The pale blue river of parasites glows with dots, which is an active biomass luminescence.

The shark shark and Andor did not go together, not because they were afraid of the brain eater, the prepared first-level demonic beasts could easily expel them from their bodies, and only the demonic beasts that were dying in a coma or really had heavy bleeding wounds could be parasitized.

Ian sent Shark and Andor on a safer route, also in preparation for the rest of the operation - there is more than one river leading to the water-cooled Interaction Area, and if the next operation goes wrong and you need to escape, there is an underground river that passes through the Interaction Zone from above is safer than the River of Parasites.

As for the pirate captain, Ian was not worried that the other party would escape, not to mention the missing leg, the boy was very sure that the other party didn't know the way at all, and if he wanted to get out of the ruins, he could only wait for them together.

Moreover, even if it is really a fluke, it will be pursued by many parties, and it is better to obediently follow the instructions, so that it can also serve as a tainted witness for the Ellen family.

In addition to these two, the humans who could walk along the coast, Ian, Isengard, and Master Gosai, they still had to pass through the nearest straight passage.

This time, the three of them were really well prepared.

In order to prepare for Patrick's possible surprise attack, Master Gosai prepared several bottles of lightning potion on the spot with the materials he picked up along the way, and each person always had two bottles in their hands.

In addition, there are also physique enhancement and strength enhancement potions, each bottle is a high-quality product, which makes Ian can't help but sigh, and also understands the gap between himself and the real alchemy master.

- The other party can even concoct elite potions in this situation, and it seems that he can't use 'no tools' as an excuse in the future.

Then he recorded it with a silver chip, and all the tricks of the master singer were hairy.

- It's all good, it's all mine!

With the alchemy skills that Master Gosai has shown along the way, Ian feels that when he returns to Port Harrison, it will be a breeze to become an official alchemist!

"This river is supposed to be the recycled water that flows through the backyard of the ruins after 'purification' from the water-cooled interchange, and then sends it back after natural cooling."

Walking along the shore, looking at the dense miniature egg sheaths in the river, Ian's tone was a little emotional: "But who knows, there is a high probability that the intersection will be blocked by the insect nest, and the purification facility has also become a corrupt facility that constantly discharges insect eggs...... A thousand years have passed, and things have changed too much. ”

The river water is warm and releases water vapor, which is indeed a characteristic of cooling water, and Ian did not think at first that the main thing is that there are too many geothermal sources to connect.

"There's artillery up ahead."

Master Gosai looked up, his strength hadn't fully recovered, but the high perception of the Flowing Cloud Sculptor had already begun to take effect.

The wind surging in the river brought him news, which made the old man frown: "Guns, artillery, poisonous rancidity, and the concussion of huge objects—the battle is fierce!" ”

"That's just right."

Ian sped up instead.

After walking up the course of the River of Parasites for a while, you turn into another large river, and the rancid smell gushes out of the river, which makes your heart palpitate.

The river of parasites diverges from this great river, and when the rancid smell is reduced, it becomes a strangely sweet scent.

If you look closely, you can see that there are many corpses of demonic beasts and beasts in the river, which have become the nests of braineaters, and they are constantly twitching, and these monsters have obvious traces of firearms.

Later, Ian and the others saw that there were many piles of decaying bones in the upper reaches of the river, in which amorphous slug-like creatures climbed, went in and out, and huge crustacean giant insects were floating in the water. When they noticed Ian's group, they didn't come closer, but instead curled up in their lair.

"Be careful."

But Ian gave a warning, slashing his sword to the side, and heard the clanging of metal and the breaking of bones.

It was a giant mantis, with a brass-colored body and a hideous face, and the sharp scythe in front of its hands was extremely sharp, and there were serrations on the blade.

It had lurked in the shadows in an attempt to surprise it, and it was its presence that had caused the other monsters to curl up.

The right scythe of the brass mantis had been severed by Ian's sword, but instead of flinching, it fluttered its wings and slashed again, slashing wildly with its arms.

It was the first time Ian had seen this kind of giant insect in Nanling, which was said to be only available to Canaan Moore, and he observed that this insect already had the strength of the first energy level, and the pair of swords and sickles were even more potion material level, but unfortunately it was difficult to refine it into a potion, and at most it was polished into a sublimation weapon.

He didn't care, gathered his strength slightly, and smashed out with a sword, as if a boulder fell from the sky, and the brass mantis fell apart with a 'bang'.

After the mantis died, a long black worm crawled out of the corpse of the other and tried to dive into the water, but Isengard reached out a little, and a black-red flame burned it and curled up, and then dissolved into a mass of biomass.

"Wire worms? It's actually a brain-eating worm? How many forms of this parasite are there? ”

Ian was a little surprised, because the silver chip showed a xenomorph of the brain-eating worm - a parasite that would change its form depending on the parasite.

This kind of memory possession used by the redwoods back then has now turned into an extremely fierce and strange psionic zerg under the transformation of the Great Elder, and it is ever-changing and difficult to resist.

The firefight in front of us intensified, and the sound of a loud waterfall and the rapid movement of a giant could be heard below.

The crowd quickened and walked forward.

The river did not flow very fast, but several of its tributaries flowed to a rift on the side, which fell into a waterfall, and the sound of battle was heard from the rift.

When they came to the rift valley and looked down from a high vantage point, Ian and the others saw that at the bottom of the narrow rift, a big battle was unfolding.

The terrifying Giant Golden Centipede charged, the cliff rumbling, changing the faces of the Flying Flame Land soldiers who were pouring fire for defense, and they were using three portable alchemy cannons to fire alternately, suppressing the momentum of the Giant Golden Centipede's advance - but it didn't have much effect, the weight and armor of the Giant Golden Centipede were too thick to stop.

What really made the giant golden centipede unable to move forward was the joint attack of the two sublimators.

A Red People Ascension wields a spinning supercharged sword and is attacking the giant centipede's bladefoot joints, hindering the opponent's progress, and has now knocked down several bladefeet.

But the number of blades is a tragic number for all attackers, and as long as the giant golden centipede is slightly targeted, this Red People Ascendant is in danger.

Another nun from the Church of Spiritual Machines is at the helm of a giant alchemy machine gun, firing a barrage of essentia bullets like a firestorm.

The ultra-hot blast of bomb heat always locked onto the golden centipede's head and caused the steel giant to constantly evade.

"It's actually a general maintenance machine?"

Seeing this giant golden centipede, both Master Gosai and Isengard had solemn faces, but Ian had a strange expression: "Looking at the drill bit construction of the arm, it should be sent over to dredge the channel of the cooling interchange, right?" On the back is the cockpit...... Sure enough, the driver was already parasitized by the brain-eating worm. ”

The golden centipede's lethal blade feet and sharp scale armor, as well as its destructive drill bit, are essentially tools used to unblock mountain collapses and large pipeline blockages, and it can turn itself into a drill bit or even a miniature shield machine, opening a road in all kinds of sediment or biomass waste, just like an earthworm to unblock all kinds of intractable causes of blockages.

But it was clear that this former maintenance tool had been transformed into the war machine it is today, and the soldiers of the Flamelands would have a hard time dealing with the giant centipede that could penetrate the mountain, even if the other side was not armed.

"Who is it?!"

Fighting the giant centipede with all his might, the captain suddenly felt it, he raised his head and looked above the rift, and the thermal vision allowed him to clearly see Ian's face.

"It's you?! Little cub of the Sertar Empire, kill my deputy's guy! ”

For a while, new hatred and old hatred surged into his heart, and he gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "You dare to follow us to this place?!" Damn, I should have killed you with all my might in the first place! ”

Don't look at the giant golden centipede in front of you has the strength of the second energy level, but it has no other weapons, it is just strong enough and powerful, facing the well-prepared Flying Flame Land Special Combat Team, although it is an extremely tricky enemy, it is not impossible to solve.

And Ian and the others are not only people from enemy countries, but also competitors in their exploration this time - under the anxiety and nervousness, he has begun to be a little speechless.

Of course, Ian was very concerned about this threat, and he directly took out the water gun and walked away from the captain and the rear formation.

Airplanes!

The high-pressure water stream pierced the atmosphere condescendingly, and instead of heading towards the captain, it pierced a Flying Flame Ground soldier behind him who was operating the alchemy cannon, causing him to let out a terrible wail.

The corrosive currents first pierced through his armor, then turned into a blunt blow of water with tremendous force inside his armor, shattering his bones, spurting red blood and internal organs from the soldier's mouth, and crushing his chest and abdomen entirely.

Ian didn't say a word, and fired another blow, this time it hit the inside of an alchemy cannon, and Isengard's corrosive Eclipse alchemy dragon blood corroded part of the inside of the muzzle, although it was not much, but it could also reduce the efficiency and accuracy of this cannon.

After that, he withdrew his hand and did not say a word.

At this moment, Ian had sensed that there were already many parasitic beasts approaching this place in the distance, and the giant golden centipede should be the gatekeeper of the hive, the guardian of the rift that must pass through the cooling intervening, once it dragged the intruder, the other guardian parasitic beasts in the hive would be dispatched to besiege the enemy.

"Now that you're about the same firepower, hold off this repair machine and the parasite beast that comes after."

Nodding slightly, Ian took Isengard and Master Gosai and continued to move forward under the captain's almost fire-breathing gaze.

As they advanced, the sound of a group of beasts rushing could be heard from the beneath of the Rift, and the parasitic beasts that let out hungry and vicious roars were galloping towards their goal, far more than the number of demonic parasitic beasts that Ian and the others had seen in the vicinity of the Giant Golden Mushroom Cave combined.

"Good guy, this amount, it's sour to cut it."

Master Gosai sighed with emotion, his tone with obvious schadenfreude - when he was young, it was when the Setar Empire and the Flame Empire were fighting a silent war for fourteen years, and the old man had a good impression of the Flame Lands, at least he was not a good person.

It's not their annoyance anyway, they move on.

Not long after, the end of the rift.

A brilliant light is flickering.

This is an extremely empty underground cavity area, where a large fluorescent blue river is surging, and the land on both sides of the river has crystallized, and clusters of bright crystals are releasing a faint fluorescence.

On both sides of the rift, rivers converge here, turning into waterfalls and splashing their mist.

Intense radiation permeated the area, and even the hollow stone walls were covered with all kinds of colorful crystalline clusters, some of which were formed into nest-like shapes, densely scattered along the banks of the river.

It is the habitat of parasitic beasts that guard the hive, feeding on the water of the nutrient-rich river of parasites and bathing in the high concentration of radiation in the area.

The heat of the river was extremely hot, and the water mist rose extremely thick, enveloping this bright and brilliant area full of colorful radiant crystals.

Raising their heads, the three of them let out a slight exclamation in unison.

Behind the dense mist, there is a huge nest, which looks like a termite nest, but it is two hundred meters high, and it is like a small mountain.

It was hidden in the mist at both ends of the nest, and the river gushed out of a water wheel structure in the lower half of the nest, which seemed to be driving several hydro-generator sets to generate electricity, making the hive glow with blue-blue electric light.

And in the middle of this nest, there is a huge blue crystal prism that sticks straight into the center of the hive, gathering a steady stream of power reserves.

- No, not crystals.

Ian raised his hand with a solemn expression, activated the Silent Ring, and then led the two of them into the shadows.

- That's a worm shell.

The huge crystal shuddered slightly, and what looked like the edges and corners of the prism began to loosen, revealing the soft flesh underneath that glowed with dots of radiation, and the arc of electricity visible to the naked eye was flashing on it.

- This is the shell of the brain eater nest mother.