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From the outside, the forest that stretches for hundreds of miles on the Zambes Mountains is dead and silent. Whether it is the towering trees that have been blown by the perennial wind and snow, causing the branches and leaves to wither, or the few traces of biological activities in the forest, it seems that this is a dead forest, or it is dying. But in fact, it is young and full of vitality.
Life is hidden under the snow, in the depths of the forest.
Varieties of fir trees and ferns that evolved in just a few decades to adapt to their environment made their roots grow deeper and longer to absorb water from below the surface. Compared with the harsh surface environment, the underground world is relatively warmer, and the thin but never-dried ground water provides space for these mutated plants to live.
As for creatures, they have their own unique way of living.
Times are changing and the world is changing. Only by changing themselves, evolving themselves, and optimizing genes can organisms continue to survive in this cruel environment. The surviving creatures have their own way of living. In this vast forest, there are hundreds of species living, all of which have no similar way of life.
Among them, the one with the laziest way of life is the ice meteor scale armored scorpion. This kind of scorpion that lives in the depths of the forest is usually nearly three meters long, and their body is covered with thick ice armor like an exoskeleton. These armors make the giant scorpion's skin rough and thick, and ordinary rifles can only leave rows of bullet marks on them. Ice scale scorpions also have two scorpion claws, but their two scorpion claws are very disproportionate.
The scorpion claw on the left is as big as a car bucket, but the scorpion claw on the right is very small, so when the ice scale scorpions attack their prey, they usually use their powerful left claw. Of course, as scorpions, they also have a deadly stinger. It's just different from the ordinary scorpion's attack method of piercing the stinger into the prey and injecting the venom. The stinger of the ice scale scorpion is actually a high-pressure water gun, which is pressurized through a special organ in the tail. From the small hole of the stinger, the ice scale scorpion can shoot out icy body fluid enough to instantly freeze normal creatures.
The body fluid sprayed by the stinger of an adult ice scale scorpion is as far as ten meters away, and the water pressure is very high when spraying, so that the sprayed body fluid is shaped like a water arrow, which can easily penetrate rocks, and of course it can also cut through those prey that are not strong. body.
It's just that this kind of ice scale scorpions, which make other creatures fearful, often hibernate in their own lairs. In a year, there is only less than one month when they prey and reproduce. If not, the Ice Scales would have already become the overlord of the forest. Because of this, they are well-deserved big sloths in the forest.
The lairs of ice scale scorpions are mostly located in natural rock caves tens of meters below the surface. This place isolates the cold air of the ground and becomes a natural hotbed for ice scale scorpions to hibernate. When they hibernate, they shrink their scorpion claws and tail spines, thus camouflaging themselves as blocks of ice rocks. In fact, their blue-gray armor makes scorpions look like rocks.
If there are creatures that don't have long eyes carelessly passing by the scorpion, the ice scale scorpion doesn't mind catching the delicious food that it bumps into. After a good meal, these lazy guys will continue to sleep until the [mating] period comes.
There are only four to five hundred ice scale scorpions hiding in the underground caves, but for this kind of huge mutant creature, this is already a large group. As the king of this group, the Ice and Snow Tyrant is usually in a light sleep state. It is not only the king of the scorpion group, but also the most powerful guardian, so as to protect its group from hibernation or breeding period safely.
The Ice Tyrant is the strongest of all scorpions. His strength is not only reflected in his huge body, which is ten meters long and wide, but also in its ice armor, which is far more complicated and thicker than ordinary scorpions. The thickness of the armor on the ice and snow tyrant can be called the crown of the whole clan. And unlike the scales of other scorpions, the Ice Tyrant has sharp ice thorns on many parts, which makes it look very difficult to mess with.
In fact, this is also the case. In addition to the common attack methods of the ice scale scorpion, the ice and snow tyrant also possesses the ability of ice elements, which is also the capital for it to defend the group.
The underground cave is warm and humid, which is the favorite environment of the ice tyrant. It was disguising itself as a huge rock, and in hibernation, its breathing and heartbeat had dropped to three to five times an hour. This greatly reduces the speed of blood circulation in the body, and also saves physical and energy consumption. But in this state, some of the ice and snow tyrant's senses are still sharp.
For example, its flat abdomen that is close to the ground, and several special muscle groups growing on its body wrapped in thick ice armor. They are very sensitive to shocks. Once a creature approaches the scorpion's lair, the Ice and Snow Tyrant will know and react immediately.
At this moment, it suddenly felt an unusual vibration while it was sleeping. The magnitude of the vibration was not large, but it was enough to arouse its vigilance. So the ice and snow tyrant woke up from his deep sleep, and first, two faint blue lights lit up in the black gap between the armor's stomach. Cracks appeared in the camouflaged boulder, and then the appearance of the boulder began to deform.
A giant claw spread out from the front, and the left claw, which was much bigger than other ice scale scorpions, was like the bucket of a forklift truck. When it hit the ground, it shook the cave slightly. Following the stretching of the right claw and tail spine, three pairs of bristly limbs protrude from under the flat plastron. Stretch and stretch the legs, supporting the ice and snow tyrant's ten-meter-long body.
After turning from a giant rock into a big bug, the Ice and Snow Tyrant flew towards the source of the vibration. It looks clumsy, but it moves silently and with incredible agility. Even though there are still as many ice scale scorpions hibernating in the cave, the Ice Tyrant can always pass by them without disturbing them. After passing through the natural cave used as a lair, the ice and snow tyrant entered a complex underground branch.
This is the periphery of the lair, which is also a maze. The natural karst caves intertwined, making the terrain here complicated enough to confuse creatures who came here for the first time, and it was also the natural line of defense for the ice scale scorpion's lair. Naturally, the Ice and Snow Tyrant is very familiar with the terrain here, and as soon as it entered the maze, it headed towards the source of the vibration without stopping.
There was a dangerous smell in the air, and another smell of pantothenic acid drifted over quietly. This made the Ice and Snow Tyrant very angry, because this smell was exactly the smell of ice scale scorpion blood. In other words, something was hunting its kin near the lair. The speed of the angry Ice and Snow Tyrant increased sharply, and the complex terrain seemed flat in its eyes.
The smell of scorpion blood began to become stronger, and the closer it was, the more irritable the ice and snow tyrant felt. Finally, the corpse of an ice scale scorpion appeared in its eyes. The body of this adult scorpion was turned over, and the part from the head to the tail thorn was almost cut open by something, causing internal organs and blood to flow all over the place. The Ice and Snow Tyrant let out an angry neigh and continued to move forward. He saw several corpses of his clansmen one after another.
These corpses were all fatally struck by a single blow, and the wounds were so huge that people looked sideways. But obviously, the Ice and Snow Tyrant has no interest in studying the murderer's ability and strength from the dead body. Now it only wants to tear up the guy who dares to kill its people, no matter what kind of creature it is. Soon, the Ice and Snow Tyrant saw a giant figure from a distance.
It was a back view, a humanoid creature holding something high. Then a dark red light lit up in the cave, and finally another ice scale scorpion struggled and circled painfully on the ground, and gradually fell silent.
The ice and snow tyrant let out a sharp cry, which shook the entire cave slightly. Its three pairs of legs seemed to be gliding on ice, and with every stroke, it supported the huge body and pressed towards the murderer. Seeing that he was about to get close to the murderer, the left paw, which looked like a bucket of a forklift, swept across, smashing several stalagmites in the air, and at the same time, it landed on the murderer with the majesty of a mountain.
The giant turned around and used a wide dark red sword as a shield to block the ice and snow tyrant's earth-shattering blow. With the giant's body nearly five meters high, the tyrant's left pincer also made his footing unstable, and flew to the other side. After hitting and breaking a dozen stalagmites, the giant slammed into a rock wall and stopped himself.
It shook its head and stood up, the one eye on its head was full of fighting spirit. The giant waved his hands in all fours, and something like a meat tube behind his shoulder spewed out puffs of hot smoke. He followed it and galloped, ten meters at a step!
The ice and snow tyrant is not showing weakness, it is like a heavy chariot. The chariot turned around, followed by the full-fledged carriage and rolled towards the giant.
The two behemoths met midway and slammed into each other hard. At the moment of the collision, a violent storm was released, causing the two to retreat a few steps in opposite directions.
Bah bah bah! The giant stopped after stepping on a large piece of rock one after another, and then turned back and rushed forward. Using the dark red sword in his hand like a war hammer, he beat the ice and snow tyrant with all his might. Facing the giant's frenzied attack, the Ice and Snow Tyrant used his left claw to block from time to time, sparking bright sparks with the big sword. During the fight, the giant suddenly felt a pain in his foot. Looking down, it turned out that a piece of sharp ice skates pierced into its soles at some point.
The giant pulled up its big foot, bypassed the ice blade and continued to attack the ice and snow tyrant. Unexpectedly, the ice blade seemed to be a living thing, hesitating on the ground, and followed the giant with a faint smoke. Then the second and third skates are generated on the ground. They staggered across the ground, plundering towards the giant like the dorsal fins of bloodthirsty sharks in the deep sea.
In fact, this is one of the abilities of the Ice Tyrant. Generate sharp ice blades that automatically track targets, which can interfere with guerrillas. Once the opponent ignores the icy fangs on the ground, the result is often cut into pieces by the ice blade.
Under the interference of the ice skates, the giant was unable to let go and attack wildly like before. It had to be careful not to have its legs cut off by the ice skates on the ground, and it also had to be careful of the ice and snow tyrant's attack, so it was in a hurry. Finally, the giant screamed, and threw the big sword at the ice and snow tyrant like an axe, but the man turned back and ran.
The Ice and Snow Tyrant blocked the big sword with his left paw, and the big sword sparked and plunged obliquely into the ground. As for its owner, it has already disappeared without a trace. Although ice skates can automatically track, they also have a certain range. Once the target is out of range, the skates will blindly spin around. The ice and snow tyrant dissipated the energy to maintain the ice blade. At this time, an iron chain flew from the depths of the cave and accurately wrapped around the big sword.
Once the iron chain was twisted and pulled, it pulled the big sword into the darkness of the cave. This is undoubtedly a disgrace to the Ice and Snow Tyrant. The murderer left without saying anything about killing its people. So the Ice and Snow Tyrant hissed angrily, this cry had a special meaning, it awakened the other ice scale scorpions that were hibernating. Thus, in the ice scale scorpion's lair, the rock-like objects transformed one by one, and their camouflaged limbs stretched out, turning into large scorpions about three meters long.
The ice scale scorpions received the signal from the ice and snow tyrant's cry, and they all rushed towards the ice and snow tyrant's position. At this moment, they are soldiers in battle, converging into a blue-gray torrent rushing towards the exit under the surface of the mountain range.
When the scorpions passed by him, the Ice Tyrant also joined the torrent. The scorpions ran wildly, causing the cave to vibrate continuously. When this vibration was transmitted to the ground, it sent a dangerous signal to the creatures living on the surface. The double-headed eagles perched on the dead trees were the first to feel the shock. They smelled the signal of danger, and the smell of the ice and snow tyrant made them tremble with fear. So the double-headed eagle soared into the sky, scattering its feathers all over the place.
Immediately afterwards, more and more creatures felt the vibrations continuously transmitted from the ground, which made the mutant beasts scramble to escape first. But after a while, a snow bag suddenly formed from the thick snowdrift, followed by an ice scale scorpion rushing out of the snow bag, bringing up countless slush. Behind this ice scale scorpion, there was a torrent of gray-blue scorpions, they swarmed out from the exit of the nest, and followed a certain smell in the air.
When the ice and snow tyrant also came to the surface, the tyrant let out a hiss that shook the entire forest, like a demonstration or a warning.
The sound echoed in the forest. Hearing the cry of the ice and snow tyrant, the weak mutant beasts couldn't even think of running away, and only knew how to hide in their lairs and tremble.
The ground was shaking, the torrent of the scorpion swarm pierced through the forest, nothing dared to block the path of the scorpion swarm. So in Betsy's telescope, the torrent rushed down the mountains almost unimpeded. The binoculars moved, and in the other direction of the scorpion crowd, the lights of Möbystone Market were still brightly lit. But soon, the scorpions will dim the lights there, or become a fire that burns everything.
The cowboy put down his binoculars and looked at the figure covered in scarlet heavy armor beside him: "I don't know how to thank you, respected Grand Duke Red. I'm just curious why the Grand Duke Red in Gignia helped us You know, we're far from being friends?"
"I have my own plan, but I don't need to tell you anything. I know who your target is, but apart from this target, I don't allow you to have Ademili's idea. Otherwise, my battle ax doesn't mind cutting you down." head!" With a flick of his cloak, the red prince turned around with his ax and strode away into the depths of the forest.
Turning around, a smile appeared on Betsy's face: "It's not very clever to use this trick to kill with a knife, Lord Merlin."