Lei Bing did not hesitate and immediately ordered all military vehicles to start and stay as far away as possible.
Xiao Mo asked Cheng Zai to drive, but he jumped out of the car and asked the system: "If I accept the task, do I have to recover the king insect body?"
System: "Of course."
"forget about it."
System: Even if you don’t tell me, I know you want to leave the body of the king insect to that big bastard!
Xiao Mo ran to Xue Lihong in a few steps and warned him: "Your Majesty is talking about the Corpse-Eating Dragon King Insect."
"Go back, this is not something you can handle." Xue Lihong drove him away.
Xiao Mo stood still and said, "I can protect myself."
"This is a battle between me and the King Insect. Don't worry about it."
"Xiaohong?!"
Xue Lihong suddenly plunged into the river.
Xiao Mo asked the system urgently: "Why do king insects appear here? Didn't you say that it is difficult for king insects to form?"
System: "Natural formation is really difficult."
Xiao Mo reacted, "You mean who brought the king insect to the earth?"
The system was also helpless, "In your words, this is an intermediate boss, and it shouldn't appear at this time. As for why it came over, apart from looking for a mating female insect that is about to become sexually mature, the rest of the You have to ask the big bastard next to you."
"Are you saying that the king insect was attracted by Xiao Hong?"
"You let him continue to whistle for summons and continue to emit insect hormones. Do you really think that your genes can suppress all the insect races, just with his unstable hybrid body?" Xiao Mo heard the cold and hard voice of the machine. Disdain and ridicule.
"It would be fine if only the female insect disappeared. This king insect would at most be looking for female insects elsewhere to mate. However, when they found that their mating partner was gone, they also discovered another arrogant existence. As a It's strange that the king insect can endure it. The corpse dragon king insect is a more domineering existence than other insect king insects. As long as one king insect appears, it will not appear again within a radius of one million square kilometers. If another king insect appears, it will never stop dying."
Xiao Mo was stunned, "In short, this king insect came and regarded Xiao Hong as the king insect?"
System (full of joy): "Yes. I suggest you accept the task. I can release two, so that when they fight until both lose, you can easily recover them all. If you are willing, I can give you a special reward."
"Thank you, no need." Xiao Mo stared at the river nervously.
"The night eye detector prevents sneak attacks, assassinations, and bed climbing. It is automatically alert and safe. It can be used alone or installed on a base vehicle. With the night eye detector, any mercenary who goes out does not have to worry. Regarding the problem of night vigil, the night eye detector will automatically distinguish between enemy situations, dangers and own people. The furthest accurate detection range can reach three kilometers, including the sky, underground and underwater. The detection objects include living and non-living objects and can be set freely. Do you really not want a host?"
Xiao Mo: "...Have you changed the channel? Or is there a virus in the breeder system that you absorbed before?"
The system changed its face in seconds: "The skip-level task of recovering the Corpse-eating Dragon King Insect has been cancelled, and the third-level task No. 04 has been started. The task content: Ask the scavenger Xiao Mo to recover nineteen mutated mad dogs before 12 noon on November 5."
A new mission came, but Xiao Mo's heart was focused on the river at this time.
A deep spiral nest appeared in one place in the river, and the unmanned ships parked around it were pulled by the spiral nest and slid a little bit.
An unanchored fishing boat just floating on the river was caught in the swirling nest. When it was about to reach the center, something jumped out.
With a "click", the bow of the fishing boat was smashed into pieces, and the fishing boat was also sucked into the bottom of the spiral.
Xiao Mo saw the upper body of a long insect about three meters long appearing. At first glance, this thing looked a bit like a legendary dragon, but there was no mighty dragon head, only a hookworm head. The head seemed to have no eyes but a It has a huge mouth and two beards on the top of its head.
Probably because the head was too ugly, Xiao Mo's first impression of this king insect was very bad. He always felt a stomachache when looking at it.
The king insect suddenly sank, as if something below was pulling it.
Xiao Mo raised his hand and fired a shot. This was the chemical ammunition gun previously filled with aqua regia.
The king insect swung its upper body hard, Xiao Mo's eyes shrank, and he flew backwards as fast as possible.
"Puff!" Water regia was ejected back and fell to the ground, emitting corrosive white smoke.
Looking at the king insect again, his skin was not damaged at all.
"Hoola!" The water waves splashed, and the king insect submerged into the river again.
"Your Majesty, what is the weakness of the king insect?" Xiao Mo was thinking about going into the water.
"Energy nest."
"Where?"
"The location is uncertain, you have to find it yourself."
Xiao Mo no longer hesitated, Xiaohong was very strong, but maybe it was because of genetic instability? As a result, its battery life is very poor. If it consumes too much energy, it is very likely to return to the child state again, which is too dangerous.
Cheng Zai drove back again.
Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai got out of the car and asked him about the situation.
"Xiaohong is fighting monsters in the river now, and I plan to go down to help him. Don't let others come over, and don't go into the water."
"What's down there?"
"It's the king bug of the bug we caught before. It's a completely different level." Xiao Mo had already taken off his heavy coat and shoes and socks that would get in the way when entering the water.
Qian Yunkai pulled him and asked, "Captain, do you know how to swim?"
"meeting."
"How long can you stay underwater?"
Xiao Mo... didn't expect this problem.
Qian Yunkai said bluntly: "Captain, your ability is very special, but that is two different things from being able to hold your breath. You can't pass out due to lack of oxygen underwater and have Boss Xue come over to help you breathe."
Xiao Mo was speechless.
Wang Cheng smiled, "I'll go down to help Boss Xue. I've been specially trained in underwater fighting. If it doesn't work, I'll come up immediately. You guys wait for news above."
Xiao Mo had no choice but to tell all the information he knew: "The king insect is not afraid of aqua regia. Either the skin is thick or the composition of the secretion fluid in the outer layer of the skin is unusual. I don't know if your attack will have any effect on it."
"Captain, don't worry, I'm just taking a look first, I won't anger it." Wang Cheng moved his hands and feet and slowly walked into the river. When he reached his waist, he threw his upper body forward and submerged into the turbid river water.
Lei Bing used the communicator to ask them for news and asked if he would come to help, but Xiao Mo declined.
The two children also wanted to get out of the car, but Xiao Mo stopped them. "Cheng Zai, please drive farther away. If I don't call you, don't come here!"
"Oh!" Cheng Zai and the two children left reluctantly. But they also knew that staying behind would not be of much help, and would easily hold them back, so they retreated to the Lei Bing side together.
Time passed bit by bit. During this period, Wang Cheng came up once and told them with a heavy breath: "Their speed is too fast, I can't catch up with them. And that king insect is not afraid of my gun at all. The energy bullets hit On it, it hurts at most.”
"Have you seen Xiao Hong?" Xiao Mo asked anxiously.
Wang Cheng nodded and shook his head, "He seems to have been pestering the king insect to prevent it from coming ashore. I always feel that the insect is more powerful after it comes ashore. Boss Xue probably wants to kill it in the water."
Xiao Mo asked the system again: "It's better for the king insect of the corpse-eating dragon insect to be on the shore than in the water?"
"The corpse-eating dragon insect does not like water. This king insect will come from the river. It is likely that it originally lived on a big boat. This is a king insect that has just woken up and is hungry. I speculated earlier. Wrong, it is not only looking for female insects to mate, it should also be looking for food. The king insect of the corpse dragon insect often devours the female insect in the production period when accumulating energy. This is why it feels that big hybrid There is a reason why it came here so quickly. Apart from being intolerant, the most important thing is that it needs the same level of food to replenish its energy."
So this is still a scumbag from the insect world? Female spiders and mantises eat males in order to store up nutrients to give birth to offspring, but this corpse-eating dragon king insect eats his pregnant wife just to store up his own energy? He even treats his own children as food, what a scumbag!
Xiao Mo shook his head to get rid of some messy thoughts.
Could he just stand here and wait? If Xiaohong fails...
"Your Majesty, is there any ready-made way for me to go into the water for a long time without drowning and still fighting?" Xiao Mo couldn't think of a way and could only ask for help from the system.
The system did not answer immediately.
Xiao Mo was heartbroken, "What are you waiting for? Waiting for Xiaohong and the king insect to die in battle? You should understand that if Xiaohong dies, people like me will never live long. It's not that I look down on myself, but mine My personality and way of doing things destined me to be a cannon fodder.”
system:…
Xiao Mo, "With the base vehicle, I will definitely not be able to refuse those people who can't make it when I meet on the road or during the mission. I will invite them to get on the bus and take them back to the Zhongshan base. Time and time again, maybe when I I will fall into trouble. And Wang Cheng and Qian Yunkai will gradually feel tired because of my "good intentions". Can they help me once or twice, can they help me forever? No, they will only be disappointed with me. But Before that, I had probably given up on myself and let another personality take charge. Do you need me to wish you a happy cooperation with him in advance?"
System: Too bad. Through analysis, it can determine that this sentence is 100% not a threat.
"Can't you be more upbeat? Knowing that you have a cannon fodder personality, why can't you be more ruthless and tough?"
"It depends on who it is for." When Xiao Mo said this, his heart suddenly became clear. He smiled and said: "I am a person who is used to living for others. At first, I appeared for Zhen Xiao Mo and occupied this body for Zhen Xiao Mo. Now I am unwilling to give up this body for Xiao Hong, and I also I want to live and change myself for Xiao Hong.”
"Someone needs me," he said, "and I need him."
Before, he had always felt that his life was a little unclear, and even a little inferior, like a person without roots. Therefore, he is particularly concerned about what others think of him, and has always allowed himself to live by the rules, trying not to do anything wrong.
But now he feels that he has roots, and his roots are in that big bastard named Xue Lihong.
Xiaohong is the person who values him the most and needs him the most in the world, so let him live for him. Although this idea is very humble, he is a humble existence to begin with.
Maybe living alone for one person might be easier for someone like him
The system thinks the host is stupid. You can live for a giant bug bastard, why can't you live for a system that upgrades, learns by itself, and is destined to achieve great things in the future
For the first time, the system felt a very complicated emotion. Is this a feeling
The system started to habitually check itself again, and it felt that its central program was a little uncomfortable.
While doing the self-test, the system didn't know where the problem was, and it said dullly: "You have already mentioned a solution."
Did I already mention? What is it? After all, Xiao Mo wasn't too stupid, he was just too impatient and didn't think about it. But when he recalled his words, he immediately thought of the key point.
"Cheng Zai! Quick, bring the car back! No, no need, you and the others all get out of the car, go to Lei Bing's place first, and let the car drive here by itself."
Cheng Zai paused for a second, "Captain, don't worry, I'd better come with the car, otherwise it will be too conspicuous. I will ask the others to get off."
Xiao Mo was in a hurry to use the car and did not overrule Cheng Zai's opinion.
After a while, Cheng Zai drove the car back.
Xiao Mo asked Cheng Zai and Wang Qian to wait by the river bank while he wanted to drive down the river.
Cheng Zai stopped him again, "I'm with you. I don't know as much about the functions of this vehicle as you do, but you are definitely not as good as me in its specialization. Brother Wang and Forensic Doctor Qian are not familiar with the vehicle operating interface yet, so they are responsible for responding on the shore. We, captain, do you think this arrangement is okay?"
Xiao Mo slapped his head, he was not smart, but he had the advantage of being able to listen to what others said, "Sorry, I was wrong, so I just listen to you!"
Then Wang Qian and the two stood on the shore and saw with their own eyes that the handsome base vehicle turned into a vehicle like a submarine within five minutes.
The base vehicle slowly sank into the water.
Xiao Mo asked the vehicle-mounted intelligence to scan the river for traces of Xue Lihong and Wang Chong. However, the vehicle's external scanning capability was not high, and the visibility of the river was low, so only some shadows could be seen on the screen.
"Holy shit!" Cheng Zai suddenly screamed, "How big a fish is this? So there are still such big fish in our rivers? I thought the ecological environment was damaged and this kind of big fish can only be seen in the sea."
The picture is not clear, and Xiao Mo is not sure what those bright spots are. "It may not be the original ecology, maybe it is a mutated fish. Try not to disturb them, and look for creatures that are more than three meters tall. I just saw that one The king insect should be over three meters long."
Xiao Mo asked Cheng Zaishi to get rid of the unqualified light spots.
Ten minutes later, the Xiaomo observation base vehicle was nearly three kilometers away from where it was launched into the water.
"Brother Xiao, we found it! Come and see if it's them?" Cheng Zai waved to Xiao Mo to come and take a look.
Xiao Mo quickly ran to Cheng Zai, "Let me see!"
On the screen, a pair of long light spots staggered together, merged and separated from time to time. When separated, it can be seen that one light spot is very large and the other light spot is very small.
"It's probably them. Let's go there! Hurry!"
Xue Lihong has been luring the king insect away.
He could feel that this king insect was very powerful, completely different from the ordinary corpse-eating dragon insect before.
He may not be able to defeat this big bug. He didn't want his boss and the entire scavenging team to become the insect's extra food. To deal with this king insect, he only thought of one way, which was to grind with it slowly to see who couldn't stand it first.
Xue Lihong also tried to hold the opponent's tail and bite it, but his invincible sharp teeth hit the wall on the king insect. However, he also succeeded in irritating the king insect and kept chasing him - mainly because he would go up and take a bite from time to time.
The passage of time was blurry in the water. He didn't know exactly how much time had passed, but he was beginning to feel tired.
And the king insect is getting more and more irritable.
He had nothing to do with the King Insect, and the King Insect's claws, long beards, poisonous mist, etc. had little effect on him.
In particular, the King Insect seems not quite used to fighting in the water. It always wants to leave the water and go to the shore, but how can Xue Lihong agree
This thing looked very poisonous at first glance. Every time the poisonous mist was sprayed from the mouth, it could poison a large area of aquatic life. However, because the water did not spread poison as fast as the air, the poisonous mist dispersed before it could reach him.
However, this big bug can eat the poisoned aquatic creatures along the way and replenish energy anytime and anywhere, but he cannot.
Well, I miss my boss a little bit.
Xue Lihong secretly took out a level three energy crystal and put it in his mouth, and he began to concentrate his power on his hand.
His hand began to mutate, the fingers merged, and the palm turned into a blade. If anyone saw the changes in his arm, they would definitely think that this person had a giant mantis arm transplanted on his arm.
Xue Lihong wanted to make a hole in the king insect's body, not too many, just one. The king insect wanted to get into his body, and he thought so too.
This king insect is powerful, but it is also full of temptation for him! He had a hunch that this big bug contained a certain substance that he needed, and he would get it no matter what!
"Uh!" You can't be careless, as you were cut first.
At this time, the king insect actually sprayed out a large number of small bugs from its mouth. These small linear bugs bounced forward in the water at an extremely strange speed.
Depend on! It can even spray bugs!
Xue Lihong misses Xiao Mo more and more. If Xiao Mo is by his side at this time, the wounds on his body will disappear as soon as his hand touches him. Naturally, there is no need to worry about these little bugs finding gaps and getting into his body.
But isn’t his boss away now? There is no choice but to use the second plan.
Xue Lihong gave up guarding the wound and just kept attacking a certain point of the king insect. This is the key point of ordinary corpse dragon insects. I wonder if this king insect is the same
A small bug landed next to Xue Lihong, and he found the wound by following the faint blood. A nematode about two centimeters long got into the exposed wound on Xue Lihong's upper arm.
One worm got in, two, three, and soon, hundreds of nematodes gathered in the wound on Xue Lihong's upper arm. The scene of swarms of worms swarming in, people with a weak heart really can't watch it. !
Xue Lihong seemed to be waiting for this moment. When enough bugs gathered, he snored and stuffed them all into his mouth.
Those bugs still wanted to burrow into his mucosa and throat, but the inside of Xue Lihong's mouth and throat had undergone huge changes at this time. The bugs that got in quickly turned into liquid as soon as they came into contact with the secretions in Xue Lihong's mouth. Puddles of water.
The king insect was furious when he saw the worms he sprayed being eaten, and then sprayed out a second wave of worms. These bugs are a bit bigger, and their appearance and performance have also changed a bit. After burrowing into Xue Lihong's wounds, they can actually corrode the wounds.
Xue Lihong gritted her teeth in pain, pulled the bugs off and stuffed them into her mouth again to replenish energy.
However, this method may only be used a few times. There is no other way. Who said that the inside of his body is fragile? What about mutation and instability
Look, he obviously wanted to turn the fingers of his palm into an insect body like a drill, but instead it turned into a mantis arm. So embarrassing!
The energy crystals in the mouth have been quickly digested, and the mutated body consumes a lot of energy. However, his mantis arm was not completely ineffective. After he pulled it down with perseverance and perseverance, he finally made a small gash in the king insect's body.
Xue Lihong just stuck her blade-like fingers in, cut out a strip of tender meat, pulled it out, and ate it!
The king insect let out a silent roar, and more small insects spurted out from his mouth.
This time Xuelihong was almost surrounded by bugs.
This is a tug-of-war. When each other's body toxins and various attack methods are useless to each other, and they are unable to get rid of each other and still want to kill each other, to put it bluntly, it is to see who can eat the other first!
It was at this time that Xiao Mo arrived in the base vehicle. When he saw the tragic scene of Xue Lihong being almost surrounded by insects through the vehicle's external camera, he was heartbroken!
In an instant, Boss Xiao’s eyes turned red! Without saying a word, he controlled the machine gun to shoot the king insect.
Cheng Zai held him back tightly, "Brother! Brother Xiao! Calm down! This is water, and our weapons cannot be used underwater for the time being! We use net bags and wire mesh! Take Brother Xue back first!"
"No, I'm going out."
"What?!"
"There is a portable oxygen mask in the car. If I put it on, I should be able to survive in the water for half an hour."
"That's different. You use more oxygen underwater. This requires special training, and there's also underwater pressure... Brother Xiao!"
Xiao Mo has decided that he really can't watch Xiao Hong being eaten by so many insects. The big king insect couldn't help spraying poisonous mist on Xiao Hong and whipping it. It looked like Xiao Hong was bullied to death!
This made him unable to bear it even for a second!
"When you shoot the wire mesh, remember to put Xiaohong in a separate isolation space first. There are too many bugs on him."
"I know, Brother Xiao, wait..."
Xiao Mo couldn't wait any longer, so he went to the warehouse to get an oxygen mask, and asked the car's smart phone to open a water tank to let him out.
Xue Lihong, who was competing with the king insect for endurance, twisted his mouth when he saw the base vehicle appearing. Well, even he forgot that the base vehicle can also fight underwater, but because he did not expect that there are not many weapons in the vehicle that can be used for underwater combat.
Xue Lihong was thinking about how to use the reserves in the base vehicle to deal with the king insect, while tearing the wound of the king insect faster.
And the little bug that dug its head into his wound was also trying desperately to get its whole body inside.
The king insect roared silently, and the body of the long insect was shaken, making the river water become more and more turbid.
Xiao Mo held the oxygen tube in his mouth and carried an oxygen bag on his back, and swam towards the king insect with all his strength.
Xue Lihong had just torn out another piece of tender meat from the King Insect and was putting it into her mouth when she accidentally saw a mermaid swimming towards her.
Bang, the insect meat fell into the mouth.
Xue Lihong is so confused. When the boss comes, he has the power of immortality. But he still has to be distracted to protect his boss, so the outcome is hard to predict.
Just when Xue Lihong thought Xiao Mo was swimming towards him, she saw Xiao Mo's body moving further and further away from him, and his boss actually swam towards the head of the king insect!
The king insect has no way to deal with Xue Lihong, who can't be bitten, beaten, or poisoned, but it can't deal with Xiao Mo
Before Xiao Mo could swim in front of it, the tentacles on the top of the king insect's head were gently inserted downwards.
Xiao Mo's chest was penetrated!
Xiao Mo didn't take it seriously when the King Insect got it in. During this period, it had hunted a lot of such prey. All of them were incredibly weak. They couldn't escape as fast as those big fish. If they fell into the water, they would basically get stuck by it. Roll it up and eat it in your stomach.
This is also the reason why it comes from the water. It feels that food in the water is easier to catch. Sometimes, as long as it sucks its mouth, a large amount of food will pour into its mouth.
This time, it also brought the inserted prey into its mouth... and it got stuck!
The prey it thought was certain to die actually kicked its teeth with its feet and refused to enter its mouth!
How is this possible
Another tentacle swung over and stung, stabbing the prey to the core again.
Xue Lihong saw this scene clearly from below!
He knows the boss's purpose, but! Then he must be able to bear it!
Xuelihong broke out! He originally wanted to grind it slowly. But my boss (wife) has been stabbed on a skewer, and anyone who can slowly deal with the enemy is a god!
Boss Xiao risked his life and finally found the energy nest of the king insect, but the energy nest was not at the head? How is he going to get down
At this moment, the king insect suddenly trembled violently, and it threw Xiao Mo away with all its strength. A big hole was ripped out of its abdomen!
"Phew!" A whip-like tentacle wrapped around his waist and pulled him underwater.
"...Xiaohong?" Xiao Mo's eyes hurt from the dirty river water. Is the "person" in front of him really his Xiaohong? Regardless of whether it looks like it or not, it feels like it should be repaired first!
"Pah." A mouthpart as big as a baby's fist shot out of Xiaohong's mouth, stamping his mouth.
The compound eye-like eye membranes blinked twice, as if to say hello to him.
"Huh." Xiao Mo's whole body was wrapped in a transparent film. If you look closely, the membrane looks like the wings of some kind of insect.
The snow-mutated giant insect man carried his boss in his arms and rushed towards the king insect... with a wound on his abdomen!