Bechymos, the gigantic flagship, was located above the lake in the mountains. Due to its size, Lin only used it to create troops instead of fighting underground.
The underground war had reached a special stage. The Inca insect swarm had gone into hiding, while Lin had taken over a Hometree. She discovered that this Hometree was connected to the surface, and she happened to see some unknown insects that looked like bees flying above the forest.
Bees were commonly seen social creatures. Lin believed that they were a primitive type of worker organism. There were many types and numbers of bees in the Twisted Jungle, which was nothing strange. However, these bees had appeared in large numbers around the mountain peak. Lin discovered that they were constantly preying on the surrounding creatures.
These bees were about two meters long, which was why Lin called them 'Giant Bees'. Their combat style was similar to that of ordinary bees, which used their large jaws to attack and hunt.
Recently, the number of creatures on the mountain had increased, mainly the Hot Spring Salamanders and Hot Spring Cockroaches. They were creatures that loved hot springs and moved slowly, but they were currently being hunted down by the Giant Bees. The Giant Bees could easily bite off their necks with their large jaws. Moreover, the appearance of a large number of Giant Bees made it possible for these creatures to be wiped out.
No, it wasn't just the mountain peak. From the Flickering Jungle to the mountain peak, apart from the various bases in the Twisted Jungle, there were many eyeball tentacles in the jungle for observation. Almost all the eyeball tentacles noticed that the Giant Bees had suddenly appeared in the sky above the jungle, and they were all doing the same thing … hunting.
The Giant Bees attacked the various creatures in groups of five to ten. Lin initially thought that they were just hunting randomly, but she later discovered that they weren't. The Giant Bees were specifically looking for some rather unique creatures. For example, the Black-Horned Giant Cockroach. The Red-Bellied Ball Spider that could create extremely strong spider webs. There was also a type of land beetle that could spray boiling liquid. Even the Hot Spring Cockroaches and Hot Spring Salamanders had some special abilities. For example, the salamander's skin could secrete a strong poison, while the cockroach could secrete a rancid liquid to avoid predators.
This phenomenon was very unusual. After the Giant Bees killed their prey, they would only eat a small part of it. They would then ignore the corpse. Reptiles would usually have their spines eaten, while arthropods would have a small part of their back eaten. Lin could easily guess that this was the work of the Inca swarm.
The reason why the Inca swarm hadn't attacked Lin yet was because they were releasing the Giant Wasps to attack the Twisted Forest. But what was the point of them killing these creatures? Regarding this point, the headworm had some understanding.
Actually, the headworm had mentioned that it wanted to join the battle, but it knew that its army was too small compared to the Inca swarm, so it used another method. Its knowledge, its memory.
The way the biological brain recorded memories was very interesting. Although it was said that a creature's field of vision was very wide and could see a large number of objects at the same time, the brain would generally only record less than 10% of them. The more important objects would be remembered by the brain, and the rest would be forgotten by the brain as useless things. However, the extremely developed brain of the Cephalopod was not like this. It could completely record everything it saw, so the Cephalopod remembered.
After its colony was destroyed, the headworm tried to send some of its troops back to the original place to check. At that time, it saw some Giant Bees digging up the burnt parts of its colony.
At the time, the Cephalopod thought that the Giant Bees were just normal creatures and didn't pay much attention to them. But now, it was clear that this was the Inca swarm's scheme!
Perhaps by killing a creature, they could obtain the creature's abilities, just like how they could revive living fossils. Perhaps the older the creature, the lower the chances of them reviving it. On the other hand, creatures that had been dead for a short period of time, like the Earth Splitter, could be completely revived.
This ability seemed to be very powerful. No wonder the Inca swarm had such a large gap between each unit. Perhaps they had learned from other creatures, but how did they evolve to obtain this ability?
Lin was different. She didn't actually need to eat a part of a creature. As long as she observed it, she would be able to recreate the same structure, so there was no need to dissect it.
In short, she had to stop them.
Lin began to prepare some flying units. In fact, Lin still had a lot of units. Most of them were parked outside the mountain and didn't go underground. Now was the time to use them to stop the Giant Bees' ambush.
Lin needed creatures that were faster than the Giant Bees to stop them from killing any species. If they could learn the abilities of any species, it would be very troublesome. However, Lin currently had a new type of unit that she could try using …
This unit was designed by Lin based on the Armor Burst. Although its functions were very different from the Armor Burst, the main reason for its creation was that the Armor Burst was the fastest creature Lin had ever seen. Therefore, Lin wanted to create an even faster unit. Although it could fire bullets faster, Lin wanted a larger unit.
This unit had two pairs of wings with a wingspan of around 12 meters and a body length of 6 meters. Its main ability was speed. The first pair of wings were highly rigid and couldn't be flapped. The edges of the wings had been specially sharpened, which meant that it could cut through objects. The second pair of wings could be flapped at high speed and was mainly used for turning and other movements.
Although it had a second pair of wings, this unit relied on its ability to rapidly absorb and eject gas to fly. However, it could still rapidly charge at critical moments. The main reason was because it could produce a small unit called the Explosive Bug. The Explosive Bug was only 1 cm long and looked like a worm. It could gather in large numbers at the back of the wings. The Explosive Bug could continuously combine the liquid inside its body and explode it bit by bit to create an impact. The impact of a large number of Explosive Bugs could cause the entire unit to move at high speed.
This unit was capable of moving at high speed and using its highly rigid wings to slice through its target.
It was called the 'Reaper'.
At the base in the middle of the mountain, 10 Reapers rushed out at a speed of over 100 meters per second. Their targets were the various Giant Bees that were hunting on the way.
The Reapers were very fast, but they also had various problems. For example, they consumed a lot of energy, and it took a lot of time to create them, especially this new type of sharpened shell. However, Lin felt that they were worth creating.
This was only a preliminary experiment. Lin would continue to improve them in the future.
Very quickly, the Reapers saw a group of Giant Bees hunting at the edge of the mountain. They were surrounding a sawfly in the sky above the Twisted Jungle. Lin ordered one of the Reapers to charge at the Giant Bees while the others continued to fly.
When the Explosive Bug's energy was fully unleashed, the Reapers' speed suddenly increased. Before the Giant Bees could react, the Reapers had already neatly cut a Giant Bee from the waist down. The two halves of the Giant Bee fell into the Twisted Jungle.
After the sawfly escaped, the remaining Giant Bees saw the Reapers and charged at them with their jaws wide open. At this time, Lin suddenly accelerated and charged at the Reapers. Her sharpened wings directly cut the approaching Giant Bee in half.
Before the surrounding Reapers could do anything, the Reapers had already flown far away and turned back.
The Giant Bees seemed to have realized that this wasn't a target they could deal with, so they began to scatter and escape into the jungle.
The Reapers were too large to fly through the Twisted Jungle, but Lin's goal was to chase them away and follow them to find the entrance and exit of the Inca insect swarm.
The Reapers wouldn't follow them personally, so the Giant Bees obviously wouldn't return directly. However, this method was different.
There were some Penetrators left in the wounds of the giant bees that had been cut in half by the reaper. These Penetrators were originally on the wings of the reaper. At this time, they could directly sneak into the body of the giant bee that had been cut in half, occupy its brain, and combine into a brain reader to receive signals … …
Because the Inca insect swarm transmitted signals to each other, Lin could know where they escaped to.
The other Reapers were the same. They flew above the Twisted Jungle and cut the Giant Bees as soon as they saw them. However, they let the other Giant Bees escape and left the Penetrators to occupy the brain of the dead Giant Bee to determine the entrance and exit.
This method was quite effective.
The Giant Bees that were attacked by the Reapers didn't continue to hunt. Lin found that they wandered in the jungle for a while before burrowing into the ground. Lin could clearly see where they were based on the Brain Reader's signal, but if they burrowed too deep, it would be difficult to receive the signal. However, Lin at least knew where they burrowed from.
With the help of the eyeball tentacles and the Flyers, Lin found a total of 50 underground exits from the Flickering Jungle to the mountain peak. Obviously, these exits were hidden in the mud. No matter where the Inca insect swarm went in or out, they would fill up the mud, so it was usually difficult to find them.
But now, Lin found them.
Then, a large number of Bombers set off from the mountain peak. They blew up all the exits along the way. Lin also thought of attacking the Inca insect swarm directly from these exits, but Lin didn't know what was going on inside. It was safer to blow them up. Just like the Inca insect swarm, they were never willing to send too many troops to attack the jungle directly. After all, it was directly entering the enemy's territory, and the possibility of being wiped out was very high.
The battle on the ground may have been stopped by Lin, but the battle underground continued.
Lin's troops were currently inside the first Hometree in the Inca insect swarm's territory. She was currently making some adjustments and hunting the surrounding creatures to increase the number of her troops.
Lin's troops were actually very small compared to the entire Inca insect swarm, so she had to rely on various resources or external reinforcements to increase their numbers. However, Lin was a little hesitant. Should she slowly increase the territory and the number of her troops and slowly devour the Inca insect swarm? Or should she just kill them all as quickly as possible? Floating astronomy.
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