Chapter 60: The Green-veined Tank Beetle
Stargate, a huge figure slowly crawled out of the stargate. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info It's covered in mysterious patterns and shimmers with a moving green light. The huge body is like a main battle tank, brutally pushing away the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood.
Chen Yi and An Ruoxuan looked at the familiar and unfamiliar figures that appeared in front of them, and the introduction of them couldn't help but flash in their minds.
Tank beetle, defensive star beetle. The body length is ten meters on average, five meters wide, and the average weight is sixty tons, which is comparable to a main battle tank. Slow in action, but powerful in strength. Covered in heavy exoskeleton armor and incredibly defensive, the Type 30 Gauss rifle was unable to leave a visible mark on its carapace.
The elytra on the back of the tank beetle are spread out to project miniature self-detonating beetles, which are as powerful as heavy tank guns, which is where the tank beetle comes from. In addition, the nano biochemical bionic body of the S-class nano biochemical power armor is originally the muscle fibers of the tank beetle.
"I should have guessed that it was this guy a long time ago", An Ruoxuan held a knife in her right hand and cautiously looked at the green-veined tank beetle not far away.
From the few representative mutant blade mantis beasts that have appeared, humans have deduced the possible mutation level of star worms. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple, the seven divisions that existed in the inference have now appeared in the fourth level, and there is no reason to think that the remaining three levels do not exist.
Each star insect mutates in a different direction, and it can be roughly inferred that it is a supplement to its own shortcomings. The mutation level of the Sword Mantis Beast is the most comprehensive, and it can already be determined that the direction of the Sword Mantis Beast's strengthening is defense, and its own speed has also increased.
The defense of the Sword Mantis Beast itself is a short board, but the defense of the tank beetle is not bad, and no one knows which aspect of the tank beetle has evolved now. In the face of the highest-level green-level mutant star worm that appeared now, it had to be treated with caution.
The biggest shortcoming of the tank beetle was the hole in its defenses when it spread its elytra to project the self-exploding beetle. Humans usually kill tank beetles after the tank beetle's elytra are opened, and then they are killed by high-speed long-range fire. If the Blade Mantis Beast makes up for this shortcoming, the human race will be in big trouble.
An Ruoxuan and Chen Yi paid attention to the movements of the tank beetle all the time, trying to analyze its evolutionary direction from the tank beetle's every move.
After careful observation by the two of them, the tank beetle did not change significantly in size and appearance. An Ruoxuan estimated that the worst might have already happened, and that the mutation of the tank beetle could have occurred just under its elytra.
After the tank beetle had fully teleported, the stargate fell silent again. The teleported Sword Mantis Beast has been almost completely slaughtered, and there are no obvious active individuals. During the entire fight with the Sword Mantis, three members of the team were seriously injured and had been sent off the battlefield.
In the face of the possible giant defensive star insects, the base was already prepared for defense at the beginning of construction. - The height of the 20th floor is twenty meters, and there are three universal electromagnetic cannons above the dome, which are used to deal with large star insects such as tank beetles and wyvermon.
The outbreak of the Star Gate did not cause a comprehensive blocking interference of the signal, and An Ruoxuan could still remotely control the main brain of the base, "Xingtian", and manipulate the defense system in the base.
An Ruoxuan had already remotely connected to the three electromagnetic cannons above the dome, and no matter whether the tank beetle had been strengthened or not, she would attack it as soon as possible.
The size of the Tank Beetle means that it cannot climb over high obstacles, and in fact, in the Starbug swarm, the Tank Beetle is more of a long-range fire supporter. The corpses of the sword mantis beasts piled up high became An Ruoxuan's best cover.
For a star insect of this level as a tank beetle, the nano long knife does not hurt it much. The members of the two teams of Chenlong and Haizhu have retreated to the edge of the Tower of Babel, using the electromagnetic rifle on their backs to take the opportunity to harass the tank beetle, and they really don't expect the electromagnetic rifle to be of great use.
An Ruoxuan kept staring at the tank beetle, not letting go of his every move. Before the Tank Beetle performs a ranged attack, the end of its elytra glows violently red, indicating that the Tank Beetle is about to spread its elytra and attack.
A violent red light appeared in An Ruoxuan's eyes, and the intelligent biological computer in An Ruoxuan's body had linked the electromagnetic cannon's aiming system to An Ruoxuan's face armor, and An Ruoxuan could shoot visually at any time.
The elytra of the tank beetle opened after flashing red light, and An Ruoxuan, with the assistance of the base's multi-dimensional monitoring, instantly opened fire and attacked the inside of the elytra. The three cannons were fired at once, and three titanium-tungsten alloy projectiles the size of ordinary people's arms roared out at eight times the speed of sound, instantly bombarding under the elytra of the tank beetle.
"Bang, bang, bang," three muffled sounds came from the tank beetle to An Ruoxuan's ears. The smoke was filled, and although she didn't see the result, just by the sound, An Ruoxuan was sure that her attack had failed.
The smoke cleared, the tank beetle let out a low roar, and a self-exploding beetle bounced into the air and flew straight to an electromagnetic cannon in the dome. The three electromagnetic cannons were still under the auxiliary control of "Xingtian", and the self-detonating beetle was blown up by an electromagnetic cannon controlled by "Xingtian" before it could fly to the target.
"Failed", An Ruoxuan called up the real-time capture of the attack just now by "Xingtian", and with the support of complex detection methods, the detailed process of three electromagnetic shells bombarding the tank beetle appeared in front of An Ruoxuan's eyes.
Although the tank beetle belongs to the star beetle, since it is given this name, it must make sense. The physiological characteristics of the tank beetle are very similar to those of ordinary beetles, with a layer of soft transparent wings under the hard elytra.
Although the tank beetle cannot fly, the pair of wings have not yet degenerated and disappeared. Under the instantaneous dynamic capture, An Ruoxuan discovered the evolutionary mystery of the tank beetle, which was on that pair of wings.
The pair of transparent wings are also densely covered with mysterious patterns similar to those of the tank beetle exoskeleton. Before the electromagnetic cannonball could attack the tank beetle, the pair of transparent thin wings had already closed, inspiring a layer of energy similar to that outside the body surface, blocking the attack of the electromagnetic cannonball.
An Ruoxuan had already experienced the anti-heaven aspect of the energy layer when she fought against the mutant sword mantis beast before, if you didn't exhaust the energy to maintain the energy layer, you wouldn't be able to cause any effective damage to the star insects under the protection of the energy layer.
An Ruoxuan didn't know how fast the tank beetle could react, and if she could attack the tank beetle before the wings closed, she should have a chance of success.
No matter how slim the possibility of success is, An Ruoxuan decided to give it a try. If the tank beetle is allowed to wreak havoc again, no one can predict the consequences.