Chapter 496

The hundreds of miles of forest entrenched in the zambez mountains is dead from the outside. Whether it is those towering trees whose branches and leaves have withered due to perennial wind and snow, or the few traces of biological activities in the forest, it seems that this is a dead forest or dying. But in fact, it is young and vibrant.

Vitality lurks under the snow and in the depths of the forest.

In just a few decades, all kinds of fir and ferns that have evolved and mutated to adapt to the environment make their roots deeper and longer, so as to absorb the water below the surface. Compared with the harsh surface environment, the underground world is relatively warm, and the thin but not dry ground water provides space for these mutant plants to survive.

As for creatures, they have their own unique way of life.

Times are changing and the world is changing. Only by changing themselves, evolving themselves and optimizing genes can organisms continue to survive in this cruel environment. All living creatures have their own way of life. In this vast forest, there are thousands of species living in the same way.

Among them, the most lazy way of life is the ice meteorite scale scorpion. This kind of scorpion living in the depths of the forest is usually nearly three meters long. Their body surface is covered with thick ice armor like exoskeleton. These armor make giant scorpions rough and thick, and ordinary rifles can only leave rows of bullet marks on them. Ice scale scorpions also have two scorpion claws, but their two scorpion claws are very mismatched.

The scorpion claw on the left is as big as a car body, but the scorpion claw on the right is very small. Therefore, when ice scale scorpions attack their prey, they usually use their powerful left claw. Of course, as scorpions, they also have a deadly sting. It's just different from the attack method of ordinary scorpions that pierce poison spikes into hunting objects and inject poison. The claw sting of ice scale scorpion is actually a high-pressure water gun, which is pressurized through a special organ at the tail. The ice scale scorpion can shoot cold body fluid enough to freeze conventional creatures instantly from the small hole of the claw sting.

The body fluid ejected by the adult ice scale scorpion claw sting is as far as 10 meters, and the water pressure is very high, so that the ejected body fluid is like a water arrow, which can easily penetrate the rock. Of course, it can cut the bodies of prey whose bodies are not strong.

But this ice scale scorpion, which frightens other creatures, often hibernates in their own nest. In a year, less than one month is the time for them to prey and reproduce. If not, I'm afraid the ice scale scorpion has already become the overlord of the forest. Because of this, they are well deserved lazy insects in the forest.

The nests of ice scale scorpions are mostly located in natural caves tens of meters below the surface, which is isolated from the cold air on the ground and becomes a natural hotbed for ice scale scorpions to hibernate. When they hibernate, they shrink their scorpion claws and tail spines to disguise as ice rocks. In fact, their blue gray armor makes scorpions look like rocks.

If a creature without eyes carelessly passes by the scorpion, the ice scale scorpion doesn't mind catching the delicious food he bumps into the door. After a big meal, these lazy guys will continue to sleep until the mating period comes.

There are only four or five hundred ice scale scorpions hiding in underground caves, but for this huge mutant, this is not a small group. As the king of this group, ice tyrants are usually in a state of shallow sleep. It is not only the king of scorpions, but also the most powerful guard to protect its own group, which can survive hibernation or breeding period safely.

The ice tyrant is the strongest of all scorpions. Its strength is not only reflected in its huge body ten meters long and wide, but also in its ice armor, which is much more complex and heavy than ordinary scorpions. The thick armor of the ice tyrant can be described as the top of the whole family. And unlike the scales of other scorpions, the ice tyrant produces sharp ice spines in many parts, which makes it look very difficult to provoke.

In fact, the same is true. In addition to the common attack means of ice scale scorpions, the ice tyrant also has the ability of ice elements, which is also its capital to defend the ethnic group.

Underground caves are warm and humid, which is the favorite environment of ice and snow tyrants. It is disguised as a huge rock. During hibernation, its breathing and heartbeat fall to the frequency of three to five times an hour. This greatly reduces the speed of blood circulation in the body, and also saves the consumption of physical fitness and energy. But in this state, some senses of the ice tyrant are still sharp.

For example, its flat abdomen close to the ground and its body wrapped in heavy ice armor have several special muscle groups. They are very sensitive to shocks. Once a creature approaches the scorpion's nest, the ice tyrant will know and react at the first time.

At this moment, it suddenly felt an unusual vibration while sleeping. The amplitude of the vibration is small, but it is enough to arouse its vigilance. So the ice tyrant woke up from his deep sleep and lit up two faint blue lights in the black gap between the nail stomach. Along with the camouflaged rock, there are many cracks, and then the appearance of the rock begins to deform.

A huge claw opens from the front. It is much larger than other ice scale scorpions. Its left claw is like the body of a forklift. It vibrates slightly when it hits the ground. Then the right pincers and tail spines spread out, and then three pairs of hard haired insect limbs stretched out from under the flat abdominal armor. The legs are flat, bent and stretched, holding up the body of the ice tyrant ten meters long and wide.

After turning from a huge rock into a big bug, the ice tyrant flew towards the source of the vibration. It looks clumsy, but it moves silently and flexibly. Even if there are as many ice scale scorpions hibernating in the cave, the ice tyrant can always pass by them without disturbing them. After passing through the natural cave used as a nest, the ice tyrant entered the complex underground branch road.

This is the periphery of the nest, but also a maze. The natural caves crisscross here, making the terrain complex enough to confuse the creatures who came here for the first time. It is also the natural defense line of the ice scale scorpion nest. Naturally, the snow tyrant is very familiar with the terrain here. As soon as it enters the maze, it never stops and goes to the source of the vibration.

There was a dangerous smell in the air, and another smell of pantothenic acid floated quietly. This makes the ice tyrant very angry, because the smell is the smell of ice scale scorpion blood. In other words, something hunts its people near the nest. The speed of the angry ice tyrant soared, and the complex terrain was flat in his eyes.

The smell of scorpion blood began to become strong. The closer it was, the more upset the ice tyrant was. Finally, the body of an ice scale scorpion appeared in its eyes. The adult scorpion, whose body was turned over, was almost cut open from the head to the tail, causing internal organs and blood flow to the ground. The ice tyrant let out an angry scream and went on. It saw the bodies of several people one after another.

These bodies were all killed by one blow, and the wounds were so huge that people looked sideways. Obviously, the ice tyrant has no interest in studying the killer's ability and power from the corpse. Now it just wants to tear up the guy who dares to kill his people, no matter what kind of creature it is. Soon, the ice tyrant saw a giant from a distance.

That's a figure. Human like creatures hold something high. Then the dark red light lit up in the cave. Finally, another ice scale scorpion struggled and circled on the ground, and gradually disappeared.

The ice tyrant sent out a sharp cry, shaking the whole cave gently. Its three pairs of legs seemed to slide on the ice. With a little force, it pushed its huge body towards the murderer. Seeing that he was about to approach the murderer, the left claw like the bucket of a forklift swept away, smashed several stalagmites in the air, and fell on the murderer with the power of mountains.

The giant turned around and used a large dark red sword as a shield to block the earth shaking blow of the ice tyrant. With the giant's body nearly five meters high, it also made the tyrant's left claw unstable, and flew out to the other side. After breaking more than ten stalagmites, the giant hit a rock wall and stopped himself.

It shook its head and stood up. The one eye on the head was full of war. The giant waved with four hands. There was something like a meat tube behind his shoulder, emitting hot smoke. He ran with it, ten meters at a time!

The ice tyrant is not weak. It is like a heavy chariot. The chariot turned its head and ran over the giant with its full carriage.

The two giants met halfway and collided fiercely. At the moment of collision, when a violent storm was released, they retreated a few steps in the opposite direction.

Bang bang! The giant trampled on large rocks one after another, then stopped and rushed back up. Use the dark red sword in your hand as a hammer to beat on the ice tyrant. In the face of the giant's crazy attack, the ice tyrant blocked it from time to time with his left pincers, rubbing a gorgeous spark with the big sword. During the fight, the giant suddenly felt a pain under his feet. Looking down, it was a sharp ice skate. I don't know when it went into the soles of its feet.

The giant pulled out his big feet, bypassed the ice skate and continued to attack the ice tyrant. Unexpectedly, the ice skate seemed to be a living creature, huffing and puffing on the ground, and came back to the giant with a faint smoke. Then the second and third ice skates are generated on the ground. They crisscross the ground like the dorsal fins of a bloodthirsty shark in the deep sea.

In fact, this is one of the abilities of the ice tyrant. Generate a sharp ice skate that automatically tracks the target, which can interfere with guerrillas. Once the opponent ignores these cold fangs on the ground, the result is often cut into pieces by ice skates.

Under the interference of the ice skate, the giant can't attack like before. It should not only be careful not to be cut off by the ice skate on the ground, but also pay attention to the attack of the ice tyrant. Suddenly, it was in a hurry. Finally, the giant screamed and smashed the big sword like an axe at the ice tyrant, but the man ran back and ran.

The ice and snow tyrant blocked the big sword with his left claw. The big sword rubbed a flash of spark and inserted it obliquely into the ground. As for its owner, he had already run away without a trace. Although the skate can track automatically, it also has a certain range. Once the target is out of the range of attack, the skate turns around blindly. The ice and snow tyrant dissipated the energy to maintain the ice skate. At this time, an iron chain flew from the depths of the cave and accurately entangled the big sword.

As soon as the iron chain was wrapped and pulled, he pulled the big sword into the darkness of the cave. This is undoubtedly a disgrace to the ice tyrant. The murderer killed his people and left without saying. So the ice tyrant screamed angrily. This cry had a special meaning. It awakened other ice scale scorpions who were hibernating. So in the nest of the ice scale scorpion, the seemingly rocky things deform one by one, the camouflaged limbs stretch out, and become a big scorpion only three meters long.

Ice scale scorpions receive the signal from the cry of the ice tyrant, and they rush towards the position of the ice tyrant. At this moment, they are soldiers in battle, converging into a blue-gray torrent under the surface of the mountain towards the exit.

When the scorpions passed by, the ice tyrant joined the torrent. Scorpions gallop, making the cave vibrate. When this vibration is transmitted to the ground, it brings a dangerous signal to the creatures living on the ground. A double headed eagle perched on a dead tree first felt the vibration. They smelled the danger signal, and the smell of the ice tyrant made them tremble. So a double headed eagle rose into the sky and scattered its feathers.

Then, more and more creatures felt the constant vibration from the ground, which made the mutant animals flee first. But a moment later, a snow bag suddenly appeared in the thick snow pile, followed by an ice scale scorpion rushed out of the snow bag and brought countless snow mud. Behind the ice scale scorpion is a torrent of gray blue scorpions, which rush out of the outlet of the nest and track a smell in the air.

When the ice tyrant also came to the surface, the tyrant issued a hiss that shook the whole forest, like a demonstration or a warning.

The voice echoed in the forest and heard the cry of the ice tyrant. The weak mutant animals could not even think of running away. They only knew to hide in their nests and tremble.

The earth is shaking, and the torrent of scorpions pierces the edge in the forest. Nothing dares to block the way of scorpions. So in Betsy's telescope, the flood rushed almost unhindered down the mountain. The telescope moved, and in the other direction of the scorpions, the lights of mobistone market were still bright. But soon, scorpions will dim the lights there, or become a fire that burns everything.

The cowboy put down his telescope and looked at the figure shrouded in scarlet armor: "I don't know how to thank you, respected red Archduke. I'm just curious why the red Archduke of Georgia helped us. You know, we are far from friends?"

"I have my own plan, but I don't have to tell you anything. I know who your goal is, but apart from this goal, I don't allow you to make adimili's idea. Otherwise, my Tomahawk doesn't mind cutting off your heads!" as soon as I tossed my cloak, the red Archduke turned with his axe and walked away into the forest.

Looking back, Betsy smiled: "it's not very clever to kill with a knife, Lord Merlin."