An irregular rock shook, suddenly fell inward, and rolled into the darkness from the slanting downward slope, making several cracking sounds. A faint golden light appeared behind the pushed rock, Ling drilled in, stepped on the ground, and the whole person fell suddenly. He didn't panic, he activated Kong Xing's new ability, an invisible force field wrapped his whole body, and under the effect of the anti-gravity field, his fall stopped immediately, and Zero was suspended in mid-air.
He spent a lot of time looking outside just now, and finally found this gap. This is already inside the mountainside, but there is wind blowing from below, it seems that this mountainside still leads directly to the ground. Entering the space on the mountainside, it is obvious that the air is much more humid than outside, and the temperature is also much higher. After staying for a while, you can see patches of blue glowing moss growing on the rocks in the mountainside. These fungal things make the mountainside look a little brighter. Even if the faint blue light emitted by them is not enough to light up the entire mountainside, Zero still has a panoramic view of the entire mountainside through his low-light vision.
The place he is now is a slope, the slope leads into the depths under the mountainside, and the end is hidden in the darkness, and it is impossible to see what kind of place the depths are. I don't know if this slope is natural or man-made, but it's better to have a way to go than to be stuck in place. Ling fell back to the ramp and strode down the slope. Underneath the Eternal Mountain Range is a huge underground space. The towering stalagmites are as thick as pillars supporting the sky, densely connecting the ground and the mountain above. The stone pillars are covered with luminescent moss, so from a distance, these stone pillars are like star waterfalls hanging upside down, with faint blue light, which looks extremely magnificent.
The height of this slope was nearly 100 meters. After walking for more than half an hour, Ling came to the ground. There is a mossy lichen growing on the ground, there are many strange rocks, and several underground rivers meander through the ground. At the end is a plateau, where it rises from the ground like a hill. After the hill, there is a rock wall, but there is a dark hole in the mountain wall, which seems to lead to other places.
Just as Ling wanted to explore the entrance of the cave, he heard strange screams from other places underground. He hurriedly shrank behind a boulder and looked out, only to see mutant rats the size of puppies appearing from the darkness. These giant fools seem to be a little different from the violent giant rats that are common in the Central Continent. Because they live underground for a long time, their eyes have basically degenerated, and their bodies are covered with bristles like hedgehogs.
These giant subterranean rats are gnawing on the moss on the ground and drawing water from several underground rivers. However, Zero noticed that not all the giant rats were eating or drawing water, some of them scattered and wandered around. It neither eats moss nor drinks water, and is on guard like a guard.
Are there their natural enemies here? As soon as Ling came up with this idea, there was a "rustling" crawling sound from the high ground. When hearing these sounds, the giant rats responsible for vigilance opened their mouths and let out a sharp whistling sound. As soon as they warned, a row of strange insects climbed up from the high ground. These insects have a small head and a big body, with a praying mantis-like head, and four or five compound eyes distributed on the small head. Each compound eye flashes with different lights, and its body is an oval abdominal cavity like a spider, with a row of insect-like arthropods covered with bristles on both sides.
The bodies of these strange insects are covered with black worm shells, and there are purple lines swimming on the surface of the worm shells. Under the blue light of the glowing moss, the insect shells flowed through a beam of metallic light from time to time. It was obvious that these hard shells were of high quality, comparable to metal.
The strange insects surged down from the other side of the high ground like a black tide. Although there are only a dozen of them, and the number of giant rats is more than ten times that of them, the giant rats are very afraid of this strange insect. They fled screaming, but the strange insects scattered away, four or five of them darted at high speed, and sometimes even bounced off the ground, ejecting a stream of air from both sides of their abdominal cavity, pushing them Get to your destination faster.
Zero looked with awe in his heart, these strange insects were obviously born hunters, they possessed a high IQ, and they knew how to hunt rats. Judging from the underground situation, it is obviously wrong for the city of Rome to think that there are no more dangerous mutant creatures in the western continent. As far as the strange insects that Zero saw, once they formed a numerical advantage on the ground, they would become a terrifying force.
Looking at the hunt in the distance, a few strange insects swam around and drove the group of rats together. The group of rats huddled into a circle, and the strongest giant rats acted as guards on the periphery. They howled threateningly towards the strange insects, but the strange insects were obviously unmoved, and their eyes kept flashing with different colors of light. Zero noticed that these rays of light are regular, obviously this is a way of communication for strange insects.
They were not in a hurry to attack, but kept shrinking the encirclement, thus forming a huge pressure, constantly impacting the group of rats. The group of rats couldn't hold back, and finally a particularly strong giant rat rushed out. The giant rat sprinted very quickly for a short distance, and jumped onto a strange insect in the blink of an eye. Then it opened its huge mouth full of sharp teeth and gnawed at the insect, but it seemed to be biting a piece of fine iron, and there was a burst of fire between the sharp teeth and the shell, and there was a sharp friction sound. Voice.
The attacked monster swayed immediately, throwing the giant rat away. When the giant rat was in mid-air, the belly of the monster queen suddenly opened, and a black shadow popped out from inside and instantly hit the giant rat.
The giant rat immediately let out a mournful cry, and Ling could clearly see that it was a tentacle-like thing. However, the kinetic energy of the instant ejection was already comparable to that of a bullet, making the front end of the tentacle easily pass through the giant rat's body. The front end of the tentacles exposed to the air had a cross cut, and a mouthpart full of broken teeth was turned out by the collision, which looked extremely disgusting.
There was a "hissing" sound from that mouthpiece, the tentacles rolled back, and brought the still struggling giant rat back into the abdominal cavity. The abdominal cavity closed immediately, and there was a sound of chewing and chewing, and the cry of the giant rat disappeared quickly, as if it had been eaten by a strange insect.
This is the first time that Zero has seen a mutated creature that brings its prey into the abdominal cavity and eats it. Right now, this strange insect has completely subverted the cognition of land creatures, but it is somewhat similar to some sea creatures.
Seeing their companions being eaten, the giant rats launched a crazy attack, but their attacks were in vain. The abdomens of the strange insects split open one by one, and more than a dozen terrifying tentacles flew out from the inside. The insects surrounded the group of rats, raised their tentacles and waved wildly towards the group of rats. From time to time, giant rats were hit by the tentacles, and there was a sound of flesh and bone breaking. When they fell to the ground, they were often unable to move, so they were easily rolled up by the insect's tentacles, and then sent to the abdomen.
The abdominal cavity of the strange insect didn't close at all, it just opened and chewed on the giant rat that fell into it. Immediately, streaks of blood sprayed from the abdominal cavity. From time to time, there would be giant rats struggling to crawl out of the abdominal cavity that was no different from hell, but they were pulled back by the tentacles without exception.
The killing of bugs is simple and efficient. On the other hand, on the side of the giant rats, although there are some who are not afraid of death and bite the heads of the monster bugs, they do not prevent the monster bugs from hunting their other companions. Strange to say, the head is definitely one of the weaknesses of creatures, and the head of the monster is obviously no harder than its body. As soon as it was bitten by a giant rat, it split open immediately, and insect blood flowed out. But even if the giant rat gnawed off one of their compound eyes, and even tore off a small half of their head, the worms remained unmoved and continued to hunt and kill other giant rats.
The battle only lasted for about half an hour, and more than half of the giant rats fell into the belly of the strange insect. In the end, the monster insects should have eaten enough, and they no longer formed an encirclement circle, and they scattered away. The remaining giant rats fled immediately, and they were all gone in a short while. Those strange insects fell to the ground when they were full, as if they were resting. But then, they did something unexpected.
The strange insects rolled their bodies hard, until they turned their chubby bodies on their backs before they stopped. But at this time, their row of worm-like arthropods mutated, and the forelimbs that were facing the sky suddenly turned downwards. It seemed that their arthropod joints could move freely. After their front limbs landed on the ground, they lifted the monster insects up and turned around again. Only then did Ling see that there was another row of compound eyes distributed around the oval abdomen of these monster insects!
Except for the compound eyes, a dotted line was split at the front of the abdomen, followed by some indigestible bones spit out from the mouth like a mouth organ. After Zero retracted the stone, he replayed the scene of the insect-rat battle just now in his mind, and felt more and more that the thing that looked like a giant belly was the real head of these strange insects, and the heads attacked by those giant rats were actually Is a camouflage organ used to attract the attention of the enemy and act as a disorientation.
To put it simply, it was simply a trap. If you only attacked the small heads of the monsters like the giant rat, you would not be able to really kill them. Therefore, the strange insects simply ignored the giant rats that were biting their heads, and the giant rats that jumped on them would be thrown off, because those giant rats attacked their real weaknesses instead.
High intelligence, tentacles that can be ejected at high speed, and organs that act as traps have already made this strange insect easy enough to rank among the first-class hunters. It can be imagined that when faced with such strange insects, no matter who would habitually attack their heads, they would fall into their traps.
And when he figured out the characteristics of the monster, he didn't know how many lives he would have to pay.
At this time, the full-bodied monsters began to return to the high ground. A strange insect walking at the back suddenly stopped, turned around, and looked towards the boulder where Ling was hiding with its huge head covered with compound eyes. Its eyes became a little suspicious, so it left its companion and walked towards Zero alone. Hearing the sound of insect claws scraping the ground coming towards him, Zero knew that the strange insect probably noticed somewhere.
In the distance, other strange insects had already jumped off the high ground, and all of them shrank into the dark hole, as if that was their lair. At this time, a large shadow suddenly appeared on Zero's head. Zero raised his head, and he could just see the strange insect facing him. On that huge head, Zero could even see black bristles emerging from the gaps in the insect's shell!