Chapter 526: Patriarch
A saber appeared in Zero's hand, and he backhanded it into the carapace space of the Ice Lurker's jaw. The lurker was stabbed, but died instantly. It scrambled its feet, trying to scratch at the man's body. But Zero grabbed one of the Lurker's legs with his other hand and pulled it to the ground, and the violent collision made the Lurker a little dizzy.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zero kicked the handle of the saber on the lurker's body, and immediately pushed the saber all the way along the gap between the carapace. As a large amount of insect blood bubbled out of the wound, the lurker's feet and limbs continued to move until they slowly stopped, and death was declared.
Looking at the insect corpses on the ground, Merlin said lightly: "I don't see it, your fighting skills are not much worse." ”
"Be careful with compliments!"
They were passing through a swamp when suddenly a column of mud erupted from the swamp behind Merlin. In the mud pillar flow, a humanoid monster more than three meters tall pounced towards Merlin. Merlin didn't look back, and his backhand was cut off with an axe. But I saw a red light as thin as silk passing over the monster. The monster's movements froze instantly, and then cracked diagonally from the shoulder to the lower abdomen, turning into two huge corpses and falling back into the swamp.
Slashing a muddy guard, Merlin continued to drag his axe as if nothing had happened.
Zero picked up the saber on the lurker's body, looked up at the oasis wrapped in mist, and sighed in his heart. Since they entered the Silent Continent, they had slain monsters like the Lurkers and the Muddy Guards, and this oasis was probably the most dangerous natural area Zero had ever seen. Danger comes from all directions, it can be under coconut trees, it can come from a swamp, and it is more likely to emerge from the ground beneath your feet.
These dangerous mutant beasts are almost everywhere, and Zero and the two have left behind as many as a hundred of these corpses along the way. For example, the saber in Zero's hand, which is materialized from energy, has been broken several times, and each time it has been repaired through the replenishment of energy.
The Silent Continent lives up to its name, an oasis that is as quiet as a dead land. Whether they're lurkers or mud guards, the monsters here seem to be adept at hiding and lurking. It is not until they attack that they react like energy and breath. As a result, Zero's pistol is basically useless. When danger erupts around us, cold weapons such as sabers and daggers play a greater role.
The Silent Island is a figure-8 terrain consisting of bogs, wetlands, and coconut groves. The air is very damp and stuffy, and it contains a small amount of toxins. If you inhale a lot of toxic air due to excessive exercise, your whole body will be paralyzed and you will not be able to move. After entering the Silent Continent, Merlin would occasionally tear a few leaves from some ferns and hold them in his mouth.
When these leaves meet with saliva, they secrete some strange substances. These substances increase oxygen intake in the lungs and neutralize toxins in the air, so that he and Zero are not poisoned by strenuous exercise. The Grand Duke tells Zero that the Tuku rely on these leaves to be able to fly around the Silent Continent without fear of being poisoned and turned into food for some monsters.
It is these seemingly inconspicuous leaves, but they are one of the few secrets of the Silent Continent.
Zero was curious that Weishenme Merlin would know these secrets, but the Red Grand Duke didn't say anything, and he didn't bother to ask. He only knew that the two of them had killed all the way like this, and it seemed to be too arrogant, as if he was telling the arrival of the two people in this oasis.
To this question, Merlin replied: "If you don't do this, you won't find the man." ”
Since the Red Grand Duke thinks so, Zero no longer asks. Since you have decided to cooperate, there are times when you have to trust your partner. Just like Zero at this moment, after picking up the saber, he injected a beam of energy into the saber. Through the conversion of matter, the broken hole in the saber was repaired. Zero couldn't help but sigh that he had already picked the most vulnerable part of the lurker's body, but he still made the saber collapse a few times.
You must know that when he first entered the Silent Continent, when Zero killed the first lurker, he directly broke a saber. The carapace of these monsters is very hard, only the jaw space is softer. After hunting down a few lurkers, Zero almost became an expert in the study of this monster. In fact, under the structural detection of Gold's right eye, there is basically no creature that can hide the detection of zero.
The two walked around the pond and into a coconut grove. When you step on the wetlands, you can feel the heat rising from under the ground, which is due to the large area of hot springs that exist beneath the Silent Continent. Originally, the hot spring area would only exist in the area near the volcano, but there is no such thing as a volcano in the Silent Continent when viewed horizontally and vertically.
However, the collision and integration of tectonic plates in the new era has brought about great changes in the landform. Or it is not surprising that there is a volcanic area beneath the Silent Continent, and geologists may be interested in the peculiar environment of the oasis, but Zero is not an expert in this area, let alone a research interest. All he knew was that it wasn't inhabitable for humans, and that the Silent Continent was just a paradise for mutants and Tuku.
There was a slight vibration in the air, and Zero quickly locked onto its direction. When I looked, I saw a black shadow flying across the coconut trees, and in the blink of an eye, it came to the bottom of Zero's head. The sound of breaking the air made a loud noise in his head, and a cold light pressed straight down, straight to the center of Zero's eyebrows.
Zero Leng snorted, the saber was on the grid, and it collided with the cold light. The tremendous force from the saber was transmitted through his arms to Zero's body, and then from his feet to the ground. The already unstable wet ground immediately sank, and the entire ball of the foot sank into the ground. And only then did he see this strange life that came down from the sky.
Despite being a humanoid creature, it is not clear what kind of life it evolved from. A strange life that can only be attributed to an alien body, with an oval-shaped head covered in a biological carapace from its forehead to its back. It has a thin body, long hands and long legs, and is covered in a layer of biological armor-like biological tissue on its chest and shoulders that seems to act as a protector.
Its long arms are long, short, sharp spines, and its excessively large palms have a membrane of flesh between its fingers that resemble the toes of frogs. The xenomorph holds a short blade in both hands, and judging by its style, it is supposed to be homemade. But it's sharp enough, which is not hard to tell from the icy sheen that flows from the blade surface. If it weren't for Zero's saber to block the short blade, I'm afraid that he would have been cut in two from head to toe by the alien now.
The xenomorph, whose body was still suspended after missing the blow, suddenly erupted from both sides of its abdomen with scorching airflow. This causes it to slide back in the air, moving quickly when it hits the ground, and occasionally using jets to change its trajectory, making it difficult to pinpoint its position.
A strange symbol rises in Zero's right eye, and the xenomorph is broken down into countless images in his eyes. These images show the trajectory of the alien's movement, and the ability "Prophet", which has been activated, deduces the most likely cut direction of the alien to zero after performing a series of calculations.
As he continued to use the power of the "prophet", Zero already knew that it was still in its infancy. With the advancement of zero ability, the Prophet also has the advancement of two stages: limit operation and perspective into the future. The limit operation will maximize the prediction ability of the prophet and make the estimation probability reach 100% accuracy, while the perspective of the future can use the existing data to derive the data of the opponent's next move under a series of unexplained analysis calculations. That includes specific data such as the abilities that the opponent will use, the angle of the attack, and the output of liliang. And it is only then that the power of the prophet truly deserves its name.
The same is true for structural probing, in addition to the current stage of the body structure detection of organisms, there are two stages of gene deconstruction and energy analysis. The former can collect the genetic information of organisms, while the latter knows the energy composition well, both of which belong to the advanced ability of structural detection.
Now, with the use of the Prophet, the possible cut direction of the alien form is derived. Despite being only 80 percent of the way, Zero followed the prophet's instructions and stepped back with one leg into the void. And the next moment, the figure of the alien body filled the blank space, thus making Zero One kick solid.
An unbelievable gaze shot out from the flat pupils on the xenomorph's head, but the body was involuntarily kicked away by Zero-One. Zero used the concussion technique on this leg, and Liliang penetrated through the body and continued to vibrate the bones, internal organs, and even nerves of the alien body. Let it hit a coconut tree and get weak, and it can't climb for a while.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zero's structural detection fell on it, so the body structure of this xenomorph was no longer a secret in Zero's eyes.
This alien lifeform is nearly three meters tall. Its brain is very developed, especially the cerebellum, which is almost twice the size of humans, which indicates that it has a fairly high level of intelligence. The musculature of the heteromorph is very peculiar, its muscles are not very developed, and it can even be described as a loose span. Originally, such a tissue could not burst into a huge liliang, but unlike the primary muscle bundle composed of hundreds of muscle fibers of ordinary organisms, the muscle bundle of the alien body is actually composed of hundreds of muscle fibers. And between the primary muscle bundles, there is a very rare junction point in ordinary creatures, and the junction point is the power node, which allows the alien body to use huge explosive power when necessary.
The blood temperature of the xenomorph is extremely high, reaching a range of about 100 degrees Celsius. The high temperature of the blood causes the xenomorphs to produce a constant stream of hot gases in their bodies, which are stored in sac-like organs on either side of the abdominal cavity. On the surface skin of the sac-like organs, fumaroles are born. When needed, the xenomorph can instantly eject air currents to change its trajectory through the contraction of the sac-like organs.
In addition, the skeleton of the xenomorph is also very peculiar. They are hollow, tubular structures that are very strong despite being slender. The surface of the bones is covered with fine lines, and these tiny bone gaps are connected by a thin flesh membrane like a cicada's wings. This skeletal structure allows the xenomorph to greatly reduce its own weight, allowing its speed to be maximized. The gaps in the bones greatly improve the shock resistance of the alien body, so that its bones will not be shattered so easily.
Overall, the xenomorph's body has evolved to a very advanced form. And when the entire structure was probed, Zero came to another conclusion. That is, every time such an alien body is killed, it can bring him ten to fifteen evolution points, which is already quite valuable for a human seventh-order ability.
"This is the Tuku people, right?" asked Zero.
Merlin nodded, before he could speak. The sound of breaking the air in the coconut grove was everywhere, and I saw the figure of the Tao Dao surrounded from all sides of the coconut grove. Hundreds of Tuku people appeared behind the trees, staring at the outsiders, Zero and the Red Grand Duke, with their flat, glowing pupils. The Tuku people all carry homemade weapons in their hands, but whether they are short-edged knives or tomahawk spears, they all have a common characteristic of being extremely sharp.
Some weapons still have one or two energy brilliance flowing on them from time to time, and obviously there are some strange effects.
"The Tuku have always acted in packs, like wolves. Whether the opponent is one or a group, they always are. Merlin was holding a tomahawk and Zero back-to-back to make sure there was no chance of a sneak attack.
Zero frowned and looked at the saber in his hand, the hand-to-hand encounter just now had already made the saber collapse. With such a weapon, he really didn't know how many rounds of attacks he could block from the Tuku people?
When hundreds of alien bodies continued to shrink the encirclement, a huge pressure arose. Obviously, each Tuku clan had Liliang that surpassed that of ordinary seventh-order abilities. Even in terms of pure energy levels, they were already very close to the eighth order, and what was missing was only an opportunity to break through. Facing hundreds of aliens who were extremely close to the eighth order, even zero felt very tricky.
But at this time, Merlin whispered to Zero: "Biedong hand." ”
Zero was a little stunned, he didn't have the habit of being caught. At this time, Merlin made a very peculiar sound, it seemed to be a foreign language, and Zero couldn't understand it anyway.
Merlin speaks the language of the Tuku people, which translates to: "I want to see your patriarch Tuxian, and I want to ask him if this is how the Tuku people entertain their friends?"
The pace of the encirclement slowed significantly, and the Tuku people looked at each other, apparently suppressed by Merlin's words. At this moment, a hoarse voice sounded from behind the alien: "Merlin, you old thing, I have never treated you as my friend." But I owe him a favor, so let's get out of the way. ”
The first sentence was addressed to Merlin, and the latter was addressed to the rest of the people. As the alien form dispersed, Zero saw a particularly tall Tuku man walking slowly. It is nearly four meters tall, and its appearance is only very slightly different from that of other aliens, making it difficult to distinguish it from other people without looking closely. He was also wearing no clothes, except for a gray cape. The cloak has a row of colorful feathers around its neck, and it is unknown what kind of bird it is taken from. This decoration is strange and unusual in terms of the human view of judgment, but in the Tuku it is a symbol of the patriarch.
Merlin thrust his tomahawk into the wetland, then strode forward and punched the opponent in the chest, shouting, "How long has it been, you old bastard!"