We had suddenly lost contact with the third Raven team.
This was completely out of everyone's expectations. The last message they left behind indicated that the team had already entered the depths of the crypt. They did not engage in any battles along the way. When they realized that the crypt had suddenly widened and there was a large empty space in front of them and that they were about to enter a fault zone, the communication between the two sides was suddenly cut off. The calls from the mothership went unanswered and the other two regular troops that were approaching the Raven team from the other two tunnels of the crypt also lost contact.
This strange situation prompted me to immediately inform the troops that were searching the vicinity of the crypt to pause their operations and enter a state of high alert to defend against any enemies that might appear at any time. After that, Shallow Shallow, Liliana and I boarded the Landing Pod and arrived near the target crypt.
After losing contact with the other three parties, the first to arrive at the scene was the first party led by Jaina. There were ten powerful Ravens and a hundred Grand Mages from Dalaran and Silver Moon City, giving this party unprecedented strength. Under my orders, they had already used an arcane barrier and a psionic barrier to seal off the entrance to the underground cave. However, from the looks of it, there weren't any enemies coming out from the cave yet.
The place that we were in now was a wilderness filled with gravel. It was obvious that this place had been occupied by the Zerg for a long time. Even though the moss on the ground had been burned to ashes by the Ravens' firestorm, the occasional charred Zerg body parts that were exposed on the desolate surface of the Gobi Desert made my stomach churn. As these Zerg had been dead for a long time, the special chemicals in their bodies had long lost their activity. Coupled with the Zerg's tough body, the Ravens didn't spend too much energy to burn the charred organs and flesh. In the end, a large number of Zerg carcasses were left behind.
"What's the situation now? Are we still unable to contact them? "
I wasn't asking Jaina but Raven 001, who was in charge of assisting Jaina. Even though Raven 001 was the leader of this team, she was only an honorary leader. She didn't understand the advanced communication technology of the Schilling people.
"Your Majesty." Seeing us, Raven 001 immediately dispersed the strong arcane halo floating on her black trench coat. She bowed her head and said, "We have released several detectors. So far, we have not come into contact with the 'fault zone' mentioned by the third team. The current situation is normal."
From the real-time images sent back by the probe, I could clearly see the scene in the underground cave.
To be honest, the inside of the crypt wasn't as disgusting as I had imagined. In fact, it was much better than the environment around us. At least there weren't any disemboweled arachnid corpses that would affect your appetite.
The entrance to the crypt was located at the bottom of a small hill, with a diameter of about ten meters. It was large enough for a light fighter aircraft to enter easily. The interior of the crypt was mainly made up of a type of black mixed rock. It was very strong, and there was no possibility of it collapsing. The first hundred meters or so were flat and dry, and the footprints of the First Squad could be seen clearly under the detector's lens. Further ahead, the terrain gradually descended and became steeper. The walls of the crypt also gradually expanded, forming a flat dome. Based on the information left behind by the First Squad, the agile detector completely simulated the movements of the latter before they disappeared, and gradually approached a suddenly open area.
"The terrain here is like entering a flattened fuel tank through a slender pipe," Raven 001 used a very vivid description to describe the underground terrain. "Your Majesty, in front of us is the fault zone."
As Raven 001's voice trailed off, the picture in front of us turned a corner, and then there was an earth-shattering change.
A large crystal jungle!
It was hard to describe the magnificence of the scene with words. Light blue magnificent crystals grew out of the ground like bamboo shoots, reaching nearly a hundred meters in height, directly across the grand crypt that could almost be called another world. These crystals continued to grow, and from afar, they really looked like trees. A faint stream of light jumped between these crystals, like a dream. The ground under the crystal jungle was no longer the black mixed rock, but some kind of dark gray crystals. The composition of the crypt formed two distinct parts here. On one side was the gray black rock stratum, as dim as the filthy slums, and on the other side was the magnificent crystal jungle, as magnificent as the elven's secret realm. Well, in fact, I had never seen the elven's secret realm …
Then, the picture in front of us suddenly distorted a few times, and in an instant, it became noisy interference patterns.
Was it some kind of energy in the crystal jungle that caused the conventional communication equipment to fail?
It was impossible for an ordinary soldier to be equipped with a hyperspace communicator, which was a pain in the ass, and a normal communication device, even if it was labeled as manufactured by Xi Ling, would still fail when encountering a super energy field.
"Let's go down ourselves."
I turned off the projector, moved my shoulders slightly, and said decisively. Raven 001 and Jaina immediately objected, "Your Majesty (Oracle), please don't take the risk!"
"There won't be any danger. You should have some confidence in your leader's strength," I said, patting Lina's head. "More importantly, I'll be fine as long as I bring her along."
"Yes," Liliana immediately put on a shy expression, which was hard to tell if she was real or fake. "You can use Liliana as much as you want … Big brother …"
* Bang! *
I sent the troublemaker flying with a karate chop.
But I was right, with Liliana by my side, the so-called danger was just fleeting clouds. As the Chief Priestess of the Goddess of Life, created by the ruling God of the universe, this fake loli had the world's most heaven-defying halo skill: All friendly targets within her line of sight would receive the effect of Life Gaze. Not only would their vitality and recovery ability increase by several folds, but more importantly, they would get a chance to revive every fifteen minutes. Although I did not think that an inconspicuous Warty Planet could have the ability to kill the Emperor-class Shiring Apostles, Liliana's ability had undoubtedly dispelled Raven 001's doubts.
After ordering the First Raven Squad to stand by, I, Shallow Shallow, and Liliana, under the personal escort of Scorpion Veigar, entered the dark crypt together.
"Bringing Veigar here is indeed a very wise choice."
Not long after we entered, Shallow Shallow sighed happily.
I nodded and instructed Scorpion Sis, "Veigar, turn up the brightness."
The latter's gloomy voice followed, "Sir, if you increase the output power, you will reach the attack limit!"
"Oh …" I nodded and continued to follow Veigar who had turned into a searchlight.
How did Shallow Shallow think of letting Veigar open the shell on his tail to use as a searchlight? Did this girl's brain really develop according to human standards?
But I have to admit, the photon cannon on Veigar's tail was quite effective as a searchlight …
"There is a faint breath of life coming from ahead," Liliana had a solemn expression on her face. The tip of her delicate nose moved slightly, as if she could really smell the smell of life in the air, "Hmm, it smells like cumin …"
Me: "…"
This crypt was indeed quite deep, and the ground was filled with gravel and large pits. It was rather unpleasant to walk through deep and shallow. At first, Shallow Shallow was bouncing around like a child, but she soon became bored. It seemed that even a wild Slime that came out to block the way didn't interest her. Liliana, on the other hand, used the excuse that she was a Priestess and wasn't good at walking, and that she was a child that needed to be taken care of, to occupy the only stable place: Veigar's back. At this moment, Veigar was calmly sitting on Scorpion Sis' back, which should have been mine … Forget it, I won't lower myself to a child's level.
After almost half an hour, we finally passed through this rather difficult tunnel and arrived at the Crystal Forest area.
"Hua!!" As I expected, Shallow Shallow entered a state of excitement. She dashed into the Crystal Forest and began to pull out crystals from the ground like a carrot. The seemingly solid crystals creaked under Shallow Shallow's strengthened arm strength. "Ah Jun, Ah Jun! Do you think these can be made into diamonds? "
I was lucky that Little Bubble didn't follow me, or else she would have dug up the entire Warty Planet.
I didn't bother with Shallow Shallow, who had already gone berserk, and began to sense the flow of energy in the surroundings.
Just as I had guessed at the start, there was some kind of interference energy field in this forest. Our communication with the outside world had already been cut off.
This kind of energy field wasn't strong, and it wasn't harmful at all. It was no wonder that Shallow Shallow wasn't wary of it at all. However, it could effectively block any conventional means of communication. Under my spiritual perception, the entire Crystal Forest was filled with such an energy field. The latter was vibrating rhythmically, forming a secret synchronization with the surrounding crystals. It was as though these crystals were resonating with each other. Gradually, I began to understand the theory behind the energy resonating to block communication.
I didn't know if these crystals were a miraculous substance created by the Proteans. If that was the case, then these mysterious Protean Protoss were really worth our time to study.
"Gianna, can you hear me?"
"Lord Oracle! That's great, you suddenly lost contact with me … "
"Calm down, we're in a good situation now." I heaved a sigh of relief. "The Crystal Forest here has produced an ingenious energy resonance. This resonating cavity prevents conventional communication signals from being transmitted out. However, it doesn't work on my special ability, so you don't have to worry."
After giving a simple explanation, I called Shallow Shallow, who was busy reversing the formation of the crystals, and Liliana, who was riding on Vega's back, to head deeper into the Crystal Forest.
There wasn't only one entrance here. There were two parallel paths in the direction that we came from. Those should be the paths that the other two teams that had gone missing had taken. As a special close combat unit, Vega was rather adept at "hunting" skills like tracking. Under her investigation, we easily found the tracks left behind by the missing teams. They were rather neat and there weren't any signs of battle. This meant that they had headed deeper into the forest under an orderly command. However, where did those soldiers go?
With such doubts in mind, we headed deeper into the forest. The surface area of this crystal region was truly astonishing. Furthermore, it wasn't just a "forest" anymore. Walls and paths formed by crystal-clear crystals began to appear, making the terrain of the deeper parts of the forest even more complicated.
"The signs of life ahead have become stronger!"
Liliana suddenly called out to us and furrowed her eyebrows.
"What a horrible smell … It's the insectoid race …"
Does the so-called life aura really have a smell?
I couldn't help but have such doubts. Liliana had already jumped down from Vega's back and erected a light green energy shield around her. Vega unsheathed her twin blades and switched the Photon Cannon on her tail to close-range assault mode.
As we moved forward, the air gradually became filled with the low sounds of friction and the meaningless roars of the insectoids. Even without Liliana's guidance, we were able to quickly find the location of the enemy.
Finally, when our ears were filled with the creaking sounds that made our gums swollen and painful, we approached a crystal wall that we couldn't see the edge of. The sound of the swarm of insects was coming from a series of round holes in the wall.
This should be the end of the Crystal Forest. I was already a little dazzled by the vast and endless crystal crypt.
We cautiously approached it and peeked into the hole.
"Damn, so the insectoids are all gathered here?"
I immediately exclaimed softly. I had long felt that even if the insectoid queen on this planet died, there wouldn't be so few of the insectoids left before the entire planet was burned to ashes. So … they were all hiding underground?
How many? I could only say that it was boundless, truly boundless. I didn't even doubt that there were tens of millions of them. As for hundreds of millions … Yup, that was too ridiculous.
The boundless insectoids filled our vision. Their dark purple shells and tentacles were intertwined, as disgusting as a wriggling, viscous swamp. A large number of Hydralisks, Zerglings, Lurkers, Wyverns and other strange-looking insectoids that were completely different from the ones in the game gathered together in a disorderly manner. Their slight movements caused a faint friction sound to mix together. With the amplification effect of the crystal cave, it was deafening.
"I'm starting to hate this planet's atmosphere …"
I dug my ears, annoyed by the noise of the insectoids.
Vega immediately nodded at me with a solemn expression. "Yes, Officer! We will burn the planet's atmosphere dry after the operation! "
This time, even Liliana was horrified.
"They seem to be besieging something."
Vega didn't seem to realize that what she said was out of the ordinary. Instead, she continued to observe the situation in the cave. Her glowing eyes indicated that Sister Scorpion's radar was fully activated. Very soon, she found what she was looking for.
"Reporting, Officer! There is a strange high-energy building in the middle of the insectoid swarm. We have detected the signal of a communication beacon! Our allies are engaged in an intense battle there! "
"Prepare for battle! Force your way in! " I immediately ordered softly. Then, I felt a warm sense of security radiate from my side.
Liliana's hair instantly turned emerald green. This petite girl who was always mischievous actually gave me an inexplicable sense of holiness. She slowly floated into the air, surging life energy surging around us.
"The Chief Priestess of the Goddess of Life isn't that simple," Liliana said faintly. Then, she decisively hid behind me. "Boss, you have to protect the delicate Liliana later …"
Before I could give her my usual triple speed chop, Vega suddenly jumped into the crystal cave. The photon cannon on her tail had already started charging the moment she jumped out. When she landed on the ground, the crimson light had already accumulated to its peak and exploded.
The thick crimson light beam suddenly illuminated the dark underground world. Along the way, the swarm of insects was painted red by the intense light. Along with the deafening roars of the swarm of insects, the intense photon torrent had already swept a terrifying scar several meters wide and hundreds of kilometers long among the swarm of insects. With the sizzling sound of the two swords rapidly charging, Vega raised his upper body high and instantly turned into a phantom as he roared "Long live the Empire", charging in the direction of the beacon that was surrounded by the swarm of insects.
I pulled Liliana along and followed closely behind her with Shallow Shallow.
Tens of millions of insectoids were surrounding a building the size of a fart. The number of insectoids that could participate in the battle was naturally less than a drop in the ocean. Most of the highly excited insectoids could only watch the show from afar. Their nerves were already on fire. Our appearance had obviously given them an outlet to vent their frustrations. Even though nearly ten thousand insectoids had turned into ashes under Vega's sudden attack, the passage that had just been opened up was filled up by the insectoids in the next second. Then, the overwhelming insectoids launched a valiant attack on a group of "weak humans" that had jumped out of the tunnel.
Shallow Shallow used her unprecedentedly powerful spiritual power to float in the air. As she flew forward, she crushed these "weak" insectoids without any technique. She didn't even bother to use any techniques. All the insectoids that dared to come within three hundred meters of us were turned into neatly sliced meat slices or rotting flesh and blood. Shallow Shallow, who had entered a brutal state, mercilessly tore apart the torrent of time around her. Even though the insectoids were theoretically immortal due to aging, they couldn't resist the chaotic turbulence of time. Their bodies were simultaneously stuffed into thousands of timelines that spanned thousands of years. Then, before they could even realize what was happening, they were turned into a rain of blood.
No matter how many times I had seen it, the scene of Shallow Shallow's battle … was just too disgusting …
The dense crackling sounds and the muffled 'pu pu' sounds of flesh and blood falling to the ground formed the only symphony around us. All the insectoids that pounced on us were turned into lifeless rotting flesh and blood in midair. Even Liliana, who was known to be fearless, couldn't help but retch after witnessing Shallow Shallow's ferocious battle. I could only carry the pale-faced little girl and follow Vega's footsteps, swiftly leaving the rain of blood that Shallow Shallow had caused behind us.
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