Chapter 509: Fierce Battle Underground (I)
Under the guidance of the searchlights on the two wings of the iron crow, Wang Worm placed the three people on the suspended platform.
The ground is slippery and even more rugged, with ravines and stalagmites densely distributed around the edges, on the one hand, due to the water erosion of water droplets dripping from the stalactite forest for thousands of years, and on the other hand, from the rock structure and texture.
According to the analysis of the testing equipment on the surface of the harsh environment protective clothing, these water droplets dripping from stalactites do not contain acidic substances, but very high-quality mineral water, which also proves Tang Fang's conjecture from the side - the acidic marine environment of "Akron" is not naturally formed, but originated from a powerful creature, from the previous analysis of the shape of the meat sac, it may be a little different from the "evil eye", but it must be an epic creature.
Whether it is a centipede monster, an evil eye, or a giant snake, they have all contributed to the unlocking of Zerg technology, Tang Fang hopes to meet them, that means what he will get, it may be new buildings, gas resources, or hero unlock value, and at the same time he is very afraid of encountering them, because his previous experience told him that there is no free lunch in the world, and these big guys are not easy to deal with.
Of course, he won't back down, turn around "Akubado", and spend so much effort to sneak underground into "Akron", for what, not the hope of unlocking Zerg technology?
Zhou Ai glanced at the environment under his feet and said, "Tang Fang, is this place really hiding creatures that are enough to change the marine environment of 'Akron'?" What if it sincerely avoids us? It's so big, and besides, will the two of us be here to distract you? ”
Tang Fang didn't tell the two of them about the flesh sac creatures, so as not to worry the two, Zhou Ai didn't know that the insect swarm that opened the road in front of him had already come into contact with unknown creatures as early as the tunnel.
Tang Fang said with a dark face: "Now that I know that I am worried about becoming a drag, why did I go earlier, and you ......" He pointed at Roy and said: "You are a master who will feel distressed, Yingluo asked you to come with you to meet the world, and you really followed you." No wonder Bai Hao scolded you for 'raking your ears'. ”
Although he said this, he still did not forget to tell the two of them to hide on the platform, and when he went down for a while, don't panic no matter what he sees, if he finds that it is not safe here, he can summon the king worm that is swimming in the stalactite forest above the platform to hide in its belly. Or back into the tunnel.
Roy didn't know what "rake ears" meant, and thought it wasn't a good word, so he decided to go back to Yingluo and ask, she and Bai Hao were both Han Chinese, and maybe they knew what it meant.
Zhou Ai was a little aggrieved and explained: "I'm not afraid that you will encounter the previous situation again, in case you ......"
Tang Fang knew what the "situation" in her mouth meant, and although she was moved in her heart, she couldn't help but secretly slander her. Are those black-armored warriors so haunted? Unless they have clairvoyance and ears to the wind, they can find their place at any time.
He suddenly noticed that Zhou Ai's words were not complete, you must know that her personality is different from Claire, she has never spoken half a sentence, so he turned his head to look, only to see Zhou Ai like petrified, his hands frozen in the air, looking at the left side of the platform.
It's pitch black. The Iron Crow's searchlight could not cover the complex underground space, and the irregular cavity was too large. The place where Zhou Ai looked was far beyond the range of the platform, and there was no alarm from the detector's sensing matrix, where there was silence, quieter than the abyss of the platform.
Stuffiness and humidity are the only colors in this subterranean space, and ordinary people in this environment are sure to be upset and terrified of the darkness. But she is Zhou Ai, and such a table can only say one thing, there is something unusual there, or that she feels threatened.
The Iron Raven turns the bow of the ship, and the power of the searchlight is increased to the limit. The low-light imaging equipment was also up and running, trying to capture what was hiding in the open space that stretched for thousands of kilometers on the left side of the platform.
Detectors and Iron Crows are both cutting-edge flying units that can perform wide-area reconnaissance in the space environment, and the range of more than ten kilometers is naturally difficult for them, even if the underground space is intricate, and there are some interferences that do not know the origin.
About 3 seconds later, the scene at the end of Zhou Ai's line of sight was mapped to the field of view of the protective suit mask for harsh environments through the star rail command center, and the scene in the picture was nothing special, just a strange rocky cliff.
Tang Fang had always felt that "seeing is believing" was a word that fooled hundreds of millions of human beings, just like at this moment, he believed that Zhou Ai believed more than his own eyes, so he did not hesitate to summon 3 flying dragons and order them to attack the cliff.
The terrain of the cavity is very complicated, and it is not suitable for units such as Viking fighters and medical transport ships, but for small flying creatures such as flying dragons and explosive mosquitoes, it can be described as a fish in water, like a butterfly flying through the flowers, and it is easy to bypass the stone forest, convex rock, and other obstacles close to the cliff wall, and shoot out the blade insects one by one.
In the distance, there was the sound of rocks cracking, and large pieces of rubble fell from a high place like a collapse, falling into the valley at the bottom of the hollow, and there was a continuous sound of falling water, which was particularly terrifying in the darkness.
The sources of the rubble are not all strange stones that have been blasted by blade insects, they come from high places that are not well lit, and there are also left and right sides, as if someone has shaken off the dust on their body, dense as rain, falling in a torrent.
It's not people who shake off the dust, it's the whole stone wall that shakes off the rubble.
The crashing of rocks, the sound of falling water, the cracking of rock formations, the grinding of rock formations, and the rumbling echo of the crypt are a post-apocalyptic scene painted in dark tones.
The platform where the three people of Tang Fang stood shook violently, and there was a cracking sound in the distance, and the stalactites hanging upside down above their heads broke one after another, as if a dagger falling from the sky was stuck on the slippery platform and became a mess.
It's not just the platform that's in chaos, it's the entire underground space that trembles.
Roy was already stunned, he didn't expect such a situation to happen, but fortunately, he knew that he couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly threw off his right arm, and the surging tissue cells forcibly stretched out the arm armor of the harsh environment protective suit, turning into a large black shield to protect the heads of the three people, and the conical stalactites fell on it and made a muffled sound of iron and stone intersecting.
The Iron Crow was also shaken by the stone cone falling from above, occasionally sparking sparks, and some external equipment was even damaged, but the detector was not harmed due to its small size and strong flexibility.
The broken stalactite forest was not the only danger that could endanger the lives of the three Tang Fang. The platform on which it stood was slowly overturning, and the sound of rock formation cracking was so harsh, and the suspended platform with a diameter of nearly a thousand meters was broken by the root under the shock that affected the entire crypt.
Roy was in a hurry, and was about to call for help, when a flexible tentacle flung from behind, rolling up the bodies of the three people and pulling them into the air.
"Brother Tang. What the hell is going on? ”
He couldn't figure out what was going on, how a good crypt could say that an earthquake would be an earthquake, and there was no warning at all.
Tang Fang didn't reply, his and Zhou Ai's eyes were all focused on the stone wall, in fact, with the current turbulent underground environment, weak lighting, complex terrain, and long distance, it was difficult for human eyes to observe the situation on the other side. This is true even with the help of protective clothing for harsh environments.
Zhou Ai doesn't need to rely on his eyes, he only needs to sense the mental fluctuations in the dark, and Tang Fang doesn't need to rely on his eyes, the detector will be his eyes, his nose, and his ears.
He was the most aware of the three about what was going on on the rock wall a kilometer away from the suspended platform.
The stone wall collapsed...... To be precise, it was something that came out of the inside of the stone wall.
It was a tree. That might be a bit general.
A tree that moves!
A tree somewhere between animals, plants and minerals!
According to the data report synchronized by Emma to the digital display system of the harsh environment protective suit. The Dryad is 1.2 kilometers long, and this value does not include that it is underground. Even the part of the entire rock formation, such as the root system, if analyzed purely from the appearance, it is like a tall tree with all its leaves and only the main trunk, so Tang Fang thought it was a tree at first sight.
But when the Iron Ray's high-resolution camera captures an optical photograph and transmits it to the mask's surrounding field of view. Tang Fang found that the "Dryad" was wrapped in a rock formation, so he thought that it might resemble a sea turtle, with a hard shell composed of ore.
About 3 seconds later, the Raven returned with a moving video, causing him to completely overturn his previous thoughts. Because the branches, trunks, crowns and other parts of the "dryad" are convex and fissioned, the shell of the ore is peeled off piece by piece, and blood-red eyeballs of different sizes appear, and can be rotated up and down, left and right, as if it is a copy of the "evil eye".
This is the reason why Tang Fang didn't know how to define the category of "Dryad", which was similar to a plant, but had a mineral-like outer skin and eye organs that only animals have.
The body length of 1.2 kilometers is several times that of the giant snake of the Meigar relay station, and dozens of times that of the evil eye of Nami Star, even so, it is nothing compared to the height of more than ten kilometers of the crypt, but it can shake the structure of the entire large hollow, causing an earthquake that affects hundreds of square kilometers, which can only show one thing, its root system is all over the rock layers of the big hollow at all levels, which can be proved from the experience of 3 people entering the crypt from the bottom of the sea all the way down, that fleshy sac-like thing is probably not a biological individual, but a root of the "dryad", Maybe it's still a slender one.
Of course, he is in a bad mood now, the hundred-meter-level giant snake at the Meijiaer relay station is already very difficult to deal with, and he almost took his life at that time, until he fed it 100 widows before sending it to the western sky, but he didn't expect the "Dryad" uncle under the "Akron" underground to be even more terrifying, 1.2 kilometers long, is it going to be hundreds?
The point is, will it honestly feed itself? It must be difficult, judging from the scene just now, the temper of the "Dryad" uncle is not very good, and it can be said that he is willful.
With its size, making a fuss in this complex underground space is nothing, it's like a child lying in a crib no matter how much it tosses, it's fine, but for the three of Tang Fang, it's tantamount to the end of the world, but if they are hit by those raindrops of falling rocks, it's still good to be stoned to death, I'm afraid that the whole person can be crushed into a meat pie.
The body size of the king insect is nearly 40 meters, and the body surface is covered with flexible organic tissues, and this is it, the form is still precarious, like a lonely sail on a trembling ocean, and it is in danger of sinking at any time.
The platform on which the three people stood before finally collapsed, and a huge rock formation with a diameter of nearly 1,000 meters fell from a height of thousands of meters, and landed in the underground river valley with a bang, splashing hundreds of meters high.
Loud echoes echoed through the airtight crypt, deafening, and some loose and cracked rocks caused by the friction of the rock layers fell from the air, striking Roy's arm with a muffled sound.
Yan Zhan's damaged Iron Crow has been reclaimed by the Tang Fang in the system space, leaving only the detector to monitor the situation in real time, and the "Dryad" is still moving towards the location of the three people, but the speed is very slow, because it cannot evolve the biological organs in the gene pool according to the combat environment like the phagosome polymer. You can only walk slowly by relying on the peristalsis of the root system.
This undoubtedly gave the three of them enough room to think and act, and in order to avoid encountering a more dangerous situation, Tang Fang summoned a Protoss transport plane to be placed above the king worm to resist the huge rocks that fell overhead from time to time.
Zhou Ai, who hadn't spoken for a long time, withdrew his gaze from the "Dryad" and said slowly, "Are you sure you can defeat it?" ”
She has tried her best to adjust her emotions to make her voice softer and soothing. But the slightly trembling tone still betrayed her state of mind at this moment.
She is not like Roy, who can only deduce from her experience that there is a big guy who is wreaking, she can feel the danger hidden in the abyss, she can feel the power of that unknown lifeform, and the killing intent exuded by a "abyss knight" like Black 3 is not even comparable to a single "hair" of it.
"I don't know."
Tang Fang didn't have a bottom in his heart, and he was a little bit of a retreat, he thought more than Roy and Zhou Ai, and didn't mention how the battle was done. The amount of destructive power needed to destroy the "Dryad" alone is a big problem, and if you calculate the proportions of its size to the giant serpent, feeding it 500 widow thunder may solve the problem, but ...... 500 widows thundered down, I am afraid that the entire crypt structure will be destroyed by the superimposed nuclear explosion power, causing a more severe collapse, and the fate of the three people at that time can only be buried alive.
Who can guarantee that the "Dryad" will be as reckless as the serpent? Besides, it doesn't have that big a mouth.
Zhou Ai said: "Why don't we go." ”
"Let's go?" A wry smile appeared at the corner of Tang Fang's mouth: "If you go back the same way, it will be no less than asking for your own death." If we had to find another way, do you think it would give us time? ”
Zhou Ai wanted to say that it was moving slowly. As long as a certain number of combat units delayed time, they would be able to use the underground channels to get out of here.
After all, this sentence was not spoken, because 5 crimson laser beams shot out from the direction of the "Dryad", accurately hitting the Protoss transport plane above the king worm, stirring up circles of gradient halos, illuminating the surrounding space. I illuminate the faces of 3 people.
In Tang Fang's sea of knowledge, the grid representing the strength of the shield quickly faded, and the surface of the plasma shield of the transport plane rippled blue ripples, desperately resisting the high-energy beam shot by the huge eyeballs on the "Dryad".
Zhou Ai and Roy were stunned, they couldn't imagine that those eyeballs on the "Dryad" could actually stimulate laser beams. Is that a creature or a machine?
Only Tang Fang was not surprised, the eyeballs on the "Dryad" were very similar to the "Evil Eye" encountered on Nami Star, wasn't it normal for such an epic creature that feeds on zero elements to be able to convert the energy in its body into a laser beam?
He didn't dare to let the "Dryad" continue to attack the Protoss transport plane, and the king worm needed a shield to block the rubble, so he summoned 5 Wyverns and 3 Corruptors one after another, and cooperated with the 3 Wyverns deployed earlier to attack the "Dryad".
The blade worms shot by the Wyvern could not effectively damage the carapace attached to the "Dryad", they were used by the Tang side as a means to contain the blood-colored eyeballs, forcing the "Dryad" to stop attacking the Protoss transport plane, and the Corrupter's positioning tended to test the target to find a part that was enough to cause effective damage to the "Dryad".
Taking advantage of this opportunity, he secretly released another king insect, intending to transfer Zhou Ai and Roy over to ensure their safety, but at this moment, the rock wall not far away burst open, and a shadow with a thickness of more than ten meters shot out, piercing through the body of the king insect.
Under the light of the Protoss transport plane, the shadow revealed its true face, and it was actually a sharp spike.
At this moment, another shadow drilled out of the rock wall, and in an instant, it penetrated the king worm that entangled the bodies of the three people.
Fortunately, he was ready when the first king worm was pierced by the spikes, and the moment the second spike shot out, the three of them were rolled up by the king worm's tentacles and sent to the gravitational tunnel range of the Protoss transport plane and entered the cabin.
Falling rocks rained down, and rocks with a diameter of nearly one meter hit the surface of the plasma shield of the Protoss transport plane and were bounced away, and the two king worms fell rapidly towards the river valley below with the pumping of their spikes.
Tang Fang looked at the two spikes enlarged on the Kaedarin crystal in the center of the Protoss transport plane with a dark face, his expression was cold and terrifying, this "Dryad" was indeed more tricky than the giant snake, not only because it was larger, but also because it was a "native creature" that could make the most of its surroundings, and the spikes that were enough to carve tunnels in the hard rock formations were probably its roots.
The battle between the Wyvern and the Corruptor is also not optimistic, the strong acid of the Corruptor enough to erode through the ship's armor is powerless against the hard shell of the "Dryad", and even the parasitic spores have no effect, but the Wyvern's blade worm has a good lethality against the blood-colored eyeballs, but what is frustrating is that just like the "evil eye" encountered in Nami Star, these bulging extracorporeal sarcoma-like eyeballs have a strong self-healing ability, and the organic tissue broken by the blade worms will be restored in a short time.
He had also ordered the Corruptor to attack the eyeballs, but unfortunately it was also ineffective, as the acid solution was absorbed by the pores on the surface of the eyeballs, and the parasitous spores were counteracted by a special secretion. (To be continued......)
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