"What a bunch of trash. I spent so much resources on giving them good food and drinks, and then I chased them away!" Fan Hua, who has always been kind-hearted, has been getting angry more and more these days. He rubbed it and it hurt. temple.
The information just came out, the second team and the third team have lost their pursuit. Sima Shuoyu and the others have extremely high anti-reconnaissance capabilities. It is difficult to restrict these evolvers by air search alone. The ground convoy is also affected by the terrain. Limitation results in slow speed.
At the moment, he can only focus on the first team. However, because the Tianshang team has a small number of people, it cannot be completely discovered. Fan Hua can only let the ground fleet spread out in a radial search, and at the same time let all the evolvers of the transport plane arrive. Ground, detailed investigation.
This happened to fall into the trap that Zhang Xu had planned before. Their overall strength was not as good as that of the second and third teams. They could completely eliminate a few people quietly and break through the blockade chain.
It is impossible for them to get rid of everyone in the base. This is simply unrealistic. Moreover, they have to escort Fan Yucheng to other bases. The journey is long and dangerous, so they have to conserve a certain amount of strength if it is not necessary.
"Huh? I asked why he disappeared, but it turned out to be like this. What a good calculation! Humph!" Fan Hua snorted repeatedly after receiving Joseph's message.
Joseph wanted to use Fan Hua's people to consume Zhang Xu. Of course he would not be so stupid, but the others had already lost track of him just now, and they were likely to find an opportunity to meet up. Joseph, who knew Zhang Xu's movements, naturally had the opportunity to negotiate a price. reasons.
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On the other side, Zhang Xu's whereabouts that he thought were very hidden have long been exposed to Joseph's sight. This can't be blamed on him. Although the genetic unlocking gap between the two is five levels, it does not hinder the talents of some people.
Zhang Xu had not received systematic training. Counter-reconnaissance and investigation relied on his own experience. Crossing the river completely blind generally requires self-practice.
Of course Joseph is different. Since he came to country Z and was able to sneak into the Zhengzhou base, he didn't just rely on his strength to get in. He also needed to learn many professional skills.
In this way, the two of them walked in tandem for a long time, and Fan Hua also agreed with Joseph to follow Zhang Xu's route and let him automatically find the meeting point and catch them all in one go.
Everyone in the base chose to walk and followed the directions sent by Joseph step by step to the outside of the Iron Wire Worm Nest.
The two teams, Sima Shuoyu and Ma Jin, were very fast and very cautious. They arrived at the meeting point early but did not go in. They were afraid of any accidents. They did not relax until they saw the Tianshang team.
Zhang Xu was the slowest. He did not escape hastily and quickly, but explored step by step, which made Joseph and those who followed him a little upset.
In fact, Zhang Xu is not to blame. The base suddenly withdrew its manpower and suddenly no search personnel were seen, so everyone would be confused.
Finally, Zhang Xu groped outside the Iron Worm Cave. Fan Yucheng and the others also noticed Zhang Xu's arrival, and Yao Yuanyuan immediately hugged him.
Finally the three teams reunited, and Fan Hua also learned that there was a large underground cave here. When he saw Zhang Xu and others entering the cave, he immediately called all the evolvers to surround the place.
Joseph's eyes were a little cold, and Gray Worm on the side shook his head, saying that he still couldn't sense Liu Yuan's existence. This person seemed to disappear out of thin air, making them unpredictable.
"Let's go in!" Fan Hua was not present this time, and Joseph, a man with blond curly hair, was allowed to lead a group of evolvers. Naturally, some people were unconvinced.
However, they were all dealt with badly by Gray Worm. Under the premise that strength is the most important thing in the last days, these people have become much more obedient after being taught a lesson.
The terrain inside was exactly the same. After Zhang Xu and his team went several hundred meters deep, the number of mutated wireworms really began to increase.
"Keep the formation and fight through!" Ma Jin stood to Fan Yucheng's left and shouted in a low voice.
According to biological surveys, wireworms control small insects and guide them into pools of water to drown before laying eggs. This is very strange.
They have no eyes and are small in stature, but they can find rivers or pools in the woods.
At first, many researchers thought that they had strong phototaxis and used light to find water sources, but they themselves did not believe this explanation.
Only in recent decades have the reasons been truly discovered.
Ironworms, like salmon, have a homing habit.
They will always return to their birthplace and the waters that gave birth to themselves to give birth to the next generation. Their offspring will incorporate this habit into their genes and become an instinct. This instinct takes a dozen or even more generations to develop. produce.
The reason why iron worms easily find water pools is clear. However, the reason why they are studied in the laboratory is unknown because they cannot be found in the place of production.
Their structure is simple, and reproduction does not mean that they will die if they don't want to. They can only look for water sources again. From a more detailed microscope, they can sense water molecules on the surface of their skin, and make judgments about movement based on the amount.
Just like human skin, it knows what wetness and dryness feel like, and this feeling then leads the worms to new water sources, allowing them to survive from ancient times to the present day.
The number and strength of mutated iron worms have also been greatly improved. Everyone knows that this is the result of their predation, and there are a lot of them!
Mountains of white animal bones were piled up all over the place, with black mucus attached to the outside, forming small skeletal caves. Small, newly mutated iron worms popped out their slender tentacles one by one.
Ironworms will not leave their production areas easily. Since Zhang Xu killed the ironworms, their number has plummeted.
Originally, they were fused with the genes of mutated ants. With some of the genes, they learned to produce worms to achieve large-scale production. They no longer needed to rely on parasitism to reproduce and could produce directly.
Living in other organisms has become a capability rather than a necessity, and they can no longer be defined as parasites.
However, the fused genes are not their own after all. Once the queen dies, the iron worm swarm loses a lot of genetic information and cannot give birth to a queen. However, this unknown zombie virus changes the genes of this swarm that is about to die.
They no longer need a queen, and there is no hierarchy. They have become a harmonious group of creatures. Each mutant ironworm once again has the ability to reproduce the next generation without the necessary condition of parasitism, becoming more perfect.
Because of this, regardless of whether the iron worms have high or low genetic unlocking, there is no hierarchy between them. When they know that strange creatures have broken into the territory, they come in droves and block all the passages.
If Zhang Xu had only fought with adult ironworms before, now they were all fighting together, making it difficult for Zhang Xu and others.
This can make Joseph and the others behind him applaud. Although they don’t know what these people are going to do, if things are still like this.
Then they don't need to do anything, these mutated iron worms can do it for them.
The dark environment made it difficult for many people to adapt. Zhang Xu had heat sensing and was able to handle it with ease. With a little force, the light stick in his left hand was crushed.
Fortunately, Zhang Xu has a lot of this kind of lighting, and a lot of them have been specially reserved in the quantum instrument, including searchlights, burning rods, fluorescent rods, etc.
After the Tianshang team and Ma Jin and other advanced evolutionists took action, the situation of the battle was instantly reversed. The iron worms were killed and ran away.
Since there is no queen, they have no collective consciousness, and without instructions to order the iron worms to fight, they will be afraid.
If these humans had not intruded randomly into the territory, they would not have launched this collective predatory movement.
"Let's go!" Liu Qimeng pulled a male researcher and broke through an ice road. It was obvious that in this humid cave with heavy water vapor, Liu Qimeng's ice-making ability became stronger.
There are not many scientific researchers like Wu Ping, but they are rare talents in the end of the world. Even if they become evolvers, their combat effectiveness is still not as good as others.
The situation has improved a lot, and with the people who are not good at fighting being transferred away, they don't have to worry about anything, and they are killing those low-level ironworms.
The green blood condensed into a trickling stream, flowing into the darker cave due to the terrain. Stepping on the sticky and smelly iron worm corpses, Zhang Xu and the others soon saw the original pool.
It is still a deep black pool shrouded in mist. There are countless corpses here, including those of animals, insects, and humans. It is covered with limestone and inhabited by many small scavenging creatures, which are reserved for cleaning up these iron worms. biological epidermis.
Slowly walking past the stalactites with drops of water dripping from overhead from time to time, lighting fixtures lit up the cave, and the crystal water droplets reflected a different brilliance.
Zhang Xu and the others did not have time to visit the iron worm nests. This typical karst landform can be seen everywhere, which also illustrates the complexity. The mutated iron worms that were previously feared would peek at everyone from the cracks in the rocks from time to time.
Zhang Xu's heat sensor had long detected their existence, but he didn't intend to waste time on them. He intentionally or unintentionally asked Yao Yuanyuan to collect the Crystals of Hope. Only a quantum instrument could know which ironworm had the Crystal of Hope in its body.
Zhang Xu didn't care about it. The iron worms in the cave would solve the problem of their companions' corpse transformation. As long as they entered the pool, everything would get better.
"Huh? No way?" Joseph's face looked a little confused, and his eyes became complicated.
Joseph liked to think. He knew that Zhang Xu and others came here to escape the pursuit of the base. Starting from this point of analysis, he thought at first that they wanted to use the cave to avoid the helicopter, but as they followed the group deeper and deeper, they did not want to escape. the meaning of.
They saw a large number of mutated iron worms and thought it was a trap they used to trap themselves. Unexpectedly, they helped Joseph chase them away. This was surprising until they followed Zhang Xu to the end of the cave.
A black pool of water seems to indicate that this road is impassable, so what do they want to do?
Suddenly, an inadvertent thought flashed through his mind, Joseph's face quickly changed from dull, and he immediately shouted: "Quick, stop them from entering the water!"
After saying that, Joseph took the lead and jumped down from the height. The others followed Joseph one by one and chased after him.
