Chapter 27: Tentacle Worms
"Smack!" With a bang, I don't know what it was, slapped the trunk of the tree behind Li Mo.
If it weren't for Li Mo's quick hiding, then this thing would have been slapped on his face.
After dodging sideways, he simply jumped off the tree. However, in the line of sight, I saw a soft and greasy mass, about the size of a basin, with a whole body like white rotten meat, dragging many disgusting monsters with slender tentacles, wriggling in the trees.
And seeing the ugly appearance of the monster clearly, Li Mo can finally be sure that his guess is really true, and he has really encountered this kind of very troublesome and difficult thing.
In the last time and space, Li Moke had seen the power of this thing with his own eyes. When he followed a caravan and encountered this thing, he almost lost his life.
This monster, like the parasitic corpse worm, is also a homogeneous evolutionary worm, known as the tentacle tentacle worm.
However, the level of this tentacle worm is much higher than that of a first-order parasitic corpse worm. In the time and space before Li Mo's rebirth, he was assessed as a third-order evolutionary insect by humans.
However, due to the parasitic and highly reproducing characteristics of this worm, even if it is only a third-order worm, the threat level is more than that of many higher-order insects.
Due to the hierarchy of evolutionary insects, in their inherent social relations, they are extremely strict.
Therefore, low-level evolutionary insects rarely challenge high-level existences.
It is precisely because of this that since Li Mo approached this area, he has never encountered insect corpses.
It can be seen that this is the territory of tentacle worms, and if there is no special reason, insect corpses dare not enter.
According to the previous space-time. Human research. This hierarchical social structure of evolutionary insects should also be related to some of their underlying genes.
And the tentacle worm is the same as the corpse worm. Evolutionary insects, which are also parasites, naturally rely on parasitism. to sustain the continuation and reproduction of life.
But their parasites are not zombies, but living beings. Whether it is an ordinary person or an evolutionary, or a mutant beast, an evolutionary beast, it is their parasitic choice.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that they are even more terrifying than parasitic corpse worms.
Parasitic corpse worms, although they can secrete some kind of saliva, make zombies more agile and carapace their epidermis. Improves defense.
However, after completing the parasitism, the physique of the insect corpse is still maintained at the same height as that of ordinary humans.
This soft tentacle worm, on the other hand, can parasitize and control evolutionary or mutant forms. What's even more terrifying is that they can also maintain the life of the evolutionary and the mutant itself, whether it is the evolutionary pituitary gland or the mutant gene, they can continue to play their due role.
Looking at the tentacle worm that had just attacked Li Mo, its soft and collapsed body had broken away from the trunk.
It's just that this thing can actually levitate in the air. The way it drags its tentacles makes it look a bit like a jellyfish.
What's even more surprising is that the white body and tentacles of the tentacle worm have just detached from the trunk. It's starting to become transparent.
And when it completes this change, although it is not invisible, if you don't look carefully. It's really hard to spot.
The transparency of the body is also the basis for the tentacle worms to launch sneak attacks.
But though the bug is transparent. Under the cover of night, it is difficult to be detected. But for Li Mo, who has the ability to brainwave. Naturally, there is no threat.
And Li Mo also knew very well that before there was no parasitism, the tentacle worms were actually very fragile and vulnerable at all.
The key question is whether you can survive their deadly sneak attacks.
However, as the brainwaves turned on, the imaging images fed back to the brain surprised Li Mo. Around him, there were more than a dozen tentacle worms hovering.
He knew that these tentacle worms were just children. Then this should not be far from the nest of the bugs, and the mother must have begun to reproduce in large numbers.
It seemed that the tentacle worms didn't seem to be willing to let Li Mo go like this, and surrounded him within ten meters of him, ready to move, looking ready to attack.
It's just that due to the failure of the first sneak attack, the worms also seem to have some scruples about Li Mo and don't dare to act rashly.
But Li Mo wouldn't go down with them like this, and reached out and took out 92. The muzzle of the gun is hung with a silencer, so there is no need to worry about the sound of gunshots.
"Puff puff!" A series of shots.
When the tentacle worm was hit by a bullet, it immediately appeared. Their transparency seems to be based on not coming into contact with foreign objects.
It was precisely for this reason that the worm that sneaked up on Li Mo and missed his hand would appear after hitting the trunk of the tree.
At this time, along with being hit by a bullet, the vulnerability of the tentacle worm is also exposed.
The rate of fire of the bullet can completely penetrate their bodies, and at the same time, black body fluids with a fishy smell can be seen bursting out.
Then the tentacle worm that was shot would fall to the ground, as if dehydrated, that is, in a few seconds, it would condense into a flake like a dried corpse, and gradually stop convulsing.
Shot five tentacle worms one after another, and the rest seemed to have seen that Li Mo could see through their transparent bodies.
And the instinctive sense of crisis, even if they invariably drill into the depths of the dense forest.
Seeing that the tentacle worm was about to run, Li Mo did not rush to kill it, but quietly followed, he must find the nest of the tentacle worm and kill the mother!
The reason why he did this was not that Li Mo was great, but that the reproductive ability of the mother worm was too strong.
If left unchecked, the worm's territory will spread rapidly and rapidly at an unimaginable rate. Any living thing within its territory, whether human or animal, is bound to become a parasite.
And once the parasitic tentacle worm reaches a certain size, then the place where it passes will be reduced to barren land.
Even before he was reborn, Li Mo had heard that some gathering places were destroyed by tentacle worms. The whole gathering place was destroyed, and the terrible situation was simply indescribable.
However, although the tentacle worm is terrifying, the arrival of the end of the world still seems to maintain the balance between species.
Therefore, tentacle worms have an extremely Achilles' heel, that is, as long as the mother is killed, the offspring bred by this mother will die with the mother.
In the previous time and space, humans also used decapitation to eliminate worm colonies.
It's just that what is the reason for this symbiotic connection between the mother and the offspring of the worm has never been cracked.
But this doesn't matter at all to the human survivors, as long as it can effectively destroy the tentacle worms.
Therefore, Li Mo naturally would not let the tentacle worms here develop, and the sooner they were removed, the better. (To be continued......)