dark moon

Chapter 222 Two battlefields
The brown insect tide flowed like water on the purple carpet, dyeing everything it passed into a terrifying dark brown.

Time has passed so long, but the insects that are overwhelming the sky are still pouring in from afar in an endless stream. Even their speed has not changed, as if they are endless. No one knows how many insects have entered the battlefield. I don't know how many bugs are still in unknown places, waiting to swamp the intruders with their numbers.

If only this group of intelligent creatures around them were fighting alone, then all the high-level mercenaries could see was despair. An endless open area, endless ferocious insects, no danger to defend, and nowhere to hide. Even powerful warriors will be consumed to death, not to mention there are a large number of ordinary people around them.

Fortunately, the former enemy has now become everyone's life-saving straw. The huge mutated spider mother blocks the front like a mainstay, allowing the insect tide to wash away one after another, and always remains standing.For a moment, Xiure even regretted in his heart why he had done something so ruthless just now and used tricky methods to destroy most of the little spiders to death, leaving only the strongest dozens of little spiders still alive. If these dangerous little spiders were If the monster swarm was still at its original size, there would be tens of thousands of small spiders. I'm afraid not even one of these strange bugs could get through.

However, high-level monsters are still high-level monsters, and these weird bugs cannot easily offend them. Even if there are only a few dozen left, they can still make the swarm pay a heavy price.

The bugs are no match for the little spider.

The surviving little spiders are all the strongest silver-level spiders, and there are even a few gold-level spiders among them. The black carapace covered with fluff looks dark and unremarkable, but its hardness is comparable to rock and steel. The sharp claws of the insects are everywhere. The friction on the carapace can only scrape off a piece of fluff and leave a few scratches at most, but cannot cause substantial damage at all. As for the relatively fragile abdomen, smart spiders always move close to the ground and protect the weak points very well. Let the bugs have no way to start.Even if the insect tide swamps the little spiders in numbers, they can still carry the weight of the bugs with their gold-level strength, constantly causing harm to the bugs from underneath the insect tide.

But the insect tide side is not so lucky.

Indeed, they also have exoskeletons, or their bodies are entirely wrapped in exoskeletons, and may have strong defenses against native creatures.But it is a pity that they are now facing the monsters from Parvatiga, and they are high-level monsters. In the eyes of the monsters, the hard exoskeleton of the bugs is not a problem at all.Just like ordinary people in Parvatiga, even if they wear heavy armor, they will be easily pierced when facing high-level monsters. What's more, no matter how hard the insect's exoskeleton is, there is still a certain gap compared to metal.

The eight legs with serrated inner edges can easily cut through the insect's body. A pair of large bloody jaws can bite the insect's carapace to pieces. The sharp liquid-sucking mouthparts that pop out of the mouth can also be used as weapons. , can penetrate deeply into the bodies of bugs like a spear. The carapace that bugs rely on for survival is as vulnerable as paper in front of spiders. With the strength of little spiders, even just moving their feet can destroy them. The insect, which was twice as big as them, bounced away easily, and its carapace was full of cracks.

If the bugs are smarter, they can seize the weakness of the small spiders, which are too light in weight, only [-] to [-] kilograms, and use their numerical advantage to overturn them and specifically attack their relatively fragile abdomen. They may also cause some damage to the small spiders, but They only have the instinct to attack, and they don't even have self-awareness. They are just blindly piling up in numbers. It may not be that easy to kill this group of little spiders in a short time.

What's more, the little spiders are not fighting alone, there is a more powerful mother sitting behind them.

The mutant spider mother has been lying on the ground and not moving since she appeared in this world, but her remaining six long legs are a nightmare for all flesh and blood.The energy of the legendary level is attached to the surface of the feet, which is indestructible. The long feet cover a surrounding area of ​​more than 20 meters. With a wave, a piece of bug will be neatly cut in half.

But this is not the purpose of the spider mother. The spider mother has only one purpose.

eat.

The spider mother was already very hungry.

After more than 4000 years of slumber, coupled with the continuous energy wave attacks just now, and finally using her body to resist the energy impact, protecting the last dozens of children in the explosion, the spider mother consumed too much energy, and the energy was consumed too much. The most intuitive manifestation is the unstoppable hunger.If you want to restore your physical strength and restore the energy in your body, you must eat a lot. The spider mother's appetite can no longer be restrained.

Then the food came to your mouth.

Despite the huge size of the spider mother, these insects, which are nearly one meter long, are small in size, but they are numerous and inexhaustible. As long as they are not afraid of the trouble and eat them one by one, they can quickly replenish the lost energy. .So, the spider mother started eating like crazy.

A forelimb stretched out and poked the ground a few times. Seven or eight bugs were pierced on the legs, twisting and struggling in the air, but they were still unable to escape from the spider mother's legs covered with barbs.If the spider mother had saliva, she would probably drool out. She brings the bugs in front of her, pops out her mouthparts, pierces the bugs one by one, and injects high-concentration digestive juices.

The digestive juices of a mother spider are much more violent than those of her children. It only takes a few seconds for the muscles in the carapace to quickly dissolve and become the mother's favorite nourishment.She stretched out her mouthparts again, happily sucking in the food that had been away for thousands of years. Until not a drop of the mushy nutrient solution was left, the spider mother reluctantly stretched her legs and got rid of the corpses with only exoskeletons left. .As soon as he finished all this, the other leg had already brought another group of food to his mouth. Without any delay, a new round of eating began again.

Eat, eat, eat, the mother spider keeps eating, and the little spiders keep fighting on the outside. Even if a few bugs climb up the mother's huge body, they are not afraid. There are always about a dozen little spiders crawling around on the mother's body, all crawling Any bugs that get on the mother's body will be quickly killed by the little spiders, and they will be carefully delivered to the mother's mouth for her to enjoy.

The spider mother was eating happily, but the intelligent creatures were not so happy.

Compared with those silver or even gold-level little spiders, the strength of intelligent creatures is much lower. Most of the defenders are only low-level bronze-level warriors. There are still more than 20 burdens without combat effectiveness. Even if they are there, With the addition of gold-level experts, everyone was still at a disadvantage in the face of endless insects. Even though experts assigned to other tasks soon joined the battle, in order not to divert the attention of the insects to our own side, , Shure has always restricted the use of large-scale magic, so the disadvantage has not changed.

Although ordinary mercenaries are only at the Bronze level, their attack power is not too bad. One swing of their sword can easily tear apart the carapace of insects and cut off their bodies.The problem is that these bugs have no fear at all. They will not flinch no matter how many times they die. Moreover, they seem to be unable to feel pain. Even if their limbs are cut off, their desire to attack does not change at all, even if they squirm a little. , also want to squirm to the side of the mercenaries and bite them hard.What's even more frightening is that even if their heads are chopped off, their bodies can still fight alive for dozens of seconds. Many of the injuries on the mercenaries were caused by such headless insects.

There was an endless supply of bugs, regardless of losses, but the same could not be said for the mercenaries. Each mercenary lost would lose one, and they did not have the carapace defense like the mutant spiders, so they were always timid and did not dare to let go of the battle.Even if high-level mercenaries joined in, Dak and Saff blocked part of the offensive on the outside, but there were too many people to protect, and the area each person defended was too large. In addition, the jumping ability of insects was also quite amazing. They could jump over the defensive circle, so even though most of the warriors had tried their best, four ordinary workers were still dragged into the insect swarm screaming.

The bugs didn't eat them, they just tore them into pieces very cruelly, threw them to the ground and ignored them.

Personnel were being lost one after another, and the ordinary workers were becoming more and more panicked. If it weren't for the endless fear caused by the insects around them, the team might have fallen into chaos. But it's not much better now, because the mercenaries It was just a passive defense, and the high-level mercenaries did not try their best. The fools among ordinary people complained about them.

As the tide of bugs continues to gather, there are more and more bugs around the team. All they see are bugs baring their teeth and claws, hissing and screaming. The hell-like scene is enough to make the weak-minded people collapse.Fortunately, the battle damage was not large and within an acceptable range. This would be a blessing among misfortunes.

Xiuer stood in the center of the team with his hands behind his back. Except for occasionally releasing magical healing spells, he never joined the battle. He kept looking at the tragic battlefield with an expressionless face. Even though someone had just been dragged out and quartered, he didn't even move his eyebrows. For a moment, it was as if the person who died was not a living person.

At this moment, he seemed to have returned to his hometown again. Surrounded by the guards, he stood on a high place and looked down at the battlefield. Thousands of family warriors were fighting in the battlefield. Corpses were everywhere, blood flowed into rivers, and the lives disappeared one by one. It turned into a simple number, even if this person was eating at the same table as me yesterday, toasting and drinking together.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Faced with Mia's third inquiry, Shuer still replied with the same words, but the next moment, his eyes lit up, "That's almost it. Get ready for action."

On another battlefield not far away, the mutated spider mother finally had enough to eat and slowly stood up, causing the ground to tremble. It seemed that it had become accustomed to the feeling of losing two limbs. It could only rely on its two hind legs on one side. It can barely guarantee that the abdomen will not drag on the ground.

As if they had received a signal, the little spiders tried their best to shake off the insects around them and nimbly climbed onto their mother. The sea-like tide of insects finally found an opportunity and quickly occupied the position originally guarded by the little spiders.

(End of this chapter)