Chapter 9 Nodal Brain Worm
Huang Jian had never felt that the shield in his hand was so heavy, and a faint ghosting had already appeared in his sight, and the air in his chest seemed to be completely drawn out of his body with his breathing. Since he left the cave, more than ten Zerg had died in his hands, and the hand was received by him early in the storage space, completely relying on the shield in his hand to defend and attack.
From a certain point of view, he has unconsciously imitated the fighting style of Rodgers, the captain of the last World Rice Country. He already has a certain fighting foundation, and at present, this continuous and high-intensity battle is like a hammer constantly tempering his skills, if he can return to reality safely after this mission, Huang Jian feels that even if he does not exchange new abilities, his own strength will be greatly improved.
"I hope I can go back."
This thought suddenly appeared in Huang Jian's heart, he had now chased another explorer out of the range of the defensive shield, before the swarm suddenly poured out from the gap and the underground, but the number of zergs outside the shield became much smaller, and it was because of this that he and Mo Duo chose this direction. However, even the sporadic Zerg outside made Huang Jian do his best, and the individual Zerg was not strong, but such a continuous battle without rest began to snowball Huang Jian's physical strength.
As far as the eye can see, the outside environment is very different from the idyllic scenery inside the shield, with the shield as the dividing line, the grass and trees along the way immediately have a tendency to wither and yellow, and the feet are no longer moist and fertile soil, but hard and hard as grit. And the stench that wafts faintly in the air lingers on the tip of the nose for a long time.
Along the way, there were many corpses of Holger insect soldiers with obvious burns on their bodies, and Huang Jian followed these traces all the way. However, what disturbed him was that they had been more than a kilometer away from the edge of the shield from the position where they had escaped, but they had not seen any human civilization along the way, not even a single metal wreckage.
Just as he was trotting past a corpse, a corpse lying on the ground suddenly trembled, and immediately raised his upper body and stabbed Huang Jian with his two forelimbs.
Huang Jian turned sideways slightly and slapped the back of his shield on the top of the head of this insect soldier, the biggest flaw of these insect soldiers was that their speed was much slower than that of Liao Yu, Huang Jian, and other explorers with enhanced physique. Just as Huang Jian was about to bypass this insect soldier, another insect soldier suddenly rushed not far away, burying his head and rushing straight towards Huang Jian like a bull.
Faced with the situation of flanking left and right, Huang Jian only frowned slightly, then took a deep breath, his center of gravity sank, ready to resist the insect soldier who came later, and then shook his shield and smashed the two insect soldiers together. Now that he is being targeted by the two-headed insect soldiers, he can't use his speed to get rid of them so easily.
However, before Huang Jian could wait for the impact of this insect soldier, a pull suddenly came from his waist, and the whole person was directly picked up and flew backwards.
"It's me."
When Huang Jian was subconsciously about to counterattack with his shield in his left hand, a familiar voice came from behind. Hearing this voice, Huang Jian almost obeyed his instinct and vented the nerves that he had been holding on, but fortunately, his long-term tenacity made him grit his teeth and cheer up his spirits, and turned back to deal with the first injured insect soldier.
The people who came were naturally Liao Yu and Zheng Wei, Liao Yu rushed towards the second insect soldier, and he was already standing almost close to him in two steps. At this time, Liao Yu forcibly twisted his waist and rose into the air, and the forelimbs of the insect soldier crossed his waist, while Liao Yu reached out with both hands, hugged the right forelimb of the insect soldier, and his right leg suddenly kicked on its side, breaking this forelimb in one fell swoop.
When Liao Yu turned around, Huang Jian had already cooperated with Zheng Wei's summoned beast Requiem Dog to deal with the injured insect soldiers in the rear.
"How do you choose to resist?"
Liao Yu said while backhanding and accurately stabbed his forelimbs into the wound of the insect soldier, and by the way, his body pressed against his side, and the tall insect body could only struggle in vain under Liao Yu's suppression, this scene looked quite weird. When the insect stopped struggling, Liao Yu slowly pulled his forelimbs out of its body, and the broken internal organs fragments mixed with the fishy smell of green blood flowed from the wound in an instant.
A single insect soldier is only comparable to the combat power of a cheetah, and its strength and ability to resist attacks may be exceeded, but their lack of agility has become their biggest shortcoming. But when they are in the thousands, this disadvantage is not a big deal.
"If it weren't for you, you think I'd do it? This saves time. ”
"Huh?"
Liao Yu didn't understand what Huang Jian's tactics of exchanging physical strength for time had to do with him at this time, and before he could ask, Huang Jian immediately opened his mouth and said quickly.
"There's no time, long story short, this wave of insects just now came weird, we didn't rush away, one of them is a female explorer who is very similar to Luo Ying, I can't recognize the figure, but I heard her speech during the battle just now, I contacted the previous performance, I think it's ......"
Huang Jian began to cough violently in the middle of his words, unlike Liao Yu and Zheng Wei who had adjusted their state in the pit just now, in order to chase this person before, Huang Jian had never rested well, and as soon as he relaxed at this moment, the whole person's breath was immediately a little disordered.
When Liao Yu heard Huang Jian's words, his face immediately changed greatly, the whole person subconsciously took a step back, and his right hand subconsciously grabbed the forelimbs of the insect soldier, and the tough shell slowly deformed and shattered in Liao Yu's right palm, and the sharp fragments pierced into his palm little by little, but Liao Yu didn't realize it, just stared at Huang Jian with his mouth slightly open.
"You have ...... How sure are you sure? ”
In just a few words, there is an irrepressible tremor.
"Five or sixty percent."
Huang Jian straightened up and immediately returned, for friends who have known him for many years, the probability of fifty or sixty percent is not particularly high, but for Huang Jian, this is enough reason for him to fight for his life.
Liao Yu glanced at Huang Jian deeply, then stepped forward and hugged him heavily, and then turned to Zheng Wei and said,
"Requiem dog to me, I have Luo Ying's items on my body, you go back first, both of you belong to the state of running out of lights, unlike me who has the ability to heal myself, although there is only a lot of magic left, but I can only rely on magic to fight now."
The two also knew that the time was urgent, Zheng Wei immediately gave the Requiem dog an order to obey Liao Yu's command, while Huang Jian took out a dagger from his arms.
"Here, in reality, I was busy getting crossbow arrows and shields, and I didn't have time to get more, which were made by the semi-finished products I brought in after entering the mission world."
Liao Yu took the dagger and turned around and ran into the distance under the leadership of the requiem dog, while Huang Jian patted the shield and turned around and walked in the original direction.
"Let's go, the way back is not easy, we have tried our best, if we want to really help him, we have to think of some other way."
No matter how Huang Jian and Zheng Wei borrowed from the inhabitants of this world, Liao Yu followed the requiem dog to run forward after separation, on the way to run, Liao Yu only felt that the heart in his chest was beating wildly, and the sound of the heartbeat was like a dull war drum beating and hitting in the body, but this thunderous sound did not suppress the rest of the voices around, Liao Yu could clearly feel the sound of the surrounding grass and trees being blown by the wind, and he could feel the process of slowly contracting and relaxing the powerful muscles every time his feet touched the ground, You can feel the reciprocating flow of air from its mouth, nose and lungs every time the Requiem dog runs in front of it.
Perhaps because most of the Zerg along the way died at the hands of that explorer, Liao Yu found the other party more than ten minutes faster than he expected.
And when he followed the requiem dog around a hillside and saw the delicate and stubborn back of the tree under the woods, Liao Yu understood that he really owed Huang Jian his life this time.
Liao Yu was about to shout when he sprinted down, but at the moment when Luo Ying turned sideways slightly, he saw half of her blood-stained body, and the right hand hanging down beside her was still holding a rifle of this world, and opposite her were more than ten Holger worm soldiers who were slowly approaching her in a semicircle, and the nearest worm soldier had already included Luo Ying in the attack range.
Liao Yu only felt an indescribable emotion explode from his chest, and the next beat of his heart hit his chest like a giant hammer. He could no longer hear any sound in his ears, and stepped on the ground with all his strength, and the surging power transmitted from his chest to his waist and abdomen, and then to the foot that landed, like the roar of the first industrial age steam and steel beast that first erupted in human civilization. The next moment when the ground was full of cracks, Liao Yu had already rushed to Luo Ying's front like a cannonball.
The first insect soldier had just made a pounce move, but what appeared in front of him was not the woman he had expected to be crumbling, but an iron fist that was enough to smash its entire head through completely!
The insect soldier slammed into the ground without even letting out a muffled snort, and when the Requiem dog rushed up to entangle with the rest of the insect soldiers, Liao Yu turned around like the wind, and before Luo Ying could raise his left hand to prepare for defense, he had already taken her into his arms.
"I'm sorry."
Hearing Liao Yu's voice, Luo Ying's body stiffened, and then she lay down softly in Liao Yu's arms. She tilted her head and stared at Liao Yu with reddish eyes, and her intact left hand gently rested on Liao Yu's chest.
"It's fine."
Liao Yu slowly put his head on Luo Ying's forehead, biting his lip with all his might, not letting himself break down emotionally at this time. He knew exactly what the slippery, sticky liquid in his left hand was, and he knew what that much blood loss meant.
"I'm sorry."
Liao Yu gently placed Luo Ying under the trunk of the tree, and stuffed the alchemy potion that he had exchanged before to repair his limbs, along with all the medical items he had carried, into Luo Ying's arms. And when he turned around, it was the moment when the Requiem dog was completely torn apart, and not far away, more Zerg had noticed this, and there were already fourteen Holger Worm soldiers surrounding him.
At this moment, Liao Yu felt as if something in his body was about to burst out from a certain point in his chest, either completely igniting himself or pouring it on any enemy in front of him.
Before these insect soldiers could make a move, Liao Yu actually stepped out first, and the dagger in his hand made a piercing scream in midair, and then completely submerged into the head of the nearest insect soldier, and the carapace on the surface was shattered in Liao Yu's hands like an eggshell. And in the next second, Liao Yu pulled out the dagger in its skull, turned around and collided with another insect soldier.
As the battle broke out, the Holger Worm soldiers in the rear could no longer suppress their fighting instincts, and rushed towards Liao Yu with a hiss. In front of these 2-meter-tall insects, Liao Yu's figure was like a short stone sculpture, stubbornly and tenaciously guarding in front of Luo Ying.
He never wanted the people around him to be in danger, and the first time he returned from Hantang, he distributed the only remaining assets, hoping that one day if he died in Hantang, they could also live well with his share. However, today, she who occupies half of the world in his life has walked to the edge of the cliff in front of her, and with just one step, even a small step, she may leave the original world before herself, except for his memories and hearts, all other traces will gradually dissipate in their original world with time.
Liao Yu once thought that he would be angry, crying, flustered, and remorseful, but when the truth really appeared in front of him like a dream, he found that he was unexpectedly calm, as if he had left his body, like a bystander watching himself fight among the swarms.
The sharp forelimbs pierced into his left forearm, and the sharp teeth tore through the muscles in his back, and the violent impact made him clearly hear the sound of his leg cracking.
But he didn't care about all this.
He completely followed the instinct in his body, and let his body slash the swarm of insects around him one by one. He completely sank his body into the uncontrollable instinct that made him uneasy, and his thoughts and mental power were always on Luo Ying, who was bandaging his wounds.
At the next moment when Luo Ying wrapped up the wound, Liao Yu bent his right arm and smashed an elbow blow on the insect soldier in front of him, and then used his spiritual power to completely squeeze the little remaining magic power out of his body, and the four fireballs that fell in succession subtly blocked the Holger insect soldier who rushed in the distance. However, the super-level performance could not help Liao Yu relieve the slightest weakness and pain, fortunately, it was not the first time he had experienced this kind of magic exhaustion, he gritted his teeth with all his strength, and rolled to Luo Ying's side after falling to the ground. While rolling, Liao Yu struggled to throw out the dagger in his hand and nailed straight through a worm soldier that circled Luo Ying's side from the other side. The dagger, which had been deformed in a few stab strikes, pierced through the insect soldier's brain, digging deep into the dry trunk of a tree that was as hard as iron in the back.
Liao Yu came to Luo Ying by rolling, knelt down on one knee in front of her, and the rough and sharp gravel pierced deeply into the wounds of his knees and calves, but Liao Yu's face was suddenly unaware, he just gently picked up Luo Ying by the waist, carefully examined the injuries on her arms and abdomen, and saw that the drugs used had taken effect, Liao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
Before he had time to wipe the blood off his face, Liao Yu identified the next direction, so he pulled out his legs and started to run wildly. Luo Ying's weight of only a hundred catties is almost nothing for Liao Yu now, and in his spiritual world, there are already many soul fluctuations not far away. Originally, in his previous experience, the soul strength of these low-level Holger Worm soldiers was actually very weak, if he used his spiritual power to attack with all his strength, he could completely erase their souls from the spiritual level, but this method was too cost-effective, and in the face of the Zerg who won by numbers, it could be said to be a very weak attack method. However, at this moment, the insect swarm surrounded in the distance actually gave him an extremely strong oppressive force at the spiritual level, and I am afraid that the real controller of the insect tide behind this is not far from here.
"Your injuries."
Luo Ying's right hand had already lost the rifle that had run out of bullets, and she was shrinking softly in front of her chest at the moment, and her left hand was gently pressed on Liao Yu's chest. From her gaze slightly moved away from Liao Yu's powerful arms and chest, and instead fell behind Liao Yu, on the dark gray ground, there were patches of red near the footprints that Liao Yu stepped out with all his might, constantly depicting the route of their escape.
"Hold on."
Liao Yu no longer had the energy to say more than half a word, under the double blow of the depletion of magic power and the multiple wounds on his body, he was already in a semi-comatose state in front of his eyes, and he only ran wildly according to the route he came from with instinct. The wounds on his knees and back had already healed and then cracked again, especially the wound on the left side of his back, a Holger insect soldier suddenly bounced up before he died, flicking his fangs and passing through his waist, even though Liao Yu's speed was much faster than them, but the continuous exhaustion of fighting made him a step slower after all. If it weren't for his self-healing ability, I'm afraid that just the amount of bleeding from the wound when he ran would have been enough to kill Liao Yu.
But even though the world in front of her has gradually become dim, Liao Yu's spiritual power has wrapped Luo Ying's spiritual world like open arms, and the loss in her body is even more serious than Liao Yu's depletion of magical power, and it has reached the level of depletion of the soul body. Although Liao Yu didn't know what abilities Luo Ying had exchanged for the time being, he could actually release them at the cost of his soul body, but when he thought of what happened to Luo Ying before he arrived, Liao Yu couldn't help but feel a throbbing pain in his chest.
Holding Luo Ying, who was slowly unable to support the unconscious, Liao Yu found that there were once again sporadic four or five insect soldiers in front of him, and there was actually a three-legged insect mixed in there! However, Liao Yu's mental state could no longer make him think about the rest of the route, his whole body temperature began to rise sharply, and he could no longer hear any sound in his ears, and his entire vision was a vague phantom.
Liao Yu didn't speak, just patted it with the left hand that hugged Luo Ying's waist slightly, and the whole person accelerated forward again. Liao Yu could vaguely feel that there seemed to be a more powerful Zerg with more powerful soul fluctuations approaching behind him, regardless of whether it was the rest of the insects in the mission, in terms of soul strength alone, Liao Yu would definitely not let it catch up.
Liao Yu, who was holding Luo Ying in his arms, dodged the pounce of the first insect soldier sideways, and grabbed its hind legs with his free right hand and threw it at the other insect soldier, just this simple action caused blood to gush out of the wounds all over his body again. But at this moment, Liao Yu couldn't care about these anymore, he took a few steps in a row, and took off dangerously when the insect soldiers pounced, and then knelt down and smashed his knees on the top of its head. Then, in order to prevent Luo Ying from being injured, he took the initiative to turn around and block the slash of the last insect soldier with his back, and his sharp forelimbs slashed through the muscles of Liao Yu's back, making a sound similar to leather tearing.