"What is this?" Gordon was worried that it was poisonous and did not dare to take action directly. He pulled out the peeling knife and fiddled with the silk threads that seemed to be made of pure gold.
An Xil also came over, "It's not metal. It's a bit translucent if you look closely. It might be something like insect silk or spider silk."
"worm silk..."
Naturally, Gordon and the others would inevitably recall those golden beetles.
Could it be left behind by those creatures?
Not surprising.
Gordon was about to cut off a section and collect it as a biological specimen, but he didn't expect that when he swung the knife, the silk thread about half a centimeter thick was not cut off, but the knife used to remove it bounced away.
Gordon looked at the knife in his hand in surprise and couldn't help but feel guilty.
"Weird thing."
There are many monsters with the ability to spin silk. The concubine spider, the shadow spider, and the skeleton spider that Ancil had hunted before can all spin silk threads with extremely amazing toughness.
But that's just because it's tough and can withstand huge pulling forces, but it's not resistant to cutting with sharp tools.
This is a common problem with almost all biological threads.
But why does silk thread feel like it is more resistant to cutting than steel?
Gordon held the knife with his backhand, put the blade against the worm silk, and pulled hard, but the worm silk was still not damaged at all.
"Hey?"
Gordon twisted his neck, "I still don't believe it!"
He pressed the blade against the worm silk again and started cutting with all his strength.
"Crunch, crunch...Crack!"
Gordon froze, picked up the peeling knife and checked the blade.
I actually broke down...
"This? Isn't this unreasonable? Even a steel cable made of twisted steel wires wouldn't be this hard?!"
An Xil, who was next to him, also frowned.
Not to mention Gordon's strength, he is also famous for the sharpness of his knife.
The thin blade is not suitable for cutting, but in terms of cutting alone, it is stronger than most hunters' weapons. It can cut through dragon skin and pry off dragon scales.
Can't do anything about these worm threads?
"Try another way."
Anhil said, taking off the oil lamp from the gale next to him, opening the lampshade, and burning the worm threads with the flame.
This method is very effective. After a few seconds, the worm threads are burned off.
Gordon followed suit, and the two of them collected all the worm threads clinging to the stone pillars. Without even thinking about it, they knew that this stuff was of great research value.
"Tell me, if the source of these worm threads is really those beetles, could the mess around be dragged here by them?" Gordon guessed.
"It's possible, but the question is, wasn't it the mechanical behemoth that destroyed and swallowed the city wall?" Anhil glanced at the location of the fragment of the city wall, "They wouldn't snatch food from the mouth of the behemoth, right?
Or are they some kind of symbiotic relationship? "
"It's not impossible, just like the Thunder Wolf Dragon and the Lightning Insect, right?"
"Meow?!" Pig Chop, who was on guard, suddenly raised his head.
The same goes for Gale Feng, who lowered his body, bared his fangs, and roared in a certain direction.
"Something is coming, meow!" Piglet warned in a low voice, "From the sound of the movement, it should be those golden beetle meows, more than one meow!"
"Get ready to fight." Gordon pulled out his sword, "Concentrate your attack on one, and after killing it, get some body tissue and then retreat.
Unable to determine their number, don't fight for long. "
"Um."
Ancier loaded the magazine of electric shock bullets into Shigure. Based on experience, exoskeleton monsters such as crustaceans and beetles have poor lightning resistance.
The first golden beetle appeared in sight.
Seeing that it had a clear target and was charging straight towards him, Anhil understood that the battle was inevitable.
To strike first, he immediately pulled the trigger continuously.
The Shigure is indeed an excellent heavy crossbow, with stable and accurate ballistics and almost no recoil.
The electric shock bombs hit the head and chest of the golden monster in succession. The green-blue electric arc flashed and jumped, and the golden monster let out a scream.
The attack effect is very good.
Gordon also locked his eyes on the golden beetle. He rushed forward with his sword and slashed it with a single blow.
The hardness of the golden beetle's carapace exceeded his expectations, but the sharpness of the Epitaph sword was not comparable to that of ordinary weapons. With Gordon's full swing of the sword, he successfully cut through the carapace that seemed to be covered with gold foil.
"grumble!"
The golden beetle hissed in pain and swung down its sickle-shaped forelimbs. Gordon blocked it with his vertical sword. While he was getting rid of the attack, he was also experiencing the power of this monster's attack.
At the same time, two more golden beetles gathered over.
But Gordon isn't worried.
Through a series of comprehensive judgments such as carapace hardness, movement speed, and attack power, the strength of this golden beetle is roughly equivalent to a three-star dangerous monster.
Two or three of them would not be a problem for them.
"Pork Chops, Gale, stop those two, Ancier! Let's kill this one quickly!"
"Good meow!"
"clear!"
The battle on Gordon's side ended quickly.
Suppressed by Ancil's violent firestorm, the golden beetle could only scream and retreat. Gordon took the opportunity to prepare to charge up and attack with all his strength.
After just a minute or two, Gordon smashed the beetle's head open with a true charged slash.
The golden beetle staggered and finally collapsed in a pool of fluorescent green blood.
But during this period, another golden beetle came over.
Gordon knew that if this continued, the beetles would only gather more and more, and by then there would be some trouble.
He swung his sword to shake off the blood on the blade, put away the weapon, and shouted over his shoulder, "Cover me for half a minute. I'll collect some biological specimens, and then we'll retreat!"
"As soon as possible!" Ancier put on a magazine and suppressed the one that just arrived with firepower.
Gordon didn't care too much. He grabbed a severed limb and stuffed it into his bag. He also took out a glass bottle and collected half of the bottle of bodily fluids.
That's all.
"Prepare to retreat!"
Just as Gordon put away the bottle of bodily fluids and prepared to retreat, an extremely sharp sense of threat came from below.
Gordon didn't even think about it, his body reacted reflexively, flying and rolling to the side with all his strength.
The moment he jumped away, a gorgeous sickle claw two to three meters long suddenly broke through the ground and stabbed out from bottom to top.
If he hesitates even for a moment, the best result is that one of his legs will be removed.
"Gordon!"
"I'm fine!" Gordon quickly turned over and jumped up, flying backwards.
Two golden brown and emerald green sickle limbs broke through the ground one after another, followed by a huge crown with extremely gorgeous patterns, and a body as sharp and slender as a blade.
An insect-like monster that was 60 to 70% similar to the previous golden beetles appeared in front of the hunters.
"Jiiya——!"
It opened its scythe claws wide and let out a piercing scream that was almost beyond the range of human hearing.
The heart stopped, the blood coagulated, and a terrifying pressure that could crush the nerves swept over him.
Cold sweat fell from his forehead. Gordon's eyes were locked on the mysterious monster that almost killed him, and he didn't dare to look away.
This thought came to his mind.
——The strength of this monster is no less than that of the unicorn encountered on the snowy mountain before.
The mysterious monster did not attack directly.
It is like a high and mighty queen, with no one worthy of its concern.
The sharp knife-like legs move slowly, with light and graceful steps.
The sickle claws that seemed to be made of gold and jewels stretched out, grabbed the golden beetle corpse on the side, chopped it into pieces easily, and stuffed it into the mouth.
The queen is eating.
