Chapter 33: Brain Worm!
Ma Le continued to move forward with the insects, turned a corner, and suddenly it was dark in front of him, and there was no road under his feet.
In front of him is a pitch-black stone wall, and at the foot of the foot, there is a bottomless pit with a diameter of several meters, and several guides have climbed into the bottomless pit, and Ma Le is not ambiguous, and jumps directly.
The bottom is not as deep as expected, about forty or fifty meters, Ma Le landed, this is an extremely empty "hall", three or four hundred meters square, full of wormholes in all directions, near the top, the wormholes are usually relatively narrow, and the bottom is generally larger.
The guide insects were nowhere to be found, and Ma Le was looking around, when suddenly, there was a crawling sound from all directions, and the narrow wormholes at the top lit up with points of light, and countless buttocks flashed with soft light, like fireflies, the zerg crawled out and crawled along the smooth rock wall to the top, lighting up the entire hall.
Immediately after, from the large wormhole at the bottom, half-beast insects also crawled out. They are majestic, with sharp spines, and are considered a formidable breed among half-beasts. After crawling out, these monsters did not approach Ma Le, but lined up several times around the outer three floors of the hall, standing in a regular manner.
Ma Le was puzzled, and suddenly, a unique aura came from directly in front of him, which was both strange and familiar to Ma Le. The strangeness was that he had never felt such a fierce and powerful insect aura; And the familiarity lies in the fact that he has communicated with the owner of this breath!
That's not wrong, this is definitely that unique brain worm, Ma Le pretended to be transformed, went all the way into the hive, and finally saw the true face of this big boss Lushan!
Just as Ma Le was waiting for the brain worm to appear, and Alicia and Zhao were making a riot and rushing towards the core, the adventurers were not idle on the other side of space.
After obtaining a legal and trustworthy identity, the military's trust in them has indeed increased greatly, and the fifth step of the main quest has been completed, and all adventurers, including Ma Le, have already received the prompt of the sixth step of the quest:
"The sixth (final step) of the main quest: Follow the human reinforcements to attack the planet Klendasu, and defeat the Zerg without destroying the overall ecological environment of the planet.
Completion rewards: 10,000 credits, 30 attribute points, 100 skill points.
Special Goal: Kill the Brain Worm, reward 20 points for free distribution of real attributes. ā
Earth's reinforcements will arrive the next day, and receiving this mission means that adventurers have a day or so to rest. This time can't be wasted, and within a few hours of pretending to be sick, the adventurers took the initiative to ask to return to work and stick to the front line of defense against the Zerg.
In this way, the adventurer and his party put on power armor and began to patrol on the Krowe. And they also followed the direction given to them by Ma Le before, and found the secret real room where No. 7 was once held, trying to find some hidden missions and clues to break the enemy.
At least for now, in a ground war, the difference between the combat power of humans and the Zerg is 108,000 miles, even if there are 10,000 insectized warriors and a million machine soldiers, don't forget that there are tens of thousands of half-beast insects of the Zerg, not to mention, those more than 100,000 corpses left on the planet may become nourishment for a new batch of half-beast insects. When humans land again, they may be faced with several times the number of half-beast insects before!
So, they need to get more information about the half-beasts.
The real yĆ n room has been abandoned for many years, and the last time Ma Le came in, he also rummaged through it, and in the end, the adventurers did not find anything more useful.
They also found Donald's body, with his head exposed, and one of his hands had been chopped off by Ma Le along with his armor. James tried to flip it, trying to find some clues, and as soon as he started it, he couldn't help but let out a "huh".
"This corpse is so light!"
"Nonsense, isn't it light if it's all dried corpses?" Tang Ji pursed his lips.
"It's different!" James shook his head: "Although he is a little dehydrated, in this low temperature environment, the corpse still maintains a considerable weight, he is still wearing scientific research type power armor, the weight is not heavy, I can clearly feel that he is lighter than ordinary corpses!" ā
"So accurate?" Don Ji didn't believe it, the Persian cat leaned over and looked at the corpse's expression, Donald's shriveled face was sternly distorted, his mouth was wide open, and the corners of his mouth were cracked, looking very painful.
"Something is wrong!" The Persian cat frowned: "There is indeed something wrong with this corpse, take off his power armor!" ā
The power armor used for scientific research is more focused on auxiliary research and analysis, and it is not very heavy, and a reckless man like Tang Ji directly stretched out his hand and dismantled this armor with a creak.
At the sight of Donald's body, everyone had a look of surprise on their faces. Although his limbs were a little shriveled, the outlines of his bones and muscles could still be seen, but he was a little thinner than a living person. But looking at his torso, it was very obvious that he was holding back. Not only the stomach, but also the chest that should be supported by ribs is also suffocated as if there is only a piece of skin left, and it is obvious that the contents of the torso have been completely hollowed out, and there are no bones left!
But from the outside, there are no obvious scars on his body, where did his internal organs and musculoskeletal come from?
This scene can't help but remind adventurers of the embryo of a half-beast insect, and only this thing can do it, eat humans from the inside, and then drill out of the mouth! Could it be that Donald was parasitized by the larvae of the half-beast insect during his lifetime? Or did he become bait for the half-beast after his death?
Impossible, when he died, there should not have been a half-beast insect species, and if I want to say that the creature that matches it, I'm afraid the only thing is the missing No. 7...... Isn't that right?
Adventurers thought of a terrifying possibility!
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At this time, in the underground wormhole of the planet Klendasu, Ma Le finally saw the true face of the brain worm!
This brain worm is seven or eight points similar to the image in the movie, with a huge milky white fat body, an ugly face full of eyes, a disgusting mouthparts full of wrinkles, and a body that is so weak that it can't move without the assistance of cockroaches, and the whole thing looks like a fattened version of a huge meat (harmony) bug.
But compared to the shape in the movie, this brain worm is obviously uglier, as the name suggests, this realistic version of the brain worm, the fat body, is really covered with lines like human brains, which makes people feel uncomfortable from instinct.
However, the shock caused by this strange insect to Ma Le is far from being as simple as visual impact. It stands to reason that except for the slender and fragile mouthparts, the brain worm should have no means of attack, and its combat effectiveness is infinitely close to zero. But for some reason, the moment he saw this monster, Ma Le actually had a faint sense of danger, as if there was a strong warrior standing in front of him.
The brain worm came to Ma Le, exuding a happy mental fluctuation. At this time, Ma Le, because of the "transformation" of those miniature zergs, was covered with a layer of chitin carapace, and the joints showed typical characteristics of arthropods, with sharp claws, two antennae on his head, and huge and exaggerated mouthparts on his face, which looked like a humanoid Zerg!
Thinking of Ma Le's powerful combat power, the brain worm was extremely looking forward to Ma Le's strength now, and it couldn't wait to send a spiritual command to Ma Le: "Quick, let me see your skills!" ā
This command is transmitted directly to the antennae on Ma Le's head, and Ma Le (Harmony) interprets this command perfectly through the local perceptual domain.
"As you wish!" Ma Le sneered in his heart, raised his hands, the thunder energy condensed, and it also contained terrifying plasma, and in the blink of an eye, two magic hammers with substance were formed, and then without saying a word, he beckoned to the brain worm in front of him!
Without warning, neither the brain worm itself nor the many onlookers had time to react, and two thunder war hammers with high temperature and thunder effects smashed on the brain worm's body!
Ma Le, who is familiar with plasma energy, has been able to skillfully use this energy into real skills, greatly increasing the power of the Thunder Hammer! This is the benefit of real skills, although they can't be washed away, but they will evolve as the adventurer's own abilities are strengthened!
The heat, paralysis, and bursting energy made the brain worm tremble and let out a painful roar! The mental power that manipulated the entire insect swarm was also disordered, and the thousands of half-beast insects that had been tortured by the unstable spiritual impact trembled all over, and the slightly weaker ones even exploded their heads on the spot and died!
The elite is still like this, not to mention the other bugs in the wormhole, the entire wormhole, and even the entire Klendasu bugs are in a big mess, and without a unified will, these low-IQ creatures can only act according to their instincts, killing each other, scurrying around, and making a lot of trouble.
And this chaos also created an opportunity for Alicia who infiltrated the wormhole, and she and Zhao went all the way down with optical camouflage, and soon followed the traces to find the wormhole hall where Ma Le was.
As soon as they jumped down, the two of them saw the brainworms that were already smoking, limp on the ground, and thousands of half-beasts around them, either paralyzed or dead. But what Alicia cared more about was Ma Le, who stood opposite the brain worm and looked like a humanoid zerg!
Although I haven't seen a brain worm, anyone can see the importance of the big meat (harmony) bug, and it is obviously under attack here, but there are no other humans except Ma Le, it can only be his hand! So although this person has become a worm, he must still retain his humanity, and he can still be saved.
"Gourmet?" Alicia shouted out Ma Le's code name, and Ma Le turned his head as he manipulated the insect body, saw the two insect warriors, and then suddenly, opened his sharp claws and pounced on them!