Chapter Forty-Eight: Deep Sand Raid
Behemoth, the largest creature Lynn has ever created, was too large to stay in the Twisted Jungle, and the Glitter Glade would affect the growth of moss and new saplings of the Twisted Tree, so Lynn had it stay on the edge of the Glitter Glade, on top of a sand dune.
Behemoth doesn't usually fly in the air, but lands on the sand, waiting in the most nutrient form, but it still releases some pilots, who are responsible for exploring and observing the changes in the surrounding desert, such as sandstorms or rainfall, so that the tree planters in the glittering woodland can be prepared.
This time, a flyer flying south noticed something unusual.
At this time, the night covered the desert, and unlike the scorching day, there were many small creatures in the cold night, which often caused small noises, but the sound heard by the flyer this time was unusually loud, it could be called a roar.
The sand was shaking, and the shaking area was moving northward, it wasn't an earthquake or anything, it felt like some kind of massive object moving under the sand.
And the direction of its movement was exactly at Behemoth, who was lying on top of the sand dunes.
At this time, the head worm was rummaging through the lake inside the home tree to find a picture of the tribe, and the head worm kept talking about the 'moon', and there was no danger around, so Lin turned her attention to the desert side.
You may have to avoid the behemoth beneath the sand, but what kind of creature could it be?
The flyer moved with the shaking grains of sand, and Lynn estimated its size, and there was probably only one creature that matched the size of the creature under the sand - the 'Deep Sand Bus'
Lynn once looked inside the body of the Deep Sand Bus. According to preliminary calculations. The deep sand bus is a kind of bus with a length of more than forty meters. Giant arthropods with a body width of more than ten meters, of course, I don't know if they are all this size, because this is obviously not the one that Lin has been tracking.
The shaking grains of sand continued northward, and Lynn caused Behemoth to quickly generate a floating body of air and begin to slowly rise into the air.
Behemoth has a chitin structure similar to a 'skeleton' in his body, so even if he is out of breath, he will not collapse and it is easy to inflate. Its internal organs can quickly produce floating air bodies, and Lin's special organs that imitate empty jellyfish can obtain gas directly from the air and can also be obtained from the digestion of food.
While Behemoth was inflated and floating, the flyer suddenly noticed that the vibration of the sand had disappeared, and the sand seemed to be quiet.
Lynn was a little confused, but Behemoth's ascent did not stop, and when it was already more than ten meters above the ground, Lynn heard the vibration under the sand again.
Right next to Behemoth!
'Boom! ā
There was a loud bang in the sand, and a huge arthropod rushed out of the sand. Lynn felt a sharp pain in Behemoth's skin, and it bit down on Behemoth's side. The sheer weight caused Behemoth to tilt to one side.
The creature was huge, more than half of its body was still buried in the sand, but Lynn could assume that it was over thirty meters tall, its overall body was as flat and long as a scorpion, its body was covered in black diamond-shaped scales like a reptile, its head had six huge protruding eyeballs, and its mouth was a pair of curved teeth covered with barbs, which pierced into Behemoth's cortex.
Behemoth's body was mostly gas, and although he was stabbed, there was no gas leakage because his teeth were blocking the wound.
Is this the Shasha Bus? Although I haven't seen the appearance, the body shape is indeed as similar as Lin thought, but I can't fully confirm it.
Now, it is in a stalemate with Behemoth, with the Deep Sand Bus trying to pull Behemoth to the ground, while Behemoth is still inflating and using a jet system to ascend into the air.
But now, Behemoth is at a disadvantage, just the weight of the other party, it is unlikely to pull the other party to fly, but the deep sand bus is pulling Behemoth down little by little, and half of the body buried in the sand gives it a good point of strength.
Behemoth didn't have any hand-to-hand combat ability, so Lynn opened the troop opening on Behemoth's back, and a large number of flying troops flew out of it.
Most of these classes are bombarders, identical to those used in Lynn and the Kibucha Worm, which can drop explosive bombs.
They flew around the head of the Deep Sand Bus and dropped a bomb filled with dissolved liquid and explosives on its back, and on the eyeballs, the liquid mixed with dissolved liquid and explosives exploded on the Deep Sand Bus, and it was suddenly watered by the rain of dissolution, and the carapace was engraved with large traces of corrosion.
However, the carapace of the deep sand bus is too thick, and the eyeballs are also protected by a layer of transparent chitin, and the bomb cannot easily damage it, and Lin suddenly finds that the reptilian carapace on its back is erected, and a large number of black bugs are pouring out of it.
These were indeed Aztec bugs, so there must be more than one Deep Sand Bus, because the one that Lynn had been tracking was still quite far away.
The Aztec bugs released by the Deep Sand Bus are all flying species, and they rush towards the bombarders in the sky, Lynn's bombarders are not completely incapacitated, they are like dragonflies, they all have sharp teeth, and the end of the arthropod is also a sharp bladed structure, but there is a drawback, the size is too large.
The flying species of the Aztecs are only ten centimeters in size, while the bombers are more than a meter, making it difficult for them to attack the enemy, while the Aztecs can round them up.
At the moment of the battle, many bombarders were surrounded and torn apart, and the Aztec worms were so fast that it was difficult for the bombers to resist, so Lin adopted a new method.
The bombers rely on gas to fly, and Lynn has them release a large amount of gas from their bodies, which is usually harmless, but if it is released too much, it will reduce the oxygen in the air, and the high-speed flight of the Aztec requires a considerable amount of oxygen if it is replaced......
In the absence of oxygen, the Aztecs began to become dizzy, slowing down, and some even fell back on the back of the Deep Sand Bus.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the bombers began to fight back, with spare oxygen in their air sacs, even in an oxygen-free environment, at which point they could tear apart the slow-moving Aztec bugs and continue to bombard the deep sand buses.
The corpses of countless Aztec worms were seen falling from the sky, but the Deep Sand Bus didn't seem to want to give up, it withstood the bombardment with its sturdy carapace, and pulled Behemoth down with more force.
Behemoth turned the vent and pulled it out in the opposite direction with all his might.
Eventually, Behemoth's skin was torn off in large pieces, and the Deep Sand Bus bit a large piece of skin and retracted into the sand, and Lynn immediately closed the pipes that connected the other airbags to this airbag.
With just one airbag missing, Behemoth still floated high into the air, but there were some problems with his balance, and he looked shaky.
It seems that the skin structure needs to be strengthened, but Lin feels that sometimes even the skin is thick, it is difficult to resist opponents of the same size, and if you add a hard shell, it is too heavy.
The Sand Bus had dived underground, and Behemoth was now floating dozens of meters in the air, and Lynn thought it might not come out again, but before it could burrow into the ground, Lin had some bombers run into its scales, and although they were all torn apart by the Aztec worms inside the Sand Bus, Lynn was still able to determine the location of the Sand Bus by relying on the scattered pieces of flesh.
Then take it!
Behemoth flies over the location of the Deep Sand Bus, and Lynn thinks that the massive scorpion-like creature won't be able to burrow as deep as the worm type, so just use this to blow it up.
'Escapee' is a kind of real yĆ n class, when Lin first saw the deep sand bus, she thought about some troops that can get underground creatures out, this kind of class is not very large, the body is cone-shaped, only about two meters, but it can drill through the ground, and its sturdy warhead also has a strong armor-shattering ability.
Behemoth flew into the air and dropped dozens of Escapees, which began to spin rapidly in the air, burrowing into the ground at breakneck speed as they touched the sand, and instantly hit the back of the Deep Sand Bus hidden in the sand.
At this moment, the tip of the head of the Retreat began to release dissolved liquid, and with the ability to rotate, they easily drilled through the carapace of the Deep Sand Bus, but then the Deep Sand Bus suddenly moved violently and fled deeper into the sand.
Most of the impact of the Escapee comes from falling from high altitudes, and it cannot move very quickly in the sand, after all, it is only an experimental object, and it can rotate at high speed by jetting in air or water, but it cannot rotate at high speed in the sand, so it cannot continue to pursue.
Rin had to find a way to spin at high speed underground, maybe with jets in the body? It's a technical question worth pondering.
The Deep Sand Bus has escaped now, but it already has some of Lynn's cells on it as a record, and Lynn will harden and keep those few cells alive, which is equivalent to marking the creature for a long time.
No matter how far it runs, Lynn can find it.
Now, Behemoth needs to repair his wounds, so he won't pursue them for the time being, but in the meantime, Lin has to figure out what kind of relationship between the deep sand bus and the Aztec worm is, symbiosis? Or is it one party against the other, or is it the same kind?
And the most important question, what impact the Aztec Worm will have on the surrounding ecology, several pilots have been observing the six territories of the Aztec Worm for a long time, and Lin doesn't think they will have any effect on the Twisted Jungle, but the key is that their life underground Lin has not studied it thoroughly.
Now the time is more urgent, if they plan to attack the twisted jungle, the huge creatures like the deep sand bus can cause extensive destruction, so Lin is no longer going to study it slowly, but directly asks the head worm.
Although it feels like it will be less fun. (To be continued.) )