In the face of a powerful opponent, as long as you work hard, you will eventually be beaten. Looking at the corpse of the centipede, the sense of accomplishment is still very satisfying.
The battle ended with the two dismembered parts of the centipede motionless. The four tanks each parked in one place. Once the nerves that had been tense due to tension and stimulation relaxed, a sense of fatigue followed. Everyone at this moment was stunned. Resting in his chariot, except for two people, one is Ma Tao's sister, and the other is Xiao Jinzi who completed the final fatal blow and ended the centipede's life. One does not need to rest at all, and the other is purely excited.
"Finally solved, I thought it was so awesome, but it's nothing more than that."
Xiao Jinzi, who jumped out of the chariot wearing a steel armor, first ran to the dead giant centipede and kicked the monster with his feet.
"Be careful!"
Ma Tao, who was sitting in the driver's seat of car No. 1 and was about to drink water, saw on the screen that this kid got out of the car so rashly and came so close to the monster's body. He was worried and reminded him.
"Don't worry, this thing is already dead."
Xiao Jinzi also murmured a little in his heart after hearing Ma Tao's words, but this kid was tough-mouthed and said nonchalantly. Then he walked up to the giant centipede's head and stared at the insect's pair of black hair. The round eyes were as bright as two big black gems. He took off the flame cannon on his back and fired two shots at one of the eyeballs.
Two bangs, accompanied by two flashes of fire, caused the echo of gunfire to resound in the passage that had just been silenced.
"You brat, what are you doing! You're going to die!"
In the watch, Gao Han's voice clearly had an attitude about to explode.
Previously, Gao Hanke was relaxing and lying on the seat and had just closed his eyes. Su Lanyu, the co-pilot, was the same. The two of them were startled by the two sudden gunshots. They thought another monster appeared. Only then did the screen realize that it was this guy whipping the corpse.
"Nothing...nothing..."
Knowing that he was in trouble again, Xiao Jinzi hurriedly explained, looking at the centipede's eye that he had smashed with the flame cannon. The basketball-sized eye, as transparent as a black hole, had been shattered, and streams of milky white liquid were flowing out. There was continuous flow from the broken eyes, which should be something like the whites of the eyes.
The eyes of this big centipede were blown out, and the upper part of its body twitched twice, and then became motionless. Xiao Jinzi knew that this was the normal reaction of neurons after death. It seemed that this big insect was really dead. .
"You are so disgusting"
Ma Tao, who was also sitting in the car, shook his head helplessly, and then said to the communication watch: "Go and check it to see if there is anything useful."
"This...how do you check it? You don't even know how to check it?"
Xiao Jinzi turned around and looked around, and found that the green smelly liquid flowing from the bugs was everywhere around him. He didn't want to bring these things to the car.
"I'd better go"
My sister answered the call at this time.
"Sister R, from now on you are my biological sister. I have always envied my brother for having such a good sister. Why is God so unfair?"
After hearing this, Xiao Jinzi was so moved that he spoke with emotion from the bottom of his heart for quite a while.
"What? It wasn't like that before?"
Gao Han intervened at this time, instantly silencing Xiao Jinzi.
But this kid is also clever. He was just embarrassed for less than two seconds and said quickly: "How is that possible? She used to be my sister, but now she is my biological sister, and we are even closer, hehe..."
"You have really learned someone's essence."
Gao Han's calm voice came from the communication watch again.
"What does this have to do with me?"
Ma Tao, who was lying on the gun without a name, asked with an innocent face.
"Did I say it was you?"
Gao Han asked back in a more innocent tone, leaving Ma Tao speechless for a moment.
"I'll get out of the car and see if there's anything I can do to help."
After holding on for two or three seconds, Ma Tao spoke.
Calmness returned to the communication watch again.
After opening the hatch and getting out of the car, he personally felt the enormity, ferocity and terror of the centipede's corpse. To be honest, Ma Tao was quite shocked.
A head like a big truck, a body as long as a train leather, densely packed centipede legs on both sides, and sharp claws on the centipede legs. There are dense bristles growing on the surface of each leg. Ma Tao used it with steel I touched it with my clawed hand and found that it was quite flexible. It is precisely because of these bristles that this centipede can come and go silently. In addition, with its carapace that can perfectly blend and transform with the surrounding scenery, this beast can do this. Killing someone invisible is so easy.
Seeing Ma Tao also get off the chariot, Xiao Jinzi trotted to Ma Tao who was standing in front of the centipede's head to observe. He glanced at Ma Tao first, and then said, "Brother, how do you think this thing grows?" ?”
"Yes, normally, it is impossible for insects to grow to this extent. If all insects could grow to this size, there would be no living space for humans or even any living thing in this world or on the surface."
Ma Tao exhaled a turbid breath and said.
"Maybe it was made by Noah"
Sister R's voice suddenly came from above the centipede's head. Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi looked up at the same time, only to see Sister R standing on top of the dead centipede's big head with her head lowered, as if she was looking for something.
"What are you looking for?"
Xiao Jinzi asked strangely.
"found it!"
Sister R carefully inspected the top of the centipede's head, then suddenly stretched out her hand and groped for a certain spot on the top of the centipede's head, and then heard a "Zi~" sound. Sister R was actually on the dead head of this centipede. A black wire with two electric sparks was pulled out. Because the wire was forced out of the centipede's body, my sister's hands were covered with the centipede's green, smelly liquid.
"It seems that after the death of this monster, its carapace defense capability will be greatly weakened."
Holding the wire in her hand that was still flowing with disgusting green liquid, Sister R said to herself.
"It's Noah's modified creature!"
Xiao Jinzi stared at the wire in Sister R's hand with big eyes and disbelief.
There is no doubt that the appearance of this wire completely confirms that the centipede is one of the many monsters transformed by Noah. Ma Taoxin said, this makes sense, otherwise, he would really be worried about the insects in this world. It's really terrible that everything has become like this, but how did my sister know that this dead centipede was a creature transformed by Noah?
Thinking of this, Ma Tao asked his sister who was still standing on top of the centipede: "Sister, how do you know this thing is a modified creature?"
"Have you forgotten? Gasoline bombs?"
Sister R immediately reminded them, which made Ma Tao and Xiao Jinzi understand immediately.
Isn't it? The initial gasoline bomb attack almost roasted several people into meat on the teppanyaki. To be able to release gasoline bombs, it must be launched mechanically, and ordinary creatures, even if they can spit out flames, It can also be released and stopped at any time. Duan Ran cannot cast it all the time. In one place, the temperature of the flames released by the creatures can never be so high. More importantly, their tanks have alarms for being attacked by gasoline bombs. C The device will not make such errors.
"I'm really curious now, what else can't be done with that broken computer..."
Ma Tao frowned as he looked again at the huge corpse of the dead centipede, as well as its hideous and terrifying head and sharp teeth.
"By the way, I just saw the body of the gray vest. Do you want to take a look?"
Sister R, who was standing on top of the centipede's head, threw away the wire in her hand, jumped to the ground, shook the green liquid in her hand, and then said to the two of them.
"where?"
Ma Tao asked.
"It's right where the insect's back half is close to the wall. Are you sure you want to go? I remind you to be mentally prepared. It's quite disgusting."
Sister R said this.
It is definitely not disgusting to be said like this by my sister, but there is no way. It is necessary to know any information. Of course, the more people know the information, the better.
"Let's go take a look"
Ma Tao glanced in the direction pointed by his sister, and then walked over.
"Should I go too? Um...okay..."
Xiao Jinzi, who was unwilling to let go, saw that Ma Tao was already walking past, so he quickly chased after him.
"I'll go!! Uh..."
When they arrived, the two of them looked inside, and Xiao Jinzi almost vomited out as he was choked by a strong sour gas.
It turned out that this was a pile of centipedes that had been chopped in half, possibly damaging the monster's stomach, causing all the food eaten by the monster to pour out. The lumps of stuff mixed with gastric acid and sticky liquid slipped out of the old man's stomach. In the distance, there is the body of the gray vest, because the face of the gray vest is pointed upward, so it is easy to identify.
This centipede eats not only gray vests, but also the corpses of several people, and not only human beings, but also monsters. The ones that can be identified include giant ants, amoebas, and many unidentifiable tissues that have been bitten to pieces. , because they were all contaminated with stomach acid, everything had signs of digestion, including the gray vest. His skin had begun to turn a little white. When he was dying, he opened his unwilling eyes and stared at them. Above, his fists are clenched. It seems that the wounds all over his body are not fatal. He should have been swallowed whole by the centipede along with other things. Moreover, this person should still be alive when he was swallowed. He struggled desperately before he died. The traces were very obvious, but unfortunately, everything was in vain, and he died in the stomach of this beast.
"Brother Tao, do you think that when we fight this big bug, will this guy keep struggling in its stomach?"
Xiao Jinzi looked at the body in the gray vest and asked suddenly.
Ma Tao was thinking about this question. When this kid asked him directly, he really didn't know how to answer. After thinking for a while, he said: "Whether it is true or not, this is his life."
Ever since they got angry with this beast, Centipede, he and his team have been fighting hard. Now this result is achieved by their best efforts. However, think about it, all the men in Gray Vest are dead, even if Gray Vest I'm afraid I won't be happy if I'm alive. Sometimes, death may just be a moment of relief.
Killing this big centipede didn't even get a single G. The team suffered a lot of losses. Each tank consumed nearly two-thirds of its shield. The most pitiful Xiao Jinzi's tank was only left. The 88 shield is about to become zero.
But in general, it is still a sure profit. Thinking about the reward for redeeming the bounty of the Centipede, it is still quite rich. However, for now, it is better for Xiao Jinzi to be careful and try not to encounter the monster head-on.
Although he didn't get anything, Ma Tao already smiled in his heart, because he knew that this terrible centipede had accomplished his three goals. The first one was, of course, to make Su Lanyu understand through the difficulty of this battle. , just relying on the mecha on her body is not enough for her to fulfill her ambition. The second one is the bonus of the bounty head. As for the third one, naturally this battle has made everyone's unity and cohesion even higher. building.
Now it seems that it was not a bad thing that Xiao Jinzi bought the 160 smoothbore cannon on his own initiative. On the contrary, it became the key to this battle. Ma Tao originally thought that the power of the 115T cannon was enough, but he was wrong. Although Gao Han's car is also equipped with a 60mm smoothbore cannon, dual firepower and single firepower strike are definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two.
Because a single fire output can be targeted, but a double fire attack will evenly divide the probability of being attacked.
Ma Tao didn't take care of the corpse in the gray vest, and he couldn't take care of it. If so many people died one after another and they had to be dealt with one by one, there would be a lot of time wasted, so they could only leave it there to slowly rot. , this is also the final destination of most of the tenacious and hard-working people in this world. Relatively speaking, people like Gray Vest and Seventh Brother can die here and still be known by Ma Tao and others. Those who die alone in the mountains and forests, in the wilderness The soldiers are the sad ones. Even to this day, they have never been discovered.
There is one thing Ma Tao admires about them. Judging from the weapons and equipment on the gray vests, they are well prepared. But as Brother Qi said, the Centipede today is much better than the Centipede back then. There have been huge changes, so their preparations are useless. Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, they prefer to go to the tiger mountains. This kind of courage to die generously is not something ordinary people can have. People like Gray Vest and Seventh Brother are trying to What? No, they can definitely live well in Eden Town, but why they come here even though they know they are going to die, the only explanation is the obsession in their hearts.
Ma Tao has always believed that people in this world have become more selfish, but today, this group of wandering soldiers has refreshed his understanding of the world. This world will never lack fearless recklessness. People, and the world, must rely on these reckless people who are fearless in life and death.
I don’t know if it was the centipede that caused the insect’s death, but a smell that was somewhat irritating to the nasal cavity began to fill the air, reminding everyone that it was time to leave.
On the next road, we are faced with two choices. One is to return to the original route, and the other is to continue forward. However, the losses of the four tanks are slightly high. If there is any danger, it will be troublesome. The safest way is naturally It was to return to Eden first to replenish all the supplies, then collect the bounty, and change equipment at the same time, but that was too much of a waste of time. You know, once the news of Centipede being killed spreads in Eden Town, This news will be like a falling domino that cannot be stopped at all. By then, when we return here, the terror will not be with Ma Tao and the others.
Between the choice of advancing and retreating, Ma Tao chose to continue moving forward, because he had already reached this point. Even if the road ahead was somewhat dangerous, there could not be too big a crisis. The principle that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers is still valid for monsters.
After walking along this passage for some distance, the situation was a little different than Ma Tao expected. Less than a kilometer further, the passage was actually blocked. What was crushed under the tracks of the chariot was A section of railway track was already rusty and could not bear the weight of the chariot, and was basically crushed and deformed.
"It looks like a large-scale collapse occurred here."
Xiao Jinzi drove his chariot in the middle and controlled the lighting equipment on the roof to shine on the soil at the end of the passage. The black and red soil blocked the entire passage so tightly that it was impossible to pass through.
"There's an exit over there!"
Sister R's movement came from the communication watch. Minibus No. 3 took the lead and drove towards the wall on the side of the passage. There, there was a hole that was also penetrated by the centipede. It was dark and looked a little cautious. .
Ma Tao quickly drove his chariot to follow. Before he got close to the cave entrance, Ma Tao noticed a change in the air flow and wind direction from the outside world on the chariot's display screen, which showed that there was an exit here.
When Sister R was driving her minibus and was about to enter the cave, Device C suddenly sounded an alarm. Sister R looked at the screen and saw two green amoebas that looked like jelly with their eyes wide open as they discovered something was there. After the chariot approached, it climbed quickly towards both ends of the roof, and soon disappeared on the roof. Obviously, there must be some cracks and holes in that place, but the amoeba was soft and had no bones and joints. , just like a slug, this thing can get through, but people may not. Besides, even if people can get through, what about the chariot?
The monster escaped. Sister R ignored it and drove the chariot directly into the large hole that was also dug by the centipede. There was another cave inside. Ma Tao's No. 1 car followed closely behind, followed by Xiao Jinzi's leopard pose, and finally Gao Han's blue tiger pose.
The cave was cleaned very clean by the centipede. Unexpectedly, this big centipede is also a neat owner and likes to clean its own nest.
The cave goes upwards little by little. Due to the huge body of this giant centipede, the caves dug are extremely spacious. Four chariots are twisting and turning along the cave. They can no longer tell the difference between east, west and north. They are all a bit winding. I was confused, but fortunately there were no forks in the entire cave, so just keep driving along.
A few minutes later, the convoy finally drove out of the hole made by the centipede and arrived at another underground mine area.
The environment was almost exactly the same as the mine they passed through before, but this time the north side was closed by the collapsed soil, so they could only go south.
Before everyone had time to check the environment, Sister R drove the No. 3 CMB ambulance out of the cave. Before Ma Tao could drive out, several blue laser beams flew straight over in the darkness.
At this time, the minibus driven by Sister R had no choice but to rush forward despite the attack and withstood all the attacks with her own chariot.
Four blue laser beams hit the No. 3 minibus and were blocked by the shield, losing some energy. Sister R was anxious to let Ma Tao and the others behind them out, and had no time to check how much was lost. The direction of the attack rushed forward, the V24 engine roaring, moving forward inexorably.
"It's a laser bug!"
After being attacked, Device C had already locked onto the local unit. They were four laser bugs, which were not considered a threat. Sister R immediately fired a shot at the laser bug closest to them with a 115T cannon. The power is more than enough to beat such a little monster, and it will be blown to pieces in one shot.
The battle lasted less than five minutes, and it almost ended when Gao Han's tank drove out last.
After killing these four laser bugs and receiving more than 600 G, the convoy set off again. I don’t know if it was because they killed these four laser bugs and used the main gun. The sound of the main gun was too loud and could be heard in this silent underground mine. After traveling a long way, you will encounter a few of them almost every time you travel a certain distance, and the maximum number reaches 6. It gives Ma Tao a feeling that his group has reached the lair of laser bugs. Amoeba, the acidic mucus on this thing's soft body corrodes everything when it walks over it. Wherever this thing walks, the traces are obvious. Whenever you hear the unique sound of the amoeba's movement, like "gurgling, gurgling, gurgling." , Ma Tao’s head is so big.
If nothing else, this thing is really annoying. For a tank, the attack of the amoeba is simply negligible, but this thing will spit acid. Once it is contaminated, even if it is contaminated on the shield, it will be absorbed into the bones. Like maggots, it continuously consumes the energy shield of the tank. Moreover, this thing will split as soon as it is attacked. In order to solve the problem as soon as possible without wasting time, Ma Tao can only order to directly use the main gun to blast all the things when he encounters it. It's so messed up that it doesn't even have a chance to split.
The result is that a lot of artillery shells are wasted. Fortunately, the magazine capacity of the 115T gun and 160 smoothbore gun is large enough. If this were replaced with the previous 32-magazine magazine model of the main gun, Ma Tao would really be reluctant to use big artillery, and would rather be careful. Use the machine gun bit by bit to spend time grinding.
With four main guns opening the way, any battle would last less than two minutes. Basically, as soon as they were discovered or attacked, no matter what it was, they would immediately blast the opponent to pieces without even thinking about it.
Kill the laser bugs. Move quickly. It will take a while, but it won't be long. It only takes three to five minutes. Ma Tao and the others will remove the G from the monster. After a battle, five or six hundred G will still be there. It's pretty easy to make money, but if what you're killing is an amoeba, just go straight there and don't even have to get out of the car to check it out, because this thing is worthless and very disgusting, plus it contains corrosive acid. It’s too much of a waste of time for just a dozen G’s.
I don’t know if these monsters know why Xiao Jinzi’s tank has no shield. The first target of many monster attacks is Xiao Jinzi’s No. 4 tank. No matter how the other three tanks are protected, they will still be attacked. An attack hit Xiao Jinzi's shield. Now, his tank only had a little over 20 shield points left. As a last resort, Ma Tao had to ask Sister R to use the No. 3 car to protect her as much as possible.
Continuing deeper into the mine, after passing a small pit, there is still a long mine ahead.
