Doomsday Totem

Chapter 380 Antlion
Hagrid narrowed his eyes immediately, exchanged glances with Blood Eagle, and then left with Iron Slag.

"Hagrid, how many Norses do you have left?"

But when they just walked to the door, the voice of the blood eagle sounded behind them.Hagrid stopped for a while, but didn't make any response, and continued to move forward.But at this time, Tie Slag, who had been silent all this time, finally couldn't bear it anymore, turned back to Blood Eagle, looked into his eyes and said, "Although we have few people, we have never been afraid of any power."

"Who are you?" Blood Eagle asked with a tense face.

"I am Iron Slag Norses, the guardian of the holy wolf." Iron Slag replied with a tense face.

"Iron Slag, since you are so powerful, why do you still come to ask me for help?" Blood Eagle asked with a sneer.

"Blood Eagle, don't speak too much." Hagrid stepped forward and said with a gloomy face.

"Don't you dare to answer my question?" Blood Eagle stared into Hagrid's eyes and said slowly, "If I were you, I would hide in a corner first, keep the blood of the family, and then come to be a land walker .”

"You don't need to worry about this." Hagrid paused for a while, and then said, "Don't talk so much nonsense, you can help if you want to help, and forget it if you don't want to."

"In order to save those [-] daredevils, but put the other [-] people in danger, why?" Blood Eagle asked.

"There are many things in the world that cannot be measured by interests," Hagrid said.

"So you became a land walker, completely ignoring your actual situation." Blood Eagle commented.

"I didn't come here to listen to your nonsense." Hagrid frowned and said impatiently.

"I won't help you, you go." After finishing speaking, Blood Eagle turned his back and looked at the decorations on the wall.

After a while, Hagrid and Iron Slag left the meeting hall and returned to the Long Water Bar.After some discussion, the two decided to wait another day tomorrow. If no one joined, they would go and have a look first, and then make plans after understanding the situation.

But the next morning, as soon as Hagrid hung up the small blackboard with the recruitment information, several hunters came to apply.There are not many of them, and there are not many of them, exactly 20 people.Seeing this, Hagrid immediately laughed happily, because they were obviously sent by the Blood Hawk.However, in addition to the normal employment money, these people have put forward the requirement of "not entering the underground shelter, only providing support on the ground".Although the conditions are a bit harsh, such a result is already very satisfactory to him.

After gathering all the personnel and stacking the supplies on the sled, the search and rescue team set off.

Two hours after leaving the Blackwater Lake Fortress, the team entered the high-radiation zone.The entire Heishui Lake is in the shape of a "U", with the opening facing north and the bottom facing south. The base of Heishui Lake is located at the bottom of the "U", surrounded by water on three sides and land on one side.Because of the terrain, the area around the Blackwater Lake stronghold is a low-radiation zone, which allows the wormers to stay for a long time.

Since the target location is about [-] kilometers south of Heishui Lake, the team had to make a big circle, first go north, and then go south along the lake.It is not difficult to see from the route that walking directly through the Blackwater Lake is the fastest way, but no one dares to sail on the lake.Because in the southern cemetery, the mutated creatures in the water are much more dangerous than those on land.It is said that there are "water worms" in the lake. Like ice worms, water worms are close relatives of sand worms, but compared to sand worms, water worms are very large.

According to the analysis of scientists, the first sandworms came from the depths of Desert No. 2200, and entered the world of Yincheng around BDr [-].They like liquid environments, such as deserts, snow, lakes, but strangely, they don't like the ocean.

Walking by the lake, looking at the calm lake, Tie Slag suddenly had the idea of ​​hunting water bugs.Looking at his expression, the black pig king quickly guessed his intention, so he whispered, "Don't try to turn me into anything again."

"You mean, you can become a water bug?" Tie Slag asked.

"Oh my god...what the hell am I talking about..." The Black Pig King slapped his forehead suddenly, looking extremely painful.

"Can you maintain the insect form forever?" Iron Slag asked.

"It's fine for a month or two, but the body can't bear it after a long time." The black pig king replied.

The two were chatting, Lilith leaned over and asked with a smile: "You two handsome guys, what are you talking about?"

"Uncle." The Black Pig King said with a straight face.

"You guys talk first, I'll take a break." After speaking, Tie Slag jumped onto a cart pulled by a fire mule, lay down on the supplies and fell asleep.

Five days later, the team came to the edge of Blackwater Lake and continued southward.After leaving the lakeside and entering the ruins of the city, the surrounding environment becomes dangerous.After encountering several swarm attacks, the team's progress slowed down.

The air is filled with misty spores, and the visibility is very low. Black moss is covered in every corner that can be seen, and there are fungi plants half the height of a person growing everywhere.Before the ancient nuclear war, this area used to be New Lilo, one of the largest cities in the southern continent, so this area was called "New Lilo Dark and Foggy Forest" by hunters.

As the name suggests, black moss is everywhere here, fungi are overgrown, aerosol-like spore clouds are accumulated all year round, and dangerous mutated creatures lurk everywhere. It is a well-deserved dark place.

However, the hunters in the team are all experienced veterans, so along the way, although there were constant crises, they were all resolved without any danger.

On the fourth day of entering the foggy forest, the team encountered a mutated antlion larva lurking in the shallow soil.Antlion, also known as "sand cow" or "sand monkey", is a carnivorous insect.Academically, it belongs to the Neuroptera order, Anthridae, and feeds on other insects. The larvae live under the dry surface and dig funnel-shaped traps in the sandy soil to trap prey.

This mutant antlion larva has a large head with a sickle-shaped palate at the front end, and a sand-gray abdomen that is oval and covered with manes.At that time, Lilith was humming a ditty and happily walking on the side of the team, but accidentally stepped into the antlion's trap.In an instant, she had just had time to scream when she was dragged into the soil.For fear of accidentally hurting her, everyone dared not shoot easily, and squatted above the trap to wait and see.

Based on the habits of the mutated antlion larvae, Lilith will not be in danger for the time being, and will only suffer a little bit of torture.Antlion larvae usually spit out mud with mucus, and store their prey in soil shell cocoons.

After observing for a while, a hunter stood up and said, "Let me go, I have earth worms hiding." After getting Hagrid's consent, the hunter let out a low cry, and smooth mirror-like hair immediately grew all over his body. The worm shell, then leaned over and kicked his legs, and got into the loose soil layer.

At this moment, Lilith, who was dragged into the shallow soil layer, was twisting her body, desperately grabbing the surrounding soil with both hands.However, all her struggles were in vain. Dozens of jointed feet in the lower abdomen of the antlion larva tightly hugged her body, and some tiny jointed legs pierced into her chest and abdomen, slowly injecting Paralyzing toxin.

As time went by, Lilith's struggle became weaker and weaker, and when she opened her eyes wide in despair, there was a sudden surge in the soil layer above.Li Lisi was overjoyed, knowing that someone had come to rescue her.But before she could be happy, she felt the antlion larva raise its head, and its abdomen swell rapidly.

"grumble!"

In the darkness, with a piercing scream, the antlion larva shot a pillar of sand upwards!
"tumultuous!"

In the next moment, the hunter who had just approached was hit head-on by the sand pillar, was directly sprayed out of the ground, and fell from a height of more than ten meters.The moment the pillar of sand rushed out of the ground, Hagrid bowed and jumped quickly with sharp eyesight, catching the falling insectoid.

"Don't...don't come here." Lilith screamed in despair.

After driving away the intruders, the antlion larva screamed excitedly, stretched out a needle-like mouthpart, pierced into the side of the prey's neck, and sucked blood greedily.

"I'll do it." Seeing this, the Black Pig King exerted all his strength, and burrowed into the insect shell.

But not long after, with a scream, a pillar of sand shot up into the sky, spraying Hei Dapang out.In the sandy rain all over the sky, the black pig king who fell to the ground cursed "I'll kill you" and got in again, only to be sprayed out again after a few seconds...

"This thing is really troublesome." The black pig king looked at the sand hole on the ground and shook his head helplessly.

At the same time, the antlion larva, whose feeding was interrupted continuously, let out an angry neigh, and tightened the joints around Lilith, causing her bones to creak immediately.In an instant, Lilith burst into tears in pain.

"There's no way to get close at all." The hunter who got in just now echoed.

"Can you determine its approximate location?" Tie Slag thought for a while, then stood up and asked.

"Probably at..." The hunter gestured, explaining to him the depth and location of the antlion larva.

"Let's go down together and drill in different directions," Tie Slag said.After getting ready, the three of them grew insect shells at the same time, and plunged into the sand layer.

In the darkness, Iron Slag moved lightly through the sand, crawling in the soft shallow soil layer like swimming.

"Hey!" There was a muffled sound from the right, and the black pig king was sprayed out.Taking advantage of the lack of strength of the antlion larva, he accelerated his crawl.

"Hei!" Not long after, there was a muffled sound from the left side, and it seemed that he was the only one left.Seeing that there were still a few meters away, and that he would definitely not be able to reach it before the next spray, Iron Slag immediately stopped moving and crawled on the spot without moving.After being quiet for about ten seconds, there was another movement from above. It seemed that the Black Pig King and the others reacted quickly and got down again to attract attention.

"Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!"

Taking advantage of the gap between each eruption, the iron slag moved forward little by little, and finally climbed one meter away from the antlion larva after five eruptions.He took a deep breath, suddenly let out a loud shout, and a jointed foot jumped out from behind, penetrated the soil layer, and plunged into the target's body, a large number of parasitic cells poured out immediately.

After a successful blow, the iron slag was sprayed out of the ground by the sand column.He did a backflip in mid-air and landed firmly on the ground.

When everything above calmed down, the antlion larva let out a happy neigh, and was about to enjoy the food, but felt severe pain all over its body, as if thousands of ants were biting inside its body.

"Chi Chi Chi Chi Chi..." The tearing pain bit its nerves like a tide, and it immediately let go of its prey, rolling and struggling in the soil.

"Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz……"

After a while, big red ants emerged from the ground, shook off the fine sand from their bodies, and flew up.

(End of this chapter)