403 Behemoths
The length of the giant beast captured by the optical system is more than 100 kilometers, the width is about one-fifth of its length, the body is pitch black, the body is round, the limbs are thick, the thick tail accounts for about a quarter of the total length, the neck is not visible, only half of the head is shrunk in the position where it should be the neck.
At first glance, it looks like an elongated crocodile, but on closer inspection, it looks a bit like a strong version of a lizard.
It happened that a mechanical split smashed into the bone mound, and the giant beast that had just broken away from the bone mound bore the brunt, and without saying a word, its body suddenly jumped high, and its two front paws pounced on the asteroid, and then the whole body was tightly attached to the surface of the mechanical split, and the huge body was unexpectedly flexible, and the giant beast that jumped directly onto the asteroid carried a strong inertia, like a lion that jumped on the ball, and drove the asteroid to rotate upward.
The 180-degree rotation caused the behemoth to tumble from below the asteroid to the top, and then bounced off the asteroid and flew longitudinally into the void.
The falling asteroid crashed into the remains of the bone mound, and the bone mound, which had been split in half, made matters worse, and the hollow core of the bone mound left behind by the giant beast after jumping away was instantly filled with the asteroid.
Ye Fei, who witnessed all this, had straight eyes: "Could it be that the outer bone man kept this thing in the hollow in the middle of the bone mound?" ”
He carefully recalled the previous battles, from the Battle of the Bone Mound in the Neptune region of the outer solar system to the hat trick of Proxima Centauri, plus the one on the fifth planet that crashed into the planet out of control, the human race destroyed a total of five bone mounds of the outer bone man, but none of them had the current situation.
I don't dare to say anything else, the bone mound that was shattered by the Pioneer Four in the Battle of the Bone Mound in the Outer Neptune Region definitely did not emerge such a giant beast; The bone mound that the Yangtze River shattered in Proxima Centauri for a month also did not have any anomalies.
As the saying goes, hearing is false, seeing is believing, and these two battles are Ye Fei's personal experience. There is no such thing as a fake.
One of the expeditionary forces counts as one, and everyone who saw this scene was dumbfounded?
Starfleet is not as good as the expeditionary force, the helmsman of a battleship was stunned by the sudden appearance of the behemoth, and actually forgot to control the battleship, if it were not for the automatic evasion system installed on the battleship, it would have to crash through the belly of a friendly ship.
Not only were the humans in a mess, but the Juggernaut's handling was almost overloaded by this sudden accident, and she immediately stopped the impact, but the mechanical splits that had already flown out had no time to slow down, and crashed into the bone mound one after another. Smashed the other two bone mounds to pieces.
The other two giant beasts emerge from the bone mounds like chicks out of their shells. Everyone's hearts suddenly cooled in half, and Lu Jian almost gave the order to retreat directly-how strong does such a large cosmic creature have to be?
Large volume does not necessarily mean strong ability, but is it the same concept that it is only one circle larger than dozens of times larger?
The three behemoths are not quite the same. The color of the first one is similar to black. The second one is shown in dark blue on the optical system. The third has a dark brown spot on its back, which is not very noticeable.
However, the giant beast did not pounce on the mechanical civilization in front of him, nor did it fly to the expeditionary force and starfleet not far away, and the giant beast that jumped into the air on the mechanical split found two other companions. Like a pervert who has found a beautiful woman, his eyes lit up, and he swayed and flew towards another giant beast.
"It's not good, they have to converge—" Ye Fei subconsciously shouted, but soon he realized that something was wrong.
The black giant beast swooped down on the blue giant beast, and the blue giant beast flew up without showing weakness, and the two giant beasts that looked like the same kind actually tore together mercilessly, and the flying claws scratched the opponent's body, and the sharp claw tips not only failed to cut through the epidermis, but also burst out with dazzling sparks.
Ye Fei's eyes were raised by half a finger, and he almost didn't come out of his eye sockets: Is this still a living creature?
The two giants were inseparable from each other, but the brown spotted beast took the opportunity to pounce on the large group of biological warships, and its neck shrunk in its torso suddenly popped out, biting three small fish ships in one bite, and swallowing it in two bites.
The large school of small fish scattered in all directions, and the flexible neck of the giant beast stretched and contracted like a turtle, and each time it popped out, it could bite at least one small fish.
"What's going on?" Lu Jian was completely stunned, "Aren't the giant beasts and the outer bone people in the same group?" ”
Lu Jian didn't expect anyone to answer his question at all, but as soon as the words fell, the master replied: "You guessed right, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, it turned out that this group was imprisoned in the center of the bone mound, no wonder the strength was so strong!" The juggernaut sighed.
"What? Do you know this behemoth? Lu Jian asked in surprise.
He made a few gestures at Xu Dong, who immediately nodded knowingly and informed the ships of the expeditionary force to stay away from the battlefield quietly.
"I do know a little bit about it." The Juggernaut said, "In your human time, it was about 9,000 years ago, when the Outer Bone Man flew to the edge of the Immortal Arm, he encountered one of these giant beasts, but the giant beast was seriously injured and was not far from death. The Outer Bone Man wanted to eat the giant beast to replenish the consumption of the biological battleship, but the small fish couldn't gnaw the skin of the giant beast at all, and finally pried open his mouth and burrowed into the belly of the giant beast, before he gnawed off the flesh and blood of the giant beast. ”
The ranks of the mechanical civilization are also slowly concentrating and disengaging from the alien fleet.
"No, you said that the outer bone people met dead, how could these ones be alive?" Lu Jian asked strangely.
The Juggernaut said irresponsibly, "Maybe the Outer Bone Man found the egg in the belly of the giant beast, or cloned the giant beast." I really didn't expect that, I guess, this colony is to keep the giant beast in the core space of the bone mound, which is used to drive the bone mound to fly. Hehe, after having a giant beast, I don't know how many small fish ships don't have to work hard to push the bone mound, let alone dozens of wolves and bamboos, hundreds of them can also afford to raise. ”
Lu Jian felt that all this was just the Juggernaut's speculation, and what the truth was was another matter, but he was not stupid enough to question the Juggernaut.
Juggernaut continued, "It's a miracle that the Outer Bone Man has raised a giant beast so huge. ”
Lu Jian narrowed his eyes: "Are these ones particularly big?" ”
"Of course!" The Juggernaut opened the conversation, "In my database, this cosmic creature is already remarkable at twenty kilometers long. ”
Saying that, the master passed on a detailed information to Lu Jian.
Lu Jian looked at it curiously, and only then did he have a little understanding of the giant beast.
The original name of this behemoth cannot be translated into Earthling. The Juggernaut didn't bother to do that, and directly applied the name of the giant beast.
Although the number of giant beasts is scarce, they are not uncommon in the Immortal Arm, they are predators similar to the Outer Bone Man, but the Outer Bone Man acts collectively as a group, while the giant beast is a loner.
Whenever it encounters a living planet, the giant beast will descend into the planet to eat and eat it, and after storing enough energy, it will lay eggs and reproduce offspring, and then leave the planet without hesitation, leaving the offspring to hatch on their own.
Nature is fair. Behemoths are immensely large. However, their eggs are very small, their larvae are very fragile, and they will devour each other, and it is up to luck to grow up or not. If a planet can fly out of a cub, it's lucky.
If not. Where can other creatures live?
According to human habits. Behemoths have no females and do not reproduce bisexually. It's similar to some reptiles on Earth, when females can't find males. It can also hatch by laying eggs on its own.
Behemoths that have left their offspring behind will continue to wander across the distant interstellar space in search of their next target—in this sense, behemoths are less destructive than Exoskeletons, who will only stare at large targets, not eat them all the size of Exoskeletons, and want to digest all the microbes.
The flight across the stars will consume a lot of energy of the giant beast, and the energy reserve will consume the ontological organization after the energy reserve is exhausted, some giant beasts are unlucky, and they can't find food even in several galaxies, and the giant beasts of more than 20 kilometers will even be hungry to the point that they are only a few kilometers long, and there are not a few giant beasts on the way to starvation, such as the one encountered by the Outer Bone Man.
Except for Lu Jian, everyone's attention was focused on the fighting giant beast, the neck of the black giant beast that had been tucked in the torso suddenly popped out, and it bit the root of the blue giant beast's forelimbs, and the strong epidermis was suddenly penetrated by sharp teeth, but no blood flowed out, I don't know if the black giant beast drank it clean.
Not to be outdone, the blue giant beast opened its mouth to take the opponent's neck, and the black giant beast quickly loosened its mouth to protect itself...... The two giant beasts have hurt each other back and forth, and there seems to be a tendency for both to lose.
The brown spotted giant beast used this time to devour a large number of small fish ships, during which it also encountered a wolf flower, which was unwilling to be killed, spit out corrosive liquid, and then bitten the giant beast.
The giant beast didn't care about that little bit of corrosive liquid at all, and the wolf flower on its body couldn't bite through the epidermis, it bit off one-third of the wolf flower's hull in one bite, and swallowed the wolf flower in a few bites.
The wolf flower belly, the brown spotted giant beast seemed to be full, looked back at the "compatriots" who still had not won or lost, opened its mouth wide and seemed to roar, swing its body, and flew away from the battlefield without looking back.
"Hengshan, keep up!"
"What? Be! Yu Haiyi didn't react for a while, and paused before coming back to his senses.
The Hengshan immediately left the queue and hung behind the brown-spotted behemoth.
"Don't get too close to it, just keep an eye on where it goes." Lu Jian added in time.
"Understood!"
The Behemoth's habits are not much better than those of the Outer Skeleton Man, if it flies to Earth...... It must be eradicated before it endangers human safety!
As he spoke, the black and blue beasts also reached the critical moment of separating the winners and losers, the black beasts were larger, and in the end, they were strong enough not to lose, and finally overwhelmed the opponent to achieve victory, biting through the neck of the blue beast...... However, the neck is not the point of the behemoth, the blue behemoth is only seriously injured, far from the point of dying.
The black giant beast was waiting to take advantage of the victory to pursue, the two hind paws of the blue giant beast suddenly kicked on the black giant beast at the same time, the two giant beasts suddenly separated, and the defeated blue giant beast struggled to fly away, but the black giant beast did not give it this chance at all, and pounced on it and gnawed violently, the blue giant beast was unwilling to struggle, but in the end it was bitten through the belly and died.
The winning black beast was also scarred, and it didn't care about anything else, but stuck its head into the belly of the blue beast, opened its mouth and chewed violently.
The black giant beast did not eat all the prey, but left an unpalatable skin, eating such a large one of the same kind, the black giant beast was a whole circle, but it was not satisfied, kicked open the corpse of the blue giant beast, and turned around and flew towards the mechanical civilization that gathered not far away.
He didn't expect the beast to target the automaton, and the Juggernaut didn't direct the automaton to retreat too far.
A mechanical body can't dodge it. was bitten by a hungry giant beast, but this time the giant beast did not swallow it, but bit it twice and then spit to the side in disgust - the volume of the mechanical body is large and small, the mechanical body with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers is less than half of the entire mechanical civilization, and the other volumes are large and small, the smallest is only seven or eight kilometers in diameter, and the one bitten by the giant beast is small.
However, neither the giant beasts nor the human beings know the way, and the mechanical bodies that are actually large are all split parts, among which there are no intelligent mechanical bodies at all, only those that are smaller in size. Not so remarkable. It is in the machine that is not remembered by the enemy on the battlefield that the ontology of intelligent machinery is the essence of intelligent machinery.
Not only did the mechanical body suffer, but a U.S. warship that didn't have time to fly away was accidentally devoured by a giant beast.
Because the size was too small, the giant beast swallowed it in its stomach without even biting it, and it exploded on the equipment of the Americans. When he dies with the beast. The fading behemoth actually stretched its neck. He spit out the battleship that had been swallowed in his belly, and his thick tail swept into the middle of the American ship, and smashed the American battleship into pieces with a single blow.
Nearby mechs and U.S. warships exploded. Dozens of laser beams unceremoniously hit the giant beast at the same time, but the giant beast seemed to be unaware, not even a single mark on its body, and the birds were not birdish looking for the next prey—the brown spotted giant beast devoured a large number of small fish, scaring all the small fish ships into flying towards the last bone mound, which was still intact, and now there was no biological warship in the air.
Lu Jian was taken aback: "Master, this, this won't be, right?" Can't even shoot through the laser cannon? ”
The Juggernaut was silent for a moment: "The skin of the giant beast has the ability to decompose electromagnetic waves, which can decompose light waves into energy and absorb a part of them. Without this ability, it would be impossible for them to fly across the distant interstellar space just by eating with their mouths. ”
Breaking down electromagnetic waves?
Lu Jian was stunned for a moment, didn't that mean that it was impossible for lasers and microwaves to harm giant beasts?
Epidermis...... His gaze suddenly fell on the leftover skin of the black giant beast: "Quick, grab the skin of the blue giant beast for me!" "It is extremely strong, it is not afraid of corrosion, and it can also decompose electromagnetic waves to produce energy, if humans can imitate the skin of a giant beast......
Lu Jian's heart was on fire.
The expeditionary force, having received the order, immediately went out and pounced on the target at full speed.
Peter, who had been listening to the conversation between the two sides, suddenly realized that he immediately ordered the fleet to set off, but the speed of the Yankees' warships was not as fast as that of the expeditionary force, and it was impossible for the expeditionary force to arrive before the expeditionary force grabbed the skin of the giant beast.
The swift pounce of the expeditionary force immediately attracted the attention of the black behemoth.
There was enough food here, and it wanted to give up the unpalatable skin and eat some small fish ships for a change of taste, but Na Cheng wanted the small fish ships to hide all of them, so it had to choose to eat the skin, and took a few big bites, and the complete skin was suddenly left with a little bite, about four or five kilometers in size.
The expeditionary force swarmed up, and the giant beast that protected the food was immediately furious, and turned back to meet the expeditionary force.
Lu Jian was taken aback, even if the eighteen-kilometer-long capital ship was not qualified to clash head-on with the giant beast, how could he dare to let his battleship take risks?
He hastened to issue a new order, requiring the expeditionary force not to clash head-on with the behemoth.
The expeditionary force formations that had been gathered together dispersed at once.
The giant beast felt that the expeditionary force was scared away by itself, and the American starfleet on the other side rushed up again, so it stopped chasing the expeditionary force and turned around and flew towards the starfleet.
Although Peter's eyes were hot, he had not yet reached the point of disregarding the lives of his men, so he could only reluctantly order the fleet to retreat temporarily.
The two sides came and went into a stalemate, and Lu Jian gritted his teeth and ordered to restart the artillery fire.
He intuitively felt that the possibility of the missile being able to threaten the behemoth was very small, so he simply went straight to the heavy gun.
In an instant, the Yanjing shot out two solid cannonballs that were almost invisible to the naked eye, and it was completely unexpected, and the giant beast in this hand could not dodge, the huge head was smashed by the cannonball, the head of the giant beast was raised high as if it had been hit by a hard hammer, and the huge body even flipped over because of these two heavy blows, and when the giant beast stabilized again, a big bag as high as a horn had grown high on its forehead.
Even if he fought with the blue giant beast, he didn't suffer such a big loss, and the giant beast was immediately furious, snatched the only remaining skin from its claws, and flew towards the Yanjing violently.
Behemoths don't have much intelligence, but Dead Eyes are even more difficult to deal with.
Lu Jian hurriedly commanded the Yanjing to fly away, Peter's eyes lit up, and he thought that he could pick up a bargain, but Ye Fei had already made preparations, and when he saw the opportunity coming, he immediately drove the ship to pounce.
The two sides arrived almost at the same time, and several U.S. ships stretched out their slender mechanical arms, trying to grab the target, but Ye Fei took a step faster, and a traction beam suddenly shot out from under the battleship, directly sucking the skin of the giant beast.
The strong power pushed the Yangtze River away, and the robotic arms of several US ships failed at the same time.
The remnants were directly sucked on the surface of the battleship, and Ye Fei didn't even have time to put it into the ship, so he quickly drove the battleship away.
The U.S. ships were unwilling to give up hot pursuit, but unfortunately they pursued farther and farther.
On the other side, the Yanjing was chased by the giant beast, and Lu Jian never thought that the speed of the giant beast was not slower than that of the giant ship. Although several other giant ships constantly tried to cover the flagship, the giant beast recognized the Yanjing, and no matter how it harassed, it just ignored it.
If the Yanjing is bitten by a giant beast, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Ye Fei didn't have time to think about it, and commanded the Yangtze River to rush up directly, retracting the traction beam while firing the bow left and right, and the two heavy cannons smashed hundreds of shells on the giant beast at close range.
The giant beast, which had been hit by dozens of shells in a row, was furious, and finally left the Yanjing and viciously pounced on the Yangtze River.
"Don't come here, I'll get it away!" Ye Fei roared, and the Yangtze River flew at full speed and quickly flew away from the war zone.
The giant beast bit the Yangtze River and chased closer and closer to the battleship. (To be continued......)
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