Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 113 "Fireflies"

The Zerg engineers protected Sass layer by layer like the most loyal guards. Under the night, they kept running forward, with flames shooting up into the sky behind them.

Zero felt that he still underestimated the lizardman's methods.The fire was so fierce that even he was a little caught off guard. It must have been arranged in advance in the base camp.

However, Zero had no idea how the opponent bypassed the layers of explorers scattered at the outermost edge and the warriors who were tightly defending inside, and directly made arrangements in the core area.

Unlike the indifference when he was allowed to escape last time, this time, Zero was really a little annoyed, but he quickly suppressed this emotion, which didn't make much sense, and would only make people make wrong judge.

In fact, apart from being slightly embarrassed, the opponent's attack did not cause many casualties to the Zerg.

Although the fire devoured all the hatcheries in the base camp, it did not cause much damage to the rest of the Zerg.

The only pity is the remaining food stored in the base camp.It was originally used to support the daily needs of the Zerg in the base camp, but now most of them have been turned into ruins in the sea of ​​fire.

Today, engineers and a small number of warriors are covering Sass and rushing to the first lizardman territory broken by the Zerg, which is the closest Zerg camp to the base camp. With a scale of thousands.

As soon as the base camp caught fire, He had already ordered all the swarms there to be on alert.

If the opponent is really that lizardman boy, the camp there should be attacked!
Zero is leading thousands of engineers and warriors in the base camp, and they are rushing there as fast as possible in the jungle. At least Sass must be settled in a place where there is a hatchery, otherwise the swarm will always take it Running in the forest, Zero always has a sense of insecurity.

Although the opponent could not cause real damage to the Zerg in a substantial sense, even Sass was not afraid of death, but Zero was still unwilling to do nothing because of this and let the opponent do what he wanted.

He could not have accepted such a passive situation.

Regarding Sommer's actions, Zero did not guess wrong. However, although the Zerg camp had been well defended as much as possible, Zero also sprinkled a large number of explorers into the jungle in a short time, trying to find out what the other party was. is how to do this.

But the fire broke out suddenly in the camp, and then it spread like fuel on a raging fire!
Without the slightest sign, or even with the help of the wind, it just soared in the Zerg camp, out of control.

Unlike before, this time Zero has already made some mental preparations.So He decided to abandon this place as soon as the fire broke out.

Because they have been psychologically prepared, this time, except for the hatchery that is still difficult to get out of, under Zero's appeasement, the warriors were not affected too much by the sudden outbreak of the fire, and they brought several pre-prepared The worm eggs left here relatively calmly, and headed towards Sass who came from the base camp.

Zero did not call back the main force of the Zerg that had gone deep into the jungle because of the attack on the camp. In the night, another wave of Zerg completed a surprise attack on the Lizardmen's territory and won a complete victory.

A new camp had begun to be established on the lizardmen's territory, and what happened here was far from allowing Zero to do this.

Although they looked embarrassed, they didn't suffer much substantial damage. Even after breaking through the Lizardman camp again, the number of Zerg continued to rise.

If Sass is not here, Zero can even give up here directly.

For the current Zerg, occupying a vast land without benefiting too much is rather tasteless in itself, and they can give up at any time if necessary.

Of course, this does not mean that Zero will endure this tone.

I don't know what method the other party used to break through the heavy defenses on the outside of the Zerg, and directly set fire to the inside of the camp, accumulatively killing hundreds of Zerg hatcheries, burning most of the remaining food in the base camp, and almost killing the Zerg Zerg The only brain worm also died on the spot. How could Zero turn a blind eye to this level?
It's just that the opponent's method is really weird, as if he has the ability to create flames out of thin air, which makes him feel a little helpless for a while.

This is of course impossible, and Zero doesn't believe that the lizard boy would be so outrageous!

The other party must have used some strange method to hide from the Zerg's vision and Zero's observation, so that the fire could directly start in the center of the camp.

Zero is quite concerned about this method.

He immediately asked Sass to find part of the information about the boy from the memories of the surviving lizardmen, and wanted to start from this aspect to see the details of the other party.

But to his disappointment, the information about him obtained from the lizardman's memory was actually very ordinary, at least to Zero.

All he knew was that his name was Sommer, and he was well-known in the entire territory.

He was the only lone hunter, the lone wolf who was almost chosen as the target by the Zerg.

At the same time, he is also the hunter with the most lucrative harvest every time he goes hunting.No matter how ferocious the beast is, as long as it is what he wants, there is no possibility that he will not be unable to hunt it.

His magic arrow hits every shot, and his hunting skills are miraculous.In the memories of all the lizardmen who were lucky enough to survive, the part about his hunting ability is all about admiration and envy.

But regarding him himself, it is completely different. There are many impressions of withdrawn, aloof, ruthless, cold, unkind, etc., and there are basically no positive comments.

For this information, Zero does not think there is any reference value.No matter how good his archery skills are, he can't shoot flames into the Zerg camp out of thin air, and no matter how strong his hunting ability is, he can't start fire out of thin air.

He's done killing the Zerg without even showing his face!
Although this amount of damage is not considered traumatic to the Zerg, but to Zero, it is enough to surprise him.

In his understanding, with the level of science and technology of the lizard people, it is absolutely impossible to do this!
He realized that there must be many unknown secrets in this lizard boy.If he doesn't understand the method he used, the Zerg will definitely be attacked again!
So, after the two sides met, Zero immediately asked the remaining warriors to collect food, whether it was animals or Zerg's own corpses, or anything else, as long as it was useful, they all collected.

Then use these foods to hatch the only remaining eggs, and once again build a Zerg camp on the spot.

This time, he will use this camp as bait to be the angler, and see for himself how the other party will send flames into the Zerg camp!

Soon after, under the protection of the engineers, another hatchery was established in the jungle. At the same time, the remaining Zerg also snatched some resources from the fire. Some of them were the only food left, and some were killed. Beasts, more of the corpses of the Zerg themselves.

Right here, Zero used the patchwork of resources to once again set up the banner of the Zerg camp.

The innermost part of the camp is the hatchery and Sass, which are protected by layers of engineers, and the outside is a mixed team of Zerg warriors and engineers. As for the outermost part, Zero has mobilized all the remaining explorers in the jungle. When they come down, they will serve as Zero's eyes, closely watching every movement in the jungle!
Based on the information he received from Sass, Yiling judged the character of the lizard boy. If the other party could find this place, he would definitely use this strange and unknown method to attack the Zerg again. This time, Ling would Put all your attention here and see what the heck happens.

For this reason, he even handed over the last Zerg army that was preparing to raid the lizardmen's territory to command Sass. After being attacked twice in a row, it could no longer conduct its own research.

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In the early morning in the forest, a gust of wind gradually blew up, and the sky was also suppressed by dark clouds, and it was no longer clear as it was at midnight.

The wind exacerbated the spread of the fire in the jungle to a certain extent. The lizard people's territory was better. Before that, they had cleaned up the surrounding environment to a certain extent, which was equivalent to artificially creating a fire zone to limit the spread of fire. further spread of the fire.

But at the Zerg base camp, within a few hours, the fire had become uncontrollable, and it was even more out of control under the action of the wind.

Sommer stood on a big tree on the top of the mountain, looking at the two places full of smoke in the distance, without any expression.

He saw with his own eyes that the fire devoured those huge and ugly worms, and he also saw them desperately grabbing a fat giant worm. He stood here and witnessed everything.

The two fires were of course his masterpiece, and the Zerg had explorers on guard outside, and he knew he couldn't sneak in at all.

So if you want to kill them, you have to think of another way.

Use fire!

This was the first thought that popped into his mind that night, and he really made good use of it, and burned all those huge, ugly and disgusting bugs to death with a big fire.

Although it didn't cause too many casualties to those sensitive bugs, he could tell that those huge bugs that kept laying eggs like a mother's body were their roots.

He is very sure that destroying them is more useful than killing those numerous bugs!
However, when he finally saw the swarm fighting to snatch Sass out of the sea of ​​flames, he suddenly felt that he might not have found the real key.

That fat worm is the real important character in the swarm!
In the cool night wind, Sommer stood quietly on the canopy of the tree, with a cold light in his eyes.

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There are trees all over the jungle, but there are also rivers in the valley.

In the depths of the mountain, there is a natural stone cave that leads directly to the underground river deep underground.

Somer had spent the night here a year earlier on a hunting trip.In order to ensure safety at night and to make this place a fixed supply point when he goes out later, he conducted a more detailed exploration of this place.

Sloping down along the cave, Sommer finally reached the underground river.There, he made a strange discovery.

With his eyesight, he can detect tiny things that are difficult for ordinary people to detect. Coupled with his keen intuition for danger honed from living in the jungle since childhood, there are few creatures in the jungle that can threaten his life.

But at that time, he almost lost his life.

On the wall by the bank of the underground river, there was a kind of bug that he had never seen before lying quietly.The bugs were almost integrated with the wall, if he hadn't possessed that unbelievable insight, he wouldn't have been able to find them at all.

Originally, he only thought of them as ordinary bugs, but when Sommer approached the wall, the group of rock-like bugs suddenly spread around him like a rippling lake. , opened the wings on the back layer by layer, revealing the abdomen hidden below, which was as bright as a flame!

In an instant, the entire underground river in the cave became radiant, and the little lights lit up like a galaxy from near to far to deeper. The beautiful feeling makes people feel like they are in the starry sky.

Even Sommer was in a trance at this moment.

However, beneath the extreme beauty lies an equally deadly danger.

In the next moment, the nearest bug had already taken off from the wall, followed by the second, and then the third, taking off in groups one by one, and there was obviously only one target, and that was Sommer.

Out of an instinctive reaction to danger, when they rushed towards him, Sommer reacted immediately, fell to the ground in a slightly embarrassed way, and avoided the fatal blow.

Then, he saw an astonishing scene.

The bug that lost its target because of its rapid dodging hit the ground at extreme speed, and in an instant, a large piece of flame rose out of thin air!
At this moment, Sommer really felt the threat of death.

Because in the rear, there are almost endless insects flapping their wings and flying towards him!

In the jungle, Sommer can gallop freely like a fish in water, and almost no wild beast can threaten him.But here, he has only one choice at this time, and that is to run!
Get away!
Fortunately, the perennial jungle career prevented him from falling in the middle of the pursuit. With the roar of flames behind him, he rushed back to the ground in extreme embarrassment.

Although those insects were ferocious and dangerous, they seemed to be extremely afraid of the sun, and did not chase out of the cave. They disappeared again when there was a little light, and they were silent again.

The evening sun shone on Sommer's face, and at that moment, it was like rebirth.

So much so that he avoided it intentionally for a period of time thereafter.

However, some people long for a stable and peaceful life, and they are even willing to give anything for it.But some people are born with the desire and pursuit of excitement and danger.

Perhaps it was due to nature, out of reason, he always deliberately avoided it and never approached it, but in his heart he was always very concerned about these strange bugs that almost killed him.

In the end, he returned to the cave again, and this time, he came out very calmly.

There, Sommer used himself as a bait to find out all the habits of these bugs, and at the same time, he also understood their weaknesses.

He found that, apart from being afraid of the sun, these bugs seemed to have a natural love for those cold mountain rocks, and it was for this reason that they entrenched on the rock walls around the underground river.

Moreover, they are naturally hostile to other creatures, once a living creature approaches, they will immediately notice it, and frantically launch this kind of suicide attack.

These bugs seemed to have unlocked the childishness that was missing in his childhood. In the following period of time, Sommer did a lot of interesting experiments on these dangerous bugs until he was confident that they could no longer pose a threat to him. Finally left.

Until this time, after he sneaked into the Zerg camp and noticed the terrifying ability of the Zerg, he immediately thought of these bugs.

During the days when Zero waited for Sass to obtain the memories of the lizardmen, he returned to that cave again and brought them out!
(End of this chapter)