Chapter 24 Eating Burned Insects
The two "starlight" symbols should be drones, smaller than spy drones, but with the size of Qi An's thumb joint.
When they touched, they unleashed a high-energy laser beam!
The temperature of several thousand degrees Celsius directly carbonized the surface of the tentacles! The tentacles' muscles retracted, and the fat turned into grease...
Qi An, the only one of the three who could still sense some external information, even smelled a burnt aroma!
Qi An opened his mouth for a moment, not knowing what to say.
So, the thing they risked their lives to get down to earth to open wasn't just about beauty?
About 20 drones flew out from the four corners of the box that had been opened—they were much larger than the previous swarm of black bees. Two of them dealt with the tentacle, and the remaining ones circled Qi An twice more.
It still flew rhythmically, as if saying, "See you later."
Before Qi An could react, they roared away!
The drone swarm flew up to the fourth floor through the open door. As they left the well-lit warehouse, their surfaces turned pitch black, and as they entered the dimly lit fourth floor, they turned a cold gray.
They were like countless Chen Xis who could use "Quiet," flashing a hundred meters away from the Ash Priest before he could even react!
The Ash Priest is surrounded by thousands of tentacles, forming an extremely dangerous jungle!
But the black bees that had been cornered earlier really did seem to each have its own independent flight path... at least every pair did!
These small drones do not have laser weapon modules, but they can still create a nanoblade when two of them touch!
More than a thousand small drones buzzed and weaved through the dense jungle of tentacles, cutting it to pieces in just one round, in just one minute!
The Ash Priest finally stood up from his small turf, his leisurely expression turning solemn!
But it was not afraid. Its body could change form almost at will, and its tentacles could grow almost indefinitely! Its power, and theirs, lay in its will to change its biological reality!
Its tentacles are limitless, so are drones also limitless?
However, after only one whistle, more than half of the small drones were swept away.
Of this large group, half were scattered across the country, while the other half were divided into groups of 20 drones each, with each group surrounding a pair of large drones to provide cover for the large drones as they plunged back into the jungle!
In just a second or two, before the tentacled jungle had even completely closed in, at least 10 groups rushed into the jungle! At least 5 groups approached within 10 meters of the Ash Priest!
The tentacles nearby were actually the core defensive force of this advanced Wisps. Without even glancing at them, the Ash Priest destroyed two drone groups that had become more lethal due to their clustering with a single strike!
The electric current flickered, and the four large drones—the entire production capacity of the North Base 1 over six months—fell to the ground!
However, another pair of machines sank to its feet under this cover. When the two machines collided, heat flowed through the Ash Priest's legs, which were still wearing camouflage pants!
A right leg was severed at the knee!
The Ash Priest's face contorted for a moment, then immediately began to regenerate.
But it can't reproduce!
The high temperature of thousands of degrees and the energy field of this high-energy laser acted as a kind of constraint, causing the carbonized and ceramic flesh and bones to truly turn into necrotic ashes!
The tentacle on the fifth floor could no longer regenerate! At this moment, this slight unusualness finally caught the attention of the Ash Priest!
In that moment of stunned silence, three more pairs of large drones rushed to his side...
The Ash Priest's body shrank once more, all its tentacles retracted, and two more pairs of large wings reappeared behind it!
With a flap of its large wings, the airflow it generated slightly hindered the formation of drones for a moment, and the main body crashed directly upwards, breaking through the ceiling and hitting the first floor!
It needs to go to the ground!
It's raining on the ground. These things are so small, how could their flight performance not be affected by the heavy rain?!
Its body swept across the first-floor corridor, its speed so great that it even stirred up a whistling sound in the air!
But a swarm of black bees was already waiting at the exit on the first floor, and by the time the Ash Priest approached, the nanoblades had already woven a net of countless threads!
Even the Ash Priest, if he were to run into it, would surely be shattered into millions of pieces.
The Ash Priest's expression at this moment, that boyish curiosity and playfulness, that cruel innocence that made him laugh as he slaughtered half the city, finally turned into anger and panic!
Its eyes, countless eyes, were turning anxiously.
These little creatures anticipated their purpose in advance! They are so small that they can get to the first floor through ventilation openings and various gaps.
They also know that it cannot penetrate one layer of soil to the ground, which is more than ten meters thick!
These things are too intelligent! Has human combat AI become this intelligent?
etc!
How do these things transmit data?
Humanity's Starlink?
Can the five underground levels connect to Starlink?
Among these drones, or in the vicinity, there must be a command and control unit! There's an internal network unit in this warehouse!
The Ash Priest's tentacles pierced into the walls on both sides of the corridor, suddenly slowed down, then turned and plunged back into the ground!
On the fifth basement level, even Qi An was about to faint when a tiny creature, resembling a pre-apocalyptic robotic vacuum cleaner, trotted over to her side on its three short legs and anxiously nudged her!
Then it discovered something... It was remotely connected to all the drones and naturally discovered that the Ash Priest had flown back down, and it immediately shuddered!
It hesitated, wanting to retreat into a tiny, inconspicuous hole in the northeast corner of the warehouse.
However, after only a few seconds of hesitation, its short legs retracted, two wheels extended from the bottom of the cabin, and it quickly drove back into the square cave!
But the Ash Priestess had already pounced down—the holes on each floor were readily available, and it charged forward almost without hesitation. Even with half of its body sliced off by the laser, it still crashed back to the 5th floor!
Before its main body even arrived, several of its thick tentacles had already swept towards the warehouse!
Qi An and his two companions were lying or sprawled in front of the only metal table in the middle of the warehouse, their blades flashing like lightning, sweeping away everything in their path with reckless abandon.
If they are caught in the sweep, the three dying people, including Qi An, will probably all be dead!
But then another person came rushing in from the entrance like a gust of wind!
He swung his tactical dagger fiercely at the nearest tentacle!
They failed to sever the tentacle, but the immense force slammed it to the ground, causing it to tilt violently!
The sharp blade sliced across Jiang Mo's chest and the back of Qi An's head, lifting a thick layer of chestnut hair.
The other tentacle was burned off at the root by a pair of large drones that were chasing after it!
Gunshots then rang out on the stairs, the dense hail of bullets even causing the Ash Priest to pause for a moment.
It's Yu Shuang! Yu Shuang has led her team down!
Not just them! There's also Lin Jiaran, Zhou Yanhui, and Gu Liansheng.
Chen Yuezhou was the first to be swept up in the fray!
He didn't leave! He actually got out of bed so quickly and went to this battlefield despite his injuries!
Chen Yuezhou had only been in indirect contact with that tentacle for a moment, and his contamination level had already skyrocketed!
Lin Jiaran rushed over, glanced at the Ash Priest's true form, and trembled with fear as she performed emergency purification on Chen Yuezhou.
While purifying the area, she dragged Chen Yuezhou and scrambled into the warehouse, screaming, "Where's the door! Close the door!"
The door can't be closed in a short time.
The Ash Priest had half his body inside the warehouse, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace!
But then a swarm of drones roared in.
The Ash Priest has lost half of its body, and the high-temperature burns will spread upwards, causing its tentacles to grow at a significantly slower rate!
Countless "black bees" mixed with "giant bees" attacked and slashed wildly, actually forcing this god-like and powerful creature to retreat continuously!
They kept retreating, then retreated to the upper level, and finally back to the first level, which was covered with the corpses of fallen insects.
This time, there was no nanoblade net at the first-floor exit, and the Ash Priest soared into the sky in fury!
Its roar echoed throughout the base, and its figure once again appeared conspicuously in the sky above the base!
This time, the torrential rain has turned into a light drizzle.
Where in the Northwest can you expect a whole day of torrential rain? In the early summer, having two hours of rain like this is considered extremely rare!
The figure of the "deity" was then seen more clearly by more people!
The army, which was struggling to hold on south of the base and was almost on the verge of collapse, was terrified when they saw the Ash Priest again!
But Zhang Kuanxin's piercing scream almost tore her throat apart:
"It's damaged! It's been injured!!"
The "deity" is incomplete, and not only incomplete, but dark clouds follow closely behind it!
The small drones attached themselves directly to the Ash Priest's body, and the remaining 12 large drones formed a three-dimensional geometric ring.
Laser interlacing...
Countless people witnessed the terrifying scream abruptly cease, as chunks of flesh and green blood cascaded downwards!
The "gods" have been dismantled!
It turns out that humans can kill "gods".
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