The helicopter landed.
The soldiers quickly occupied the various defense points of the landing platform. Their speed was two seconds faster than the previous practice.
"There are no problems in the first area!"
"No suspicious targets found in the second area either!"
"Crimson Hornets! I found a large Crimson Hornet at the observation point in the third area. It may be a scout for prey … Thank God, it flew away and the alarm was lifted … "
The report from the observer in the third area shocked everyone.
The Crimson Hornets were not ordinary creatures.
In the Death Canyon.
This was a type of flying underground creature that was discovered very late. If there were no firecrackers that blew up the Death Canyon, perhaps people would never know that there was such a huge hornet in the world. Its adult hornet was half a meter long, and the queen was even more than a meter long. It was one of the most efficient killers in the Death Canyon. Its reputation was only inferior to the large number of long-legged spiders and the sky overlord Winged Serpent.
In addition to having extremely brilliant flying skills and powerful chewing mouthparts, the Crimson Hornet also had a poisonous stinger that was more than 20 centimeters long.
One could imagine what would happen if a stinger that was longer and sharper than a dagger was stung by a highly poisonous stinger.
What was even more maddening was that the Crimson Hornets in the Death Canyon had stingers regardless of gender.
Once stung.
The fatality rate was 100%.
Currently, there were no records of the stinger targets surviving in the statistics.
The Crimson Hornet's stinger was connected to the venom sac. The venom secreted was hemolytic and neurotoxic. It could cause the heart, liver, kidney, and other internal organs to fail in a very short time … The only good news for humans was that the Crimson Hornet usually had no lack of food.
They were not very aggressive towards humans.
If humans did not provoke it.
Under normal circumstances.
It would not attack or sting humans.
"What a charming little goblin!" Dr. Peter had an assistant named Evra who was fanatical about the Crimson Hornet. He was an insect expert in charge of studying the hornets in the Death Canyon. After the expansion of the Death Canyon, the Crimson Hornet was the first new species he discovered and named. Because the area he was observing was different, Evra didn't manage to capture a picture of the Red Hollow Wasps in time. He could only look at the direction in which the wasps had left with a little regret. "Elegant figure, dancing in the sky like a little princess lingering in the garden!"
"Evra, please, I don't want to see your little princess at all!" Another assistant named Carlos shook his head vigorously.
"The Red Hollow Wasps won't attack humans easily. We're not on their menu." Evra shrugged.
"God knows if it had breakfast." Carlos expressed that he didn't want to be the breakfast of the Red Mesa Bee.
"Hurry up and reapply your perfume!"
Major Miller, who was leading the team, rushed over to remind them and personally supervised the two of them to spray the magic perfume before turning around and leaving.
Although this wasn't the first time he had led a team into Death Canyon, Major Miller knew that the reason he could survive in the past wasn't because he had perfect marksmanship or the strength to walk around while carrying a 30 kilogram super protective suit. It was because of his cautiousness.
Caution was the most important factor for survival.
"Thompson, Daniel, focus on protecting Dr. Peter!" Major Miller gave the two deputy captains a mission. "No matter what happens, my request is that one of you must keep your eyes on Dr. Peter. Regardless of whether this test is successful or not, Professor Peter must survive. He is very important to our future! "
"Understood." Thompson and Daniel were already prepared. They split up the moment they entered Death Canyon.
"Area 4, 5, 6, and 8 have been searched. There are no problems. There's plenty of sunlight today, and the field of vision is very good." The squad captains reported one by one. Only the observer in Area 7 remained silent.
His strange behavior made Major Miller feel uneasy.
He quickly called the squad leader in charge of Area 7. "Jamie, what did you find?"
The squad leader of Area 7, Jamie, hesitated for a moment. "Boss, we don't know if there's anything wrong with that mound …"
Major Miller hurried over.
Dr. Peter also ran to Area 7 and looked in the direction Jamie was pointing.
There was a mound about 50 meters away from the platform. Mounds like this could be seen everywhere in Death Canyon. Countless creatures would leave behind such a feature after burrowing into the ground, so it wasn't strange in itself. But this bulging mound wasn't shown on yesterday's scanning map. What did this mean? A new insect nest or some kind of insect's tunnel?
"It could be the nest of a green-eyed or flower-back insect." His assistant, Evra, made his judgment.
"No, it should be a temporary tunnel dug by a black-spade armored insect." Carlos had a different opinion.
"A black-spade cricket or a long-spined iguana …" Dr. Peter made a more accurate judgment, but Major Miller would rather his judgment be wrong.
The green-eyed and flower-back insects were very scary.
They lived in groups.
They hunted in groups.
They were all excellent hunters. If a squad didn't get reinforcements in time, even if they had firearms, they could become food in their stomachs. The flower-back insect was smaller than the green-eyed insect, but it was even scarier because it could fly.
Even if the flower-back insect's short wings could only allow it to fly for a short period of time, flying and crawling were two completely different concepts.
However, the green-eyed and flower-back insects were one level lower than the black-spade cricket.
The black-spade cricket was less than a tenth of the green-eyed insect's size.
It was on the food chain.
It was the green-eyed insect's prey.
But this damned black-spade cricket could parasitize.
Some of the mercenaries who entered the Death Canyon would get a kind of illness after returning safely. They would have a high fever, abdominal pain, bloody stools, and even muscle paralysis. Through X-ray scans, it was discovered that these mercenaries usually had eggs laid on their bodies by a small insect called the Black Fork Cricket.
The eggs of the black-spade cricket were extremely small. After they entered the blood vessels, they would flow with the blood until they found a suitable place to parasitize.
The most unlucky mercenary scanned and found black-spade cricket larvae in the cerebral cortex.
He had two endings. Immediately drill open the skull.
Or wait for the insect to eat his brain.
As for the long-spined iguana.
No one was willing to provoke this big lizard that had poison all over its body.
Among the US soldiers, at least ten people died from the splashes of blood or body fluids after shooting the long-spined iguana. Then, their bodies rotted and they died.
It didn't need to enter the blood vessels at all. Just skin contact was enough for the long-spined iguana's venom to kill.
Not to mention the splashes of blood or body fluids, even the scales scattered on the ground when they shed their skin would rot a large piece of flesh if they accidentally touched the skin.
"Everyone, be careful. We'll spray the platform in Area 7 with magic perfume. Hurry, move!" Major Miller would never order two subordinates to "check out" the situation like he did the first time he led a team. Then, he would unknowingly return to the base with his parasitized companions. He swore that as long as Death Canyon still existed, he would never need this damn thing called curiosity.
"Quiet, everyone lie on the platform and don't move. There … damn it, it's a long-spined iguana. We don't move, let it leave … Move the muzzle away from me. I don't want to see anyone make an idiotic move of shooting at this damned lizard!" Major Miller kept giving orders in his headset.
A large lizard about three meters long with a head and tail crawled out of the mound.
The thorns on its back were like thorns.
The color was brownish yellow with black markings.
Two fist-sized poison sacs bulged out from under its eyes.
Any attack would rupture its poison sacs and release strong acidic venom into the surroundings. The venom would quickly atomize in the air and rot upon contact.
The long-spined iguana's diet also didn't include creatures like humans. Other than a few natural enemies such as long-legged spiders, no insects liked to deal with it. It crawled out of the mound and swaggered away, wagging its tail. Its posture was no different from a gentleman taking a morning stroll in the Big Apple City Park. It was very leisurely and at ease.
"Why are there so many high-risk insects today …" Major Miller cursed his bad luck.
Death Canyon was terrifying.
Every time they came.
It was the same as taking a trip to hell.
Even though Major Miller was mentally prepared, the scene in front of him still made his heart pound.
He had just arrived at Death Canyon and encountered two extremely dangerous insects before he could catch his breath. God knew how many more "surprises" were waiting for him!
Base 13.
Round table.
In front of the TV that tracked the entire process.
Schnelson of the Apocalypse Group frowned, "The insects nowadays are getting more and more powerful! If my memory serves me right, the underground insects in the original report definitely weren't this many, and they weren't this powerful! I think their period of change should have originated from the earthquake when Mr. Wood entered Death Canyon. With sunlight, these creatures buried deep underground are like a herd of runaway horses that can't be controlled … "
"I also think it's Mr. Wood's doing!" Bowers agreed with this point.
"Are you an idiot?" Schnelson sneered unceremoniously, "Ignorance and prejudice have clouded your rationality! Mr. Wood is a genius scientist, yes, but he's a human, not a god! The earthquake can't be his doing. If you insist on this point, I can only say that there's no need for you to keep anything above your neck anymore! "
"Maybe he activated some mechanism …" Bowers was still unconvinced, "The earthquake happened when he left Josiah's sight!"
"I don't want to argue with you because you're hopeless!" Schnelson refused to communicate with the other party.
"Eric Jr., Josiah, what do you think?" Cork suddenly turned to the two who had been silent all this time.
"It's our fault for not keeping a close eye on Mr. Wood. We admit this." Josiah nodded and explained sincerely, "My personal opinion is that if the earthquake was caused by Mr. Wood, it means that it wasn't because he was too smart or too cunning, but because the ancient people's level of mechanisms was too high … Who knows how many thousands of ancient mechanisms could link the entire underground canyon thousands or even tens of thousands of years later to create an earthquake, and then achieve it through a small trigger! I don't know how the people of that era managed to do this, but Mr. Cork, do you have an answer? "
"We're just discussing the changes in the situation and seeking the truth. We're not a hundred percent sure that Mr. Wood did it. He's just one of the suspects." Cork was a little embarrassed to be slapped in the face on the spot, but he still didn't lose his poise.
"At that time, he activated the mechanism in a place where no one could see, and then the earthquake happened. He can't deny this," Bowers snorted.
"What benefits does Mr. Wood get by doing this?" Josiah asked curiously.
"He wants to get out!" Bowers, of course, had a reason.
"Yes, he definitely wants to get out, but I feel that if that mechanism can really affect the entire underground canyon, isn't he afraid that when the mechanism is pulled, the boulder will fall and smash him into meat paste? I assume that he read the existence of the mechanism and how to use it through those shells. Then how can he be sure that after the mechanism is activated, it won't fail due to the passage of time and cause him to die at the same time? At that time, we were lucky to survive the earthquake. If a boulder fell from the sky just a little bit, all of us would be finished … Mr. Wood is a human like us. His body of flesh and blood isn't enough to resist a boulder that weighs hundreds of millions of tons. This is what I want to say the most! "Josiah patiently recounted the dangerous situation at that time.
He really didn't believe that the earthquake was caused by Lin Dong.
First, the mechanism of the ancient people didn't have this kind of power. Second, even if it did, Lin Dong wouldn't have activated the mechanism.
As for the underground palace.
It turned out that it wasn't that choice at all.
Along the way, they were only blindly chased by the giant snake and the underground dwarf.
If it wasn't for the earthquake, the dwarf and the long-legged spider would have attacked them from both sides, and everyone would have died without a burial ground … Could it be that Mr. Wood held back and waited until now to activate the earthquake to escape?
"The earthquake could have been caused by the brittle underground structure and the long-term excavation of the Insect Beasts for millions of years, destroying the support of the Earth's crust. Or maybe it's because of other reasons, but it's a little too much to push the blame on Mr. Wood. That's not something that can be achieved by humans. Speaking of the underground world, I've seen similar underground buildings and structures in Dong Mountain. There are also similar underground worlds in other parts of the world. The only difference between the Death Canyon and those underground worlds is that it collapsed, exposing the Insect Beasts inside to the sunlight on the surface! If it wasn't for that, they wouldn't have evolved so quickly! Here, I agree with Mr. Wood's reasoning. It's the sunlight and external forces that accelerated the evolution of the Insect Beasts! "Bord explained his own point of view.
"It's said that the Insect Beasts in the underground world of Dong Mountain are more terrifying than those in the Death Canyon …" Schnellson also had a lot of information about the Insect Beasts in the Dragon's Mouth Mine.
"Indeed." Bord nodded. "The competition there is worse, and the Insect Beasts are more powerful! Other than the giant snake and the two super monsters, I don't think there are any other creatures in the Death Canyon that can rival the Insect Beasts, including the most cunning and terrifying Long-legged Spider Queen! Other than the giant snake and the two super monsters, I don't think there are any other creatures in the Death Canyon that can rival the Insect Beasts, including the most cunning and terrifying Long-legged Spider Queen! In the underground world of Dong Mountain, the Insect Beasts aren't the strongest. I haven't seen any stronger ones. Otherwise, I wouldn't still be sitting here talking to you! "
"This can be concluded from the fact that Mr. Wood's genetic medicine is better than the Golden Water." Thomas completely agreed.
"If we blow up the underground world of Dong Mountain …" Bowers suddenly suggested a whimsical idea.
"How many explosives would that take?" Even Cork from the Far East Whip was not optimistic about it. "My God, you don't know how big that place is!"
"There's no harm in trying. We can't let Mr. Wood be too relaxed. We'd be too kind if we didn't find something for him to do! Don't we still have a few tunnels that haven't been discovered? We'll transport all the necessary tools to destroy the Dragon's Mouth Mine and give them a vicious blow! It doesn't matter if we fail. If we succeed, I really want to see the expression on Mr. Wood's face … Didn't he always say that we should give the underground creatures some sunlight? We'll give him a chance! "The more Bowers spoke, the more excited he became.
"You're crazy!" Schnellson shook his head. "Even if we succeed, we won't get anything out of it. You're just harming others without benefiting yourself! The probability of failure is 100%. If we fail, it's very likely that the other party will completely wipe out the few secret bases that we've preserved in Dong Mountain! "
"This proposal is not part of our discussion today. Let's focus on Dr. Peter's perfume experiment first!" Bord knocked on the table.
Blow up the underground world of Dong Mountain?
This idea was simply too crazy!
At this stage, they were already thinking of killing each other. If they took it a step further, wouldn't they be throwing mushrooms at each other's heads?
The more Bord thought about it, the more ridiculous he felt.
For the sake of power.
For the sake of benefits.
Humans wouldn't even mind destroying the entire world … This was humans!
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