Chapter 41: Manor Crisis (7)
Ethan, who was trapped in the swarm, did not panic, only to see him crouch under one foot, tucking two daggers around his waist, and the surging power gradually rose with his movements, and then merged into his feet.
"Bang!" Dirt and dust burst out of Ethan's toes, and Ethan unleashed a silver swoop to break free from the mire of the faceeater.
Leaping into the front again, Ethan let out a long breath of turbidity.
A deep sense of exhaustion hit, Ethan shook his head, and Christina and Adeline beside him hurriedly stepped forward to inquire about Ethan's situation with concern.
"It's alright," Ethan said, waving his hand, "you guys go help Lawrence." ”
"Yes!"
"Ethan, how's your situation going? Can it hold on? ”
"Hold on a little longer, and we'll be there in a minute." The voices of Athera and Kevin can be heard in the channel.
Ethan had a thought and shared his vision with the other three system warriors, and several of them gasped when they saw the picture in front of Ethan's eyes.
Judging from the picture, the dense insect tide in front of him is composed of a total of 342 face-eating insects of different sizes, the face-eating insects blocked by Clawrence in front of them slowed down their forward speed, and the face-eating insects in the back maintained their original speed and continued to move forward, which caused the insect tide to gradually rise like a tide stopped by a dam. In addition, Ethan broke into the enemy formation twice before, killing more than 40 enemies in total, the corpse remains of those face-eaters became stepping stones, and the rest of the face-eaters stepped on their bodies and continued to move forward, making the already narrow space more and more crowded, and countless marble-sized black insect eyes looked at Ethan and the others without emotion.
Christina's power arm could not be used normally due to damage, so she could only barely use the short knife to kill the face-eaters one by one, and struggled to drag the dead face-eater corpses to both sides of the line. Clorence, who had been holding his upper body against the shield with his upper body, had a grim face, occasionally drawing his knife to cut through the soft belly of the faceeater.
On the other side, Adeline and the Ant Machine she piloted took on most of the pressure. One foot of the Ant Machine was pressed against Lawrence's shield, and its upper body leaned out of the defensive line, and its two iron palms stretched out from the rising steam mist and the bursting vapor of the faceeaters, tearing the faceeaters to pieces.
Ethan lifted his mask, and after replenishing his mana, he once again jumped into the sea of insects.
Seeing this, the other three system fighters ordered their team members to speed up, anxiously wanting to rush to the target location immediately.
Quicksand has a 180 second cooldown, and Silver Raid has a 28 second cooldown. Once the cooldown was reached, Ethan didn't react to any of the two powers he called in his heart, as if the power had suddenly disappeared from him.
During the cooldowns of these two important skills, Ethan will not venture deep into the bug tide. Because the Faceeater's corrosive fluid can corrode Type 1 armor and cause damage to him without the protection of quicksand, there is no way to ensure that he will be able to leave unsafe without the Silver Raid.
However, the faceeaters didn't care whether Ethan's skills cooled down or not, their attacks did not stop, and their physical strength seemed to have no end, one by one, the sharp, round-assed faceeaters pushed and shoved their companions, arching the dirt in front of them, and couldn't wait to tear the few humans who invaded their territory into pieces of flesh.
The earthen walls on both sides were torn down after a minute, but fortunately, the presence of dozens of insect corpses on the ground filled the gap, so that Ethan and the others would not be immediately overwhelmed by the insect tide.
Ethan picked up the double-edged sword stuck in the ground again, took Christina's place, and quickly killed the faceeater outside.
The speed at which the three of them could kill was not as fast as the speed at which the Faceeater pounced on the defensive line, and more and more fish that slipped through the net came out of the gaps on both sides, constantly spitting out dark green corrosive liquid at several people.
White smoke billowed from them.
I can't hold it anymore. Such a desperate thought crossed Christina's mind.
On the left and right is a sword, cutting the two face-eaters in half. Ethan put down his sword and continued to leap into the insect tide, stepping on the carapaces of countless face-eaters, dancing, and the bright silver light brought up a cloud of muddy slime.
With his high agility, Ethan jumped on the smooth carapace as if he were walking on the ground, gradually descending into the back of the insect tide, while also attracting the attention of most of the faceeaters to the center of the tunnel.
"Report to the Commander! Mutant faceeaters appear in direction 120. A group of informants turned to look at Dora on the central command platform and said.
"Report to the Commander! Signs of activity of the Emperor Star Worm are showing in the 170 direction. The voices of the second group of informants also came from below.
Dora stared nervously at several screens, heard the report of the two informants, and leaned back on the back of the chair as if struck by lightning.
"It's over...... It's all over......" Dora muttered helplessly, her mouth open.
Jeff in the area of the fifth combat team heard such bad news, anxious tears welled up, he looked at the monster catalog in his hand over and over again in confusion, and once again checked whether the emperor star insect in the lens matched the image in the catalog.
The emperor star insect is named for its crown-shaped sharp horns and stellate-shaped mouthparts. In fact, the Emperor Star Worm is also a type of Ferent Face Eater, but due to the different social division of labor, it is very different from the Face Eater in appearance. Similar to ant colonies, face-eating insect colonies have a strict social division of labor, and the difference between ordinary face-eating insects and emperor star insects is like the difference between worker ants and soldier ants in an ant colony.
The Emperor Star Worm is the heir of the Worm King, and they were born to protect the Worm King, both to prevent rebellion within the Face-Eater Swarm and to prevent the invasion of foreign enemies, and they are the highest military force of the Face-Eater Bug Swarm.
Dora hesitated for a moment, fearing that telling Ethan the truth would demoralize them, but in the end she decided to tell the rest of the Fifth Group about the situation.
"The Emperor Star Worm and the Mutant Face Eater are dispatched from the hive on the surface and are expected to arrive at your location in 5 minutes."
"Quantities between 50 and 100 ......"
"Hiss......" Hearing this, Christina's hand froze.
Ethan used the momentum of the silver raid to get rid of the haunting face-eater, and returned to the position again.
"Emperor Star Worm?" Although Ethan had never heard of what an Emperor Star Worm was, seeing the despair in the eyes of the three of them, he also understood that the next enemy might be very powerful.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out over the vast wilderness.
Inside the fence of the farmstead, an Emperor Star Worm, three times the size of an ordinary face-eating insect, collapsed to the ground, thick juice flowing from its thick belly. The rest of the Emperor Star Worms felt the enemy's attack, and shook the sharp horns on their heads in place, searching for the enemy's position.
Jean lay on his stomach on the sand, his scope latched on to several targets in succession, and after a few shots, there were a few more dying Emperor Star Worms in the swarm.
Jean understands his mission and his position, and he didn't jump into the hive at the first time not because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, but because he knew that if he wanted to play a bigger role, he had to stay on the ground.
He also knew something about the Faceeater, and knew what Commander Dora had ordered him to do on the surface and observe the two directions. The two locations marked by Dora are the places that are most likely to become the nest of the insect king, if even he goes down to help, Ethan and the others will be isolated and helpless, and the emperor star worm and mutant face eater worms that may be infested on the surface still need to be contained by him.
The Emperor Star Worm felt the sound waves in the air, and after determining Jean's position, the six insect feet kicked and galloped quickly on the sand under their feet, more than twice as fast as the ordinary face eater.
Some mutant face-eaters of different shapes and sizes also seem to be at the mercy of the Emperor Star Worm, following in the footsteps of the Emperor Star Worm and running towards Jean.