The group continued to walk forward, either Sam or Mo along the way, and the two of them could always find a place for the retreating Lieutenant Vic team to attrition, apparently these team members either volunteered to stay and snipe the bugs behind, or because they were injured and had to stay as bait to give others a chance to escape, but in the end they were eaten alive by the insects chasing behind.

After walking out for about 3 kilometers, everyone saw a wide range of yellow sand dunes in front of them, and there was a desert rock canyon made of huge rocks that could not be seen at all!

The canyon is at least 100 meters wide, but it is still rocky, so that when viewed, the canyon looks dark, eerie, and terrifying, like a narrow passage of giant insect remains, and like a scorching magma flowing through it.

Sam looked ahead and said, "Sir, perhaps...... Lieutenant Vic: They fled into the canyon. ”

Gu Cheng nodded: "Okay, then go in and take a look." ”

The exact location of Lieutenant Vic's entourage was determined, even though the canyon looked a little eerie, but Gu Cheng and the others, who were already ready to fly, naturally could not choose to give up the mission and turn around at this time, so everyone could only stride towards the rift, and at this time, according to the interstellar time, the planet was probably still in the afternoon, so under the light of the planet similar to the sun, the gloomy canyon looked a little bright.

But after walking some distance, a foul smell followed, like the unique stench of decomposing corpses.

Walking further inside, Gu Cheng and his party finally discovered the source of the stench-

Piles of rotting Zerg corpses.

Gu Cheng and the others held back the pungent stench and walked in to check it, Mo looked at the corpses of the Zerg who seemed to be ** and suddenly said, "These don't look like injuries caused by firearms." ”

Sam chimed in, "The wounds are neat, like they were cut with a sharp weapon. ”

Mo said again: "According to the size of the wound, it shouldn't be a light energy saber." ”

Gu Cheng nodded: "So it won't be Lieutenant Vic and his party who did it." ”

Then he frowned again: "The Zerg's thunder beast can cause such a wound, but it is impossible for the Zerg to have infighting...... With the strength of the X331 outpost, it is impossible to have a class that can cause such a wound, is it ...... Is it the Protoss? ”

If it's a Protoss, it can explain what the wounds on the corpses of these Zerg are all about.

Whether it is the basic class "Zealot" (also known as Berserker, Bayonet Soldier, and Blade Scraper, it is a powerful close-quarters combat unit, and the weapon is a laser knife), or the high-level class Dark Templar, they all have the weapons and strength to kill low-level Zerg troops with one sword.

After all, it is indeed unlikely that the Terran units and the X331 outpost class will be able to cause such damage, and excluding the Zerg infighting, then the appearance of the Protoss is the most likely scenario.

Gu Cheng thought to himself, if it was really a Dark Templar of the Protoss, could it be that he said that the idea of letting Mo also get in touch with the hidden transfer task by the way would come true?

Gu Cheng ignored the smell of blood and decay that permeated the surroundings, walking back and forth between the fragmented Zerg corpses, observing, and the situation in front of him seemed to have been sketched 3 days ago, Lieutenant Bick was outflanked by the Zerg after leading the troops to escape from the rocky area, and found the canyon in despair, and rushed down desperately, and the crazy Zerg chased after him.

And at this time, either the Protoss who had been following behind found the traces of this group of bugs, or this was a stronghold or resting place of the Protoss, and after the Zerg came in, they were killed by the Protoss who were targeting them. And the corpses of Lieutenant Vic and his party have not been found here, which means that the Protoss has not yet taken a hostile response to the Terrans......

So......

Where did Lieutenant Vic and his party go now?

Are you still in this canyon, or have you escaped from it? If they escaped from the canyon, did they return in the direction of the rocky area, or did they continue deeper into here and go out from the other side of the canyon?

After Gu Cheng informed Mo and Sam of what was in his mind, he asked, "Can you find out from the surrounding information whether Lieutenant Vic and his party are returning to the direction of the rocky canyon, or are they continuing to go deeper?" ”

Sam hesitated and said, "It should be fine." ”

Mo also nodded.

Then, the two of them began to carefully examine the geology around the Zerg corpse, looking for clues, and judging the whereabouts of Lieutenant Vic and his party.

Mo found that Lieutenant Vic and his party had indeed come to this canyon, because they didn't know whether to block the pursuit of the Zerg or set a trap to counter the pursuit, so they also blew up a few stones that could be used for load-bearing buffers 50 meters in front of the corpse, so that there were still many Zerg killed in a pile of gravel caves, but these gravel were piled up under the rocks, and if you didn't look carefully, you would think it was a naturally formed rockfall.

Once the whereabouts of Lieutenant Vic and his party were determined, the next step was to determine whether they continued on or returned to bypass the canyon after sniping the Zerg.

So Mo and Gu Cheng went forward first, and after about five or six hundred meters, they didn't find any traces of the battle. This makes everyone a little strange, after all, judging by the traces left by the Zerg at the exit of the rock area, there should be a lot of them, but there is only one combat trace from entering the canyon, and except for a small number of traces left by Lieutenant Vic and his party with **, those traces left on the wounds of the Zerg are more like those left by the Protoss......

So, where did Lieutenant Vic and his party go? Was it taken away by the Protoss, or was it withdrawn from the canyon? It can't be evaporated out of thin air, right?

Gu Cheng and his party searched in this canyon for nearly two hours, but still did not find any information about the whereabouts of Lieutenant Vic and his party.

Therefore, Gu Cheng and the others had to face a choice - either go back the way they came and start searching from the outside of the canyon, or continue to move forward until they reached the end of the canyon.

In comparison, the second option is more dangerous, one is because of the terrain, and more because if they continue to move along the canyon, then Gu Cheng and his party will deviate farther and farther away from the first temporary base.

Gu Cheng and Sam were discussing their next plans, and since the two were standing face to face, Mo's position was just on Gu Cheng's side, that is, opposite Gu Cheng.

Gu Cheng glanced at Mo, but found that she had been staring at a position in front of her, and glanced back curiously, but didn't see any clues, and was about to ask, when suddenly she saw Mo's expression become as serious and serious as facing a great enemy, and then saw her push Gu Cheng to the side, and then pulled out the Crimson Moon to block her in front of her and made a blocking move!

Gu Cheng thought that it was impossible for Mo to put on such a posture for no reason, and with her character, it was even more impossible for her to be joking with herself and Sam, and almost at the same time that Mo was blocking her side, she pulled out two black and white twins and prepared to turn around and shoot. But his movements were still a little slower than Mo, and as soon as he pulled out the black and white twins, there was a screeching sound in his ears after the collision of metal.

Then when Gu Cheng turned around, he saw that Mo's Crimson Moon dagger obviously didn't block anything, but the air position it was blocking was "sizzling" with sparks caused by friction!

Then Gu Cheng immediately figured it out!

Invisible Units!

Gu Cheng didn't know how Mo had noticed this stealth unit, but he knew that if it wasn't for Mo, then he would most likely have been attacked by this stealth unit, and might even be killed with a single sword!

StarCraft, whether it is a combat unit in the 1st or 2nd generation, Gu Cheng is almost backwards, and there are only a few units that can be invisible, let alone a ground melee unit, so the identity of the sneak attacker is about to come out-

Dark Templar!

"Bang bang bang-"

While the ink was holding the opponent's weapon, Gu Cheng had already completed the action of drawing the gun, and then pulled the trigger and fired three shots in a row. It's a pity that Gu Cheng clearly felt that none of the three shots hit the target, and the bullets of the black and white twins hit the rock wall in front of him without any hindrance.

"Ahh At this time, there was a burst of exclamation from the front, Gu Cheng turned his head to look, only to see that Frank had been attacked, and a large piece of his mechanical armor had been cut off from the left shoulder, but he was also a battle-hardened elite soldier, and after the first attack, his body had already fallen backwards, and then quickly rolled several times in a row to escape from this enemy he couldn't see.

"Sam!" Gu Cheng shouted at Sam, who had just gotten up.

Gu Cheng had told Sam about Frank's value before, so when he shouted Sam, he immediately understood that he was letting himself go to support Frank, so he rushed towards Frank's position as soon as he got up, but Sam couldn't see the Dark Templar, and he didn't have Mo's observation ability, so he could only use his sense to punch the air in front of him!

But from this it made Sam understand that his feelings were unreliable!

Because of this punch, nothing hit!

But it finally bought Frank time to get up, and Sam was also experienced, so he immediately shouted to the plot soldiers who had gathered together by their fighting instincts: "All soldiers obey orders!" Untargeted strafing in the direction of the canyon entrance! ”

"Yes!"

All the machine gunners raised their machine guns in unison and fired a burst of fire, and the spitting tongues of fire hit the rocks and the ground with sand and dust, and instantly filled the entire canyon passage.

"Found it!" Through the flying sand, Gu Cheng was able to confirm the whereabouts of the Dark Templar who attacked Frank at a glance. Because some of the dust was transparent, and no dust was in it, it was clear that there was a Dark Templar standing in that place!

"Sam, in front of your right!" Gu Cheng shouted at Gu Cheng.

Almost at the same time as Gu Cheng's voice fell, Sam, as a raider, directly shot out with a tremor bomb, this time, he clearly felt that he had hit something, and that thing also flew upside down under his blow and hit the rock on the side.

This also allows the plot soldiers to find their target and quickly shoot in that direction!

But the Dark Templar is a Dark Templar after all, and his ability naturally goes without saying, 1 second before he hit the rock wall and the machine gunner fired, he had already used some special means to leave that position, and the machine gunner's bullets were all empty and shot into the rock wall!

Looking at Mo again, although she couldn't see the Dark Templar, with her extremely keen senses and combat instincts, she was able to fight with the invisible Dark Templar for several rounds, allowing Gu Cheng to stay away from the Dark Templar safely!

Just as Gu Cheng was about to cooperate with Mo to take down the Dark Templar, the two were surprised to find that the Dark Templar had disappeared!

Including the Dark Templar who fought Ink!

The two Dark Templars vanished at the same time, as if they had never been there......

"Eliminate ...... Gone? Sam still didn't come to his senses: "Is it a Dark Templar?" ”

Sam, as a native of the Terrans in StarCraft, can figure out what kind of class of StarCraft was in StarCraft after a little thought after the battle.

Gu Cheng nodded, although the Dark Templar Warrior had disappeared, he didn't dare to take it lightly, and only then did Chaomo ask after letting the plot soldiers form a defensive formation to guard against them, "How did you find them?" ”

Mo Dao: "According to what you explained to me about the invisible abilities of the Dark Templars, they bend and refract light to become invisible, but the entity still exists, so when I observed the environment, I noticed that the direction of the sand and dust seemed to be blocked by an invisible barrier. It's the same thing you do when you let the Soldier shoot aimlessly and splatter sand in order to find the second Dark Templar. ”

The principle is indeed the same, but Gu Cheng came up with the method on the premise of knowing that the other party was hidden, and Mo judged in advance, this observation, Gu Cheng is still inferior to Mo.

However, without Mo's judgment, the Dark Templar's sneak attack would undoubtedly have succeeded. From entering the infinite world to the present, there are no less than a hundred large and small zergs who have died in Gu Cheng's hands, if it is so inexplicable that the Dark Templar warrior kills and causes the infinite world to fail, I am afraid that Gu Cheng will die of depression directly.

Sam said at this time, "It doesn't look good that the Protoss will take the initiative to attack us...... If Lieutenant Vic and his party enter here, I'm afraid it will ......"

Gu Cheng didn't think so: "That's not necessarily. ”

"Why? Sir, just now we relied on Chief Mo to find traces of the Dark Templar, otherwise we would have confessed here. I don't believe Lieutenant Vic and his party have the ability to spot the Dark Templars in such a situation, unless they have a science ship...... But if they have a science spacecraft and still use it to escape on the ground? Wouldn't it be over just making a spaceship and returning to the first temporary base? Sam is right, after all, this is a "real" infinite world, not a 2D real-time strategy game StarCraft, and according to the size of the science ship, it is not impossible for the science ship to make a cameo as a transport plane.

Just like the Vulture, it is only a single-seater motorcycle-type unit in the game, but here, it is an armored vehicle that can carry more than a dozen people.

Although Gu Cheng agreed with Sam's explanation, he didn't think that Lieutenant Vic and his party were dead: "Assuming that Lieutenant Vic and his party were indeed attacked and killed by the Protoss here, then at least they should leave corpses like the previous Zerg battlefield." So there are two possibilities, one is that Lieutenant Vic and his party ran into the Protoss, and the Protoss did not sneak attack them, because once the Shadow Templar made a move, Lieutenant Bick and his party would definitely suffer casualties. But this doesn't make sense, because if the Protoss hadn't made a move against Lieutenant Vic and his party, then they shouldn't have made a move on us...... So, that's the second possibility - Lieutenant Vic they didn't go into the canyon. ”

Sam thought for a moment and felt that Gu Cheng's analysis made some sense, so he asked, "Sir, if Lieutenant Vic didn't choose to enter the canyon, he could only choose to go from the periphery of the canyon." So now do we go back the way we came? ”

Gu Cheng smiled faintly: "I have other ideas......

"Oh?"

"Try talking to these Shadow Templars."

Sam was surprised, "Sir? These Dark Templars have just attacked us, and you still want to talk to them? Moreover...... Even if you want to talk to them, but sir, do you know the language of the Protoss? ”

Gu Cheng smiled: "You don't have to worry about this, as far as I know, the Protoss has mastered spiritual communication, so even if we speak the lingua franca of the Terran race, they can still communicate with us......"

That being said, Gu Cheng still had some worries. Because in the plot of StarCraft 2, the Terrans and Protoss are not always in an "alliance" state, they are in different periods, and the Terrans and Protoss are also at war.

Moreover, as Sam said, the Dark Templars had just attacked them, and it was likely that the Protoss were hostile to the Terrans at this time.

Sam asked, "What does the chief want to do?" By now, they should have left here. ”

"What's so difficult about this...... Gu Cheng smiled confidently and took two steps forward: "In this kind of ghost place, the saying 'communication basically depends on roaring' is valid......

As he spoke, Gu Cheng shouted loudly: "I know you're still here!" I apologize for intruding on your territory, we have no ill intentions, we just want to talk to you peacefully! Believe me, we have a common enemy, the insects are our common enemy, they are the disaster of this universe! They are trying to devour all creatures and create a world where there are only zergs! Only by joining forces can we completely eradicate the extremely fertile insects! I come to seek your cooperation in good faith, if you are willing to ......"

Gu Cheng shouted for a few minutes, but still didn't get a response from the Protoss.

Sam:...... So what the hell am I going with?

Seeing Gu Cheng's "hard-working" attempt to communicate with him, Sam asked with some embarrassment, "Sir...... Need my help? And...... Are you sure this is useful? ”

Gu Cheng spread his hands: "Try it and it doesn't cost money." ”

"Okay......" Sam said that you had a point, and I was speechless.

Mo stared at the rock not far ahead and said, "It's coming." ”

Hearing this, Gu Cheng and Sam looked carefully ahead, and sure enough, they found that the sand and dust blown by the breeze seemed to have hit an invisible barrier, spreading out to both sides, and the two invisible barriers slowly approached Gu Cheng and the others, and finally stopped at a distance of about five meters from them.

With a shudder in the air, two Dark Templars dressed in oddly shaped armor and wearing masks that could be seen at a glance as aliens appeared.