Chapter 509 Fierce Underground Battle (Part 1)

Under the guidance of the searchlights on the Raven's wings, King Chong placed the three of them on the suspended platform. ∷∷,

The ground is very slippery and more rugged, with gullies and stalagmites densely distributed on the edges. On the one hand, it is due to the water erosion of the water droplets dripping from the stalactite forest for thousands of years, and on the other hand, it is due to the structure and texture of the rock strata.

According to the analysis of the detection equipment on the surface of the protective clothing in harsh environments, the water droplets dripping from the stalactites do not contain acidic substances, but very high-quality mineral water, which also supports Tang Fang's conjecture from the side ---" The acidic ocean environment of "Akron" is not formed naturally, but is derived from a powerful creature. From the analysis of the shape of the meat sac, it may be a little different from "Evil Eye", but it must be an epic creature.

Whether it is centipedes, evil eyes, or giant snakes, they have all contributed to the unlocking of Zerg technology. Tang Fang hopes to meet them, which means that he will get something, maybe new buildings, gas resources, It could also be hero unlock points, and at the same time he was very afraid of encountering them, because previous experience told him that there is no free lunch in the world, and these big guys are not easy to deal with.

Of course, he won't back down, turn to "Acubado", and spend so much time sneaking into the underground of "Akron", what is it for, isn't it the hope of unlocking Zerg technology?

Zhou Ai looked at his feet and the surrounding environment, and said, "Tang Fang, is there really a creature hiding in this place that can change the marine environment of 'Akron'? What if it hides from us sincerely? This place is really too big. Yes, will the two of us here distract you?"

Tang Fang didn't tell the two of them about the flesh-sac creatures, so as not to worry them. Zhou Ai didn't know that the insect swarm that opened the way in front of the tunnel had already come into contact with unknown creatures.

Tang Fang said with a dark face: "Now that I know that worrying will become a drag, why did I go, and you..." He pointed to Roy and said: "You are a caring master, Yingluo asked you to come and see me When you see the world, you really follow it. No wonder Bai Hao called you 'scratch your ears'."

Although he said so, he still did not forget to tell the two people to hide on the platform. After he goes down for a while, no matter what he sees, don't panic. The worm hid in its abdominal sac. Or go back to the tunnel.

Roy didn't know what "rake ears" meant, and thought it wasn't a good word, so he decided to go back and ask Yingluo. She and Bai Hao are both Han Chinese, so maybe they know what it means.

Zhou Ai was a little aggrieved, and explained: "I'm not afraid that you will encounter the previous situation again, just in case..."

Tang Fang knew what the "situation" in her mouth referred to, even though he was moved, he couldn't help but secretly slander him. Are those black armored warriors so lingering? Unless they have clairvoyance and ears, they can find their position at any time.

He suddenly noticed that Zhou Ai didn't say the whole thing. You must know that her personality is different from Claire's, and she never speaks in half. to the left of the platform.

It was pitch black. The Raven's searchlights couldn't cover the complicated underground space, and the irregular cavity was too big. What Zhou Ai looked at was far beyond the range of the platform, and there was no warning signal from the sensor matrix of the detector. There was silence there, quieter than the abyss of the platform.

Sultry heat and humidity are the only colors in this underground space. Ordinary people will definitely be upset in this environment, and have infinite fear of darkness. But she is Zhou Ai, and this behavior can only explain one problem, there is something unusual there, or she feels threatened.

Raven turned the bow of the ship, and the power of the searchlight was increased to the limit. The low-light imaging equipment was also in operation, trying to capture what was hidden in the empty space stretching for thousands of meters on the left side of the platform.

Detectors and Ravens are cutting-edge flying units that can conduct wide-area reconnaissance in the space environment. Naturally, they cannot be troubled by a range of more than ten kilometers, even if the underground space is intricate and there are some disturbances whose origins are unclear.

About 3 seconds later, the scene at the end of Zhou Ai's line of sight was mapped to the field of view of the mask of the harsh environment protective clothing by the star track command center. The scene in the picture was nothing special, but a cliff with strange rocks.

Tang Fang has always felt that "seeing is believing" is a word that fools hundreds of millions of human beings. Just like at this moment, he believed that Zhou Ai believed in his eyes more than his own, so he summoned three flying dragons without hesitation and ordered They attack the cliff.

The terrain of the cave is very complicated, and it is not suitable for units such as Viking fighters and medical transport ships to operate. However, for small flying creatures such as flying dragons and explosive mosquitoes, it can be said to be like a fish in water, like a butterfly flying through flowers, easily bypassing the stone forest, The obstacles of the protruding rocks were close to the cliff, and the blade worms were shot out one by one.

There was the sound of rocks breaking in the distance. Large pieces of rubble fell from a high place like landslides and fell into the valley at the bottom of the cave. terror.

The source of the gravel is not all the strange rocks that were blasted by the blade insects. They come from a high place where the light cannot reach, and there are also left and right sides. It seems that someone shakes off the dust on his body. It is dense like rain and falls down.

It's not people who shake off the dust, but the whole stone wall shakes off the gravel.

The sound of the impact of stones, the sound of falling water, the sound of cracking and friction of rock formations, and rumbling echoes, the cave painted in dark tones is a doomsday scene.

The platform where the three of Tang Fang stood shook violently, and there was a cracking sound from far away, and the stalactites hanging upside down broke one after another, like daggers that fell from the sky and stabbed into chaos on the slippery platform.

Not only was the platform in chaos, but the entire underground space was trembling.

Roy was stunned. He never expected such a situation to happen. Fortunately, he knew he couldn't just sit still, so he hurriedly threw away his right arm. The soaring tissue cells forcibly stretched the arm armor of the harsh environment protective clothing, turning it into a black line The large shield protected the heads of the three people, and the conical stalactites fell on it, making a muffled sound of iron and stone intersecting.

Raven was also shaken by the stone cones falling from the sky, occasionally sparking, and some external equipment was even damaged. The detector was not harmed due to its small size and strong flexibility.

The broken stalactite forest was not the only danger that could endanger the lives of Tang Fang's three people. The platform on which it stands is slowly overturning, and the sound of rock cracking is so piercing. The suspended platform with a diameter of nearly a kilometer is broken by its roots under the shock that affects the entire crypt.

Roy was in a hurry, and just about to call for help, a flexible tentacle swung from behind, rolled up the bodies of three people and pulled them into the air.

"Brother Tang. What happened?"

He couldn't figure out what was going on, the earthquake in a good crypt was an earthquake, and there was no warning at all.

Tang Fang didn't reply, and his and Zhou Ai's gazes were all focused on the stone wall. In fact, given the current turbulent underground environment, weak lighting, complex terrain, and long distance, it is difficult for human eyesight to observe the situation on the other side. Even with the assistance of harsh environment protective clothing.

Zhou Ai doesn't need to rely on his eyes, he just needs to sense the mental fluctuations in the dark, and Tang Fang doesn't need to rely on his eyes, the detector will be his eyes, his nose, and his ears.

He is the one who knows best what happened to the stone wall a thousand meters away from the suspended platform among the three.

The stone wall collapsed... To be precise, something came out of the stone wall.

That is a tree. This description may be a bit general.

A moving tree!

In more detail, a tree between animals, plants and minerals!

According to the data report synchronized to the digital display system of the harsh environment protective clothing by Emma. This "Tree Demon" is 1.2 kilometers long, and this value does not include it being underground. Even the whole part of the rock formation, such as the root system, if analyzed purely from the shape, it is like a tall tree with no leaves and only a trunk, so Tang Fang thought it was a tree at first sight.

But when the Raven's high-resolution camera captures optical photos and transmits them to the mask's surrounding field of view. Tang Fang found that the body of the "Tree Demon" was covered with a rock-like armor, so he thought it might be similar to a sea turtle, with a hard shell made of ore.

About 3 seconds later, Raven sent back a video, which completely overturned his previous thoughts. Because the branches, trunk, crown and other parts of the "Tree Demon" protrude and fission, the ore-like shell peels off in pieces, and blood-red eyes of different sizes appear one by one, and can turn up and down, left and right, just like a replica version "Evil Eye".

That's why Tang Fang didn't know how to define the category of "Tree Demon". It was shaped like a plant, but it had a skin made of minerals, and it also had eye organs that animals only had.

With a body length of 1.2 kilometers, it is several times that of the giant snake at the Megar relay station, and dozens of times that of the evil eye of Namistar. The structure of the cavity caused earthquakes that spread over hundreds of square kilometers. This can only explain one thing. Its roots are spread all over the rock formations of the large cavity. The sac-shaped thing is probably not a biological individual, but a tree root of the "Tree Demon", perhaps a relatively slender root.

Of course he is in a bad mood now. The 100-meter-level giant snake at the Meijiaer relay station was already very difficult to deal with. The "Tree Demon" uncle who cloned underground is even more terrifying. With a body length of 1.2 kilometers, does it take hundreds of them?

The key is, will it feed itself honestly? It must be difficult, judging from the scene just now, the "Tree Demon" uncle's temper is not very good, he can be said to be willful.

With its size, making a fuss in this complex underground space is nothing. It's like lying on a crib, it's the end of the world, but if it's hit by those raindrops of rocks, it's better to be crushed to death Yes, I'm afraid the whole person can be crushed into meatloaf.

The body size of the king worm is nearly 40 meters, and the body surface is covered with flexible organic tissues. That's it, the form is still precarious, like a solitary sail on the trembling ocean, which is in danger of sinking at any time.

The platform on which the three people stood before finally collapsed, and a huge rock formation with a diameter of nearly one thousand meters fell from a height of several thousand meters, and landed in the underground valley with a bang, splashing water hundreds of meters high.

Huge echoes echoed in the airtight crypt, deafening, and some loose and cracked stones caused by the extrusion and friction of the rock strata fell from the air, hitting Roy's arm with a muffled sound.

The severely damaged Iron Crow has been taken back to the system space by Tang Fang, leaving only the detectors to monitor the situation in real time. The "Tree Demon" is still moving towards the location of the three people, but at a very slow speed, because it cannot swallow them like a devourer. Like body polymers, biological organs in the gene pool are evolved according to the combat environment. Can only rely on the creeping of the root system to walk slowly.

This undoubtedly gave the three people enough space to think and act. In order to avoid encountering more dangerous situations, Tang Fang summoned a Protoss transport plane and placed it above the king worm to resist the huge rocks falling from the top of his head from time to time.

Zhou Ai, who hadn't spoken for a long time, looked back at the "Tree Demon" and said slowly, "Are you sure you can defeat it?"

She has tried her best to adjust her emotions to make her voice softer and more soothing. But the slightly trembling tone still betrayed her state of mind at this moment.

Unlike Roy, she can only infer from her experience that a big guy is causing destruction. She can feel the danger hidden in the abyss, and she can feel the power of that unknown life form. The "abyss knight" like Black 3 "The killing intent emanating from it is not even comparable to a single "hair" of it.

"have no idea."

Tang Fang didn't know what to do, and he was a little bit retreating. He thought more than Roy and Zhou Ai, not to mention the way of fighting. The destructive power needed to destroy the "Tree Demon" alone is a big problem. If calculated from its size ratio to the giant snake, feeding it 500 widow mines may solve the problem, but... if 500 widow mines go down, the entire crypt structure may be destroyed. Layers of superimposed nuclear explosions destroyed and caused a more serious landslide. At that time, the end of the three people could only be buried alive.

Who can guarantee that the "Dryant" will be as reckless as the giant snake? Besides, it doesn't have such a big mouth.

Zhou Ai said: "Why don't we go."

"Let's go?" There was a wry smile on the corner of Tang Fang's mouth: "If you go back along the original road, it's no less than seeking your own death. If you find another way, do you think it will give us time?"

Zhou Ai wanted to say that it moved slowly. As long as there are a certain number of combat units to delay time, it is enough for them to use the underground channel to leave here.

This sentence was not uttered after all, because 5 crimson laser beams were shot from the direction of the "Tree Demon", and accurately hit the Protoss transport plane above the king worm, stirring up circle after circle of gradient halos, illuminating the surrounding space. I also light up the faces of three people.

In Tang Fang's sea of ​​consciousness, the grid representing the strength of the shield quickly faded, and faint blue ripples appeared on the surface of the plasma shield of the transport plane, desperately resisting the high-energy beams shot by the huge eyeballs on the "Tree Demon".

Zhou Ai and Roy were stunned. They never thought that the eyeballs on the "Tree Demon" could actually excite laser beams. Is that biological or mechanical?

Only Tang Fang was not surprised. The eyeballs on the "Tree Demon" are very similar to the "evil eyes" encountered on Star Nami. For example, this epic creature that feeds on zero vegetarians can convert the energy in its body into laser beams, isn't it? Is it normal?

He didn't dare to let the "Tree Demon" continue to attack the Protoss transport plane. The king worm needed a shield to block the gravel, so he summoned 5 flying dragons and 3 Corruptors one after another, and cooperated with the 3 flying dragons deployed earlier to deal with the "Tree Demon" Attack.

The blade worms shot by the flying dragon could not effectively kill the carapace attached to the surface of the "Tree Demon". They were used by Tang Fang as a means to restrain the bloody eyeballs, forcing the "Tree Demon" to stop attacking the Protoss transport plane. The positioning tendency of the Corruptor It is used to test the reality of the target to find a part that can effectively kill the "Tree Demon".

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he secretly released another king worm, intending to move Zhou Ai and Roy there to ensure their safety, but at this moment, a rock wall not far away exploded with a bang, and a A shadow more than ten meters thick shot out, piercing through the body of the king worm.

Under the light cast by the Protoss transport plane, the shadow revealed its true colors, it was actually a sharp thorn.

At this moment, another shadow emerged from the rock wall, and instantly penetrated the king worm that was entangled with the bodies of the three people.

Fortunately, he was ready when the first king worm was pierced by the spikes. The moment the second spike shot out, the three of them were rolled up by the king worm tentacles and sent to the gravitational tunnel of the Protoss transport plane, entering the cabin .

Rocks fell like rain, and rocks with a diameter of nearly one meter hit the surface of the plasma shield of the Protoss transport plane and were bounced off, while the two king worms quickly fell to the valley below as the spikes were pulled out.

Tang Fang looked at the two spikes enlarged on the Kaidarin crystal in the center of the Protoss transport plane with a black face, his expression was terribly cold. This "tree demon" was indeed more difficult than the giant snake, not only because of its larger size, but also because of its size. Because it is a "native native creature" that can make the best use of the surrounding environment, the spikes that are enough to dig tunnels in hard rock formations are probably its roots.

The battle situation between the flying dragon and the Corruptor is also not optimistic. The strong acid of the Corruptor, which is strong enough to eat through the armor of the ship, can't do anything to the hard shell of the "Tryad". The lethality is good, but what is frustrating is that, just like the "evil eyes" encountered in Nami Star, these protruding sarcoma-like eyeballs have a strong self-healing ability. Organic tissue will recover in a short period of time.

He also ordered the Corruptors to attack those eyeballs, but unfortunately it was also ineffective, the acid solution would be absorbed by the pores on the surface of the eyeballs, and the parasitic spores would be counteracted by a special secretion. (To be continued..)

ps: Thank you for the glory of Al, and the reward from Mr. Baishan. u