must keep your head down when walking, otherwise you will kick it, which is very uncomfortable.
When it was almost evening, Chen Xing walked for a full three hours before walking five or six kilometers. It's a downhill slope with a view of the ruins of the city in the distance. The collapsed buildings were covered with black moss, like a dark steel forest, dark and terrifying.
Chen Xing exhaled, it seemed that he couldn't go over there tonight, so he could only find a place with a wide view to take a nap.
He looked around and decided to go back a little bit and rest at the top of the slope. Then I found a large rock that I could lean back on, and sat down to drink water and eat dinner. The military rations distributed by Monitor Lizard City are not bad, with a self-heating function. He opened a tomato scrambled egg ramen and ate it beautifully.
Halfway through eating, he suddenly thought of a question, would that slut let people poison the food? Thinking of this, he almost vomited out everything he had just eaten.
Probably not......
The slut probably enjoyed the process of jumping off without a parachute, and the survival rate was negligible enough to be poisoned. Then another question came to his mind, why did Lacey hate him so much, why did she kill him?
Stand out for the Yang family? This possibility is very low, the other party is the eldest princess of the Red Dragon Principality, there is no need to please a small family, and the Yang family is not particularly powerful.
Lacey seems to care a lot about his relationship with Aria. At that time, he saw jealousy, anger, and a trace of panic in the other party's eyes, like an original partner who saw Xiao San. But how can a woman eat a woman's vinegar?
Is it lace edging?
Chen Xing III was a man and well-informed, so he naturally thought of this point quickly.
He thought about the past carefully, and felt more and more that female demons had a tendency to do this.
Alia went out dressed as a more masculine person, with tights, military boots, an armed vest, and a rugged repeating shotgun. Prefer to drive a motorcycle rather than a relatively comfortable sand car. When they had sex that night, she also threatened to rape him. Although she was not the one who took the initiative in the end, it was obvious that she was unwilling to be like a woman.
"Buzz ......"
In the middle of his thoughts, there was a sudden sound of membranous wings flagging behind him. From far to near, extremely fast.
He immediately put down the ration bag, grabbed the assault rifle beside him, and climbed onto the rock.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, the black dots the size of three wheels continued to magnify and flew rapidly towards this direction. The carapace is shiny and reflects an orange-red glow.
It was the three sickle beetles, one of the most common mutated creatures in the wilderness, with a pair of sharp sickle legs and extremely strong bite jaws, a very hard carapace, and a normal-grade vitality between 40 and 60. The Elite-level shell is red, and these three are black, so it shouldn't be difficult to deal with.
Chen Xing picked up the gun, aimed at the target in the triple mirror, and began to shoot.
"Da Da Da!" "Da Da Da!" "Da Da Da!"
Instead of using a charged shot, he took advantage of the distance and broke their membranous wings first, making them unable to fly. Although the crawling speed of the scythe beetle on the ground is not slow, it is much easier to deal with than the flying one.
In a series of point shots, the membranous wings of a sickle beetle were damaged and slowly descended. The other membranous wing is perforated and flies slower. The third Chen Xing did not shoot and maintained his original speed. In this way, the three beetles were separated.
"Buzz!"
After a few seconds, the fastest beetle swooped down towards Chen Xing. Chen Xing was twice as agile as when he returned from Dragonstone Town last year, and the speed of a normal-grade beetle was a cut slower than him. He didn't dodge until the moment he pounced, only to have the beetle hit his head on the stone, and the green slurry splattered out.
"Tsk!"
The sickle beetle hissed angrily, pulling at the stone with its knuckles, dragging bright sparks in response, which was responded by a shuttle of bullets that shot straight at its mouthparts.
With a flash of fire, the sickle beetle's mouthparts were shattered, and it fell backwards and fell under the stones. Chen Xing jumped back onto the stone and occupied the commanding heights. And at this time, the second beetle flew over. Chen Xing pulled the trigger and directly finished the remaining bullets.
The beetle was beaten and sparked all over its body, and it fell more than twenty meters away.
Looking down, the beetle with a wounded head was waving its knotted feet, unable to turn over. Seeing this, Chen Xing immediately took off the incendiary grenade on the armed belt, bit the pull ring, and threw it at it.
With a "boom", the fire rose into the sky. Chen Xing was close at hand, but he was not affected in the slightest. The beetles below were burned and screamed, and the beetles more than twenty meters away did not dare to approach, so Chen Xing took the opportunity to change the magazine.
In order to avoid the temperature being too high and causing the explosion of the ammunition on his body, Chen Xing immediately left the stone after changing the magazine and ran towards another big stone in the distance. He was not afraid of fire, but bullets and grenades.
The second beetle immediately caught up, and Chen Xing ran as he shot, causing the beetle to retreat. But even as he ran to the bottom of the rock, the one whose wings he had knocked off had already rushed forward, and swooped down on him with a scythe.
He took the opportunity to pull out the Silver Star and shoot, repelled the beetle, and then climbed the big rock.
This stone is more than two meters high, and when Chen Xing changed the magazine, the second one pounced, and a large number of sparks were drawn on the stone. Chen Xing immediately kicked it down,
"Click!"
Chen Xing loaded the bullet and fired continuously at the beetle.
Suddenly, there was wind in the back of his head, and another beetle pounced. Chen Xing reflexively kicked it out. Now he has 25 points of strength, and he can kick a 300-kilogram sickle beetle.
At that moment, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a beetle covered in flames turn over and crawl towards him. I have to say that the scythe beetle has excellent stamina, its head is sunken, its mouthparts are sparse, and its whole body is on fire, but it is not dead.
For a while, the three beetles formed a circle of encirclement.
There is a saying on the Red Earth Continent that three beetles are a team. Meaning, the three beetles cooperate with each other, which is equivalent to the combat power of a team of soldiers. They have a certain IQ, and usually the three of them forage together, and the tacit cooperation is no less than that of humans.
Underneath the stone, the three beetles did not rush to attack, and were distributed in a triangular shape, looking for an opportunity to attack.
Since they didn't attack, Chen Xing was not polite, secretly stored energy, and poured Xingsha into the bullets.
"Tsk!"
With a chirp, three beetles pounced at the same time.