Chapter 95
Chapter 95
The sudden accident caught everyone off guard. After a fierce gust of wind blew past, leaves fell and trees collapsed. It was no small matter for a giant tree hundreds of meters high to fall down. KID and the others fell to the ground and then stood up quickly.
The alarms from the mecha detection system continued to sound, and everyone at KID saw the superposition of the coordinates and S-level pollutants.
Ying Chenlin was paying attention to the mantis. The giant mantis looked much weirder than the ordinary mantis. Its whole body was green. While retaining the basic appearance of the mantis, its forelimbs had mutated to be larger and thicker. The hard serrations were sharp and glowed with a cold light, like two terrifying sickles covered with barbs.
While Ying Chenlin was paying attention to it, it adjusted its direction, and its huge body changed flexibly in an instant.
"Go!" Ying Chenlin shouted.
KID and the others did not lag behind. Almost at the same time as they moved, the wind blades swept by the mantis's front limbs blew over immediately, and the tree blocking their way was broken into several pieces.
"It came too suddenly!" Ji Qingfeng hurriedly dodged the attack and looked up to see the mantis on the high ground. "It looks like it's moving pretty fast! It didn't come for a long time, but it used its ultimate move as soon as it came, right?"
"Its front limbs are very sharp, and the wind it blows is very cutting."
Ying Chenlin avoided the attack, "Try to avoid its front!"
KID had basically been through a lot of battles in Qiujin, but he saw fewer insect pollutants, but that was not the point. When the mantis in front of them showed its sharp and terrifying front claws, KID and the others' attention had already shifted to other points of focus.
"It uses its front limbs to catch the wind, right? The wind is like a knife."
"So is this wind its ability?! Wow, wind is an attack ability! Does this count as 80 million?"
Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao only remembered one thing, that attack-type S-level supernatural crystals were valuable, and among them, the rare wind-attribute attack supernatural crystals were even more valuable.
"It's a wind-type attack, it should be the Wind Blade ability." You Su dodged the attack and then said, "The Wind Blade ability is rare and valuable."
As soon as the valuable words fell, the mantis attacked them fiercely.
Its scarlet eyes scanned the surroundings, its limbs perched on the fallen branches, and when it raised its front limbs, it created a fierce wind blade. Moreover, the attack speed of this wind blade is extremely fast. The attack is launched almost at the moment when the mantis raises its hand.
Lin Yao dodged three attacks in succession and said, "Wow, this guy looks more ferocious than the cannon bird I fought last time!"
Luxi corrected: "That's the Steelwing Bird."
"There is still a little difference. The Steel Wing Bird can kill people with one shot. The wind of this mantis looks very powerful, but once it is blocked, the power will be reduced." Huo Yan just blocked it with the Devouring Shield and barely judged the damage: "But it's still very powerful."
How could it not be fierce! All the trees around fell down!
Trees that can survive in polluted areas, even if they have not evolved into pollutants, have certain pollutant characteristics and are definitely different from ordinary trees. Judging from the toughness of the trunk, it has at least the same defense strength as Class C or Class B pollutants.
But this mantis just swung a few wind blades and knocked down all the trees.
To put it in an exaggerated way, one knife can kill one Class B pollutant.
"Here it comes again!" Lin Yao shouted.
Huo Yan hurriedly stepped forward and opened his shield, blocking the attack with a bang, "Come on, hide behind me."
"How do we do this?" Ji Qingfeng asked, "We couldn't get close to it."
Ying Chenlin looked at Huo Yan, "Brother Huo, how long can the shield last?"
"It should be able to hold out for a while longer." Huo Yan looked at his console. "These winds look like physical attacks, but they are actually greatly affected by the power of this pollutant. As long as they are not attacked by real guns and knives, the effect of the Devouring Shield will be useful."
Ying Chenlin received Huo Yan's affirmative reply: "Then let's wait in the shield."
etc? Others looked at it in surprise, but quickly reacted!
Originally, the road blasted open by You Su was easy to walk on, but when they reached the undamaged part, their flight began to be restricted. And now this mantis appeared and without saying a word, it released wind blades in their direction.
The distance between trees in the swamp forest was originally narrow, which was a big obstacle for the mecha to move forward. Now, after being swiped by the mantis, all the trees fell down, and the road became more complicated, making it difficult for them to get close to the mantis.
But the mantis's wind blade had extremely strong destructive power. In just this short period of time, the fallen trees were cut repeatedly by it several times.
The roads in the forest are narrow, but if the mantis continues to use its destructive power, even if there is no road, this mantis can open a way for them.
You Su heard this idea and said, "Then move to the side. The tree over there blocks the view."
Ji Qingfeng: "I understand. Move to where there are more trees."
Lin Yao: "Great! This way we don't waste energy."
Huo Yan understood: "Then wait until it finishes scraping this side, then we'll move on."
KID and the others thought that this method was feasible, and some even started observing the pollutant on the spot. It must be said that although the pollutant looked strange, its two front limbs were indeed cool.
Ying Chenlin was also observing.
I got a wind-attribute attack crystal in Qiu Jin last time, but that energy crystal was given to You Su and is now in KID's reserve weapons warehouse. Now another pollutant with wind-attribute attack appeared. Ying Chenlin made a subconscious judgment when he saw it.
The Dawn Alliance's off-season did provide opportunities for many of their bases. Ying Chenlin had been busy designing weapons for KID's mecha some time ago. They had obtained a lot of energy crystals in Qiu Jin, but not many of them could be used to make suitable weapons. When seeing this mantis, Ying Chenlin's first thought was Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao's weapons.
In his original design, he planned to use an A-level poisonous spider to make a speed-controlled binding sickle for Ji Qingfeng, but he has not been able to find an advanced replacement energy crystal suitable for Ji Qingfeng. At that time, Lin Yao used the "regeneration" ability to make a normal attack long sword. The normal attack long sword was indeed suitable for Lin Yao, but once the distance was restricted by others, Lin Yao's normal attack long sword would be useless.
But when he saw the two forelimbs of the mantis, a new idea suddenly came to his mind.
"The mantis's forelimbs are sickle-like in structure, and its close combat capability is very strong. Once it gets close to you, you may be completely entangled until it strangles you to death." Ying Chenlin then looked at the mantis in front of him, "and it also has a long-range wind blade ability. Let's not talk about how this wind blade ability is compatible with our mecha, just these two forelimbs are very valuable."
There is a lot of room for transformation. By extracting the materials from the forelimbs, they can be made into extremely sharp serrated sickles.
Moreover, it has two forelimbs in total. If you are lucky, you can change Ji Qingfeng's binding sickle into a double-blade head, enhancing the attack power of the short sickle. The wind-type energy crystal can also be removed for Lin Yao to use. Lin Yao is a pure melee mecha master. He cannot use artillery weapons, but he can refer to the mantis's attack method of using wind to modify Lin Yao's long sword.
Lu Xi understood Ying Chenlin's intention
Huo Yan: "Then we have to kill him first."
"Hmm." Ying Chenlin continued to observe, "Its hind legs are also very capable of jumping, so they can be used as reinforcement materials. Its eyes seem to be good too, and I think its vision is very sharp, so maybe it can be used to enhance the capture ability of the visual system."
"Its middle trunk doesn't seem to have any advantages at the moment, but this type of giant wind-type pollutant is rare and will be very expensive to sell."
To sum it up, this pollutant is full of treasures and you can make a lot of money by killing it.
The mantis didn't expect that the prey in front of it would not leave but stay where they were. This behavior was undoubtedly a provocation to it.
It looked at the glowing protective shield and increased the speed of the wind blade, blasting forward.
Everyone looked at Mantis more seriously, as if they had already begun to determine where to start.
Watching it working hard, my mind automatically switched to another language: these forelimbs are really good! Got to do it!
While everyone was vying to discuss Mantis, Lu Xi said, "I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling about this."
Huo Yan held up his shield the whole time: "To be honest, I do feel a little bit cold on my back."
Ying Chenlin paused and suddenly remembered where he was. This was a swamp forest.
From the perspective of external inspection, it is the place with the richest resources in the entire main planet of Koria.
"It's normal to feel cold." You Su, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Look at the edge of the radar signal."
The protective shield had a wide range, almost covering KID's six mechas, and the energy index was basically pushed to 60%. Such a protective shield is like a big shining light bulb in the forest. It is impossible for nearby pollutants not to notice it. Once such an energy reaction is discovered——
Originally there were only one or two pollutant signals, but as the protective shield was open for longer, the number of red pollutant signals in the detection radar suddenly increased, and they were approaching them at an extremely fast speed.
Ying Chenlin: "We have become a target."
KID everyone: “!!!”
You Su said: "Set up the artillery."
The situation was urgent and Ying Chenlin had no time to say much. He immediately switched to his rapid-attack cannon.
This time when he came out of the base, he did not use a pure guard or gun mecha, but brought two weapons on the basis of a control-type backup mecha, one was a long-range rapid-attack cannon, and the other was a thunder-magnetic cannon suitable for close combat.
"Brother Huo, please make a seat for us." Ying Chenlin shouted.
Huo Yan immediately controlled the protective shield to open a small hole, and as soon as the hole was opened, You Su and Ying Chenlin's artillery fire immediately blasted out, one was cut off by the mantis's wind blade, and the other hit the mantis directly.
The mantis was attacked like this, and it seemed to have not expected that the weak prey would dare to resist, so it immediately became angry.
The two front limbs moved forward, and the speed of the wind blade immediately increased.
Lin Yao was confused: "What are you doing?"
Ying Chenlin replied: "Provoke it."
Ji Qingfeng: “?”
"Should we be so brave? In StarNet movies and TV series, this kind of behavior is called courting death."
As soon as he finished speaking, the enhanced wind blade immediately hit Huo Yan's protective shield.
This attack was much stronger than the previous one, and it even made Huo Yan's mecha retreat several steps.
While the mantis was attacking fiercely, the pollutants in the distance finally attacked, hitting the protective shield violently, and then stuck tightly to the protective shield, as if trying to break through the protective shield and rush in, pushing the entire protective shield forward several steps.
Lin Yao shouted: "They are so tight!"
Ying Chenlin said: "It's right, Brother Huo, turn around with the protective shield!"
Huo Yan took action immediately after hearing that. The entire protective shield turned so that the back side covered with pollutants was immediately facing the front. The wind blade of the mantis in front swept across and instantly cut the pollutants stuck on the protective shield in half. The pollutants fell to the ground together with the tree trunks that were chopped into chips by the mantis, and they were dead.
KID Others: “?”
"!!!"
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In the lounge of the Koria Administration, when KID and his companions came face to face with the S-level pollutants, all the team leaders and coaches immediately realized that the situation of the two pollutants in the swamp forest was the most unclear. They didn't even know what the two pollutants looked like. They could only judge the intensity of the pollutants based on the numerical response of the S-level pollution source.
The other teams hadn't made any moves yet, and no one expected that KID would be the first to hit the pollutant.
Someone was surprised and asked: "The pollution value is 8800?"
Brother Zhang looked at the numbers displayed on the system and said, "I don't know whether to say they are lucky or unlucky. How about retrieving some information from the KID system?"
Shen Xingtang: "...the number is quite auspicious."
Others: “…”
Is this the point? ?
"Was it originally suppressing the pollution value? Such pollutants should be targeted immediately, but the management bureau has been giving the range coordinates."
"Then we can only start from the pollutant itself. This pollutant is most likely a pollutant with partial mimicry capabilities, so we can't lock on to its specific coordinates when we get close to it."
"Mimicry, that's the S-rank of the insect type."
Pollutants with values above 8000 indicate that this pollutant has a certain degree of difficulty.
But soon they discovered another detail: the coordinates of KID and others on the map did not change significantly, and they almost stayed in the same place.
"Why are they still in the same place?" A coach looked at Jiang Simiao and said, "Isn't this strange? Can we retrieve the data from their mechas to check the situation?"
"They are still in the swamp forest. The signal in that area is not good to begin with, and now we can only barely maintain communication." Jiang Simiao was operating, but he still quickly called up some information recorded on the map. "The amount of information retrieved from the KID mecha is too large. The data packet may be lost when it is transmitted to us, but it is not impossible to judge. We can only analyze it from some small data."
After retrieving the data, they found that the KID mecha did not have much energy consumption, and the only one that showed energy consumption was the KID tank mecha Huo Yan.
Jiang Simiao immediately confirmed: "Huo Yan has opened the shield, they may be under a fierce attack from pollutants!"
"Oh no! We have detected a large amount of pollutants approaching KID!" shouted the staff member of the Black Crow Base who was responsible for monitoring the pollutant signal.
Everyone in the lounge looked towards the signal tower over there, only to see the S-class and KID mechas still in the middle of the radar.
Just at the edge of the radar, pollutants were gradually approaching them rapidly!
“How come so many pollutants suddenly appeared!”
"The shield is on! That big light bulb!"
If you don't turn on the shield, you can't protect yourself. If you turn on the shield for a long time, it may attract a lot of pollutants. The environment of the swamp forest is too harsh for them. Even if a large part of the pollutants are attracted away by the people from the second star field, there are still other pollutants in the swamp forest that have not been disturbed. The KID mecha's position is already deep, and the energy leakage generated by the battle may attract pollutants from the surrounding area.
"They didn't move. The pollutants attracted by the protective shield should be limited. Some of them may be lower-level drivers of S-level pollutants." A coach quickly analyzed: "It is limited, but this wave of pollutants is too much, right? Now they not only have to deal with this S-level, but also have to find a way to get rid of this group of pollutants."
Shen Xingtang immediately: "Send a communication to confirm their situation!"
"There are more pollutants and the communication is being disrupted. I'm not sure if I can get through." Jiang Simiao was just trying to get through, but the variables in the swamp forest were too great. "I'll try to strengthen their communication signal, and it should be possible to get through!"
They would not disturb the mecha divisions from fighting unless it was necessary, but now there was no real-life footage at all, and all the information was like encrypted data. Without contacting the mecha divisions, it was impossible to determine the mecha divisions' situation.
They originally thought that KID and the others were going through a difficult battle and it would be difficult to get in touch with them, but the call was connected immediately after it was sent.
The connection was connected so quickly that everyone in the lounge couldn't react, and then they heard a crackling sound of electricity in the channel.
In addition to the sound of electricity, you can also hear the faint sound of human voices.
Everyone: “?”
The signal looks OK?
Shen Xingtang said: "Si Miao, let's see if we can reduce the noise further."
Jiang Simiao, a data analyst, used his years of sophisticated skills in this critical moment. "It's impossible to completely reduce the noise, but this signal is a little stronger than when they were being hunted before. I'll try to reduce the current noise."
Once the noise reduction is turned on, the current noise is a little lower, but the human voice can be barely heard.
Just as they were about to remind KID of the dangerous environment of the swamp forest, they heard a discussion coming from the communication channel.
"Isn't this one okay? It looks pretty good."
"It's useless. The materials can't be sold for much money."
Everyone in Kolya: “……?”
The voice was clear, but why didn't they understand a word? ? ?
"Did you connect to the wrong channel?!" Brother Zhang looked at Jiang Simiao next to him in surprise.
Jiang Simiao: "You can question my current noise reduction, but you can't deny my professional ability. Connecting to the wrong channel is an insult to me!"
The voices in the channel continued——
"What about this one? It's a little big. How about cutting it into several pieces? That way it will be easier to store in the storage bin."
"What about the middle part? Is it useless? Then forget about it. It's a waste of storage space."
Amidst all the discussion, a calmer voice said, "Its body looks manipulable, so the limbs don't need to be cut into pieces."
Brother Zhang didn't understand a word of what he said: "Aren't they fighting against pollutants? What are they talking about?"
Shen Xingtang understood and was silent for a moment: "They are discussing how to cut the pollutants."
One of the coaches was confused: "I know a little bit about pollutants, but what does it mean that this body is controllable? I've never heard of such a term."
"That's right." Jiang Simiao understood, and he explained: "This sentence means that it doesn't need to be cut, it can be folded, so that it can save space when placed in Storage Bin A."
Others: “…”
The pollutant isn't dead yet, but they've already started thinking about how to cut it?
At the swamp forest scene, the blue protective shield was still emitting light, but a lot of polluted bodies had accumulated on the ground outside the protective shield.
Several KID mechas were half-crouching, and the long-range mechas were busy provoking the mantis. Ji Qingfeng and Lin Yao took the time to pull a few dead pollutants into the circle from the gaps in the protective shield. They quickly processed the materials and put them into the storage warehouse. A lot of pollutant bodies had accumulated under their feet.
"We've finished dealing with this." Ji Qingfeng said, "Old Huo, turn over."
"After turning over, we have to find another place to squat." Lin Yao kicked a pollutant out, "This place is full."
Everyone in Kolya: “???”
What is this saying? Turn over? Baking something? Change the place where you squat? ? ⑩This⑩work⑩is⑩produced⑩
"That's not right, Brother Zhang." The person in charge of testing the data said, "There are a lot of pollutants in them, but these reactions disappear very quickly..."
On the detection system, the contaminants attracted by the light mask almost overlap with the KID. It’s just that these pollutants are coming in large quantities and are decreasing quickly. They watched the detection system and saw that the number of pollutants coming was decreasing.
And every red signal point was like a moth to a flame when it rushed towards KID, disappearing in an instant.
KID hardly moved, and the light shield attracted limited amounts of pollutants. They watched the pollutants become less and less, and the sounds in their ears became clearer and clearer.
"Is that all?" Lin Yao was still unsatisfied. "Why aren't there any other pollutants coming?"
"The range is limited, so these are the pollutants that have been attracted." Ying Chenlin looked at the surrounding environment. With their effective displacement, the mantises almost cleared the surrounding area. "The IQ of insect pollutants is not high. Even if they have evolved intelligence at the S level, their intelligence is still limited."
"The mantis doesn't have much intelligence, and the mecha itself is made of pollutant materials. That is to say, when the pollutants are stacked together with us, even if it can distinguish the individuals, in its eyes, it is just a gathering of prey." Ying Chenlin explained: "As long as we provoke it, in fact, in its eyes, it is the prey provoking it. When it thinks it is strong, there is not much difference between removing the pollutants and removing us."
"Have you ever heard of a mantis stalking a cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it?"
Ying Chenlin said: "The mantis only sees the enemy in front of it."
Therefore, when all the surrounding obstacles are cleared, no matter how sensitive the mantis's reaction is, it is difficult for it to observe the enemies in all directions. During the brief interval when the wind blade stopped, Ying Chenlin immediately ordered Huo Yan to withdraw the shield, and several mechas that were almost paralyzed in the shield rushed out at the same time.
Everyone in the Kolya lounge finally realized what was happening. The KID mecha had already started fighting with the pollutants.
The mantis noticed its prey leaving and immediately chased after Ji Qingfeng's mecha.
Ji Qingfeng: "Wow! Why am I the only one you see?"
Seeing the mantis attacking Ji Qingfeng, everyone else flew around it. Without the obstruction of trees, the mechas could fly freely and were not afraid of the mantis at all. They are indeed not at an advantage when fighting this mantis one-on-one, but they have six mechas. Once the mantis loses the protection of the environment, that will be KID's home court.
When the mantis's wind blade hit Ji Qingfeng, it was also attacked from behind.
In just a few wind blades, it was completely surrounded by KID's mecha.
Ying Chenlin stayed at a relatively far distance, using the thunder and magnetic cannon to assist in the attack, but his eyes were fixed on the system.
This mantis has a single ability and its IQ is only at the level of an ordinary A-level animal pollutant, but why does it have such a high pollution value? Moreover, this pollution value is constant, from 8800 at the beginning to now it has remained at 8800, without any change.
He had never encountered an S-class mantis, so he didn't know the biological characteristics for the time being, or whether this contaminant had other unknown characteristics.
Thinking of this, Ying Chenlin looked at the coordinates of another S-level pollutant. Was he overthinking it?
After squatting for so long, KID and his team have already understood the body structure of this S-level pollutant very clearly. They already know where to bomb and where to cut. Luxi's water cannon became the best control weapon. The slowed-down mantis was completely unable to react quickly, and the movement of multiple prey caused its wind blades to fly around.
The continuous attacks slowed down the mantis's wind blade release speed.
At this moment, the ground centered on the mantis suddenly lit up, like a huge space covering all the mechas within the range.
Ji Qingfeng was stunned: "What on earth am I talking about!? Does this mantis have another attribute?"
The magnetic field data inside the machine changed dramatically, and communication with Corea was instantly disconnected.
Ying Chenlin felt that the world was spinning in front of him.
The energy changes in the field and space made all the mechas feel an inexplicable sense of squeezing. Almost in the next second, everyone's eyes went dark, and a strong feeling of dizziness and nausea came over them.
When his vision became bright again, Ying Chenlin felt that the originally bright vision had become dim.
He tried hard to suppress the feeling of dizziness, and was stunned when he saw the surrounding situation clearly.
"Chen Lin, it seems like we are the mantis..."
The shadows of the trees were mottled and the surroundings were quiet, which was completely different from the original environment.
High up there stood another giant creature, looking down at them.
The author has something to say:
I arrived too late. My aunt's visit caused my already slow typing speed to be subject to a double debuff (anger and grief).
There will be additional updates in the evening, probably around 11 o'clock!
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