Up to now, after continuous battles and improvements, Yeliu has been refined to be concise and direct. She moved like a thunderstorm, the black electricity in her hand was uncertain, and the thin black snake that was free swept through the space, and it would stay for a while before dissipating. Therefore, on the battlefield between Yeliu and the leader of the Red Rat, there are more or less remnants of such fine black lightning. With the existence of these black lightning, the movement space of the nezumi leader is greatly restricted, and at the same time, those elite gray squirrel people have no way to intervene in the battle between the two, so they can only go to the stronghold.

So far, there has been no contact between Yeliu and the Red Rat Leader even once. Both are extremely fast, with Yeliu moving without warning, while the Red Rat Leader is faster than in the transition. They were entangled like two whirlwinds, but they did not collide in any way, but the danger between them was no less than that of a head-on confrontation, and it was still more than that.

Yeliu's black lightning cluster, and the dark red crystal claws of the rat leader are all sharp weapons to kill the enemy. No matter who is hit by the other party, it is not easy to suffer, and the two are also trying their best to find the opponent's flaws, as long as both sides show flaws, it will inevitably lead to endless attacks!

In terms of speed, Yeliu and the leader of the red rat are almost on par, but in terms of skill and experience, Yeliu is clearly superior. Through a series of battles just now, Yeliu almost figured out the attack routine of the rat man. To put it simply, it can't be called a combat skill, but more like the instinct of a beast. It's just that the nezumi elevates this instinct to the extreme, forming a unique lethal attack.

Pounce, bite, tear, jump...... These actions come and go, but the combination of different actions can produce several attack patterns. After figuring out all these patterns, Yeliu has already made up her mind in her heart.

Living underground for a long time, the eyes of the nezumi have deteriorated. They perceive the outside world more by using the sense of vibration, sound, and smell. These form a complex but precise perceptual system that simulates the actions of the rat-man in the brain.

A pounce on the end of the fruit, and the leader of the nezumi "saw" that Yeliu slid back like the wind. I don't know if it was because of carelessness, my toes tripped over the gravel on the ground, and my body immediately lost balance. For a high-level person like Yeryu, it probably wouldn't take even a second to restore balance. But the rat man would not let go of this rare opportunity, and under the instinct of it, it moved like the wind, like a ball of flame, and pounced on Yeliu.

Suddenly, Yaryu's image vanished from its perception. Then a human phrase rang in his ears, but the rat-man couldn't understand what it meant, and then the left side of his waist went cold, and then the perception system became blurred.

"It's really a deception. ”

Yeliu left a sentence in the rat man's ear, and the black electricity in his hand passed through his waist. Then it flashed ten meters away, and sure enough, the rat-man spun around, and its thin tail twitched, making a sharp whistling sound in the air. It's just that its counterattack fell in the air, and Yeliu had thought that it would come with such a move. From revealing flaws, to hits, to flying back to prevent the nezumi from fighting back, these are all lessons learned over a long period of fighting.

The underground world is relatively simple, and the nezumi have few natural predators in the Giant Beast Canyon. They hunt creatures, relying on their strong instincts, and the accumulated experience is more inclined to attack directly than the treacherous human deterioration.

Slashed by Yeliu's black lightning, those energy threads will invade the opponent's brain, destroying their perception system. On that day, Sauron's clone warrior was slashed three times in a row by Yeliu, and he was deprived of his perception and could only be left to his fish. How can this rat man be spared, it can be said that the moment Yeliu is killed, the victory or defeat has been decided. It was only a matter of time before the leader was killed.

On the other hand, the war under the strongholds is in full swing.

A few people continued to shoot fire arrows from under the sentry wall, and the fire arrows burst, igniting the ointment in it, forming a cluster of flames on the ground. These flames burn for a long time and may not pose much of a threat to the Squirrels, but ordinary Squirrels are glued to them and either burned alive or severely injured. The smell of roasted meat wafted from the base, the smell of many rat men who had been burned to death.

Gold is like a fish in water in this special environment underground, and the molding time of the ability is greatly reduced, the power and range are correspondingly increased, and the energy consumption is also reduced by a certain proportion. This is due to the abundance of earth elements underground, and below the stronghold, it is almost like an active area of earth elements. The conical spears had not stopped since the beginning of the battle, destroying the ground at a constant rate of four to five per second, making it extremely difficult for the rats to attack.

Then quicksand, rock fists, stone walls, and other abilities continue to appear. Restrain further and disrupt the swarm, dividing them. Zero and the others would then use fire arrows to greet the unlucky nezumi who had been separated, and once they were trapped in the quicksand, the nezumi would almost become a living target, making the attack on the stronghold side extremely smooth.

It's just that over time, the number of arrows is decreasing dramatically. Instead of defending themselves, the sharp stone vertebrae poured out by the ShadowClan had already begun to climb the towers, allowing the nimble nezumi to climb on their feet. Thinking about the time when this stronghold was built, there were no intelligent creatures like nezumi, and the Shadow Clan chased the lizard dragon all the way, and the facilities of this stronghold are probably mostly defensive lizard dragons.

Therefore, it is normal that some fortifications will not work, depending on the targeting. Seeing this, Moni dropped her crossbow and pulled out the Death Assault instead. With her long silver hair flickering, the girl had already gone down to the sentry wall, intercepting the rat men who had climbed up to the sentry wall. On the other side of the sentry wall is a world of ice flakes whistling.

Alice stood directly on the wall, and ice flakes continued to form around her. It's just that it's underground, and there is no environment like a river next to it, so the water vapor in this space is a little insufficient. Coupled with the presence of gold, the space of the stronghold has become the home of the earth element. Alice had to extract water from the air and form swirling ice flakes to deal with these ordinary nezumi.

The fortifications of the stronghold did not stop the nezumi attack, but provided Alice's ice chips with a favorable killing range. Hundreds of ice chips catapult between the cones, forming a network of interceptors with complex and varied trajectories. The nezumi were going to pass through here, almost consuming Alice's ice chips with their own lives. However, this is possible, as the ice chips in the interceptor net do tend to decrease, providing more space for the nezumi to attack.

Seeing that most of the nezumi have already attacked the stronghold sentry wall, even the elite gray squirrel people have begun to climb the sentry wall. Zero yells: "Cut the wooden trough bracket!"

He waved his hand to split a bracket outside the sentry wall, and immediately the wooden trough sank downward, and as the brackets were split one by one, the whole trough was smashed down. The trough first slammed into the stone cones that were sticking outward, and instantly shattered their bones, and all the ointment inside splashed out and fell on the sentry wall and the stone cones, making them slippery. In this way, no matter how nimble the nezumi is, they will not be able to climb on these shiny stone cones, and they will only slip and fall.

Even the elite grey squirrels were no exception, their claws, no matter how sharp they were, were useless under the ointment that covered the surface of the stone cone, and they fell into the stronghold in vain. As more and more wooden troughs fell down, the entire sentry wall of the colony and the stone cones used for defense were splashed with ointment, an oily substance extracted from some unknown creature, making the walls and cones slippery and making the rats suffer.

But their nightmare was not over, as a few people shot fire arrows under the stronghold, the flames touched the ointment on the surface of the wall, and immediately led to a continuous fire. The flames were out of control, and they quickly spread down the walls and cones, falling to the ground in an instant, and engulfing the nezumi into the flames before they could get up.

The entire underside of the stronghold suddenly turned into a sea of fire, and the flames soared into the sky, reflecting the underground space as if it were day. In the flames, I don't know how many strange figures in the darkness rushed to dodge, and the creatures underneath were not adapted to the strong light source. The blood of the previous battle between the two sides attracted something, but the light and fire were seen, and the creatures fled quickly.

Facing the sea of fire, the nezumi could not attack for a while, and could only chirp at the flames. Zero dropped his crossbow, jumped on the wall, and said, "You are waiting for me here." ”

Stepping further into the void, the whole person disappeared in place. The ability to jump in space allowed him to appear in front of several gray squirrels without warning, and before the gray squirrels could react, Zero's momentum rose suddenly, and his fist pulled up a misty pale golden flame, and smashed it into the chest of a gray squirrel man with a thunderous tidal sound. The gray squirrel's chest was smashed into Zero's iron fist, and his whole body crackled with a crackling sound. The chest was even more sunken, and when it flew out again, it was already a corpse.

One punch kills the enemy, Zero spins, and another punch slams the other squirrel man on the cheek. The fist brought out a pale golden tail flame, which lingered in the air for a long time. And the gray squirrel man with the middle punch flew sideways, slammed his head to the ground, and slid all the way through the meters. In the end, the castration disappeared, and when he stopped, half of his head was blurred with flesh and blood, and he couldn't survive.

Only then did the elite gray squirrel scream and pounce on Zero. Zero didn't look at it, and kicked it diagonally upward. The toes also made a continuous sound, kicking the gray squirrel into the air more than ten meters high, and then bleeding from its mouth and nose, and when it fell, it was already a corpse.

Then Zero entered the squirrel swarm, punching and kicking. It seems like a simple fighting move, but both punches and kicks use the power of a heavy warhead. Although the gray squirrel man is strong, he can only be killed and injured by such a punch and kick. When Zero struck out of the squirrels like a whirlwind, half of the elite warriors of the entire swarm were almost dead. Such heavy casualties did not exist in the impression of the rat people, and those ordinary brown rats were only recruited in place.

Suddenly, Zero looked to the side of the battlefield. There happened to be a terrifying black lightning bolt flying there, and in the electric light, a fiery red rat's head flew high, and it was not dazzling under the firelight.

That's the head of the nezumi leader!

The leader was killed in battle, most of the elite were killed and wounded, and the stronghold was on fire. The nezumi gradually lost their will to fight, and one by one they retreated. I don't know which nezumi fled the battlefield first, which caused a domino effect, and even the gray rat man had no intention of fighting. The whole swarm of rats scattered like this, as long as it was a living being, it would be afraid, not to mention that these rat people may not necessarily have the consciousness and will to fight for their lives.

In the flames, Yeru walked back. There was something more in her hand, the hedron and crystal claw of the Red Rat Leader. Yeliu shook one of the saber-like crystal claws: "This thing is full of energy, and it can be used for emergency replenishment when needed, but it won't taste too good." ”

Zero nodded, this kind of spar crystal claw full of biological energy, although it was not as good as the Void Energy Stone of a tenth-order powerhouse, it was also a high-energy item. It's just that it's much inferior to the Void Energy Stone in terms of purity, and because it's biological energy rather than spatial energy, it has some of the characteristics of living beings. This limits the range of bio crystals, but they can be used as energy consumables in times of emergency. Or use your own energy to disturb the energy balance in the hedr, and that is a crystal bomb that explodes in a delayed manner.

So Zero and Yeliu cleaned up the battlefield, mainly to remove the hedron from the corpses of those gray squirrel people. The energy in these hedrons will gradually dissipate, but it will remain there for at least two or three days. As for the Red Rat Leader's hedron crystal claw, its energy purity and strength are higher, and it can be stored for a longer time.

The flames on the outer wall of the stronghold are still burning, and even the fire arrows fired at the beginning of the war have not burned out of the ointment inside, which shows that the flames can continue for a while. Zero had no intention of extinguishing the flames, so they just let it burn. They returned to the colony, having been pursued by the nezumi before, and had no time to inspect it.

Now I finally have time to check the base up and down.

Overall, this stronghold is not as large as the previous forward base. The colony is divided into three floors from top to bottom, with the top floor having a hall similar to that of the Forward Base, but also much smaller. The two floors below are complex with side passages, and each room can be used as a bunker, adhering to the concept of turning the interior of the building into a battlefield.

On the third level, the lowest level, Zero also found a tunnel. The tunnel continues downward, and it is not clear where it leads. There were a number of nezumi corpses next to the tunnel, but they were some of the nezumi that Yeliu had cleaned up after entering the stronghold. They appear to be the guardians of the tunnel, in other words, the tunnel was dug by the nezumi rather than the work of the previous ShadowClan.

Zero asks Leah to use a psychic scan to inspect the tunnel, which is then found to be far away to the side of the canyon, and Leah's psychic scan can't detect the end of it. All I knew was that after going down from the entrance, the tunnel continued to lead to the dark depths of Nadoko.

Entering through the door of the palatine and coming here to meet the nezumi, it was almost a day. Although the team is a group of high-level, it is not a sleepless machine. Now the rat natives of the Giant Beast Canyon should be beaten and scared by them, and they will not make any more moves in a short period of time, and Zero will let everyone rest in the stronghold. Wait six hours before continuing your journey.

During this time, everyone can have enough sleep time to recover their mental and physical strength.

Zero's spirit is good, and the consumption of physical energy is constantly replenished under the condition that the Empty Energy Stone continues to absorb spatial energy. He was idle, so he walked around the stronghold. It can be seen that although this stronghold was built by the ShadowClan, it was occupied by the nezumi. In particular, the second and third floors of the dark fort have traces of a large number of uses.

Although the nezumi have evolved intelligence, they still seem to maintain a beastly life. In this old nest, Zero sees no sign of civilization, more of bestial savagery. In some of the bunkers on the third floor, the bones of some creatures are piled up. There are so many bones, it's like a garbage heap. However, in one of the rooms, Zero found a bucket of the previous ointment.

The portion is not much, but you can bring some. These ointments can be lit for a long time, just enough to be used as torches to save energy for searchlights. And the ointment does more than that, put them in some sealed utensils and it will be a good burst bomb. Next they had to go to the Lizard Dragon Plains, and the ointment should still help.

In addition to this, Zero also found some mottled eggs in a room on the second floor. This made him wonder what these eggs were, no matter how he looked at them, they didn't look like oviparous creatures. He smashed one of them, but inside the eggshell was a lizard hatchling, encased in a flesh membrane. These eggs turned out to be dragon eggs, and I don't know what the nezumi were like they were used for.

There's another question, how they get the dragon eggs. Unless there's a lizard's lair near the Canyon of the Behemoth, which seems unlikely, powerful species will always have a strong sense of territory, and they tend to live in the same area. Just like humans and aliens, apart from Zero Dawn City, where else have you seen humans and aliens living together?

Both the Nezumi and the Lizard Dragons are considered powerful species in this subterranean space, so it is unlikely that there will be a Lizard Dragon Lair nearby when the Behemoth Canyon is divided into territory by the Nezumi. Even the group of dragons in the forward base did not find any dragon eggs.

In this way, it is doubtful where the nezumi got the dragon eggs. Suddenly, Zero remembered the tunnel, and judging by the direction of the tunnel, it was undoubtedly leading to the Lizard Dragon Plains. Zero, could it be that these rat people actually made a tunnel in the canyon and led directly to some lizard dragon lair in the plains?

This sounds ridiculous, but it explains why these dragon eggs were found in the nezumi's den. Whatever their purpose, if the tunnel leads to the Dragon's Plains, it's worth putting it to good use. If they could use that tunnel to get through the Lizard Plains, Zero would save a lot of effort.

He returned to the place where everyone was resting, found a corner and lay down in his clothes, and closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. Time passed minute by minute, and after more than five hours, everyone woke up one after another, and Zero also told everyone about his discovery. When they heard that this tunnel might go straight to the Lizard Dragon Plain, everyone thought it was incredible.