Chapter 496: Ice and Snow Tyrant
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Nestled hundreds of miles of forest in the Zambis Mountains, it is dead and silent from the outside. Whether it is the towering trees that have been blown by the wind and snow for many years, and the few traces of biological activity in the forest, it seems to indicate that this is a dead forest, or that it is dying. But in fact, it is young and vibrant.
Life lurks beneath the snow, deep in the forest.
A variety of cedar trees and ferns have evolved and mutated in just a few decades to adapt to their environment, allowing their roots to dig deeper and grow longer to absorb water beneath the earth's surface. Compared to the harsh surface environment, the underground shijie is relatively warm, and the thin but undried ground water provides space for these mutant plants to live.
As for the creatures, they have their own unique way of surviving.
Times are changing, and shijie is changing. Only by changing themselves, evolving themselves, and optimizing their genes can organisms continue to survive in this cruel environment. And the surviving creatures have their own way of survival. In this vast forest, there are hundreds of species, all of which have the same way of living.
Among them, the laziest way of survival is the Ice Meteor Scale Scorpion. These forest-deep scorpion scorpions are typically nearly three meters long, and their bodies are covered with thick ice armor that resembles an exoskeleton. The armor made the scorpions' skin thick and thick, and ordinary rifles would only leave rows of bullet marks when fired at them. The ice-scaled scorpion also has two scorpion claws, but the two scorpion claws are very incompatible.
The scorpion claws on the left are as large as a car body, but the scorpion claws on the right are very small, so the ice scale scorpions usually attack their prey with their powerful left claws. Of course, as scorpions, they also possess a deadly stinger. It's just different from the normal way of scorpions that stick their stingers into their prey and then inject venom. The ice scorpion's chelica is actually a high-pressure water gun, pressurized by a special organ in its tail, and the ice scorpion can shoot out of the small hole in the stinger with enough cold body fluids to freeze a regular creature instantly.
The body fluids sprayed by the adult ice-scaled scorpion stingers are up to 10 meters away, and the water pressure is very high, so that the body fluids sprayed are like water arrows, which can easily pierce through rocks, and of course, can cut through the bodies of prey that are not strong.
It's just that the ice-scaled scorpion, which terrifies other creatures, often hibernates in their own nests. Less than one month of the year is devoted to their predation and breeding. If it weren't for that, I'm afraid that the Ice Scale Scorpion would have already become the overlord of the forest. Because of this, they are well-deserved sloths in the forest.
Most of the nests of the ice-scaled scorpion are located in natural caves tens of meters below the surface, which isolates the cold air of the ground and becomes a natural hotbed for the ice-scaled scorpion to hibernate. When they hibernate, they shrink their claws and tail spines, thus camouflaging themselves as blocks of ice. In fact, their blue-gray armor makes the scorpions look like rocks.
If a creature with no eyes carelessly passes by the scorpion, the ice scaly scorpion doesn't mind catching the delicacies that come to its door. After a full meal, these lazy fellows will continue to sleep until the mating season comes.
There were only four or five hundred ice scale scorpions hiding in the underground caverns, but for such a huge mutant creature, this was already a large population. And as the king of this race, the Ice Tyrant is usually in a state of light sleep. It is both the king of the scorpion colony and the most powerful guardian of its species, so that it can survive hibernation and breeding periods.
The Ice Tyrant was the strongest of all the scorpions, not only in its massive body that was ten meters long and wide, but also in its ice armor, which was far more complex and heavy than ordinary scorpions. The armor on the Ice and Snow Tyrant is the thickest of the entire clan. Unlike other scorpions, the Ice Tyrant has sharp ice spikes in many parts, which makes it look very difficult to mess with.
In fact, in addition to the Ice Scorpion's common attack methods, the Ice Tyrant also has the ability of the Ice Element, which is also the capital of its defense of the race.
The underground caverns are warm and humid, which is the favorite environment of the Ice and Snow Tyrants. It was disguising itself as a giant rock, and in its hibernation, its breathing and heartbeat dropped to three to five times per hour. This greatly reduces the speed of blood circulation in the body, while also saving energy and energy consumption. But in this state, some of the senses of the Ice and Snow Tyrant are still keen.
For example, its flat abdomen clinging to the ground, and its body covered by heavy ice armor with several special muscle groups. They are sensitive to concussions, and if a creature approaches a scorpion colony's nest, the Ice Tyrant will be the first to know and react.
At this moment, it suddenly felt an unusual vibration while it was sleeping. The magnitude of the tremor was not large, but it was enough to alert it. Then the Ice Tyrant awoke from his slumber, first two bits of blue light in the black void between his stomach. Cracks appear in the camouflaged boulder, and the boulder's appearance begins to deform.
From the front stretched out a giant claw, far larger than the other ice-scaled scorpions, like the body of a forklift, and when it slammed into the ground, the burrow shook slightly. The right chela and tail spines stretched, followed by three pairs of bristly hairy limbs protruding from under the flat ventral carapace. The limbs were flattened and flexed, supporting the ten-meter-long and wide body of the Ice and Snow Tyrant.
After transforming from a boulder to a large bug, the Ice Tyrant flew towards the source of the tremors. It may seem clumsy, but it's silent and nimble. Even though there were the same number of ice-scaled scorpions hibernating in the cave, the Ice Tyrant could always pass by them without alerting them. After passing through the natural cavern used as a lair, the Ice Tyrant entered a complex underground passage.
This is the periphery of the lair and at the same time a labyrinth. The natural caves crisscross the area, making the terrain complex enough to confuse the creatures who come here for the first time, and it is also a natural line of defense for the lair of the ice scale scorpion. Naturally, the Ice Tyrant was familiar with the terrain here, and as soon as he entered the labyrinth, he did not stop towards the source of the tremors.
The smell of danger wafted through the air, and another smell of pantothenic acid wafted quietly. This made the Ice Tyrant furious, as the smell was the smell of the Ice Scorpion's blood. In other words, something hunts its people near the lair. Enraged, the Ice and Snow Tyrant's speed increased dramatically, and the complex terrain seemed to him to be on the ground.
The smell of scorpion blood began to thicken, and the closer it got, the more irritated the Ice Tyrant's heart became. Eventually, the corpse of an ice-scaled scorpion appeared in its eyes. The adult scorpion, its carcass flipped over, and the part of the spine from the head to the tail was almost cut open by something, causing internal organs and blood to flow all over the ground. The Ice Tyrant hissed angrily and continued as he walked on, seeing several more corpses of his clansmen.
The corpses were fatal with a single blow, and the wounds were so large that they were eye-catching. But apparently, the Ice Tyrant had no interest in studying the killer's abilities from the corpse, and now it only wanted to shred the creature who dared to kill its people, no matter what kind of creature it was. Soon, the Ice and Snow Tyrant saw a giant figure in the distance.
It was a back, a humanoid creature holding something high. Then the cave lit up with a dark red light, and Zuihou another ice-scaled scorpion writhed around in pain on the ground, and gradually lost its voice.
The Ice Tyrant let out a sharp cry that shook the entire cavern slightly. Its three pairs of legs seemed to be gliding on the ice, and with a single stroke, it held its huge body and pressed towards the murderer. Seeing that he was about to approach the murderer, the left claw like a forklift truck swept away, breaking several stalagmites in the air, and falling on the murderer with the power of a mountain.
The giant spun around and used a broad, dark red greatsword as a shield to block the Ice Tyrant's earth-shattering blow. With the giant's nearly five-meter-tall body, it also gave the tyrant's left claw sweep an unstable footing, and flew out sideways to the other side. After breaking a dozen stalagmites, the giant smashed against a rock wall before he stopped.
It shook its head and stood up, the battle intent written in the single eye on its head. The giant waved his four hands, and there was a flesh-tube-like thing behind his shoulder that spewed out puffs of hot smoke, and he followed it and ran up ten meters in one step!
The Ice and Snow Tyrant is not weak, it is like a heavy chariot. The chariot turned around and drove toward the giant.
The two behemoths meet halfway through and crash into each other. At the moment of the collision, a violent storm was released, causing both to retreat a few steps in opposite directions.
The giant stepped on the large rocks one after another before he stopped, and then rushed back to him. With the dark red greatsword in his hand as a war hammer, he desperately slammed into the body of the Ice Tyrant. In the face of the giant's frantic attacks, the Ice and Snow Tyrant used his left claw to block from time to time, and sparked brilliant sparks between his great sword. During the fight, the giant suddenly felt a pain in his feet. Looking down, it turned out to be a sharp ice blade that had pierced into the soles of its feet at some point.
The giant raised his big feet, bypassed the ice blades and continued to attack the Ice Tyrant. Unexpectedly, the ice blade swayed between the ground as if it were a living thing, and with a faint smoke it tracked towards the giant. This is followed by the second and third blades spawning on the ground. They crisscrossed the ground and swept towards the giant like the dorsal fins of a bloodthirsty shark in the depths.
And in fact, this is one of the abilities of the Ice Tyrant. Generate sharp skates that automatically track targets, which can be used to interfere with guerrillas. If an opponent ignores the icy fangs on the ground, the consequences are often sliced into pieces by the blades.
Under the interference of the ice blades, the giant could not let go of the attack as before. It had to be careful not to cut off its legs by the ice blades on the ground, and it also had to pay attention to the attack of the Ice and Snow Tyrant, and it was suddenly a little scrambling. The Zuihou giant screamed and slammed his greatsword at the Ice Tyrant like an axe, but the man turned around and sprinted.
The Ice Tyrant used his left claw to block the greatsword, which sparked a spark and slashed into the ground. As for its owner, it has long since run away without a trace. Although the skate blades can be tracked automatically, they also have a certain range. As soon as the target is out of range, the blade spun around blindly. The Ice Tyrant dissipated the energy to sustain the blade, and a chain flew from the depths of the cavern, pinpointing the greatsword.
The chain was wrapped and pulled, and the great sword was drawn into the darkness of the cave. This is undoubtedly a shame for the Ice and Snow Tyrant, and the murderer killed his people, not to mention, but also walked away. The Ice Tyrant hissed angrily, a cry of special significance, awakening the other Ice Scorpions that were hibernating. So in the nest of the ice-scaled scorpion, the rock-like things were transformed one by one, and the limbs that had lost their camouflage stretched out and turned into a large scorpion that was only three meters long.
The Ice Scorpion received the signal from the Ice Tyrant's cry, and they rushed towards the Ice Tyrant's location. At this moment, they were the soldiers who went into battle, converging into a blue-gray torrent that surged under the surface of the mountain range towards the exit.
As the scorpion swarm passed by him, the Ice Tyrant joined the torrent. The scorpions ran wildly, causing the cave to vibrate. When this vibration reaches the ground, it signals danger to the creatures living on the surface. The two-headed eagles perched on the dead trees were the first to feel the tremors, they smelled the danger signals, and the smell of the Ice Tyrant made them shudder. So a two-headed eagle rose into the sky and scattered its feathers all over the ground.
Immediately afterward, more and more creatures felt the vibrations that were constantly transmitted from the ground, causing the mutant beasts to scramble to flee first. In just a moment, a thick snowdrift suddenly lifted a snow bag, and an ice-scaled scorpion rushed out of the snow pack, bringing up countless slush. Behind this ice-scaled scorpion was a torrent of gray-blue scorpions, swarming out of the exit of the nest and tracking the scent in the air.
When the Ice Tyrant also came to the surface, the Tyrant let out a hiss that shook the entire forest, like a demonstration, or a warning.
The sound echoed through the forest, and the cry of the Ice Tyrant was heard, and the weak mutant beasts could not even think of escaping, but only hid in their lair and shivered.
The earth was shaking, the torrent of scorpions piercing through the forest, and nothing dared to stand in the way of the scorpions. So in Betsy's telescope, the torrent rushed down the mountain almost without any suffocation. The binoculars were moving, and on the other side of the scorpion colony, Xiangshang, the lights of the Mobistone Bazaar were still bright. Soon, however, the scorpion swarm will dim the lights there, or become a fire that burns everything.
Cowboy lowered his binoculars and looked at the figure beside him, shrouded in crimson heavy armor, "I don't know how to thank you, honorable red duke. It's just that I'm curious, the Red Grand Duke Weishenme of Gegenia will help us. You know, we're far from friends?"
"I have my own plans, but I don't have to explain anything to you. I know who your target is, but I don't allow you to fight Artemilie's idea other than that. Otherwise, my tomahawk won't mind cutting off your heads!" and with a flick of his cloak, the red Grand Duke turned around with his axe and strode away into the depths of the forest.
Turning around, a smile bloomed on Betsy's face: "This trick is not very clever to use a knife to kill, Lord Merlin." ”