Sensing Qin Dinglan's calm demeanor, Luo Xi silently breathed a sigh of relief.
Her emotions were very complex and turbulent just now. Even those who walked ahead of her and didn't see her could feel the indescribable fluctuations.
It was the source crystal's effect, Losi was certain. The two hundred thousand was well spent; there was still excess energy in her dantian that she could draw upon at any time.
But now they had to do a mission, and her teammate's unstable emotions would affect the upcoming battle, so she had to speak up to disturb her.
Although nothing was said, the effect was surprisingly good. Qin Dinglan's emotions were now remarkably stable, and she was even a little happy.
Yes, that's good.
The five of them quickly arrived at the nearest area, number three.
The area was covered by a large number of locusts, and fresh tree stumps could be vaguely seen on the exposed ground.
This used to be a forest.
The team from Class 2B who arrived first took over this area. Although the second graders were not required to wear exoskeletons, most of them wore them because they knew the types and weaknesses of the mutated creatures beforehand.
They formed a circle and used flamethrowers to burn the locusts. Since there were no C-level locusts, the flamethrowers were quite effective.
The key is to be careful to keep locusts away from you. They can't bite through your exoskeleton, but they can still bite through human flesh.
Some students in Class B were not wearing exoskeletons and stood inside the protective enclosure. If locusts flew in, they had to promptly clean them up for the students who were wearing exoskeletons and had difficulty moving around.
“Miss Nicole? We don’t need any help here for now. You should go and check out areas one and two first.”
Someone spotted Losi's group. Since they could still hold on, they told Losi and her team to go help others.
The four of them looked at Lossie; she was the captain, so she should make the decision.
Despite the dense swarms of locusts that were still replenishing themselves, Losi chose to listen to them.
This place is indeed dangerous, but with the flamethrower, there shouldn't be any problems for the time being.
"Walk."
With just one word from Losi, the team immediately moved towards area 2.
Further ahead, other teams from Class B were also burning the mutated locusts in a circle.
The locusts occupied too much territory, so they could only deploy a group of locusts at intervals.
At eight o'clock, Losi and her group arrived at Area 2 and saw the mutated red-headed giant ants, a black and red mass, from afar.
The trees in this area have undergone a mutation, remaining evergreen even in winter, and most of them are as thick as a person can hug.
But now they've all collapsed on the ground, their leaves eaten away, leaving only bare trunks.
The break was very clean; it looked like it was bitten off in just a few bites.
Its power is indeed impressive; although these mutated ants are small, their bite force is comparable to that of a tiger.
A human leg can be bitten off in one bite.
Moreover, there are as many as 30,000 to 40,000 of them.
This place is full of Class A teams, displaying a variety of abilities, and there are also many corpses of mutated ants piled up by the roadside.
However, it is still too few compared to the total number of mutated ants, and it will likely be a protracted battle.
The queen ant was nowhere to be seen; not even a shadow could be seen.
"This is Lu Yuan, North Inner Ring Road Area 1. Need support. Over."
Lu Yuan's slightly anxious voice rang out over the regional communication network.
The team in Zone 2 heard the sound and saw Losi's team arriving at the same time: "You guys go to Zone 1, there are mutated earthworms and ants there. We can hold on for now."
"Understood." Before Losi and the others could even stop walking in area two, they were assigned to another location.
However, the five of them did not complain and continued running forward.
This time they're putting in all their effort, and Lu Yuan won't have to wait long.
Ten minutes later, the group finally arrived.
There are only about 10,000 mutated ants here, and the trees have not been completely destroyed.
From a distance, the ground looked like it had pores, a dense array of black holes that would trigger trypophobia.
The ground was wet, so someone must have used water-based abilities to flood the cave.
There aren't many traces of mutated ants on the ground right now; the few that are seen are at the entrances of burrows.
Could it be that the mutated ants and earthworms cooperated, with the ants hiding in their hole?
There is only Lu Yuan's five-person team here, and another five-person team from the same second-year A class.
There were ten people in total, but the difficulty of fighting the mutated creatures was higher than that of the entire Class B.
Seeing the younger students wearing exoskeletons arrive, the exhausted Lu Yuan's eyes lit up.
They fought for so long, but only killed about ten mutated earthworms; the number of ants was far greater and they didn't even count them.
Lu Yuan is a water-based being. Yesterday, in order to survive the night with high radiation, she used up almost all her energy and has not yet recovered. She can only gather a little water.
"Wind users, fan the flames! Lossie, Nicole, aim your flamethrowers at the holes the mutated earthworms made. Everyone else, be on guard."
Losy and Nicole quickly followed instructions, standing at the nearest cave entrance and turning on their flamethrowers.
Both of Class A's wind-element users are here.
The flame of the flamethrower has been specially modified, and the raw material is crystalline, making it highly flammable and durable.
Fueled by the wind-powered user, the flames aggressively invaded the surface of the cavern.
Losi strained her hearing and could clearly hear the crackling sound of ants being roasted by flames, as well as the screams of mutated earthworms as they shrank from the heat.
After the fire, the unique temperature blew into everyone's noses with the wind, and the roasted protein mixed with a peculiar muddy smell that made people feel nauseous.
Losi twitched her nose and silently shut off her sense of smell; at times like this, having too good a sense of smell could be a burden.
However, when she smelled the completely odorless air, Losi found that she could completely shut down her sense of smell without affecting her breathing, instead of returning to a normal level as before.
She was happy on the surface, but showed no sign of it, intently listening to the sounds coming from inside.
This tactic of burning down burrows is effective, but it only works on the surface, targeting mutated earthworms and ants that are caught off guard and unable to retreat.
The caverns were deep and intricate, so the flames didn't have a strong reach and could only burn the uppermost caverns.
Judging from the restless noise below, there are still many more.
Losi looked up at the crowd: "Do you have any poison or anything like that?"
"No." Lu Yuan answered quickly, wary of her surroundings. Because of the shock of the flames, the mutated earthworms did not attack for the time being.
However, the area covered by the flames is small, and they will definitely continue their attack once they realize what's happening.
Moreover, their task was not simply to contain these mutated creatures underground, but to kill or drive them to Central.
No one else had any either. The poison powder was limited in its effectiveness and was unlikely to work in open areas. In addition, many mutated creatures had the ability to block it or had extremely strong defenses, so very few people would carry poisonous items.
With no other option, Losi let Tuka take her place, and then after rummaging around for a while, she pulled out the sesame powder she had made in the refugee camp.
This thing was always kept in my storage space, but it was easily taken out under the cover of a bag containing supplies.
The finished product is scarce. She collected dozens of kilograms before finally getting half a kilogram of finished product, which is about the size of a fist.
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