Chapter 5: Human-faced beetles

Zhen Xin was lying on the edge of the lake, and all he saw was a dense forest, and countless tall trees, like towering giants, surrounded the entire lake.

He turned his head to look around, and found that except for the woods, he could only see a blue sky over the lake, and the other landforms in the canyon were not visible at all.

A breeze blew, Zhen Xin felt a chill on his body, turned his head to look at his body, and suddenly remembered that all his equipment and battle clothes had been destroyed by Pei Xiaoye's lightning ring, if it weren't for the abnormal change of the Sancai Dao Sword and all the injuries on his body, he was afraid that he would have died at this time.

However, to his surprise, the special operations watch on his wrist, for unknown reasons, was not affected by the electric ring and was still unharmed.

He turned on his watch and found that the extremely accurate navigator had completely failed, and the high-precision military map displayed on the pop-up light screen did not have any markings, and even the ubiquitous satellites could not be connected, there was no location, no navigation, and no communication, and the Grand Canyon seemed to have become a black hole, swallowing up all signals.

He fiddled with his watch without giving up, and after a while, he suddenly received two messages, he hurriedly opened them to see, it turned out to be the position signals from his lost high-energy laser rifle and electromagnetic pistol, which showed that the distance between these two weapons and him was less than five hundred meters.

It was really just dozing off when someone handed me a pillow. He immediately turned on the inertial navigation function of the watch, and under the guidance of the inertial system, he quickly found the two weapons.

A soldier with a weapon can be regarded as a real soldier, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief when he recovered his weapon. He first silently scouted the surroundings, and after finding that there was nothing abnormal, he began to weave a shorts for himself that could barely cover his shame with waterweed and soft branches, and then slowly groped his way into the depths of the forest.

The first thing you need to do is to scout the Grand Canyon, but the deeper you go, the stranger the trees become.

A strange tree that is no more than three meters tall, red all over, with bark like tortoise shells and leaves like fish scales the size of a palm, faintly exudes heat from time to time in the forest.

Zhen Xin has undergone the most rigorous wilderness survival training and has some basic knowledge of various vegetation, but this strange tree is a species he has never seen before, and he has never even heard of similar trees.

There were more and more strange trees, and when all the trees became such strange trees, the temperature around them suddenly rose by more than ten degrees, and the originally pleasant environment became scorching.

Zhen Xin was vigilant and decided to retreat to the lake first, and at this moment, a deafening roar sounded in front of him, followed by a smoky fishy wind, with an astonishing heat, like a tropical hurricane, and hit him hard.

A monster nearly two meters long and nearly one meter high, with two dog heads on its neck, but its body was like a wild boar, and it was covered with red and black scales.

Zhen Xin was shocked but not confused, saw the monster's coming, suddenly jumped up, kicked the trunk of the tree next to him with his right foot, and with the help of the elastic force of the tree, lightning jumped out more than two meters away, just avoiding the monster that pounced.

"Roar ......" The monster's right head opened its mouth and let out an unwilling roar, but its left head bit on a nearby strange tree, and its scales shook rapidly, making a sound like a rattlesnake's tail shaking.

With the shaking of the scales, the red color on the strange tree that it bit actually flowed, and quickly flowed towards the big mouth on its left head, and many sparks immediately burst out from the scales on its body, slowly condensing small flames.

"What kind of monster is this, and what kind of powerful attack can it be?" Zhen Xin was taken aback, and immediately pulled the trigger of the super laser rifle without hesitation, and an arm-thick laser beam immediately shot out silently, burning a large hole in the monster's left head at once.

The monster let out a terrible scream, and the scales of its body immediately clasped tightly on its body, and it turned around to escape. Zhen Xin reacted quickly and fired another laser beam, punching a large hole in its right head. Hit hard by this, the monster finally fell to the ground and died unwillingly.

From Zhen Xin's point of view, the strength of this monster is definitely several times stronger than that of the lion and tiger, especially the ability to make a flame with its amazing skills, which is beyond Zhen Xin's cognition. But a beast is a beast, if you don't make good use of your speed, strength, and sharp teeth and claws, you want to make any fire, and in front of Zhen Xin's high-energy laser of more than 10,000 kilowatts, you naturally have to find death.

Zhen Xin pulled out the attached bayonet on the rifle and tried to break open the monster's corpse, but he couldn't cut the monster's scales, so he simply used violence to peel off the scales on the monster's stomach one by one, and finally used the bayonet to break the monster's belly.

As the stomach was opened, the monster spurted out a large amount of turquoise blood, emitting bursts of patina metallic rust, and it also carried a sweet and greasy strange fishy smell, which made people feel dizzy when it rushed to the nose.

Zhen Xin knew that the blood of this monster was strange, so he didn't dare to stay any longer, raised his head and was about to leave, but was shocked to find that by a strange tree more than ten meters away, there was a giant beetle with a diameter of more than one meter and eight pairs of octopus feet swinging around its body.

Zhen Xin calmed down and looked closely, only to see that this beetle was covered with all kinds of weird red stripes, but there was a human-like face on its back, two huge eyes like electric light bulbs, emitting a blood-like red glow, and a giant mouth with sharp teeth, quietly watching Zhen Xin's every move.

"What kind of monster is this?" Looking at this monster, Zhen Xin's scalp was a little numb, and he hurriedly hugged the laser rifle to strengthen his vigilance, and at the same time moved his feet slowly, leaving the range of the sweet and greasy smell of the monster's blood little by little.

"Chirp, twr......" The big beetle seemed to be alerted to Zhen Xin's actions, and immediately let out an extremely strange chirp from his mouth, and at the same time, the whole body slowly stood up, and eight pairs of octopus feet were evenly distributed around the circular body, at first glance, it was very similar to the sun totem in the ancient human petroglyphs somewhere on the earth.

"Another creature that can fly without the aid of any equipment!" Zhen Xin muttered to himself in his heart, if you add his girlfriend and others, who he used to be most familiar with, but now he is extremely unfamiliar, he has found five creatures that can fly in the sky, is it really as the old man with dark energy said, this universe is full of aliens, and he happened to break into the aliens' lair? However, this is the earth, where are so many aliens?

"Hey, are you a man or a beast, an Earth creature or an alien? Where are you from and can you understand what I'm saying? Zhen Xin found that his palms were a little wet, but he still tried his best to stay calm, and asked tentatively while being more vigilant.

"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp......" The large beetle emits a piercing chirp, although it is incomprehensible, but the pronunciation is very regular, very similar to the language of intelligent beings. Moreover, as far as Zhen Xin knows, there is no such huge beetle on Earth, and it can fly in the sky without wings, except for coming from aliens, there is no other possibility.

The alien monster screamed a few times, stretched out two octopus feet, and clicked at him a few times, and the top of the octopus feet immediately lit up with two dazzling red lights, from which two basin-sized flames erupted, shooting towards him like cannonballs.

Zhen Xin was a little surprised, this monster of unknown origin actually launched an attack without saying a word, he hurriedly opened fire, and the intertwined laser beams formed a large net, just intercepting the two flames that flew in, and both exploded immediately. A powerful shockwave swept around, a large area of strange trees was uprooted, and Zhen Xin and the alien monsters were also swept out by the violent storm.

Zhen Xin took advantage of the momentum to roll on the ground four or five times before unloading all the impact force, and then jumped up from the ground and shot at the alien monster with his gun raised.

The alien monster seemed to have been prepared, and the eight pairs of octopus feet were fully unfolded, each emitting a red light, and the sixteen pieces of red light converged together to form a pale red light cluster, which just shrouded itself.

The laser beam bombarded the light cluster, exploding a rain of light in the sky, and the surrounding trees were instantly blown to pieces.

However, although the light cluster outside the alien monster's body was dented, it stubbornly withstood the attack, and not even a crack appeared. The impact that dissipated nowhere knocked the alien monster into the air, and at once it shot into the depths of the forest and disappeared without a trace.