Zerg in the crystal wall system world

Chapter 67 Chalus Lair

Chalus is a completely abnormal insect monster in the cave maze.

There is no excessively dense living habit, often hundreds of larvae, led by four to eight adults, occupy a certain fork node in the cave as a nest.

Its larval form looks like a stubby centipede with only six legs. The front half of its body can be propped up, allowing it to bite the enemy more flexibly with its large jaws.

The adult Charus is also called the Charus Hunter by the cave elves, and looks like a large wasp with a mantis scythe.

Although it looks fierce, this kind of monster is not considered strong in the Great Labyrinth. Apart from the ability to spit out acidic venom from its mouth, it only has a thick carapace with both hardness and toughness that is worthy of praise.

That is the carapace.

Allowing them to be favored by cave elves who lack wood on hand to make bows and arrows and carapaces.

Charus is also one of the few monsters allowed to haunt the mushroom forests around the tribe.

In addition, the rangers among the cave elves often patrol around the tribe, driving away those high-level monsters that may attack the tribe.

There are a large number of Chalus lairs around the troglodyte tribe, and even in the labyrinth cave at the top of the troglodyte tribe.

Similarly, Chalus was gradually domesticated during the thousands of years of getting along with the cave elves.This kind of beast, which even attacks its own kind when hungry, hardly barks its teeth at the elves—the way of nature actually plays an extraordinary role in the field of animal domestication.It's just that wood elves rarely tame monsters.

The general soul strength of Chalus larvae can reach up to about five levels, and that of adults is at level six.

The extreme individuals in Chalus can reach the seventh level.Only the most powerful and terrifying Chalus hunter can lead his offspring in the cave maze, occupying the most central, widest, most conveniently accessible and most likely to attract monsters.

And what's even better, because it is surrounded by many Chalus tribes, not only is it difficult for alien monsters from outside to come, even the cave elves who come to collect carapace making tools from time to time rarely come.Only rangers who practice nearby will come here every once in a while.But just one elf, how much carapace can it need?
But today, all kinds of advantages have turned into reminders.

Just when the seventh-level Chalus hunter buzzed and vibrated its wings, it hovered in mid-air to check the eggs it had laid.

A rumbling sound from underground attracted its attention.

It flew to the ground, and tapped the rock twice with its sickle-shaped forelimbs.

There were two soft beeps.

It has not waited for it to make the next move.

I saw the ground suddenly exploded.

A hideous naked mole rat covered in a carapace broke out from the ground.The two forelegs mutated into the shape of a pickaxe hugged the Charus hunter and continued to rush upwards until it hit the ceiling of the cave.

The huge die snapped and bit the insect's head. The Chalus hunter was not a petrified giant snake, and it was powerless to resist the rock-breaking incisors of the naked mole rat.

With one click, his head was bitten off.

The abdominal exit of the rat head worm is open.

A zerg unit with a slender snake body and a well-developed crest crawled out of the tunnel worm.

A ranged unit in the Swarm, the Hydralisk.

Unlike cockroaches, which rely on oral muscles to spray corrosive saliva, Hydralisks have their own projection organs. Its huge head has more than 3000 muscles that make Hydralisks far surpass cockroaches in terms of effective range and accuracy.

The first time they appeared, there were dozens of slap-length, brightly shining metallic thorns sprinkled around - that was the "crystal periosteum" technology from carnivorous bees.

The surrounding Chalus larvae were pierced by the high-speed shooting thorns before they could even react.

Only seven Chalus hunters with sixth-level souls, relying on their huge size and tough carapace, caught the injected thorns and did not die suddenly on the spot.

But even so, two eyes or wings were shot, and the ability to fight was lost.

Possibly to protect the eggs, or possibly because Charus was defying life and death, the remaining Charus hunters launched a suicidal raid on Hydralisks and Rathead Nydus Worms.

The Hydralisks immediately arched their backs, and the muscles within their carapaces made a clear and audible sound.

There is no reason for the spines growing in the flesh to be fired only once. When the distance is close enough, the Hydralisk can even fire dozens of spines at a time, each of which has the power to penetrate the steel plate.

The thorns burst out like a celestial maiden scattered flowers.

Most of the Chalus hunters were thrown away like rags, driven by many thorns.

Only one, relying on the cover of other Chalus hunters, broke through the firepower of the Hydralisk and rushed towards the nearest Hydralisk.

The leading Hydralisk raised its head, showed its three-bladed sickle-shaped claws, and was ready to "fight" with its front.

The Hydralisk's spines are fired by muscles, and the same tendons are slightly distributed to the joints of the limbs, so it can be turned into a meat grinder.Coupled with the two-meter-high body shape of their predecessors, they can even fight cockroaches hand-to-hand.

And just as the Charus hunter was getting closer.

A strong acid thorn that was three times as thick as the spine of a Hydralisk shot over, blasting the head of the Charus hunter cleanly.

The corpse continued to swoop for a while with the remaining impact, and fell in front of the Hydralisk.

ta~ta~
Six insects stepped on the creep.

Agatha crawled out of the rat-headed tunnel worm.

At the same time, a voice came from the worm cavity: "The vehicles of the swarm really don't consider the issue of ride comfort at all. Fortunately, I still want to experience it."

As the voice fell, I saw the dragon dog jumping out of it—yes, the dragon dog has been transformed to have the ability to speak!

Agatha came here because the distance is too far, and the army of bugs in the Abyss of Flesh cannot be transported here with only one tunnel. The hatchery to be built here will support most of the battle against the elf tribe. Cannon fodder consumption.

Agatha's ability to regulate the hatchery and increase the hatching speed of units is very important.

And the master... unless he plans to go to the battlefield himself, staying in the abyss of flesh and blood is no different from expeditions to the Chalus cave.

Then, a large number of worker bees gushed out of the tunnel like a spring.

Each building unit that differentiates into insect swarms.And pile up the corpses in the lair in one place to breed the myriads to create twisted nodules.

Numerous Hydralisks swung their bodies and crawled in all directions, searching for the remaining Chalus larvae.

In the end, seven springtails, two cockroaches, and three Hydralisks, which were obviously larger than the same kind, crawled out of the pothole and followed behind the dragon dog.Without exception, they are all elite units.

They will be tasked with finding and killing rangers who practice nearby.

Because the moment the hatchery is built, the surrounding creepers and Zerg buildings will be integrated into one, leaving a very obvious signal in "nature".In order to avoid alerting the elf tribe in advance, the swarm must find out the ranger before the hatchery is born.

Therefore, in this transformation, Juggernaut specially added "sensing tentacles" and "multi-spectral monocular" to the Dragon Dog, two technologies from Euglena.

Let dragon dogs grow huge eyes on the mid-ridge of the back, the carapace of the thighs, and the roots of the wings.At the same time, tiny tentacles grew on its lower jaw, side of its waist, and sides of its back.The Dragon Dog can speak by sensing the vibration of its tentacles.

The sensory sensitivity of the current "Dragonborn · Eye of True Sight · Burning Limbs · Wings of Wind Control · Alloy Claws · Emerald Green Heart · Phase Skin · Four Fangs · Zerglings" has broken through the sky.

Of course, even if the dragon dog is endowed with sufficiently developed sensory organs, it does not mean that the dragon dog will become an investigation unit.

Dragon dog's brain is not qualified.The ability to process information is too weak, and in order to ensure the impact of the horns, there is not even a neck, so there is not much room for expansion to improve the brain.

However, as an elite unit, the dragon dog's psionic affinity physique solves this problem.

The King Worm and the Juggernaut can transmit information and give instructions through psionic energy.And the dragon dog's affinity with psionic energy makes its "network speed" much faster than ordinary units.

Since its brain can't process the information obtained by the sensory organs, it packs and uploads the information to the Euglena, and after processing it directly forms an instruction.

Juggernaut simply established a connection between Longgou and Shuaiqiu.

In this way, it is not only equivalent to adding an external information processor to the dragon dog, but also equivalent to adding a petite, free-moving "eye" to the handsome ball.

To learn from each other's strengths, if this form of reconnaissance has been well verified by Longgou and Shuaiqiu, Juggernaut plans to spread this "moving eyes" mode on a large scale to fill the vacancy of the lack of reconnaissance units in the cave environment.

The only downside is that whether it is the transformation of the neural network of the eye worm, or the production of elite units and sensory transformation, the cost required is not a small amount.The cost of an information center + mobile eye combination may be more than ten times that of an ordinary reconnaissance unit, and it is worth a lot...

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