Chapter Thirty-Eight: Infiltration
In the hinterland of the Sea of Death, where more than half of the high-level Zerg gather, the land here is dark purple, steaming with a dense layer of poisonous miasma visible to the naked eye.
As far as the eye can see, those nests made of mud are like giant hornet's nests standing on the ground, and Zerg enter and exit from time to time.
Compared to their counterparts scattered around the periphery, the Zerg here are more orderly, and there are teams that regularly transport energy ore to the lair.
In the past, the Bai Yuanxing government had surveyed that there were a lot of small energy mines in this sea area, but before they could mine them, the end of the world came first, and the Zerg who entered here cheaply in vain.
As a race that can cross the starry sky, the Zerg have long been free from the restriction of blood food, and items such as metals, special stones, and energy mines can maintain their survival, the difference is only in the taste.
For them, the energy mine may be the most delicious food, so after the arrival, they like to conquer human cities, where large buildings and factories are stocked with high-grade energy crystals, which can meet the consumption of high-level zergs.
After the busy transport team completed the task, night fell.
This is the time when most of the Zerg like to move, and all kinds of B-level and C-level Zerg of different forms run out of the nest and lead their subordinates out to action.
The noisy and chaotic screams mingled with each other, and the flying Zerg that covered the sky and the earth flapped their wings and galloped in all directions, and the Zerg army on the ground converged into several torrents of steel, rumbling into the distance.
These Zerg in the hinterland have energy mines that provide them, and they are not short of energy, so it would be absolutely wrong to think that they are going out to feed.
But if you think of them as an army, you can easily understand this behavior.
They are training, or military exercises, to ensure the basic combat effectiveness and the coordination and cooperation between various classes.
This process usually lasts about twelve hours, and they do not return until eight or nine o'clock the next morning.
And this period of time is actually the stage of relative emptiness in the hinterland of the Sea of Death.
Powerful earthquakes penetrate the earth and into the ground, until they reach the lurkers in the darkness.
After the ground swarm raged and disappeared into the distance, the trampled soil was suddenly broken, and a human hand was stretched out.
The human hand pressed on the surrounding ground, and the ground around it cracked one after another, and the lurker stood up silently.
Such a picture is undoubtedly a bit terrifying, not to mention that Qin Ming at this time is lifeless, his face, arms, and other places on his body are dyed purple, like a dead corpse.
It was the effect of the toxic soil smear, and he deliberately did it to get rid of the smell on his body.
He leaned over and pulled his backpack out of the dirt, squatted down to pour out all the remaining compressed food inside, and gulped it down after unpacking it.
Instead of saving food, compressed food is covered by the secreted gastric juice when it enters his stomach, which quickly ablates and converts into nutrients and energy needed by the body.
Holding how many kills he wanted, he had no intention of leaving a way out.
Through his glasses, he could see the Zerg nests in the distance, and there were more than sixty of them in his field of vision alone.
These nests were distributed in an orderly manner, and the distance between them was basically more than four miles, which was good news for him, at least he didn't have to face too many zergs to enter them.
And as long as you use the angle to block it, you don't have much chance of being detected when you get close to the attack.
Based on the known information, he quickly planned the route in his mind, and soon a plan took shape.
In this situation of inner urgency, he did not spend much time perfecting.
Putting on the backpack aircraft, he decisively crawled on the ground and crawled to the very edge of the nest in crocodile prone fashion.
He moves fast, and the cloak that covers him can even float against the wind.
According to the information revealed by Xi Tianhua, although the Zerg here did not detect the eye worms, every once in a while, a patrol team would appear.
However, as long as you get stuck at the right time, you can easily avoid it.
In the process of Qin Ming's advance, there was already a team of more than twenty zergs, cruising along the established route, flying over one nest after another.
By scanning the radar, he was able to clearly know the distance between the moving team and himself, so he calculated and changed the speed and direction so that there were always towering nests between the two sides blocking their view.
This is not very difficult to do, and the real danger is the unconventional Zerg, who will unwittingly poke out of the hole in their nest to excrete waste, and occasionally turn around to observe the situation outside.
Often, in this case, he has to go from extreme movement to extreme stillness.
Although there is basically no light at night, most of the Zerg still have strong night vision, and the dense compound eyes allow them to easily catch moving objects.
So despite his urgency, he prioritized the points.
Wait with bated breath for these zergs to re-enter the nest before he approaches his target again, like an experienced predator.
It took Xi Tianhua and the others more than an hour to approach the nest at the beginning, and it only took about thirty minutes to put them on Qin Ming's side.
The reason for such a time difference is that one is the strength of the team, and the other is that they have not really adapted to the rhythm of the field.
When it was almost half a kilometer away from the nest, Qin Ming no longer advanced, and a nest like this was basically equipped with a security system composed of several early warning insects.
They are attached to the outer walls of their nests, and despite their thin bodies, they possess strange sentient abilities, with antenna-like limbs that protrude to effectively sense most of the information around them.
Smells, sounds, temperatures, magnetic fields, radio waves, etc., are all within their perception range, and they can be said to be inherently versatile scouting creatures.
But the defect is that the eyesight is very poor, which is equivalent to half a blind person, which is undoubtedly an opportunity.
It was by taking advantage of this that Qin Ming came to his current position safely.
But that's all there is to it, and if you continue to move forward, any movement will disturb the other party.
He carefully circled around and determined the location of all the early warning bugs.
There are four of them, three of which can be seen from the front, and the more troublesome one is the one to the north.
Qin Ming, who was half-kneeling and prostrate, was holding several quenched scalpels in his right hand, and a boomerang in his left hand, mobilizing the original energy in his body to strengthen them.
Xi Tianhua They were scattered in different directions, and they succeeded through crossbow arrows, he was only one person, so he could only take some risks.
The moment his eyes sharpened, the scalpel and boomerang suddenly disappeared from his hand, striking the target in different trajectories.
The feared surprise didn't materialize, and the scalpel pierced the head of the inverted triangle of the sentient insect with a cold momentum, and the boomerang sliced through the arc as fast as it could, slicing into the sentient insect's body before it could raise an alarm.
The poison that acts on the nerves spreads rapidly, gradually killing the life of the perceptual insects.
Qin Ming waited for about ten seconds, tentatively moved forward dozens of meters, and found that there was no movement, so he raised the speed.
There were three to five exits at the base of each lair, and he was going to enter the tunnels that led to the lower levels of the earth.
After confirming the position, he jumped in without hesitation.
When you land, you will be greeted by a zigzag tunnel covered with a fungus blanket, with folded walls on both sides and glowing stones.
It's not dirty, it's just fishy.
He held the black-bladed war knife and walked along the passage that coiled deep into the ground, and found no zerg on the way except for the traces left on the fungus carpet.
As Xi Tianhua said, with a large number of tail-tailing insects being sent out, there are no more gatekeepers here.
Of course, even if he did, he was sure that he would be able to complete the kill when he was in front of him.
After a brisk walk of about three minutes, he saw a whole row of wells arranged in a straight line, which was probably the so-called entrance to the hatchery.
The hatchery is a wide underground space specially carved out by the tail-tails, that is, the laboratory and factory where they carry out catalysis.
Walking to one of the wells, Qin Ming had already seen the tail-trailing insects that were working, as well as the shocking number of insect eggs placed next to them.
Killing intent, quietly surging.....