The process leading to the underground three-story base was smooth, with no ambushes and no traps on the way. Nothing but worm droppings that covered the passage.
From the exit to the rest area, everyone walked in the quiet and dark base. Everyone's tactical helmet has night vision mode turned on, but the viewing distance is limited. Seen from the helmet, it seems that the darkness ahead has no limit, and it can go all the way to hell like this.
They didn't speak. Although the communication channel was working, everyone could only hear the weak breathing of other team members coming from the channel. Then mixed with his own heavy breathing to form a wonderful ensemble. It's just that this ensemble doesn't make people happy, but makes people feel heavy. Just as the members of the Pioneer Squad were under tremendous pressure from the boundless darkness, Anthony suddenly raised his left hand to signal the team to stop.
When the team stopped, the invisible pressure suddenly disappeared like shattered glass.
Anthony's eyes fell on the messy restaurant. The metal cabinets blocking the door looked like temporary fortifications, and the countless bullet casings on the ground directly indicated that a fierce battle had taken place here. Judging from the slender cracks, it should be the masterpiece of the sickle insect, but there are many and chaotic cuts on the outer wall of the store. At least hundreds or even more sickle insects must attack together to achieve this effect.
Corpses lay all over the ground outside the restaurant, most of which were scythe bugs and green whirlwinds, but there were still some living corpses among them. This made Anthony look puzzled. It was strange enough that the living corpses on the second floor would appear in the third-floor base. What's even more strange is that they seem to be in conflict with the sickle insects, and Anthony doesn't think that the living corpses are smart enough to build their own defenses.
All this looks like it was man-made. But there was no corpse of Team Zero in the dining room, which made Anthony slightly disappointed.
He gestured, and the procession moved on.
"It's strange. At this time, there shouldn't be so many active scythes, not to mention that there are elite monsters like the green whirlwind in it." Along the way, Luca reminded Anthony.
After a while, Anthony's voice sounded on the communication channel: "It's okay, Zero seems to have attracted a lot of bugs for us. Look, sometimes walking fast is not a good thing."
His tone was relaxed, but Luca heard that Anthony was not happy because there were no zero-level corpses in the restaurant. There is no body, which means that Zero is not dead yet. In other words, his team was still behind them after all.
After leaving the rest area, the pioneer team entered the biological cultivation area through a long corridor. But this place has been entrenched by sickle insects and has become their old nest. The viscous insect liquid flowed all over the ground, and countless broken insect sacs appeared in front of and around the team. This place is full of fishy smell, which is the unique smell left in the air by sickle larvae breaking out of their shells.
Everyone in the pioneer team looked solemn. After all, judging from the number of these insect shells, at least a few thousand larvae had been successfully born. Judging from the worm fluid flowing out of the broken worm sacs, which are still in a liquid state, this batch of worms has just been born. The newly born larvae are in a hungry period, and they want to chew as long as they see a living thing. Just think about the scene of thousands of larvae swarming up to kill a living thing, that is enough to make even the most courageous person's scalp go numb.
Oram was one of them. The iron tower-like man only felt a stomachache, and felt like he was going to retch. Fortunately, he immediately controlled his Adam's apple, and swallowed the stuff surging from his stomach. Although it's disgusting, it's better than being laughed at by others.
The others were also having a hard time. Walking on the disgusting insect liquid, even Anthony, who was usually calm, became slightly short of breath. In this harsh environment, Anthony has been turning on the area scan. The scope of the area scan is a circle with a diameter of about 500 meters at the center of Anthony. Within the scope of the ability, all objects are presented in the form of a three-dimensional model in Anthony's consciousness, and they rotate from time to time, listing possible objects that may appear to him. dangerous place. If someone makes a sneak attack, then Anthony will make the opponent change from a sneak attack to being a sneak attack.
But area scan is not without its disadvantages, on the contrary its disadvantages are obvious. Although within the scope of the ability to scan three-dimensionally with mental fluctuations, the height of the scan is limited. Even if Anthony uses all his strength, it is less than ten meters. This is not a problem in many cases, the problem is that the space height of the base is now more than ten meters. Therefore, when a drop of viscous liquid dripped on the shoulder of sniper Betsy, the night god's tactical suit, which can defend against most physical impacts, turned into a faint white mark by this unremarkable drop of liquid.
Betsy suddenly felt a slight burning sensation from his shoulder, and he looked towards his shoulder, only to see a wisp of blue smoke floating up. He was startled, and quickly patted his shoulder with his hand, but at this moment, more ** fell from a height, dripping on Betsy's hand.
These substances are undoubtedly highly corrosive. After only two or three drops on one place, the resin material of the tactical suit will melt directly. When the skin under the tactical suit touches this substance, the surface layer of the skin will be burned by a high-temperature flame. Like, immediately burst, red and swollen.
Betsy's yelling attracted everyone's attention, and Anthony, who was walking in front of the team, turned around, just in time to see more gunpowder dripping from the darkness above, causing Betsy's whole body to continuously emit tactical uniform materials Melting smoke.
Anthony's face changed, and he shouted suddenly in the communication channel: "Above! Hurry up and attack the ceiling, it's a sickle insect larva!"
As soon as the words fell, Oram who was next to Betsy raised his heavy machine gun with one hand, roared and pulled the trigger. The next moment, the heavy machine gun roared and opened fire, and the flames spewed out more than one meter. A torrential rain of bullets blasted into the sky, and under the reflection of the fire, the ceiling of the base was actually covered with scythe larvae. They densely occupied any corner of the ceiling, so that Auram tore a dozen larvae to pieces with a random strafing shot.
The larva exploded to death, and pieces of the worm kept falling from the ceiling. But at the same time, countless larvae fell down. They screamed and kept letting go of their sharp limbs gripping the ceiling. Suddenly, the biological cultivation area seemed to be raining insects!
With a precise shot, Betsy exploded a larva with its head and body. However, the single-shot limit of the sniper rifle, and Betsy's lack of the multi-shot ability of Zero, so that when he killed one larva, more than a dozen fell on him. Betsy frantically slapped the worms with a sniper rifle, smashing the heads of two larvae with a gun shaft, but more worms tore open Betsy's flesh with sharp claws and fangs.
In the end, an out-of-control Betsy shot indiscriminately. After firing three shots in a row, he fell silently. Through the gaps of the bugs, one can see that half of his head has been eaten away by the bugs, while other larvae are trying to tear open his stomach, attacking the delicious flesh and intestines in the abdominal cavity.
"Damn it!" Oram roared, and the heavy machine guns swept towards Betsy's body, immediately smashing the corpse and the dozen or so larvae that were lying on it into a sieve.
Luca and Gail used one-handed swords and warhammers to guard Anthony's sides respectively, beheading and blasting the bugs that were constantly approaching. As for Anthony, he was not idle either. He closed his eyes first, and when he opened them suddenly, silver flames sprayed from the depths of his pupils.
In an instant, an invisible mental wave swept away in a fan shape. Within 200 meters of mental fluctuations, the heads of hundreds of larvae instantly became blurred. They still maintained their charging posture, but when they came close to the team, they jumped down one after another. And within the range of 200 meters to 500 meters, the insects that were mentally shocked suddenly withered to the ground and couldn't get up immediately.
After unleashing a powerful mental shock with all his strength, Anthony, who used his abilities overloaded, sprayed two blood mist directly from his nostrils. But he didn't care so much, and shouted directly on the communication channel: "Run!"
They didn't care about Betsy's body, they used Anthony's mental impact to create a way out, and the pioneer team ran from the depths of the training area. In the meantime, they passed a pile of strange corpses. Those were seven butchers. These giant-like tall living corpses were almost dismembered, but their huge weapons were all stained with insect blood. As for the corpses, there were hundreds of sickle adults buried with them!
Seeing these butchers, Anthony became even more suspicious.
In the wilderness, in the snow where the Valkyrie faced off against the two Parkland killers. One after another black currents are traveling on the ground. As they continue to travel and split, the fission of dark elements in this area gradually stops.
A pair of strange pupils with red concentric circles in the pitch black are watching the changes in the energy of the earth, and the owner of the pupils has short hair covered in mud. The blond hair that originally symbolized the status of nobility is now dull. Sauron, who has been transformed into a disorderly one, is lying on the snow, ignoring the intensely radiating snowdrifts that wrap him tightly.
He subconsciously killed Zero's command sequence to come here, and by virtue of the microsecond invisible connection with Zero, Sauron bypassed the Julian Mountains. But he was forced to stop when he was already quite close to zero.
The reason is the energy disordered space within a kilometer square in front of him. If Sauron was still alive, he would know that it was caused by an explosion produced by the fission of elements of a certain system. But even though he is dead now, he doesn't know that it is caused by the power released by the spontaneous combustion of the elements, but he instinctively knows that the people or other creatures forming this area are undoubtedly a danger to him.
Sauron was hesitating, the command in his consciousness was fighting fiercely with instinct. In the end, command overwhelmed instinct. Just when Sauron was about to venture across the snow field, suddenly, the ground shook slightly.
In the wind and snow in the distance, a figure gradually appeared. Someone was running in this direction, and every time this person landed, the ground trembled. After feeling the unparalleled power in the shock, Sauron's instinct instantly gained the upper hand. He gritted his teeth and growled unwillingly, but turned and left, disappearing into the snowstorm!