Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 494: Hundred-meter-long Lava Beetle
"What?! What thing at the bottom of the pit are you talking about? What's trapped?" the hound asked in confusion.
"Lava leeches! Adult lava leeches... are very big... Just now... my consciousness was connected to this battleship... I saw... several huge... huge lava leeches lurking at the bottom of the pit... They couldn't move before... because... they were too big... and were stuck in the crystal pillars..." Ke Lan spoke incoherently, gasping violently as he spoke.
"Lava leeches? Stuck by crystal pillars?" Layton was stunned. "Oh no! Now those crystal pillars have sunk, and there is nothing to hold them!"
"You must be kidding. Is there any living thing in this pit?" The hound glanced at the green light column that merged into one in the distance. "With this level of energy fluctuation, even if there is any living thing underneath, it should have been reduced to ashes, right?"
"That's not necessarily true..." Layton shook his head and muttered, "Lava leeches feed on this kind of substance, and they are very adaptable to high-intensity energy. Plus, the ones that appear here are mutants... It's hard to say..."
"Ke Lan, what happened to you just now? What's going on with this metal ball and that halo?" The Hound stopped arguing with Layton and turned to look at Ke Lan.
"This console... is actually... actually a connecting device..." Ke Lan resisted the irresistible sleepiness and tightened his back. "The moment I touched it, I felt... as if I had merged with this battleship..."
As he spoke, he injected himself with two more high-strength stimulants, forcing himself to stay awake.
"Through the 'perspective' of this battleship, I can look down at the entire giant pit from the dome... At the bottom of the pit, I saw at least ten... hundred-meter-class mutant lava leeches!"
"Hundred-meter level?!" The hound's eyelids couldn't help but twitch violently twice - they could still deal with the larvae of the lava leech that was less than one meter long, but the giant lava leech of the hundred-meter level could not be shaken by the firepower of the reconnaissance team.
Even if Asano Akira was possessed by the Sword Saint and could split a hundred-meter-long mutant lava leech in half with one sword, the power generated by its self-detonation would be enough to wipe out the entire team.
At least in this power room, they had nowhere to hide.
Add to that the number of "more than ten"... the hound felt a wave of powerlessness rising in his heart.
Fight? Even if they could defeat these huge bugs, they would surely die.
"Damn it, there 's no way to clear the field even if I overturn the table..." Layton, who had just started playing a card battle game some time ago, couldn't help but complain.
Minions with deathrattle effects are already difficult to deal with, and the opponent has filled the entire board with them...
These big bugs, how can they be considered as legendary minion cards? To kill such legendary deathrattle monsters, it is basically a result of killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 of your own. What's more... they may not be able to kill them.
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"Ke Lan, do you have a way to make those crystal pillars rise again? As long as we can trap those big guys again, they won't be able to climb up?" The hound looked at Ke Lan with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"After my mental power was overdrawn, the connection with the battleship was directly disconnected... It will be difficult to recover in a short time." Ke Lan said with gritted teeth. He was still awake and not unconscious, relying entirely on drugs to support him. If he connected to the control console again at this time, I am afraid that the impact of the information flow alone would make his brain explode directly...
"Explosion" in the physical sense.
"Wait... wait! I know how to deal with those bugs!" At this moment, Leighton suddenly shouted.
"What did you think of?" The Hound was stunned. "Hurry up and tell me. Don't waste your damn time!"
"Resonant force field! This resonant force field! Its restraint device can stably confine the energy generated by so many crystal columns after amplifying each other in this pit. The self-detonation of the hundred-meter-long lava leech cannot break through this restraint! As long as we can kill these insects in the pit, their self-detonation will not affect the people outside the pit!" Leighton said quickly.
"Kill him in the pit? How?"
When the Hound said this, the ecstatic Layton was stunned for a moment - yes, it is easy to say, but in practice, this plan is impossible to complete.
Layton deeply understood the meaning of the old saying: "Ideals are full of hope, but reality is very skinny."
The most powerful weapon carried by the reconnaissance team is the disposable plasma cannon mounted on the Valkyrie, but the plasma cannon is a type of energy weapon... The self-detonation of the lava leech will be suppressed by the restraint device of the resonant force field, and the plasma ejected by the plasma cannon will naturally be dissolved by the resonant force field, and will not be able to cause any damage to the lava leech in the resonant force field.
Even if we take a step back and assume that the plasma cannon can penetrate the resonance field and kill the lava leeches, they only have one chance to fire, but Ke Lan saw more than ten lava leeches of the hundred-meter level at the bottom of the pit...
[Anti-argument note: Plasma weapons are not pure . The only energy weapons in the true sense should be laser weapons. Plasma weapons generally rely on the impact of high-speed particles and the bombardment of super-high temperature ion groups. They are hybrid weapons with kinetic energy and thermal energy. However, because the killing effect mainly depends on the high-energy plasma group (commonly known as plasma) that is confined by the magnetic field, they are generally classified as energy weapons.]
"I think the most urgent thing is to quickly find the exit from this power room... Ke Lan is about to collapse, and that woman is also seriously injured. Asano Akira is even less likely to deal with a 100-meter-class lava leech... It's better to live than to die, and running away is not shameful." The hound said, "By the way, Ke Lan, since you said that your consciousness just connected with this battleship, did you see a passage to leave here?"
"Yes! A passage!" Layton was stunned for a moment, and slapped his helmet hard, and said as if waking up from a dream, "I forgot about this, Ke Lan, have you found any passage? Even if it's just to go back to the original tunnel, a 100-meter-class lava leech is so big that it definitely can't get in."
However, Ke Lan just shook his head: "If I had just found the way out, I wouldn't have told you to prepare for battle..."
"You mean... this is a dead end? We are trapped here?" The hound's face suddenly turned pale.
"No... I mean, there is too much information flooding into my brain. I can't process it in time... Whenever I try to recall, my head hurts as if it's going to split... I'm sorry..."
"So, the exit may still exist, but you just haven't found it?" The Hound's eyes lit up and he asked.
Ke Lan was silent for half a second and nodded.
