"That's a lightning cloud, don't get close!" Huang Sheng reminded.
Because of unique atmospheric conditions, lightning in Venus' atmosphere can last for a long time. On Blue Star, lightning only lasts for a moment, but here, lightning can last for dozens of minutes!
"What a powerful electric field!" Xiong Manni exclaimed, "If we drop meteorological weapons on this planet, we can wipe out most of the Zerg here, right?"
"That's not necessarily true," Huang Sheng said. "The Zerg are extremely adaptable. They have countless genetic templates for evolution. Since they were born on this planet, they must have corresponding abilities."
As they chatted, they released detectors into the atmosphere.
The signal here is extremely susceptible to interference. Under the sulfuric acid clouds, there is an active ionosphere, and there is basically no news from the previously launched detectors.
In these extremely corrosive sulfuric acid clouds and the carbon dioxide clouds with a concentration of more than 97% below, they have discovered some flying bugs.
These bugs are similar to birds, with a layer of biological mucus on their body surface that can isolate them from poisonous gases and acidic substances.
"Capture the samples and send them back to the battleship." Huang Sheng ordered several team members to operate.
They moved through the atmosphere and discovered that there were still nuclear behemoths in the clouds, but they had not yet evolved to the level of planetary overlords.
"No flying planetary overlords have been found in the atmosphere of Venus, which is consistent with previous detections." Xiong Manni concluded, "It is inferred that there are far fewer space Zerg species near Venus."
"That's on the surface and underground!" Huang Sheng accelerated the speed of descent and ordered: "Land on the surface and detect the surface of Venus."
"Copy that!" The armors descended one after another. When they reached the bottom of Venus' atmosphere, the airflow speed dropped a lot, and the speed and stability of the mecha also increased.
After penetrating the sulfuric acid clouds, Huang Sheng could already see the surface of Venus.
"The temperature is 457 degrees Celsius, the carbon dioxide content is 96.5%, and it is 89 times the standard atmosphere." The AI system updated the data.
Everyone looked at the scene in front of them and felt horrified!
It seems that what they came to is not a planet, but hell!
The sky is covered by thick sulfuric acid clouds, and the sun cannot be seen at all. This is not just a piece of sky, but the sky of the entire planet!
In the surrounding clouds, thunderstorms and lightning are generated at any time, and nature is releasing terrifying power all the time!
The surface of the planet is all exposed rocks and dust, and the barren earth cannot find any color of life. There are volcanoes and volcanoes that are too numerous to count at a glance!
There are very few craters because most meteorites are melted by friction with the atmosphere due to such thick clouds.
Even asteroids with large masses will explode in the atmosphere and fall to the surface, forming mountains.
Venus is the planet with the most volcanoes known to exist in the solar system!
It has more than one million large and small volcanoes, and its volume and mass are very similar to Blue Star, which is 0.86 times that of Blue Star.
Imagine what it would be like to have millions of volcanoes on a blue star? Almost every region has active volcanoes!
Darkness, sulfuric acid clouds, thunderstorms, lightning, carbon dioxide and toxic gases, volcanoes, craters... Such a harsh environment almost makes people feel desperate!
"This environment is more real than a nightmare!" several team members complained.
"Yes, I have been to Mars, and Mars is much better than here. Because at least Mars can see the sun!"
"Don't tell me, after being transformed by the Zerg, you can still see green plants and feel a bit friendly. You can't see anything here."
Everyone discovered that there were no plants or other Zerg species on the surface of Venus.
"The Zerg detector has not found any Zerg information yet." the AI system reminded.
"Are all the bugs hiding underground?" Huang Sheng was puzzled. Although the environment here is harsh, the bugs can survive even in magma and space. How can they be afraid of this place?
"Landing location, Ista Land, Max Mountains." The location where Huang Sheng landed is one of the two most important continental highlands on the surface of Venus.
The Max Mountains here are two thousand meters higher than the Himalayas, and the area of this highland is comparable to Kangaroo Island on Blue Star!
The surface is completely covered with dark brown rocks, which is in sharp contrast to the reddish brown surface of Mars.
"Composition analysis..." The armor's analytical instrument began to analyze the rock composition. "The sample is silica accounting for 45%, and the remaining components are aluminum oxide, iron oxide and calcium oxide. It is identified as high-aluminum basalt. .”
Basalt is a type of volcanic lava. The entire surface of Venus is covered with this rock, probably due to its excessive number of volcanoes.
"Each team will detect on the spot and report the situation." Huang Sheng shouted.
"Team A did not find the Zerg."
"Team B did not find the Zerg."
"Team C did not find the Zerg."
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None of the groups discovered the presence of the Zerg.
This situation made Huang Sheng and Xiong Manni even more confused, where are the Zerg hiding?
"Go to the crater to detect. If the Zerg wants to absorb energy, the most likely place is in the crater." Huang Sheng ordered.
"Copy that." The groups began to move towards the nearby crater.
"There are no Zerg on the surface?" Xiong Manni controlled the drone and walked aimlessly on the surface of Venus. The biological detector kept showing that no biological information was found.
"In outer space, Zerg are found in the clouds. Why do they disappear when they reach the surface?" She desperately wanted to know the answer.
The Zerg have a tendency to actively attack the enemy. Therefore, Xiong Manni directly controls the mecha to run on the surface, so that as long as the Zerg attacks her, she can find the location of the Zerg.
She ran about twenty kilometers on the ground and came to a volcano.
"The signal is weakened, please adjust your position." the AI system reminded.
Xiong Manni was about to adjust her position when she "saw": a big rock behind her suddenly moved and hit the drone she controlled.
The mecha's automatic defense system activated and fired its electromagnetic cannon at the boulder.
The electromagnetic bomb created several cracks on the boulder. If it were a normal rock, this electromagnetic gun would be enough to crush it!
However, she failed this time. The boulder hit the mecha. Its kinetic energy was no less than that of reconnecting the electromagnetic gun, and it directly smashed the mecha into scrap metal!
"Signal connection has been interrupted."
Xiong Manni's vision went dark. The drone armor had been damaged.
She immediately moved to another drone armor and shouted into the communicator: "Attention, the mecha DF-78 was destroyed by the Zerg, and there is a suspected enemy at this coordinate. It may be caused by the enemy throwing boulders!"
"Let's go over and have a look!" Huang Sheng immediately mobilized nearby detection mechas and headed to the location of the incident together.
When they arrived at Yuanchu, they found that the remains of the mecha had disappeared, and there were no broken boulders, only a few small stones.
"What's going on?" Xiong Manni was also confused when she saw this scene. It was clearly not like this just now!
"The impact crater on the ground is still there!" she said. "Did the Zerg clean up the crime scene so quickly?"
"These guys are very cunning, everyone, be careful." Huang Sheng reminded, while maximizing the power of the detector.
But they still didn't find the breath of any creature.
"This is an active volcano with a strong energy response," one team member said.
"There are signs of loosening in the soil here!" Someone found a clue.
There is a barren land, with large and small volcanic lava buried in volcanic mud.
"Dig it out!" Huang Sheng said.
The team member began to dig into the volcanic mud. The moment his mecha dug into the soil, the rocks in the volcanic mud moved again, rushing out of the ground like cannonballs.
He was startled. Fortunately, human beings' thinking speed has improved a lot and they can react.
The mecha immediately dodged from the side to avoid the attack, and the boulder cracked a hole, spitting out hot lava fluid.
This attack method is somewhat similar to the Volcano Worm King on Blue Star, which also spits lava.
"It's the Zerg!" Huang Sheng shouted, "Capture it!"
As soon as everyone gathered there, the ground began to shake violently, and the stones "buried" in the volcanic mud all moved and attacked everyone.
"These stones are the Zerg!" Seeing this scene, everyone was excited and surprised.
They were excited that they finally found the Venus bugs, but to their surprise, these bugs actually had stone shells!
"No wonder our biological detectors didn't work. These guys are all disguised as silicon-based life forms!" Xiong Manni said.
"Maybe it's really a silicon-based zerg..." Huang Sheng said while launching an attack on one of the stone worms.
His lasers, rays, and electromagnetic cannons hit the boulder with almost no effect.
"The defense is so strong?" Huang Sheng himself was shocked. The armor they used has been updated n times.
Even if the Insect King is in front of him, the weapons of this mecha can still work.
But these bugs in front of me are obviously not bug kings, but they can block all their attacks!
Even if laser or plasma melts a hole in their bodies, they don't seem to be in fatal danger and can still move freely.
"Boom!"
"Boom!" A loud noise exploded, some Zerg were killed, and some mechas were destroyed.
Two team members died.
"Use a high-frequency cutting knife!" Huang Sheng shouted, and he had already changed his sword and rushed forward.
He aimed at a smaller stone insect, and after instantly accelerating to supersonic speed, he slashed the surface of the stone insect with the high-frequency sword.
The hard rock shell was cut open by the high-speed vibrating single-molecule blade, and Huang Sheng split it in half with one stroke.
Magma-like liquid flows out of the stoneworm's body.
Immediately, a drone armor followed, grabbed the body of the stone insect and flew into the sky.
Everyone also changed their weapons, and the damage done to the stoneworms was greatly increased.
After a while, they killed all the stoneworms!
"It's really unbelievable that the Zerg on the surface of Venus look like this. If they didn't move, we wouldn't know they were just these rocks!"
"Take all the corpses away and continue to explore other locations." Huang Sheng ordered.
They were about to leave when the ground began to shake, like an earthquake!
You know, the core of Venus has solidified, which means that Venus does not have continental plates like Blue Star, and naturally there will be no collisions and earthquakes!
There is only one reason for the earthquake at this time, either a volcanic eruption or the Zerg!
"Lift off, lift off!" Huang Sheng became alert and immediately ordered everyone to take off.
They flew into the sky, and when they looked down again, they were shocked by the scene in front of them.
The entire earth began to crack, and hot magma spewed out, as if something was about to emerge from the ground.
"Let's withdraw first! Let the unmanned aerial vehicles monitor." Seeing this movement, Huang Sheng knew that these mechas couldn't defeat them.
The one who can create this movement is at least a high-level planetary behemoth, and it may even be a planetary overlord-level Zerg!
Everyone continued to raise the altitude, and the giant insect appeared underground.
It was nothing like the planetary behemoths they had seen or imagined.
This planetary beast is actually a volcano with four legs!
It is a movable volcano. They cannot distinguish its specific organs. There is no obvious head, tail, etc.
"What kind of species is this?" Xiong Manni asked in surprise, "Is there really a silicon-based insect race?"
"It would be great if I could capture it..." Huang Sheng looked at the volcanic beast, ready to move.
"Don't think about these outrageous things!" Xiong Manni reminded, "Even if we bring our battleship over, we can't catch it!"
The volcanic behemoth launched a direct attack on them. While it fired magma, it shot some hard boulders into the sky. It was endowed with powerful kinetic energy, comparable to the heavy-duty electromagnetic gun on a battleship!
If hit, not to mention their light armors, even giant mechas and mechanical behemoths will be destroyed directly!
"Get out, get out! Get back to the ship!" Huang Sheng knew that he couldn't defeat it, so he and everyone rushed towards the outer space of Venus.
At this time, the volcanic giant beast made a "rumbling" roar, seeming to be roaring.
It actually flew up and rushed into outer space. At the same time, countless volcanoes and mountain peaks on the surface of Venus moved and flew into outer space.
"So this is the real Venus Zerg!" Huang Sheng looked behind him, seeing various attacks coming.
Some Zerg can even transmit stones to them from half a planet away!
In the clouds, the flying Zerg also gathered here and launched an attack on them.
They can control the movement of thunderclouds and changes in wind direction, as if countless natural disasters are converging towards them.
Another half of the mechas were destroyed.
The volcanic behemoth closest to them is also flying, but because the density of the atmosphere here is too high and its size is huge, it is difficult to increase its flying speed.
Because it flew too fast, the volcanic mud and ash on its surface rubbed against the atmosphere and burned, becoming a real "volcano."
"Haha, I can't catch up!" Huang Sheng said with a proud smile. Their speed was getting faster and faster, and they would soon leave the atmosphere of Venus.
Seeing this, the volcanic giant seemed to be angry. It stopped in the air, and the surrounding magnetic field changed.
A bolt of lightning several thousand meters long struck everyone.
The unmanned aerial vehicles flying behind were pierced in an instant.
"Not good!" Huang Sheng's quantum chip calculated, and he realized something was wrong when the ions were agitated.
If he flies like this, he will not be able to escape the lightning attack and will definitely die!
"This guy can actually control lightning and thunderstorms!" Huang Sheng gritted his teeth, abandoned the mecha, and launched half of his body at super high acceleration.
He is a modified person, and his only real biological organ is a brain. Now it is equivalent to firing the brain out like a cannonball.
Within a thousandth of a second after his brain was launched, lightning struck his mecha, completely destroying it.
"Captain!" the team members exclaimed.
"Husband!" Xiong Manni couldn't help shouting.
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Huang Sheng's message appeared on the communication channel. The voice he spoke at this time was a synthesized voice, because he only had one brain and brain container left, so naturally he couldn't make a sound.
