Chapter 35
When they emerged from the cave, the first thing they saw wasn't the charred grass or the blue sky, but rather the sturdy female insects standing not far from the entrance, their prey in each hand. Their appearance was exceptionally terrifying, their distinctive insect features magnified infinitely on their bodies.
One female insect looked like a fly, its compound eyes, occupying half its head, emitting a dazzling light under the reflection of the starlight. The other, probably a mantis-like insect, stared fiercely at the objects held by the cheetah and the mane dog with its black eyes. When its hands loosened, the prey fell straight to the ground.
"hiss……"
"Buzz—" They looked at the humans coming out of their own caves, and Yan Xuanjin and the others also looked at the two Zergs in front of them who looked particularly strong.
Both sides tacitly remained motionless, and were looking for ways to break the deadlock.
The Zerg are humanity's most formidable adversary since the dawn of the interstellar age. They possess intelligence comparable to humans, yet have evolved bodies with far greater capabilities. Thousands of interstellar encounters have culminated in countless conflicts between the two species, leading to a cosmic nemesis. Almost everyone believes war between humanity and the Zerg is inevitable, and humanity has long since developed technologies to combat the Zerg—but to no avail. To this day, humanity's most potent weapon against the Zerg remains its evolved psychic power and guidance element.
At this point, a head-on confrontation with the Zerg was inevitable. However, the five of them were clearly not in a good condition to fight. Both the Sentinels' mental energy and the Guides' Guidance Energy had already been depleted significantly during the recent exploration mission.
Yan Xuanjin stared at the mantis in silence for a while, then suddenly opened his mouth and gave an order in the channel: "Snow Cat, use your guidance element to attack their brains; Cunning Rabbit, try to use your guidance element to interfere with them; Cheetah, Mane Dog, release your spirit bodies and attack that fly together!"
"yes!"
They quickly followed the instructions and began to move.
At the same time, the Zerg responded quickly.
Although they all felt a surge of burning anxiety, as Zerg, they were very tolerant, and this negative emotion had little impact. Instead, they needed to focus on these human sentinels and their spirit bodies, who rushed towards them with a large amount of mental power.
The cunning rabbit stayed beside the corpse of a male insect that was placed casually on the side, closed his eyes, and tried hard to control his guide to trip up the Zerg and slow down their reaction time and attack speed.
Snow Cat was equally serious. He was releasing his guiding element at an unprecedented speed. After thinking for a while, he made a choice. While ensuring a continuous attack on the flies, he threw all of his energy at the mantis.
The mantis, which was originally preparing to face Yan Xuanjin's attack, suddenly paused. It felt the heat in its heart becoming more and more unbearable, and even began to affect its counterattack speed. It immediately made a decision and began to try to attack the guide who was silently adding debuffs in the back.
Yan Xuanjin immediately sensed Mantis's intentions and quickly instructed the two guides to retreat. He then increased his strength, attempting to intercept Mantis's movements. However, he soon discovered that Mantis would rather take his punches than move closer to the guides.
"Back off again!" Yan Xuanjin yelled in the channel.
Snow Cat assessed the distance from this place to the main battlefield, frowned, and replied, "We can't retreat any further, otherwise the effect of the guidance element will weaken."
Upon hearing this, Yan Xuanjin gritted his teeth and was about to force the snow cat to retreat at all costs, when a figure appeared at the edge of his vision, running towards him at a high speed - the snow cat.
"What are you doing here?!"
When Mantis sensed the guide approaching, he decisively chose not to fight with Yan Xuanjin anymore and instead attacked the Snow Cat.
Yan Xuanjin rushed up quickly, and at the same time burst out with more oppressive mental power, trying to stop the mantis from approaching the snow cat.
The tremendous force pressed down on the mantis, making its steps even heavier.
...The mantis stopped, but the snow cat was walking towards it.
“Snow Cat! Come back!” Yan Xuanjin’s yellow-green eyes were bloodshot. The black wolf roared deafeningly and ran towards him. “Don’t go—!!!”
At this moment, everyone stopped what they were doing, even the fly paused and looked in the direction of the mantis.
However, the imagined scene of the snow cat being torn to pieces by the mantis did not happen. Instead, the mantis seemed to have been threatened by something fatal. It roared like an insect in its throat but did not dare to take a step.
Snow Cat walked up to the mantis with a determined look. He looked at the mantis's completely bent waist, stretched out a finger, and touched the mantis's shoulder.
boom--
In an instant, something passed through Ling Yun's body, quickly forming a strong airflow that blew the Zerg into the sky.
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