Skill extraction from Dragon Clan

Chapter 222 Ambush
After helping the hunter deal with the wound, Zheng Shu immediately rushed towards the direction Atalanta left.

Fortunately, Atalanta didn't run too fast in order to follow the enemy's tracks, so Zheng Shu quickly caught up with her.

"You don't need to use it. You should know from his information that the enemy this time is not at the level of a wild boar. If you are not careful, you may lose your life." Atalanta looked at Zheng Shu who was chasing up Somewhat unexpectedly, she thought that the other party would be frightened away after hearing an enemy of this level.

"You may not believe it, this time the enemy has something to do with me, so I need to deal with it." Zheng Shu smiled at Atalanta, and continued to observe the surrounding situation.

Although the swarm of insects has always been flying high in the sky, occasionally some insects will fly a little lower, so that the canopy of the trees will be destroyed.Following these traces of destruction, Zheng Shu can confirm that the enemy has indeed been flying in this direction.

The two of them ran from dark to dawn like this, and finally managed to find the traces of this group of bugs.Although Zheng Shu and Atalanta didn't run with all their strength just in case, it can also be seen how fast the group of bugs moved.

After being far away, they stopped their fast-moving footsteps. Zheng Shu and Atalanta looked for tree roots on the ground as footholds to move around, so as to prevent them from making noises when they stepped on fallen leaves or dead branches.

While moving silently, while using the trees to cover their figure, the two quickly reached the edge of the insect swarm.

Further inside, there are a large number of bugs patrolling, and if one is not careful, it may disturb the bug swarm, so they can only hide in the canopy of the tree and watch the situation in the distance.

"The situation is a little worse than expected, and the number of insects is much more than expected." Zheng Shu looked at the busy insect swarm in the distance, and his face was a little unhappy.

In front of him was a swarm of nearly a thousand bugs.

These worms are black all over, and the thick outer shell reflects the luster of metal. Each one is the size of a van, and some of them are extremely huge and can even reach the level of the head of a heavy truck.

The shape of the worm looks a bit like a longhorn. The shell on its back is covered with transparent wings, and the thick carapace on its head is twisted and extended to grow a very strong and sharp horn.

Zheng Shu could see that many male insects used their horns to determine their status. Some of the insects with very high status had horns so thick that they looked like a battering ram.

The six pairs of jointed limbs under the body are extremely sharp and look like sharp knives. Zheng Shu can clearly see that when they encounter some trees, they can directly hold a tree as thick as a person with just a light hug with their jointed limbs. cut off.

The strength is also very terrifying. These bugs the size of a van can basically carry wood three to five times their size and fly, and they seem to have enough strength.

According to Zheng Shu's common sense, the oxygen consumed by such a large insect is also extremely terrifying. Theoretically, this level of oxygen is not enough to supply them for activities, and they will just suffocate to death.

But in ancient Greece in the age of gods, apart from oxygen, there was also magic power in the atmosphere that could be used as an energy source for biological drives.

In turn, it means that each of the group of bugs in front of them is a monster-level existence.

With the help of magic in the atmosphere, these bugs can even use their seemingly unusually thin wings to fly at high speed.

"It's indeed a bit beyond imagination. It seems that we can only wait for the 'heroes' in the city to come to support us." Atalanta sighed.

Seeing the outrageous number of insect swarms in the distance, even Atalanta suppressed his desire to take revenge. Perhaps only those legendary heroes with god blood can cope with this level of numbers.

"No, there is no time." Zheng Shu looked at the scene in the distance and rejected Atalanta's proposal, "Your adoptive father is seriously injured, plus four children, even if he leaves the children in the In the hunter's hut, it will take at least three or four days to go back and forth... This is based on the premise of immediately finding suitable heroes in the town to come to support."

Zheng Shu poked his head out from the canopy of the tree and pointed to a place in the distance: "Look there, inside the nest they built."

Atalanta turned her head and looked over. It was not so much a lair as it was a ruin made of trees. The exterior of the "lair" was reinforced with white mucus, and black bugs crawled in and out from time to time.

Because the building was so huge, Atalanta had already noticed it when she came here, but after Zheng Shu reminded her, she discovered some details that she had overlooked.

In the inner layer of those trees, there are a large number of densely packed white balls. Because they are too small and the same white as the outer layer of mucus, they will be ignored if they are not careful.

However, when the sun rises, these white balls will reflect a brighter light under the light of the sun, and they can still be seen after careful identification.

Atalanta's face immediately turned ugly after seeing the densely packed balls that could cause a panic attack: "Eggs!? And there are so many?"

"It seems that these bugs have indeed obtained enough food, so they choose to lay eggs here." Relying on the eyes transformed into Longtong, Zheng Shu can see more details.

Inside that lair, all the flesh and blood collected by the swarm along the way was concentrated.

In front of the huge meat mountain, there is an unusually bloated beetle that is constantly eating. Its abdomen is not protected by a black carapace like other beetles, and it looks more like a huge white silkworm chrysalis.

As the worm continues to eat, its abdomen is also constantly wriggling. Every once in a while, a white egg will be produced from the tail. At this time, a group of smaller worms will carry the egg to the composition. The inside of the wood of the nest is glued to it with mucus.

Zheng Shu, who is familiar with various novels and game settings, immediately recognized that this unusually bloated bug should be the mother bug of this swarm.

It seems that the insects that attacked the village should be only part of it, that is, to collect enough food for the mother insects.

Zheng Shu gritted his teeth. If this is the case, then it means that the number of this bug swarm is larger than what he saw now, because it means that a large number of bugs who are on "outside work" have not returned yet.

Of course, these are not the most important. The most important thing is that Zheng Shu has seen that many eggs have begun to vibrate violently. According to the breath he sensed, it is estimated that the outermost eggs will hatch in a short time.

It is estimated that in a day or two at most, the number of this swarm will increase significantly.

Zheng Shu told Atalanta what he saw, and Ta Meow was so shocked that his hair stood on end: "Damn it! Then we must find a way to prevent their development. If this continues, it won't take long, worm The number of groups can reach the level that can invade city-states."

After finishing speaking, Atalanta lowered her head helplessly, because she has already realized that it is impossible to complete the plan to stop this group of bugs by herself alone, and even if two people run out now, it is only for this group Bugs just add some new food.

"I have a solution." Zheng Shu's voice called out Atalanta from his inner thoughts, "As far as I know, Tameow, you should be extremely fast, right?"

"My name is not Tameow, my name is Atalanta... Forget it, that's right! So far I haven't found anyone who can be faster than me." Atalanta didn't bother to correct Zheng Shu's mistakes.

"I called you Ta Meow just to make it easy to remember..." Zheng Shu smiled, "Since your speed is so fast, you can go to the city and tell them about it right now. It won't take much time. Move faster, even if the heroes in the city-state are not as fast as you, they should be able to arrive here within two days. Of course, in order to convince them, it is best to bring some evidence."

"What evidence?"

"Does it need to be said? Of course it is to let them see the corpse of the bug." Zheng Shu shrugged his shoulders, "With your strength, how big a corpse can you carry without affecting the speed?"

"I'm not sure. It depends on the weight of the worms. If it is similar to wild boar, then I can probably afford half of the corpses." Atalanta made a little calculation, "But how can we How about killing a bug silently? Although we don’t know how sensitive this group of bugs are, if we make too much noise and attract extra bugs, then we may not even be able to escape.”

"Aren't you a hunter?" Zheng Shu looked at Atalanta's face seriously, "Then you should be able to make traps, right?"

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A black beetle the size of Wuling Hongguang mini is constantly patrolling the sky back and forth. This is its fixed patrol location, in order to prevent any hostile creatures from sneaking into the nest and hurting the mother beetle.

As a guard bug, this black beetle is not too old, probably only less than three days old, so its size is a bit smaller compared to other bugs.

Unlike their mother insects, the worker insects that forage for food outside the guardian insects can grow without eating meat at all. Even in extreme cases, these insects only need to eat soil that contains a lot of magic power to grow in size .

However, even in the case of only eating plants, it only took three days for this bug to grow to such a size, but after all, it was born too short, and it still has some defects in the application of magic power, so it flew for about half a day. You need to stop and let the organs in your body that control magic power take a rest.

And whenever this time is also the time for this guardian insect to eat, it will seize all the time to continuously devour the plants on the surrounding land to make itself grow as fast as possible.

However, with the expansion of the Zerg population, if you want to eat plants rich in vitality, you need to fly a short distance.

If it is a human being, it will inevitably choose to transfer the base when encountering such a situation.But for worms, they need to wait for the female worm to lay the last batch of eggs before leaving here with all the wood with eggs attached, looking for a new resource-rich place to continue to multiply.

So this guardian bug can only run a short distance to eat. Of course, it will keep filling its mouth with soil on the way to increase its development as much as possible.

When they came to a forest, the guard bug suddenly smelled an aura, and the instinct carried in its genes let it know that this aura meant that there were injured animals nearby.

Based on the instinct engraved in the genes, the guardian worms immediately stopped eating, and happily rushed to the position where the breath was. For them, helping the mother worms to collect food and protecting the safety of the mother worms is the highest order.

Arriving at the target location, although the eyesight is not very good, the other perception abilities of the guardian bug are very strong. It has already been able to find a lump of meat that was deliberately discarded on the ground in the distance.

Any animal with a bit of intelligence would be wary of such a piece of meat that suddenly appeared in the wilderness. However, although the guard bug is much bigger, it is only a bug after all. It is obviously a bit too embarrassing for it to understand things other than instinct it's gone.

Unsurprisingly, when the guard worm came in front of the meat block, it suddenly felt empty under its feet, and then its entire body fell into a huge pit.

At the bottom of the big pit, the wood was sharpened to make several awls and inserted into it, but the spikes made of these woods couldn't break through the carapace of the guard bugs at all.

Sudden attack, the guard worms spread their wings reflexively and tried to fly away from the big pit, and sent messages to the worm swarm in the distance.

shhhhh!

The moment it lifted the black carapace on its back to reveal the transparent wings, two bows and arrows shot precisely at the root of the transparent wings with the sound of breaking through the air.

clap clap!

There were two crisp sounds, and the bow and arrow precisely hit the root of the transparent wing and shot through it, and then the two unusually huge wings fell to the ground.

The guard worm frantically swayed its body trying to make a sound, but unfortunately without the friction of its transparent wings, it couldn't make any sound even though it kept opening and closing its mouthparts.

"Nice job!" Zheng Shu's figure appeared above the big pit, and he jumped down directly with his mace.

Boom!
Without any accidents, Zheng Shu's mace precisely hit the connection point between the guard worm's head and body.

Behind the worm, the black carapace that was too late to close was knocked off from the connection point of the body by the mace, exposing the softer abdomen below.

(PS: more will be added tomorrow)

(End of this chapter)