"Did you put this thing?" Abby asked Bode.

"This ......," Bode said again.

"You'd better make it clear that if you left it here before, we might still be able to find a way to get there, but if not, then I won't let my hunter go this side of the desert." Abby said firmly.

"I remember the last time Dr. Edra came to the fourth area, he brought small sandworms, really just small, I was also in charge of some biological research in the main department, and the last time the doctor took away from me only five sand worm larvae of about ten centimeters, the doctor wanted to see the survival of the sandworms in the hot weather of the fourth area.

However, now the sandworms in the laboratory have all died, because this creature has high requirements for the environment and land, so when the sandworms in the laboratory died, we also determined that the sandworms in the fourth area should have also died.

But you said that you have two hunters missing, and if it was the sandworm that was placed here in the first place, the sandworm that could drag the hunter should be at least two meters long by now, but this is impossible. Bode didn't believe it either.

"Our detector only shows that there is something under the sand in front of us, and we infer that it must be sandworms or something, and now that it is almost dark, I can't rush the hunter out again.

If it's a sandworm that grows to two meters, do you have a way to solve it? ”

"The sandworms in the laboratory are very timid, living in wet sand, judging whether the sand surface is safe by the vibration of the sand surface, it likes heat or cold, and when the sand surface temperature is lower than 50 degrees Celsius, it will move slowly, and it only needs to make it feel scared or the temperature is low to deal with that kind of sandworm.

But if the sandworm in the desert in front of it can really attack people, then at least the shaking of the sand surface has no way to make it afraid, and it will become a target. And the temperature here, it's evening, but the surface temperature is still very high......" Pod thought about what to do.

"Is there a way?" Abby asked.

"Now it's time to determine if there's really something in the sand, if this thing is a sandworm." Bode said.

"It's only a 'surface scanner', but it's only available during the day when the sun is shining, so it looks like we'll have to wait until tomorrow. Fortunately, this desert area is not very large, and it is also formed by the desertification of the surface of the day after tomorrow, and the distance measured by our measuring instrument today, at the current forward speed, it will take more than half a day to get out of this desert.

According to the map presented by the cruiser we sent earlier, if we can't walk the desert, we will have to make a detour for at least two days or so to get around this desert. Abby said.

"Tomorrow."

It had been five days since Pod had come out of the association's headquarters, and although everyone had taken a long detour, it was still very fast, and it was expected to be a seven-day journey, and if there was really danger in the sand ahead, it would not be good to rush forward.

"How?" Abby seemed to have doubts when she saw Bode.

"Well, tomorrow I'm going to ask you hunters to investigate the desert in detail. Let's spend the night here today. ”

"Then I'll go back and make arrangements." With that, Abby left the car.

"Doctor, sandworm, isn't that just ......" Lawley didn't speak until Abby left, then asked Bode.

"Yes. I just said that to Abby. If it is really an adult sandworm under the desert, then it seems that we must go around this desert, but fortunately, the area of the desert is not very large.

You go and tell the others to rest where you are tonight and don't go to the edge of the desert without permission. ”

"I understand." Lawley also left the car.

Bode rested his head in his chair. It's really unfavorable, it seems that the matter here in the fourth district really needs to be solved......

"They're all gone?" Snowflake opens the car door and sees that Bode is alone.

"I was trying to find you. I asked you to search for the 'Chimera' targets in the 4th District, how did you go? Bode asked Snowflake to sit beside him.

"It's not going well." Snowflake said truthfully. "What did the hunter say when he came back to report? Is there something in the desert ahead? ”

"How do you know?"

"You don't know my job, do you? When Abby returned, I went to continue my work, in fact, before the hunters, my searcher had spotted an anomaly in the desert, and I was about to talk to you, but they interrupted me. ”

"Did you find anything?"

"Do you remember the failed experiment No. 1619 that Dr. Edra 'handled'?" Snowflake's body shuddered unconsciously at the mention of this codename.

"How could I not remember. That was the real 'Death Bug', and if it wasn't dealt with in time, the lab would have been destroyed by 'it'. Twenty-three doctors were killed in that accident, and even 'energy stones' were used to kill the subject, and only a few people knew about the accident.

This time Abby said that there was something under the sand, and I thought that maybe the sandworm placed here had evolved. Everything is too good for its growth, there are radiation sources, there are high temperatures, it is still offshore, and there is an active volcano. If tomorrow's outcome is really a sandworm, we'll have to take a detour. ”

(Tips: The average adult sandworm has a soft body like an earthworm, and the largest one is not more than 50 centimeters long.) Because they live in sand, they have degraded and rely on their bodies to perceive their surroundings.

The head is only a round mouth with three circles of fangs, and usually only eats small insect corpses.

However, in Edla's laboratory, a 'death bug' was bred on radiation feed, and the sand worm once grew to two meters, and the soft body was exposed to the radiation source for a long time, so the skin on the surface was necrotic and regenerated, and a thick layer of armor-like skin accumulated from the surface of the sand worm's body. ）

"Because I know the weather in the fourth district, I came this time, and my father gave me ten 'compressed ice bombs', saying that they can be used to cool down the surroundings quickly." Snowflake said.

"Your grandfather? Edward Sheri, the inventor of the Guild's headquarters? Bode was a little surprised, and thought that Snowflake was hiding it from the family.

"Well, although they are against me coming. I've seen the power of this 'Compressed Ice Bomb', and given the size of this desert, I think three 'Compressed Ice Bombs' are enough to freeze the desert. If the temperature drops, the sandworms will not come out to move. We can take advantage of this time. ”

"Your grandfather is really generous, he actually gave you such an important thing."

"Because my grandfather loves me the most, and he knows that I must be with you!" Snowflake hugs Bode......

…………

'Ahh Help me! Yes! ’

A noise woke up the sleeping Bode, and the snowflakes around him rubbed his eyes.

"What's wrong?"

"Dr. Bode, wake up, we're under attack!" There was a quick knock on the car door.

The two people in the car hurriedly got dressed, opened the door and went outside.

"Ahh What is it! ”

"This is supposed to be what Abby said about the 'thing' under the desert." Bode hugging the snowflakes.

"Dr. Bird, are you alright. We, the hunters, are now going to cover everyone's retreat the way we came. This thing is not something we can deal with! Abby commanded his hunters as she urged the medical team to retreat.

Bode didn't expect things to turn out the way they are.

In front of the two of them are two giant sandworms more than five meters high, no, the sandworms can no longer be used to describe these two monsters, the 'death worm' killed in the laboratory with the 'energy stone' is only two meters, these two in front of them, although part of the body is still in the sand, but the big one is definitely more than five meters!

Two of the hunter's vehicles parked at the edge of the desert have been crushed into scrap metal, and those are second-level hunters' vehicles! Through the surrounding light, you can see the two monsters in and out of the desert, and there are already hunters who have been eaten by the monsters, only its mouth hole is one meter in diameter, and the three circles of fangs in the mouth from the inside out can easily bite through the hunter car.

It is supposed to be a soft sandworm with a hard shell wrapped around its body like a tortoiseshell.

"These two are bigger than the one in the lab!" Bode hugged the snowflake tightly, for fear that she would be affected.

"Get out of the way, everybody!"

I don't know who shouted, and then I saw yellow-green slime spewing out of the mouth of the big monster, and the plants, people, and cars that were stained with slime were immediately corroded into a puddle of liquid.

Panicked people scattered and ran in all directions.

"Snowflakes? Snowflakes?! "Bode doesn't know when the snowflakes around him are gone!

"Doctor, don't go over there!" Abby pulled Bod to keep him from getting near the desert.

"Ahh Snowflakes! What are you doing! Come here! ”