When the sun once again shone on the ruined city of Tiko, the plain at the foot of the Tenjin Terrace was shrouded in a thick green miasma. Tens of thousands of insect corpses are almost all over the ground in a radius of dozens of kilometers around Tico City, and of course, among the corpses of these ugly insects, there are also the remains of marines and the wreckage of mecha chariots and other fighting machines.

The Tenth Army Group, which had been fighting several life-and-death battles with the Alien Insect Army, was also exhausted. After a full night of rest, the soldiers of the 10th Army Group began to drag their tired shells, and under the supervision of the officers, they prioritized cleaning up the battlefield in the city of Tico. Armored transport vehicles were constantly transporting truckloads of colorful alien corpses outside the city, and medical transport planes were also frequently taking off and landing in various corners of the battlefield, transporting the remains and wounded of human soldiers. Overhead, the hull of the battleship, named Hope, was surrounded by blackened and broken marks, and some engineering planes were hovering around the battleship, busy repairing the damaged hull.

Tico City, which was "the aftermath of the catastrophe", once again ushered in a rare and short moment of peace.

"I said, uncle, does your thing really work?" In the Longtan base, in a secret room near the command center, Haoyi, Guo Ling, and Bob were staring intently at a light blue diamond-shaped crystal on the table. The diamond-shaped crystal, about a foot long and the thickness of a fist, seemed to have been enchanted, and it actually floated in the air about two or three inches from the tabletop, and its whole body shimmered with crystal clear blue streamers.

"Nonsense! Can the treasure of the Star Spirit Clan not be a good thing? Hearing Guo Ling's impatient complaints, Haoyi couldn't help but glare back at him, and shouted angrily: "I don't want to think about it, people's science and technology are tens of thousands of years ahead of our human beings, can the things hidden in the underground treasure house not be good treasures?" ”

"Underground treasure trove? Is that the underground terracotta warriors you are talking about? Guo Ling scratched her head and asked curiously.

"Shhhh Don't talk, you two bunnies, look, there's movement! Bob, who was sitting in a wheelchair on the side, suddenly noticed that the light blue diamond-shaped crystal had a faint change inside, and it seemed that a dazzling point of light was forming inside the crystal.

Hearing Bob's words, Haoyi and the others hurriedly turned around, and their eyes widened and they continued to stare at the diamond-shaped crystal.

"Poof!" The point of light that was inexplicably generated inside the crystal seemed to be suddenly magnified in just a moment. The next moment, a crisp and low whistle suddenly sounded in the ears of the three of Haoyi, and a dazzling light flashed in front of them. When their gaze refocused, the pale blue diamond-shaped crystal had changed its appearance.

The crystal, which was originally in the shape of a diamond, is now like a crystal "flower", blooming about a foot above the tabletop, and it is still slowly rotating. The bud of this crystal "flower" vaguely extended dense lines of energy, and the curved and circling energy lines slowly began to fade when they were about ten centimeters away from the crystal "flower", and finally turned into an energy barrier the size of a small lantern. Within this energy barrier, an extremely strange picture gradually became clear as time passed.

"I'm X! So magical! Whew! The stunned Guo Ling couldn't help but exclaim, and before the words fell, the back of the head hit Hao Yi with a shudder, and the pain was so painful that the thing grinned and looked back at Hao Yi with eyes full of grievances.

"Be quiet! I'm so scared of this baby, I don't have a place to get another one back! Haoyi glared at Guo Ling again, and tried his best to lower his voice, as if he was really afraid of alarming the crystal "flower" in front of him.

......At this moment, a light sound that seemed to come from the void suddenly sounded in the ears of the three of Haoyi, and the energy barrier shrouded in crystal flowers became brighter and brighter, and the image displayed inside finally became extremely clear.

The huge and dark "tunnel" with a diameter of nearly 100 meters seems to have no end in sight. It is said to be a tunnel, but in fact, this cave is more like the visceral intestines of some kind of giant creature, and the walls of the cave are covered with a layer of flesh and blood pimples of different sizes, uneven and uneven ground with twists and turns, which looks almost exactly the same as the fungus blanket that Haoyi saw in the alien insect nest.

"I mean, what the hell is this place? Why does it seem so unappetizing? This time it was the turn of old Bob to hold back his curiosity, and asked in a low voice with a wink of old eyes.

"If I'm not mistaken, Tinker Bell should still be in the tunnel of the pit worm! Uncle, the insect path of this pit worm is so long! Hao Yi frowned slightly, groaned slightly, and explained to the two in a low voice.

"The worm path of the pit worm? I'm making up, isn't it like a human intestine? Guo Ling on the side couldn't help but ask, and without waiting for Haoyi to answer, he said to himself: "Damn, no wonder it looks so disgusting!" Uncle, did you say that those dog-day beasts crawled out of the big intestines of the tunnel worms and fought with us? ”

"Or what do you think? The Tunnel Worm is an extremely important troop delivery channel for the Alien Worm Troops, which can put the Alien Ground Force on any battlefield covered with a fungus blanket in a very short period of time! Hao Yi explained to the two of them with a straight face: "This is also one of the most powerful killer features of the Alien Insect Army. Once our troops appear on any battlefield covered in a blanket of fungus, the Aliens can appear in any position they want and launch a surprise attack on our troops! ”

"No wonder, I said how these brutes could send so many troops in such a short period of time to form a second large-scale attack on Tico City! It turns out that they still have this magic weapon! Guo Ling suddenly said in a trance.

Before the insects launched the second round of attacks on Tico City, Guo Ling had also sent a large number of reconnaissance troops to constantly search the ground within a radius of hundreds of kilometers with Tico City as the center. However, it wasn't until the Insect Force suddenly appeared less than a hundred kilometers away from Tico City, and the well-trained reconnaissance team didn't even notice the slightest trace of the Insect Army. Now that he heard Hao Yi's explanation of the pit worms, Guo Ling understood a little that the Weishenme Alien Insect army could suddenly appear unconsciously and immediately launch a large-scale attack on Tico City.

"So you say your Tinker Bell is flying in the belly of the worm right now? Wouldn't this high-tech gadget of the Star Spirit Clan be discovered by this pit worm? Bob frowned and asked a very important question.

"Theoretically, probably not!" Hao Yi shook his head and said: "As far as I know, uh no, it should be analyzed according to all the information about the star spirit and the alien insect stored in my head, unless there is the kind of eyeworm that evolved from the king worm in the alien insect army and has the ability to detect invisible units, otherwise, the ordinary combat unit of the alien insect and even the queen of the insect will not be able to find Tinker Bell in the invisible state!" ”

"I'm X, uncle, do you think our human troops have the ability to spot these elusive star spirit reconnaissance planes?" Hearing Hao Yi's explanation, Guo Ling's heart jumped for no reason, and suddenly thought that if one day, when the human troops encountered the mysterious Star Spirit Clan army, then how should the human troops find these terrifying machines like ghosts.

"There will definitely be a way! I believe that as long as our human researchers master the invisibility principle of these astral mysterious machines, with our human wisdom, we will definitely be able to find a way to detect the stealth state of Tinker Bell! Haoyi also seemed to guess what Guo Ling was worried about, and frowned and comforted.

"Look, it seems like the worm path is coming to an end!" As he spoke, the image in the crystal energy barrier changed again, and a white light faintly appeared at the end of the insect path that was originally out of sight. Gradually, the white light slowly grew larger, and suddenly turned into an equally huge exit. At the edge of the exit, rows of towering tunnel insect fangs with a cold glow can be faintly seen.

"Ding ......" at this moment, another crisp sound came, it seemed that the small tinker in Hao Yi's mouth suddenly accelerated, and the picture in the energy barrier suddenly changed rapidly.

This huge valley is very similar to the deep mountain valley familiar to humans, except that the terrain is almost similar, but the appearance is completely different. The deep mountain valleys of human beings are usually green forests, babbling streams, or rocky mountains and steep cliffs, or sandy soil and ravines.

But right now, this huge valley has a feeling of being in an alien shijie. Between the ups and downs of the mountains, there is a dazzling purple-brown as far as the eye can see, and the ground that should be rocky and muddy is covered with a thick layer of viscous material like animal viscera, which is the fungus blanket that Haoyi once saw in the insect nest.

On the slightly flat ground of the valley stood ugly and strange buildings like human pyramids, which were the nests of insects that could constantly produce and feed larvae, and some strange buildings covered with thick purple flesh walls of various colors were scattered around the nests. On the ground fungus carpet between these hives and strange buildings, blood-red thick "veins" can be vaguely seen protruding like blood vessels, and it seems that it is these "veins" that maintain the connection between the hives and the community of outbuildings.

"Snort......" The roars of the insects faintly came out of the images inside the energy barrier, and the three of Haoyi could clearly see that between those insect hives and the strange buildings they belonged to, there were swarms of various alien insects scattered. There are jumping insects, cockroaches and stinging snakes, as well as some strange insects that have not yet appeared on the battlefield and Guo Ling and others have not yet seen.

Similarly, above the giant valley, countless dragons are hovering and flying high. Sometimes they fly out of the valley in droves, into the sky, and sometimes suddenly land next to some giant mushroom-like buildings that towered on a mushroom carpet, or scream or bow their heads and hurry to eat something. Giant insects as large and bloated as space battleships were resting leisurely above the valley, the same king worms that the swarm had used as high-level scouts to provide the swarm with a blanket and provisions. It's just that there doesn't seem to be a single genetically mutated euglena among these king insects.

The entire huge valley reverberated with the roar of the insect swarm, like a paradise for the insects, Huo Ran was an independent kingdom of the insect swarm.

"Uncle, there are so many insect nests, no wonder the insect swarm can gather tens of millions of troops in a short period of time!" After roughly counting the number of insect nests in the entire valley, Haoyi couldn't help but gasp and exclaimed.