Chapter 529: The Brood
Seeing the white engineer at the entrance to the floor being bitten away by flying insects, the others instinctively stepped aside.
"I can't hold it without shells! Jump! Jin Ke said to the people behind him while firing the cannon.
Sure enough, the last ten minutes were the hardest, or rather, there was no way to get through it.
"If you jump, you will die! It's deep down there! Tens of meters deep! And the flying insects! You can't go near the pothole, it's dangerous! Meng Lin told Jin Ke about the situation.
Jin Ke fired another shot, then cautiously retreated to the hole he had cut earlier and looked down.
A strange insect hovering near the entrance of the cave seemed to have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and immediately flew over and bit Jin Ke's ankle, and forcibly dragged Jin Ke down from the entrance of the cave with lightning speed.
This flying insect has a thin neck, only about ten centimeters in diameter, and it is easy to bite people from the hole dug by Jin Ke.
"Brother Kim!" Meng Lin's shouts quickly faded away, and the light at the entrance of the control cabin quickly turned into a distant point of light.
Jin Ke felt that his foot bones had been broken, and his whole body was bitten by flying insects, and one leg flew very quickly in the dark.
The flying insect was much larger than Jin Ke, but the bite of such a large person in its mouth made it stumble at first, but it quickly adjusted its posture and made the flight smooth.
Another flying insect swept nearby, opened its bloody mouth and bit Jin Ke's neck, ready to snatch the prey from the mouth of the previous flying insect.
Jin Ke sensed the danger, forcibly twisted his body with the bitten stump leg as a fulcrum, and narrowly escaped the fatal blow despite the severe pain.
The flying insect that bit Jin Ke probably also realized that there would be other insects to snatch its prey, and after balancing its body, it immediately bent its neck and bit Jin Ke's body.
Jin Ke immediately stretched out his uninjured hand and clamped the flying insect's neck to prevent its mouth from biting him, and then held the dagger in his other hand and stabbed the flying insect in the head.
If it weren't for the fact that his strength was several times higher than that of ordinary people, he would not have enough strength to block the bite of the flying insects at this time.
The flying insect became extremely irritable after being attacked by the light dagger, and kept flying in the air, constantly shaking its neck, trying to shake Jin Ke's hand away.
Jin Ke's hand that stuck its neck was like an iron tong, stuck deep into the flesh of the flying insect's neck, not giving it a chance to get rid of it.
In the end, the flying insect was stabbed in the head by Jin Ke, and then one by one fell heavily to the ground from a height of several meters.
The flying insect landed first, and Jin Ke smashed on its stomach, and the flesh wings of the flying insect rolled up by inertia, rolling Jin Ke inside.
Ground ...... It's very soft, like a meat pad.
The flying insect was apparently dead, and had not moved since it hit the ground.
Jin Ke was in pain everywhere.
The shoulder injury did not heal, one foot was crippled, and there were several fractures on the body.
There was the sound of insects chirping all around, and the sound of flesh wings skimming through the air.
It's not completely dark down here, and there should be lights, but the bulkhead is covered with a layer of flesh-like stuff, which makes the light very dim.
After adjusting to the darkness around him, Jin Ke quietly poked his head out of the flesh wings and looked outside.
Seeing the scene made him gasp.
The escape route that Meng Lin chose was very good.
The white engineer also said there weren't many bugs down there.
There really aren't many bugs here...... Not a lot of yarn, huh? This is where the worm's brood is located!
Jin Ke saw a huge alien mother with many egg tubes on her body, and she was constantly discharging eggs one by one. Some of the eggs have formed and are about to break out of their shells, and most of them are still asleep in their shells, waiting for the time to break out.
And the landing point of Jin Ke is in the middle of hundreds of insect eggs.
Jin Ke tried to reach out and touch the ground...... It's not metal anymore, it's some kind of fleshy stuff with some strange slime on it.
Jin Ke could even feel a slight tremor under his feet, as if he was standing on the surface of a huge creature.
This is supposed to be something excreted by the mother worm that changes the structure of the nearby ground to form something similar to the placenta, which is used to nourish and hatch the eggs that it expels.
Just as Jin Ke was observing, an insect egg next to him suddenly exploded with a 'click'.
Jin Ke hurriedly held his breath, and he could imagine what the consequences would be once he was seen by these insects.
Another few minutes had passed, and now there were seven minutes left before the end of the mission, and if he could just dodge like this, Jin Ke would rather lie motionless in the flesh wings of this dead flying insect.
Among the rattling eggs, a clawed one hatched, struggling to crawl out of the eggshell. Its current size looks similar to that of an adult clawed worm, so it's no wonder that so many alien worms have appeared in a short period of time, all of them should have been born from this mother.
After crawling out of the eggshell, the clawed insect staggered to the ground, walked a few steps in the open space between the eggshells, and then fell to the ground.
After a while, it stood up again, staggered a few steps, and was soon able to walk steadily.
The clawed insect had taken a few steps into the distance, but suddenly looked back at the corpse of the flying insect.
Jin Ke didn't feel good, but he had nowhere to run now.
As long as he dares to leave the wrap of the flesh wings, these newborn insects around him will immediately surround him and tear him to pieces!
When the clawed insect came over, it bit the wings of the flying insect with its mouth and shook it vigorously, not knowing if it was fun or wanted to eat.
But whether it's fun or eating, it's not a good thing for Jin Ke, and if it continues to shake like this, it will soon be able to find Jin Ke hiding in the meat wings.
It's the last five minutes! Ugly thing! Let's go elsewhere! Jin Ke yelled in his heart.
At this moment, a large group of alien insects passed by a few meters away, making a lot of noise, and the newborn alien insect was attracted by the movement and turned its head to look over there, and then let out a burst of excitement and ran over.
Jin Ke let out a long breath, and he also took the opportunity to look at the movement over there,
He saw the big black guys, the white engineers.
There are also flat-headed men and middle-headed men.
Also, Meng Lin.
They were encased in some kind of cocoon, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and the insects pulled them in the direction of the brood.
It seems that the control room has fallen, except for Jin Ke, no one else has been spared, and all of them have been arrested.