Chapter 436: Fear
How do you destroy a nest of insects?
This is a big problem.
Among all the people present, only Su Xia had more contact with the Zerg.
He once led the Oasis Camp to defeat a medium-sized Zerg nest and wiped out all the Zerg creatures in the nest. He also witnessed a war between two medium-sized Zerg nests and later became the lord of those two nests.
"If we want to destroy a hive, the most direct way is to surround it with enough troops, advance gradually, and kill the insects one by one. But obviously we don't have such troops here."
In the building, Su Xia looked around, looking at the expressions on everyone's faces, her tone very calm.
At the beginning, the method of the oasis camp was similar to what Su Xia said. After withstanding the crazy insect tide in the early stage, they gradually counterattacked, step by step, until the insect nest was completely destroyed.
"The Mechanical Tribe has a better way. They can directly cover the area with firepower, turning the area where the Zerg nest is located into a sea of fire and continuously bombing it. This is what they did in the war against the Zerg nest. They suppressed the Zerg with absolute firepower."
But, obviously, they didn't have enough firepower to suppress the enemy.
Therefore, the idea of completely destroying the hive is unrealistic.
In Su Xia's hand, there is a weapon called "Voice of Destruction", which is equivalent to a small nuclear weapon on Earth. He found it in the wreckage of an alien spacecraft in the southwestern mountainous area. There are only six of them in total, and they are very precious.
He didn't intend to waste this weapon here.
"Masked friend, what should we do? We will all listen to you." Bearded Sergei said decisively.
"Yes, we will all listen to you!" the others echoed.
"good……"
Su Xia was about to start making arrangements when his expression suddenly changed. He turned his head and glanced out the window.
Outside the building, another round of insect attacks came. They were still low-level troops. The most numerous were swift insects, at least thousands of them. Some of them rushed over quickly, while others roared to the sky, revealing deadly fangs at the corners of their cracked mouths. Their hoarse roars merged into one.
The number of insects has increased a lot, but the intensity of the attack this time is not as strong as the last time.
Perhaps because there were no high-level soldiers commanding the swarm, the rushing insects were scattered and fought on their own. Many of them stopped halfway and did not rush directly to the building. Instead, they began to bite the corpses of the insects that died in the previous rounds.
“Crack—Crack—”
Their sharp fangs bite through the hard skin and exoskeleton, tearing off pieces of fresh flesh and blood, which is extremely bloody.
This is a feast of death.
The insects on the street were feasting on the corpses of their own kind, taking bite after bite, biting off their blood and bones, tearing their tendons and flesh, and tearing out their internal organs.
The smell of blood around the building suddenly became stronger, and the wind carried a disgusting stench.
It seems that in the eyes of these insects, the attraction of the blood of more than twenty humans in the building in the city center is far less than the corpses of thousands of the same kind on the ruined streets.
Moreover, although intelligence is not high and they cannot compare with high-level Zerg, they can still feel the sense of danger brought to them by the building.
Inside the building, everyone who saw this scene couldn't help but frown, their faces looking unhappy.
"These damn bugs even eat the corpses of their own kind. They are born demons!" Little Peter clenched his fists and said viciously.
"They are trying to absorb the spiritual energy in the corpses." Su Xia said calmly, "The road to evolution is very cruel. Only the fittest survive. We must take advantage of every opportunity to evolve."
"Yeah, sometimes, there's just no other way..."
Bearded Sergei had a complicated expression on his face. Looking at the cannibalism scene on the street, his fingers tightly gripping the gun turned pale, and no one knew what he was thinking about.
Among the crowd, there were a few older members whose expressions were equally complicated and their eyes were dim.
Soon, the front group of insects approached the building.
Another round of fighting begins.
There were dense gunshots, smoke filled the air, bullet casings rolled down, insect corpses fell one after another, and death was happening every minute and every second.
After this round, little Peter scratched his hair, as if he had thought of something.
His eyes lit up, and he said to Su Xia, "Master Mask, why don't you control the metal fragments to kill those bugs? In this way, the efficiency should be higher, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
Su Xia smiled, nodded slightly, and replied: "It would indeed be more efficient to do so. In fact, I often did so when I was fighting against the enemy before."
"Why not use it this time?" Little Peter didn't understand, with confusion in his eyes.
"I want to minimize the traces of metal used." Su Xia said with a faint smile.
"oh……"
Little Peter's eyes were wide, and his voice was long and drawn out, as if he suddenly realized something. He said, "I understand. The injuries caused by metal fragments are different from those caused by gun bullets, so they can be distinguished... Mr. Mask, you have to avoid the detection of the mechanical tribe, so you have to reduce the traces of using metal!"
"Yes, very clever."
Su Xia smiled slightly and waved his hand. The corpse that he had cut into pieces with metal fragments disappeared from everyone's sight in an instant. He put it into the storage space, leaving only a pool of smelly blood.
This magical scene made everyone stunned again.
Where's the dead bug? Did it just disappear?
Only the undead who descended from another world possess such means.
But the masked man obviously cannot be an undead, he is a recognized figure in this world.
The appearance of this scene made Su Xia even more mysterious and powerful in everyone's mind.
"There are traces of metal cutting on this body, and the cross-sections of flesh and bones are very smooth, so I need to take it away." Su Xia said: "As for the bugs outside the building, just let the wind and snow bury them."
This time, there were so many dead bugs that the streets around the building were littered with corpses.
Although this is the uninhabited northern plain of the continent and the mechanical tribe rarely comes to check, we still have to be on guard.
After a while, even if there were patrolling soldiers from the Mechanical Clan who discovered something unusual here, they would only see traces of guns and bullets.
They would infer from this that it was ordinary human organizations fighting against the Zerg forces, not masked monsters.
As long as it's not a masked weirdo, they don't have much interest.
"I am now a high priority within the Mechanical Tribe." Su Xia said to the others, "As long as there is any trace of me, the Mechanical Tribe will shift the focus of the search to this area, which may lead to the exposure of your base."
"Thank you very much, masked friend, your wisdom is as powerful as your strength!" Bearded Sergei said sincerely.
"You're welcome. It's my honor."
Su Xia looked at the broken Zerg corpses all over the street, his eyes slightly moved upwards, looking towards the jungle outside the city, it seemed that he could see the Zerg nest several kilometers away.
"Next, it's time to kill the insect queen and the leader creature." He said calmly.
As long as the Zerg Queen and the leader creature are killed, the hive will be in a semi-waste state for a long time until a new Zerg Queen is born.
Su Xia waved his hand, and thick metal plates like door panels appeared one after another, floating in the air.
"Metal plates?"
Seeing this scene, everyone understood.
They had previously thought that they had to fight their way out directly, from this abandoned city all the way to the outside of the insect nest, and fight their way out.
But now, the appearance of these metal plates proves that they were all wrong.
It was obvious that Su Xia wanted to take them out.
"Masked friend, are we going to sit on it?" asked the bearded Sergei.
"Yes, I'll take you away from here first." Su Xia replied.
Everyone nodded and sat on the heavy metal plates one by one. They held on to the edges of the plates tightly to stabilize their bodies to prevent themselves from falling from the air.
After a moment, everyone was ready.
Su Xia patted little Peter's head, smiled slightly, then jumped out of the window and soared into the sky.
"Walk!"
Behind him, the team of 28 people sat on thick metal plates and flew out of the windows one by one. The cold wind whistled in their ears and made their hair and robes flutter.
They were about thirty meters above the ground, flying over the tops of the numerous buildings in the abandoned city, and moving forward against the wind and snow.
Below, the insects raised their heads unwillingly, stared at them, and roared hoarsely, their narrow eyes filled with bloodthirstiness and madness.
The prey in their eyes just flew away like that!
"roar!"
A large corpse-eating insect roared towards the sky with a fierce look in its eyes. It raised its triangular head and stared at the people in the sky. Suddenly, it jumped up suddenly and unimaginable strength burst out from its limbs.
With a loud bang, its body leaped up and headed straight for where everyone was.
Unfortunately, it only jumped to a height of eight or nine meters, and its body began to fall under the influence of gravity. It roared more and more unwillingly, as if it wanted to jump up and tear everyone's body apart!
Then, one insect after another began to jump, trying frantically, and constantly pounced on the people in the sky.
They followed closely behind the crowd, their numbers increasing, from the initial few to more than ten, then to dozens, and soon there were hundreds of them, like a group of mad wolves that would not stop until they killed their prey.
"Damn bugs, they really treat us as prey!"
"However, the identities of hunter and prey are never fixed. Everything is based on strength."
"Unfortunately, the corpses of these insects cannot be eaten..."
Everyone sat on the metal plate to communicate and exchange ideas with each other.
After seeing the large number of insect corpses below, they couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Zerg grow and develop extremely quickly, and if they could be eaten, they would be the perfect source of meat.
However, the flesh and blood of insects has an extremely disgusting stench, and ordinary people cannot eat it at all. Xiong Wei from the Oasis Camp had tried it before. No matter how he cooked it, including frying, boiling, or cooking, he still couldn't cover up the smell.
The smell is indescribable, especially after it is cooked. Just smelling it is nauseating and you will vomit up overnight rice.
A few minutes later, they flew out of the abandoned city area and into the jungle.
"There is a worm nest ahead, get ready."
Su Xia stood on a metal plate and pointed to the distance, indicating the location of the insect nest to everyone.
"Is that right there?" Bearded Sergei subconsciously raised his neck, trying to see farther.
"There are indeed a lot of bugs coming from that direction, more than from other directions," said another member.
"There are more and more bugs below us, at least hundreds of them, all following us and gathering together. Should we throw a few grenades down?"
Below, the insects were very dense, roaring and hissing, and their numbers were still increasing.
After entering the jungle, the sounds of insects could be heard from all directions throughout the jungle. The trees were shaking, the snow was falling, and agile insects kept jumping out.
If we launch a fire attack on this area now, it will definitely cause great casualties.
Everyone had similar thoughts. Looking at the insects gathered together below, they all felt itchy to try, but they did not act on their own. Instead, they looked at Su Xia and asked for Su Xia's opinion.
After all, this operation was led by Su Xia.
"Throw it if you want." Su Xia smiled, "Don't worry about the supply problem. I have plenty of ammunition here."
"good!"
After getting a positive answer from Su Xia, everyone was delighted. They rubbed their hands excitedly and looked at the insects gathering more and more below.
The passive attacks and defense they had previously endured in the building really made them feel aggrieved.
Now, we finally have a chance to fight back!
Next, a series of explosions were heard in the jungle.
“Boom…Boom…”
Smoke billowed, blood splattered, and body parts flew around. Dense deep pits appeared on the originally snow-white jungle ground, making it uneven.
Amid a series of explosions, the number of dead insects increased rapidly. They chased closely all the way, and their broken corpses filled the road behind.
Not long after, everyone arrived at the insect nest, above the rift.
Looking down from a high altitude, through the layers of gray branches, you can vaguely see that on the ground below, there is a crack about 20 meters long, like a hideous wound.
“It’s really here!”
They saw that insects were pouring out of the crack below continuously.
The newly appeared insects did not leave. Instead, they all raised their heads and roared madly with ferocious looks. They stared at them on the ground, as if they wanted to tear everyone apart with their terrifying eyes.
At this time, Su Xia had already seen the specific picture of the insect nest inside the rift through the shared vision of the nanorobots .
This is indeed a newborn primary insect nest, which does not even have the ability to breed flying creatures.
"The leader of the hive is just a unicorn beetle that has just evolved to a level three creature. He is very weak."
Su Xia turned around, looked at the others, and said, "The main danger inside the hive comes from the endless stream of low-level creatures. If you have shield skills, you can come in with me... If you don't have this skill, stay here and be responsible for destroying the creatures escaping from the hive."
Hearing this, everyone looked at each other with flickering eyes.
Of course, they all wanted to go in and witness the death of the hive's queen and leader creature with their own eyes.
However, among them, only the captain, the bearded Sergei, has the shield skill.
"Me...what about me?" Little Peter raised his hand hurriedly, a little anxious. He didn't have any shield skills, but he also wanted to go in.
"Just stay with me."
Su Xia smiled slightly and was very caring towards the young man.
Hearing Su Xia's words, little Peter's tense body suddenly relaxed a lot, but he was still a little nervous. He glanced at the hideous crack below, subconsciously tightened the weapon in his hand, and his expression kept changing.
What would it be like inside a hive?
Little Peter thought, it must be a dark, depressing and scary place.
"After we go in, those bugs will definitely rush towards us madly and kill us at all costs." Little Peter thought secretly.
Just thinking of that scene made him feel a little flustered, and his palms began to sweat unconsciously.
"It's very dangerous, but... I still want to go in. I want to let little Maria know how brave I am." Little Peter took a deep breath and made up his mind.
Su Xia smiled gently, noticed little Peter's nervousness, and said nothing.
He looked at the bearded Sergei again, and Sergei nodded to him, indicating that he was ready and could go in at any time.
Su Xia stretched out his hand, and the metal plates of Little Peter and Sergei immediately floated towards him.
His eyes swept across the crack below, and he moved, intending to take the two of them in.
But at this moment, a strange voice suddenly sounded in Su Xia's mind.
There was a hint of trembling and fear in that voice.
"You... who are you... you have the aura of a queen..."
