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Chapter 285 Brain-eating Insect Mother (33, w word update!)

The light blue river of parasites exudes a little bit of fluorescence, which is a phenomenon of activated biomass luminescence.

Shark and Andor did not walk together, not because they are afraid of brain-eating worms. A well-prepared first-level monster can easily excrete it from the body. Only monsters that are dying, comatose, or really have bleeding wounds are possible. will be parasitized.

Ian sent Shasha and Andor to take a safer long-distance route, which is also to prepare for the subsequent operations. There are more than one rivers leading to the water-cooling interaction area. If there is a mistake in the next operation and you need to escape, there is one from The underground river above the interaction zone is safer than the river of parasites.

As for the pirate captain, Ian was not worried that the other party would run away, let alone missing a leg, the boy was sure that the other party did not know the way at all, and he had to wait for them to come out of the ruins.

Moreover, even if he escaped by luck, he would have to face multiple pursuits, so he might as well obey the orders obediently, so that he could serve as a tainted witness for the Ellen family.

Except for these two, the humans who can walk along the shore, Ian, Isengard and Master Goser, they still have to go through the nearest straight passage.

This time, the three of them were really well prepared.

In order to prepare for Patrick's possible surprise attack, Master Gosser prepared several bottles of anti-lightning potion with materials picked up along the way on the spot, and each person always kept two bottles.

In addition, there are physique enhancement and strength enhancement potions. Every bottle is a high-quality product, which makes Ian feel emotional and understand the gap between himself and a real alchemist.

——Even in this situation, the other party can prepare elite potions. It seems that I can no longer use "no tools" as an excuse in the future.

Then he used the silver chip to record all the skills of Master Gosai.

——It’s all good, it’s all mine!
With the alchemy skills shown by Master Goser along the way, Ian felt that it would be easy for him to become an official alchemist when he returned to Port Harrison!

"This river should be recycled water from the water-cooling interface, which flows through the backyard of the ruins after being 'purified', and then sent back after natural cooling."

Walking along the bank, looking at the densely packed miniature insect egg cases in the river, Ian's tone was a little emotional: "But who knows, there is a high probability that the interaction port will be blocked by insect nests, and the purification facilities have become a constant discharge of insect eggs. Egg corruption facilities...Thousands of years have passed, and things have changed too much."

The river water is warm and releases water vapor, which is indeed a characteristic of cooling water. Ian did not think of it at first, mainly because there are too many geothermal sources, and it is difficult to connect them.

"There are gunfire ahead."

Master Gesai raised his head, his strength has not fully recovered, but the high perception of the cloud shaper has begun to play a role.

The surging wind in the river brought him news, which made the old man frown: "Guns, artillery, poisonous stench, and the shock of giants—the battle is very fierce!"

"That's just fine."

Ian accelerated instead.

After walking up the channel of the River of Parasites for a while, they turned into another big river, and the rancid smell gushed out from the river, making one's heart palpitate.

The river of parasites diverges from this big river, and after the smell of rancidity is reduced, it becomes a strange sweet and greasy fragrance.

If you observe carefully, you can see that there are many corpses of monsters and wild beasts in the river, which have become nests of brain-eating insects, and are constantly twitching, and these monsters have obvious traces of firearms.

Afterwards, Ian and the others saw piles of decaying corpses in the upper reaches of the river, with shapeless slug-like creatures climbing in and out of them, and huge crustacean giants floating in the water.After they noticed Ian and his party, they didn't approach them, but curled up in their nests.

"Watch out."

But Ian issued a warning. He raised his sword and slashed aside, and immediately heard the clang of metal colliding and the sound of bones breaking.

It was a giant praying mantis, with a brass-colored body and a ferocious face. The big scythe in front of its hands was extremely sharp, and there were sawtooths on the blade.

It was lurking in the shadows in an attempt to make a surprise attack just now, and it was its arrival that made the other monsters curl up.

The right sickle of the brass giant mantis had been cut off by Ian's sword, but it didn't flinch, but flapped its wings and rushed forward again, slashing wildly with both arms.

It was the first time for Ian to see this kind of giant zerg that is said to be unique to Canaan Moore in Nanling. He observed that this zerg already had the strength of the first level, and the double-scythes were the ingredients for potions. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to refine it into a potion, and at most it can be polished into a sublimation weapon.

He didn't care, gathered his strength a little, and smashed out with a sword, as if a boulder had fallen from the sky, and the brass mantis was smashed to pieces with a bang.

After the praying mantis died, a long black worm crawled out of the opponent's body, trying to dive into the water. Isengard stretched out his hand, and a mass of black-red erosion burned it into curls, and then dissolved it into a mass of biomass.

"Iron nematode? It's also a brain-eating worm? How many forms of this parasite exist?"

Ian was a little surprised, because the silver chip showed a different species of brain-eating worm—a parasite that can change its shape according to different parasitic objects.

This kind of memory attached to the brain used by the Sequoia people in the past has now been transformed into an extremely ferocious and weird psionic insect race under the transformation of the elder, and it is ever-changing and difficult to resist.

The sound of the firefight in front became more intense, and the sound of the noisy waterfall and the shock of the giant's rapid movement could also be heard below.

Everyone speeded up and walked forward.

The flow of the big river was not fast, but several of its tributaries flowed to a rift valley on the side, falling down into a waterfall, and the sound of the battle came from the rift valley.

When they came to the rift valley and looked down from a high position, Ian and the others saw that at the bottom of the narrow rift valley, a big battle was unfolding.

The terrifying giant golden centipede charged, and the cliff wall rumbled, changing the expressions of the Feiyan soldiers who were pouring out defensive firepower. They were using three portable alchemy cannons to fire alternately to suppress the giant golden centipede's advancing momentum—— But the effect is not great. The weight and armor of the giant golden centipede are too heavy, it is really difficult to stop.

What really prevented the giant golden centipede from advancing was the joint attack of the two sublimators.

A Crimson Citizen sublimator held a supercharged long sword that was constantly spinning in his hand, and was constantly attacking the blade foot joints of the giant golden centipede, hindering the opponent's progress. Now he has knocked off several blade feet.

But the number of blades and feet is a tragic figure for all attackers. As long as the giant golden centipede is targeted a little, the sublimation of the red people will be in danger.

And another nun from the Spiritual Equipment Church is controlling a huge alchemy machine gun, firing a barrage of source matter bullets like a flame storm.

The ultra-high heat of the explosive bomb always locks on the one-eyed top of the giant golden centipede's head, making this giant steel hand constantly evade.

"It's actually a maintenance machine for dredging?"

Seeing this giant golden centipede, both Master Goser and Isengard looked dignified, but Ian looked surprised: "Looking at the drill structure of the arm, it should be sent here to clear the cooling interaction channel. ? The one on the back is the cockpit... Sure enough, the pilot has been parasitized by brain-eating worms."

The lethal blade feet and sharp scales of the giant golden centipede, as well as the destructive drill bit, are essentially tools used to dredge mountain collapses and large pipeline blockages. It can turn itself into a drill bit or even a miniature shield. Mechanism, open a road in all kinds of sediment or biomass waste, just like earthworms to dredge all kinds of hard-to-solve causes of blockage.

But obviously, this old maintenance tool has been turned into a war machine today, and facing this giant centipede that can penetrate the mountain, even if the opponent does not have any other weapons, it is extremely difficult for the soldiers of Feiyandi to deal with it.

"who is it?!"

Fighting against the giant golden centipede with all his strength, the captain suddenly felt something. He raised his head and looked over the rift valley. The thermal vision allowed him to clearly see Ian's face.

"It's actually you?! The brat of the Setar Empire, the guy who killed my deputy!"

All of a sudden, old and new grudges surged into his heart, and he gritted his teeth and said, "How dare you follow us to this place?! Damn it, I should have killed you with all my strength in the first place!"

Don't look at the giant golden centipede in front of you, which has the strength of the second energy level, but it has no other weapons. It is just strong enough and strong enough. Facing the well-prepared Feiyan special forces, although it is an extremely difficult enemy, it is not It's not that it can't be solved.

And Ian and the others are not only people from the enemy country, but also their competitors in this exploration. Under the anxiety and tension, he has already begun to speak a little bit.

Of course, Ian was very concerned about this threat. He directly took out the water gun and shot at the captain and the rear formation from a distance.

hum!
The high-pressure water stream penetrated the atmosphere condescendingly. It didn't go towards the captain, but passed through a Feiyan soldier who was manipulating the alchemy cannon behind him, causing him to let out a tragic wail.

The erosive water first penetrated his armor, and then turned into a powerful water blunt attack inside the armor, crushing his bones, and the bright red blood and internal organs spurted out from the soldier's mouth. His chest and abdomen were completely crushed.

Ian didn't say a word, and shot another blow. This time it hit the inside of an alchemy cannon. Isengard's corrosive light-etching dragon blood corroded a part of the inside of the muzzle. Although it was not much, it could still Reduces the efficiency and accuracy of this artillery.

After that, he stopped and didn't say a word.

At this moment, Ian has already sensed that there are many parasitic beasts approaching here in the distance. That giant golden centipede should be the gatekeeper of the insect nest, and the guardian of the rift that must pass through the cooling interface. When the intruders hold back, other guardian parasites in the nest will be dispatched to come here to besiege the enemy.

"Your firepower is about the same now, hold back this maintenance machine and the parasitic beast after it."

With a slight nod, Ian led Isengard and Master Gosse, and continued to move forward under the eyes of the captain who was about to breathe fire.

As they advanced, there was the sound of a herd of beasts galloping down the rift valley, and the parasitic beasts with hunger, thirst and ferocious roars were galloping towards their target. The sum of the Warcraft parasites seen around.

"Good guy, with this amount, it's hard to chop."

Master Gesai sighed with emotion, and his tone was obviously gloating - when he was young, it happened to be the time when the Setar Empire and the Flying Flame Kingdoms were fighting a 14-year silent war. , at least it is not a proper person to look at.

Anyway, this is not their trouble, they move on.

Not long after, the end of the rift.

A gorgeous brilliance is flashing.

This is an extremely empty underground cavity area, where a fluorescent blue river is surging, and the land along both sides of the river has crystallized, and clusters of bright crystals are releasing faint fluorescent lights that flicker on and off.

On both sides of the rift valley, rivers and rivers converge here, turning into waterfalls and splashing their mist.

Intense radiation pervaded the place, and even the hollow stone walls were covered with various colorful crystal clusters, and some of the crystal clusters were built into a nest-like shape, densely distributed along both sides of the river.

That's where the parasitic beasts that guard the hive live, feeding on the nutrient-rich waters of the parasite river and bathing in the high concentration of radiation here.

The big river was extremely hot, and an extremely thick water mist rose from it, covering this bright and brilliant area full of radiant crystals of various colors.

Raising their heads, the three of them let out a slight exclamation in unison.

Because behind the dense water mist, there is a majestic and huge nest. This metallic lustrous nest looks like a termite nest, but it is a full 200 meters high, and it is simply a hill.

Its upper and lower ends are hidden in the mist, and the big river gushes out from a water wheel structure in the lower part of the nest, which seems to be driving several hydroelectric generators to generate electricity, making the whole body of the insect nest shimmer with blue electric light .

And in the middle of the nest, there is a huge blue crystal prism inserted into the center of the nest, gathering a steady stream of power savings.

—No, not crystal.

Ian raised his hand solemnly, activated the ring of silence, and led the two of them into the shadows.

—that's a worm shell.

The huge crystal trembled slightly, and the corners of the prism began to loosen, exposing the soft flesh and blood at the bottom exuding dots of radiant fluorescence, and electric arcs visible to the naked eye were flashing on it.

——This is the shell of the brain-eating bug brood mother.

(End of this chapter)