Chapter 51: Infiltration
"Puff puff. "Several behemoths like a clump of intestines emerged from the fungus blanket, wriggling in the air, secreting mucus that slipped off the surface of the nest and piled up on the fungus blanket, and the bugs walked through the thick mucus, and the legs that stepped on the mucus pulled up the cloudy filaments, making a disgusting sound.
The end of the nest suddenly opened, like an intestinal tract open, and a dozen transparent worms the thickness of an arm, wrapped in thick mucus, rolled out of the building. As soon as they hit the ground, the worms stretched out and began to burrow in and out of the blanket, occasionally coming together and licking each other's fluids.
Soon, several bumps appeared under the fungus blanket, from far and near, and quickly rushed towards the worm, and as soon as they reached the worm, several strange insects came out of the fungus blanket. These flattened bugs have soft bodies, slightly smaller than the upper body of adults, oval in shape, dozens of feet on the edges, and two flexible tentacles on their heads. When they turn over and reveal the underside of their bodies, you can see that their lower parts are covered with dense holes, one after the other, denser than a beehive, just looking at them from a distance is enough to make many people shiver.
The tentacles rolled up the worms and put them behind their backs, and these strange bugs were like industrious transporters, carrying the newborn worms back into the fungus blanket, and bulging away in different directions, not knowing where to send the worms.
"Goo-goo-goo", a few other sarcoma-like buildings, with a pool of red slime in the center, a dark red slime like blood obstructing the view, and it is impossible to see how deep it is. Several strings of bubbles emerged from the bottom and burst on the surface of the slime pool, the dark green gas spreading out in all directions, and the air was filled with a strange fishy odor.
With the appearance of the bubbles, the liquid level churned, and soon, more than a dozen of the most common bugs in the projection world were covered with slime, crawled up from the bottom of the pool, shook off the mucus on the surface of the body, and made the exoskeleton dry, and the group of bugs turned around the birthplace blankly for a few seconds, as if they got a signal, and ran in the same direction.
As soon as the bugs left, a number of flat porters gathered, each carrying a worm on their backs. The worm was thrown into the pool of slime by its tentacles, and quickly sank to the bottom of the pool, and the liquid level returned to calm.
Wriggling, wriggling, several snake-like tails crossed the fungus blanket, leaving a wet trail on the fungus blanket, several lower bodies are snake tails, the sturdy upper body is erect, the upper limbs are specialized into sickle-like limbs of insects, like patrolling between the nests, these strange snakes with an upright height of nearly three meters are a little sluggish, and when they walk, there are constantly green liquid dripping from their breath, the liquid has a pungent sour smell, dripping on the fungus blanket, corroding deep depressions.
"Smack", a nest split in half, the nest was scattered with fragments of large cocoons, three strange snake-like insects clumsily swam out of the nest, looked around, and quickly merged into their own team, behind them, the nest closed again, and a few porters carrying worms got in, believing that soon after, the next group of strange snakes would appear.
"Tsk, it's not your average disgusting place. "Obviously, there are only insects around, and there are no other creatures, but in the empty space of the fungus blanket, there is a sound of talking, the voice is very low, and it seems to have been deliberately blocked, it sounds muffled, but it can be distinguished, it is Shuer's voice," It seems that Miridy's guess is correct, all insects are really alienated from the same kind of larvae. It's unbelievable that larvae of the same size can be alienated into all kinds of adults that are several times or even more than ten times different in size, and have completely different appearances, I really don't know how they do it. ”
"The nest is like, it is also hatched by the larvae. Lin Jing's accent was quite special, and it was easy to distinguish, "You also saw it just now." ”
"Well, of course it's impossible to ignore. Shul felt that he would keep his memories for a long time, because they were very memorable.
Seeing a small worm buried in the empty fungus blanket, a flat meat cocoon appeared on the ground in a few seconds, and the surface of the meat cocoon jumped, expanding in a circle with each beat, and within a few minutes, the body size rose to two or three meters high, and the width increased proportionally. However, the expansion ends here, the meat cocoon has entered a relatively stable stage, only the surface is beating, no other changes can be seen, I don't know how long it will take for the nest to break out of the cocoon. It seems that it will take some time for the bugs to expand their nests, and they will have to wait for the baby worms to be born, which is the only good news for today.
Yes, Shure and Moria have seen too much bad news today.
Early in the morning, Shul scavenged a dozen stealth scrolls from Mia—which was already all the stock of the mountain elves—and ran out of the base with Moria, even though Saf looked at him a little sadly, as if complaining about why he had left himself alone with so many terrible outsiders. There's no way, the female swordsman's eyesight is too poor, even with eyes, things a little farther away, the vision is vague, today's task is to sneak in, take her, in case you accidentally step on a few bugs, it will be troublesome.
Out of the base, the first target for the two of them was Point Three, which was the blank area that could not be shown on the map.
As soon as they stepped on the fungus blanket, the two used stealth to hide their traces, and Shuer was also worried about whether stepping on the fungus blanket would lead to being discovered by the insect swarm, but Miriday's explanation made sense, although the fungus blanket is an energy channel, it is also a source of food for some non-combat division of labor insects, of course, there can be no sense of touch, otherwise the supporters of the growing fungus blanket would have gone crazy a long time ago. Tentatively stepped on the fungus blanket in a stealth state, and sure enough, it did not alarm the insect swarm, and even passed by several groups of insects, they did not react.
In that case, it was time to carry out his plan, and Shure had already made up his mind, and both Point Two and Point Three would go to the field for a field visit, and then decide where to let Wei scan. The plan is quite good, first inspect the third point, but I didn't expect that the more they walked forward, the more frightened the two became.
At first, it was quite normal, with large patches of fungus spread across the plains, and every few hundred meters, a nest building that Wei called a supporter stood on the surface, connecting all the fungus blankets. According to the joint analysis of Miridi and Moria, although this kind of fungus blanket can transmit energy through the air in an unknown way, it should have a certain loss, and it is better to connect it together, but expanding the fungus blanket and maintaining the existence of supporters will obviously also consume the energy of individuals in this group, and the trade-off between the two depends on the situation.
Stepping on the fungus blanket, it is very elastic like stepping on the colloidal body of the amber tree, I really admire how those insects can drill in it, I walked more than ten kilometers, except for the supporters, I didn't see any other nests of the insect swarm, even the insects are not very many, they must have been mobilized to the front line, it seems that in order to besiege the nest of the burrowing spider, the insect swarm has been at any cost.
Running wildly all the way, of course, the two did not expect the whole journey to be so smooth, but after running for more than two hours and more than ten kilometers away from the destination, the two stopped.
I had to stop, because the number of nest buildings in front of me began to increase significantly, and the number of insects also increased geometrically.
The nest is no longer only supporters, it has become diverse, just the two of them have seen more than ten, the functions are not listening, but the same texture, the same disgusting.
The nests were scattered according to some pattern of unknown significance, thousands of bugs were busy between the buildings, large swarms of troops were gathered and rushed to the front in droves, and the troops were mixed with porters carrying worms, and it was clear that the brains of the swarm felt that they were not yet safe, and were ready to build on the front line.
In this environment, of course, the two of them can no longer run as hard as before, not to mention how much is in the way of those nests that will block the way at any time, just the insects crawling all over the ground are already a headache, even if they walk carefully, they will be startled by the insects that suddenly come out from time to time, and if they really run, they will already bump into the enemy and be lifted from stealth, and fall into the encirclement of the insect swarm.
In desperation, the two of them only held hands, hiding among the worms' nests like thieves, and they didn't even dare to speak loudly.
"Oh, why are you holding hands, you really have intentions for my lush green foliage. Even if she goes deep into the enemy camp, Moria doesn't want to be honest, "I'll tell you, I'm the most popular one in the Maika Forest. At that time, we often played games when we had nothing to do, everyone lined up in a row, each bearing fruit, and let those squirrels and chipmunks choose their own targets to climb up and pick fruits, and every time I won, haha, know my charm. ”
"That's just because you're an acorn, and all you look for is acorns. Even if he knew that the other party couldn't see it, Xiu'er had to roll his eyes vigorously, "And you're worried that we'll be separated, and no one can see anyone, and if you get separated, it will be troublesome, if you don't want to, I'll find a reins to lead you." ”
"Eh, is the intention exposed, you really want to tie me up, right, let me tell you, I'm not such a casual deer, even if you tie my body, hey, what is that?"
In the distance, several things that had been seen in stereoscopic images, like Pavatiga's empty jellyfish, floated slowly in the sky. The height of the float is not high, the long tentacles hang down to the ground, and from time to time there are transporters in charge of carrying small worms on their backs, crawling into its huge body along the tentacles, and when they come out, the small worms have already remained in its body.
"Back off. Shuer's face changed suddenly, and he pulled Moriath back a few steps, quickly looked around, and found that no insects showed anything unusual, so he squinted his eyes and looked at the sky jellyfish in the distance vigilantly, "Don't go near it." ”