Chapter 1099: The Wasteland (3)
These small insects with unusually bright carapace are one size larger than ordinary insects, and from the sharp mouthparts of their beaks, you can also see that this group of guys is not easy to mess with.
These little insects should have been dormant under this frozen soil just now, and suddenly Locke lifted their 'roofs' and woke up one by one in a scream, and the chaotic swarm of insects hissed, reflecting both their anger and panic at this time.
In this nearby area, they are neither weak nor strong, and they can only survive by working together in groups, but they can only be roughly in the middle and lower layers of the food chain.
"Wisdom is not weak. Locke exclaimed, the energy level of these little insects was generally between demonic creatures and low-level demonic beasts, and the strongest golden beetle among them was infinitely close to the level of middle-level demonic beasts.
After experiencing the initial anger and panic, more than 100 bugs did not find any culprit for destroying their home, so they began to move under the command of a large bug with a milky white body as soft as slime.
The body surface temperature is so cold, and there is an extremely high concentration of radiation pollution, with the tenacious vitality of these insects, it is also a little difficult to accept.
The milky white mollusk was twice the size of the normal bug, and its strength was almost the weakest in the swarm, but it was the mother of the swarm, and even the strongest golden beetle had to obey its command.
Beneath it, Locke saw more than a dozen white orbs that were round and egg-like, which were supposed to be insect eggs.
But what caught Locke's attention even more was the belongings that these little things carried when he moved—large pieces of green plant roots and flesh stumps.
This only means that the bugs are omnivores, and that Locke is a straightforward knight, not a magician who seeks the truth of life, so the discovery of this conclusion is of no use to him.
However, among the remains of the flesh and blood, Locke found some tissue from humans.
It seems that the food of these insects is really mixed, they eat plant fibers, they bite the flesh and blood of animals, and they even let go of the humans who used to be the masters of this plane.
It's just that the information from the pile of tissue fragments is limited, and luckily Locke can finally be sure that he's not going in the wrong direction.
If you go east, you may not be able to find the human settlements in this area.
After capturing two moving bugs in the air and stunning them with a mental impact, Locke sealed them in a special container for specimens.
"Master, what are you doing?" asked Satsuki with strange eyes, as a third-level lifeform, she couldn't understand why Locke treated these weak bugs so specially.
"Help your master and mother collect some materials for experiments. Locke said half-jokingly, and what he said was actually the truth.
This is the consequence of having a group of magician wives in the family, and every time Locke enters a new world, he is always urged by Ashar and other women to bring back some species specimens.
His gains in the Qingyang Realm are huge and rich, but in the final analysis, the knowledge system of alchemy, refining, beast serving, and array formation is not what Ashar is good at, and her more handy fields lie in life science and anatomy.
Locke has always thought that his bowl of water is very flat, and Ashar has made so many for him, and these collected biological specimens are mainly used by Ashar for research after returning to the Western Three Islands.
Then he flew eastward, the thick night could not hide the detection of a third-level knight, and in the next half an hour, Locke found a variety of creatures, many of which were powerful.
It is an earthworm-like animal, but it has a physique of nearly eight meters.
Two elongated tentacles are important organs for this large earthworm to detect the outside world, and each end of its body has an unusually sharp drill bit, which allows it to easily burrow through the hard frozen soil and escape from the ground.
This earthworm is also the strongest creature that Locke has found so far, with quasi-rank strength, it can be seen that it is also a tyrant nearby, at least within a radius of a kilometer, Locke has not detected another large living creature.
The powerful spiritual storm impact from the Heavenly Knight made this quasi-level earthworm curl up in a circle and tremble, and what made this earthworm even more desperate was that from the information obtained from its two tentacles, the heat energy in the bodies of the two mini pets in Locke's arms was even more terrifying.
The rules of survival in the animal kingdom are very simple, the strong are respected, this earthworm does not seem to have been burned out by the concentration of radiation, and after Locke showed his strength, it immediately sent a message of surrender.
The earthworm was so familiar that Locke temporarily dismissed his decision to make it into a biological specimen.
In order to protect itself when the Dark Battle Tyrannosaurus Beast was in the Qingyang Realm, it was injured by the power of the Peach Blossom Immortal's fairy, and it now needs to rest in the space bag for a while.
It was the earthworm's sensible performance that allowed it to temporarily become the mount of three noble third-level lifeforms.
Sitting on the soft back of the earthworm, Locke once again appreciated what it means to be galloping, purely in terms of speed, the earthworm's forward speed is not much faster than Locke's flight in the sky, but this kind of close to the ground, the feeling of rapid change of the surrounding scenery, is Locke rarely experienced.
After communicating with the earthworm's short-term mental power, Locke also knew that there was indeed a large-scale human settlement nearby, and what made Locke more concerned was that he also got several dangerous places nearby that even earthworms did not dare to set foot in from the earthworm's memory.
It can bring a death threat to the earthworms of the quasi-class, and there must be a level or more combat power in those dangerous places, and what is more interesting is that the human settlement is one of the dangerous places that earthworms are unwilling to go too deep.
With the surface defense of earthworms, it is difficult for ordinary bullets to penetrate, and Locke is curious about how those indigenous humans are afraid of it, whether it is by cannons, bazookas, or Taoism.
Locke never thought that the humans in this world had lost their ability to resist under the apocalyptic catastrophe, look up at the thick layer of radiation clouds, Locke was ninety percent sure that such a big change in this plane and gradually went to destruction, it was those humans with weak physiques who did it themselves.
At night, the silhouette of the tall city wall in the distance appeared in Locke's field of vision, and more than seventy years after the apocalypse, these earthlings seemed to have borrowed the wisdom of their ancients, and also began to rely on the high walls to resist the dangers of the natural world.
RB9H603 base, this is one of the four largest bases in Henan Province, although the overall ranking is in the fourth, but no one doubts the strength and safety of this base.
This is theoretically a large base that can withstand an SS-class disaster at the highest, and there are definitely no more than fifteen such bases in the entire Huaguo.
The fact that Yu Province was able to have four of them with the strength of one province was mainly due to the fact that seventy-eight years ago, that is, before the end of the world, Yu Province was the most populous province in China, and there was no one.
But this is all the old yellow calendar, now who still remembers the glorious achievements of mankind seventy-eight years ago, in today's dark age, in this wasteland, there are nearly 70,000 people in the RB9H603 base, there are only a handful of citizens over the age of forty, and there is not a single one over the age of fifty.
The prosperity of the earth before the end of the world only stays in the memories of the grandparents of contemporary human beings, and even the great-grandfathers, and these memories disappear in the dust of history with those elderly elders in the ground.
Twenty-two-year-old Li Mo slept a little uncomfortably tonight, not only because of the rumbling nuclear radiation storm outside the window, but also because he needed to go to the city wall in the second half of the night to replace a colleague on duty.
That's right, Li Mo is not an unemployed vagrant in the RB9H603 base, let alone those thugs who specialize in bullying the weak, he is a city guard soldier with a proper job, and his salary of 500 yuan a week is enough for him and his sister to live well.
"Jingle bell!" As soon as the shrill alarm clock sounded, Li Mo immediately stopped it with his hands and feet.
Gently glancing at his sister who was sleeping on his left side, and noticing that his sister was not woken up by the alarm sound, Li Mo breathed a long sigh of relief.
The size of the home is still too small, except for a kitchen that can only accommodate a foothold, only this living room and bedroom remains.
The brother and sister slept in the same room, and as the younger sister grew to eighteen years old, Li Mo felt more and more inconvenient and sometimes embarrassed.
But what can be done, Li Mo's salary can make the brother and sister worry about food and clothing, but it is not generous enough for them to buy a big house.
Crawling to the door lightly, neatly put on the uniform of the city guard, five minutes later, leaving his sister a small half of the forelimbs of the mutant brown mouse in the kitchen for breakfast, Li Mo left the warm home and walked towards the city gate.
The slow biting and chewing in the mouth was the other half of the mutant brown rat's forelimbs, which was Li Mo's breakfast and his caloric guarantee for the cold temperature in the second half of the night.
In the process of walking, his right hand always subconsciously swings around his waist, which is a habit he has developed since he was twelve years old, and he needs to adapt to the harsh environment in the last days RB9H603.
Li Mo, who exchanged codes with his colleagues on the city wall and successfully took over the task of keeping vigil in the second half of the night after the old man, lay his body on the entrance of an observation hole in the city wall.
With the convenient view provided by the observation hole, Li Mo could not only detect the abnormal situation outside the city earlier, but the thick city wall in front of him would also become a solid support for him to survive the cold in the second half of the night.
"What's that?!" Less than five minutes after lying down, Li Mo noticed that in the pitch-black night, there was a rumbling sound, and at the same time, there was a slight vibration on the ground.
"Enemy attack!"
"Mutant beasts are coming!"
"It looks like an earth dragon!"
"Heavy machine guns! Bazooka! Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
Noisy, began to play out on this part of the city wall.
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