Doomsday Totem

Chapter 45
In the stories passed down by countless travelers, the golden sandworm is a magical creature with extremely high intelligence.They will think like humans, and even use various tactics like humans...

Tie Slag's shout was like a concussion grenade thrown into the crowd, instantly stunned everyone.A few seconds later, Ye Xinling was the first to come to her senses, and she immediately dropped the spoils in her hands and ran towards Comet [-].Then everyone came back to their senses, but they were not willing to give up the spoils.Iron Slag had to wait for half a minute, watching them dragging and dragging the most valuable things into the car, before getting into the cockpit and ordering the team to evacuate north.

A moment later, the sky was full of sand and dust in the sand sea.Accompanied by the roar of the engine, nine sand vehicles lined up in a conical formation and headed north at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour.After a while, Alice's voice came from the radio.

[Captain, the signal source stopped for a short time after arriving at the coordinate point, and then chased us. Currently, the signal source is 23 kilometers away from us, but they are moving faster than us. According to the current driving speed, it is estimated that They'll catch up to us in two hours]
"Alice, analyze the methods used by the other party to track us?" Tie Slag asked.

[If the other party is a human, they can be tracked by the radio signal of our vehicle. If the other party is a sandworm, according to the existing historical data, they can be tracked by smell]
"It must be a sandworm!" Iron Slag said confidently.Because he didn't participate in the loot search just now, he just stood on a high place to observe the battlefield, and those battle marks were obviously left by the sandworms.

[The captain's judgment is close to Alice's comprehensive data analysis, and the calculation results show that 97% are sandworms, and 3% are other creatures]
"Is there any way we can escape their tracks?"

[According to Alice's calculation, we can't eliminate the smell of humans under the existing conditions, so we can't get rid of the sandworm's tracking]
After listening to Alice's analysis, Tie Slag scratched his hair and couldn't think of anything for a while, so he asked Lao Di in the back seat if he had any suggestions.Lao Di replied calmly, "We'll talk about it when they catch up, and take a nap now."

After finishing speaking, Lao Di half-closed his eyes and continued to doze off.In fact, he didn't fall asleep. He had been thinking about who should be in charge of the rear.Just now he saw at least five damaged mechas on the battlefield, which meant that the firepower of this team could not defeat the golden sandworms that followed, and it also meant that those who stayed behind would be sacrificed.In this case, with the status quo of this team, no one will willingly sacrifice himself for others.Thinking of this, Lao Di opened his eyes and said to Tie Slag, "Our speed is not as fast as the opponent's, so we should divide into three groups, so that only one team will be caught up."

"No, the rest of the people have to go back alive, otherwise Lina can't afford such a high cost of personnel loss." Tie Slag refused without thinking.

"It's not much money. She is the sheriff of Tieshan Town. This loss can still be made up for." Lao Di insisted.

"I rode on the motorcycle to lure them away. The sandworms are actually easy to deal with."

"No!" "No!" Lao Di and Ye Xinling objected in unison.

At this time, Ellie's voice sounded again.

[Alice is also opposed to going it alone]
"This golden sandworm has experienced at least a few battles. When it catches up with us, it may be exhausted. We can arrange the battlefield and escape route, and then fight it." Tie Slag said.

Lao Di thought about it for a while, and felt that Tie Slag's analysis made sense.So he immediately called the parking team, set up the battlefield on the spot, and waited for the sandworm to catch up.After a while, nine sand buggies spread out in an arc.Everyone stared ahead in anticipation.Some of them lie on the roof of the car, some lie on the side of the car, and some stretch out their upper body in the cockpit...

After more than ten minutes, the distant horizon gradually became blurred.Lao Di picked up the binoculars and looked over, only to see smoke and dust in front of him, and in the haze, a group of sandworms winding forward on the sand surface could be vaguely seen.

Under the sunlight, the carapace of the sandworm reflects the dazzling light.They are like countless intertwined giant pipes, with half of their bodies exposed on the ground and half of their bodies hidden in the sand, dancing with thousands of slender jointed feet and swimming quickly in the sea of ​​sand!
Quicksand has no resistance to them, they are simply species born for sand seas.They are like eels swimming in the ocean, the yellow sand like flowing water slides down on the carapace, and then is lifted up by the joints, repeating itself...

"Sand worms!" Lao Di exclaimed.

Tie Slag snatched the binoculars to take a look, and was immediately dumbfounded.The overwhelming swarm of sand worms is not something that people like this can fight against.He couldn't help cursing, "Is there anything more unlucky?"

Now I can't escape, I can't fight, I don't have much time to think.Iron Slag made up his mind and shouted loudly, "Everyone flee for their lives! Those who survive must gather at the Black Iron Bar!"

At this time, a deafening neigh suddenly sounded in front of him.That sharp voice seemed to tear the world apart!Terrible sound waves swept through the entire team in an instant, and the sharp sound that almost pierced the eardrums made people shake.Except for the iron slag, everyone fell down weakly, and couldn't even get up for a while.

Seeing the teammates around him fall down one after another, Tie Slag turned his head to look forward with his eyes wide open.I saw the swarm of sand worms rushing forward with a devastating power, and it took less than 10 minutes to rush to the front.Tie Slag gave a heartbreak, took out the steroid stimulant from his pocket and gave himself an injection.Then he jumped on the red comet and rushed towards the sandworm swarm with full throttle!

A few minutes later, Lao Di was the first to recover from the dizziness.As soon as he struggled to get up, he saw Iron Slag driving the locomotive madly into the swarm of sandworms.The red locomotive was like a solitary boat in a stormy sea, as if it would be completely crushed in the next second.Lao Di immediately opened his mouth wide, his heartbeat soared rapidly, and it was difficult for him to breathe for a while.

At this moment, Iron Slag's eyes were reddened, and the whites of his eyes were densely packed with blood.Under the influence of the stimulant, his reaction speed increased to the extreme.In his blood-red eyes, the whole world slowed down, as if the flow of time also slowed down.

Old man Tie once said: "To capture the thief, you must first capture the king!" At this moment, Tie Slag only had this sentence in his mind.Maybe if you kill the sand worm king, the other sand worms will scatter and flee.

In a flash, thick insect shells grew out of his whole body, and then he let out a roar, and the muscles of his whole body tensed up and suddenly exerted force!I saw six extremely long joints suddenly rushing out from behind him!
At this moment, the unfolded joints are like the wings of an eagle, as if it will fly high in the next second.

Iron Slag's six jointed legs are a bit like two-jointed spider legs, and the ends are extremely sharp, looking like six black-golden spears.Looking from a distance, the sharp spear tip shone coldly in the shadow of the sandworm swarm,
The sandworms in front became more and more dense, and the yellow sand splashed around fell like raindrops.Iron Slag drove the locomotive through the gaps among the giant worms.At this moment, his vision was blurred, and everywhere he went was dust billowing.He could only rely on his hearing to identify the direction, and then rushed into the center of the swarm!

There were sharp hissing sounds one after another, and the huge insect body pierced around.As long as he makes a small mistake, he will be overwhelmed by the huge insect swarm immediately.In the moment of life and death, Iron Slag found that the sandworms in front of him were crowded together layer by layer, with their huge bodies clinging to each other without leaving a single gap.They seem to be guarding the center, and perhaps the golden sandworms are behind them.

At this time, there was no way forward, no door behind, Iron Slag tightened the accelerator and moved forward at full speed.Amidst the huge roar, the jet bag crazily ejected high-pressure gas, increasing the speed of the vehicle to the extreme.Seeing that the locomotive is about to hit the insect body in the next second!Iron Slag jumped up suddenly, and jumped into the pile of sandworms!
The moment he plunged into the worm swarm, the six jointed feet on Iron Slag's back bent forward, firmly nailed to the sand worm's smooth carapace, and then he used his hands and feet to climb up on the giant worm's back.

At this time, the sandworm violently twisted its body, trying to shake off the insect on its back.But the worm was like a bone-attached cone, its sharp joints pierced into the worm's shell, and then it was firmly nailed to it, and it couldn't be shaken off at all.

The iron slag was picking up and down among the sandworms, and the hissing sound was deafening, as if the sky and the earth were shaking.In the confusion, he vaguely saw a black shadow covering the sky and the sun in front of him.The shadow was like a skyscraper towering into the clouds.Looking up, the sky filled with yellow sand seems to be inlaid with bright gems, shining with mysterious and dazzling brilliance.

Iron Slag has seen it before, and this is the king of the Sand Sea Storm Worm - the Golden Sand Worm.

Just as he was stunned, a sandworm suddenly swung its tail and swept over!The thick worm body was approaching with a huge wind pressure, Iron Slag couldn't dodge for a while, and bumped into the huge worm tail head-on!In the next second, he only felt being hit head-on by a high-speed truck, his stomach and internal organs were rolling and moaning deeply, and a mouthful of blood spurted out involuntarily.

The worm tail swept him more than ten meters away with thunderous power.After landing, he immediately struggled to get up.Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away from the position of the golden sandworm, he changed his mind and suddenly fled in another direction.

In the blink of an eye, the swarm of sand worms surrounded Iron Slag, blocking all his escape routes.At this time, the sandworm closest to him suddenly opened its bloody mouth and stabbed at him.But he stopped, squinting his eyes and standing there motionless, like a scared prey.

The huge mouthparts were reflected in the pupils, and the shadow grew bigger and bigger in an instant, and he seemed to be able to see the fine and sharp teeth in the bloody mouth.At the moment when the worm's mouth was about to reach the body, the iron slag suddenly rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the engulfment.The sandworm crashed headlong into the sand, and immediately flicked its tail towards the prey.At this time, Iron Slag tensed his muscles without hesitation, and watched Wormtail sweep towards him!

There was only a muffled sound of "bang", and the iron slag flew upside down like a shell for tens of meters, and fell beside the golden sandworm.Iron Slag spat out a mouthful of blood, then grinned, and climbed up the golden sandworm's huge body!
The golden sandworm seems to feel a foreign object climbing on the carapace on its back.It twisted its body frantically, trying to shake off the creature on its back.But Iron Slag's six-jointed legs plunged into the carapace fiercely, and climbed up at an extremely fast speed.

The golden sandworm made a sharp and extreme hissing sound, and the nearby sandworms were all summoned by it.But the sandworms could only twist their bodies around their king, neighing angrily, but they could do nothing to the little worms on the king's back.

(End of this chapter)