Chapter 244: The Medicine is Coming
There were flashes of lightning and roars in the night sky.
The earth was flooded with blood, the roars continued, and the killing never stopped.
A swift worm lay beside a puddle of blood and rainwater, and stuck out its tongue, trying to lick a piece of flesh and blood in the puddle.
But at this moment, a skeleton worm next to it suddenly pounced over.
“Crack—”
The Swiftworm's neck was bitten to pieces.
It struggled frantically, its eyes fierce, trying to make a final blow with its tenacious vitality.
But the skeleton worm that had bitten its neck was equally ferocious. It swung its sharp claws down suddenly, tearing apart its facial scales and eyes, and then it exerted force with its upper and lower jaws, completely biting off its neck with a click.
"Bang!"
The swift worm fell to the ground.
Its whole body was twitching and blood was oozing from its broken neck.
"hiss……"
As the victor, the skeleton worm greedily opened its mouth, intending to devour its flesh and blood.
But suddenly, another larger skeleton worm pounced over.
The bloody mouth opened wide.
With just one bite, the skull of the small skeleton worm was crushed. Turbid blood and brain matter slowly flowed through the gaps between the big skeleton worm's teeth.
But before the giant skeleton worm could enjoy it, a huge shadow covered its body.
“Boom!”
It was a giant godworm. Its huge and heavy limbs fell down and crushed the big skeleton worm into a bloody mess.
The giant insect roared towards the sky, its voice shaking the earth. It was powerful and overbearing, like a ferocious beast from ancient times, unstoppable as it charged.
The emergence of intermediate troops means that this bloody and cruel hive war has entered the next stage.
The low-level cannon fodder has opened up the battlefield.
Next, this area will become more terrifying and more desperate.
At the edge of the brutal battlefield, Su Xia jumped high, using the skill "Powerful Jump" to jump onto a giant split worm with level 1.5 psychic power.
His passive skill "Leader's Will" gives him a certain deterrent effect on these bugs, making it easier to kill them.
This split worm has two heads and an extremely long neck, and it seems as if it will split into two creatures at any time.
At this time, both heads turned around, with ferocious looks on their faces, looking at Su Xia behind them. They roared, opened their bloody mouths and pounced on him, trying to tear Su Xia to pieces.
“Bang!”
Su Xia raised his claws and fiercely struck the head on the left. Blood splattered everywhere, the scales shattered, and several horrible scars were left.
The high-level advantage, coupled with the deterrence of the leader's will, directly stunned this head.
Even the other head's attack was slower.
However, Su Xia continued to attack with ferocious momentum, opening his mouth full of fangs and biting down on the right side of his neck where it joined his body. His sharp teeth were like steel, crushing and breaking all the bones, trachea, blood vessels, etc. in his neck.
"hiss--"
The split worm screamed hoarsely, fell heavily, and landed in the cold blood on the ground.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Xia bit off its other neck, then jumped down, stretched out his bloody claws, and tore the soft skin area on its abdomen that was not protected by scales.
It dug its claws into its bloody abdomen, grabbed its still-beating heart, and squeezed it hard.
The split insect trembled violently, let out a final roar, and completely lost the power to resist. Only various parts of its body were still maintaining slight primitive twitching movements under the action of distributed nerves.
Su Xia used the skill "Enhanced Devouring" and tiny flesh-like tubes grew out of his body, piercing into the insect's wounds and slowly absorbing energy.
After a while, the swallowing ended, and Su Xia also received a prompt.
[You devoured a 1.5-level psychic swift bug, and you successfully advanced to level 2.3. Please keep up the good work.]
This is the eleventh insect that Su Xia has devoured. Among these insects, the lowest has a psychic power of only level 0.5, and the highest has level 1.7.
The spiritual power of Su Xia's clone only grew from level 2.0 to level 2.3.
The phagocytic efficiency is too low.
Although the name of the skill is "Enhanced Devouring", it is not that strong. It is estimated that it can continue to evolve in the future.
The level of his titanium anion particles has increased a lot, but titanium anion particles act on the body itself, strengthening one's own strength. The effect on humans is okay, but insects are known for their strong bodies, so the effect of the increase is not obvious.
"continue!"
Su Xia had a cold expression as he searched for his next target on the battlefield.
Before he could find a target, his heart suddenly started to tremble, his body flashed, and he jumped a few meters to the right.
"call out--"
A tail swept past where he had stood a second ago.
It is a thick beetle, which looks similar to a pangolin.
The only difference is that its scales are harder, its limbs are thicker, and its long scaly tail is extremely sharp, like a long needle.
Although the one that attacked Su Xia was only a low-level soldier, its psychic power had reached level 2.5, which was stronger than some mid-level soldiers.
When this battle is over, if it can properly digest the corpses of its own kind that it has devoured on the battlefield, there is a high probability that it will evolve into a mid-level soldier called the "Ramser", becoming a flesh and blood tank that rampages in war.
"boom!"
Its tail swept again, sweeping towards Su Xia's position.
Su Xia jumped again to avoid the attack, and a small piece of stone was shattered and splashed at the place where he was originally standing.
The tail did not stop, but instead bent strangely, no longer sweeping across, but stabbing towards Su Xia, the sharp tip flashing with a cold light.
Su Xia tried to jump away again, but was forced to retreat several times by the insect's attack.
"Still want to come?"
Su Xia snorted coldly, stood firm and launched an attack at an extremely fast speed, his limbs stepping on dry grass and blood, like a small lightning.
The thick beetle also roared and rushed towards Su Xia. Its teeth, claws, tail and even its heavy body were all weapons he used to kill the enemy.
The two sides collided and fought fiercely. Blood flowed instantly and several marks were left on each other's bodies.
There were thousands of similar fights on this battlefield.
Su Xia and the thick beetle were just an inconspicuous corner of this bloody feast, unable to cause even a ripple.
If you raise your perspective and slowly rise, you can see that the cruel and terrifying fighting fills every corner of the earth, extending to the end of the field of vision, and the black tide composed of countless insects is still pouring in.
At the same time, Su Xia's masked monster clone entered from another direction.
In the wreckage of the spaceship in the alien forest , Sun Lang and Chang Rufeng were still resting. It was safe inside the wreckage and there was no need to fight or be vigilant, so Su Xia left all his strength to this clone.
He transformed into a small swift insect, with an unattractive appearance but possessing 4.7 level psychic powers.
As soon as he entered the field, he knocked down a level 2 corpse-eating worm.
“Crack!”
The corpse-eating worm's head exploded and it fell to the ground, dying instantly.
The corpses of insects are the best source of spiritual energy.
But Su Xia did not collect the bodies directly. One reason was that the bodies were too large and he could not collect too many if he put them directly into the storage space.
Secondly, the direct disappearance of the corpse might arouse the vigilance of some high-level insects.
After all, the intelligence of advanced insects is no weaker than that of adult humans.
“Crack—”
Su Xia tore open the abdomen of the corpse-eating insect, reached his claws into the bloody abdominal cavity, directly tore off the gland containing the most spiritual energy, and then threw the gland into the storage space.
In this way, the insect's body remains in the same place and nothing unusual can be seen.
After doing all this, Su Xia turned his gaze and left quickly, looking for his next target.
This clone is so powerful that it doesn't need to fight slowly like the ugly clone. It just needs to target and kill instantly.
You know, in this horrific hive war, the strongest combat force of both sides is only a level 4.7 hive lord, which is the same level as Su Xia's current level.
“Sizzle!”
He tore open the abdomen of another insect, pulled out the gland, and turned away.
Watching the glands in the storage space slowly increase, this feeling of accumulating little by little gave him a strange sense of satisfaction.
This feeling is similar to playing mini-games in the past and slowly accumulating equipment materials.
After he left, some low-level insects immediately pounced on the ripped corpse and tore into it.
"hiss--"
Suddenly, a long hoarse hiss was heard above Su Xia's head.
Lightning flashed in the sky, and a terrifying shadow enveloped Su Xia. The shadow of the long wings was projected on the bloody ground, which was extremely terrifying and hideous.
Su Xia looked up and saw a level 3.0 flying Zerg "Blackwing".
Last time at the oasis camp, these flying insects caused great trouble to everyone in the camp. In the middle of the battle, even the anti-aircraft firepower was not enough. In the end, it was Su Xia who drove the mecha to attract the flying insects away.
Now, this insect actually targeted him and treated him as prey.
It swooped down with its sharp claws, like an eagle catching a rabbit, and landed on the battlefield on the ground, intending to grab Su Xia and tear her apart.
But Su Xia dodged the attack with a flash, leaving him empty-handed.
Then he leaped up and swung his claws.
“Sizzle!”
The sharp claws scratched across its fleshy wings, tearing the thin right wing into two pieces, and even cutting off the tiny hollow bones supporting the wings.
The black-winged bird had a pretty high IQ. It knew it had provoked an opponent it shouldn't have, so it flapped its broken wings desperately, trying to fly away and escape.
But Su Xia didn't give it this chance at all.
With a snap, the root of its left wing was broken, the bone pierced the skin, and blood gushed out.
Black Wing felt pain, fell to the ground and rolled wildly, trying to throw Su Xia away.
But Susha's claws were firmly fixed on its back, digging deeper into the flesh with every roll.
“Ka——”
He grabbed Black Wing's spine and pulled hard, breaking the spine in his back, and hot blood splattered all over the ground.
Black Wing finally stopped tumbling and fell to the ground weakly.
The next step was still the same. Su Xia beat it to death, then tore open its abdominal cavity, grabbed the gland containing spiritual energy, and threw it into the storage space.
The low-level insects around swarmed over and snatched the flesh and blood of the black-winged creature.
With their intelligence, they would never think about why a low-level swift worm could kill the powerful Black Wing?
"Sizzle, sizzle..."
They bit and ripped at the food with sharp teeth and mouthfuls of blood.
Su Xia turned and left, continuing his journey of killing and collecting in the dense sea of insects.
Over the next half hour, Su Xia collected glands from hundreds of insects, some of which he had killed himself and some of which he had snatched directly from the rest of the corpses.
The most sought-after item is the glands of the giant insect.
This kind of insect is so huge that even a small giant insect is as big as a bus, and a large one is like a moving hill.
After every giant insect dies, countless small insects will drill into its abdomen and eat its flesh and blood from the inside.
If you are lucky, you will find its gland, and just swallowing one is enough for one evolution.
“Crack!”
Su Xia is now in the abdominal cavity of a giant insect, forcing himself to endure the stench and large amounts of mucus here, tearing apart various intestines and stomachs, tearing open a muddy path, and then finding its glands and tearing them off.
Then he immediately rushed out of the abdominal cavity, breathing in the fresh air outside with a bloody smell.
"That should be enough. Let's go back and try first."
Su Xia ran wildly all the way out, rushing out of the battlefield full of bloodshed, his swift body sank into the grass, and he didn't stop until he reached the back of a small hill.
Then, he took out the [Alienation Filter].
Su Xia received this reward after the last battle against the insect swarm in the oasis camp, but he has never used it.
This thing is crudely made, silver-white all over, with circles on the surface, similar to the water tanks on the roofs of many old hotels.
There is a display screen on the front of it, and next to the display screen are several buttons, namely [Insert Zerg Glands], [Start Purification], [Output Psychic Energy], [Impurity Release], [Internal Cleaning], and [Necrotic Restart].
A huge instruction manual is attached to the side.
It says on it that in addition to Zerg glands, other items containing psychic energy can also be put in, as long as they can be crushed.
In addition to the glands, the flesh and organs of the insect's corpse also contain a small amount of spiritual energy. They can be chopped up and thrown in, but they are not of much value and are a waste of time. This is one of the reasons why Su Xia does not want to treat the whole corpse.
“Bang!”
Su Xia pressed the button that said "Insert the alien insect gland."
The rest of the buttons lit up one after another, the entire machine was activated, and the round cover on the top slowly opened.
This machine is powered by psychic energy and is equipped with two psychic energy batteries. Every time psychic energy is extracted, a portion of it will be stored in the batteries to ensure long-term use.
[Please put the Zerg Glands you have into the filter]
[Note: the filter capacity is limited, and the amount of alien insect glands put in must not exceed the standard scale]
【……】
Several lines of text light up on the display.
Following the instructions, Su Xia controlled himself to slowly rise to the top of the machine, then took out the fresh glands in the storage space and threw them in one by one.
After dropping sixty of them, the accumulated height of the glands was almost reaching the scale inside the machine.
Su Xia descended and pressed the [Start Purification] button.
The round metal cover on the top of the machine slowly closed tightly, and then a countdown appeared on the screen.
【3:00】
【2:59】
【……】
The speed was quite fast, so Su Xia didn't have to wait too long.
Three minutes passed in a flash, and outside the hillside, the battle between the two insect nests showed no signs of stopping.
[Purification completed]
[Can output psychic potions at any time]
Seeing this prompt, Su Xia immediately clicked the [Output Psychic Energy] button.
Several more options appeared on the display.
[Output low-level psychic potion]
[Output Intermediate Psionic Potion]
[Output of Advanced Psionic Potion]
[Note: Please choose the output according to your actual strength. For psychic creatures below level three, please choose low-level potions...]
【……】
Su Xia clicked on the second option, outputting the intermediate potion, and the time countdown appeared on the screen again.
You still need to wait for three more minutes.
He was not in a hurry and waited patiently in the cold rain.
When the three minutes were up, the screen flashed, and the entire screen slowly rose, revealing a small space behind the screen.
Inside, there were five freshly made intermediate-level psychic potions.
"Only five."
Su Xia's eyes darkened. He threw a full sixty glands in, but the five potions he got were not even enough for him to upgrade from level 4.7 to 4.8. It seemed that the conversion efficiency of this filter was not high and he had to continue working on it.
Fortunately, the night was long and he had plenty of time.
Back then at the oasis camp, the defense battle lasted for most of the night, and many players in the camp died dozens of times. The battle here should not end too soon.
He pressed the [Impurity Release] button, ready to continue a new round of purification.
However, after pressing the button, the machine suddenly shook, a few messy stripes flashed on the screen, and then it went dark.
"What's going on?"
Su Xia slapped the machine hard, but it still didn't respond.
Is this broken?
What inferior product?
There was no clue in front of him, so he had to look at the instruction manual on the machine to see which company the product was, but he found that there was no company name.
There is no production date or inspection mark, it is a pure three-no product.
This is something that came from the starry sky after all, how could it break after just one use?
It seems that there are unscrupulous businessmen in the starry sky, and not every company can be as powerful as Orlok.
Just when Su Xia was at a loss, he suddenly saw a note at the bottom of the instruction manual -
[When the machine has problems, you can click the 'negative restart' button]
【Restarting can solve 99% of the problems】
