Chapter 1686 Attack of the Ground-lurking Insects
As previously collected information shows, there are indeed many grotto wall statues hidden in Qiu Island, which are all cultural relics left over from ancient times.
Everyone walked among the valleys of the mountains, stepping on the soft ground that was half sand and half soil. Under the mountain walls on both sides were rows of carved grotto wall statues.
Stone still followed his cousin Jin silently, and the silver swordsman walked on the left side to avoid the sun and looked at the statues in the grotto. Most of the things carved inside were human and animal. The original appearance can no longer be seen. In the desert, weathering is always the biggest enemy of history.
Qiu Ya said: "If these grottoes were not in a valley sheltered from the wind, they would have been completely eroded by the wind and sand. Ruola, can you see anything?"
Ruola didn't answer, she seemed to be thinking about the memories. It seemed that she couldn't judge the things here at the moment.
"Do you think the ancient tomb is behind the grotto, or underground? What do you think, Jennifer?" Jin tried to ask.
“I can’t tell.” Jennifer was cautious about the headless speculation. She stamped her feet, and her leather boots smashed the sand on the ground: “The soil here is relatively soft, and it can be determined that If it is underground, it should be dug up quickly. "
Things in the desert are most easily buried by wind and sand, so it is not impossible to guess that the ancient tomb will be buried underground.
Ganban was following a few people, wearing goggles and looking around with his magic stone blunderbuss. Suddenly he saw a black shadow passing by on the top of a mountain in the distance and hurriedly warned. : "Hey, there is something, over there."
The silver swordsman stretched out his body and flew in the direction pointed by Mariposa. When he got close, he jumped into the air and saw that it was two devil scorpions fighting. He inspected the area and found no danger. He made an OK gesture and was about to come back when suddenly a huge whale jumped up from behind and pressed down on the silver swordsman with its mouth wide open.
“Be careful~!” Everyone exclaimed, Flat Nose Technique immediately cast the spell, but the distance was too far and it was too late to cast the spell.
The silver swordsman was eaten in one bite, and the Zusa whale with two huge horns smashed to the ground, making the soft valley floor tremble.
Not every Zusa whale has horns, and those with horns do not mean they have more abilities. Male Zusha whales are generally more likely to have horns.
“Fuck, hurry up and save people!” Tusi Xiong’s fat body rushed over at a very fast speed, and the huge ‘flesh-eroding’ stick on his waist was about to kill Zusha Whale on the spot. But at this moment, the calm ground in the valley began to stir, and strange insects rolled out of the ground, biting every creature in the valley.
The toast bear was also bitten by several strange insects. In anger, he smashed the strange insect that jumped in front of him with a stick, and then grabbed another strange insect that flew into the air and tore it alive.
Shakhan saw these strange insects clearly at a glance: "They are ground bugs. This should be the hibernation place of ground bugs."
Ground bugs often live in the sandy areas of deserts. They are haunted and like to live in large groups. Once found in their sleeping place, they are usually found in huge numbers. These strange insects not only hibernate but also sleep at night, but when the temperature falls below 3 degrees Celsius, they may enter a state of sleep. These feed on metal and carrion, usually mainly metal, so their mouthparts contain a large amount of acid that corrodes metal. The metals they use will form synthetic metals after digestion and decomposition, which is helpful for alchemy. People in desert areas often harvest them in large quantities for mineral excavation. However, because the efficiency is too low, there are very few mining factories that do this. They are usually only used to explore the types of mineral deposits. Wild ground bugs usually do not take the initiative to attack. They only become violent when they are very hungry or frightened. The current season is exactly when they are most vulnerable to fright during hibernation, and also when they are the hungriest. Hundreds of ground bugs emerged from the valleys and hills. Some of them dug into the earth, and some of them sprayed flames from the pores on their bodies, burning their bodies red, and rolled towards the valley. People came.
Someone exclaimed: "Oh no, it's difficult to deal with the ground bugs if they are disturbed."
Everyone hurriedly responded to the challenge. Alligator, Lucas and others slashed and slashed with swords, but the damage to these metal-eating insects was limited. It was only with the power of the purple dragon blade and domineering power in his hand that Shakhan could attack them. A sword kills easily.
The summoned guardians came out one after another. There were more than 140 people who followed Tyson into the valley, and some of them guarded the tops of the mountains on both sides. After the insect tide appeared, they tried to invade the middle, but were blocked. The situation It got really bad. Fortunately, the three groups of people distributed on the mountaintops on both sides and in the valley in the middle were not instantly overwhelmed by the insect tide. The trouble is that these ground-lurking insects are very sensitive. They burrow into the ground and come out to attack from time to time, making it difficult for everyone to guard against and giving them a headache.
Janba Ban was so frightened that he hid in the middle of the crowd and fired repeatedly with the double-barreled magic stone gun in his hand. His magic stone gun has two shooting methods. The small tube on it is used for ordinary shooting, and the shot is ordinary magic bullets. The attributes of the crystal embedded in it are determined by the properties. The thick tube below is a special shot loaded with ammunition bags, which can produce special effects.
Cannabis Ban fired several rounds of thunder-attribute bullets, and felt that the effect was not great. He quickly pulled the trigger on the gun, switched to the fire-attribute crystal, and pulled the second trigger. A tongue of fire spurted out from the thick barrel, firing out a pre-loaded flame bomb.
The bullet hit a Difuwang, spreading out a large fire, but making the surrounding Difuwang even more excited and active.
Qiu Ya knocked down a ground bug flying in the air with the boomerang knife in his hand, kicked Cannabis Spot on the butt and yelled: "Idiot, the ground bug is not afraid of fire, the flames will only make it happier!" She suddenly remembered The weak point of the ground-bending insect quickly shouted: "Who... who knows ice magic? Use ice magic quickly! These guys are afraid of the cold!"
The battle to this point has only lasted a few dozen seconds. Finally, someone remembered the weakness of the ground bug. This is thanks to the fact that Qiu Ya is a person who makes a living in the desert and has experience in this. In fact, it's not that the people who came here didn't know about it, it was just that the incident happened suddenly and no one thought about it in a short period of time.
“Are you afraid of the cold?” Maris Spot got up after being kicked. He remembered that when he was buying ammunition, he bought a bag of ‘cold air bombs’. He quickly hugged the bag and took out a few bullets from it. The baby's large ammunition bag was drawn from his arm, and a blue one was chosen to be loaded into the breech of the magic stone gun.
Bang was another shot. Cannabis Spot’s aiming ability was really worrying. He still missed so many ground bugs. However, the bullet package hitting the ground still spread a lot of cold air, and the nearby ground bugs shivered and avoided it one after another.
Magicians are indispensable when traveling in the desert, and magicians are also indispensable in Tyson's mixed team. However, there are no magicians who specialize in ice in their team. Tyson himself is also a mixed martial artist. He has learned a lot of magic, but it is mixed but not perfect. He can survive in various situations easily, but However, his combat strength is greatly reduced, and he can only use some simple and crude magic to resist the attacks of ground-bursting insects.
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(End of this chapter)