The first person to discover Root's whereabouts was Chen Mo.
Several Roots were hanging upside down on the umbrella trees, staring covetously at the advance team that broke into the hinterland.
Chen Mo broke into a cold sweat.
If the plasma shield had not been activated, one salvo fired by Root from the tree just now would have been enough to peel off the skin of the members of the advance team.
Signaling the captain to look up, Chen Mo watched helplessly as the cold sweat slipped from the captain's face.
"Why didn't they attack?"
Chen Mo said curiously.
"I didn't know." The captain signaled the team members to raise their guns, ready to attack at any time.
"War is the ultimate expression of irreconcilable contradictions, but it is not the only solution."
A disembodied voice sounded from underground.
Everyone in the advance team felt cold air creeping up their spines and onto their heads.
"who!"
The captain knew that he had been discovered by the Root group, so he stopped pretending and stood up with a gun.
The germ blanket in front of him continued to squirm, and finally, after half a minute, a humanoid outline was formed.
An anthropomorphic figure made entirely of creep.
Everyone tried their best to restrain the uncanny valley effect, and pointed their guns at the humanoid creep in front of them.
"Introduce yourself, I am the Brood you are looking for." The humanoid creep used a male voice.
"Then you shouldn't be in front of us. We could shoot you and take you away at any time."
"It seems that you don't think so, otherwise you would definitely have fired at the first opportunity." The creep said with a smile: "I am using my mind to control this creep from a very far away place. Even if you evaporate this piece of land, , I am still living well. On the contrary..."
I don’t know how the Brood conveyed the message to the Roots. I saw the humanoid Brood waving its hands, and the Roots hanging upside down on the top of the umbrella tree shook their purple tails at the people below.
"You have fallen into my ambush. I can annihilate you at any time if I want."
Everyone in the advance team had to admit that this was true.
At some point, several small Root communities were approaching outside the umbrella tree.
Judging from the number, I'm afraid it's no less than 300.
The number of saxons was not less than a thousand.
In such geographical conditions, the advance team had no chance of winning.
No one could have imagined that the Brood is not only an intelligent species, but also possesses such high intelligence!
He actually used his tactics against the advance team.
The captain thought for a moment and asked, "What do you want?"
"It's just an equal exchange. You captured my child for experimentation, and I also need human samples for experimentation." The creep spread his hands in a humane manner: "I only need one person."
"Why should I trust you?"
"Just because I have the ability to destroy you, I haven't done it yet."
The captain looked at the creep and then glanced around at the hanging Roots.
"make a deal."
Chen Mo had an ominous premonition.
Sure enough, the germ carpet pointed at him.
"This is the only one I need."
"Fuck!" Chen Mo felt like he had won the first prize.
"We need to leave your encirclement before we can hand over people to you. Otherwise, if you continue to attack after handing over people, wouldn't we lose one of our main players in vain?" The captain pushed Chen Mo forward and said to the germ carpet.
"Give up the useless struggle. You can't get out without handing over people."
The captain raised his gun and pointed it at Chen Mo's head.
"Since you asked for a person by name, he must be very important to you." The captain pointed the gun at Chen Mo's head: "If I blow his head off, will he still be useful to you?"
The brood was silent for a moment.
"Cunning human, yes, you can exit here, but... you can't run past my child."
"That's our business."
The Brood seemed to think for a while and signaled Root to make way for the advance team.
With a gun placed on his head, Chen Mo moved towards the outside of the umbrella tree.
Chen Mo took a deep breath.
He couldn't accuse the advance captain of right or wrong.
After all, he didn't have much friendship with them, so trading one life for the survival of the entire advance team was a good deal.
But Chen Mo has never been in the habit of sitting still and waiting for death.
He planned to activate the phase blockade ability the moment the advance team handed him over to the brood, leaving the advance team behind and carving a bloody path.
The other party was unkind, and he had no need to abide by his righteousness.
In less than five minutes, the entire advance team withdrew from the umbrella forest.
Chen Mo still had the gun held to his head.
The humanoid fungi was carrying Root, hanging not far or near behind the advance team.
Seeing that they had left the umbrella forest, the humanoid creep took two steps forward.
"Can you give me the person now?"
The advance captain smiled.
"If you could kill us easily, you wouldn't show up and talk nonsense... open fire!"
The advance team, which seemed to have been waiting for this moment for a long time, immediately raised their guns and spit out tongues of fire.
Chen Mo was stunned.
He didn't know the special gestures of the advance team, and naturally he didn't know that the captain had just communicated with him in sign language: "Be patient, retreat and counterattack."
Chen Mo secretly thought it was very dangerous.
Fortunately, he didn't take action, otherwise the advance team would probably suffer misfortune from him.
"Humanity…"
The humanoid fungi wanted to say something else, but it was already shot into a cloud of fungus slurry by a heavy sniper bullet.
"One group, two groups suppress fire, three groups cross fire! The rest retreat!"
The captain shouted at the top of his lungs.
The Straco creature's counterattack was extremely fierce, and the purple irradiation energy bombs exploded into gorgeous purple flowers on the plasma shield.
Chen Mo, who had no gun in his hand, became an idler for a while.
"Special Advisor! Kill the leader!"
"Which one is leading?"
"have no idea!"
"day!"
Chen Mo found a gap in Root's firepower, rushed out of the plasma shield, grabbed the alloy blade, and hovered in mid-air with superpowers surging from his body, and then killed towards the largest mutant Root.
Lute's irradiation bullet hit Chen Mo's overflowing superpower and melted it.
In just two seconds, Chen Mo had chopped down two Roots and reached the largest one.
He raised the knife with his hand and cut off most of Root's head in one stroke. Then he turned his hand and thrust it deep into Root's body.
The large Root struggled and rolled a few times before dying completely.
But the other Roots did not retreat and continued to fire wildly at the advance team.
"Report the shield charging status!" The advance team leader replaced the magazine and retreated while fighting.
"Fifty-seven percent of the charge of a set of plasma shields remains!" The team leader who fired several shots and finally killed a Root shouted hysterically.
"Forty-five percent of the second group!"
"Sixty-three percent in three groups!"
"Change to groups four, five, and six!" the advance captain shouted as he watched Chen Mo's rising and falling figure.
In a cross formation, the team that was facing Root's firepower at the front was replaced by the next three groups.
Excluding He Bi's team, the nine advance teams in total cannot survive for long.
"Advisor! We need to detonate micro-erbium bombs! Buy time!"
"give it to me."
Chen Mo, who was in mid-air, took out a military bomb from his waist.
"You withdraw!"
Purple fireworks are as charming as fireworks.
Phase blockade and micro-Er bombs completely disrupted Root's offensive formation.
At the same time, the charge of the plasma shields of groups 4, 56 and 56 has reached the bottom and has been replaced by groups 7, 89.
"retreat!"
At this time, the good physical fitness of the advance team members came in handy.
Compared with the team led by Chen Mo before, which was like headless flies, the quality of the individual soldiers in the advance team was not a bit better.
Lu Tequn's attention had been completely attracted by Chen Mo, but the irradiation bombs could not do anything to him, and the long-distance shooting turned into a close combat.
Root's mouthparts and chelicerae complemented Chen Mo's giant alloy blade, and fluorescent green blood spattered.
Chen Mo learned the lesson from the last time and did not give the opportunity to be surrounded by Root and Sexon. He fought and retreated, and soon caught up with the retreating advance team.
With the fire cover and heavy sniper strikes from the distant He Bi team's commanding heights, the advance team managed to break out of Root's encirclement with zero attrition.
Dozens of Root carcasses were left in the umbrella woods.
Chen Mo himself beheaded more than ten heads.
The remaining Roots did not pursue them, but allowed the advance team to leave the encirclement.
The advance team managed to escape nearly ten kilometers before the captain ordered them to rest and standby.
Not everyone has the same abnormal physical fitness as Chen Mo. After nearly ten kilometers of desperate running, the lungs of the running team members exploded.
Seeing that the pursuers had not yet arrived and the captain ordered a rest, the advance team finally breathed a sigh of relief.
A few of the weaker ones were already lying on the ground unwilling to get up.
After a while, the sniper team led by He Bi caught up. Except for He Bi, who looked better, the snipers carrying heavy sniper rifles all collapsed on the spot.
The captain took a deep breath and looked at He Bi.
"What the hell is the Brood! Why the hell did it turn into a human form?! Can it still talk?"
Why smile bitterly.
Everything he saw today was completely beyond his understanding.
The mother nest actually took shape with the help of a carpet of bacteria and spoke human words.
If the mother nest has such high intelligence, how can it be forced into a cramped ecological circle by humans?
"Eridium has been dealing with such ghosts?" He Bi spat: "I am curious why the Corps has almost zero information on the creatures in the ecosystem. This is not common sense at all. Even if it is a little bit of information given by the superiors I don’t think it’s abnormal at all.”
Chen Mo thought so.
Chen Mo would not believe it if the previous cleanup of the ecosystem was all due to the Yi Neng Association.
No matter how powerful the chaebol is, can it still be bigger than the corps?
To put it bluntly, even if the ecosystem is really handled by Eridium, how could the Corps not know any information about Strak's creatures?
The advanced wisdom of the Brood left several people confused.
"What's the next step?" The captain lit up a cigarette but He Bi took it away: "You can smoke it after running and you won't be afraid of exploding your lungs?"
"You guys go back to the Corps and leave me an isotope tracker. I'm going to find the brood." Chen Mo said.
"Are you crazy?"
"You can't keep up with me. If we can't retreat together, I have to cut off the rear. You shouldn't be involved in this matter in the first place." Chen Mo took the cigarette from He Bi's hand: "You have all seen the situation, why do you need to come with me? On a mission?"
"You are indeed better in terms of mobility, but you can't be stronger than the entire formation in terms of fire coverage." Why bother to retort: "If the brood is a large creature, you can only rely on the broken knife in your hand?"
Chen Mo thought for a while.
"I can bring a sniper."
"Don't talk nonsense. If you want to find the brood nest, move quickly. You don't need to cover it. This is what the advance team is supposed to do. If you can really catch the brood nest alive, it is much more important than the life and death of our advance team."
The captain seconded the motion.
Why open the map and spread it flat on the ground.
"How are you going to prepare?"
"If what the crazy old man said is true, and the brood has no ability to eat on its own and relies on the feeding of Strak creatures to survive, then the most likely location of the brood is the interface with the outside world." Chen Mo pointed at the map: " But I’m not sure... I survived in the ecosystem before and saw with my own eyes that cattle dogs would herd Kunchi chickens. If the mother nest has pastoral behavior, it can exist anywhere in the ecosystem.”
Why frown.
"Since the humanoids have gathered in the mother nest before, they must be transmitted through the neurotransmitters of the carpet. Relying on the neurotransmitter inference, is there any chance to find the location of the mother nest?"
"The entire fungus blanket is filled with that kind of neurotransmitter. I tried it when we came into contact with the fungus slurry during the retreat, but I couldn't trace the pheromone."
Chen Mo thought of the fierce man.
Obviously, the ability of the pheromone tracers in the team is much worse than that of the fierce men.
If a fierce person takes action, he might actually be able to find the mother nest by inferring the thing that was beaten into fungus pulp.
"Then what are you going to do now? What do you think?" Why bother looking at Chen Mo.
"destroy!"
Why bother looking at each other with the captain.
"What destruction?"
"Destroying a large area of germ carpet, if you think about someone ripping off your skin, do you want to beat him to death?"
"Then what?"
"The Brood is bound to send Root to encircle and suppress me, but Root couldn't catch me, so the Brood can only watch its skin being blown to pieces by me."
Why Bi seems to have captured the point.
"Will the brood appear in this way?"
"of course not."
"Then what's the point?"
"It will definitely go crazy if it doesn't show up. I estimate... It's just an estimate. Not many of the Saxons we saw today can fly, but there are a lot of them I encountered when I narrowly escaped death in the ecosystem. A bunch of things that can fly. You can say that the Brood Nest has not used its troops, or you can say that the Brood Nest was hurt by my beating in the ecological circle last time, and it has not yet recovered its strength."
"So you want to hurt it and let us find the starting point of Flying Sexon on the satellite map?" Why bother thinking.
"That's right!"
Why be silent for a while.
"We need time. And even if we really find the location of the nest, it will take time to notify you when the time comes."
"It should still be some time before large-scale Strak creatures cross the Tatsumi Mountains." Chen Mo responded: "As long as the nest is destroyed before the arrival of Strak's large army, they have no reason to continue fighting. If they still If they want to attack, it means they are not coming for the mother nest."
"This is the first time I've seen someone perform a strategic mission purely by guesswork." He Fei lamented.
"If you guessed it correctly, just like last time, if you retreat, you will be chased by a horde of beasts." Chen Mo blew out a smoke ring and said, "I won't accompany you in your retreat. I can spread some pressure on you by continuing to attack."
After formulating the battle plan, several people did not stop for a moment.
Why bother stood up and patted Chen Mo on the shoulder.
"Take care of yourself."
"Take care." Chen Mo returned the greeting.
"Everyone has it, continue to retreat to the edge of the ecosystem."
The captain also stood up and looked at Chen Mo.
"Hope to see you again."
"Will do."
