Chapter 429: Chapter 272: The True Active Volcano
The Zerg have a tendency to actively attack enemies, so Xiong Manni directly controlled the cha to run across the surface. This way, as long as the Zerg attacked her, she could locate their position.
She ran about twenty kiloters on the ground and arrived near a volcano.
“Signal weakening, please adjust position,” the AI system reminded.
Xiong Manni was about to adjust her direction when she “saw” a large rock behind her suddenly move and slam into the drone cha she was controlling.
The cha’s auto-defense system activated, firing the electromagnetic gun at the giant rock.
The electromagnetic bomb created several cracks on the rock. If it were normal stone, this shot would have shattered it!
Yet this ti, she didn’t succeed. The rock crashed into the cha, its kinetic energy no less than that of a heavy reconnection electromagnetic cannon, and it smashed the cha into scrap!
“Signal connection lost.”
Darkness filled Xiong Manni’s vision; this drone cha had been damaged.
She imdiately switched to another drone cha and shouted into the communicator, “Attention, cha DF-78 was destroyed by the Zerg. Suspected enemies at these coordinates. Possibly giant rocks thrown by the enemy!”
“Let’s go check it out!” Huang Sheng imdiately mobilized nearby scout chas to proceed to the incident site together.
When they arrived at the original spot, they found that the cha wreckage had disappeared, and there were no broken rocks, only a few small stones.
“What happened?” Xiong Manni was dumbfounded seeing this; just monts ago, it wasn’t like this at all!
“The impact crater is still here!” she said, “Did the Zerg clean up the cri scene so quickly?”
“These guys are cunning. Everyone, stay alert,” Huang Sheng cautioned, simultaneously amplifying the detector’s power to maximum.
But they still couldn’t detect any biological signs.
“This is an active volcano, strong energy reactions,” a team mber ntioned.
“The soil here shows signs of loosening!” soone found a clue.
It was a barren land where volcanic mud buried chunks of volcanic lava.
“Dig it out!” Huang Sheng commanded.
As the team mber began excavating the volcanic mud, the rocks embedded within suddenly moved again, bursting out from the ground like shells.
He was startled, but fortunately, human cognitive speed has improved significantly, enabling a quick response.
The cha swiftly dodged sideways, evading the attack, as the giant rock split open, spewing a stream of hot lava fluid.
This attack thod was sowhat similar to the Volcano Insect King on Blue Star, also spraying magma.
“It’s the Zerg!” Huang Sheng shouted, “Capture it!”
As everyone converged over, the ground started shaking violently. All those rocks “buried” in the volcanic mud ca to life, attacking the group.
“These rocks are the Zerg!” Witnessing this, the group was both excited and surprised.
Excited because they had finally found the Venus Insect Clan, but surprised because these insects all had rocky shells!
“No wonder our biological detectors didn’t work; these creatures disguised themselves as silicon-based life!” Xiong Manni remarked.
“Could they truly be silicon-based Zerg…” Huang Sheng mused while launching an attack on one of the Stone Insects.
His lasers, rays, and electromagnetic gun were almost ineffective against the giant rock.
“Such a strong defense?” Even Huang Sheng was taken aback. The armor they were using had undergone nurous upgrades.
Even if it were the Insect King, the weapons of this cha should be effective.
But these insects in front of them were clearly not the Insect King, yet they were able to block all their attacks!
Even if lasers or plasma lted a hole in their bodies, they seed not to be fatally hard and continued to move freely.
“Boom!”
“Kaboom!” Loud explosions erupted, with so Zerg being killed and so chas getting destroyed.
Two team mbers t with misfortune.
“Use the high-frequency battle blades!” Huang Sheng shouted, already switching his blade and charging forward.
He targeted a smaller Stone Insect, accelerating to supersonic speed, and struck the Stone Insect’s surface with the high-frequency battle blade.
The high-frequency vibrating monomolecular blade sliced through the hard rocky shell, and Huang Sheng cleaved it in half.
A magma-like fluid flowed out from inside the Stone Insect.
A drone cha imdiately followed, grabbing the Stone Insect’s corpse and flying it into the sky.
Everyone changed their weapons, greatly increasing the damage to the Stone Insects.
In no ti, they had exterminated these Stone Insects completely!
“I never expected the Zerg on the surface of Venus to be like this. If they didn’t move, we really wouldn’t know they were just these stones!”
“Take all the bodies away and continue probing other locations,” commanded Huang Sheng.
They were about to leave when the ground began to shake, as if an earthquake had struck!
It must be noted, Venus’ core has solidified, which ans Venus doesn’t have Blue Star’s continental plates, so naturally, no collisions occur to create earthquakes!
At this ti, if an earthquake occurs, there is only one reason: either a volcanic eruption or Zerg!
“Take to the skies, take to the skies!” Huang Sheng beca alert and imdiately ordered everyone to ascend.
They flew into the sky and looked down to find the scene below truly astonishing.
The entire earth began to crack, scalding magma spewed forth, as if sothing was erging from under the ground.
“Let’s retreat first! Let the unmanned cha monitor it.” Seeing the commotion, Huang Sheng knew that relying on these chas was not enough to fight.
To create such a stir, at least a High-level Planet Giant Beast, maybe even a Planet Dominator Level Zerg!
Everyone continued to ascend, and from the ground, the giant insect had appeared.
Similar to what they had imagined or seen, the Planet Giant Beast.
This Planet Giant Beast turned out to be a volcano with four legs!
It was a moving volcano, and they couldn’t distinguish its specific organs, lacking clear head, tail, etc.
“What kind of species is this?” Xiong Manni exclaid in surprise, “Is it really a silicon-based insect race?”
“It would be great if we could capture it…” Huang Sheng watched the Volcano Giant Beast, eager to act.
“Don’t think about such ridiculous things!” Xiong Manni reminded, “Even if we bring our warship here, we can’t catch it!”
The Volcano Giant Beast launched a direct attack on them, simultaneously spewing magma and shooting so hard boulders towards the sky, endowed with powerful kinetic energy, comparable to the heavy reconnection electromagnetic cannon on a warship!
If hit, not only their light armor but even the giant cha, the chanical Giant Beast, would be directly destroyed!
“Retreat, retreat, retreat! Return to the spacecraft!” Huang Sheng knew they couldn’t win and rushed with everyone to outer space on Venus.
At this mont, the Volcano Giant Beast roared with a “rumbling” sound, as if in rage.
It actually flew into space too, while countless volcanoes and peaks on Venus also started moving towards outer space.
“So this is the real Venus Insect Clan!” Huang Sheng looked back, various attacks were already upon them.
So Zergs could even project rocks at them from half a planet away!
In the clouds, the flying Zerg also gathered here, launching attacks on them.
They could control the movent of thunderclouds and wind direction changes, as if countless natural disasters were converging towards them.
Another half of the chas were destroyed.
The nearest Volcano Giant Beast was also flying, but due to the extrely high atmospheric density here, its massive size caused slow flying speed increase.
Because of flying too fast, the volcanic mud and ash on its body surface rubbed against the atmosphere and ignited, becoming a real “volcano.”
“Haha, can’t catch up!” Huang Sheng laughed proudly as their speed increased, soon leaving Venus’ atmosphere.
Seeing this, the Volcano Giant Beast seed angry, stopped in mid-air, and the surrounding magnetic field changed.
A lightning bolt stretching thousands of ters struck towards them.
The unmanned chas flying behind were pierced instantaneously.
“Not good!” Huang Sheng’s quantum chip calculated it, realizing sothing was wrong when the ion agitation began.
If he kept flying like this, he couldn’t escape the lightning attack and would surely die!
“This guy can even control lightning and storms!” Huang Sheng gritted his teeth, abandoning his cha and propelling half of his body at super high speed.
He’s a cyborg, with only a brain left as a real biological organ, now using it like a projectile.
Within a thousandth of a second of his brain being launched, the lightning struck his cha and completely destroyed it.
“Captain!” the team mbers exclaid.
“Husband!” Xiong Manni couldn’t help but shout.
“Don’t worry, I’m fine.” Huang Sheng’s ssage appeared in the communication channel. At this mont, it was synth voice speaking, because he only had a brain and a brain container left, naturally unable to make sound.
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