The rock worm's hole is winding, almost like a tangled ball of thread, and the entire surface of the earth is almost hollowed out. If it weren't for the rock worm chewing the soil, the body surface would secrete a large amount of mucus, which would If the walls of the cave are cemented into a solid wall, I am afraid that the entire stratum will turn into a pile of fluffy soil. Those pits on the surface are actually left behind after the soil layer near the ground collapsed.
After Han Biao and the others escaped into the earthworm cave, they ran for a while in the twists and turns of the earthworm cave, slightly throwing away the laser beetles that were tracking behind them, and then immediately turned around and blew up the cave to stop the laser beetles.
Although this can stop the laser beetles for a period of time, just like the soil can't stop the psychic warriors, it can't stop the laser beetles that can move freely through the soil.
"Run deeper!"
Han Biao couldn't care about so much at this time. The danger of the creatures on this hemisphere far exceeded everyone's expectations. Just like the psychic warriors were invincible outside, these The native creatures of Hemisphere are also invincible to psychic warriors.
"What do you want to do? If we go deeper, we will enter the area where rock earthworms frequently move. If we encounter rock earthworms head-on, we won't even have the ability to resist! Its skin has the characteristics of absorbing energy and is extremely tough. It's not us Existing weapons can do harm." David said hastily.
They have the advantage in this field, but each of them has been suppressed by the strange environment of the Hemisphere. With one thing going one way, it is hard to escape for one's life, and the face of the psychic warrior can still be taken care of.
"Lead those laser beetles into the big earthworm's nest and let them kill each other! Peas don't have to worry about disturbing the big earthworms. Spread out your senses and record the maps of these tunnels. La Rui pays attention to the movements of those big earthworms. We Run deeper!"
Han Biao took the lead and ran through the tunnel while giving orders to everyone in the spiritual network. At this time, David, Hijikata, Britney, Minina and other people who usually played the role of leaders were not too good either. Instead, it was Han Biao, a bold guy, who immediately decided to play with his life.
Everyone was sweating over Han Biao's crazy idea. Although it was exciting to watch others risk their lives, it was not so fun to risk their own lives. Now they were acting as bait, chasing the group of more than a hundred animals behind them. The laser beetles were lured into the rock worm's nest, causing the two ferocious creatures to kill each other.
Laser beetles and rock earthworms actually have a certain companionship with each other. According to David, laser beetles rely on swallowing the undigested birthstones in rock earthworm feces to survive, and rock earthworms rely on laser beetles to reproduce.
That¡¯s right! Breed!
Don¡¯t get me wrong, it¡¯s not that rock earthworms have any special hobbies and they like to catch laser beetles. The difference in size and species between the two is too big, isn¡¯t it?
Just like flowers rely on bees and other small creatures for pollination, rock earthworms are very similar ecologically to the earthworms Han Biao knows. The only difference is that rock earthworms cannot lay eggs in the soil to reproduce like ordinary hermaphroditic earthworms. Their nearly invincible vitality means that they have few natural enemies on the Hemisphere, so they can live very well on the Hemisphere. However, they do not have the ability to lay eggs and reproduce offspring, and can only increase the number of companions through "splitting" quantity.
This process of division cannot be completed by the rockworms themselves. They need an external force, which makes them focus on these small bugs that often appear around them. Whenever they need to divide, they will deliberately attack the laser beetles. Lure the opponent to attack you, use the laser beetle's high-polymer energy rays to break the body into two or multiple segments, and rely on your own tenacious vitality to regenerate the broken body to form two or more new individuals of their respective bodies.
Regeneration of severed bodies requires a lot of nutrients and energy. Laser beetles have high polymerization energy crystals in their bodies and are also rich in highly concentrated nutrients. Therefore, whenever rock earthworms reproduce, they will encounter extremely fierce battles with laser beetles. Often the final result of an encounter between a group of laser beetles and rock worms is that the rock worms turn into bloody segments and the laser beetles are all wiped out.
Under the mental detection of little Loli La Rui, Han Biao and the others successfully avoided several rock earthworms in the underground earth tunnel, and continuously blew up the tunnel behind them to block the swarming laser beetles and the disturbed rock earthworms. , and not long after, they heard violent vibrations and a weird whistle-like whistle from behind!
"It's rock earthworms! Rock earthworms and laser beetles have met!" David suddenly shouted in surprise. Han Biao and the others were running around like headless flies in front, and the laser beetles were chasing behind them. The commotion and commotion were not small. Rock earthworms, which are very sensitive to the underground environment, could not avoid being alarmed. It would be strange if they did not encounter the laser beetles when they caught up.
After listening for a while, Han Biao was sure that the laser beetles were getting further and further away from them. Han Biao breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the intricate underground earth tunnels. This place was like a huge cheese, with irregular shapes inside. When you enter the cave entrance, one will appear above your head, under your feet, and on the left and right walls at regular intervals. If you break in accidentally, you will probably stay here for the rest of your life!
Fortunately, Han Biao and the others have a human radar. With the help of the detector, Peas can also exert part of his perception ability on the hemisphere star. Along the way, he can mentally draw the distribution map of the underground earthworm channels detected on his own. In the terminal, it was sent to everyone. With these incomplete maze maps, at least they would not be looking for directions here.
Through the analysis ability of the ultra-brain network, everyone worked out a route to the deeper depths, and as the disturbed rock earthworms flew upwards, they constantly changed their routes to avoid those terrifying behemoths. Obviously, these were going deeper. The rock earthworms flying up must have been attracted by the vibrations caused by the similar ones fighting the laser beetles. At this time, the lower they went down, the safer they were.
However, there is not much time left for them. Once the group of laser beetles are killed and the gathered rock earthworms disperse and return to the area where they move, they may be blocked in this underground world. Inside.
After running for more than ten minutes, the group of people went several kilometers deep underground. After poking their heads out of a hole, their eyes suddenly opened up and they entered an underground fault.
Underground faults are the boundaries between surface soil and underground rock formations. Due to various geological reasons, huge bubble-like cavities are formed in the soil and rocks, and often there are a large number of mineral veins in such cavities.
Han Biao and the others escaped from the underground earthworm tunnel, but immediately gasped because there were thousands of huge rock earthworms densely packed in this valley-shaped underground fault. , they gathered together, squirming, you entangled me, I wrapped you, showing a terrible and terrifying picture.
One rock worm is enough to scare everyone, but there are thousands of them here at the same time? And each one looks fatter than the last. The rock worms with ring-shaped bodies are squirming and constantly gnawing at the rock layers at the bottom of the valley, making a terrible clicking sound, further expanding the fault zone.
Everyone who dared not leave the atmosphere carefully found a place to hide, for fear of disturbing the monsters that were eating. However, Han Biao curiously stuck his head out and looked around, wondering what the rockworms were doing.
According to David¡¯s description, rockworms mainly make a living by swallowing soil. After swallowing a large amount of soil into their bodies, they digest the microorganisms rich in the soil, and then excrete the waste products, and the cycle begins again.
As for chewing rocks, generally speaking, they only do this when they need certain minerals in the rocks. This is how the birthstone particles in their feces come from.
And with such a large group of rock worms gathering in front of us, it is obviously not having a party, they seem to be doing this to expand the space.
why is that? Rockworms do not need such an empty living space. For them, thick soil is the most comfortable place. Hollowing out the rock is equivalent to destroying their own living environment. Why do they do this?
But Han Biao, who was looking around, soon discovered that in the surrounding area of ??the underground valley, there were actually some creatures that were very small compared to the rock earthworms. At first glance, they looked a lot like "people"!
A humanoid creature from a hemisphere?
After inviting everyone to watch, everyone took a breath again, because those humanoid creatures actually waved broken stalagmites one by one, using them as weapons to attack the rock earthworms, driving them back into the valley, forcing them to continue Gnawing rock formations.
Although those humanoid creatures look like humans, they are obviously not humans. They have bat-like ears and pale blue skin. Except for the messy dirty hair on their heads, their whole bodies are smooth and their front paws are very sharp. It is wide enough to hold a stalagmite broken from the rock wall and use it as a weapon.
Their ugly faces have a big mouth full of fangs, and an ugly flat nose that takes up one third of the face. The strange thing is that there are no eyes. In the position of the eyes, the eye sockets are covered by skin. Yes, there is no such organ as eyes at all!
These eyeless barbarians are distributed around the concave valley. They seem to be acting as supervisors, driving the rock earthworms to dig rock formations for them!
Everyone couldn¡¯t help but be horrified. These silent barbarians were so powerful that they could control those terrifying rock earthworms?
?? Han Biao and the others are located about several hundred meters away from the bottom of the valley. For psychic warriors, this distance is the same as face-to-face.There is no difference when standing in front of you, but those humanoid creatures without eyes seem to have poor perception, or they do not have the ability to perceive thoughts like psychic warriors. They rely on their pair of bat-shaped ears to obtain the outside world. Thanks to the information, Han Biao and the others did not have to worry about being discovered by the barbarians as long as they did not make loud noises.
However, poor perception does not mean that the danger of the barbarians is also low. Han Biao saw with his own eyes that these powerful eyeless barbarians roared, waved columnar stalagmites, and beat hard the rock earthworms that dared to get close. With a sharp blow, the stalagmites, which were theoretically fragile, were able to smash large craters into the hard-skinned and thick-skinned rock earthworms. The painful rock earthworms screamed like a whistle and fled back to the valley. Piaotian Literature registered members recommend this work