Up to now, after continuous fighting and improvement, Yeliu has become concise and direct. She moved like wind and thunder, and the black electricity in her hand faltered, and the free black thin snake swept across the space, and would freeze for a while before dissipating. Therefore, on the battlefield between Yeliu and the leader of the Red Rat, there were more or less such thin black electricity left. With the existence of these black electricity, the movement space of the Ratman leaders is largely restricted, and those elite Squirrelmen have no way to intervene in the battle between the two, so they can only go to the stronghold.
Up to now, Yeliu and the leader of the Red Rat haven't had a single contact. Both of them are extremely fast, Yeliu moves without warning, and the leader of Red Rat wins at the turning point. They were entangled like two whirlwinds, but there was no collision, but the danger between them was no less than that of a frontal confrontation, and it was even worse.
Yeliu's black electricity cluster, and the dark red crystal claws of the Ratman leader are all sharp weapons to kill the enemy. No matter who is hit by the opponent, it will not be easy, and the two are also trying their best to find the opponent's flaws. As long as one of the two sides reveals a flaw, it will inevitably lead to endless attacks!
In terms of speed, Yeliu was almost on par with the leader of the red rat; but in terms of skill and experience, Yeliu was obviously superior. Through the series of fights just now, Yeliu has almost figured out the Ratman's attack routine. To put it simply, it cannot be called a combat skill, but more like the instinct of a beast. It's just that the Ratman raised this instinct to the extreme, forming a unique fatal attack.
Fluttering, biting, tearing, jumping...these movements come and go, but the combination of different movements can produce several attack modes. After figuring out all these patterns, Yeliu has already made up her mind.
Living underground for a long time, the Ratman's eyes have degenerated. Their perception of the outside world is more based on vibration, sound and smell. These form a complex but precise perception system, which can simulate the opponent's action picture in the rat man's brain.
As a result of a pounce, the leader of the Ratman "saw" Yeliu slipping back like the wind. I don't know if it was because of carelessness, the toes were tripped by the gravel on the ground, and the body immediately lost its balance. For a high-level person like Yeliu, it might not even take a second to restore balance. But the Ratman would not let go of this rare opportunity either. Driven by instinct, it moved like the wind and rushed towards Yeliu like a blazing flame.
Suddenly, Yeliu's image disappeared from its perception. Then a sentence of human language rang in his ears, but the Ratman couldn't understand what it meant, and then his left side felt cold, and his perception system became blurred.
"It's really deceiving."
Yeliu whispered such a sentence in the ear of the rat man, and at the same time, the black electricity in his hand passed by its waist. Then flashed ten meters away, and sure enough, the Ratman turned around, his thin tail twitched, making a sharp whistling sound in the air. It's just that its counterattack fell in the air, and Yeliu had already thought that it would make such a move. From revealing flaws, to hitting, and then flying back to prevent the Ratmen from counterattacking, these are all experiences accumulated after long-term fighting.
The underground world is relatively simple, and the Ratmen have few natural enemies in the Giant Beast Canyon. They are hunting and killing creatures, relying on their powerful instincts, and the accumulated experience is more inclined to direct attacks, and less human's surprises.
After being cut by Yeliu's black electricity, those energy threads will invade the opponent's brain and destroy its perception system. That day Sauron's * fighter was beheaded three times by Ye Liu, and he was deprived of his senses, so he could only let him eat. How could this ratman be spared? It can be said that the moment Yeliu was slashed, the outcome was decided. Killing this leader is only a matter of time.
On the other side, the war under the stronghold is in full swing.
A few people kept shooting fire arrows from under the sentry wall, and the fire arrows burst, igniting the ointment in them, forming balls of flames on the ground. These flames burn for a long time, and may not pose much threat to the squirrels, but ordinary squirrels will either be burned alive or seriously injured if they are stuck. A faint smell of barbecue wafted from under the stronghold. It was the smell of many ratmen who had been burned to death.
Gold is like a fish in water in the special environment of the underground, the forming time of the ability is greatly shortened, the power and range are correspondingly increased, and the energy consumption is also reduced according to a certain proportion. This is due to the abundance of earth elements underground. Under the stronghold, it is almost like an active area of earth elements. Those stone cone rock guns have not stopped since the beginning of the battle, constantly destroying the original appearance of the ground at a speed of four to five per second, making the attack of the rat group extremely difficult.
Then other abilities such as Quicksand, Rock Fist, and Stone Wall continued to appear. Further restrict and disturb the position of the rat population and divide them. Then the Zero people would greet these unlucky separated Ratmen with fire arrows. Once trapped in the quicksand, the Ratmen almost became living targets, making the stronghold's attack very smooth.
It's just that with the passage of time, the number of arrows is decreasing sharply. Ratmen have already started to climb up the sentry tower, and the sharp stone pillars watered by the Shadow Clan people not only did not play a defensive role, but instead allowed the nimble ratmen to climb up. Thinking back to when this stronghold was built back then, there were no intelligent creatures like Ratmen, and the Shadow Clan was chased by lizard dragons all the way. The facilities in this stronghold are probably mostly defensive against lizard dragons.
Therefore, under different targeting, it is quite normal that some fortifications will not work. Seeing this, Mo Ni dropped the wooden crossbow and pulled out Death Assault instead. While her long silver-colored hair flickered, the girl was already heading towards the sentry wall, intercepting the ratmen who climbed up to the sentry wall. On the other side of the sentry wall, there is a world where ice flakes roar.
Alice stood directly on the top of the wall, and ice sheets continued to form around her. It's just that it's underground, and there's no such thing as an underground river nearby, so the moisture in this space seems a bit insufficient. Coupled with the existence of gold, the space of the stronghold became the home field of the earth element. Alice can only extract water from the air, and then form rotating ice sheets to deal with these ordinary ratmen.
The stronghold's fortifications cannot intercept the Ratman's attack, but provide a favorable killing range for Alice's ice flakes. Hundreds of ice flakes were ejected between the stone cones, forming a complex and changeable interception network. The Ratman wanted to pass through here, almost consuming Alice's ice slices with his own life. However, this approach is indeed feasible, because the ice pieces of the interception net do tend to decrease, providing more space for the Ratman's attack.
It can be seen that most of the squirrels have already attacked under the sentry wall of the stronghold, and even those elite gray squirrels have begun to climb up the sentry wall. Zero yelled, "Cut off the trough bracket!"
He waved his hand and chopped off a bracket outside the sentry wall, and immediately the wooden trough sank, and as the brackets were broken off one by one, the entire large trough immediately fell down. The wooden trough first hit the protruding stone cones, and immediately smashed to pieces, all the ointment inside splashed out and fell on the sentinel wall and stone cones, making them extremely slippery. In this way, no matter how flexible the Rat Man was, he couldn't use his strength to climb on these oily stone cones, he just slipped and fell.
Even the elite squirrels were no exception. No matter how sharp their claws were, they were useless under the ointment coated on the surface of the stone cone, and fell to the stronghold in vain. As more and more wooden troughs fell down, the surface of the entire stronghold sentry wall and the defensive stone cones were splashed with ointment. This oily substance extracted from unknown creatures made the walls and cones It was so slippery that the Ratman suffered a lot.
But their nightmare was not over yet, as a few people shot fire arrows down the stronghold, the moment the flame touched the ointment on the surface of the wall, it immediately sparked a continuous fire. The fire was out of control, they quickly spread down along the wall and the cone, and fell to the ground in an instant, dragging the ratman who hadn't had time to get up into the flames.
The bottom of the entire stronghold suddenly turned into a sea of flames, and the flames soared into the sky, reflecting the underground space like daytime. In the raging flames, there were countless strange figures scrambling to avoid in the darkness, and the underground creatures were not used to strong light sources. The blood of the previous battle between the two sides attracted some things, but seeing the light and flames, these creatures quickly fled away.
Facing the sea of flames, the rat man couldn't attack for a while, so he could only scream at the flames. Ling dropped the wooden crossbow, jumped onto the wall and said, "You guys are waiting for me here."
Stepping forward into the void, the whole person disappeared in place. The ability to jump in space made him appear in front of a few squirrels without warning. Before the squirrels could react, Zero's aura suddenly rose, and his fist pulled up a hazy pale golden flame, bringing thunder and tide sounds towards a The squirrel man's chest hit him. The gray rat man's chest was smashed by Zero's iron fist, and his whole body made crackling sounds. The chest was even more sunken, and it was already a corpse when it flew out again.
Killing the enemy with one punch, Ling turned around, and punched another squirrel on the cheek. The fist brought out a pale golden tail flame, which lingered in the air for a long time. And the squirrel man who was punched flew out horizontally, hit his head heavily on the ground, and then slid several meters along the way. Finally, after the castration subsided, when he stopped, half of his head was bloody and he couldn't live.
Only then did the elite squirrel scream and pounce towards Zero. Zero didn't look at it, and kicked it diagonally upwards. The toes also made a continuous vibration, kicking the squirrel up to a height of more than ten meters, and then bleeding from the mouth and nose, and when it fell, it was already a corpse.
Then Zero ran into the squirrels, and he punched and kicked. It seems like a simple fighting move, but both fists and feet use the power of reloading warheads. Although the squirrel man was strong, he was only wounded by such a punch, which was not fatal. When Zero burst out of the group of squirrels like a whirlwind, almost half of the elite fighters in the group died. Such a heavy casualty did not exist in the rat man's impression, and those ordinary brown rats just stayed where they were.
Suddenly, Zero looked to the side of the battlefield. There just happened to be a startling black lightning bolt flying there, and in the lightning, a fiery red mouse head flew high, which was so dazzling under the firelight.
That's the head of the Ratman leader!
The leader died in battle, half of the elite were killed and injured, and the stronghold was surrounded by a sea of flames. The ratmen gradually lost their will to fight, and retreated one by one. I don't know which squirrelman escaped from the battlefield first, which caused a domino effect, and even the squirrelman had no intention of fighting. The whole group of rats just dispersed like this, as long as it is a creature, it will be afraid, not to mention that these rat people may not necessarily have the consciousness and will to fight with their lives.
In the flames, Yeliu walked back. There was something extra in her hand, which was the spar and crystal claw of the leader of the Red Rat. Yeliu shook one of the *-like crystal claws: "This thing is full of energy, and it can be used as an emergency supplement when needed, but the taste won't be very good."
Nodding, this kind of spar crystal claws full of biological energy, although not as good as the space energy stone of the tenth-order powerhouse, is still a high-energy item. It's just that it is much inferior to the space energy stone in terms of purity, and because it is biological energy rather than space energy, it has some biological characteristics to some extent. This makes the application range of bio-energy crystals seem limited, but in an emergency, they can be used as consumables to replenish energy. Or use your own energy to interfere with the energy balance in the spar, that is a crystal bomb with a delayed explosion.
So Linghe Yeliu cleaned up the battlefield, mainly to remove the crystals from the corpses of the squirrels. The energy in these crystals will gradually dissipate, but it can last at least two or three days. As for the spar crystal claw of the leader of the Red Rat, its energy purity and strength are higher, and its preservation time is naturally longer.
The flames on the outer wall of the stronghold are still burning, and even the ointment inside the fire arrows that were shot at the beginning of the war has not been completely burned up to now, so it can be seen that the flames can continue for a while. Zero and the others had no intention of extinguishing the flames, so they just let it burn. When they returned to the stronghold, they were chased by the Ratmen before, so they didn't have time to check the stronghold.
Now I finally have time to check the stronghold up and down.
In general, the area of this stronghold is not as large as the previous advance base. The stronghold is divided into three floors from top to bottom. The top floor has a hall similar to the advance base, but the same area is much smaller. The lower two floors have complex branch passages, and each room can be used as a bunker, adhering to the concept of turning the interior of the building into a battlefield.
On the third floor, which is the bottom floor, Zero and the others discovered a tunnel. This tunnel extends all the way down, and where it leads is not known. There were quite a few dead ratmen beside the tunnel, but they were some ratmen that Yeliu cleaned up after entering the stronghold. They seem to be the guards of the tunnel, in other words, the tunnel was dug by the ratmen, not the previous masterpiece of ShadowClan.
Ling asked Lia to use the mental scan to check the tunnel, and then found that the tunnel led far to the side of the canyon, and Elijah's mental scan could not detect the end of it. I only know that after going down from the entrance, the tunnel extends straight forward, leading to the unknown dark depths.
After coming in from the door of the palatine teeth, it took almost a day to meet the Ratmen here. Although there are many high-level people in the team, they are not sleepless machines. Now the Ratman natives in the Giant Beast Canyon should be beaten by them, and they will not make any moves in a short time, so Ling let everyone rest in the stronghold. Wait six hours before proceeding.
During this period, everyone can have enough sleep time to restore their mental and physical strength.
Zero's own spirit is good, and the consumption of physical energy is constantly replenished when the space energy stone continuously absorbs space energy. He had nothing to do, so he walked around the stronghold. It can be seen that although this stronghold was built by the Shadow Clan, it was occupied by the Ratmen. Especially the bunkers on the second and third floors, there are a lot of traces of use.
Although the rat people have evolved intelligence, they still seem to maintain a life like a beast. In this old lair, Zero didn't see any signs of civilization, more of animal savagery. In some bunkers on the third floor, there are piles of skeletons of creatures. There are so many bones, it's like a garbage dump. But in a room inside, Ling found a bucket of the previous ointment.
The portion is not much, but you can take some with you. These ointments can burn for a long time if they are lit on fire, which can be used as torches and save the energy of searchlights. And the function of the ointment is more than that, if they are placed in some sealed containers, it will be a good explosive bomb. They're going to the Lizard Plains next, and these ointments should help.
In addition, Zero also found some mottled eggs in a room on the second floor. This made him wonder, no matter how you look at it, the Ratmen don't look like egg-laying creatures, so what are these eggs? He smashed one of them, but inside the eggshell was only a sauropod larva wrapped in a flesh membrane. These eggs turned out to be lizard eggs, so the Ratmen didn't know what they were used for.
There's another question, how did they get the lizard eggs. Unless there is a lizard's lair near the Behemoth Canyon, this seems unlikely. Powerful species always have a strong sense of territory, and they often live on land. Just like humans and alien races, except for the Dawn City in Zero, where else have you seen humans and alien races living together
Both the Ratman and the Lizard Dragon are considered powerful species in this underground space, so when the Giant Beast Canyon is divided into territories by the Ratman, it is unlikely that there will still be a Lizard Dragon's lair nearby. Even the group of lizard dragons in the advance base did not find any lizard dragon eggs.
In this way, where the Ratmen got the lizard dragon eggs is a question. Suddenly Zero remembered that tunnel. Judging from the direction of the tunnel, it undoubtedly led to the Lizard Dragon Plain. One piece at a time, could it be that these ratmen actually built a tunnel in the canyon directly leading to a certain lizard dragon lair in the plain
This sounds absurd, but it explains why these saurosaur eggs are found in the ratmen's lair. Whatever their purpose, if the tunnels lead up to Sauron Plains, they'd be well worth putting to good use. If they can use that tunnel to pass through the Lizard Dragon Plain, Zero and the others will save a lot of effort.
He returned to the place where everyone was resting, found a corner to lie down with his clothes on, and closed his eyes to take a nap. Time passed by every minute and every second, and after more than five hours, everyone woke up one after another, and Zero also told everyone his discovery. Hearing that this tunnel might go straight to the Lizard Dragon Plain, everyone found it inconceivable.