Chapter 20
"If that woman can't get out, what's the point of you going there?" The guard captain's expressionless face turned a little sarcastic. "If she can get out, you'll be the perfect hostage."
"Get out of the way!" Ding Ruotong's white eyes reflected the black badge on the guard captain's chest.
The captain of the guard looked at her mockingly, and frivolously lifted Ding Ruotong's chin with the barrel of his gun. The cold touch of the assault rifle caused shivers in her neck, and the meaning was very clear.
Ding Ruotong pretended to be frightened by him, but took the opportunity to accurately stuff the gun hidden in her sleeve into the guard captain's pocket and pulled the safety pin.
"Get down quickly!!!" The guard captain's mocking expression instantly turned into fear. He pushed Ding Ruotong away, threw the smoking gun out, and fell directly to the ground.
Ding Ruotong was betting that he didn't dare to shoot directly. Shen Wanren would not allow this to happen. He took advantage of the force of being pushed away and rolled under the armored vehicle.
"boom!"
The incendiary bomb created a wave of scorching air, which frightened all the nearby guards and made them lie down on the ground for fear of being affected.
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Liu Xia was thrown out by the sickle foot that shone with a shiny black luster. The charred intestines that were pulled out of her abdomen broke one by one due to inertia. New intestines began to wriggle and grow at the cut site. She endured the pain and stuffed them into her abdominal cavity. The wound on her abdomen also began to heal slowly at this time.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM!!”
“Da da da da da!!!”
A series of explosions mixed with the sound of gunfire rang out from the direction of the huge cocoon, and then an agile purple figure fell from somewhere.
Liu Xia replaced the oxygen tank with a new one and looked at the figure in the distance, wondering, "Xiao He? That's not right..."
This man's equipment was much better than what Liu Xia and the others got from the beehive. Every bullet was accompanied by flames and explosion sounds when it was fired. It was clearly a flame explosion bomb with even greater lethality.
"In a wasteland where even ordinary bullets are scarce, what kind of person has such strength? It seems that there are still many things in this world that I need to explore." Liu Xia looked at the agile figure holding two guns and shooting non-stop, and couldn't help but think.
Fortunately, with the addition of this stranger, a large number of mutant ants were attracted over, dispersing their fighting power, and the frequency of attacks by the ant tide finally slowed down.
Flame bombs kept bombarding the torn wound of Liu Xia. Under the repeated bombardment of high-explosive flames, the giant cocoon began to vibrate at a high frequency, and the shell cracked into spider-web-like patterns. The fishy yellow amniotic fluid gushed out from the cracks, and the mutant ants that were drenched instantly grew new limbs and rushed towards the invader.
"Puff, puff, puff!" A series of cloth-tearing sounds came from the giant cocoon.
Amid the loud noise of the cocoon bursting, the queen ant, who had not yet fully developed, struggled out half of her body.
Its abdomen, the size of a truck head, is covered with human facial features, and its thousands of pairs of legs are made of bones. The ootheca is still attached to its abdomen, and its thousands of compound eyes are spinning around on the top of its skull. The acid it sprays is mixed with yellowish amniotic fluid, corroding countless honeycomb-shaped holes in the rock wall.
Liu Xia rolled over to avoid the acid rain, and his abdomen, which had not yet fully healed, was slightly torn again due to the violent movement, revealing the red flesh inside.
The human face on the queen ant's abdomen opened its mouth at the same time, making a hissing sound like a baby crying, and the sound waves caused the rock wall to peel off.
The mutant ant tide seemed to be affected by the roar and rushed up again desperately.
The figure in the purple protective suit spun in the air, swung out the retractable steel cable wrapped around his waist, wrapped Liu Xia around it and pulled her away from the queen ant's guards who were attacking again.
A distorted male voice came from under the purple mask: "Hit the queen ant's abdomen, the core of the alien beast is there."
Continuous explosions sounded amidst the constant crossfire of the two guns, and the mutant ants were actually hit by this rhythmic change and left a large area empty.
Liu Xia's eyes flashed, and he took the opportunity to stomp his feet. Because of his extremely fast speed, the rubber soles of his tactical boots were rubbed to produce a trace of dust, and he was in front of the mutant queen ant in an instant.
The queen ant screamed again, and Liu Xia's ear holes were shaken so hard that blood oozed out. The healing speed began to lag behind the frequency of damage.
The unformed ovipositor suddenly burst, and the splashing dark yellow embryonic fluid melted the ground into asphalt.
"Get out of the way!" Ziying suddenly pounced on Liu Xia, and the place where the two were standing was submerged in the corrosive amniotic fluid.
Ziying's protective suit burst open due to corrosion, revealing the inner layer of tight armor woven with purple metal fibers. The entire left arm and hand were completely mechanical implants, flashing with a purple metallic luster. It was clearly a military-grade neural connection device.
He took off his scrapped protective helmet, and his short hair with green highlights at the ends fell on his forehead, revealing a rather handsome face, which formed a strange contrast with his agile appearance in the battle just now.
Liu Xia quickly stood up and swung the almost scrapped short blade with force. The powerful force allowed the short blade to accurately pierce the queen ant's compound eyes.
"Something from the dungeon." The purple-clothed youth kicked the charging soldier ants away and tossed a high-explosive pistol to Liu Xia. He smiled at Liu Xia with his almond-shaped eyes, forming a lovely crescent, as if he didn't take the current crisis seriously at all. "Blow up its tail gland!"
Without the protective helmet to alter his voice, his voice became clear and pleasant.
The moment Liu Xia caught the weapon, the muzzle was already aimed at the mutant queen ant. When the flames formed by the exploding bullets engulfed the queen ant's spasming tail, the purple-clothed boy climbed up the rock wall and nailed five high-explosive bullets into the queen ant's abdomen with a pistol.
The continuous explosions made the queen ant's body scream continuously. In her dying struggle, the queen ant's remaining body knocked down the surrounding load-bearing columns, and the entire nest began to collapse.
"Sister Xia!" The shockwave blew away the entire cocoon room dome. At this moment, He Tianlin's grappling hook broke through the smokescreen and slid down quickly to a point not far above Liu Xia's head. An anxious voice followed, "Hurry and grab it!"
The mutated ants around seemed to have lost control and began to flee in all directions like a tide.
Liu Xia had not forgotten the purpose of his visit and was not in a hurry to grab the hook. Instead, he dodged the falling boulders and ran to the dying mutant queen ant, tearing open the queen ant's abdominal cavity which was covered with human face shapes.
A crystal between blue and red was embedded in it, wrapped in thousands of rhythmic slender tubes. Liu Xia pulled the crystal out of the queen ant's body, ignoring the bursts of white smoke and pain caused by the acid corroding the skin of his hands, and held it tightly in his hand.
"Get out of the way!" The young man in purple suddenly pounced on Liu Xia. The place where she was standing was almost submerged in the corrosive amniotic fluid, and the bottom of her tactical boots was almost corroded through.
The entire area quickly collapsed into a huge pit in the series of explosions, and thick green smoke columns rose from the burning corpses of the ants, like the aftermath of doomsday.
When He Tianlin quickly climbed down the rock wall and found Liu Xia, she was lying in the scorched earth ruins. The protective suit on her body had been corroded beyond recognition, and she was still clutching half a piece of purple protective suit in her hand.
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