Volume 1 Glacial Relics Chapter 29 Thunder Beast
The dark matter stored in the weapon was finally launched, but the tremors on the ground did not stop. Instead, they tended to intensify, as if something was about to come out from underground.
"Old dog... I'm not saying, your mouth really stinks..."
"You can't blame me for this... Everyone, get ready to run away separately. The better off you are, the better." The Hound shrugged and secretly gave Ke Lan and Ivan a look.
“Boom…”
The loud noise of the rocks shattering has drowned out the sound of the warship wreckage hitting the ground. A giant beast that looks like a mammoth but is hundreds of times larger than a mammoth drilled out from the ground. As rocks and broken soil fell, its hideous face finally appeared in everyone's sight.
"This is the first time I've seen such a big thunder beast. It must be over a hundred meters long, right?" Ivan rubbed his face vigorously. "I hope someone comes and slaps me in the face and tells me that I'm having a nightmare."
"Then your hopes may be dashed... and this thing is probably more than a hundred meters tall. If we use the boulder over there as a reference, it must be at least a hundred and fifty meters high." Ke Lan said. He had already begun to slowly retreat, ready to retreat.
Apart from those super beasts known as "primeval epics", the Thunder Beast is the largest indigenous creature on this planet. This creature is covered in a composite heavy armor made of chitin and bone plates, with a pair of jaw-shaped sickles on its lower jaw. The sickles are mainly composed of the Thunder Beast's own bones, but they contain large metal elements that can easily pierce the armor of human main battle tanks - of course, this statement exists on the theoretical level. In actual situations, the Thunder Beast's sickle will not penetrate tanks that are much smaller than it, but will directly smash the tank into a pile of scrap metal.
Driven by its six thick and powerful legs, a thunder beast running at full speed is like an indestructible chariot. Any obstacle in its charge path will be ruthlessly crushed. When humans first encountered the thunder beast, the heavy losses caused the Ark's top leaders to order that ground troops and thunder beasts were strictly prohibited from engaging in head-on combat.
If you want to encircle and suppress the Thunder Beast, you have to dispatch at least three "Iris-class" battleships and use the powerful plasma cannon to have a chance to break through the Thunder Beast 's surface defense and kill it.
"Run! Whoever is targeted will be on his own!" After the hound said this, he took Leighton, Ke Lan and Ivan and started running wildly towards the east bank of the valley.
Naturally, the Marines did not stand there stupidly. They split into two groups and ran in two completely different directions.
"One in three chances... Hehe, we can't be so unlucky, right?" While running, Layton had to carefully protect the fuel cell on his chest. The reliability of this external energy source was really not very high.
"No, not one third. There is at least a 90 percent chance that the thunder beast will not chase us." Ke Lan said.
"Why?" Layton was puzzled.
"Why don't you ask the old dog? Since he's leading us in this direction, he must know."
"Is it interesting to keep it a secret at this time?"
"Idiot! I told you to stop fiddling with scrap metal and read more books, but you wouldn't listen. Now you can't do that anymore, can you?" The hound first scolded Layton, and then said with some pride, "The right eye of the Thunder Beast is much blinder than the left eye... Let's put it this way, based on the central axis of the eyes, the field of view of its left eye can be about 120 degrees, but the right eye can only have a pitiful 45 degrees. If we run a few hundred meters further, that big guy won't be able to see us at all!"
"Shit, so that's how it is!" Layton touched his forehead in a daze, "But... where are we going next?"
"I wrote down the map on the battleship. There is a transfer station in this direction. It is numbered S0159 and is thirty kilometers away from the valley."
"It seems like you've already planned your escape route... But what about Asano Akira?"
"Don't worry about that kid. As long as he gets into the escape pod in time, no one can pose a threat to him."
"But he's blind. How about we go around and look for him?"
"Just take care of yourself. As long as Asano Akira is not stupid enough to walk with the others on the battleship, maybe he can get back to the Ark before us. Okay, shut up. Also, pay attention to whether there are ambushes on both sides. Don't let the boat capsize in the ditch." As the Hound spoke, he took out a handful of bean-sized metal balls from the tactical bag on his waist and threw them behind him.
After these metal balls touched the ground, they began to spin rapidly and quickly drilled into the soil. This is a type of anti-personnel mine that can be deployed quickly. Its power is not lethal, but it can make a person lose the ability to move instantly.
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For the Thunder Beast, the area beyond forty-five degrees to the right was indeed its blind spot. After making a few deafening roars, it chased after one of the teams of Marines.
The Thunder Beast's movements seemed slow, but its size was too huge. Each of its steps was a span of nearly 100 meters. It quickly shortened the distance between itself and the Marines, and its speed was constantly increasing.
After discovering that they were being targeted by the Thunder Beast, the team of Marines immediately dispersed again. But before they could spread out far enough, the Thunder Beast had already lifted a huge rock from the ground and threw it forward.
The boulder was nearly ten meters in diameter, which was roughly equivalent to a three-story building. Those who were hit by the boulder were instantly sucked in and turned into flying flesh paste. They were actually lucky. Death was just a blink of an eye, and they did not feel much pain. Those who "luckily" avoided the boulder were directly injured by the terrifying force when the boulder fell to the ground. They could only watch in despair as the thunder beast approached step by step...
"Too tragic..." Layton turned his head away with some reluctance. "Speaking of which, this ambush is too bizarre... Whether it's the 'death ray' or the thunder beast, they are not something that humans can control. If the dead guy was not indeed an Earthling, I would have thought that the mastermind behind this was an Alpha alien."
"The Ark's top brass knows much more than you think..." Hound said seriously, "Don't delve into it. None of those curious guys have a good ending."
What the Ark's top brass know... Thinking of this, Ke Lan hesitated for a moment, and finally asked, "That... if, I mean if, if someone in the ambusher camp can read the words of the Alpha civilization, is it possible to control the 'death ray' and the thunder beast?"
"The writing of the Alpha civilization? That's impossible. Your imagination is too rich. If someone has that ability, would they need to resort to such inferior means? The Alpha civilization technology unearthed from many ruins has never been analyzed because it is impossible to decipher their language... As far as I know, there is a list inside the institute, on which all the undeciphered technologies are ranked. As long as any one of the top 30 is cracked, the lives of all mankind will undergo earth-shaking changes - cough cough cough!" When the hound said this, he seemed to have accidentally got a stitch in the side and began to cough violently.
"If we can master the writing of Alpha civilization, at least one-third of the technical problems on this list can be solved." Ivan added, obviously he had also heard of this list.
