The endless permafrost is full of fertile soil that is black and hard, but even if the soil contains a lot of organic matter and various nutrients, it contains very few small animals, almost no insects, and the only ones that exist, that is, various microorganisms that are extremely cold and drought tolerant, they are the only organisms in the soil layer, both producers and decomposers, and also consumers.

Low temperatures, lethal low temperatures, are responsible for this, which not only hinders the diffraction of biological populations to the surrounding environment, but also severely inhibits the growth and reproduction of microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi.

For example, due to the scarcity of microbial decomposers, it will take at least a few weeks for the bloody rubble to emit a foul smell, and a few months before it is completely decomposed and disappears.

Ike and Zhen Wuyu followed Lilith and the others to move forward, in this low-temperature environment, their nano biochemical suits resisted the cold of the outside world, and at the same time cultivated and cared for the human body.

The face armor is still opened, revealing Chinese characteristics, a man and a woman with expressionless faces, but there is no need to worry that their faces will be frozen by the external environment, because there is actually a transparent nanolayer mask between their heads and the outside environment, and this mask also has a lot of protective ability.

As for Lilith, as a group of treasure hunters who frequent Stilantes, they all have the rudimentary individual shield around their waists, which can provide a mechanism to protect against the cold, and this mechanism can also be effective in keeping out the cold even if the shield is temporarily broken.

The group walked like this, and since there was no means of transportation, and Ike and Ike did not use the speed mode of Power Mode, their speed was almost as slow as a snail. The whole four-clawed bay is not very big, and with the speed of the four-clawed ape, they can quickly travel around, but they can't.

Carefully guarded, the group kept an eye on their surroundings, because this is no longer an ice area, and sandworms may appear at any time.

"Hey, Iron Arm, are there any traces of sandworms here?" Looking at the black hard clods on the ground, Lilith seemed to be talking to herself, but she was actually asking Mr. Iron Arm behind her.

"Not yet." Mr. Iron Arm had a serious expression on his face, "This is a central depression, and the surrounding terrain is relatively high, so the wind is relatively small, so I suspect that the central depression is the entrance to the sandworm's cave. ”

"Impossible." Ike shook his head, "Sand worms usually use their tails to fill the holes they have drilled immediately after diving underground. ”

"Special Circumstances Special Treatment Analysis, you ignore the environmental ...... of Stirantia," Mr. Iron Arm immediately retorted, this time it was indeed Ike who was wrong, and I have to say that although he also knew a lot about wild animals, he was dwarfed by professional biologists and trappers like Mr. Iron Arm. Although the East Point Military Academy students know a lot, it can be said that they know astronomy and geography, but they are not scientists after all.

"Hey, look, what's that!" Just as the two were talking, Scout suddenly pointed forward excitedly.

The environment and background in front of him have not changed in any way, but the difference is that there is an additional metal box.

It was a refrigerator-sized metal box, with an inconspicuous blue shimmer throughout, and a dull gray trim around the metal box.

Lilith: "What's that?" Safe deposit box? ”

Mordegai: "You think about money and you want to go crazy......"

Due to the distance, they couldn't make out what the metal box was until they got closer, and they realized that it was a vending machine.

That's right, it's a vending machine, with the names and prices of various drinks flashing in the translucent windows, and a coin slot next to it.

How could such a thing happen in such a harsh and remote place? Who put it exactly?

Seeing the scene in front of him, everyone present, including Ike and Zhen Wuyu, was very speechless, but Modi Gai said this directly.

"Hmm...... Let's have a bottle of Nuka Coke! Lilith held her chin in her hand unusually, and after some thought, she took out a metal interstellar coin from her waist, and after a quick operation on the vending machine, she threw it into the vending machine.

What a strip it has to be!

Mordea couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and Blake was full of black lines, which was too toss-up.

In this case, obviously you should first check if there is a problem with this vending machine, right, Lilith is fine, and directly put in coins to get a drink and drink.

"Drink...... Ha! Lilith didn't talk nonsense, and at the same time didn't care about the strange eyes of others, she directly raised her head and drank the usual nuclear cola she had just bought.

"Ah, it's really delicious, otherwise in this wilderness, if you can't go to the village and the back of the store, you will be thirsty to death!" After drinking the Coke, Lilith couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"Hey, isn't it cold to drink Coke on such a cold day?" Scout felt a little strange.

"No, you should wonder why Coke wasn't directly frozen!" Mordia, who continued to break out in a cold sweat on his forehead.

"Hehe, mortal." Lilith smiled contemptuously, "This vending machine has a thermostat system, and I specially heated the cola before drinking it just now, so that it can also warm the stomach." ”

"The stomach warmer seems to be black tea, although they are about the same color......" Zhen Wuyu looked at Lilith expressionlessly, and then she carefully observed the vending machine, trying to find out some suspicions, but for the time being, she found nothing.

"Moreover, if Coke is heated, the gas will not run out, so what else to drink......" Ike was also expressionless, and while launching a verbal offensive to mend the knife, he had already ordered "Saiko" to analyze everything in front of him.

But the result made him feel speechless, there was nothing abnormal, and this means that this vending machine was really put here by someone who was idle and painful, and it didn't have any purpose.

This person is really boring enough, and at the same time as he was slandering in his heart, Ike suddenly felt a flash of inspiration and his eyes lit up.

Yes, this kind of vending machine is very convenient, they can even sell weapons, and they can do this kind of arms sales method for this planet alone in the future.

Because Stillanta is a very chaotic planet, it is really a planet without discipline, all kinds of treasure hunters and planet forces lick their lives with knives, and shooting and bloodshed may occur at any time, in a word, "the wicked have no leisure", so arms can be sold in this way. In fact, the brilliant idea that Ike had come up with on the spur of the day was already being carried out, and that man's name was Marcus.

"Hey, you dead-faced men and women, don't go too far!" Being so ruthlessly complained about, Lilith was speechless for a moment, she immediately crumpled the can of Coke into a ball, and then smashed it forward.

With a dull "rattle" sound, the Coke can was thrown somewhere.

"Alright, don't waste any more time here, let's go find out where the sandworms are!" Lilith changed her casualness from just now to a serious face, but she saw that Mordegai and Blake were in pain for a while.

Load, let you load it for me.

"Ah, of course." Scout was the first to respond to her words, but his hand slid to his waist and pulled out a metal interstellar coin from inside, "But before I do that, let me have a drink too." Well, let me take a look...... Let's have a glass of lo*ri juice! ”

With a very misleading mouth, Scout took out a clear container from the vending machine, opened the lid, opened his mouth and drank into the rather suspiciously viscous transparent liquid inside.

Mr. Iron Arm stared at the container closely, a glint flashing in his prosthetic eye on his right, "It looks like some kind of creature processed tissue fluid." ”

"Ah, it tastes good." Scout took a few sips and couldn't help but smack his lips, "This is sour, I can't believe it!" ”

"No, your tastes are just too weird." Mordegai looked at Scout with some pain, he thought that he was already very obscene, but he didn't expect that this obscenity was completely surpassed by the mentally ill patient in front of him, is this a good thing or a bad thing? ”

"Look, there's a word on the back!" At this time, Zhen Wuyu's cold voice came, and everyone couldn't help but look sideways.

"Where, where, I'll see!" With some kind of woman's intuition, Lilith felt that the text must have something to do with the clues of the sandworm, and she was the first to rush to the back of the vending machine and immediately took a closer look.

"No, are you mistaken, little * girl, don't joke!" But soon found that nothing was found, Lilith did not believe in evil and looked carefully, but still found nothing, so she suddenly felt that Zhen Wuyu was teasing herself.

"yes, yes, there's no word at all." Mordegai echoed him, stroking the vending machine in front of him with both hands, as if he were touching a woman.

It's simply the extreme of lewdness, and it really has the essence of obscenity.

"If you look closely, maybe these words are very, very small." Mr. Iron Arm shook his head, he was both a hunter and a scholar, so he was very calm and thoughtful when he encountered trouble, only to see that he picked up a condensed magnifying glass and placed it in front of the vending machine, and after some searching, he still found nothing.

"And where are the words?" Roland raised his head and asked, he was originally a person who didn't talk much, but this time he didn't find any available clues, and he was naturally puzzled by the words that Zhen Wuyu said.

"Here." The person who answered him was Ike, who pointed to the pupils of his face expressionlessly, and then lowered his hand.

"Hey, what do you mean, Ike?" Lilith asked, a little confused, "Could it be that your eyes are special enough to see these words?" ”

"That's right." Ike nodded slightly, his tone unfazed, "These words need to be seen with thermal imaging. ”

"Uh...... Thermal! Lilith looked at the individual armor that Ike and Zhen Wuyu were wearing, thinking that it was supported by thermal imaging and night vision devices.

"Thermal imaging, I have it too." Mr. Iron Arm smiled immediately, and he immediately raised his hand to his right prosthetic eye, and then twisted it in a clockwise direction a few times, "Alright, thermal imaging." ”

"Hey, your prosthetic eye is really advanced, I just don't know how much it's worth!" Scout yelled.

Mr. Iron Arm didn't reply, he was carefully observing the picture under the thermal image in front of him.

"Hmm...... It's really an old text. Mr. Iron Arm said with a slight solemnity, with a heavy and rich feeling in his words, which seemed to really make people feel like they had returned to ancient times.

"Yes, it's very special." Ike nodded in agreement, there was no pattern to follow in this particular text, not to mention the database of nano biochemical suits, and even "Saiko" had no information about it for the time being.

"But I happen to know this kind of writing." Mr. Iron Arm's face smiled again, and his tone became slightly smug, "I didn't expect this race to have survivors, it's really a coincidence. It is an ancient text, composed of a very, very, very ...... It is really a very weak race, and how weak is this race, it is only a flash in the pan in the history of the past......"

"Stop talking nonsense, Iron Arm, we need you to decipher the text, not listen to history!" Mortegai interrupted him angrily, still stroking the vending machine in front of him.

Even the vending machines are not spared, it is simply **.

"Oh, okay, okay." Mr. Iron Arm was not very angry at such an interruption, he looked at this paragraph carefully, and then said affirmatively, "I understand the meaning, it is that sandworms are dangerous!" ”

"Sandworm infestation is dangerous?!" Everyone was stunned.

"Such a long paragraph, and the meaning is so short?" Ike asked, frowning slightly.

"So it's a weak race, it's worse than a 'monkey'." Mr. Iron Arm shrugged, "This is a race with a lower IQ than 'monkeys', and it's already good to be able to derive words and languages, don't expect them to be streamlined." ”

"Then this is indeed an area where sandworms are everywhere, and we have to be careful at all times." Zhen Wuyu looked around vigilantly, the face armor mode of the nano biochemical suit had been turned on, scanning all possible movements around him, but he still found nothing for the time being.

"Ah, yes, always be careful!" Scout was the first to chimed in, his tone still as sharp and grotesque as ever, sounding comical and extremely absurd, and as he spoke, he casually threw the finished can of Lori* juice in front of him.

A dull sound came out, but then a louder sound covered it and spread through the ears of the people around it.

"Ang, Ang, Ang!"

It seemed as if something was roaring violently, and the earth trembled slightly.

Here it comes! It really appeared all of a sudden, it's really a newspaper of the world!

Everyone's faces tightened, and they quickly prepared their weapons for the onslaught that followed.

"Ah, looks like I hit something!" Scout was slightly stunned.

"Aung Aang, Aa

"Boom" The ground ten meters away suddenly shattered completely, and a black stout figure suddenly jumped out directly from inside, and the thick body quickly circled the battlement, and then an earthworm head shaped something came to everyone's eyes.

The scales on the body reflected a dim black light, the diameter of the thick cylindrical body was about five or six meters, and the length of the whole body was almost twenty meters.

This is...... Worm.

Sandworms have appeared!

Everyone present was shocked by this sudden scene, and what surprised them even more was the place where the head of the sandworm was.

There, two cans of drinks sat quietly at the top end, one of which was a can of Coke and the other was a can of clear lo*ri juice, apparently from Lilith and Scout.

In this way, the sandworm was originally in front of the group, and was completely enraged by the behavior of the two of them throwing cans, so they rushed towards them.

That's why the sandworm came and how it appeared.

It was so debut......

While speechless, Lilith had already stretched out her right hand and grabbed it forward, her fiery red eyes suddenly filled with purple, and at the same time, the movement of everything around her slowed down sharply, as if time had stopped. A purple node suddenly appeared in front of her eyes, and she grabbed it hard.

Phase Shift ...... Trigger!

As a witch who has already comprehended the phase, in Ike's words, Lilith can be said to have stepped into the four-dimensional space with half a toe, so the moment she sensed the danger, she activated the phase movement, and the spatial node instantly changed the position of everyone.

Even Ike and Zhen Wuyu, who had just turned on the power mode of the orange suit of the nano biochemical suit and jumped away from both sides with all their might, were no exception.

Everyone, including the two of them, was enveloped in Lilith's phasing movement, and then vanished in place in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, they appeared more than twenty meters away.

The ground trembled not far from "Boom", and above the clearing where they had been, the thick tails of sandworms burst out of the earth, smashing the hard earth within ten square meters.

This is still a juvenile sandworm, it has such a power, and if they don't hide just now, it will be in mortal danger.

"Ah, that's dangerous!" Mordiae looked at the back with trepidation, and the sandworm hadn't noticed them in the changed position for the time being.