Chapter 392 Alien Battlefield (21) "Cannon"
"Roar~~~~!!!!!"
In the ruins that have been gradually razed to the ground, the team's battle with the hunters and the hunter creatures continues. The hunter in giant form has two missile silo-like structures wrapped in element 12 on both shoulders. In each "silo", two sturdy missiles made of the hunter's own twisted flesh and blood will appear at the same time. These flesh and blood missiles can not only be launched, but also cause large-scale explosions. After the explosion, these missiles formed by twisted flesh and blood can easily destroy a large number of hunter creatures.
Only creatures with strong defenses, such as the strangler and the pseudo-goat, can survive the explosion. Although they cannot be killed by a single attack, the huge shock waves formed by these explosions are enough to blow them away. When these twisted flesh missiles explode, they will also release a powerful corrosive toxin that can contaminate anything with flesh. If the physique is not strong enough, these toxins alone can destroy a large number of hunter creatures. However, the winged moths that also carry highly toxic substances are an exception. They are very resistant to toxins. Of course, they can't survive the explosion either.
However, the reason why the surrounding ruins were gradually razed to the ground was not only due to the hunters' flesh missiles and the increasing impact of the hunters' biological groups, but also the contributions of the team members. Without the assistance of the equipment, although they could not be distracted by other things in the battle, which made the team members' spirits extremely tense, but at the same time, the equipment that had lost its function could no longer keep their armor and weapons safe. You know, the weapons they used were not cheap and fragile junk, but top-level weapons developed by many people day and night. When these weapons were tested, the first condition was that they were sturdy and durable.
Ion beams, particle beams, plasma, and ultra-high voltage currents merged and impacted each other, turning the center of the battle into a colorful mess. Weapons with ineffective safety locks were killing as efficiently as hunters, and the alarms continued to echo in the ruins of the gradually empty, only part of the wall remained, and the surrounding streets. Although the energy core had its own safety equipment and would not explode due to overheating, it was only so. The energy core had already overheated and was stuck on the edge of self-destruction. Its heat could penetrate the armor of the team members and could be clearly felt.
As for the backup backpack with a certain space folding ability that was filled with explosive weapons, it was almost empty now. Because the hunter creatures around were swarming like a tide, the team members could only use explosive throwing consumables again and again to repel the group of hunter creatures that were rapidly compressing their safe space. From the low-pressure moment at the beginning when they could pour firepower at will, it has now become a high-pressure battle that requires careful judgment of the situation and the use of remaining explosives to clear the field when necessary.
The flames spewed out by the hunters can vaporize all the creatures caught in it. The area with a diameter of nearly 30 meters with the hunter as the center is considered a relatively safe area. But that was before. With the increase in the number of hunter creatures, a large number of cannon fodder-level hunter creatures were wiped out. More and more hard bones such as pseudo-bodied goats began to gradually replace those cannon fodders that could be easily eliminated, and changed from auxiliary feints to the main force of the assault. The attacks of the team members, including the hunters, have begun to decline. The number and quality of their attacks to kill the creatures in front of them have become higher and higher, and naturally the distance they can maintain a certain safety is also being compressed.
The energy cores of the weapons used by the team members had already reached a dangerous overheating value. The cores with independent safety locks would be forced to dissipate heat the moment they exceeded this safety value, thus interrupting the attack rhythm of the team members. As a last resort, the team members could only fight in batches, with some members dissipating heat for the weapons while covering the other side. However, due to the high pressure on the battlefield, the batches had to be rotated within a minute. This situation indirectly weakened the overall combat effectiveness of the team.
As for the hunter in giant form, the attack rhythm also slowed down, although not as fast as that of the team members, but anyone could see that the massive firepower must have consumed a huge amount of energy. Although the hunter's body would not overheat, the energy he consumed was an astronomical figure. The team members could observe that the energy that was initially so concentrated that it had turned into a viscous liquid form has now disappeared, and the interval between each attack of the hunter has exceeded the initial time. Of course, after catching some hunter creatures, the hunter did not directly destroy them, but began to devour their flesh. It goes without saying that he is replenishing the energy that is being rapidly consumed.
However, the situation is getting worse and worse, and high-level species have begun to appear among the continuously increasing number of hunter creatures.
At the forefront of the battle, there appeared a creature that was about the same size as an elephant, but perhaps one to two times larger. The thickness of its skin alone was nearly half a meter, not to mention its huge size and the thick, metallic spikes covering its body. If one didn't know what kind of creature they were, people who saw them for the first time might have thought they were the huge metal barricades on the beach that were put up to prevent ships from landing.
This powerful and strange hunter creature is like a swift iron wall. The metal spikes on its body can easily refract the energy weapons used by the team members, and even the hunter's energy rays. The explosives and the giant's flesh and blood missiles have no effect on them. Although the deadly flames sprayed by the hunter can cause certain damage to them, these creatures can release an aura that can create an ultra-low temperature environment around them, which can extinguish the flames in an instant. Coupled with their outrageous defense, although the team members and hunters have greatly slowed down their speed, with their help, the hunter creature group is still step by step accelerating the compression of the team members' living space.
Although these creatures are not common, the team members are not completely unfamiliar with them. According to the information they know, this type of hunter creature is called "Death Wall". As for why it is called this name, combined with the current situation, the team members immediately understood the mentality of the person who named this type of creature at the time.
Behind these "dead walls" floated another kind of high-level creatures. They looked and acted very similar to nightmares, and could be considered a high-level version of them. However, the difference between these creatures and nightmares was that they were much larger than them, and in addition to their bone structure, they also had flesh, like muscles without skin, covered outside their bone structure, and exposed to the air. In addition, they could not only teleport over short distances, but also had a shorter cooling time than nightmares. The most deadly thing was that they could directly transmit the energy attacks from hunter creatures at a relatively long distance to the faces of the team and hunters, and could also directly release powerful lightning chains. Because they often used an extremely harsh scream to call more creatures, this kind of creatures were generally called messengers.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM~~!!!!!!”
At this moment, the attacks transmitted by the messengers from afar poured down like a rainstorm near the team and the hunter. These were a lot of irregular energy bodies of different sizes and shapes, with no stability at all, formed by mixed energy combinations. The explosions caused by these irregular energy bodies completely razed the ruins to the ground, and even the armor of the team members had a lot of damage due to excessive impact. The hunter in giant form was the largest in size, so he was naturally affected the most times. The explosion of these unstable energy bodies directly blew off one of the hunter's arms and legs. The hunter lost his center of gravity and half-knelt on the ground. Without the fire suppression from above, the dense swarm of hunter creatures immediately swarmed up, greatly compressing their living space.
The hunter seems to be fine for the time being, and the injured parts of his body are recovering quickly, but this also takes time. However, the hunter creatures are not prepared to stop and wait for him. The second round of dense, almost overwhelming attacks comes again. The creatures that make these powerful attacks are also another kind of high-level hunter creatures. However, their position is not close to the center of the battle. Behind those "dead walls", messengers, and cannon fodder, it can be said that they are the last position on the front line.
These special hunter creatures are not very big in size. They are like human sticks without heads, arms, and only two legs. They have pale skin and are extremely fragile. If you can get close to them, ordinary people can kill them with a stick. These strange creatures are covered with holes of all sizes. Even if you find a good angle, you can see inside their bodies and even through their bodies to see the back. In addition, there should be an outrageous bulge in the abdomen, like a hot air balloon filled with air, and the size is not much different from that of a strangler worm or a pseudo-goat. But their size is like that of a normal-sized human.
Although their bodies are extremely fragile, and even easier to kill than winged moths, their abilities are truly powerful. Through the large and small holes all over their bodies, these creatures can absorb all the residual, scattered, and excess energy around them into their bodies, and then forcefully mix them together inside their bodies to create those extremely unstable, irregular energy bodies that are different in size and shape, but also carry deadly energy. Their abdomens that bulge outrageously to the size of hot air balloons are filled with this completely unstable mixture of energy bodies.
However, these extremely unstable energies will not react in their bodies. However, once they launch this unstable energy body through the holes all over their bodies that can be adjusted to perfectly match the appearance, when these unstable energy bodies touch other things again, they will produce a strong energy explosion and indiscriminately attack everything they touch. These creatures were named Zugo by the researchers, but Wu, the only member of the team who had seen this Zugo, and his brother Xu insisted on calling these creatures living garbage cannons. After being together for a long time, the team members, like the two brothers Wu and Xu, called these creatures garbage cannons. Only the relatively old-fashioned Hai called them by their original names.
The unstable energy bombardment of the garbage cannon group, the front "dead wall" can avoid being accidentally injured by lying down and firing with the metal spikes on its body, and these unstable energies reflected twice are undoubtedly another round of attacks for the team. There is no other way, the team members have to shorten the distance with the hunter again and use the giant's powerful body to avoid these attacks. However, the second round of bombardment has already flown overhead, and this time the team members have no place to hide. Although the hunter's body has been repaired, it may be damaged again soon.
"Om~~~~~~~"
"Boom!!"
At this moment, the ground around the team members and the hunter was suddenly shattered by something, and a figure smaller than the hunter rushed out from the ground. At the same time, a large range, even partially visible to the naked eye, created a circular air wave, carrying a pulse shock wave with abnormal radiation concentration, radiating from the figure's body to the surroundings. This powerful radiation pulse directly destroyed the stability of those unstable energy bodies that were still flying, causing them to explode before hitting the target. Although a large explosion was still produced, the center of the explosion was a certain distance away from everyone, so for them, the power of this attack was bearable.
This circular radiation pulse seemed to temporarily interfere with the biological signals of the surrounding hunter biota, not only interrupting the transmission of the messengers, but also temporarily stopping the advancement of the "dead wall". Even Zugo at the back temporarily stopped his bombardment, and the Ge?3?9 and Winged Moths on the periphery fell straight to the ground as if they had been electrocuted.
With a chance to catch their breath, the team members immediately looked at the figure while cooling the core of their weapons. They found that it was a female hunter who was one or two sizes smaller than the male hunter, but still large enough. She seemed to have some cloth wrapped around key parts of her body, which looked like some of the things used as dust covers for equipment in the No. 2 outpost. The powerful radiation pulse just now seemed to have been created by her.