Chapter 135 Tiger Ridge Insect Elite Team, Unknown Danger
A few minutes ago, Shen Jie received Lin Feng’s order and took the lead to leave the place and return to the entrance.
There, there is a group of second-order tiger spine insects mobilized from other insect nests, responsible for cooperating with the pulse war scorpions to carry out front and rear pincer attacks.
To deal with the long-range Pulse War Scorpion, Shen Jie, who was unable to find out the enemy's position, was a little overwhelmed. However, facing the same melee tiger spine insect, he entered the wing tiger's frenzied fighting mode and had nothing to do. fear.
Even under the influence of Zerg genes, he became more and more excited.
Qin Hu, who led the remaining team members and followed closely behind, had noticed the change in Shen Jie's state.
His giant jaws, which are like a miniature version of the tiger spine insect, are too conspicuous, and the hardness of the material is almost the same as that of the giant jaws. Coupled with the reaction speed of the genetic warrior, when engaging in close combat, it is actually far better than everyone holding a tiger. The tooth chain saw sword is flexible and quick, and can easily avoid the attack of the giant jaws of tiger insects, and then wait for the opportunity to counterattack.
But the most striking change is his head that has been assimilated by the Zerg. A one-meter-long small giant jaw appears on his face, and a pair of Zerg limbs grow on both sides of his waist and abdomen.
With such a deep characteristic assimilation, Qin Hu estimated that the opponent's gene fusion degree must have reached more than 40%, or even higher.
What a life-threatening lunatic!
After all, even I can only bear about 30% of the fusion synchronization.
Once it exceeds 40%, although you can still retain most of your sanity with your own tenacity, there will be irreversible mutations on the body surface.
For example, in order to chase Cheng Zhan last time, when faced with a team of three tiger spine worms, Qin Hu, with his bare hands, only broke through the safe upper limit of fusion for a short while in desperation. After Lin Feng appeared, he immediately canceled the continued injection of reproductive zygotes.
But even if it was only for a short period of ten seconds, Qin Hu, who had exploded violently, later discovered that a two-centimeter-high jagged outer bone had grown on the soles of his feet and the outside of his calves, like the barbs of a grasshopper's hind limbs. Generally, hard and sharp.
Even after that, Qin Hu cut it off with a boning knife or pulled it out by the roots many times, but it would still grow back the next morning after a night's rest.
The impact of excessive integration after breaking through the safety upper limit is irreparable and irreversible.
It directly changes the cells in the body, the lowest genetic sequence. Even if Qin Hu cuts off his legs and grows them again, the protruding spiked barbs will still be there.
Fortunately, this kind of influence will not continue to spread.
But it also made Qin Hu vigilant enough to always pay attention to controlling the gene fusion degree to a safe stage of less than 40%.
Although Qin Hu knew that after becoming a genetic warrior, sooner or later, he would completely become a terrifying monster with no human beings and no insects, but he didn't want to get to that point so quickly.
He still had the capital to defend, and his wife and daughter were waiting for him to return home...
Seeing the change in Shen Jie's appearance at this moment aroused the deep fear in Qin Hu's heart.
He is afraid that he will step into the abyss step by step and eventually transform into a bug-man, unable to change back again.
I am even more afraid of myself at that time, whether I can still clearly remember my identity as a human being.
After all, one of the side effects of genetic assimilation includes memory fading and confusion and doubt about self-understanding.
But in the state of assimilation, being strong is really strong.
Qin Hu had witnessed with his own eyes before that Shen Jie entered the second-level tiger spine insect swarm, coming and going freely, as if he was in an uninhabited land.
Such amazing physical attributes and nerve reaction speed are far beyond what ordinary second-level early awakeners can achieve.
Qin Hu was lamenting the desperate efforts of the young people. When everyone crossed the torrent of black spine swarms and finally crowded in front of the entrance...
I saw many tiger spines with strong aura. The insects, swinging their giant jaws, mercilessly flew away the black spine insects blocking the road. They had cleared a clearing and were charging towards Shen Jie and others.
Judging from their huge size and the momentum they exude, this time the tiger spine insect swarm is actually in the middle or late second level!
Obviously, after the previous two waves of failures, the Queen of Haicheng has learned her lesson and will naturally not send the weaker second-order early-stage tiger spine insects again!
In turn, gather the top forces of the Zerg tribe and send them all out!
Intended to deal with all the invaders of the Awakening in one go!
After all, as long as they cannot escape, all previous losses can be made up for, and the true strength and physical fitness data of human genetic warriors can be obtained.
But when the enemy was facing him, when he saw Shen Jie in the form of a tiger insect in front of him, he rushed forward without hesitation and directly fought with the tiger spine insect...
Qin Hu no longer hesitated and activated the power behind his back. The genetic fluid in the zygote is injected into the body.
Black and yellow insect beetles gradually appeared on his body, and a hint of madness also flashed in his yellow, upright pupils.
Then Qin Hu sent an activation attack signal to the remaining two genetic warriors behind him.
Their genetic fusion with the black spine worm can match more than 70%, and obtain nearly 70% physical enhancement effect. Coupled with their own superpowers, they can completely reach the early stage of the second level. Perfect strength.
Equivalent to a lv23 awakener.
But in this extreme state, the speed of Zerg gene assimilation will also accelerate simultaneously, and the body surface will be crazily distorted to produce the characteristic structure of the Zerg...
The impact on sanity is also deepening.
But the tiger spine insect swarm is already threatening.
There are twelve in total, four of which are in the late second level, and the remaining eight are in the middle of the second level.
It brings together the top combat power of three insect nests.
Even if Shen Jie and Qin Hu could attract all the late-stage tiger spine insects, it would be difficult for the remaining nine first-level awakeners to defeat the remaining mid-stage tiger spine insects.
Nine versus eight, if they are only early stage second-order tiger spine worms, they can barely cope with them, but if they are all mid-stage second-order enemies, even with the blessing of a tiger-tooth chain sword, there will definitely be casualties.
If one person fails and defeats the opponent, the tiger spine insects will besiege other human awakeners, creating an avalanche-like chain reaction.
Except Qin Hu, the remaining two genetic warriors are also aware of the current crisis.
Therefore, if they don't fight hard, including them, they will soon die tragically from the bite of the tiger spine insect's giant jaws.
As the fight between Shen Jie and the tiger spine insects in the first row was about to break out, everyone immediately fell into a fierce battle.
The cleared insect nest site has also become a death arena for the battle between humans and insects.
But what surprised Qin Hu was that Shen Jie, alone, took the initiative to attract three late-stage second-order tiger spine insects.
At the same time, he seemed to be at ease in the fight.
While avoiding the bites of tiger insects, you can also use the giant jaws on the outside of the arms to stab their abdomens or joints, causing considerable damage.
Qin Hu, who noticed this scene, looked happy. After all, someone was sharing the pressure, so he could quickly deal with the last late-stage second-order tiger spine insect, and then quickly supported his subordinates.
And currently, Shen Jie's overall strength is actually far superior to his own.
His level of melee combat against insects is completely unlike that of a young high school student.
Even if Qin Hu activates more than 40% of the fusion degree, it will be difficult to deal with three late second-order tiger spine insects at the same time in the early second-order.
There is a physical difference of nearly three times between the two. No matter how much improvement or increase is made, it will be difficult to make up for it, let alone deal with three beings at the same time.
With a flash of admiration in his mind, Qin Hu had already relied on the tiger-insect fusion form, wearing two layers of thick armor on the inside and outside, raised his chain sword, and killed the last late-stage tiger spine insect.
Relying on the speed advantage brought by its small size and the same strength, the tiger-tooth chain saw far exceeds the destructive power of the insect's giant jaws...
Qin Hu enters the tiger insect form, He quickly defeated the powerful enemy in front of him.
Pulling out the chain sword from the broken head of the tiger spine insect, Qin Hu saw not far away, Shen Jie, who had also dealt with a later stage tiger spine insect, was continuing to deal with the remaining ones. Two.
Qin Hu, who was panting heavily and wanted to recover as soon as possible, originally planned to step forward and help Shen Jie solve the battle first, but unexpectedly discovered that the opponent showed no sign of weakness after killing a late-stage tiger spine worm, and even became more and more excited the more he fought. .
The reaction speed is getting faster and faster, and the slashing force is more profound and terrifying, and there is no need for his own help at all.
Shen Jie seems to have overcome the shortcomings of insufficient battery life faced by humans due to their small size, and is able to become stronger with each passing battle in a life-and-death fight.
Perhaps this is the advantage of young awakened people. Their potential is deeper than that of awakened people in their thirties and forties.
Qin Hu, who was quite self-aware, chose not to disturb the opponent's battle. When strength surged out of his body again, he picked up the tiger-tooth chain sword and went into the darkness to provide support.
However, during his battle, which lasted just over a minute, an accident occurred to his team members.
A person who has successfully awakened in the late first level, against a mid-level second level tiger spine insect, has a physical attribute value of 200, but has to deal with 400 and above. The strength gap between the two sides is more than twice...
Even if he has a suit of hard armor and a powerful weapon like a tiger-tooth chain sword, the disparity in strength and speed cannot be compensated for by equipment.
What's more, most of them are not genetic warriors and cannot break out to a level of strength above the second level. They are several times weaker than the tiger spine worms in terms of strength.
Coupled with the constantly refreshing tiger spine insects, they are always at their peak, and the human awakeners who have sneaked into the insect nest have experienced two battles and low-intensity magnetic storms and electric shocks.
Being able to have 60% of the initial strength is considered an ideal state.
At this moment, facing an enemy twice as strong as his own level, he could only hold on and struggle to save his life.
When Qin Hu rushed to the battlefield, he saw a human corpse. The cracked armor was shattered on the ground, and the whole person was cut off from the middle.
This is the tiger spine insect's usual move.
The tiger-tooth chain sword also flew aside and was inserted into the ground.
Qin Hu frowned. Although the casualties were expected, but since Lin Feng joined, his inner expectation was that everyone would be safe.
I just didn’t expect that they didn’t die in the distant attack of the new second-order Zerg.
Instead, he struggled to death in the most painful and brutal way under the bite of the tiger spine insect's giant jaws.
Qin Hu, furious, pulled out the tiger-toothed chain sword from the ground, plugged in the spare oil pipe, held two swords, and ran towards the tiger spine insect nearest him while roaring.
With the two swords in hand, swinging back and forth, the sizzling sound of the chain saw made it difficult for the tiger spine insect to open its jaws and get closer, and it soon died under the crazy cutting of the giant jaw tiger teeth.
With Qin Hu joining in, the remaining eight members faced off against eight mid-level second-level tiger spine insects, and soon they were able to overcome the situation easily.
The Zerg's powerful offensive was defeated and defeated.
At the last moment of the battle, Qin Hu, who had killed several animals in a row, gradually became exhausted.
Wielding two 800-kilogram chain swords and maintaining the tiger-insect fusion form will accelerate physical exhaustion.
Waiting for the last battle, accompanied by two genetic warriors, Qin Hu successfully killed the tiger spine worm. Qin Hu directly released the state, turned off the original solution injection of the zygote, and then looked at another person not far away. A fight.
As expected, when Shen Jie faced three late-stage tiger spine insects alone, the battle ended faster than the battle on their side.
At this moment, the opponent is already cutting and extracting materials from the giant jaws of the tiger spine insect.
Qin Hu showed a smile, and the familiar energy accumulated in his body finally gathered to full, starting a small awakening from the early to middle stage of the second level.
After upgrading from lv23 to lv24, Qin Hu’s genetic fusion degree and the upper limit of safety he can withstand will also break through. By then, as a second-level mid-level genetic warrior, he will no longer be as time-consuming and time-consuming as he is when facing late-stage tiger spine worms.
And on another battlefield...
It took Shen Jie more than four minutes to deal with three late-stage tiger spine insects, approaching the limit of maintenance. After killing them, he immediately exited the frenzied fighting state of the wing tigers. To avoid falling into madness without reason.
Under the high-intensity battle, the energy consumption rate in the body reached four or five times the normal rate. The stomach and intestines that had been full and drunk before departure were already ravenous at this moment.
Shen Jie sat on the body of the tiger spine insect, with his back to Qin Hu and others, and licked the insect blood from the corner of his mouth.
During the battle before, he had already eaten while fighting because of the burning hunger in his body.
From the very beginning of his awakening, he had only tasted small amounts of food and had some adverse reactions. Now Shen Jie even instinctively wants to devour the flesh and blood of the Zerg to replenish his own energy.
According to the guesses that Lin Feng once told him, it should be the devouring and assimilation ability during the second level of awakening, which not only changed his appearance, but also changed the structure of the organs in his body.
After devouring a large amount of insect meat, Shen Jie's intestines and stomach have undergone special adaptive evolution.
Able to digest and absorb the nutrients of Zerg flesh and blood.
At this moment, he can even smell which part of the insect's body has the best texture and the most nutrients, and he even gradually likes this kind of food.
So while Qin Hu and the others were still fighting hard, Shen Jie had already treated the fighting on the battlefield as cooking in the kitchen. He wanted to take away the life of the tiger spine worm, but also retained the jaw part with the best meat.
Yes, the ligament muscles that connect the upper and lower jaws are the parts of the tiger spine worm that have the best taste.
After Lin Feng took away the giant jaw and left the body behind, Shen Jie looked at the exposed biting muscles and instinctively felt the desire to devour.
At this moment, after cutting off the giant jaw, Shen Jie turned his back to everyone, while watching the dim environment around him, he silently devoured the tiger insect's biting muscles in his hand.
On the other hand, Qin Hu, the elite team who survived the disaster, is counting all the survivors.
Unfortunately, two were killed and one was seriously injured.
There are only eight members left, and only three genetic warriors are still capable of fighting.
When encountering the second-order insect swarm again, they can only flee in panic.
Qin Hu squatted on the tiger spine worm corpse and ordered everyone to replace the teeth of the chain sword and then take the nutritional supplements provided by the institute. In addition to basic needs such as sugar, protein, and inorganic salts, Qin Hu also included a large amount of Exciting substances.
For awakened people, things that once stimulated ordinary people can no longer be effective. Therefore, researchers at the Biotechnology Center extracted a certain kind of myogenic stimulating hormone from bugs, which can stimulate Tired, sore and swollen muscles will immediately return to their original state...
The price is that after absorption, once the drug effect wears off, deep repair must be carried out, otherwise the muscle cells will expand and contract excessively, causing large areas of self-dissolution.
This will lead to a significant drop in physical attributes.
However, in the current situation, whether they can escape is another matter. Naturally, the priority is to restore their combat strength.
While everyone was resting, Qin Hu called a genetic warrior and went with him to collect the bodies of the fallen members, while also recovering the lost tiger-tooth chain sword and backpack materials.
These weapons and equipment are specially provided by the research institute and are of great value.
People can die, but the sword cannot be thrown away.
The transaction with Lin Feng is just to exchange for more needed materials.
Qin Hu only brought a chain sword with him and returned to the team member who had just met him. He gently stroked his eyes with unblinking eyes.
The bloodshot and swollen eyeballs were a symptom left after the blood pressure soared due to the squeeze from the waist and abdomen before death.
Unfortunately, they are already short of manpower and have to drag back the heavy corpses of the new second-order Zerg. They cannot bring the corpses of the fallen members back to the defense line.
They can only be hastily buried on the spot.
Just when Qin Hu used his hand as a shovel to dig the grave...
Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice coming from the depths of the darkness.
"Brother Qin? Captain Qin..."
The voice was very weak, but Qin Hu, as a second-level awakener, naturally heard it clearly.
It's just that after distinguishing the voice, how could it be so similar to his former subordinates, those old comrades who had died in the first line of defense...
They obviously died with the fall of the line of defense, surrounded by insects, and finally died without a trace. Corpse, how could it appear here? !
Could it be that they hid in the main fortress and were lucky enough to escape the search of the worms, and then dug through the underground wormholes and lurked into the underground worm nests to survive?
Thinking of this possibility, Qin Hu quickly stood up and walked in the direction of the sound.
But at this moment, a shrill scream came from a place not far away!
"Ahhhhh!!!"
"Help...help..."
This cry interrupted Qin Hu's search, because he knew that the person who made the scream didn't need to be identified. , it was the genetic warrior summoned by him.
With his explosive power in the early stage of the second level, he is still capable of fighting even against the tiger spine insects in the middle stage of the second level. How could he suffer such an unexpected incident? !
Moreover, even his own breath sensor did not detect any warning, indicating that there was no second-order Zerg nearby that could threaten him!
What on earth attacked him! ?
Suddenly, the alarm bells rang in Qin Hu's heart. The relaxation he had previously felt when searching for the source of the call was swept away. Instead, he gripped the tiger-tooth chain saw sword with a searchlight above his head and walked quickly towards the place where the scream came from. .
Not far away, a hundred meters away.
The rest of the team members heard the call for help and rushed over.
The group of people turned on searchlights and quickly found the team member lying on the ground, holding a broken leg.
At this moment, one of his right legs was cut off directly from above the knee. The exposed bone section was extremely smooth and traceless, indicating that the enemy who launched the attack used the sharpest blade weapon.
And you must start quickly, speed and explosive power are indispensable.
But the tiger spine insect has no such ability at all.
Qin Hu frowned and ordered his team members to stop the bleeding of the seriously injured genetic warrior.
Due to severe pain and excessive blood loss, the injured team member immediately passed out after being sprinkled with medicinal powder and wrapped with a hemostatic bandage.
Before he fell into coma, he tightly grabbed his teammate's arm and described with blood and sweat:
"The knife...the bug holding the knife..."
Such a huge trauma, if it is not treated as soon as possible, He was sent to a frontline hospital, but even genetic fusion could not save him.
Excessive blood loss is actually more fatal than a wound that is clotted and scabbed.
Ordinary people would die within a few minutes when encountering this kind of situation. As awakened people and genetically modified warriors, they could only barely stabilize their injuries.
However, it was not easy to just leave now. Qin Hu took a deep breath and must find the enemy as soon as possible, otherwise people would be panicked and it would be even more dangerous.
But when the remaining seven people formed a circle and looked around for warnings, looking for the source of danger...
The result was nothing!
Whether it is on the surface or on the top of the insect nest, except for a few tiger spine insect corpses, there is no sign of the last thing the seriously injured team member said before he fell unconscious, the insect with the knife...
Wait a minute!
Qin Hu's face turned pale as he suddenly thought of a possibility.
Could it be that Shen Jie brought by Lin Feng fell into a state of madness due to excessive fusion of the tiger tooth gene? Even after killing the tiger spine worm, he continued to hunt the living creatures in the insect nest, and Targeting human awakeners? !
The more Qin Hu thought about it, the more he felt that it was very possible.
After all, he had almost lost his mind, and in the testing laboratory of the institute, he had seen too many experimental transformers whose minds collapsed due to excessive fusion, and they became irrational killing tools. .
Their appearance appears to be large-scale Zerg-like, and they look like Zerg in human form.
It is exactly consistent with what the seriously injured team member said.
However, when everyone was on guard, a two-meter-tall humanoid insect suddenly walked out from behind a tiger spine insect corpse in the distance. It was covered in blood and covered its side.
The giant jaw and heavy sword on his left arm has been completely broken, and there are also a few cracks on his right arm.
The human face revealed in the broken head armor and giant jaw was none other than Shen Jie, who was alone.
Qin Hu suddenly looked solemn, clenched the tiger-tooth chain sword in his hand, and was ready to go.
But then I thought about it...
If it was really Shen Jie who did it, then who could have caused his current serious injury? !
If the murderer wasn't him...
Who could it be? !
In the dark worm nest crypt, an unknown fear gradually spread, and the survivors felt as if they were being strangled by the throats of an invisible claw.
My heart was already in my throat.
Any disturbance will cause a panic.
At this moment, a rustling sound suddenly came from the depths of the insect nest.
The searchlight was directed in the direction of the sound, and a thin figure was seen dragging several huge Zerg corpses towards the crowd.
The moment they saw Lin Feng, everyone’s anxious hearts finally dropped a little.
Lin Feng saw Qin Hu and others looking like they were facing a formidable enemy, and Shen Jie who was leaning next to the tiger spine insect, panting heavily, with heat rising all over his body...
Frowning slightly, he threw out a The three-meter humanoid insect corpse asked:
"Why, how many have you encountered?"
6k, not easy.
Tiger spine worms are okay in the frontal battlefield, but to deal with the human genetic warrior team, we have to rely on samurai to hunt the worms.
Both of them reach the same goal through different paths,
It is also the only way to advance to the fourth level.
(End of this chapter)