Chapter 147: Furnace Cave, Ling Shuyan’s Arrival
As everyone prepares, the battle is about to begin.
On hearing Lin Feng's order, five second-level awakeners led a hundred soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the red beetle group beside the wall.
To deal with low-level red beetles, there is no need for shotguns at all. Soldiers armed with large-caliber rifles and heavy machine guns will kill them all.
At the same time, you can also use this to improve your own level.
After a wave, more than a dozen soldiers have been upgraded to level 9 enhanced people. They only need to kill one more black spine insect to become the next awakened person.
Shen Jie rushed to the front of the team and transformed into a black warrior. The black armor was integrated with the modified armor on his body. The two-meter-long sharp bone blades on both sides of his arms slashed a "Y" slash on the thick wall. .
The dozens of tons of power of the mid-level awakeners, combined with the extremely fast explosion in the form of the black warrior...
I saw the bone blade flashing with white light, and suddenly a high wall half a meter thick appeared. Was easily broken open.
A gap four to five meters wide appeared in front of everyone as the torn cement wall collapsed and splashed.
The sound of gunshots and wall breaking had interrupted the busy work of the shipyard. Many black spine insects put down their cutting work and gathered outside the shipyard.
The second-level awakened person raised the shotgun and launched an attack, followed by the soldiers behind him.
In order to complete the killing and awakening of the enhanced person as soon as possible, Shen Jie instructed the legion team to only target the limbs and lower abdomen of the black spine insect, and do not hit the head, just seriously injure it.
The final killing mission is handed over to the new recruits.
To deal with ordinary black spine worms, five second-level legion members can take care of them. Shen Jie then came to Lin Feng.
At this moment, Lin Feng stood next to the deep pit in the center of the shipyard, staring at the hole at his feet that was submerged in the river.
The diameter of the entire wormhole reaches twenty meters, which is far larger than the size of ordinary ground wormholes and can allow the entry and exit of second-order tiger spine insects.
The red beetles who were responsible for the transportation before put the cut small pieces of special steel into it.
The water is rich in metal minerals and is much denser than air, and the falling speed of the special steel blocks inside will be greatly reduced.
But the red beetle did not drill into the well in front of us.
Lin Feng slowly squatted down and put his hand into the mouth of the hole.
Sure enough, the water in the cave well is hot.
And it gets hotter as you go down.
So the Zerg are not collecting and transporting special steel, but directly using local materials to build a biological furnace that can synthesize the giant jaws of the second-order tiger spine insect.
The endless flowing water of the big river a few hundred meters away is the best coolant for high-temperature forging furnaces.
Through telepathy, Lin Feng noticed that there was a huge light source two hundred meters deep inside the cave.
It is a living biological furnace body, which contains thousands of health points of energy.
Compared to a high-level life form!
But it has no ability to think, let alone move.
Depending on the situation, the possibility of the existence of second-order insect eggs is very small, but there should be a lot of forged orange-quality giant jaws.
Lin Feng thought for a while, raised his head and looked around, and finally found a steel cable as thick as an arm from nearby. It was about two hundred meters long. One end was handed over to Shen Jie and tied to the crane, and the other end was tied around his waist.
Then jump into the cave.
The surface water temperature is about forty or fifty degrees.
Ordinary people can easily withstand it, but as the depth of the dive increases, the temperature suddenly rises to 70 or 80 degrees.
This temperature can already burn the protein until it is denatured, the peptide bonds are broken, and finally the meat is cooked.
Lin Feng's eyes could see the steaming heat waves rising upward through his visor, exchanging heat with the cold water in the hole above.
At this moment, he has dived sixty or seventy meters deep and cannot clearly see the dark abyss under his feet, and the temperature of the water in the nearby well is getting higher and higher.
At seventy or eighty degrees, even a first-level awakened person cannot withstand it for long. When it reaches a depth of more than a hundred meters, the boiling water waves will cause Lin Feng to be scalded even though he is separated by the Flying Tiger Armor.
No wonder the Zerg dare to place the biological furnace in the open air.
I guess I am not afraid of being stolen by humans.
In the end, Lin Feng's footsteps stopped at a depth of 120 meters, with numerous boiling water bubbles floating nearby.
He tried to activate the absolute defense of the Flying Tiger Armor, but unfortunately it could isolate the energy shield from the extremely fast attack, but could not stop the slowly approaching hot water.
Without the mutant form of absolute defense, Lin Feng used the faint light to start observing his surroundings.
Then he discovered that the entire cave wall was covered with a layer of blackened coke.
That is the shell left after the biomass is burned.
But it has excellent thermal insulation effect.
Even with high temperatures of thousands of degrees, it can be easily isolated.
Lin Feng could vaguely sense that there was biological activity behind the carbon black graphite layer nearby and under his feet.
Those special steel blocks dropped by the red beetles were liquefied at high temperatures and then absorbed in the biological furnace at their feet, and combined with organic molecules to form a super-hard giant jaw.
But this carbonized layer that isolates high temperatures has a fatal flaw, that is, the higher the temperature, the more fragile the carbonized layer becomes.
Since he couldn't go deep into it to find out what was going on, Lin Feng planned to destroy the furnace directly and wait until the high-temperature reaction inside it was extinguished before exploring again.
Because compared to the second-order insect eggs, there is a shortage of orange-quality giant jaws.
Not only has the Flying Tiger Armor not yet reached the full level, but even the main equipment, the lv20 land cruiser, has not improved even half a step since it completed the cross-level upgrade.
Tomorrow is the trading day agreed with the Queen Mother. The second batch of fifty second-level insect eggs is about to be obtained, and the battleship can finally be upgraded.
The matching fusion upgrade materials must also be obtained as soon as possible.
Thinking of this, Lin Feng no longer hesitated, pulled out the lv29 electromagnetic gun from his waist, switched back to the armor-piercing projectile mode, and then started shooting deeper under his feet.
The launch speed of the armor-piercing projectile in the water is slowed down several times due to friction caused by the rising water flow. At the same time, the nearby high-temperature heat wave also causes its warhead to gradually melt.
Several armor-piercing projectiles had not advanced fifty meters before their shells dissolved and could only be destroyed outside the core furnace at the bottom.
Even if a few can trigger deflagration, they are like a flash in the pan, washed away by high-temperature water waves and passing by in a flash.
Aside from illuminating the bottom space and stirring up more large boiling water bubbles, it has no destructive effect on the core furnace.
Seeing that he could not destroy the core of the furnace at the bottom, Lin Feng tried to calm down while sweating profusely.
Suddenly he had a plan in mind, and he shot wildly at the walls of the cave around him.
Within a short distance, the armor-piercing projectile successfully penetrated the carbonized layer, and then exploded violently in the cave wall.
The shock wave generated by the explosion set off a huge wave of water at the bottom of the cave, surging up and pushing Lin Feng directly to the surface of the well.
As the wall collapsed, the rocks and sand inside fell into the furnace mouth at the bottom, which not only covered the fleshy plug door at the furnace mouth, but also isolated the high-temperature energy inside from spreading to the outside world.
There is no way to exchange heat and cold through water flow. The furnace is like a sealed pressure cooker. As the temperature and pressure rise linearly, it continues to expand!
At this moment, Lin Feng had already returned to the cave entrance with the help of Shen Jie. Before he could gain a firm foothold, he pulled Shen Jie and quickly moved away from the entrance of the cave.
More than ten seconds later, a loud noise was heard from the biological furnace at the bottom.
Along with the dull sound, the ground of the entire shipyard shook violently. Centered on the twenty-meter-wide deep pit, the cement floor instantly cracked and quickly shattered in all directions like a spider web. The crack, which is twenty to thirty centimeters deep, is bottomless, and hot boiling water is constantly seeping up.
The clear water in the cave well turned directly into black and yellow. With the violent high-pressure explosion in the furnace, a lot of dark red hot magma floated out, like a ball of black mud blooming and polluting, making the entire well water surface , countless black bubbles floated up.
When the bubbles burst, irritating gases evaporate into the air.
Fortunately, Lin Feng had already led Shen Jie back into the shipyard. At this moment, the second-order legion team had led more than a hundred soldiers to clear out the Zerg in the shipyard.
We are guarding the gate of the shipyard, blocking the large number of Black Spine swarms coming from the city for support.
The explosion of shotguns is endless.
But as the furnace inside the cave exploded, causing earthquakes and collapses, both the Zerg and the soldiers stopped fighting.
Only another crackling sound was heard.
The damage caused by underwater explosions is divided into two parts. The first is the shock wave and vacuum bubbles that spread at the beginning of the explosion. When these effects gradually dissipate, the center of the vacuum explosion will go crazy again due to the pressure. Shrink back.
Produces two stages of damage, first pushing and then pulling!
So the dock near the big river in the shipyard fell apart and sank into the water.
Like a collapsed embankment, the river water began to pour in crazily, extinguishing the high temperature boiling in the cave.
The filling of the river water also temporarily slowed down the successive collapses near the dock.
Even Lin Feng couldn't help but swallow when he saw the terrifying explosion effect that directly changed the terrain.
The high-pressure deflagration in the core of the furnace directly destroyed half of the shipyard, covering an area of more than two square kilometers, and it started from two hundred meters underground...
This power is comparable to one hundred thousand tons A nuclear bomb with the equivalent of TNT exploded underground!
It can even kill a high-level Queen Mother instantly!
It's no wonder that the Queen Mother here wants to set up the biological reaction device for melting the giant jaws by the river.
To prevent an accident from happening, it will cause a devastating blow like self-explosion to yourself and the entire insect swarm.
As the core of the furnace was destroyed, the Black Spine swarms that came to the rescue, as if they had received orders from the Mother Queen, began to retreat into the city and hide.
Lin Feng, who came over, frowned slightly when he saw this scene.
"Stop chasing. Clean the battlefield at the dock first and collect useful biological materials."
"Without the protection provided by a chariot, and lacking the experience of street fighting, chasing into the city rashly will lead to death." The five second-level awakened people nodded, convinced.
Last time in Jiacheng, due to Lin Feng's carelessness, he was chased and intercepted by a swarm of black spine insects. This time, most of the hundreds of soldiers were not even first-order awakened ones. There is no way to resist the swarm of insects that are not afraid of life and death in a street fight.
Part of them, especially the new recruits, can't even withstand the recoil of a shotgun. They often have to relieve their severely worn shoulders after firing several rounds in a row.
Instructing everyone to clean up the battlefield, Lin Feng asked the second-order legion team to stay in place to guard against a sneak attack by the Zerg, and then led Shen Jie and dozens of ordinary soldiers back to the shattered and collapsed dock.
The aftermath of the explosion gradually dissipated.
Leaving a deep pit a hundred meters in diameter.
Under the wash of the river water, the surging black mud and scalding hot water have disappeared.
Now you need to send people to dive into the water, get to the bottom, and look for the orange-quality giant jaw cast in the furnace.
Lin Feng estimates that there should be quite a few.
Immediately, people were sent to collect the steel cables from the nearby docks, tied them into hundreds of meters of long ropes, and tied them around the waist
These steel wires with thick arms can easily lift thirty or forty tons. loose.
Lin Feng and Shen Jie immediately jumped into the water.
With the protection of the Flying Tiger Armor and the crazy fighting form of the Winged Tiger, the two of them don't have to worry about being attacked by the Zerg. As long as the exploding furnace cools down, they can travel unimpeded.
Soon, Lin Feng arrived at the original core. The water temperature nearby was still forty or fifty degrees, but this did not affect the two of them, and they began to move away the rubble covering the furnace.
After the area near the hole was cleaned up, there was a thick layer of metal cooling blocks under the broken fleshy furnace shell. Its material was very close to the giant jaw, but it was still a little behind in terms of plasticity.
Lin Feng touched and a prompt flashed before his eyes:
"Zerg Jaws—Unfinished Body, Orange Quality"
"Note: Can be used as a material to add to synthetic upgrades ”
Unexpectedly, this large piece of semi-finished product in front of him, weighing more than ten tons, could actually be useful. Lin Feng immediately tied the steel cable around his waist to the iron block.
After making sure it was firm, I pulled hard.
The soldiers at the port received the signal and began to use all their strength to drag the objects tied with steel cables ashore.
As the large pieces of semi-finished product were removed, another small sunken hole appeared beneath them.
The two of them started working together to open up the buried hole.
The next moment, a small tunnel connecting deep underground appeared in front of Lin Feng.
It is only three meters in diameter. It should be connected to the transportation pipe at the bottom of the furnace to carry out finishing processing of the bio-metal that has been initially liquefied and formed.
The two stretched out their hands to make gestures, and then got into it.
Lin Feng walked in front, stepping on the solidified residual liquid under his feet. Only then did he realize that the tunnel walls were made of giant jaw material. No wonder it could withstand the impact of the explosion. Apart from cracks and water leakage, there was nothing Too damaged.
The two walked in tandem, one after the other, several hundred meters away. The river water seeping in nearby gradually disappeared, leaving only the cooling metal liquid remaining near the soles of their feet.
According to the direction of travel, it is estimated that it has entered the lower part of the county seat.
Lin Feng used telepathy and noticed a large insect nest beneath his feet.
There are also traces of red beetle activity near the pipeline. It is they who drilled into it and took away the flowing biometal liquid to complete the final synthesis of the second-order tiger spine insect's giant jaw. process.
Following the traces, the two finally poked their bodies out of a hole. Lin Feng held the electromagnetic gun in one hand and held the tiger-tooth chain sword tightly in the other hand...
Use flight mode, While landing steadily, the flying tiger armor on his body released the power of tiger insects, scaring away the approaching black spine insects and red beetle groups.
Shen Jie followed closely with the steel cable.
The insect nest here is slightly different from the one the two entered underground in the east district of Wucheng last time.
The walls of the insect nest cave were covered with unknown fungi emitting green fluorescence. The light illuminated the dim cave, allowing Lin Feng and the two of them to barely see clearly what was going on in the cave.
I saw a giant fleshy wall standing deep in the insect nest. It had no obvious head features in its hands, and was more like a mass of brown-red tumors that proliferated endlessly.
Lin Feng narrowed his eyes slightly, this thing should be the biological factory used by the Zerg to produce the second-order giant jaw!
Same as the previous biological furnace, they are all living organisms!
Then he took Shen Jie with him, and the two of them cut into the mountain of meat in front of them.
Raising the knife and lowering it, Lin Feng encountered the tiger-tooth chain sword in his hand and the bone blades in Shen Jie's arms, and they encountered something hard to stop them.
The two pulled it out, and it turned out to be an orange-quality giant jaw that was created through organic synthesis after the red beetle fed the metal liquid block.
One, two, three...
In the end, a total of twenty-eight were found, equivalent to fourteen pairs of giant jaws.
Enough to assemble a second-order tiger spine insect swarm.
In Lin Feng's opinion, this should only be a synthesis amount of one or two days. With the cutting and transportation speed of the shipyard, the giant jaw must have produced hundreds or thousands of them.
Enough to allow the Mother Queen to hatch second-order tiger spine insects.
The Queen Mother here is also preparing in advance for the future battle at Taihu Lake.
While smashing up the pile of rotten meat in front of him, Lin Feng telepathically sent feedback in his mind, showing that not far away, a large number of tiger spine worms were approaching quickly.
Without any time to think, Lin Feng ordered Shen Jie to work together to tie these giant jaws with steel cables and stuff them into the channel for transporting molten metal. The size was just right.
Lin Feng raised the electromagnetic gun and fired wildly at the entrance of the insect nest in the distance, causing the cave wall to collapse, burying the entrance and exit, blocking the second-order insect race that came to support.
Depending on the situation, this second-order mother queen has not yet entered the middle of the third-order, so no new second-order Zerg has been born under her command.
But the most urgent task now is to take away the giant jaw materials.
Lest the tunnel be damaged and eventually sink deeper and deeper.
With the skills of the two of them, it would be no problem to get out, but it would be basically impossible to drag away this large pile of biological materials without the cover and cooperation of the second-order legion!
Fortunately, Shen Jie acted quickly. After Lin Feng shot and blocked the entrance of the cave, he also came to help. It only took a few minutes to stuff all the giant jaws into the passage.
Shen Jie walked in front, pulling the steel cable, and Lin Feng was in charge of the rear, pushing hard.
Nearly a hundred tons of force push these giant jaws forward with difficulty in a small tunnel that is five to six hundred meters long.
The roar of tiger spine insects came from behind, constantly destroying the shell of the tunnel wall, only a few dozen meters away from Lin Feng.
Fortunately, due to the explosion in front, water continued to seep in, and the water flow reduced friction resistance. It didn't take long for the two of them to reach the entrance under the furnace smoothly.
Shen Jie tied the giant jaws with nearby steel cables and sent them to the waterfront one by one.
In the end, only the angry roar of the second-order tiger spine insect could be heard from deep inside the cave.
After successfully obtaining the second-order giant jaw without any danger, Lin Feng sat beside the collapsed pit and breathed a sigh of relief.
Now just wait until evening, and Chen Yanyan will control the fleet to come to respond.
After resting, Lin Feng walked into the dock.
The large ship being built inside looks like it should be a warship, but unfortunately most of it has been cut away by the Zerg, leaving only the bottom of the ship, which only weighs a hundred or ten tons.
During the search, the Zerg who retreated into the city sent small groups of Black Spine swarms to feign attacks from both sides several times, and also sent a dozen first-order Greenwings to observe the current situation of the shipyard.
These spies were easily repelled by the soldiers. Lin Feng also used the Eye of Death with great interest to snipe at the green-winged insects in the sky.
Let Shen Jie take the people and recover his body into the account.
After stealing the chicken but losing the rice, these Zerg stopped trying again.
On the other hand, the second-order tiger spine worm has been missing.
Maybe he felt Lin Feng’s presence.
Or maybe the Queen of Haicheng sent it a warning.
…………
As the sun set, Chen Yanyan led the fleet to come to meet him. After crossing the bridge, he brought unexpected news to Lin Feng:
“There is a woman named Ling Shuyan who claims to be a researcher in Jincheng Biology. The director of the institute is here to discuss matters with you."
"Is it related to the fact that you came all the way from Jincheng to see Professor Ding in Laoshan Park?"
The corner of Lin Feng's mouth raised slightly as he watched the soldiers carry the giant jaw into the reserve space behind the battleship. Then he informed the other party that he planned to recruit researchers to transform the second-order legion.
Chen Yanyan frowned slightly:
"I don't think that woman is a good person."
"I asked them to go to the field hospital to help first, and said you won't be able to go back until later."
Lin Feng nodded and left the battleship He went to the dock and merged the remaining materials from the ship's shell with the giant jaws of the Black Spine Insect and the membrane wings of the Green Wing Insect that everyone had collected, and synthesized a total of twelve replicas of the flying wing chariot.
As for the remaining materials in the warehouse, they were all copied into lv19 shotguns and some were integrated into the tank.
By the time the fleet was ready to return, it already had twenty tanks as auxiliary ships, doubling its overall size.
This kind of firepower can easily suppress the charge of tens of thousands of Zerg troops.
When everything was cleared up, including the survivors on the opposite side, they also boarded the tank...
In the setting sun, Lin Feng stood at the bow of the ship and issued the return order:
"I haven't seen a real person in reality yet. Let's go and meet this Ling Shuyan when we go back."
(End of this chapter)