Section 22 Storm Bugs
() In the oral tales of countless travelers, the golden sandworms are magical creatures with extremely high intelligence. They will think like humans, and will even use various tactics like humans......
The shouts of the iron slag were like a concussive grenade thrown into the crowd, instantly stunning everyone to their senses. A few seconds later, Ye Xinling was the first to come back to her senses, and she immediately dropped the loot in her hand and ran towards Comet 2. Then everyone came to their senses, but they were reluctant to give up the spoils. Iron Slag had to wait for half a minute, watching them drag and drop the most valuable things into the car before getting into the cockpit and ordering the team to evacuate north.
A moment later, a sea of sand and dust rose from the sky. With the roar of the engines, nine sandmobiles lined up in a conical formation and headed north at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. After a while, Alice's voice came over the radio.
"Alice, analyze the methods used by the other party to track us?" Iron Slag asked.
"It's definitely a sandworm!" Iron slag is convinced. Because he didn't participate in the looting just now, he just stood on a high place and observed the battlefield, and those battle traces were obviously left by sandworms.
"Is there a way we can get rid of them?"
After listening to Alice's analysis, Iron Slag scratched his hair, and couldn't think of anything for a while, so he asked the old flute in the back seat if he had built a yƬ. Lao Di replied very calmly, "Wait for them to catch up, now sleep for a while." ā
Over, Lao Di continued to doze off with half-squinted eyes. In fact, he was not asleep, he was always thinking about who to put in charge of the palace. Just now he saw that there were at least five damaged mechs on the battlefield, which meant that the firepower of this team could not defeat the golden sandworms that followed closely, and it also meant that the people who stayed behind the palace would be sacrificed. In this case, with the current state of this team, there is certainly no one who will voluntarily sacrifice themselves for others. Thinking of this, Lao Di opened his eyes and said to the iron slag, "Our speed is not as fast as the other side, so we should divide the troops into three ways, so that only one team of men and horses will be overtaken." ā
"No, the rest of the people must go back alive, otherwise Lena can't afford to pay such a high cost for human losses." Iron Slag refused without thinking about it.
"It's not much money, she's the sheriff of Iron Mountain Town, and this loss can still be filled." The old flute persisted.
"I rode the bike to lure them away, and the sandworms were actually pretty good to deal with."
"No way!" "Don't!" Lao Di and Ye Xinling objected in unison.
At this moment, Ellie's voice sounded again.
"This golden sandworm has been through at least a few battles, and by the time it catches up with us, it may be exhausted. We can lay out the battlefield and escape routes, and then fight it. "Iron slag arrived.
Lao Di thought about it for a while and felt that there was some truth in the analysis of iron slag. So he immediately called the parking team, set up the battlefield in place, and waited for the sandworms to catch up. After a while, nine sand carts spread out in an arc. Everyone stared ahead. Some of them were lying on their stomachs in the car, some were lying on the body, and some were sticking out of the cockpit......
After more than ten minutes, the distant horizon gradually became blurred. Lao Di picked up the binoculars and looked over, only to see the smoke and dust in front of him, and in the haze, he could vaguely see a swarm of sandworms winding on the sand.
When illuminated by the sun, the carapace of the sandworm reflects a dazzling light. They are like countless giant pipes intertwined with each other, half exposed on the surface, half hidden in the sand, dancing with hundreds of slender knuckles swimming quickly in the sea of sand!
Quicksand has no resistance to them, they are simply a species that lives for the sea of sand. They are like eels swimming in the ocean, and the yellow sand of flowing water slides down on the carapace, and then they are lifted up again and again......
"Swarm of sandworms!" The old flute exclaimed.
Iron Slag grabbed the binoculars and looked at it, and was dumbfounded. The overwhelming swarm of sandworms is not something this person can fight against at all. He couldn't help but curse, "Is there anything more unlucky?" ā
Now I can't escape, I can't fight, and I don't have much time to think. Iron Slag made up his mind and shouted loudly, "Run for your life!" Those who survive meet at the Black Iron Bar! ā
At this moment, a deafening hiss suddenly sounded ahead. The shrill voice seemed to tear the heavens and the earth apart! A terrifying sound wave swept through the team in an instant, and the screech, which almost pierced the eardrums, made people shake. Except for the iron slag, everyone fell down weakly, and couldn't even get up for a while.
Seeing his teammates falling one after another, Iron Slag turned his head to look ahead. I saw a swarm of sandworms rushing towards with the power of destroying the world, and it didn't take ten minutes to rush in front of me. Iron slag turned his heart sideways, took out the steroid stimulant from his coat pocket, and injected himself with a shot. Then he jumped on the red comet and sprinted at the swarm of sandworms with full throttle!
A few minutes later, Lao Di was the first to recover from his vertigo. As soon as he struggled to get up, he saw Iron Slag driving a locomotive into the swarm of sandworms. The red locomotive was like a lonely boat in the stormy waves, as if it would be completely crushed in the next second. Lao Di's mouth suddenly opened wide, his heartbeat soared, and it was a little difficult to breathe for a while.
At this time, the iron slag's eyes were red, and dense bloodshot covered the whites of his eyes. Under the effects of stimulants, his reaction speed increased to the extreme. In his blood-red eyes, the whole world slowed down, as if the flow of time had slowed down.
The old man of iron once said: "Capture the thief and capture the king first!" At this moment, there is only this sentence left in my mind. Perhaps killing the king of the sand sea storm worms will cause the other sandworms to scatter and flee.
In the blink of an eye, a thick worm shell grew all over his body, and then he roared angrily, tensing the muscles of his whole body and suddenly exerting force! I saw six incomparably long knuckles rushing out of his back!
At this moment, the unfolded knots are like an eagle spreading its wings, as if it is about to flap its wings and fly high in the next second.
The six knuckles of the iron slag have spider legs that resemble double joints, and the ends are so sharp that they look like six jet-gold spears. From a distance, the sharp spear tip shimmered in the shadows of the sand worm swarm.
The sandworms in front of them became denser and denser, and the yellow sand splashed everywhere fell like rain. Iron Slag drove the locomotive through the crevices of giant insects. At the moment, his vision was blurry, and everywhere he went was sand and dust. He could only rely on his hearing to discern the direction, and then rushed into the heart of the swarm!
Shrill hiss came and went, and huge insect bodies passed through them. If he misses, he will be immediately overwhelmed by a huge swarm. In the moment of life and death, Iron Slag found that the sandworms in front of him were crowded together layer upon layer, and the huge insect bodies were close to each other, leaving no gaps. They seem to be guarding the heartland, and perhaps the golden sandworm is right behind them.
At this time, there is no road in front and no door in the back, and the iron slag tightens the throttle and moves forward at full speed. With a loud roar, the jet bag shoots out high-pressure gas like crazy, increasing the speed of the car to the extreme. Seeing that the locomotive is about to crash into the worm body in the next second! The iron slag suddenly jumped up and threw itself into the sandworm pile!
The moment he pounced on the swarm, the six knotted legs behind the iron slag bent forward, firmly nailed to the smooth carapace of the sandworm, and then he used his hands and feet to climb up on the back of the giant worm.
At this time, the sandworm twisted violently, trying to shake off the bug on its back. But the worm was like an awl of bones, piercing the shell with its sharp knuckles, and then nailing it firmly to it, and it could not be shaken off at all.
Iron slag picked at the sandworm pile, and the hissing sound in my ears was deafening, as if the heavens and the earth were shaking. In the midst of the chaos, he vaguely saw a dark shadow covering the sky in front of him. The shadow was like a skyscraper towering into the clouds. Looking up, the yellow sand-filled sky seems to be studded with brilliant gems, shimmering with mysterious and dazzling brilliance.
Iron slag has seen it before, this is the king of the sand sea storm insects - the golden sandworm.
Just as he was stunned, a sandworm suddenly swept over with a flick of its tail! The thick insect body came with a huge wind pressure, and the iron slag couldn't dodge it for a while, and hit the huge insect tail head-on! In the next second, he only felt that he was hit head-on by a high-speed truck, his abdomen and six organs were rolling and groaning deeply, and a mouthful of blood spurted out involuntarily.
The wormtail swept him more than a dozen meters away with the power of a thunderbolt. Immediately after hitting the ground, he struggled to get up. Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away from the location of the golden sandworm, his mind turned, and he suddenly fled in another direction.
In the blink of an eye, the swarm of sandworms surrounded the iron slag, blocking all his retreats. At this moment, the sandworm closest to him suddenly opened its bloody mouth and stabbed at him. But he stopped, squinting his eyes and standing motionless, like a frightened prey.
There were huge mouthparts reflected in his pupils, and in an instant, the shadows became bigger and bigger, and he seemed to be able to see the fine, sharp teeth in the bloody mouth. At the moment when the worm's mouth was about to reach its body, the iron slag suddenly rolled to the side, avoiding the devouring. The sandworm crashed headlong into the sand and immediately flicked its tail towards its prey. At this time, the iron slag tightened his muscles without dodging, and watched the worm tail sweep towards him!
I only heard a muffled sound of "bang", and the iron slag flew upside down like a cannonball for dozens of meters and fell next to the golden sandworm. Iron Slag spat out a mouthful of blood, then grinned, and reflexively climbed onto the huge body of the golden sandworm!
The golden sandworm seems to sense a foreign object crawling on the carapace on its back. It writhed wildly, trying to shake off the creature on its back. But the six legs of the iron slag slammed into the carapace and climbed upwards at great speed.
The golden sandworm hissed to the extreme, and the nearby sandworms were summoned to its side. But the sandworms could only twist their bodies around their king, and let out angry screams, but they could do nothing about the worms on the king's back.