Chapter 496

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The forest, which stretches for hundreds of miles on the Zambezi mountains, looks dead and silent from the outside. Whether it is the towering trees withered by the perennial wind and snow, or the few traces of biological activities in the forest, it seems that this is a dead forest, or is dying. But in fact, it's young and vibrant.

Life lurks in the snow, deep in the forest.

In just a few decades, in order to adapt to the environment, various Chinese fir and ferns have evolved to make their roots grow deeper and longer, so as to absorb the water under the surface. Compared with the harsh surface environment, the underground world is relatively warm, and the thin but not dry ground water provides the living space for these mutant plants.

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

Times are changing and the world is changing. Only by changing themselves, evolving themselves and optimizing their genes can organisms survive in this cruel environment. 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 laziest way to survive is the ice meteorite scale scorpion. The scorpions, which live deep in the forest, are usually nearly three meters long, and their bodies are covered with thick ice shells like exoskeletons. The armor makes the scorpions thick, and ordinary rifles can only leave rows of bullet marks on them. Ice scale scorpions also have two claws, but these two claws do not match each other.

The left claw is as big as a car body, but the right one 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 way ordinary scorpions stab their venom into their prey and inject their venom. The sting of ice scale scorpion is actually a high-pressure water gun, which is pressurized by a special organ in the tail. The ice scale scorpion can eject cold body fluid from the small hole of the sting, which is enough to freeze the conventional creatures instantly.

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

It's just that this kind of ice scale scorpion, which makes other creatures scared, often hibernates in its own nest. Less than a month in a year is the time when they prey and breed. If not, I'm afraid that the ice scale scorpion has already become the overlord of the forest. And that's why they're really lazy in the forest.

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

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

There are only four or five hundred ice scale scorpions hiding in underground caves, but for this huge mutant, it is already a large group. As the king of this group, ice tyrants are usually in a state of shallow sleep. It is not only the king of the scorpion group, but also the most powerful guard, so as to protect its own group during hibernation or breeding period.

Ice tyrant is the strongest one among all scorpions. Its strength is not only reflected in its huge body which is 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 and snow tyrant is the best of the whole family. And unlike the scales of other scorpions, the ice tyrant has 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 the ice scale scorpion, the ice tyrant also has the ability of ice elements, which is also its capital to defend its ethnic group.

Underground caves are warm and humid, which is the favorite environment for ice tyrants. It's camouflaged as a huge rock, and during hibernation, its breathing and heartbeat drop to three to five times an hour. This greatly reduces the speed of blood circulation in the body, but also saves physical and energy consumption. But in such a state, some senses of the ice tyrant are still keen.

For example, its flat abdomen is close to the ground, and its body is covered by thick ice armor, with several special muscle groups. They are very sensitive to concussion. Once a creature approaches the nest of scorpions, the ice tyrant will know and respond immediately.

At this moment, it suddenly felt an unusual vibration in deep sleep. The vibration was small enough to arouse its alarm. So the tyrant of ice and snow woke up from his deep sleep and first lit up two dark blue lights in the black space between the nail and stomach. As cracks appear in the camouflaged rock, the appearance of the rock begins to deform.Open a giant claw from the front, which is much larger than other ice scale scorpions. The left claw is like the body of a forklift. It shakes the cave slightly when it hits the ground. Then the right claws and tail spines spread out, followed by three pairs of bristly legs extending from the flat abdomen. The feet are flat, bent and stretched, holding up the ice tyrant's 10 meter long and wide body.

After the giant rock turned into a big bug, the ice tyrant flew towards the source of the shock. It seems clumsy, but there is no sound between the movements, and it is extremely flexible. Even if there are as many ice scale scorpions hibernating in the cave, the ice tyrant can always pass them without disturbing them. Through the natural caves that serve as nests, the ice tyrant enters a complex underground tunnel.

This is the outside of the nest, and it's also a maze. The natural caves crisscross, which makes the terrain complex enough to confuse the creatures who come here for the first time. It is also the natural defense line of the ice scale scorpion nest. Naturally, the ice tyrant is very familiar with the terrain here. As soon as he enters the labyrinth, he goes to the source of the vibration without stopping.

There was a dangerous smell in the air, and another acid smell came quietly. This makes the ice tyrant very angry, because the smell is the blood of the ice scale scorpion. In other words, something is hunting its people near the nest. Under the fury of the ice tyrant speed, complex terrain in its eyes like walking on the ground.

The taste of scorpion blood began to become rich. The closer it was, the more agitated the ice tyrant was. Finally, the body of an ice scale scorpion appears in his eyes. This adult scorpion, its body turned over, from the head to the tail stab part was almost cut all the way by something, causing internal organs and blood flow to the ground. The tyrant of ice and snow let out a hiss of anger. As he went on, he saw the bodies of several people one after another.

The bodies were all killed by one blow, and the wounds were so huge that people could not see. But obviously, the ice and snow tyrant is not interested in studying the killer's ability and strength from the corpse. Now it only 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 figure from a distance.

It's a back image, what kind of human like creatures hold high. Then a dark red light came up in the cave, and finally another ice scale Scorpion was struggling around on the ground, and there was no sound.

The tyrant of ice and snow uttered a shrill cry, shaking the whole cave gently. Its three pairs of legs seemed to slide on the ice. With one stroke, it held its huge body and pressed toward the killer. As soon as he was about to approach the murderer, the left claw, which was like a forklift truck, swept across and broke several stalagmites. At the same time, it 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 strike of the ice tyrant. With the giant's body nearly five meters high, the tyrant's left claw also made it unstable and flew out to the other side. After breaking more than ten stalagmites, the giant hit a rock wall and stopped himself.

He shook his head and stood up, his one eye full of war. Giant four hands waving, behind the shoulder there are meat tube like things, puffing out shares of hot smoke, follow it up, step 10 meters!

The ice tyrant doesn't show weakness either. It's like a heavy chariot. The chariot turned around and ran over the giant.

The two giants met on the way and collided with each other. At the moment of collision, when a violent storm was released, they retreated a few steps in the opposite direction.

Bang bang! The giant broke a lot of rocks one after another and then stopped, followed by back to rush up. Use the dark red sword as a hammer to beat the ice tyrant. In the face of the giant's crazy attack, the tyrant of ice and snow used his left claw to block from time to time, and made brilliant sparks between his sword and his left claw. In the fight, the giant suddenly got a pain under his feet. Looking down, it turned out to be a sharp ice skate. I don't know when to plunge it into the soles of its feet.

The giant pulls up his big foot, bypasses the ice skate and continues to attack the ice tyrant. Unexpectedly, the ice skate seemed to be a living creature, breathing and puffing on the ground, with a light smoke and tracking towards the giant. Then the second and third skates are generated on the ground. They crisscross the ground, like the dorsal fin of a bloodthirsty shark in the deep sea, sweeping toward the giant.

And in fact, that's one of the abilities of ice tyrants. Generating sharp ice skates that can automatically track targets can play the role of jamming guerrillas. Once the opponent ignores the cold fangs on the ground, the result is often cut into pieces by the ice skate.

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 and snow tyrant. Finally, the giant screamed and smashed the sword like an axe at the tyrant of ice and snow, but the man ran back.

The tyrant of ice and snow blocked the sword with his left claw. After a flash of sparks, the sword tilted to the ground. As for its owner, he has already run away. Although the skate can track automatically, it also has a certain range. Once the target is out of range, the skate will turn around blindly. When the ice and snow tyrant dispersed to maintain the energy of the ice skate, an iron chain flew from the depth of the cave and entangled the sword accurately.As soon as the chain was entangled and pulled, the sword was drawn into the darkness of the cave. It's a shame for the ice tyrant. The killer killed his people and left. So the tyrant of ice and snow screamed angrily, which had a special meaning. It awakened other ice scale scorpions in hibernation. So in the nest of the ice scale scorpion, blocks of things that look like rocks deform one by one, and their camouflaged limbs stretch out to become a three meter long scorpion.

Ice scale scorpion receives the signal from the cry of ice tyrant, and they rush to the position of ice tyrant one after another. At this moment, they are soldiers in battle, converging into a blue and gray torrent, which flows towards the exit under the surface of the mountains.

As the scorpions pass by, the ice tyrant joins in. The scorpion swarms make the cave vibrate. When this vibration is transmitted to the ground, it gives a dangerous signal to the creatures living on the surface. A two headed eagle perched on the dead tree first felt the vibration, they smelled the danger signal, and the smell of ice tyrant made them tremble. So a two headed eagle rose into the sky and scattered its feathers all over the ground.

Then, more and more creatures feel the continuous vibration from the underground, which makes the mutants rush to escape. But for a moment, the thick snow suddenly Valley up a snow bag, followed by an ice scale scorpion rushed out of the snow bag, with countless snow mud. Behind this ice scale scorpion, there is a torrent of grey blue scorpions, which swarm out from the exit of the nest and follow a certain smell in the air.

When the tyrant of ice and snow came to the surface, the tyrant let out a hiss that shook the whole forest, like a demonstration or a warning.

The sound reverberates in the forest. Hearing the cry of the ice and snow tyrant, the weak mutants can't even have the idea of running away. They only know how to hide in their nests and shiver.

The earth is shaking, and the torrent of scorpions is running through the forest. Nothing dares to stand in the way of scorpions. So in Betsy's telescope, the torrent was almost unhindered as it ran down the mountains. The telescope is moving. On the other side of the scorpion swarm, the lights of mobistone market are 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 the red armor: "I don't know how to thank you, dear red Duke. It's just that I'm curious why the red Archduke of Georgia will help us. We are far from friends, you know? "

"I have my own plan, but I don't have to tell you anything. I know who your goal is, but I won't allow you to think of adimili except for this goal. Otherwise, my Tomahawk won't mind cutting off your heads! " As soon as he threw his cape, the red Archduke turned around with his axe and strode to the depth of the forest.

Looking back, Becky had a smile on her face: "it's not very clever to use a knife to kill people, Lord Merlin."