Kapitel 164: Chapter 163
Lin had already gathered most of the nutrients in the lake base and sent them to the Hometree using the transporters. Below the Hometree, Lin had constructed a large breeding chamber. Lin injected the nutrients into the chamber and mass-produced a type of unit called 'Wood Drill'. These worm-type units were used by Lin to clear a path through the wood, just like the Inca insects. Lin could also create a nest inside the Hometree.
At the same time, Lin had also released a large number of Flyers to scout the area for Inca insects. Lin couldn't let them know that she had taken over the Hometree.
However, there didn't seem to be any Inca insects around here, and there weren't any forests in this area either. It was basically a rocky terrain, but there were still a lot of creatures here. There were also many small lakes filled with water, but in this environment, Lin didn't see any plants other than the Hometree, which made her feel a bit strange.
Lin's Wood Drill took a lot of time to create a tunnel. Lin had to design an environment that could withstand pressure, while the Leviathan was also slowly transforming. Lin's units normally didn't grow, their size was always the same as when they were first created, so it took a lot of time to modify them.
Just like that, the day passed, followed by night. The entire world slowly turned dark. In the area that the Brain Hunter was observing, the Inca insects that had been excavating had begun to return to the Hometree. In the rocky terrain, all the Crystal Scale Lizards and other creatures had gone into hiding.
Lin continued to excavate, creating her own nest. However, Lin didn't light up, so it wouldn't be good if she was discovered by the Inca insects.
This place was different from the noisy Fern Forest, it was very quiet here, and all the creatures had gone into hiding. It was as if they were … afraid of something.
In the darkness. But Lin heard another sound. It seemed to be a large creature that was slowly moving across the rocky terrain towards the Hometree that Lin was in.
The creature had eight legs, clearly an arthropod. The creature slowly moved towards the breeding chamber under the Hometree. For defense, Lin had created a few Flyers near the breeding chamber. At the same time, she had also placed a special unit called 'Echo', which was used to scout the environment in the dark.
Lin still couldn't use sound to distinguish different objects in detail, but she could distinguish the shape of an object, and use that to determine what kind of object it was.
Clack, clack. The sound emitted by the Echoer spread out and bounced back. Through this sound, Lin was able to quickly form an image of her surroundings in her mind. Because it was impossible to tell what the object was, the objects in the image were all gray. Lin could 'observe' the image carefully before coloring it.
For example, rocks … hot springs … cracks … all sorts of environmental items were colored. It was exactly the same as the real world, but in the Echo's image, there was not only the familiar environment but also a strange object on the rocky ground about 30 meters away from the Hometree.
The creature was ten meters long and had four pairs of appendages around its body. Judging from the echoes, Lin found that it looked like a 'spider' that was commonly seen in the Twisted Jungle.
Lin didn't know much about spiders. Her basic understanding was that they liked to create webs between branches to make traps and dissolve their prey for food. However, this was the first time Lin had seen one. This spider was ten meters long, and its appendages were more than 20 meters long when fully extended. Perhaps the other creatures here were afraid of it, and that was why they hid.
The spider slowly approached Lin's breeding chamber. If she didn't want to be attacked, she had to fight back. Lin had the Echo emit continuous sounds to determine the spider's location. Then, she had the ten Flyers line up and aim at the approaching target … and shoot!
Boom!
Ten bombs were fired at the same time, and a loud explosion rang out in the darkness. Under the sound of the explosion, the Echo's sound detection was temporarily blocked and would take some time to recover.
When the sound of the explosion completely disappeared, the Echo emitted another clack, and the image of the environment appeared in Lin's mind again.
This is!
Lin was shocked when she saw the image. Before the cannon fired, the spider that was more than 30 meters away was now less than a meter away from the Flyers.
According to the echoes, Lin saw that there wasn't even a scratch on its body. Had it dodged the cannon fire?
The next moment, the spider lifted its body and bit down on one of the Flyers with its huge fangs. Lin immediately felt the Flyer's pain, but the pain was strange. It was as if the Flyer had been injected with a high-temperature liquid. This liquid flowed through the Flyer's blood vessels and burned all the cells along the way.
Lin immediately ordered the other Flyers to aim at the target again … and shoot!
Due to the close distance, Lin didn't need the Echo to sense that the spider had quickly retreated the moment the Flyers fired, dodging all the bombs. When the Echo detected again, the spider had already run 60 meters away, and it still had the Flyer in its mouth.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't be able to escape.
The Flyers could rapidly produce bombs, but they also had another ability. Lin had the Flyer that was bitten, and all the living cells in its body began to rapidly transform. They filled its body with a large amount of dissolved liquid, and at the same time, they rapidly sucked in all the air and liquid around them, expanding and exploding!
* Boom! * Lin also heard the spider's roar amidst the roar of the explosion. When the sound of the explosion disappeared, the Echo sent out another image. Lin could see traces of corrosion around the spider's mouth. It seemed to be quite effective. If it wasn't for the fact that a large number of cells had already been burned to death, the explosion would have probably blown its mouth apart.
The attacked spider no longer had the heart to continue fighting, and quickly fled into the distance.
However, no matter how fast it ran, it couldn't escape. The Leviathan that had been modifying in a pouch under the tree had finally completed its transformation. The pouch instantly split open, and the ten-meter-long Leviathan rushed out. Using the 'explosive jet' on its back that was mixed with explosives, the Leviathan rapidly rushed towards the fleeing spider.
Lin originally had the idea of making the Leviathan as big as Bechymos, but she didn't have enough nutrients at the moment. Moreover, that would take a long time and be very troublesome. Besides, what she had now was enough.
The Leviathan's explosive speed was more than twice as fast as the spider's. It only took about a second for the Leviathan to catch up to the spider and slam its head, which was covered in hard armour, into the spider's abdomen …
Although the Leviathan and the spider were of the same length, they didn't seem to be of the same weight class. * Boom! * Following the sound of liquid exploding, Lin could feel a large amount of liquid splattering all over the ground from the flattened spider's abdomen. Lin also sensed that the liquid was actually very hot.
This was a very good research material … Astronomy.
PS: Thanks to ~ Sunflower Boy ~ for the tip ~
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