Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 490 "Resonance"

"It's his grandma's, what kind of new species is this?" The hound also complained. At this time, more than a dozen insects had already dug out of the huge pit, paddling their jointed limbs and crawling towards them.

"It's not a new breed..." Ivan shook his head, then suddenly shouted, "Don't use incendiary bombs and flamethrowers!"

"What's the matter?" The agent holding the grenade launcher suddenly tensed up—his index finger had already squeezed the trigger, at least a little more force, and the napalm in the gun chamber would fall into the ground. The center of the swarm.

"These bugs are lava beetles! They are the larvae of lava beetles, and they have mutated to a certain extent!" Ivan said.

"What? Lava beetle?" The hound's face changed slightly, "Are you making a mistake? Lava beetle is not a herd creature!"

Hearing what Ivan said, everyone became nervous—if these worms were really lava gnats, what they were facing was not a group of ordinary worms, but a bunch of bombs that might explode at any time!

Ke Lan's eyes twitched involuntarily.

Although the lava beetle is rare, it is well-known in the hunter circle - the main reason is its terrifying destructive power.

An adult lava beetle can easily destroy a convoy that is not equipped with heavy weapons. For many hunters, if they find traces of lava beetle in the wild, the best choice is to immediately turn the steering wheel and stay away from this area.

However, lava beetles especially like to devour energy crystals and fuel. They can even follow the smell of gasoline to chase dozens of kilometers, and even lie in ambush on some roads that often pass by vehicles—if it weren’t for the good equipment of the Soma consortium convoy, If the firepower was comparable to that of the elite squad of the Field Corps, Ke Lan and the others would have become a delicious meal for lava beetles as early as on the way to Leviathan.

The worms in front of them are indeed somewhat similar in appearance to adult lava thalis.

But the second half of the hound's sentence is not wrong. Creatures like lava beetles are indeed not gregarious creatures.

Not only are they not gregarious creatures, but when individuals meet, they often fight until one of them is killed by the other.

Even if two opposite-sex lava beetles mate, the male lava beetle will kill and devour the female lava beetle during the weak period after laying eggs-this is exactly the opposite of the praying mantis on earth.

In the final analysis, it is to compete for "nutrients".

Although a nest of lava beetles can lay one hundred to two hundred eggs, among these eggs, no more than one-third of the larvae can be successfully hatched and born-adult lava beetles will not prepare food for their children, And those brothers and sisters who hatched one step later naturally became the first big meal for the newly hatched larvae.

They will give priority to biting off the intact eggs and eating the same kind that are not yet able to move.After all the eggs are hatched or eaten, the remaining larvae will fight and devour each other... It's like raising Gu, in a nest of eggs, often only one larva can get out of the egg-laying hole alive. that cave.

But at this time, the larva must quickly escape from its place of birth... Otherwise, after the protective pheromone it carries fades away, the remaining one of its parents will also regard it as its own. food.

A newly hatched lava larvae, which are about the size of an apple, will require an astronomical amount of "nutrition" if they want to grow into a behemoth tens of meters high.Moreover, there seems to be no limit to the growth of this creature. According to records, the largest lava body ever witnessed by humans is more than 300 meters long, and the high-temperature mucus ejected can attack targets 2000 meters away.

One of the arthropods of this lava beetle is still on display in the central exhibition tower of the Ark Museum of Biology. It takes an elevator to reach the 26th floor of the exhibition tower so that the visitor's line of sight can be at the same level as the top of this arthropod.

Lava beetles eat almost anything, and they especially like to devour their own kind—although the self-detonation of their own kind when they die is enough to blow them up to paralysis, but their bodies filled with a lot of flammable substances are, in their eyes, like nothing else in this world. The fattest "nutrient".

It is difficult to find a second creature of this kind of "benevolent father, filial piety" and "brotherly harmony" in the same area, so why do they appear in groups?
However, Ivan still insisted on his point of view: "You can't be wrong! Although there is a certain degree of variation, in terms of biological classification, they are definitely close relatives of the same 'genus' as the lava beetles in the wilderness!"

Mutations?Ke Lan looked at the crystals covered on these bugs again—in terms of texture, these crystals are very similar to energy crystals, but the cut surface of energy crystals is very flat, while the crystals on these bugs are very rough, and the light transmittance is also low. Very low, like unpolished jade.

Ke Lan thought of a kind of arthropod living in the coastal areas of Zhonghai—the salt crab.This crab-like creature lives by filtering the plankton in the seawater, but their filter-feeding organs can not only intercept the plankton in the seawater, but also absorb a large amount of salt into the body.

When the salt content in the salt crab's body fluid exceeds a certain percentage, the salt will be precipitated from the surface of the carapace, forming a thin layer of saline carapace.

The name of their salt crabs is also derived from this.

The saline carapace on the salt crab is due to excessive intake of salt, so the crystalline shell on these mutated lava beetles...

Ke Lan immediately realized that what the hound said was right, and what Ivan said was also right. These bugs are lava beetles!

Lava beetles cannot live in groups because of the lack of "nutrients", but in this place, their food is extremely abundant!
It is so abundant that it can even form a layer of crystalline shell on the surface of the body!
These lava beetles living in the power room feed on crystal pillars!So there is no need for them to hunt and kill their own kind!

"Attention everyone! Use conventional weapons to attack, try not to aim at the belly of these bugs! It is forbidden to use energy weapons, incendiary bombs and explosive weapons, and try to keep a safe distance of more than 30 meters from these bugs—if you are close , stop immediately, and kill him after opening the distance!" Ke Lan quickly ordered.

Ivan and Zhuoligetu were the first to fire, and the two Gauss assault rifles quickly formed a group of crossfire, covering the dozen or so mutant larvae rushing to the front—like the lava larvae, these mutant larvae were After being killed, it explodes like a bomb, but it is a little different from ordinary lava larvae: when ordinary lava larvae explode, they produce a lot of heat and flames, just like a gasoline barrel is detonated, but these mutant larvae explode The effect produced when the crystal converter is overloaded is more like the appearance of the crystallization converter.

"Sure enough, the nature of energy in the body will change with the type of food..." Ke Lan couldn't help but sigh, "This is a bit tricky..."

He and Ivan looked at each other, their eyes filled with worry.

They worry about the same problem.

If a group of ordinary lava beetles rushed over, Ke Lan and Ivan would not prevent others from using range-destructive weapons-it would be more efficient to clean up these bugs by detonating them in a chain.

But these mutated larvae in front of them are different.

They are equivalent to converters filled with energy crystals that are always on the verge of overload. If one is exploded at the same time, the power of the explosion will increase exponentially——

"Resonance", this is originally a concept in physics, but when this word is used in the field of energy crystallization, it will have a brand new meaning——

"When the crystallization converter explodes due to overload, the explosion ranges of multiple converters overlap, and each other has an amplification effect on each other, thereby greatly increasing the power of the explosion. This phenomenon is called 'crystal resonance'."

Using the resonance phenomenon, the equipment development department of the research institute has also produced many crystal bombs. If a single crystal bomb is detonated, the power of this kind of crystal bomb is at most similar to that of a grenade, but if ten crystal bombs are bundled together and detonated, it is enough Raze a building!
If the group of mutated larvae in front of me were destroyed at the same time...

【PS Thank you for the 100 starting coins that I can't wear and Baipiaoguai never top up and reward. 】

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