Chapter 2: Here Come the Bugs
As the name suggests, the "insect storm" is an army formed by countless hard beetles, which are twisted together in "strands".
The base of any insect tide is very huge, as few as hundreds of thousands, as many as tens of millions, dozens of such insect tides gather together, just like a big river entering the sea, the insect storm formed after the most canon, covering the sky and the sun, endless, and the combat effectiveness is very amazing.
In the face of such a race, any human powerhouse will have a headache.
Fang Lei's understanding of this ancient battlefield was very limited, so before the insect storm arrived, Fang Lei did not miss the opportunity to communicate with Jun Yan's predecessors, only to see the faint green fire in his eyes constantly jumping, indicating that he was communicating quickly with Jun Yan.
It turns out that the Zerg are different from humans, there are hundreds of species of insects, and the sea, land and air forces are complete, with large and small volumes and different lethality. Since most of the combat bugs have a very low IQ, they must rely on the command of senior bugs in order to form a more effective combat effectiveness.
Communication between bugs and bugs, whether predatory or offensive, needs to be transmitted through something called a "pheromone".
Seeing that the insect storm was getting closer and closer, there was another message from the senior of Jun Yan.
"Actually, it's not safe for us to hide here, but there's no better choice. Fortunately, the scale of the insect storm this time does not seem to be very large, probably only billions. We'll just have to wait and see. Hey, hey!"
"Billions are not many?"
Jun Yan's tone sounded like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, which made Fang Lei suddenly feel that this old guy was also a little unreliable.
Outside this condescending beast bone skull, the situation is clear at a glance. The sand and gravel on the surface shook more and more, and the top layer of sand and gravel was already suspended an inch high, and it was almost impossible to fall at all.
This shows that the insect storm is getting closer and closer, the Zerg army is approaching, and the whole sky has completely darkened - the atmosphere is extremely oppressive.
Skeletons don't have naked eyes, so Fang Lei's vision power will not be affected in any way in the dark. After a while, a large number of colorful flying bugs appeared, buzzing and flapping their wings.
This first wave of flying insects is quite objective, just like a sea of insects.
Every corner was filled with these sickle-shaped front paws.
"Waiting for death? Waiting for death...... If I can't think of a way, I'm going to die. ...... to the
In the past nearly a hundred years, with the help of the cloak, Fang Lei's thinking ability has been fully restored.
Since he couldn't dodge, the first word that came to Fang Lei's mind: pretend to be dead!
Fang Lei didn't think he could hold this place. So he didn't say a word, and the green flame in his eyes quietly shrank back, empty. His body lay on his side on the ground, holding down the cloak, just hiding the bone knife in the sand beneath him.
I don't know if Lu Dao was intentional or unintentional, at first glance, Fang Lei really looked like a passerby who died tragically here, his expression was natural and desolate.
"Boy, you are the first skeleton I have met pretending to be dead, and it is really very undignified! However, every time the Zerg comes out of the cave to collect bone fire, hatch larvae and send energy to the insect king, as long as you show the slightest sign of life, you will invite destruction. Well, you reminded me that every Bug Storm is commanded by a Zerg Overseer, and even my existence can be discovered by it, so the old man is counting on you this time, so let's just be like you. ”
After Jun Yan sent a meager thought, he suddenly disappeared without a trace, and Fang Lei immediately felt a hollow in his mind.
"This old guy is also hiding?" Fang Lei couldn't help but be a little disdainful, but in the exchange just now, Fang Lei knew that the purpose of the Dao Zerg was to collect the bone fire of those human powerhouses who died here.
These dead humans are incredibly powerful, and there is an ever-growing spark in their skulls!
After each Zerg harvest, it takes nearly a thousand Earth-years for these fires to grow. The cycle goes on and on, and I don't know when it will end.
Think about it, how glorious and powerful the human beings were in the past, but after death, they were reduced to food for the humble Zerg. As a human being, Fang Lei's heart was full of complicated emotions. The sky and the earth are huge, and because the entire ancient battlefield is too vast, even if it is an insect storm of this scale, the human bones that can be foraged are only a drop in the bucket.
After a while, the insect tide had already arrived here, and Fang Lei saw with his own eyes that eight flying insects fell from the sky and landed near a skeleton not far away. They extend their long, slender straws and insert them into the skull of the skeleton and begin sucking.
The surface of the insect's body is covered with fine scales, and several wings are like snowy machetes, exuding a cold aura of death, and on the oval head of the insect, several sensitive tentacles are constantly shaking.
It can be seen that these insects seem to have just hibernated, their abdomen is shriveled, and their bodies are relatively weak.
In a few moments, the bone fire of the skeleton was sucked up, and the skull was empty. And the bodies of these insects slowly lit up, like the abdominal cavity of fireflies, emitting a shallow cold light.
"Jun Yan's predecessor is right, one thing descends one thing, these insects are indeed not very good in terms of combat effectiveness, but they can suck bone fire. The sorrow of my clan must be resolved with tenfold revenge to dissolve my hatred!"
Fang Lei has been enraged, and the bugs must be destroyed. It's about just two words – dignity.
The dignity of the human race.
The overwhelming insect storm had already surged into the nearby area, and there was not much space where Fang Lei was hiding, only one or two insects came to patrol, their tentacles swayed on Fang Lei's head for a while, and they didn't find anything abnormal. Then, the bug spewed a green mist into the space and flew away.
This is pheromones, the language of communication between the Zerg.
The trick of pretending to be dead was too effective, Fang Lei thought to himself, "These insects are stupid, they must be telling their companions that they didn't find their prey now, so it's safe." Hmph, it's the first time I've been so cowardly, watching me go around and kill a few of them and roast them. ”
In fact, Fang Lei didn't know the meaning of the pheromone of the Dao at all, and the pheromone meaning of the patrol guard was: "It was found that it was suitable for incubating eggs, and there was edible food." Please tell the 258203 mother to rush to lay eggs!"
In other words, no matter how well Fang Lei was hidden, he was still discovered by the Zerg patrol who was sensitive to bone fire.
In the content of pheromones, the insects have long regarded Fang Lei as "food", but the green fire energy of this food is too weak, and the growth rate must be very weak, so according to their way of processing, they only need to send a female worm to lay eggs here, Fang Lei is food, and the eggs can be left to grow naturally.
After a while, a fat flesh worm that looked a bit like a giant earthworm, about twenty meters long and more than a meter high, squeezed through a lot of animal bone remains before squeezing its stinking tail into the cave where Fang Lei was.
This is the female worm No. 258203, whose wings have deteriorated so badly that they are seven inches long. The scales are pretty much peeled off, leaving little defense.
"Tear ...... Puff, puff, puff......" accompanied by a strange sound, Fang Lei had a bad premonition.
The innate function of the insect is to strictly adhere to the division of labor system, and the female insect receives the task of coming here to lay eggs, and nothing else.
Aiming at Fang Lei's weak skeleton, from the reproductive cavity of this female worm, many oval eggs the size of a basketball were produced, and the color of the eggs was dark yellow and a bit like amber. Probably due to the previous overproduction, the female worm's reproductive cavity was somewhat broken, and along with the eggs, there was a lot of green blood and feces, which were excreted as much as possible.
"Puff, puff, puff......"
"Oh my God, how could I be so unlucky. ”
Fang Lei understood the meaning of those pheromones, but he was now almost completely covered by the excrement of the female worm, and if it weren't for the skeleton form, he would have been smoked to death. Finally, when the mother worm stopped producing, the huge fat body of the female worm was finally withdrawn from the burrow.
Fang Lei breathed a sigh of relief, the cave recovered as before, these dozens of insect eggs seemed to be breathing, and the epidermis surged slightly, this kind of fetal movement showed that the vitality of the Zerg was very strong.
The army of bugs is endless, always marching in one direction. I don't know how long it took before the outside gradually quieted down.
The Zerg also have to find more corpses, and every time a worm storm appears, hundreds of millions of bone fires must be harvested to meet the needs of their entire race.
They didn't care about the eggs laid by the female worms, they originally wanted to parasitize these eggs near Fang Lei and rely on Fang Lei's bone fire to provide energy.
But the insects didn't know that this skeleton was actually alive.
Despite his insignificant strength, Fang Lei was able to destroy these eggs with ease. However, he didn't kill immediately, he wanted to see what would happen when the eggs hatched into larvae.
If you want to kill the Zerg, you must know their habits.
Regarding Fang Lei's measures, Jun Yan saw it in his eyes and did not say anything.
That night, Fang Lei used the green fire in his eye socket and used animal bones to make firewood to light a fire. Then arrange the eggs according to the distance and take advantage of the temperature of the fire to accelerate the hatching.
In fact, skeletons don't feel cold, and they don't feel hungry or thirsty. But Fang Lei always had a special attachment to the firelight, just in the crackling burning, Fang Lei fell asleep in a trance, he had a dream - Nima, these eggs are full of naked school flowers.