Chapter 17: Snipers

Days and nights had passed since Lynn studied the silver beetle......

In the Dark Plains, a large cavern up to three meters in diameter sits by the river on the border, and several large desert scorpions are lying next to the cave, seemingly asleep while feeling the warm sunlight shining through the twisted trees.

These desert scorpions that Lin picked up before, they have grown to more than two meters long, and although they are no longer clinging to the Leviathan, they will still help Lin guard the nest.

The green carpet radiates around the entrance of the cave, and the green structure covers an area with a radius of almost fifty meters, and every five to ten meters, there is a half-meter-high 'battery' towering, the body of the turret is stone, and there is a gun port at the top that can rotate 360 degrees, and there is a complete set of 'explosives' structure inside, which can attack the enemy attacking the green carpet at any time! At the same time, it has some vascular-like pipes that connect to the green blanket for nutrient supply.

For the vast darkness of the Plain, the green carpet is not very large, and it can even be said that it is quite small, because it takes quite a lot of crystals to sprinkle the green carpet.

The green carpet has a number of small pipes connected into the cave, which extend to the site of the excavation crystallization, and are connected to a structure similar to the esophagus, so that the newly excavated crystals can be placed in the esophab and transported to the green carpet outside through guò pipes.

Lynn's excavation system is larger than the Green Carpet, with a main passage leading to the underground of the Glitter Woodland, and the main road splits into countless paths, where Lynn has created a class called 'Sappers' to dig up and collect crystals from the soil, which are located about ten to twenty meters above the ground, and there are quite a lot of crystallized fragments here.

In addition to the development of the green carpet, Lin also has a special hunting unit, which is usually located in the cave, and will catch suitable prey when it finds nearby, but the source of nutrients caught is not as stable as the green carpet.

Lynn had the idea of feeding on the twisted trees that were scattered all around, but found that the twisted trees were indigestible at all, and that they combined into a substance called 'wood', which could not be broken down by the usual dissolved liquid.

It's funny, it's no wonder that Lynn has barely seen any creatures eat these trunks, and Lynn has started to try to break down the ingredients, and if she can make them herself, it would be pretty good.

Now, Lynn mainly hunts for nutrients, and Lynn has come up with a way to hunt with the least consumption and the most gains.

During the day, the glittering woodland is not even as bright as night, but this does not affect the movement of other creatures, and some salamanders are munching on moss in the glades between the trees.

Lynn called these reptiles 'mosses', and these half-metre-long axolotls were recently discovered by Lynn and emerge at the beginning of the wetter daylight to feed on mosses.

Mosses have good eyesight, they always look up to make sure there is no danger around, but they don't notice at all that on the twisted trunk above them, there is a small hunter lurking.

This class is a cyst-shaped oval, only about fifteen centimeters in size, with the ability to change color, crawling on the trunk of a tree with a small barbed leg with a hook, it has been biting off the bark and wood underneath it, not to eat, but to bite and swallow it, and then reglue them together with chitin, forming the shape of a spike.

This spike protrudes from the muzzle of the cannon on its back, and it can use the combined explosives in its body and the dual system of pressure eruption to shoot the spike out.

This class is called the 'Sniper', and its new burst system allows artillery strikes to reach a range of tens or even hundreds of meters!

Snipers also have excellent eyesight, which increases their hit rate.

It was staring at the newt below......

Endoskeletal organisms have a playful structure, they only enclose their brains with a hard shell called a 'skull', and most other vital organs and cortex are separated by only one layer of flesh, and this structure, as well as the lack of access to hydraulics, puts them at a disadvantage against arthropods.

'Bang'!

With a loud sound, the spikes shot out at a rapid speed, piercing the body of a moss newt in an instant, and the spikes pierced its heart.

In this short moment, the sniper was successful in the hunt, and even more powerfully, the spikes were mixed with a powerful dissolving solution that dissolved the heart muscle and nerves of the newt, and the surrounding newts did not even notice that the companion was dead.

…… It didn't even notice it until it stopped breathing and collapsed on top of the moss.

The Sniper is a structurally successful hunter, but it is almost entirely full of firing organs, so it is slow to move and vulnerable, and Lynn will use another class to retrieve corpses.

Nesters, these round-bodied units are more than a meter in diameter and lie on trees like snipers, and when snipers hunt targets, they open their shells on their backs and release a large number of wild bees, which can gnaw the whole salamander into bones in a short period of time, and then bring back nutrients.

At the same time, the Wild Bee released by the Nester can also be used to protect the Sniper from other mobs.

The Sniper can snipe all kinds of creatures with ease, and the Wild Bee can break down food very quickly, and the combination of these two classes allows Lin to hunt in a very efficient way, get a lot of nutrients, and create more troops.

Once Lynn has gained a certain amount of nutrients, she will deploy more Snipers and Nesters in a larger area, and the green carpet will also begin to extend, and Lynn will slowly expand her territory in this way.

But Lynn will not be in one place like before, once the green carpet of the sea floor covered hundreds of kilometers, it cannot escape the cover of disaster, no matter how prosperous this twisted jungle is now, Lynn will not be completely dependent on it, therefore, Lynn needs more, larger bases, but that requires a more efficient way to travel.

Relying on the dragonfly's flight method to not allow anything too heavy to fly, Lin is preparing to create a huge flyer, its role is mainly used to find those empty jellyfish, Lin thinks that only they can provide it with newer, more powerful ways to fly, but what kind of size this giant flyer will be, has not yet been decided.

The development of the base is proceeding slowly and steadily, but Lynn's exploration is another matter.

Lynn's troops, which had set out several days and nights earlier, were a combination of various classes, including a combination of Nesters, Hunters, and Snipers with a swarm of wild bees.

Snipers usually lie on the back of nesters, and they are not very mobile themselves, but can rotate their bodies to aim at targets in all directions.

The number of nesters was small, only three, and Lynn didn't want to wait too long because the time had come for the team to hit the road by the time Lynn had successfully made them.

The number of hunters is the largest, and they are on both sides of the team as guards, and their route is all the way north, and the main task is to explore new species, or find a suitable location for constructing a new base, because Lin feels that digging crystals is too troublesome, so if you want to find out if there is a glade or something, you can directly spread the green carpet.

Not counting the Wild Bees in the Nester's body, this team of a hundred moves through the warped jungle floor, targeting the depths of the Dark Plains, where the ground is devoid of moss due to its low crystalline content, and the ground is usually covered in scattered branches, which are piled up more and more because there are no organisms to digest the wood.

There weren't many branches in the glitter woodland, but Lynn didn't find that moss could digest wood, so I don't know why? Lynn didn't really care about that, so she didn't look into it.

Moving through the bottom of the forest, Lynn sees a rich biome.

Right now, Lynn is observing a species......

The troops stopped moving, hiding behind piles of branches or trunks, observed by wild bees released by the nesters.

Ahead was the target that Lin was looking for, a small glade, although not large, but also a radius of hundreds of meters, where there was no shade of twisted trees, directly illuminated by the light of daylight, so overgrown with a small plant, these plants were not mosses, more than ten centimeters high, and had a name called 'ferns'.

And there's a creature that's eating these ferns.

The creatures are massive, more than 4 meters long, with oval bodies covered in square carapaces, and their thick arthropods move to shovel and chew ferns on the ground.

It may be a beetle, but it doesn't look like a normal beetle, it's more like a trilobite creature, and if they're really an evolved type of a trilobite, then maybe the carapace will be quite hard.

It's called a 'scale beetle'.

Lynn had a hunter carry a sniper on her back and turn them into the colors of ferns, and slowly walked into the glade......

The Sniper's wooden 'munitions' are suitable for soft targets, and Lynn has also made a special type of munition composed of high-hardness chitin, called 'armor-piercing bullets', which is used to attack hard targets, but this is the first time Lynn has experimented with this munition.

The Sniper assembles the armor-piercing rounds inside his body and aims at the nearest scale beetle.

The scale beetles were eating the ferns, unaware that the discolored hunter and sniper were approaching.

'Bang'!

With a loud sound, the armor-piercing bullet hit the side of the scale beetle's body with rapid speed, hitting the gap between the two scale armors!

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Thanks to ~Aqi~'s 588~!

Thanks to ~Soul Seeker~Silent Mole~godmorgan~for the tip~