Chapter 187 186. Detour
In Cave No. 8 connected to the front-line base, a gigantic mushroom rises from the ground. Its scale is unprecedented, and its cap almost touches the top of the cave. It emits a faint and constant fluorescence, and is the undisputed core of the entire space.
Puff, like soldiers formed on an assembly line, they walked out from the bottom of the giant mushroom one after another.
As soon as they came out, they quickly gathered into a silent and orderly team, and were then sent to other caves to fight with Chis.
The defense of the entire cave was tight. In all the connected passages, patrol soldiers were shuttling back and forth on the ground, and the sky was filled with flapping bats flying up and down, searching every piece of space.
An eye bug with [Refractive Invisibility Level 7], despite trying its best to hide its body, was still forced into a blind spot by several bats, which finally sensed its presence.
The next moment, the surrounding bats pounced forward together. After a short explosion, only a pool of rotten meat with smoke rising from it remained of the eye worm.
Similar situations have occurred many times in the past two days, so Chis has been persistently sending reconnaissance units to infiltrate and try to obtain intelligence.
Today, it finally succeeded!
Just when the explosion attracted most of the bats, another eye worm accurately seized the gap in the defense line, silently passed through the originally airtight security net, and successfully sneaked into Cave No. 8.
Then it saw!
The unprecedented giant mushrooms and the endless stream of Pujis produced by it.
Although the eye worm was soon destroyed in the subsequent intensive search, Chis had already obtained the key information it wanted - the nest of this mushroom was exactly the key point it had been looking for, which was enough to turn the entire battle situation around!
Under the absolute control of the unified will of the Chiss, its forces began to assemble efficiently.
As a special attack unit that has a significant restraining effect on Puji, Evil Eye is naturally among them.
The route options for attacking Cave No. 8 are extremely limited. The adjacent snake cave has long been transformed into a fortress by Puji. Chis has already experienced how difficult it is in the first round of pursuit.
The adjacent Cave No. 7 is a busy transportation hub with a constant stream of Puji troops flowing inside. Going through this cave is tantamount to directly engaging in a decisive battle with the main force of Puji.
The other several passages facing the Chiss-controlled area were also closely monitored by a large number of Puji reconnaissance troops. A forced breakthrough was not impossible, but the offensive intention would inevitably be exposed in advance, and by then the Puji reinforcements from the surrounding caves would swarm in, and the sneak attack would most likely end in a full-scale decisive battle.
What Chis wanted was to gather all his strength, use the strong to defeat the weak, and destroy Puji's production nest in one fell swoop.
After Puji becomes exhausted, we will slowly eat away at them, eliminating them bit by bit.
As for a head-on confrontation where both sides put in their best efforts?
This is not what Chis wants. It’s not that he doesn’t have the confidence to win, but that he is at a great loss.
Low-level beetles are fine, they can reproduce in groups within a few days.
As for the intermediate troops, such as the eyeworm, six-clawed beast, and clumsy beast, the time required for training is calculated in months.
The intermediate troops that can be formed in more than a month were its advantage in the past, but became a disadvantage after facing Puji.
Look at Puji’s production efficiency, they come out of the giant mushroom one after another without stopping!
What's more, the loss of resources in the process of recovering corpses on the battlefield is also a loss that cannot be ignored.
Now Chis just wants to end this negative-return war at the lowest cost.
So, it decided to go around!
From the information sent back by the eyeworm, it saw that Puji's reconnaissance and patrol forces were almost all concentrated on the front line facing the Chiss-controlled area, while the rear passage was non-existent and there were only a few guards!
Presumably, Puji and the others would not have thought that it would go around in a circle and attack from behind, right?
In order to ensure secrecy, it also sent small groups of troops to harass Puji's other caves, or to send them to their deaths, just to confuse the public.
Its main force quietly passed through several caves, making a huge detour, and even fought two fierce battles with the entrenched wild monsters before it was able to pass.
Now, after going through so many hardships, the fruits of victory are finally within reach!
Chis's troops advanced all the way to the end of the passage before they were caught off guard by the Puji sentry!
The counterattack was swift, and the Pujis tried to plug the gap with firepower, but it was too late.
The Evil Eye rushed to the front, and the pale [Petrification Ray] instantly turned the hastily gathered Puji into a stiff stone sculpture!
The six claws, as the vanguard, followed closely behind, rushing towards the Puji that were rushing over, to prevent them from gathering in a group - as long as the Puji did not gather in a group, they would not pose much threat!
The real Chiss army rushed towards the giant mushroom like a torrent.
Claws, acid, and bites, the base of the giant mushroom was peeled off and destroyed layer by layer under the violent attack.
Finally, the final inner structure was exposed to Chiss!
A Chiss swung its claws impatiently, tearing the last layer of tough mycelium - "clang!"
The sharp claws broke, and through the torn gap, what was revealed was... ten giant Pujis covered in thick rock armor!
These Pujis have extremely strong defenses. Even with their most powerful six claws, they can only scratch some of their outer shells and are unlikely to cause effective attacks.
The heavily-armored Pudges walked with heavy steps, and smaller Chiss could even be trampled to death by them.
A large number of hallucinogenic spores gushed out from the cracks in the stone armor, instantly dyeing the entire core area of the battlefield into a sweet purple poisonous miasma!
Several six-clawed beasts joined forces to attack, and finally tore the outer rock armor of a heavily-armored creature!
However, what was exposed was not the expected snow-white mycelium, but another layer of dense scales shining with a cold and hard luster!
The evil eye turned its gaze, and the pale beam of light focused precisely on the gap!
The petrification effect did begin to spread... but with the dual blessing of the heavy armor Puji [Magic Resistance LV6] and up to 50 points of physical strength, the petrification speed was extremely slow.
When most of the heavily-armored Puffy's body finally turned into a stone statue and fell to the ground with a bang, a large number of Chis had already fallen down around it, unable to escape the range of the hallucinogenic spores in time.
Realizing that something was wrong, Chis wanted to retreat, but instead of going back the same way, he continued to charge forward!
In order to go around this big circle, it almost used up all its supplies along the way. Now it has no choice but to go through the cave and go directly back to its own territory!
The Chiss gave up fighting with the remaining heavy-armored Pwujis. It had already discovered the weaknesses of these creatures and that they moved slowly, so it just ignored them.
But when Qis rushed halfway, he saw Pujis appearing in most of the passages connected to Cave No. 8, and all of these teams had heavily armored Pujis. They stood at the front of the team like a city wall...
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Welcome to Armageddon, stupid bug!
(End of this chapter)
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