In the real world, some people have complained about horror movies with giant insects as the protagonists, and have come up with a lot of arguments to prove that "this is not scientific". One of the most important reasons is that "arthropods simply cannot grow to such a large size because their exoskeleton structure can be easily crushed by their own body weight." ”

However, the bugs in the Cave of Sorrow apparently slapped this statement in the face. Because in the real world, only the chemical composition of the insect exoskeleton in the real world can be used as a reference, and the bugs here are obviously different, their shells are by no means simple, the cuticle made of proteins, at least a large number of minerals are in it, otherwise it will not be several times harder than the copper projectile fired by AK.

And after the battle began, Xue Qiong even saw the flow of energy on the surface of the carapace...

By this time they had retreated to the narrow hole they had just passed, and the bald man could just stop it.

"One-third of the cuirass and two-fifths of the dorsal armor! And the left third of the head, don't cut the middle!! Don't touch the tail of the abdomen either! ”

Xue Qiong, who closed his eyes again, reported the location where he felt that there was no energy flowing. Although he didn't know how the energy on the carapace worked, he had enough reason to believe that these locations were the weak defenses of the Screaming Ants.

And their abdomen, although there is no such detail in the original game, there seems to be no carapace protection there, and it is very fragile, but Xue Qiong found a large amount of energy reaction in their stomach, and it is very unstable. So he still took precautions... What if this time you come across a subspecies that will blow itself up?

"Minette! You're hiding behind! Now you can't handle this level of combat yet! Xue Qiong blocked the eager Minette behind him.

"Boss!" The bald head fends off the insects as he shouts, "They're going to eat the energy!" I feel like the energy shield is running out! ”

"Yahu~" Xiao Yun jumped over an ant's head with a somersault, and at the same time swung out a painful moonlight downward, slashing at the position that Xue Qiong had just pointed out.

Click, the ant split in half, twitched twice and then didn't move.

"It worked! And it's worth a lot of money! Xiao Yun shouted the report's conclusion, and then backhanded the beam saber into the head of the other ant, from the left third.

"Give me the laser cannon!" Xue Qiong opened her eyes, then stretched out her hands and put them in front of her, making a gesture of pick-up.

Xiao Yun took out the plasma cutting cannon from the storage space, and then threw it directly in the direction of Xue Qiong.

"Be careful!" There were two less ants on the front, and the bald head with greatly reduced pressure raised the shield a little higher, and used the energy shield to reduce the flight speed of the heavy object, so that Xue Qiong was not directly knocked down by something weighing dozens of catties.

"It's really heavy..."Xue Qiong took a lot of effort to aim the plasma cutting cannon in front of him, "Bald head!" Get out of the way for a second! ”

The bald head flashed a step to the side when he heard this, and then immediately blocked the hole again.

And at the moment when the bald head got out of the way, Xue Qiong's indiscriminate shot grazed the bald body and blasted out. His luck was good, the beam shone on an ant, but... Refracted and went to the top of the cave.

"Didn't hit the right point." After all the attempts, Xue Qiong realized that he couldn't help at all now. So he had no choice but to put the plasma cutter on the ground, leaned against the cave wall and watched, and simply lit the cigarette.

It's not that Xue Qiong is intentionally lazy, but that he really can't be in the back row. Once, in order to save his long-range accuracy, he sweated on the basketball court of the school for half a year, and used up tens of thousands of bullets in an underground shooting range, but in the end he only reached two out of ten shots under the basket, and a target ten meters away. Some things are just innate, and there is no way to do it.

"Uh... Brother Xue Qiong. Minnetra pulled Shechron's sleeve, "We're just watching here, okay?" ”

Xue Qiong was not embarrassed at all, and said to Minette: "No way, compared to your bald uncle and sister Xiaoyun, the two of us are too fragile." ”

"That's right!" Xue Qiong patted his head, "Will you be able to fly a knife?" Aim for the weakness I just said. ”

"I'll try—" Minette wanted to see what was going on with her target, but the bald head's solid back and energy shield blocked her view... After all, she's a little short now. So she had to jump to her feet, take a casual aim in mid-air, and throw out the dagger in her hand.

"Dang!" The sound of metal and biological carapace colliding.

When Minette threw out the dagger, Xue Qiong also stood on tiptoe and glanced over the bald shoulder. I saw that the dagger did hit the vital point of an ant, but even if there was no energy protection there, its carapace was still strong enough, so the dagger made of stainless steel only made a mark on it.

Looking at this situation, Xue Qiong said a little unhappily: "It's really jealous..."

"Pick up the big guy at your feet, and..." Xue Qiong took out a large pile of things from the storage space, including a put away tent, a water tank, or something, and finally piled up a small platform more than a meter high behind the bald head.

Minette climbed onto the raised platform and began to shoot with the plasma cannon, and Xue Qiong resumed smoking his cigarette.

After a while, the battle ended.

The energy shield on the bald shield had just dissipated, and there were a few scratches on the shield surface, which he was repairing with healing magic. And Xiao Yun's flank was gnawed out of a gap by the big ant with his mouthparts, and after the bald head said that he couldn't cure such a big injury, Xiao Yun drank a few bottles of blood medicine in the mobile medical station, as well as a few bags of blood in the storage space, and the terrifying wound quickly healed into white skin.

The wound was even so big that she could see the beating of her heart, but Xiao Yun could easily endure this pain, and said something like "My heart is yours~" to Xue Qiong.

Most of these screaming ants died from Xiao Yun's enchanted beam saber, Moonlight of Pain, and the plasma cutting cannon held by Minette. And when there were only a few left, the bald head also changed into a high frequency katana and rushed up to cut it. As for Xue Qiong... He still played the soy sauce indifferently, after all, all his combat skills and the weapons he chose were only suitable for one-on-one combat with humanoid enemies. The ant was so big, Xue Qiong used a short-weapon dagger, even if he was standing next to the ant's leg, he had to squat down and stick out of his upper body to stab the edge of their carapace.

Xue Qiong put on his gloves, picked up a broken ant shell and looked at it, and then used a black dagger to scratch on it, and found that even this "best alloy that can be used under the level of technology in the twenty-first century" would take a lot of effort to cut it off, and now they were still not in a state where the defense effect was activated by energy.

"These things seem to look good..."Xue Qiong put a few relatively intact carapaces and the entire heads of two large ants into the storage space, "At least these creatures should have self-generated protective magic patterns." Let's collect a little bit of bodily fluid, and maybe it will be useful to draw magic patterns. By the way, and..."

Xue Qiong raised her head and looked at the original food of these ants... In the middle of the cavern was the mangled corpses of a large number of giant insects.

Only by looking up close can you appreciate this amount. Although it is impossible to compare exactly, the insect corpses are at least ten times more than the group of ants they have just killed. And in addition to the screaming ants that won by numbers, there were also some more difficult opponents such as fire bees and poisonous powder moths, and there were even two Gu larvae, and the difficulty of killing these things was dozens of times higher than what Xue Qiong had done before.

Moreover, it seems that the person who caused this killing is still at ease.

Xue Qiong closed his eyes and imagined that the Four Sword Saints and Luxi were standing here, barely doing any defense, surrounded by a sea of worms that were surging madly, and then these insects were turned into pieces one by one in the sword light...

"Can't compare." Xue Qiong shook her head, and then beckoned Bald Head and Xiaoyun to continue picking up things.

The forelimbs of the screaming firebee can be directly used as a long gun. And their carapace and internal organs are also likely to have information about the magic pattern of "fire".

The wings of the Wailing Moth are full of poisonous powder, and this can also be collected, which can be used for unexpected and interesting purposes in the future.

Their movements were fast, after all, it seemed that the Four Sword Saints had obviously cleaned up all the bugs here, but the scavenging ants didn't know when and where they came out... If they continue to stay here, there will undoubtedly be more dangerous creatures that will smell the food and continue to gather here, and then Xue Qiong and they will not be able to fly with their wings.

Passing through this large cavern, there is an underground passage on the other side. Xue Qiong, where the people they were looking for, strictly speaking, Minette were looking for, were now very obvious.

Because it is expected that there are only the Four Sword Saints and Luxie in front of them, and there will be no battle with them, and even if they hide in the dark, they will be discovered by these strong people, so they can also use torches to illuminate them unscrupulously. Even lighting a torch and directly showing one's body is also a show of goodwill and sincerity.

After walking for more than an hour, taking a break halfway, and then walking for more than two hours, Xue Qiong suddenly signaled everyone to stop and extinguish the torches that had been used for a while.

Because he felt... Huge flow of energy.

The ground began to tremble. Dozens of seconds later, a woman's voice resounded throughout the Screaming Cave.

"Hahahahaha!! Are these weak bugs trying to challenge me?! Well, pay the price for your arrogance and stupidity! As the first sacrifice I made to this world!! ”