The white mountain slowly rose from the lake, and under everyone's shocked gaze, it slowly revealed its original appearance.
“Oh my god!”
"This... What is this thing!?"
"Bugs?! Is it... is it a bug?"
"Are you kidding me? How could there be such a huge bug?!"
"But...but..."
The milky white giant worm slowly crawled out from the lake, gradually revealing a small part of its huge body.
But just this small part was enough to make everyone present feel incomparably shocked.
A giant worm... hundreds of meters thick, milky white, and slowly wriggling!
This giant insect just crawled its head out of the ground, but it already gave people the feeling of a mountain!
This is nearly two hundred meters high!
The diameter of this giant insect's body alone is almost 200 meters? !
What is the concept of two hundred meters
The height of fifty or sixty floors!
Just looking at the thickness, it is so thick that it is impossible to imagine its length.
I'm afraid... it must be at least several kilometers long!
Even the head of this insect just emerging from the ground can make people feel dizzy.
A feeling of fear towards something huge that is far beyond common sense!
Among the people present, there were inevitably some who were afraid of insects. After all, they were just ordinary people from the underground world, and their wills were not that strong. After seeing this extremely terrifying behemoth, some of them even began to tremble with weakness in their legs.
“Really… It’s really a bug! Damn! It’s really a bug!”
“Oh my god, oh my god, is its head turning this way?!”
"Where... where did this bug come from?! Did it... come out from underground?"
"What the hell is going on in this world?!"
The explorers who were still in charge of the situation held their breath as they watched this giant worm that seemed to be able to bore holes into the world.
"It... shouldn't be here to attack us, right?" Qi Xuefei grabbed Ji Chaoyang's arm and asked.
“… Not sure.” Ji Chaoyang’s eyes also shrank as he stared at the giant insect’s every move. At the same time, he issued an order, “All those who control the external weapons in the direction of the giant insect, aim your weapons at the giant insect! But don’t fire, and don’t act rashly!”
Ji Chaoyang's order also calmed down everyone present.
"Quick! Everyone, aim at the giant insect!"
"Yes, we have weapons, what are we afraid of!"
"Fuck, even though it's a giant, it's still a living creature. I don't believe that our nuclear weapons can't kill it!"
"Are you crazy? Don't use nuclear weapons! That place is only two kilometers away from the outskirts of Crystal City! Do you want to blow us to death too?"
"The World Tree will protect us! How can conventional weapons possibly deal with such a monster!"
"Everyone! Calm down!"
Ji Chaoyang spoke, and the surroundings quieted down again.
"We have seen this giant insect before in the underground world. It was very friendly to us and even helped us return to the surface. We just need to stay alert and not provoke it!"
The crowd was in an uproar again.
"Have the elders of the Explorers encountered this giant insect?!"
"Invincible, invincible!"
"Oh my god, are the elders of the Explorers and this giant insect old acquaintances?"
"Is it here to help us?"
"Ah! That giant insect has already looked over here!"
The flow speed inside and outside the World Tree is different. Although the inside of the World Tree has been noisy for a while, only a few seconds have passed outside the World Tree.
And in just these few seconds, the giant insect's terrifying giant head poked out of the ground and had completely turned towards the World Tree.
On that huge head, there were several pairs of creepy black insect eyes, as if they were facing everyone in the World Tree.
Everyone present held their breath.
The giant worm has a total of more than ten pairs of eyes, each of which is a pitch-black dot. Although it is very small compared to the giant worm's body, each pitch-black dot has a diameter of more than one meter!
It's hard not to feel fear when being injected by dozens of pairs of eyes like this!
"Bang!"
At this moment, a cannonball was fired from the crown of the World Tree and flew towards the giant insect at a high speed!
This sudden situation made everyone gasp.
The shells, traveling at fifty times the speed of sound, flew towards the giant insect's mountain-like body, and then...
"boom!"
It exploded on its head!
Everyone present who was watching this scene at a hundred times slow motion felt suffocated.
"Who?!" Ji Chaoyang immediately turned around and looked at everyone else with a sharp look in his eyes.
"No... not me!"
"Are you crazy? Who hit you?"
"Are you crazy? That giant insect may not be an enemy!"
"It's over, it's over, it's all over, even if they are not enemies, they have become enemies!"
The explosion only lasts for a moment, but the World Tree will extend this moment a hundred times.
And this hundred times of time is extremely difficult to endure for the people in the World Tree!
"Should we...should we just attack directly?"
"I've already provoked it, so I might as well go all the way and just...!"
"Bullshit, listen to the elders' orders, who told you to act on your own? Also, who was the one who attacked just now!?"
A person suddenly looked around.
He is a soldier in the Underworld Guard, responsible for coordinating attacks in one of the eight directions around the World Tree.
And the direction he was heading was exactly the direction where the giant insect was heading, which meant that the one who launched the missile just now was one of his men!
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone around him looked at the shivering person.
"I... I..."
The man's face was pale, his body was still trembling, his teeth were chattering, and he dared not look at the scene outside. "I didn't mean to do that... I'm afraid of insects. I had a traumatic experience with insects when I was a child. I couldn't control myself when there was an insect this big..."
It turned out that one of them was so frightened by the giant insect's gaze that his hands were shaking.
But the people around him just glanced at him and then shifted their attention to the giant insect a few kilometers away.
At this time, the flames of the explosion dissipated, and after the smoke rose, the part of the giant insect that was blown up was revealed.
It wasn't completely unscathed there, there was even a large wound caused by the explosion.
Even conventional missiles cannot be resisted by flesh and blood!
However, under the shocked gazes of everyone, the wound was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Even inside the World Tree, where the external scene was slowed down a hundred times, it was still visibly fast enough to be seen by the naked eye!
It only took three seconds for the wound to heal completely.
This is three seconds inside the World Tree!
Outside the World Tree, it only takes thirty milliseconds. With this recovery speed, if you were outside, you probably wouldn't be able to see the wound healing process. You could only see the skin that was still intact after being bombarded by the shells!
"This recovery speed..." Ji Chaoyang looked at the giant insect nervously.
Fortunately, the giant insect outside the World Tree did not seem to be angry because of this shot.
It seemed unfazed by the tickling damage the World Tree inflicted on it.
It just glanced at the World Tree and continued to drill out from underground.
The place where it emerged was actually the same lake as before!
At this time, there was no water in the lake at all. Only a giant worm filled it up and was crawling out.
The sudden appearance of this giant insect was so intimidating that it even caused both sides to temporarily stop the exchange of fire.
For a moment, the bombing sounds that had lasted for at least an hour became sporadic, and both sides seemed to be observing the giant insect's every move.
The giant insect seemed to not care about the battlefield at all. It continued to wriggle its mountain-like body and crawl out of the original lake.
It is called wriggling, but because of its large size, its speed is very fast, almost wriggling outwards at a speed of twenty meters per second.
But even so, after a full minute, its body had not yet completely emerged.
One minute is already more than an hour inside the World Tree.
Now, because they are used to the situation outside, the people in the World Tree are no longer panicked by the scene outside.
They have even started making bets.
"Haha, you lose! The length of this giant insect just from drilling out has exceeded one kilometer!"
"Fuck, it's too long! Don't get too complacent, your guess of 1,500 meters should be close, right?"
"According to the World Tree's calculations, it has now drilled 1,245 meters out!"
"This length is too scary..."
"This bug is hundreds of meters in diameter. Wouldn't it be normal for it to be several kilometers long? I'm guessing two kilometers!"
"I guess three thousand meters!"
During the few minutes when the giant insect appeared, the alien invaders stopped attacking this side and began to wait and see.
In order not to alarm the variable that attracted the giant insect, Ji Chaoyang also issued an order to ask these people to stop attacking.
Their mission is to delay the army of alien invaders, the longer the better. Now that the other side has stopped attacking, they naturally will not take the initiative to provoke trouble.
A ceasefire is good, as long as you don't leave, the longer the better.
The giant worm was still crawling outwards slowly.
"It's over 1,500 meters!"
"One thousand six hundred meters!"
"One thousand eight hundred meters!"
"Two thousand meters! Breaking through two thousand meters!"
The people inside the World Tree kept exclaiming.
"Hey... Why do I feel like this bug wants to surround us?" Suddenly, someone said, "Look, its body is bending towards us, right?"
When everyone looked, they saw that the giant insect's head was indeed moving towards the Crystal City.
"What are you thinking? Do you know how big Crystal City is? It's five kilometers long from north to south and east to west! If it wants to surround Crystal City, even if it sticks close to Crystal City, it must be nearly twenty kilometers long. How is this possible?"
"…Are you sure it's impossible?"
"... It shouldn't be that serious, right? It's only two hundred meters thick. If it's twenty kilometers long, then wouldn't its length be more than a hundred times its thickness?... It's a little too thin overall..."
"'Only' two hundred meters thick? Too thin?"
"Brother, I can't compare to your vision."
"Let me just talk about the facts!"
No matter how the people inside the World Tree speculated, they could not affect the movement of the giant worm outside.
It began to move faster.
Three thousand meters...
Four thousand meters...
The people in the World Tree have become somewhat numb.
Some people even bet on a distance of 20 kilometers.
But then, things changed.
The alien invaders can no longer hold back.
Countless shells flew towards this side, and the target was actually the giant insect!
The alien invaders chose to fight the giant bug first!
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!”
The giant insect's mountain-like body made it impossible to dodge, and all the shells hit it one by one.
For a moment, part of the giant insect's body was covered by thick smoke.
"They really couldn't help but take action first." Qi Xuefei said softly.
"Yeah, it seems we can relax a little." Ji Chaoyang was also paying attention to the situation outside, and his tone became slightly relaxed at this time.
The giant insect didn't seem to think anything of their previous shot, and now the alien invaders have begun bombarding it!
As for the reason why the alien invaders bombarded it, Ji Chaoyang could also think of it.
A super giant beast without any blood lines or blood vessels, in the eyes of the alien invaders, is an object that they cannot control at all.
This creature can be said to be a native of the earth, and it has a super high IQ, so in their view, this giant beast should be on the same side as the local humans.
The reason why they didn't take action for so long is probably because...
Ji Chaoyang glanced down.
I'm afraid it was because of that guy's missed shot just now.
That shot might have made the other party hesitate.
That shot made them feel that the giant insect might not be on the side of humans on Earth, otherwise why would humans bombard it
Moreover, since humans bombarded it, it should also attack humans, right
With this idea in mind, the other party did not attack the giant insect during this period of time.
After all, they had been attacking for nearly an hour and had only pushed the front line to about ten kilometers. These humans were very strong, and every extra helper was a great help.
Ji Chaoyang wanted to laugh.
Unexpectedly, the man's accidental shot just now actually created a situation that was favorable to them.
Even the giant insects that were bombarded did not attack the humans who bombarded them, and even seemed to be surrounding the Crystal City.
As if... wanting to protect the Crystal City, the World Tree.
So, the other party didn't wait any longer and took action immediately!
They decided to deal with the giant insect first.
It's just a giant worm of flesh and blood. No matter how big a worm is, it's just flesh and blood.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
!”
Countless missiles flew over and exploded in various parts of the giant insect.
The focus was on the giant insect's head.
However, in the midst of the smoke, the giant insect still maintained its original speed and crawled forward.
The mountain-like head emerged from the smoke.
The moment it emerged, the people in the World Tree saw some wounds on its head, and even large holes of flesh and blood that caused some physical discomfort.
But in the next moment, the wounds were completely healed.
“Tsk tsk tsk…”
"So strong, so invincible!"
"This healing speed is really strong!"
Ji Chaoyang's eyes did move.
This characteristic is very similar to the giant that Xu Ying mentioned a thousand years ago.
But the reason why the Giant is so powerful is that it has a compressed core that integrates all the technological essences.
Could it be that this giant insect also has it
wrong…
It's Crystal City!
This giant insect may be recovering with the energy of the Crystal City!
The evidence is that the brightness emitted by Crystal City now seems to be much higher than before!
If that's the case...
Ji Chaoyang thought of the giant core that Xu Ying left behind when she left.
That core can provide super strong power for the behemoths. If the enemy's battle line has been pushed to the World Tree and into the Crystal City, then this core will be of great use.
but…
What would happen if this core was given to this giant insect
Ji Chaoyang took a deep breath as he looked at the giant insect that was still crawling forward in the missile fire as if no one was around.
…
In the underground world, the flying shuttle was still moving forward quickly, but the speed seemed to have decreased.
"Are we about to reach that complicated area you mentioned?"
Li Wenxi asked the driver in front, Lao Yang.
She asked Xu Xin to release her from the bracelet because she also wanted to see this unexplored underground world.
"Yes." Old Yang nodded. "In about two minutes, we will have to travel through very complex terrain. By then, our speed will drop significantly, but don't worry, we only have one hour left."
"Have you always been traveling through the underground world like this? It's really hard..." Li Wenxi sighed.
"Is this considered hard work? Traveling through the underground world is one of the few free times we have." Old Yang said without replying.
"Um... so that's it..." Li Wenxi said embarrassedly.
Xu Xin looked forward.
The terrain at this time has become very rugged. There seem to be countless giant stalactites hanging from the dome, and there are mountains ranging from hundreds to thousands of meters high on the ground.
The area that aircraft can travel through is becoming increasingly narrow.
The speed of the flying shuttle continued to decrease.
"Ah, the road ahead is... blocked!" Li Wenxi said in surprise.
In front of him was a whole stone wall, connecting the ground and dome of the underground world three or four thousand meters away, completely blocking the road ahead.
At first glance, it seemed as if we had reached the end of the underground world.
But if you look closely, you will see various densely packed holes on the stone wall, through which you can crawl.
"Next, we are going to enter this area." said Lao Yang.
"Support pillar?" Xu Xin suddenly asked, "Is this the 'support pillar' of the underground world?"
He had learned before that the underground world was supported by supporting pillars with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers.
"You also know about support pillars?" Old Yang looked back in surprise, then said, "This is not really a support pillar. It can only be said to be... the outer terrain of the support pillar. However, what is surrounded by this terrain is indeed a support pillar. And our World Tree is planted on this support pillar."
Is that why we have to cross this rugged terrain
"Hmm?" At this moment, Keke, who had been lying in Xu Xin's arms, suddenly moved her ears, raised her little head, and looked towards the stone wall they were about to enter, "...Hmm?"
"What's wrong Coco?"
"Hmm? Hmm..."
Coco stretched out her little paws and tugged at Xu Xin's clothes.
It means...
Is there danger inside