SWDnovel Chapter 227 Devouring of One's Own Kind
Chapter 227 Devouring of One's Own Kind
Su Yang, on the other hand, used a detector to determine the location of the underground organisms.
"Commander He, pull up the satellite imagery. There's a deep crater about 30 kilometers northwest of the base. Launch several bunker-buster missiles towards it, and make sure they're fast."
Su Yang reconnected with He Tiancheng.
"Have you found the target?"
"Hmm, a two-meter-long worm. Hiding in a cave dozens of meters underground, it's probably this thing."
Su Yang responded.
At the same time, a sense of doubt arose in my mind.
The insectoids they had encountered before were all crustaceans similar to ladybugs.
But what I encountered today was exactly the opposite.
More like a worm, a long worm that is seven or eight meters long, it is like an enlarged version of a dead worm.
It can be said that it can be viewed at a glance.
Apart from their body shape, they are exactly the same.
In a short time.
Su Yang became somewhat curious: just how many different forms of insects could this queen of the insect race give birth to?
Compared to the previous Zerg.
This thing is more like an insect with advanced command capabilities, like Orphan.
He Tiancheng's side moved very quickly.
Just three or four minutes later, Su Yang saw several small dots flying rapidly toward their direction from the distant horizon.
Clearly, the bunker-buster missile has arrived.
A distance of 30km may seem far, but for a missile, it's just a matter of seconds.
Su Yang, who was now dozens of meters away from the pit, raised an eyebrow, eager to see a good show.
Looking down at the detector in his hand, he saw that the brain worm was still controlling the small insects around it.
They were completely unaware that a crisis was about to unfold.
next moment.
The bunker-buster missile fell straight into the crater, precisely piercing the entire body of the brain worm.
In an instant, brain fluid began to flow freely.
After piercing through the entire body of the brain worm, the burrowing missile burrowed a little further down before being completely detonated.
The brain worm and the controlled worms were blasted into pieces by the bunker-buster missile.
at the same time.
Guo Yong and his team, who were locked in a fierce battle with the annoying long worms inside the base, only heard a few explosions.
Immediately, the long worms that had been tugging at them from underground suddenly burst out of the ground and launched an attack on them, baring their fangs and claws.
"What happened?"
Guo Yong was startled. How did they all suddenly appear?
Without a second thought, Guo Yong immediately piloted his mech into battle.
The long worms, no longer burrowing underground, no longer pose a threat to those who control Xuanwu.
In less than a moment.
Those dozens of insects were all beheaded.
Upon seeing this, Han Bei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
I don't know why all these insects suddenly swarmed out and stopped hiding underground.
If things continue at the same pace, they don't know how long it will take to completely kill these long worms.
"Captain Guo, what's going on?"
Han Bei looked at Guo Yong with a puzzled expression.
"I don't know, but thankfully it ended well; all the bugs died."
Guo Yong shook his head.
A hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.
These insects, which seemed to be controlled by someone before, suddenly went berserk just now.
If Guo Yong's guess is correct.
It's possible that something went wrong behind the scenes.
Fortunately, these long worms did not cause much damage to the base, nor did they result in many casualties.
He Tiancheng approached Guo Yong and the others with a gloomy face.
Thank you all this time.
Guo Yong waved his hand, and asked in confusion.
"What have you been doing? The attack from behind those insects is chaotic and disorganized, unlike before."
"Dr. Su led his team to find the mastermind behind those long worms."
He Tiancheng nodded.
If Su Yang hadn't found out so quickly what was controlling these worms, it would have been virtually impossible for them to eliminate them so swiftly.
"This bug is so ugly."
Han Bei used his long sword to lift up a section of the worm's head that had already been cut in half, and spoke with a look of disgust.
"It's kind of like a larger version of the Death Worm."
Guo Yong said in a deep voice.
The death worm—he'd seen it in videos before.
The reason for this was simply that the thing was too ugly; otherwise, Guo Yong's memory of it wouldn't be so vivid.
These long worms are like enlarged versions of death worms—ugly and highly aggressive.
"Has Dr. Su returned yet?"
"It should be soon."
He responded and ordered some of the insects to be taken back for research.
Since the Zerg invasion began, they have now mastered more than a dozen types of Zerg.
With this, the quantity increases by one.
"I don't know when it will finally end."
Thinking of this, He Tiancheng felt a surge of irritation.
If only there were no such insects, people could live in peace and prosperity, instead of being like this now.
One day later.
He Tiancheng sent people to the southwest to try and bring back the corpses of the insectoids.
One day later.
He Tiancheng sent people to the southwest to try and bring back the corpses of the insectoids.
After all, the Luna Titanium alloy contains Zerg.
Although we don't know why those corpses died, we might as well use them.
But when the men he sent arrived there...
The once densely packed Zerg corpses were gone, leaving only puddles of white slime.
It's like saliva.
"Will those insects also devour their own kind?"
Han Bei was astonished when he saw the pictures and reports coming from the southwest.
The test report showed that the mucus contained a high concentration of digestive enzymes.
The answer, without a doubt, points to the Zerg, who constantly evolve by consuming energy.
He originally thought that the Zerg would at most devour other creatures.
But I didn't expect that.
The fact that those Zerg even devoured their own kind is quite chilling.
"Isn't devouring someone the same as devouring them?"
Su Yang remained calm. "Since devouring other creatures is also devouring, then the corpses of our own kind are rich in energy, so of course we can devour them as well."
"Don't the Zerg evolve by devouring other creatures?"
That being said, however...
Although Hanbei agreed with Su Yang's words, he still felt a little uncomfortable.
"There's not much to say. Didn't people eat each other and exchange their own children to eat each other during famines in ancient times?"
He Tiancheng said in a deep voice.
"When you're about to starve, you naturally have to grasp at every glimmer of hope."
Outside the base, the buildings that had been damaged by the worms were being reinforced.
The sparks from the welding continued to flash.
"I'm worried about one thing right now."
Su Yang frowned and said.
"If that brain worm sent out a message through some kind of signal before it died yesterday, it could cause another big problem later on."
"If the Zerg Queen finds out about this, she will definitely take other actions."
A brain worm capable of manipulating other insects would certainly be at a high level within its own social structure.