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Chapter 609: Valuable
In the thick smoke after the nuclear explosion, the tank worm tried to crawl out of the ground with its forelimbs constantly digging into the ground. Every time it dug, a deep trench of more than ten meters was left on the ground.
The tank worm was so huge that even the earth could not bear its weight.
"Huh..." The flames burst out again. Even if the infantrymen who launched the nuclear bomb hid a hundred meters away, they still couldn't escape the disaster. More than half of the 30,000 infantrymen were killed or injured in the blink of an eye.
Gu Panpan finally felt scared and hid on Meng Xiang with trembling body, but she felt Meng Xiang's body gradually swelling.
Demonized.
"Brother Xiang, are we going to escape?" Gu Panpan huddled behind Meng Xiang and asked in panic.
"Escape? Why should I escape? Isn't this giant insect just a ready-made point?" Meng Xiang vowed, full of confidence.
“But… but, even a nuclear bomb can’t hurt it… ” In Gu Panpan’s knowledge, the nuclear bomb is the most powerful weapon. If even a nuclear bomb can’t deal with it, who can kill the tank bug
"That's right. Unless the attack reaches the atomic level, I will not be able to defeat this giant insect with my strength. Even a mature Tianjing cannot do it." Meng Xiang's words made Gu Panpan tremble all over.
"I came here to break through to the Deep Microscopic Stage. How could I let go of such an opponent? However, this planet is too dangerous. Give me 5 seconds. If I cannot defeat its defense within 5 seconds, then I can only win unfairly and take a shortcut to kill it." Meng Xiang's eyes glowed and his words drove people mad.
Gu Panpan's mind was full of question marks. She looked up again and stared at the demonized Meng Xiang, unable to guess what this man was thinking.
"Panpan, you should go farther away too. It's better to dig a cave on the ground and hide there. This way I will feel more at ease." Meng Xiang held Gu Panpan and drove away a kilometer, then casually blasted a deep pit more than ten meters deep on the ground.
“No need, I'll watch you fight outside. If I can't stand it, I'll crawl into the pit and watch.” Gu Panpan would never let herself be manipulated. Even if it was dangerous, she would stick to her own ideas.
Of course Meng Xiang knew her stubbornness and willfulness, so he didn't force her. He turned around and disappeared from Gu Panpan's sight with a "whoosh".
"When will I be as strong as him?" Gu Panpan's desire to become stronger became extremely strong, and a thousand meters away, the huge tank worm that had crawled out of the ground was lying on the ground like a mountain range.
The giant tank worm, which is over 200 meters long and 50 meters tall, is like a battleship. A slight flick of its claws can cause the ground to shake.
However, outside the tank worm, violent explosions continued to sound for several seconds, and the general energy fluctuations formed space ripples around the tank worm that spread outward, like waves in the water, one after another. The huge explosion sounded like a bolt from the blue, making people think that the sky was beginning to collapse.
Meng Xiang activated the initial stage of spiritual concentration and launched the strongest attack. Each of his punches was as powerful as a miniature nuclear bomb, causing the huge tank worm to sway left and right, and each of his kicks was enough to overturn the huge tank worm, almost overturning it.
In order to break through, Meng Xiang tried his best. The power of each punch reached the extreme. The overflowing energy surged with needle-like attacks, scraping the ground, and the ground immediately turned into crushed sand.
Meng Xiang is already very close to the Deep Enlightenment Stage, and even has one foot on the threshold of the Deep Enlightenment Stage, but he just can't officially break through.
After 5 seconds of fierce bombardment, Meng Xiang punched without any scruples. 5 seconds is just a matter of breathing for ordinary people, but for Meng Xiang, he had thrown thousands of punches, each of which had the power to split mountains and shatter rocks, and each of which carried an extremely subtle attack power.
Unfortunately, the huge tank worm was not damaged at all. Although the tank worm screamed and seemed to be in great pain and anger, it could not even capture Meng Xiang's position, let alone fight back.
The huge tank bug is just a sandbag for Meng Xiang.
"Huh, I'm almost there, but I still can't break through, damn it." Five seconds later, Meng Xiang let out a long sigh. After repeated attacks, the big door that locked his potential in Meng Xiang's mind loomed, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see the location of the door, let alone open it.
The Holy Light Aura has been lost by 14, it's time to deal with the tank bug.
"Spray!" Meng Xiang flew into the sky and steadied his body in mid-air.
The tank worm endured a series of attacks. Although Meng Xiang's strength was unable to penetrate its leather armor, the subtle attack power and powerful explosive force had shattered the flesh and blood under its leather armor. However, its body was too large, and the shattered flesh and blood could not cause it fatal damage.
The tank worm looked up at Meng Xiang in the sky, its abdomen bulging slightly, and it opened its mouth, sucking in a gust of wind, pulling Meng Xiang down from the sky.
"Die."
Meng Xiang was still more than 10 meters away from the tank worm's mouth. Before the flames were ejected, he suddenly gathered his spiritual power, and with his whole body protected by tremendous force, he drilled into the tank worm's mouth.
The tank worm's mouth is its weakness, and no matter how big the tank worm becomes, this weakness will not change.
Gu Panpan, who was watching the battle from a distance, couldn't help but scream "Ah", but she quickly understood Meng Xiang's intentions, sighed, and said: "Brother Xiang, you are really amazing, you... are my idol."
The tank worm fell to the ground, twisting its body, rolling and groaning continuously. The "booming" sound spread far away, making all the infantrymen who survived by chance heartbroken.
After 6 or 7 seconds, Meng Xiang flew out of the tank worm's mouth. He was naked and covered in mucus, and flew back to Gu Panpan like lightning.
Gu Panpan let out a "hmm" sound and shyly covered her eyes with her hands, not daring to look directly at Meng Xiang's body. She only opened her fingers from time to time, wanting to look but not daring to, full of the desire and shyness of a teenage girl.
Meng Xiang didn't care about that. The stench on his body almost made him want to vomit. He quickly took out a towel from his space bag to dry himself, put on his clothes, and said, "It was a close call. The inside of the tank worm was like a melting pot. If I didn't have the spiritual defense and activated the spiritual gathering, I might have been buried in its belly. However, this time the harvest is very big."
After Meng Xiang put on his clothes, Gu Panpan shyly put down her hands and asked in confusion, "Brother Xiang, what did you gain? Did you get a lot of points by killing the tank bug?"
"That's right. This giant tank worm is the queen of tank worms. By killing the queen worm, I gained 8,000 points. Moreover, it triggered another branch plot. Look at this..." Meng Xiang took out a yellow crystal stone several meters in size from the space bag.
This huge crystal weighs at least several tons, and Meng Xiang has a hard time holding it in his arms.
"What is this?" Gu Panpan looked at the crystal eagerly. The crystal reflected the sunlight and became bright and dazzling.
"This is an insect egg, also known as star-blood iron ore."
"Star Blood Iron Ore? Insect eggs are Star Blood Iron Ore?" Gu Panpan asked in surprise.
"Haha, the side story mission I received is: within 10 days, put the insect eggs back to the tank insect nest. Complete the mission and get 6,000 points, a B-level side story. If the mission fails, 6,000 points will be deducted, and a B-level side story. Xiang laughed.
"But why do you say this is Star Blood Iron Ore?" Gu Panpan asked puzzledly.
"It's very simple. This crystal can even block my punch, so how could the rock of this planet be hit by my punch? The only possibility is the crystal of Star Blood Iron Ore. After I flew out, I took out the detector you coaxed from the squad leader. Sure enough, as it got closer to the crystal, the detection value of the instrument became stronger. I am sure that this crystal, that is, the egg of the tank worm, is the Star Blood Iron Ore." Meng Xiang pondered for a moment and added: "Perhaps, the Star Blood Iron Ore hidden in the Silver Sand Basin is actually the eggshell of this unique and huge tank worm, which has been fused with rocks for many years."
"I see. But how can we find the tank bug's nest?"
"Haha, the tank worm nest is probably the place where the most abundant Star Blood Iron Ore is stored on Silver Sand Star, which is consistent with our last side quest. Moreover, even if we guess wrong, we should be able to find its nest by trying to search along the tunnel dug by the tank worm underground."
There is still plenty of time, Meng Xiang is not anxious, and his guess is not unreasonable.
However, Meng Xiang would never guess that the reason why the main god set this insect egg as a side storyline was because...
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