Chapter 32 Tracking
While Ma Le was wrapped in the cocoon, Alicia and Zhao had already turned on the optical camouflage of the power armor and sneaked through the wormhole. As the most powerful insect warriors, they not only have superior combat effectiveness, but also are very good at stealth and camouflage, especially the life information shielding and optical camouflage specially equipped on the power armor, so that they can swagger under the noses of bugs.
Not only is the equipment and body element strengthened, as insect warriors, they also have some unique abilities of the zerg, such as senses, similar to the senses of insects, they can feel the special senses of creatures!
The two of them walked slowly through the tunnel, the power armor's visor opening the vents, and Alicia took a deep breath of air, the pheromones contained in the air irritating her sensitive nasal passages.
"Lots of small bugs, a dozen half-beasts, and ...... A human! Alicia analyzed, looking up at the pitch-black depths ahead: "We finally found it, that guy was really caught by the bugs, he just passed by here a few hours ago!" β
As she spoke, Alicia was about to move forward, when suddenly a transparent hand grabbed her shoulder, and Alicia looked back, and Zhao behind her put her finger in front of her mouth, shook her head, and motioned for her not to move.
Zhao's intuition! Alicia leaned her back against the wall, and the two of them fused completely with the stone wall under the optical camouflage, and a moment later, two half-beasts with two horns groped their way past them.
Seeing the half-beast insect walk away, the two breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhao reminded: "Every insect has a spiritual connection with the brain worm, even if it is killed unknowingly, it will attract the attention of the insect swarm, and it must not be discovered!" β
Alicia nodded, and the two sniffed the pheromones in the air, and continued to walk deeper along the path of the cockroach dragging the horse. Soon, they also smelled the foul smell, and the two of them went to the huge spherical wormhole full of slime, and saw the puddle of-yellow liquid below.
"What a disgusting taste...... Alicia made no secret of her disgust for this place, and Zhao frowned and said, "That gourmet's taste has been cut off here, has it been thrown underneath?" β
Alicia's eyes widened when she heard this, "No, in that case...... I'd rather give up, I don't want to go down there and catch him!" As she spoke, she looked down again and emphasized, "Absolutely not!" β
"Judging from the pheromones he left behind, he should still be alive!" Zhao analyzed: "There is no reason for the insects to deliberately capture him alive and dispose of him casually, so there must be a mystery under this foul-smelling liquid!" β
Alicia glanced at Zhao in disgust: "Do you want to go down and investigate?" β
Zhao shook his head: "Our optical camouflage can still be deceived in the air, once it is in the water, it will be seen that it is flawed, and it must not go on like this." With that, Zhao stuck to the wall and motioned for Alicia not to move.
After a while, a Zerg infantry crawled from the rear, probed his brain to the edge of the big hole, looked left and right, and looked a little confused.
Alicia sniffed, the pheromones emitted by the bug revealing a hint of confusion and anxiety.
Even if the brain worm can control the billions of Zerg on all planets, it is impossible to cover everything, just like humans playing real-time strategy games, even if it is from the perspective of God, the army can be mobilized with a mouse turn, and it is inevitable that after the war, one or two peasants will be found in the corner.
The Zerg infantry in front of him obviously belongs to the kind that has been missed, and the brain worm may have given them macro orders, such as patrolling a certain area, protecting a certain facility, etc., but the specific action depends on the instinct of the worm. And this guy should have gone to the wrong place by mistake, and the brain worm didn't care about it, so he was bothered here alone.
"Let's push it down and see what the reaction is?" Alicia asked Zhao in a low voice.
Zhao shook his head: "According to our experiments with bugs, being directly attacked is a strong stimulus for them, and it is likely to attract the attention of brain worms, so it is better to fake it as an accident ......"
As he spoke, Zhao quietly came behind the Zerg infantryman, untied a pen-like device from his thigh, stuck it on the ground behind the bug, and pressed it with his hand!
There was a silent vibration from the top of the device, and with a brush, the rock under the insect's feet suddenly shattered, and the insect stood unsteadily, and also rolled down with the rock, rolled a few times, and fell into the slime at the bottom.
The resonance crusher is a special equipment that only insect warriors are equipped with, a small one, which can crush huge rocks by the principle of resonance, and is usually used when breaking obstacles. Unexpectedly, this time, they used it to trap a lost bug. The bug fell into the mucus and struggled a few times at first. But soon, the tentacles in the water spotted it, wrapped it up, and brought it to the center of the liquid, and the huge chrysanthemum reappeared, swallowing the poor worm.
"That gourmand was treated like that?" Seeing this scene, Alicia couldn't help retching, and Zhao's expression was solemn, "What the hell is that monster?" It's definitely not just about swallowing! As he spoke, he turned on the fluoroscopy scan, and he could see the situation under the liquid clearly.
It turned out that the spherical wormhole had no bottom, and the place covered by liquid was all the fleshy body of the chrysanthemum insect, the insect was extremely large, the chrysanthemum and the tentacles were just the tip of the iceberg, and under the wormhole was a huge body, and most of the inside of the body seemed to be empty, and there were a large number of tentacles inside, among which there were also cocoons. And the worm that had just been swallowed, after entering the big belly, was quickly controlled by the tentacles, and in the blink of an eye, it became a new insect cocoon.
At that moment, the largest of the cocoons burst open, and out of it came a thick humanoid monster covered with carapace and thorns, and moved downwards under the pull of its tentacles.
"That's ...... Half-beasts? Alicia also turned on the perspective function and saw this scene.
"That's not right!" Zhao frowned and said, "That's different from all the half-beast insects we have come into contact with, according to the information brought back by those guys, the half-beast insects should hatch from the eggs." This guy should ......" as they spoke, and their fluoroscopy scan observed that the worm that had just been wrapped in the cocoon had melted, and then the cocoon had burst and a puddle of pus was leaking......
"I see!" Zhao suddenly realized: "Those cocoons are used to create new varieties of Zerg!" Particularly powerful beings will be thrown down and made into cocoons, which will be dissolved and recombined through a special liquid to become a more powerful new type of zerg. And the life that is not strong enough will not be able to resist this process at all, and will be completely wiped out! β
"You mean, that guy was also thrown in and is going to be transformed into a Zerg?" Alicia was surprised, her eyes staring at the cocoon below, "Which one is ...... Yes! As she spoke, Alicia pointed to the fact that beneath a cocoon lay some corroded and broken power armor parts that had been corroded by YanzhΓ²ng.
"Mass-produced mobile suits, the only one who can be regarded as an extremely strong life is that guy!" Alicia finds the cocoon where Marle is!
But at this moment, the cocoon had been broken, and Ma Le, who had been "transformed" inside, was dragged out by tentacles and moved downward. And in that direction, it should be the real "chrysanthemum" of this chrysanthemum worm, and there should be a lower layer of wormholes.
Turning off the fluoroscopy scan, Zhao whispered to Alicia, "What now?" That guy has been transformed into a bug, whether he still retains his humanity, whether he still recognizes us is hard to say, maybe the next time we meet, he will become an enemy. Are we going to save him? β
Alicia looked at the pool of turbid liquid below and frowned, "Since there is a way to turn him into a worm, then I believe that there must be a way to turn him back into a human!" β
Zhao looked at Alicia and suddenly asked, "Captain, with all due respect, are you paying too much attention to him?" That man is indeed very powerful, probably stronger than all of our Worm Warriors, but as far as I know, you haven't met a few times in total, and you haven't even spoken a word in a normal conversation, why is that man so special to you? β
Alicia looked at Zhao, looking at this left and right hand who had been following her for many years, and couldn't help but sigh: "If I tell you that that person is an important trigger for Arachchi's plan, do you believe it?" β
The corners of Zhao's eyes moved slightly, and before he could react, Alicia had already removed the mini nuclear bomb launcher from behind: "If you want to escape, go back the same way now, this is the last chance!" With that, the female captain set up the transmitter and fired a shot at the yellow pool below!
The nuclear bomb roared out, and it burrowed into the yellow liquid with a bang, and then there was a boom, high temperature, and a loud bang spread along with a powerful shock wave, and the miniature nuclear bomb was even more powerful in the confined space, and instantly blew the huge chrysanthemum monster under the water into pieces, and the entire underground space shook with the shock!
The chrysanthemum monster died, and the spherical wormhole revealed the space below, Alicia jumped down without hesitation, and Zhao, looking at the insects and half-beast insect monsters that were rushing quickly, shook his head and sighed: "This captain...... Let's hope our invisibility can fool the brainworm......" he said, jumping down as well.
The wormhole shook with the explosion, and at this time, the insect Ma Le had already broken away from the chrysanthemum monster, and was under the guidance of the insects, marching along the tunnel to the center of the wormhole, seeing the sand sprinkled by the shock at the top of the tunnel, Ma Le raised his head curiously, and the insects who were responsible for the guidance continued to move forward as if they didn't see it.