"Incredible."

Boulder.

Standing on the giant wall, Ibers stared in the direction of the city center, his face full of disbelief and surprise.

I saw that the cloud of spores that looked like a giant tree was restlessly restless, as if shaking the leafy canopy in the midst of a raging storm.

It's obvious. Someone the guy.

The expression of surprise gradually turned into a look of interest, and Ibers, who stopped to admire, couldn't help but sigh.

"It's been a long time, and it's the first time that guy has lost his temper like this...... How many years ago was the last time?"

Was it twenty or thirty years ago?

He had the impression that a group of Vault dwellers with their unnatural minds seemed to have been there, and that their brains had become even more abnormal since they came out of there.

Seems to be Vault 117?

But it doesn't matter.

"There's a good show to watch now!"

Ebs's eyes flashed with excitement to see the excitement, as if waiting for a long-awaited movie.

A river of blood!

Hurry up!

......

Looking at the direction of the city center is not only Ibers of the Boulder Military Industry, but also a scientific research ship that maintains a safe distance of dozens of kilometers from Qingquan City.

At this moment, Yang Kai is collecting data on the slime nest through the equipment on the scientific research ship, and at the same time keeping in touch with the research department of the college headquarters, reporting the situation in Qingquan City to his superiors in real time.

"Small coalition ground forces have moved into the city center..... Yes, that army of the Awakened. They were clever enough to divert the evolutionary bodies along the North Second Ring Road through a series of operations, avoiding the firefight and entering the forbidden area of life."

However, they didn't seem to be going well, as the decoy force crashed into the Titans left behind by the 111th Orbital Airborne Division, and the team that went deep into the city center made contact with the brood as soon as they landed."

"Speaking of which, I'm curious as to how they managed to lock on to that guy's location so quickly."

Looking at the scanned screen projected on the holographic screen, Yang Kai's face

It's full of weird expressions.

A long time ago, the post-war reconstruction committee-led exploration force conducted a search for the location of the brood, but never found the creature's equipment.

After all, the center of Qingquan City is not a point on the map, but a considerable area, not to mention the mess on the surface, and the underground is even more intricate, like a three-dimensional labyrinth.

The mutant slime fungus mother nest in the Qingquan area hides in the labyrinth, releasing spores to the surface through the underground transportation network and the city's drainage system.

It is true that the approximate area where the mother nest is located can be analyzed from the spore concentration difference, but it is almost impossible to locate the specific coordinates of the mother nest by this method alone.

Only by committing a sufficient number of ground forces to carry out a carpet search of the area where the brood is located, it will be possible to find that guy.

The Ministry of Defense, which was in charge of exploring the center of Clear Springs, had paid heavy casualties for this, and it was only close to him.

But now, judging from the changes in the spore cloud in Qingquan City, those guys are obviously close to the brood, and have even touched him.

If it's a coincidence, it's too much of a coincidence.

Yang Kai was puzzled.

How exactly do they do it?

To be honest, Fang Chang didn't expect that according to the coordinates provided by Xiao Yu, they would land directly on the top of that brood's head.

What he didn't expect was that less than half a minute after landing, they were swallowed by a blood basin that was dozens of meters wide.

「......%¥#@!」

The feathered people flying in the sky are stupid.

I saw a huge crater like an abyss suddenly appear on the empty ruins!

The scarlet mushroom clump protruded from the ground like the mouth of a man-eating flower and closed together, swallowing the two ten-man squads of the Burning Corps in a matter of moments

Get in!

The whole ground shook violently, like boiling water.

"Old white!" Hold on, brother!

Luo Yu gritted his teeth, operated the plane to turn around, and aimed the cannon at the closed mouth.

In a short roar, dozens of tracer lights rained down on the closed mouth like hail, splashing large swaths of rubble and broken fungus.

"Woo--!

A dull, long cry resounded over the ruins, like the whistle of a ship.

Looking at the black blood and tissue debris scattered all over the place, Luo Yu realized that his attack was effective, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

However, just as he pulled up the nose of the plane and turned around to make another round of strafing, he saw that the closed giant mouth was slowly sinking below the surface.

This guy wants to escape!

Seeing that it was almost too late, Luo Yu hurriedly stopped pulling up, turned the nose of the plane in advance and folded back.

However, the brood seemed to be ready, and almost at the same time as he turned the nose of the plane, a dense black shadow suddenly poured out of a half-collapsed building not far away, and rushed straight in his direction!

If you look closely, it turned out to be a quadcopter drone eroded by slime molds!

If you don't have a few numbers, you have to have a thousand!

After reading for another 23 minutes and seeing this scene, Luo Yu's face changed suddenly.

Boy.

How good is this?!

"Hmmm!"

Xiao Yu was anxiously reminded in his ears, and Luo Yu, who had already discovered the threat in advance, pulled the nose of the plane up suddenly.

Almost a second before colliding with the drone swarm, the Lingyun fighter he was piloting drew an upward arc in the air, almost

It was the edge of the dense black shadow that opened the distance.

"Mommy....... This slime fungus is a special sperm!"

Although it was in the game, because the experience was too real, Luo Yu was still scared into a cold sweat.

The huge mouth that had jutted out of the ground was gone, and all that remained of the flat ground was a large crater that had sunk downward.

Luo Yu's heart couldn't help but sink slightly, not knowing what happened to his teammates.

"Babble...... (sort of....... Wrong. Hearing the voice in his ear, Luo Yu hurriedly asked.

"Did you find anything?"

「...... Bah!" （....... He's got his sights on us, and we'd better get out of here! ）

Luo Yu, who heard this, couldn't help but be stunned. Eyeing us......

It's been all this time, isn't it obvious?

Perhaps Xiao Yu's expression was too tactful, and he didn't realize the deep meaning contained in this sentence.

And at this moment, a mutation suddenly happened!

The tail flame from the engine vent suddenly swayed, like a candle blown out by the wind, and the upward plane lost power.

Luo Yu's face completely changed, and the situation was exactly the same as when a jet plane turned off at an ultra-high altitude.

However, it is not even a thousand meters above the surface, how can it be possible to wait, that spores that suck away oxygen!

Luo Yu, who reacted suddenly, shouted "I'm blanching" in his heart, but the drone swarm behind him had already caught up.

The kind of UAV that relies on rotary-wing flight is categorically impossible to catch up with fixed-wing aircraft.

But with a loss of power and a constant slowdown, his car became almost a live target hanging in the air.

Seeing that the dense drone swarm was about to catch up, and the engine could not be re-ignited, he could only turn the nose of the plane head-on, regain speed under the traction of gravity, and rushed up against the whistling drone swarm.

"Death !! for my grandfather"

Looking at the surging group of drones, Luo Yu roared, and pulled the trigger to the bottom with his index finger.

With a bang

With a deafening roar, the cannon that sprayed tongues of fire was like a bayonet, stabbing into the dense black clouds.

A large area of drones was torn to pieces by the machine guns that were fired, and the orange-yellow tracer lights actually cleared a vacuum band in the sea of drones like a tide!

However, there are simply too many of them.

A mere 20 cannons is not enough to shoot down all the drones that rush up.

Soon one by one, the fish that slipped through the net crashed into his plane and stuck to his fuselage like kraft candy.

The weight of the Lingyun fighter suddenly increased several times, and more and more drones wrapped up and almost covered the entire cockpit.

After emptying the last bullet in the cannon, Luo Yu shot out the two missiles hanging under the wings before the wings were completely entangled, and forced to land in the direction of the nuclear crater.

That's the only possible place to land.

A nuclear explosion 200 years ago cleared the entire region of obstruction.

Seeing that the landing was about to be successful, he suddenly caught a glimpse of it with his peripheral vision

A dark shadow swept towards him.

It was a waving tentacle.

Like the previous maw, it emerged from the soil, waiting for him to rush up.

The oncoming tentacles almost grazed the left side of the hatch and slammed into the left forward wing of the Lingyun fighter.

Goblin Technology's only advantage was fully apparent at this moment, the stainless steel forward-swept wing was like a sharp razor, cutting the tentacle that burrowed out of the ground into two.

The remaining half of the tentacles were like earthworms that had been cut in half, twisting painfully on the ground, and black slurry gushed out of the broken mouth like a fountain, scattered all over the ground.

However, Luo Yu didn't have time to rejoice.

This beautiful cut cut cut off one of the tentacles of the brood, and at the same time caused his car to completely lose its balance, and it tumbled sideways towards the center of the nuclear crater, breaking the two pairs of beautiful forward-swept wings in the process of rolling.

However, thanks to this, a large number of fruiting bodies attached to his car were also crushed to pieces in the roll, leaving a wreckage in the ground until the tumbling fuselage came to a complete stop.

At this moment, the entire Lingyun fighter has only a bare cabin left, and the fuselage made of stainless steel has been pitted, and it is almost impossible to find an inch of intact shell.

If it is an ordinary pilot, it can be regarded as a medical miracle that he can leave a whole corpse after this series of operations.

However, the feathers who flew the plane were not ordinary pilots, or even ordinary humans.

Just two seconds after losing his heartbeat, the reddish mass attached to his chest jerked inward twice.

About half a minute passed.

Luo Yu, who was unconscious, suddenly coughed violently twice, choked out a few mouthfuls of blood with minced meat, and woke up from his coma.

"Hmmm!"

There was a cry of surprise in his ears, and he knew that Xiao Yu had saved him again.

"Thank you......"

"Hmmm!" (It's good if you're okay.) ）

Squeezing a smile from his face, Luo Yu took a deep breath and unfastened the seat belt pressed against his chest.

Looking at the half-handsome face reflected in the cockpit, he stretched out his index finger and touched the pale red fungus, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

This buff that accelerates recovery is really useful, but the only drawback is probably that it is less and less human.

But it's not ugly.

Maybe it's because he's been watching it for a long time, and he wasn't very used to the shape of Xiao Yu's fruiting body, but after getting along for a long time, he feels that it's actually okay, and sometimes he even feels quite beautiful.

On the one hand, it may be because his own aesthetics are also imperceptibly

On the other hand, it may also be because Xiao Yu is moving closer to human aesthetics.

As a very different life form, it is, in a sense, the same as the androids and AI who live in the Alliance

It's the same - it's slowly being assimilated by the allied society.

It's like the cats and dogs that were close to the human settlement more than 10,000 years ago.

It's easier to survive in this perilous universe than to fight each other.

But that may be a long time later......

Xiao Yu is the only exception among the thousands of evolutionary routes of all varieties of slime molds, and the monster entrenched in the center of Qingquan City at the moment is not a docile kitten or puppy.

It's a wolf that grinds its teeth and sucks blood!

The cockpit of the plane was already stuck, and Luo Yu tried to open the hatch cover, but found that it was not moving, so he took out a window breaker from the toolbox under the ejection seat and smashed it into the cockpit glass.

After shattering the glass, he grabbed a submachine gun, climbed out of the cockpit, and loaded it.

This is the central location of the crater.

Below was a bare wilderness, with the edge of the crater rising upwards visible in the distance.

Just as he tried to make contact with the command via the on-board radio, the ground suddenly shook violently again.

Luo Yu's face changed slightly.

Just when he thought that the brood was going to do it again and swallow him too, he saw that the clearing about twenty meters away from him suddenly kicked up a billowing of dust.

I saw a huge mouth shaped like a man-eating flower, like a whale jumping out of the water, suddenly burrowing through the soft soil.

Luo Yu's initial reaction was that this guy didn't find his position and bit off, and immediately set up the small water pipe in his hand and prepared to fire, but soon found that this guy's condition was a little abnormal.

The jaw let out a long, painful roar, twisting in the billowing dust as if retching, spewing spews sand and gravel out.

Seeing this scene, Luo Yu was stunned.

"I'm blanching?! What's the situation!?"

This is...... Got a bad stomach?

For now, it seems that this is the case, and the huge mouth is still vomiting, as if it is about to pump all the sand from the ground to the surface.

Seeing the blowout of gravel and clods of earth smashing towards him, Luo Yu hurriedly dodged backwards.

And at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed that in the flying dust, there seemed to be a figure flying out and slamming heavily into the open space 5 meters away from him.

The man held a short axe stained with black blood in his hand, lying in a large zigzag.

After a while, something fell next to him with a snap, and it seemed to be a severed hand.

Luo Yu hurriedly ran over, uncovered the man's helmet and saw that it was Lao Bai.

Seeing Luo Yu's face, Lao Bai smiled a little embarrassed and said embarrassedly.

"It's a bit embarrassing, brother, don't laugh at me...... Ahem, what's wrong with you?"

And the face has changed like this. Luo Yu smiled bitterly.

"Don't mention it...... The hen-nails are one after another, and they are not the same, and it is the first time that I have been flying an airplane for so many years, and I have played against such an outrageous thing."

"It's outrageous enough......

Getting up from the ground, Lao Bai reached out and wiped his face stained with black blood, but because his hands were also covered with black mucus, his face became even dirtier.

He also seemed to realize that this was a futile act, and he was helpless

gave up cleaning his face and instead walked over to pick up Brother Tempest's severed hand.

This guy is the unluckiest.

As soon as the giant mouth was closed, a tentacle pierced it from bottom to top, leaving the whole person with this indigestible robotic hand.

Since the establishment of the Burning Corps, they have participated in countless battles, large and small.

I am afraid it is the first time that such tragic casualties have occurred.

Seeing that the highest-level and most powerful force animals in the whole server were so embarrassed, Luo Yu couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"What the hell have you encountered?"

"Like you can see, swallowed by that thing." Looking at the writhing mouth, Lao Bai grinned at the corners of his broken mouth, "This guy probably wanted to uncover our brains to see what was inside, so he took us deep underground...... But this beast clearly underestimated us."

To be honest, they were caught off guard, but only by surprise.

Just as the wind was blown away, the others reacted quickly, focusing their attention on their feet and surroundings as they fired their rifles into the folded mouths.

After discovering that ordinary rifle bullets could not penetrate the mouth of the brood,

Fang Chang was the first to draw the Daybreak Longbow and shot a charged burst arrow towards the top of his head.

The arrow that had been detonated by inserting the fungus had a devastating effect, and the brood that devoured them soon showed signs of indigestion, and the inner walls of the digestive pouch shook violently.

The morale of everyone was immediately boosted, and the others also relied on their abilities to greet the scarlet mushrooms around them.

Among them, the most ruthless is undoubtedly the Night Ten Brothers.

Previously, this guy was transformed into a mechanical body by the researchers of the academy, and the digestive juice of the brood had no effect on him, and his defense was even stronger.

A tentacle poked at his crotch, and the power to poke people through it didn't do anything except to lift him up.

Immediately after that, Night Ten Eyes quickly hugged the tentacle and activated the electrodes that a researcher had installed on his body, directly targeting the digestive system of the brood.

The instantaneous output of electricity almost drained the battery of his exoskeleton, but the effect was also amazing.

After a hundred thousand volts, the walls of the brood's cavity twitched as if they had taken a laxative, and then the gravel and sand beneath the feet of the people began to gush upward.

This move is obviously not playable.

The brood had given up on assimilating them, trying to spit them out of her body.

Just as the two of them were talking, Fang Chang also spewed out of the giant mouth and fell not far from the two of them.

"Holy, Fang Chief? You're out too?"

Looking at Fang Chang, who was scolding and getting up from the ground, a trace of surprise was written on Lao Bai's face.

After Fang Chang shot an arrow just now, he was targeted by a string of tentacles, and he thought that this guy was dead.

"Almost finished the calf......

Taking off his helmet, which had been shattered, Fang Chang looked at the twisted giant mouth with a gloomy expression.

As soon as he landed, he almost fell into a box, and after playing this game for so long, it was the first time he was so embarrassed.

Lao Bai walked up to him, stretched out his hand to pull him up from the ground, and asked.

"Where's Night Ten?"

Thinking back to the scene he had seen before he was spit out, Fang Chang paused for a moment and said.

"I guess I'm still holding that tentacle...... But I guess he's running out of power."

At this moment, he suddenly noticed the fall next to Lao Bai

Feather, and then his gaze rested on the half of his face that had been eroded by slime molds,

His expression couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Feather ......"

Luo Yu coughed lightly.

Don't ask, it's shot down. As for my face...... It's like this after being milked by Xiao Yu."

Fang Chang didn't care, he walked straight to him in two steps, and happily stretched out his hands to hold his shoulders, "I didn't want to ask you this, this kind of thing is known at a glance...... How are you feeling right now?"

Looking a little unnatural by that fiery gaze, Luo Yu nervously took half a step back.

"I...... It's okay, what's wrong?" That look was so similar.

It's exactly the same as when Mosquito invited him to test drive Goblin Tech's new plane!

Looking at Luo Yu, who had an unnatural expression, Fang Chang cleared his throat and said with a serious expression.

"I'm afraid I won't last long...... And I've found out that conventional weapons can't kill this guy."

"It's ...... not to die"

"It's literal! He has become one with the land, and His body can be found throughout the underground space of the city center. Change the corner

To think of it, we cannot be more powerful than the Post-War Reconstruction Commission...... If the information in the setting was not scribbled by Ah Guang, then the idea of killing the brood with explosives from the beginning would not work, he was not in one part of the land at all, but everywhere!"

Perhaps this is the reason why the post-war reconstruction committee's exploratory forces failed to locate the brood.

Every coordinate they explored was correct, but what they found was only a part of Him.

And every time they destroyed a part of Him, He would be silent for a while, and soon after that, he would return with the memories and experiences of fighting them before.

Similarly.

Luo Yu looked at him in disbelief.

"How so? You're not ......."

"Did success hurt Him?" Fang Chang guessed his thoughts, looked at him, and continued seriously, "It's useless, that bit of damage is like a flea biting him down. Even if we tried our best, at most, we would let Him lie dormant in the ground for two or three years, just like the Post-War Reconstruction Committee...... Now there's only one last way to kill him once and for all."

Luo Yu knew what that solution was, and it was Plan B that the manager provided for them--

After the brood is found, if the brood is found to be indestructible, then

He went to eat the guy with the small feather entity on his body.

However, there is a premise here, and that is to get close to the brood first.

Seeing the confusion in Luo Yu's eyes, Fang Chang set his gaze on the giant mouth that was vomiting with rubble.

"We are above the brood, and He is at our feet."

"That's the nearest entrance!"