A few days later, on the edge of the Grasse Hills.
The gray-brown land is rugged, broken rocks are overgrown with weeds, and it is barren and dead.
"Boom boom boom..."
The roar of an engine broke the peace of the past. The wheels rolled over gravel and dead grass. Unrestrained and wild heavy metal music came from the radio. The car bumped and swayed as it moved forward.
The sound disturbed the sickle beetles that lived on the back side of the slope. They raised their heads one after another, and after determining their direction, the elytra on their backs stood up, and their transparent membrane wings opened backwards, beating at high speed, rising vertically like helicopters.
Chen Xing in the car saw that his hands were still holding the steering wheel, and with a thought, he created two mirror clones in the passenger seat and the back seat. The main body continued to drive, and the clone took out two assault rifles from the storage space and shot at the flying beetles.
Chen Xing is now at the peak of the guard level, only one step away from the great guard level. His physical fitness has reached the standard. As long as he has some spiritual understanding and breaks through the barrier of the spiritual pool, he can build a tower.
A flurry of blue bullets pierced the air, dragging a blue trajectory towards the beetles. The carapace shattered instantly, cracks spread all over the body, and thick green juice splashed everywhere.
Of the twenty or so scythe beetles, more than half were lost in one encounter, and the rest swooped down with their scythes raised. Chen Xing controlled the vehicle to make a snake-like detour, and the beetle's attacks failed one after another, and then he was killed one by one by the clones who drew the sheathed sword at close range.
After leaving a pile of insect corpses, the off-road vehicle continued to move forward, and soon new attackers were attracted by the sound.
It was a mountain centipede. Its shiny black carapace rubbed against the gravel on the ground, its tentacles whipped back and forth, and its hundreds of tiny feet supported its huge body in rapid movement.
One clone fired with an assault rifle to slow down the Mountain Centipede's movements, while the other clone took out a sniper rifle, concentrated its energy, compressed its psychic energy, and carried out a deep strike. After a while, the mountain centipede was riddled with holes and juices flowed across it. The last rocket round completely ended it.
The deserted land is always full of dangers. Not long after dealing with the centipede, Chen Xing suddenly felt something in his heart and turned the steering wheel suddenly. The wheels made a harsh friction sound as they turned a ninety-degree turn.
A huge insect pincer broke out of the ground and rushed straight up. If it had been half a second later, the off-road vehicle would have been scrapped.
[Red Earth Ant Lion (Guardian)]
[Vitality: 681/681]
[Innate abilities: Burrowing, Ambush, Spiked Insect Shell, Spiked Assault]
[Viruses that may be carried: none]
The red earth ant lion is the most common mutated creature in the uninhabited land after the cataclysm. The essence of nuclear radiation is a kind of psychic energy full of harmful impurities. Insects with relatively simple genetic structure are easier to adjust themselves to new environments than beasts.
The impact of the undercurrent of time and space and the environment covered by global nuclear radiation have caused the originally tiny insects to grow into giants. Ant lions, also known as "sand monkeys," are only the size of a mung bean and are often caught and played by children in the countryside. After mutating, they are larger than a truck. They are good diggers and prefer to lurk underground waiting for passing prey, which they hunt with their two large pincers.
Judging from the size of the insect claw, this antlion is larger than a yacht.
The car turned sharply, and the body tilted more than 30 degrees due to the speed. The two "Chen Xings" opened the car door and turned around to shoot. The main body also pulled out the Silver Star to help in the battle. The three muzzles spit out tongues of fire at the same time. The bullets hit the joints of the insect pincers and burst out with blue light.
A large amount of star sand and fragments of insect shells were sprayed backwards, and the insects' dull wails came from the ground.
The painful ant lion struggled to get out of the ground. The insect's body was dotted with black diamond-like crystals, and the crystals had sharp insect spines, like a cactus ball. I saw it twisting its body quickly, the insect thorns shrinking towards the body, and then with a "pop" sound, it shot out the spikes all over the sky.
Chen Xing stopped the vehicle in an emergency, and his body and avatar simultaneously used force to turn the vehicle sideways to block the rain of spikes.
After a series of penetrating sounds, the off-road vehicle was pierced into a hedgehog. Chen Xing's two clones were scratched by the sharp thorns and disappeared into star sand. The main body teleported to a rock more than ten meters away before the spike rain arrived.
Only red earth ant lions above the guard level can launch spike attacks. Although it is powerful, it cannot be used continuously. Chen Xing released his clones again, and the two clones ran to the off-road vehicle, one on the left and the other on the right, to retrieve the fallen weapons, then separated and shot at the ant lion.
This is an attack formation that Chen Xing thought of based on his own abilities. He calls it a "triangular attack". The main body and two clones attack from three different directions, which can beat a single strong enemy into chaos.
The advantage of the red soil ant lion is its thick carapace and great strength, but its disadvantage is its low agility and slow movement. Spiked Assault is a powerful weapon for thin-armored targets, but once used, it will be at a great disadvantage against flexible opponents like Chen Xing.
What's even worse is that its opponent adopts the strategy of attacking in the east and attacking in the west. One of them escapes and the other attacks, and they can't even touch the corners of their clothes.
"Ta-ta-ta!" "Bang-bang-bang!"
Bullets filled with psychic energy repeatedly hit the joints, eventually breaking and becoming necrotic. The red soil ant lion's pincers and hind limbs were knocked off, turning it into an immovable "bread".
It roared angrily, its whole body glowed red, and its body continued to expand and grow. Chen Xing thought badly and retreated quickly. The red soil ant lion swelled several times, and suddenly there was a muffled sound, and the insect body exploded. Corpses and body fluids mixed with spikes shot out in all directions, which was several times denser than the spike attack just now.
Chen Xing teleported three times before avoiding it. The off-road vehicle was stuck into a cactus and gasoline leaked everywhere. Chen Xing picked up some useful things and walked instead.
For him now, transportation is not necessary. He can ride a wolf and go faster than a jet motorcycle on complex terrain.
However, summoning Yuling requires continuous consumption of spiritual energy. Although his domain is the endless sea and his spiritual energy reserves are abundant, there will always be times when they are exhausted and he cannot use them at will.
The geographical environment of the Grasse Hills is very harsh, full of stones and gray-brown semi-contaminated land. The vegetation here is sparse, and the radiation can only slowly dissipate over time. There isn't much to eat here, so the deeper you go, the fewer mutated creatures there are.
On the second day of walking, Chen Xing saw two refugees near a Jishuitan.
Jishuitan is a place where nearby rainwater gathers. It rarely rains in the Grasse Hills, and the accumulated water that can be retained must be in very deep pools, or pot-shaped pools. The water storage capacity is large and the area exposed to the air is small. Natural evaporation is slow, so the water can be preserved.
The skin of the two refugees is copper-colored and shiny, just like Arqiao Mu's, which is the main symbol of the sand people.
They looked at Chen Xing warily, neither approaching nor leaving.
Chen Xing stretched out his thumb and tail finger at the same time. This is a common gesture in the clay world, which means "transaction".
