"Huh? Do you feel the fluctuation of the psionic crystal!"
Feng Luo felt the message from 24k from the spiritual link, and his eyes showed some surprise. X23US. COM updates the fastest
"Squeak, squeak!"
24k shouted with some excitement.
The golden body suspended in the air flapped its armor wings and flew towards the sand dune not far away where the Devil Scorpion had been hidden before.
Feng Luo started the energy motorcycle and followed.
"Squeak, squeak..."
A minute later, one person and one insect arrived next to the sand dune.
"Is there a psionic crystal down here?"
Feng Luo asked.
"Squeak, squeak!"
24k replied.
"You mean, there is a deep distance under this sand dune."
Feng Luo observed the sand dune in front of him.
Because the devil scorpions hidden in the sand dunes had rushed out and were all killed.
So the tip of the dune has completely collapsed.
And because of this, Feng Luo had discovered it before.
He originally thought that the black thing stuck in the middle was a dead tree stump. This judgment was actually wrong.
It looks more like a black pillar with a tip. The bottom of the pillar is still hidden in the lower half of the dune, and you can't see how deep it is.
"Could it be that the nether energy crystal has something to do with this pillar?"
Feng Luo was confused.
"Well, no!"
"This thing seems to be a bit like the sharp horn of some kind of armor or the tip of a limb of some kind of creature."
After carefully observing this black pillar.
Feng Luo's eyes narrowed.
This thing should not be a pillar, but some kind of biological structure.
Feng Luo was really surprised, but he wasn't very worried.
Because the reconnaissance beetles that came in advance have detected that there are no life fluctuations within the pillar and within a depth of more than ten meters below.
It shows that it is very possible that even if this pillar is really the structure of a living thing, then that living thing should be dead. This is a corpse preserved by the special environment of the desert.
This is why, even though he noticed something was wrong before, he didn't stop 24k from approaching.
"Squeak, squeak..."
At 24k, after floating on top of the sand dune, he called out to a few gathering beetles that were following him.
"Squeak..."
A few gathering beetles got the order, drilled directly into the middle of the pit in the sand dune, and then burrowed down.
"Snapped… "
However, a larger elite gathering beetle seemed a little curious after crawling to the center.
He actually opened his mouthparts and bit the black pillar!
"Snapped!"
The elite gathering beetle can bite off the stone with its hard mouthparts that bite like tofu. But after biting on this "pillar", it has no effect.
"Squeak, squeak..."
24k is in the air, six little paws waving.
It seems that he is very dissatisfied with such a stupid little brother, so he quickly followed a few others, but below he took the psionic crystal.
"Squeak..."
The elite collected the beetles, shook the stubbed mouthparts, and then burrowed underneath.
"Is this corpse so hard?"
However, Feng Luo was somewhat interested.
With some curiosity, he walked up the dune and took out Devil May Cry from his tactical vest.
Then, he used about 80% of his strength to reach out and slash at the middle of each of the "black pillars".
"Snapped!"
As a legendary saber, Devil May Cry’s sharpness is unquestionable!
However, when Devil May Cry's blade collided with the pillar, there was only a burst of sparks, and then it was directly shaken away.
What's more, it can be seen that there is no trace at all where the blade struck!
"So hard!"
Feng Luo's eyes showed some surprise.
Although he didn't use his full strength, nor did he activate Devil May Cry's additional skills or use burst points, he just used Devil May Cry's blow tentatively.
However, the sharpness of Devil May Cry has reached B level.
The B-level sharpness can't leave any mark on it. Isn't the defense coefficient of this thing that looks like the corpse of some kind of creature too high
However, what surprised Feng Luo even more was what happened next.
Next, after he added destructive psionic energy to the saber.
It was discovered that even the destructive psionic energy that could penetrate ultra-thick high-grade alloys was not as indestructible as before when faced with this black "pillar".
The knife with the added power to destroy the nether energy actually only made a knife mark with a depth of only a few millimeters!
This is still after having opened the explosive point and slashed with all his strength.
"Is this defense coefficient A level? Or is it even higher?"
Feng Luo really felt a little shocked.
Because, next, he tried more tests.
As a result, neither the corrosive ability of the jet beetle nor the laser burning of the steel beetle had much effect on this.
Even Feng Luo's trump card, which came with B-class armor-piercing bullets that destroyed psionic energy, only made a dent of about one centimeter when it hit it.
The diameter of this pillar, just the exposed part on the surface, is over one meter.
This means that he can't even think about breaking this pillar!
"What on earth is this thing? It has such strong defense... Could it be... that it is the corpse of a certain kind of Zerg?"
After getting this result, Feng Luo was amazed, and his heart suddenly moved.
How the nether energy crystal is produced, he has not yet found a conclusion.
Although, the "honest and good businessman" previously said that his friend stole it from a ruins and the boss's lair.
But Feng Luo would not completely believe what a businessman with "honest" in his name said.
On the contrary, what the short-haired girl said should be more reliable.
They got it accidentally in the desert.
It is a little strange to find a stone with no visible properties in the desert. It is not surprising that someone picked it up.
Based on this, Feng Luo had a guess.
It is very likely that the psionic crystal is not a product of this planet, but should be a foreign product like the Zerg, which was brought to the planet by the Zerg to replenish energy or be used for other purposes...
So, if this conjecture is true.
There are actually fluctuations of the psionic crystal below, which may mean that this "pillar" is the corpse structure of some kind of Zerg unit.
After all, this is where the Zerg landed in the first place, which was the Death Desert area in the Death Jungle.
And in that battle where destructive weapons were used, there was no telling how many Zerg corpses were buried underground in this jungle that was reduced to desert!
"However, it was a bit of a miscalculation. I should have called a scout to come with me."
However, Feng Luo looked at this "pillar" with incredible defense power in front of him, and felt a little regret in his heart for coming here alone.
Although, with his strength, with 24k and scout beetles, he can walk alone in this intermediate map area without much danger.
However, there is no way to know, what kind of Zerg corpse is this
And if there is a scout here at this time, a reconnaissance technique can definitely get some information.
This is where the Scout player has the advantage.
The number of people in the city that never sleeps now exceeds 20,000.
As the president, it was very easy for him to find a scout to help him with the task. No one could say that he was using his power for personal gain!
"It's just that I'm still used to being alone!"
Feng Luo shook his head.
Since there are no scouts, we can only rely on scouting beetles and collecting beetles to explore.
"Zhizhi..."
In addition to these few gathering beetles, 24k was eager to send all the other gathering beetles that had cleaned up the desert devil scorpion's trophies.
A total of twenty gathering beetles actually moved very fast underground.
However, because 24k gave them the order to find the psionic crystal, they all slowed down and "sneaked" and searched along the black pillars.
One thing I have to mention here is that 24k after breaking through level 50, or because of the improvement of psionic energy.
It also gained some other benefits, that is, being able to obtain information from ordinary combat beetles to a certain extent.
Although these gathering beetles are not reconnaissance beetles, 24k can roughly sense the situations they encounter along the way.
In the process, Feng Luo became more and more surprised.
Because several gathering beetles had already penetrated more than fifty meters below.
As a result, the root of the pillar has not yet been found.
More than fifty meters does not seem very long, but if you imagine that it is close to a twenty-story building, you can understand how deep this pillar goes into the ground.
A creature has only a "horn-like" structure on its body that is so long, so how big is its size
No, not fifty meters to be exact.
Because the gathering beetles are still digging underneath.
It was not until five minutes later that the gathering beetles finally reached the bottom of the "pillar", which was almost a hundred meters away from the ground.
A pillar hundreds of meters tall
Is this really a body structure like a Zerg unit hitting corners
Feng Luo even suspected that he had made a mistake in his judgment. After all, how could there be such a large Zerg unit
However, the facts proved that his judgment was correct.
At the bottom, where the diameter had expanded to about ten meters, the gathering beetles encountered a layer of carapace, a layer that they could not bite and felt to be about the same mass as the pillar.
But that's not the end...
Half an hour later.
At this time, Feng Luo's mood was already slightly numb.
Because, at this time, the farthest beetle collector had climbed to a full three kilometers away from them!
There is still the carapace layer of the suspected Zerg unit under the desert.
Three kilometers, what is this concept
This is almost the same level as the space battleship found in the dungeon.
The corpse of a suspected Zerg unit hidden hundreds of meters underground was even larger than Feng Luo expected.
What kind of Zerg unit body is this
Even though Feng Luo tried hard to think about the units in the interstellar game, he still couldn't figure out some of them.
Thunder beast
It doesn't seem like it.
In addition, there is another news that makes 24k depressed and anxious.
Within this three-kilometer range, no psionic crystals were found by the beetle collectors.
To be precise, the energy crystal sensed by 24K should be under the carapace, or within the pillar.
However, in such a long period of time, the gathering beetles have not found a passage that can go down to the bottom of the carapace to retrieve the psionic crystal.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."
Until another five minutes passed.
A somewhat listless 24k suddenly raised his head from Feng Luo's shoulder and shouted.
"A gathering beetle found an entrance?"
Feng Luo's heart moved.
…
Two minutes later, Feng Luo put down the energy motorcycle and stood about two kilometers away from the pillar.
This is the bottom of the center of a ring of sand dunes, and the "hole" found by the forager beetle is located in the center of the center of the ring of desert.
Moreover, due to the low terrain, the entrance of the cave is very shallow from the ground, only a dozen meters deep.
Of course, if it is an ordinary player, even at this distance, there is probably no way to go down. After all, the ground is all soft sand.
Of course Feng Luo wouldn't go down rashly, but just because he didn't go down didn't mean he couldn't explore the situation inside.
"Wow!"
A gathering beetle emerges from the sand and then burrows back.
It left a hole in its wake, and a scout beetle followed it, crawling along the hole.
Then, Feng Luo took out a sun protection tent from his backpack and found a place to pitch it.
Then the whole person got in, and his eyes became hollow.
…
"Wow, wow, wow..."
There was darkness in the field of vision at first, and only the sound of two beetles moving could be heard.
Although this position was very close to the carapace, due to the large amount of sand entering from the hole, it took a full two minutes for the two beetles to emerge from the sand pile before the vision changed.
The moment he emerged from the sand, the corpse of a Zerg that looked somewhat familiar was directly exposed to the sight of the reconnaissance beetle.
No, to be precise, not one, but a large one.
Feng Luo took a quick look and found that there were thousands of "scorpion"-like things in his field of vision.
This thing looked very familiar to him because he had seen it in the information on Experimental Base No. 2.
This is the most basic but important unit among the Zerg.
In the game, they are called "worker bees", which are similar to collecting beetles and specialize in collecting various resources for the Zerg!
But why are there so many worker bees under this carapace
And not just one, but thousands of them
"Squeak, squeak..."
Feng Luo hasn't figured it out yet.
24k beside him suddenly shouted, with a high degree of excitement in his voice.
This excitement is even more obvious than before when I discovered the psionic crystal.
"What?"
"You mean, this huge thing is the base of the Zerg?"
The message that 24k sent out from the spiritual link with an excited emotion suddenly made Feng Luo equally excited.