Chapter 33: Fierce Battle in the Cave 2
"Ding!"
The metal of the bolt collided with the hard claw, striking, sending out shining sparks that illuminated the eyes of Ron and the armored giant worm.
However, the fire flashed away!
"Squeak!"
I'm flashing!
Compared to the recoil of a musket projectile, the recoil of a crossbow is almost negligible, but this force is enough for Ron's little moonlight mouse body!
Sideways, rolling, bouncing!
The soft body was like a spring bouncing on the ground under the action of the twisted and flexible spine, and Ron changed direction in an instant, brushing against the claws of the sixth armored giant worm, but unscathed!
"Click!"
The claw crashed behind him, and Ron breathed a sigh of relief, but his feet didn't stop.
Because behind Ron, the torrent of beetles was still chasing, although these round white beetles were only the size of a human thumb, but Ron didn't know if they would have strange substances on their bodies, such as venom, poisonous needles, parasites, etc., so he didn't dare to let them get close.
However, it is not an option to keep them chasing after them, after all, compared to the hydraulic drive of insects, the muscular drive of mammals is flexible, but durability is a prominent problem.
"Squeak!"
Since these beetles don't give up automatically, make it impossible for them to catch up!
Turning his head briskly, Ron glanced at the inside of the cave, whether it was the five armored giant insects in front of the insect castle or the sixth armored giant insect blocked in front of the tunnel, there was no intention of acting, so Ron's eyes flashed a cold light, and then he picked up his crossbow while running!
"Take!"
The crossbow bolt with the auto-return ability had already returned to the crossbow box of the small hand crossbow, and in an effort to maintain its balance in motion, a crossbow arrow shot out of Ron's claws at high speed, pinning the most advanced white beetle to the ground!
"Squeak!"
YES!
Compared to Ron's shooting of wooden stakes and even cockroaches at the beginning, shooting white beetles that are also in high-speed motion at this moment is definitely several orders of magnitude more difficult.
But human potential is unlimited, even if Ron is just a small moonlight rat at the moment, under the pressure of life and death, he is also stimulated with absolute potential.
"Take!"
"Take!"
"Take!"
“......”
Every three to five seconds, the Small-Hand Crossbow fires a deadly spike backwards.
Unlike ordinary moonlight rats, Ron's physical strength has always been maintained in a full moon state, so his physical strength is abnormal, and his strength is also endless, and as the crossbow arrows continue to be fired, Ron's accuracy is also constantly improving.
The white beetle's round carapace has a certain unloading effect, except for the arrow that nailed the white beetle to the ground at the beginning, the next few arrows Ron can only shoot the white beetle, or even shoot it in the air.
But as time went on, by the last few arrows, Ron was even able to shoot through one beetle and then be able to penetrate the crossbow arrow into the body of another beetle, forming a pattern of two beetles with one arrow!
Moreover, at the same time that the first white beetle was shot, another weakness of the beetle torrent was also revealed in front of Ron, and that was cannibalism!
"Click, click!"
Like the sound of the armored beetle hitting its jaws, once the white beetle is injured and flows out of transparent body fluids, it will be immediately overwhelmed by dozens of its own kind, followed by a series of continuous chewing sounds, and when the gathered beetles disperse again, a few pieces of fine white shells are the last proof that the injured beetle once existed.
............
"Squeak!"
Come on, hey, come on!
Ron's eyes flickered, and Ron's hair was a little wet, soaked with sweat from running for a long time. He was a little tired, his limbs were sore, and anyone who ran at high speed for nearly half an hour would be like Ron.
However, the results are also very encouraging!
The number of beetles following closely behind him had been reduced by more than half compared to before, and there were only a few hundred left. The floor of the cave was littered with small pieces of white carapace, the last remnants of beetles that had been eaten by their own kind.
"Take!"
"Click, click, click!"
When Ron shot a crossbow bolt again and skewered the two beetles that were chasing after him into beetle skewers, a series of chelicerae crashes sounded, and then the armored giant insects that were originally standing in the open space between the worm castle and the fungus field moved!
They had to act, because there were not many white beetles left to care for by their side, and if they were left to shoot Ron, they would be left without insect care.
And judging from the chelicera, armor and body size of the armored giant beetle, they are equivalent to the combat units in the social insects, and they have no ability to forage for food on their own at all, and once they lose the care of the white beetle, they will also face the fate of starvation!
"Click!
Despite their armor, the giant insects are not slow to move, at least as fast as the white beetles. The five armored giant insect soldiers in front of the insect castle were divided into two ways, and the three giant insects moved their arthropods to chase Ron along the way, while constantly hitting the chelicera.
The other two came to the sixth armored giant beetle and helped it guard the entrance to the tunnel and prevent Ron from escaping.
"Ding!"
"Squeak!"
Damn it!
What a hard carapace!
Ron can still maintain the speed of exceeding the armor giant insect for a while, but compared to the white beetle, the armor giant beetle's carapace is too much harder, just like the collision between the crossbow arrow and the chelicerae just now will produce sparks, the crossbow arrow that Ron shoots at this moment and the heavy carapace of the armor giant insect will also only make a crisp impact sound, and it will not break the defense at all!
And unlike the white beetle, the intelligence of the armored giant beetle is obviously much higher, they even know how to cooperate, two giant insects to help guard the entrance of the tunnel, and the other three giant insects saw that Ron's crossbow arrows could not break the defense, and immediately divided into three ways, ready to besiege Ron and kill him in one fell swoop!
"Squeak!"
I didn't expect bugs to have such intelligence!
But I'm not going to let you get your wish!
Whether it was Ron or the giant worm, their intelligence and combat power far surpassed that of ordinary moonlight rats and beetles, and looking at their movements, Ron immediately discovered their plan, so his fiery red eyes turned.
"Squeak!"
Maybe it could be done!
Thinking about it while running, an idea popped into Ron's head, and in just a moment, Ron knew that the idea could be tried.
So he retracted the action he had prepared to offset to avoid the attack of the three armored giant insects, and instead moved in the direction of the giant insects.
And seeing Ron fall into the encirclement, the three armored giant insects immediately opened their claws excitedly, like three scissors viciously cutting towards Ron in the middle!