Chapter 129 Primitive Pollution

The evening breeze whistled through the abandoned building mezzanine, and after the team's footsteps stopped, everything around seemed too quiet, even the moon didn't come out today.

A strange atmosphere spread among the team. Jiang Ning spread out his senses and silently detected the situation around him.

In the past, at this point, people from various colleges were either rushing or resting, and the enthusiasm of the audience was not as high as during the day, and there were few things that Arakawa needed to explain.

He originally planned to survive this night and wait for the handover tomorrow morning.

Arakawa kept staring at the live camera. At this moment, the actions of the teams from various colleges were surprisingly consistent, and they all stared at one place.

This strange atmosphere made the audience who were watching the live broadcast late at night nervous.

The cameras in the stadium have built-in night vision function, and it is reasonable that the God's perspective should be able to see more clearly, but Arakawa switched the live broadcast screens of several colleges and did not find anything unusual around them.

The girl from Semir College was the first to say that she saw something, but her description was too vague and no one knew what it was.

When everyone was confused, a camera image moved.

Jiang Ning rubbed his fingertips, released his mental power, and threw a ball of light at the protective net.

The ball of light illuminated the surrounding environment all the way, and finally exploded on the protective net, and the wire in the area where the explosion occurred broke.

The team waited for a few seconds, and the next second, a silver insect the size of a fingernail crawled out from the broken end of the wire.

It was almost the same color as the wire on the protective net, and if it hadn't moved, it would have been difficult for people to find it.

Something was indeed moving on the protective net.

The insect moved toward the ground along the direction of the wire mesh. From a distance, it really looked like someone was pulling the wire.

First, this wire was moving, and in the blink of an eye, Jiang Ning found that two or three nearby wires were all moving. No...not only the nearby wires, but the entire protective net was moving.

Jiang Ning's eyes blurred and he closed them unconsciously.

The insects moved very quickly, and soon they moved from the protective net to the ground.

Is this... an unknown monster?

Jiang Ning took a step forward and took a half step back. She was not sure. She had read a lot of information, but none of them were related to the description of the insects in front of her.

There were a lot of insects, densely packed and all heading towards the crowd.

"Jiang Ning." Cheng Yao called her.

Jiang Ning turned around as if she had noticed something.

Cheng Yao pointed outside the protective net: "Look far away."

She immediately followed Cheng Yao's line of sight and looked away. The loess outside the city was covered with a layer of silver-white. If you didn't look closely, you would think it was snowflakes falling on it.

Those are all insects!

Jiang Ning got goose bumps on her hands.

Where did so many bugs come from?

While Jiang Ning was stunned, Wei Shengyu's voice came into his mind.

[We were attacked by many unknown bugs here.] Wei Shengyu said.

Jiang Ning frowned: [Are they silver-white and only the size of a thumb?]

Wei Shengyu paused: [Yes...]

[We also encountered them.] Jiang Ning's voice became a little deeper.

[You also encountered them?] Wei Shengyu was surprised, and she looked irritated. [These bugs can't be killed with ordinary attacks.] As

soon as Wei Shengyu finished speaking, Cheng Yao had already released an attack to sweep towards the pile of bugs.

The Super Double S-level attack hit them, but only knocked over the insects in a small area. The insects twitched their legs and turned over again, and continued to follow the team towards the crowd.

Cheng Yao's expression did not change, and he continued to release the petrification skill. The insects within a radius of several meters were pulled towards the middle by a force, gradually forming a petrified sphere.

Cheng Yao clenched his five fingers, and the petrified sphere suddenly collapsed. He thought that this would kill them, but the petrified insects immediately performed a shell for everyone. The petrified shell cracked a crack, and the insects pupated out from inside.

The insects that have successfully formed a shell are milky white. Two seconds after their bodies are exposed to the air, their back skin begins to harden gradually, and a new shell squeezes out from their necks. The new shell slowly turns gray, and then becomes the silver color that everyone sees now.

It was the first time that Jiang Ning saw a monster that could not be killed by superpowers, and it was difficult to judge its level for a while. There were

more and more insects around, and the insects were getting closer and closer to them.

The team members used various superpowers, but this could only delay their steps and could not kill them at the root.

"Stop fighting, don't waste your mental energy, open the perception barrier for defense." Jiang Ning stopped everyone from attacking aimlessly.

All the colleges were attacked by the bugs and all entered a combat state.

Except for the two teams of Aston Ding College and King College, which quickly found the breakthrough point and carried out a cleanup, the other colleges were like headless flies, using skills to attack randomly, and no one was better than the other. The

three second-rate colleges that were fighting internally also discovered that the bugs were not right. After consultation, the three main commanders agreed to temporarily stop fighting and unanimously fight against the surrounding bugs.

The commentator Arakawa had never seen such a bug before. He went online and quickly read the existing encyclopedia of alien beasts.

The official information is always more than the private information, but he found basically no records about this kind of bugs.

Just when he wanted to classify the silver bugs as newly discovered alien beasts, Huo Changjun, dressed in ordinary clothes with loose hair, flew to the commentary platform at the speed of whirlwind.

Arakawa's eyes lit up: "Teacher Huo, you came at the right time. I just wanted to ask you a question."

"About silver bugs, right? I know." Huo Changjun answered first.

Arakawa closed his mouth, nodded slightly, and stood up to give her the position of main commentator.

Huo Changjun took over the seat and sat down. She gently touched the microphone on the seat and acted as a popular science lecturer: "This kind of silver bug has disappeared from the current interstellar for many years. It is not an alien beast."

Huo Changjun thought about the wording and continued: "Every bug is part of the pollution source, but it is not entirely the pollution source. We generally call them [pollution species]. These bugs are the most primitive pollution species. Ordinary attacks are ineffective against them. Only fire elements can barely kill them."

As she spoke, the scene just happened to cut to the King's Academy. A girl with pink hair rubbed a huge fireball in her palm and swept it towards the direction of the bugs.

The bugs were burned by the flames and dissipated in the air.

This series of actions just proved what Huo Changjun said.

Arakawa also found a description of the contaminated species based on the keyword search: "The contaminated species larvae usually appear at night and disappear when the sun rises. They are afraid of high temperatures. The mucus secreted by male larvae when crawling will cause each female larvae they come into contact with to split into new eggs."

Arakawa suddenly frowned when he read this: "Then the speed at which they kill them is not as fast as the speed at which the larvae are added?"

Huo Changjun looked solemn. She looked up at the live broadcast screen and said, "It's only night now. There are still at least five hours before the sun rises. The polluted species will continue to consume everyone's physical strength. They can't hold on until then."

The staff at the venue set up a barrier to block the operation of the barrier. The operation of the barrier only requires the consumption of crystal cores, but the contestants are different. The competition stipulates that they can only use supernatural powers.

Arakawa noticed that Huo Changjun had something else in his words and asked, "Teacher Huo, are there other ways to deal with the polluted species?"

"All the larvae come from the summons of the mother insect. They need to find the mother insect and kill her, and the polluted species will naturally disappear." Huo Changjun said.

Arakawa was surprised: "Find a bug among so many bugs?"

The polluted species is so special that many star citizens, including him, have never even heard of it. The students inside are not very old. Will they know that these bugs are polluted species? They have to find the mother bug to kill them.

This is tantamount to the contaminated area suddenly returning to the original version. They, the old players, don't know how to play, let alone the novices.

Huo Changjun comforted Arakawa and said, "I will live broadcast with you here tonight. If these academies can't handle it, we are adding support."

The reason why the superpower competition was held in the polluted area is not only to compete for victory or defeat and select the first place, but also to challenge oneself and break through the limit. Nature is constantly evolving, and humans cannot stand still.

Neither of the two commentators responded, but stared at the live broadcast screen quietly.

...

The Semill Academy team.

Jiang Ning's eyes stayed on the bugs that were just killed by everyone. Although the supernatural power was dazzling, it was not completely ineffective.

Bugs in a small range were successfully killed.

This means that they are not unkillable, but the attack method used by everyone is wrong.

"What did you find?" Cheng Yao stood next to Jiang Ning, and she noticed that Jiang Ning's eyes were fixed on one place.

Jiang Ning shared his discovery with everyone: "But everyone's attacks were too chaotic just now, and I didn't see whose attack was effective."

"This is simple." Si Yuan said, "You let everyone release their superpowers in batches and teams to attack the bugs. Everyone will watch together, and it will be clear whose attack is effective." There

are not many people here with offensive superpowers, so the test can be completed in about two batches.

"The bugs are getting more and more, we have to speed up the progress and find a way to attack quickly." Jiang Ning nodded to Si Yuan.

The team acted quickly, and according to what Si Yuan said, according to the positions of everyone standing, ten people formed a team to attack together.

The first team of offensive superpowers, including Jiang Ning and Cheng Yao, all released their superpowers.

As soon as the attack landed, several people noticed the insects' feedback.

"It's fire." Si Yuan approached Jiang Ning and whispered to her.

Jiang Ning's face lit up, and then she asked all the fire elementalists in the team to come out and release their powers together to verify the guess just now.

There are many ways to attack with elemental power, and each psychic is good at different techniques, but the flames they released all burned the silver-colored insects into carbon ash without exception.

The flame is indeed effective.

After finding a breakthrough, Jiang Ning calmed down.

It's just making fire elements, and she has many plants that can make fire.

Jiang Ning synchronized this news to Wei Shengyu, thought about it, and informed Qingzhou through perception.

Everything inside and outside the city was white. All the places that could be seen around were occupied by these silver-white insects. In addition, Wei Shengyu said that they also encountered insects. Jiang Ning was not sure whether the insects had occupied the entire field.

Before they had dealt with the remaining three second-rate colleges, they and Qingzhou were still partners. They were just synchronizing the field information and would not lose two pieces of meat.

Qingzhou quickly replied to her and expressed his gratitude.

Jiang Ning ended the conversation and re-examined their current situation.

The insects were obviously very interested in them. At this time, Jiang Ning no longer cared about whether they scored or not. The most important thing was to survive in the field.

She immediately ordered the members of the team to fly or find a higher cover to hide.

The surrounding buildings were also full of insects, so everyone naturally chose to fly.

When almost everyone had flown, Jiang Ning began to summon the flame orchids along the sides of the road. She still had some windmill grass pollen left, and she used it all on these flame orchids.

After arranging all this, Jiang Ning turned around and prepared to find a suitable place to stay, but saw that Si Yuan was still standing behind her.

She was stunned, wondering if Si Yuan couldn't fly either. When she was about to take him with her, Si Yuan spoke.

He asked, "You can't fly, do you want me to take you?"

Jiang Ning: ""This guy can fly! ?

""Can your mental strength still support it?" Jiang Ning suppressed the thoughts in her heart and was a little worried.

"I saved some energy during the daytime rest, so it should be enough." Si Yuan smiled.

Jiang Ning stopped refusing. She just scanned the surroundings and it was difficult to find a suitable place in a short time. "Remember to tell me when you can't hold on any longer."

Si Yuan said, "Okay."

He released his supernatural power, and put his arm around Jiang Ning's waist from behind to lift her up.

"Just hold my collar." Jiang Ning twisted her body, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Even when she was with Wei Shengyu, Simon and the others, none of them had such intimate actions, not to mention that Si Yuan was a man.

But due to the special situation now, it was not the time to be shy about the differences between men and women.

Si Yuan calmly took his hand from Jiang Ning's waist, pinched her collar, and lifted Jiang Ning in his palm.

This feeling was very novel. Although it looked a little weird, Jiang Ning felt that she accepted it well.

Si Yuan's body usually looked very weak, but he had enough strength. It was effortless for him to lift Jiang Ning, an adult.

The two rose to a height and stood side by side with the others in the team.

Cheng Yao then remembered that Jiang Ning couldn't fly. She flew to Si Yuan and Jiang Ning and asked, "Do you need me to help?"

Before Si Yuan could speak, Jiang Ning said, "No, I need you to do something else."

The flame orchid below had already begun to bloom, and the flying petals fell to the ground, swirling around with flames, burning all the insects in their path.

Jiang Ning was held by Si Yuan by the collar, and her body was swaying slightly due to the influence of gravity. She spread her hands, releasing her mental power from her palms, and a pile of round, plump pumpkin seeds the size of her palms appeared in her hands.

Jiang Ning figured it out in her spare time. It takes 20 sunlight to summon a giant pumpkin, but if she disassembles the giant pumpkin into small pumpkins, she only needs 3 sunlight each. Although the effect will be greatly reduced, it is the same.

She distributed the pumpkins in her hand to Cheng Yao and a few scattered members around, and told them to smash the pumpkins to the ground.

Insects are afraid of fire, and thinking about it from another perspective means that boiling slurry is also lethal to them.

Everyone took the pumpkins in Jiang Ning's hand and quickly dispersed around.

Except for the small area under the flame orchid trees, the ground was almost occupied by insects.

Wait until the petals on the flame orchids have almost fallen.

"Strange, why don't the number of insects around us decrease, but it seems to be increasing?" Si Yuan's voice exploded above Jiang Ning's head, and his tone was full of doubt.

"What?" Jiang Ning seemed to be suddenly stabbed in the nerves, and she suddenly raised her eyes and scanned the distance.

Si Yuan's feeling was not wrong, the number of insects around was increasing. Originally, the ground was still a sparse layer of silver dots, like the first snow just fell on the ground, and now the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the underground soil layer was completely invisible.

If it continued to develop like this, their mental strength would not be able to support it for long, and the flames killed less than the number of new insects.

She realized that these insects can reproduce wirelessly!

No matter how many attacks we make, it will be useless. We must find a way to suppress their reproduction, otherwise it will be like hitting a rock with an egg.

But before that, everyone must figure out one thing: where do these insects come from?

"It seems that most colleges have realized the problem." Huo Changjun raised the corners of his lips with admiration. These students are smarter than they thought.

Although there are not a few people eliminated in the competition under the strong attack of the polluted species, there are always smart people.

"Do you think they can find the mother worm?"

"Do you think they can find the mother worm?"

Arakawa's voice and Feng Yanzi's voice were spoken at the same time, one was asked to Huo Changjun, and the other was asked to Cheng Lanshuang.

The leader teacher of the main competition area.

Because of the unexpected situation in the stadium, the team leaders of each college did not doze off, and they were all on their toes and paying attention to the situation inside.

Cheng Lanshuang chuckled: "Don't think these kids are too stupid."

Feng Yanzi raised her eyebrows: "Who is the one who called people idiots every day in school?"

"It's not me." Cheng Lanshuang turned her head back silently.

Feng Yanzi: "..."

-Insects

have a common characteristic. They are driven by pheromones. As long as they are not solitary animals, they will have a common leader to lead them.

Although Jiang Ning doesn't know how insects reproduce, she thinks these insects are like ants. There should be one or more beings similar to the "Queen Ant" among them.

The queen ant is slightly larger than other ants, so the queen of this group of insects should also have distinct characteristics that are different from other insects.

Killing the queen can certainly solve the previous crisis, but...

if it is really as she thought, the insects have spread all over the stadium. How can they find a unique queen in such a large area?

Jiang Ning fell into deep thought.

[Go west and merge with the Seaben Academy.]

Jiang Ning gave orders to everyone in the team.

When communicating with the light boat, the two reported their positions to each other. The light boat was not far away from them, only about 20 to 30 kilometers away.

Not to mention finding the queen insect, it is difficult for just the few people in their team to clear out some insects. Joining forces with other academies is the best way at the moment.

It takes about half an hour to fly twenty or thirty kilometers. The team headed west. During this time, Jiang Ning paid attention to the pile of insects underground, trying to find something that was different from other insects.

Unfortunately, nothing unusual was found along the way.

The Saibaen Academy is not like them. They still fight on the ground. The fire elementalists form a circle around them to protect everyone else.

However, many fire elementalists can't stand such a continuous output of mental power, and they keep injecting mental supplements to hold on.

"The bugs are so disgusting."

Jiang Ning and the others heard this when they arrived.

Seeing that one of the members failed to attack in time, the surging bugs quickly occupied their territory.

Jiang Ning asked their fire-type esper to help, and then filled the gap.

As she breathed a sigh of relief, her body suddenly sank, and soon stabilized again.

Si Yuan.

Jiang Ning realized that her condition was not right.

Si Yuan didn't have much mental strength to begin with, and he had consumed so much when copying the nutrient solution. Now he had flown so far, and his body was already exhausted.

"Let's go to their team." Jiang Ning said to Si Yuan.

Si Yuan looked a little tired, but he still tried his best to keep smiling. He flew towards the crowd, put Jiang Ning down steadily, and landed next to her.

After landing, Jiang Ning did not sit idle, but planted a circle of flame orchids around, and then asked the water and ice elementalists of the two teams to condense a wall around to resist the indiscriminate sweep of the flames.

The people in the two teams have already accepted the plants that Jiang Ning can summon, and they even secretly look forward to what kind of surprises the plants she summoned can bring them.

After the situation was temporarily under control, Jiang Ning told everyone her guess.

Qingzhou's idea coincided with hers.

The two agreed that the insects were driven by something after all, and solving it would solve the problem of these insects.

Just when everyone was at a loss and didn't know how to find a needle in the sea, an accident happened again.

A boy in the team suddenly twitched. A bug had somehow passed through the layers of defense set up by everyone and crawled into the boy's brain through his ear.

The bug got into its brain and did something unknown. Its skin was like a rotten apple, quickly losing moisture, its skin was loose, and its bones were protruding.

Jiang Ning thought of Fang Zhi, a researcher he had met before. He looked very similar to the person he saw now.

Seeing that something was wrong, the teammate next to the boy took a picture of the elimination device on his body and sent him out of the arena.

In order to save mental energy and use it to attack the bugs, the people of Sai Yaben Academy did not open the defense barrier.

Everyone thought that they were safe with layers of defense, but they didn't expect that it would still be found.

When an unexpected situation occurred, everyone's heart was lifted again, and they kept their spirits up and stared at the movements around them. Once a bug broke through the defense line, they would raise their hands and quickly kill it.

Jiang Ning was thinking quickly about the relationship between Fang Zhi and the bugs. She pulled Cheng Yao and another boy over and asked in a low voice, "Did you find any traces of this kind of bugs when you were in the underground pollution monitoring center?"

These two people had been there longer than she had, so maybe they had discovered something else.

Cheng Yao thought about it carefully and shook his head.

The boy fell into deep thought. He touched his neck and frowned. "I think I saw a bug crawling out of the body of the polluted creature before, but it was too small, so I didn't pay much attention to it."

He clapped his hands suddenly, and an idea suddenly came to his mind: "Could it be..."

Jiang Ning nodded seriously: "I guess the pollution research center was also destroyed by the attack of this kind of bugs."

Therefore, the bugs did not appear suddenly, but they had been in the contaminated area of ​​​​B22 star for a long time, but they only appeared at a specific time, so the organizers did not find it when they cleaned the stadium, and they did not find it before.

Jiang Ning even had the idea that the pollution monitoring center was set up specifically for them.

But there was no evidence to prove it, everything was just her personal association.