Doomsday Totem

Chapter 374 Beetles
Leaving Howling Caverns, the Black Boar sat contentedly driving a patched cruiser.Although Keefe the Mustache spends his days in the crowd of women, his mechanical skills are not bad.Listening to the smooth sound of the engine, Iron Slag almost proposed to change the car.

When it was time to camp at night, the Black Pig King saw that he was interested, so he offered to exchange.Tie Slag readily agreed, he had almost no hobbies, the only thing he was interested in was locomotives, after trying repeatedly for a while, he finally parked the car and ate the dinner made by the Black Pig King.

During the period, Iron Slag asked how the Black Pig King improved his evolutionary degree, because they are both traditional and worm-like compound evolutionaries, and the way to obtain enhancement should be the same.The black pig king said that absorbing the crystal nucleus of mutant creatures can increase the degree of evolution, but after absorbing to a certain extent, it will have no effect.

Upon hearing this information, Tie Slag suddenly understood.Why his evolution rate suddenly increased on the raft in the frozen ocean, and why he was able to improve by absorbing the crystal nucleus of the master of the abyss, all these point to the mysterious "radium 2315".After discovering this, he immediately communicated with the black pig.After some discussion, the two quickly determined that it was radium 2315 that raised the degree of evolution, not high-purity psionic energy.

But in fact, scientists have repeatedly verified that radium 2315 is made of high-purity spiritual energy, and its internal structure is similar to the difference between charcoal and diamonds.For now, psionic energy can be roughly divided into four forms, which are formless, star sand, liquid, and aggregated.The psionic energy of low-level psykers is usually invisible, like some kind of bioelectric energy; while the psionic energy above the eighth level is in the form of star sand; the psionic energy refined from the spirit stone mine is liquid; as for the aggregated form A small amount of psionic energy exists in the crystal nuclei of mutated creatures.

After discussing the traditional evolutionary issues, the two chatted about the ability to transform into insects.The Black Pig King possesses three basic abilities and two rare abilities, namely antized muscle, beetle endurance, insect regeneration, beetle elytra, and peduncle beetle.Hearing his abilities, Tie Slag couldn't help asking questions. According to the old blind man who transported the corpse, the basic level of insectification ability has a great change in the gene chain, and it is easy to absorb two or more basic abilities at the same time. It caused the disorder of the gene chain, which led to the complete collapse of the body of the worm.

"I didn't know it before. I absorbed the ones that fit me, and my body became fatter and fatter. When I realized the problem, it was too late..." The Black Pig King said helplessly, spreading his hands.

"Any other abnormalities?" Tie Slag asked.

"It seems that apart from being fat, there are no other disadvantages." The black pig king said uncertainly.

Then, in order to cooperate in future battles, Iron Slag also briefly introduced his abilities.However, he concealed the life of the worm and the gland of the male ant. After all, these two abilities have nothing to do with combat, but they are the abilities that the worms dream of.In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he chose to skip it.

"Why do you have some messy abilities." The Black Pig King couldn't help but said, in his opinion, apart from basic abilities, rare abilities should be selected to enhance each other.For example, his beetle elytra strengthened the shellfish's carapace, which in turn strengthened the former's toughness.

Regarding the evaluation of the Black Pig King, Tie Slag just smiled, but did not explain anything.Their combat methods are different. Judging from the contact these days, the Black Pig King is more inclined to use brute force to solve problems, and he likes to fight hard head-on, while he likes to hide in the dark and attack unless he has a great advantage. Or when it is a last resort, they will choose to fight head-on.

After a night's rest, the two continued on their way.After half a day, they gradually entered the high radiation area.The surrounding black moss is getting denser and more and more associated with fungi.Under the afternoon sun, the air is filled with tiny white particles, which are spores produced by fungal plants, which contain certain toxins.Both Iron Slag and Black Pig King wore wet towels to avoid inhaling their lungs.

However, as worms, their ability to resist harsh environments and harmful substances is far superior to that of other humans. Even if they inhale the scattered spores for a long time, there is no fatal danger.But ordinary humans are different, once they inhale too much, the spores will take root and sprout in their lungs, and finally break out of their bodies, and their death is quite terrifying.

Not long after entering the high-radiation zone, Iron Slag saw two corpses covered with purple downy fungus.According to the black pig king, this fungus is called "corpse-eating fungus", which generally grows on human or animal corpses and can be eaten.

"Eatable?" Tie Slag couldn't help asking.

"Yes, the soup is very sweet." When he spoke, the Black Pig King showed a fascinated look, as if he was caught in a wonderful memory.

"Uh..." Tie Slag was at a loss for words for a moment, eating this kind of thing was tantamount to cannibalism indirectly.

"Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz……"

At this moment, a dense buzzing sound came from far to near, forming an overwhelming momentum in just a few seconds.The black pig king hurriedly yelled: "No! It's the cemetery bee, get down!" After speaking, he threw himself forward and lay on the ground with his head in his arms.

Seeing this, Iron Slag immediately took off the canvas tent from the back seat of the locomotive, wrapped his body and retracted under the foot of a large rock on the side.

"Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz……"

In an instant, the air around him was flowing rapidly, and the huge humming sound came from all directions. It felt like being in the midst of countless industrial electric fans with full power, making people dare not move at all.

After about tens of seconds, as if the sky had cleared after the rain, all the surrounding movements disappeared.Iron Slag slowly opened the canvas, and saw the Black Pig King laying motionless on the ground, like a human-shaped hill.He looked around for a while, and after confirming that there was no danger, he stood up and walked to the black pig king.

As soon as he approached, the latter jumped up, and before he could speak, he turned around and punched the ground.

"Tell you to sting me, tell you to sting!" With a sound of angry curses, a palm-sized cemetery bee was smashed into pieces and squeezed into the soil.

After this little episode, the two drove the locomotive to continue southward.Towards evening, they encountered a group of mutated beetles.They are the size of a calf, with sharp mouthparts and forelimbs, hiding in bacteria to eat from.Disturbed by the roar of the engine, they spread their gray elytra and flapped their membrane wings, and rushed towards the intruder aggressively.

"Da da da da da da da da da..." The black pig king quickly picked up the drum-type heavy machine gun tied to the back seat, and swept it with a shuttle of bullets.

In an instant, the hot warheads whizzed towards the air, hitting the beetle swarm with juice.

"Bang!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

In a blink of an eye, a big beetle that broke through the line of fire rushed towards him, and Iron Slag suddenly shrank his pupils, turned around, and slashed with his knife!Hearing a light "chi", the thick worm's body instantly split into two, flew with inertia for a while, and landed behind him.

"Death!" At the same time, the black pig king uttered a loud shout, his whole body glowed red, and he punched the big beetle flying towards him.With a muffled sound like a sandbag bursting, the beetle paused slightly in the air, and then flew out like a cannonball, knocking over a group of companions that followed.

"grumble!"

During the fierce battle, a sharp long cry suddenly sounded from behind the swarm.The sound was very much like the flute of a train, with such a strong penetrating power that it hurt people's eardrums.Looking fixedly, a huge figure appeared behind the swarm.The shape of that figure is like a rear eight-wheeled truck that has been magnified several times. The head is small and flexible, covered with fluff and carapace. It is even more shocking.

It has eight small jointed legs on its chest, like a curved spear, and six thick large jointed legs under its chest, supporting its bulging body. Two pairs of thick elytra cover the insect's back, like a car. Enhanced armored car.

Amidst the frenzied hissing, the super giant beetle charged towards them.The insect swarm in front immediately scattered and flew away, making way for their leader.

"Da da da da da da da da da..." The black pig king frantically pulled the trigger, and the rain of bullets poured out, hitting the bug's body with sparks flying everywhere, but it didn't cause the slightest pause.

Seeing that ordinary bullets were useless, Iron Slag immediately took off the psionic warrior rifle, pulled the bolt to reload, and shouted loudly while accumulating power: "Block it!"

After receiving the order, the Black Pig King dropped the heavy machine gun in his hand on the spot, took out two hatchets with wooden handles from behind, and rushed towards the giant beetle.

"Hush..." During the confrontation, the Beetle King suddenly stopped in his tracks.In an instant, its head retracted inward, and two spear-like joints shot out immediately.

"Pfft!" In the next second, there were two muffled sounds of sharp piercing into the flesh, and two spears pierced through the wild boar king's worm shell, coming out from behind.

"Wow wow wow!"

The sharp pain in his chest not only did not stop the Black Pig King's footsteps, but aroused his wildness.He roared frantically, rushed under the giant beetle in the blink of an eye, and slammed into its head.That indomitable momentum is exactly the brilliant ancient martial arts he has just learned in the past few days--Tieshanjiao.

In the blink of an eye, there was only a crackling sound, and the Wild Boar King fell back, with several broken limbs on his shoulders.

"Squeak!" The Beetle King let out a painful howl, and under that blow, its remaining six small joints were all broken.The Beetle King, who had lost his joint legs, was furious, and opened his mouth to pounce on the humans on the ground.

The black pig king immediately rolled over, avoiding the giant beetle's bite, then rounded his arms, and chopped the insect's head with an axe!

With a loud sound of "铛!", the ax struck the carapace, and sparks scattered everywhere. Although it didn't hit the carapace, it still made the Beetle King stunned for a moment.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the black pig king sprang up from the ground and climbed onto the back of the giant beetle.

After waking up, the Beetle King noticed a foreign object on his back, and immediately shook the insect's body, trying to shake it off.At this moment, the black pig king who had just climbed onto the back of the worm let out a loud roar, swung the double axes with all his strength and smashed towards the back of the worm.

"Crack!" "Crack!" Accompanied by two cracks, the two hatchets were both inserted into the insect shells.With a point of focus, the giant beetle would not be able to throw him off.Immediately afterwards, he grabbed the handle of the ax to fix his body, and then punched the worm's back one after another, each time with a tooth-piercing crack.

"Om..." Under the severe pain, the Beetle King instinctively agitated his membrane wings and flew up.

Seeing that the target was about to flee, Iron Slag, who was accumulating energy, quickly opened his membrane wings and chased after him with a gun in his hand.Helplessly, the speed of his ant-shaped flying wings was too slow to keep up with the flying speed of the giant beetle.In the blink of an eye, a distance of five to 60 meters was opened.Although the energy storage has been completed at this moment, considering that the black pig king is still on the worm's back, he dare not shoot rashly, so he can only aim with his gun, looking for opportunities to shoot.

"Wow wow wow!" At the same time, the black pig king on the back of the clinging worm roared crazily, smashing the worm shell in front of him to pieces, leaving a bloody mess.During the slamming, the beetle king who was knocked out of his head couldn't tell the direction for a moment, turned around and flew towards the iron slag.

It was this moment that Iron Slag had been waiting for. He fixed his gaze, aimed steadily at the head of the giant beetle, and pulled the trigger at the moment when the three points formed a line.

A violent tongue of flame erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and with a loud "Boom!", a blue beam of light appeared across the sky, causing ripples in the air and hitting the beetle's head directly.

"squeak……"

The moment the psionic armor-piercing projectile filled with star sand shot into the beetle's head, it let out a final hiss, and the membrane wings stopped beating immediately, and the huge body fell from the air to the ground.After firing the bullet, Iron Slag immediately retracted his membrane wings, swooped down, and grabbed the black pig king on the beetle's back before the beetle landed.

(End of this chapter)