Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 55 The visitor is evil

Currently, the company's core industries are divided into three parts: mushroom forest, sweet potato and peanut fields.

To ensure the stable output of explosive mushrooms in the mushroom forest, to further cultivate strange mushrooms, and to protect the newly reclaimed farmland from being damaged, the problem of winter beasts must be solved.

Zhou Yi specifically asked Sun Chonglai.

Logically speaking, the Bone Man has lived in the Mushroom Forest for 70 years, and his knowledge and understanding of this area far exceeds that of the residents of Shangu Town.

Sun Chonglai did know some unknown situations.

"It is a very strong light nano-species. It is difficult to be hurt by the explosion of explosive mushrooms. It can jump or walk quickly on the ground like a bird, and it can also glide in the air."

"Our main method is to hide. When the winter beast arrives in winter, we hide inside the underground Emerald City - it can't move at that time. When winter is over, we will come out of the Emerald City."

The Skeleton Man said, "There is one very strange thing."

"When it first came, the winter beast was very strong. It was huge, blocking out the sun and the sky, but it did not attack the mushroom forest, but just flew over it. In the second winter, the winter beast attacked the mushroom forest and killed many black hand mushrooms. However, black hand mushrooms cannot produce light seeds. Under normal circumstances, light seeds will not do such meaningless things. But it seemed to be unaware of it, and it felt like it had become much dumber. It killed various light seeds only this time..."

"Another thing is that the winter beast has become much smaller."

"My personal guess is that there are two winter beasts, one large and one small. The large winter beast is an adult and has a lot of experience, while the small winter beast is still growing and learning further. The adult chose the area of ​​Changu Town as a place to train the small winter beast in hunting techniques."

The Skeleton Man said, "We cannot rule out the possibility that the Great Winter Beast is still there."

……

We must go all out against the enemy.

Zhou Yi is ready to mobilize Emerald City at any time to engage in a battle in the wild with the winter beasts.

He also reminded all parties in the company to make safety their top priority, and asked the Mushroom Forest team led by the Agricultural Machinery Brothers and the Bone Man to take precautions and ensure safety.

The Red Falcon would travel back and forth between the Mushroom Forest and the Emerald City every day to conduct reconnaissance to ensure that it could discover the traces of the Winter Beast as soon as possible.

Normally, the winter beast will arrive two or three days after the first snow.

However, for some unknown reason, the Winter Beast was late this winter.

This reminded Zhou Yi of the organ trumpet.

In the wasteland era, neither the new humans nor the light nanoparticles seem to be very punctual.

On the fifth day, Red Falcon sent an unexpected message.

"Hunter Ridge has been spotted in the Claw Pig territory in the northern region."

"It's hunting the clawed pig population."

Zhou Yi felt a headache.

If you don’t want to come, then don’t come. If you want to come, then let’s all come together, right?
do not care.

Let’s finish this first.

Clawed pig feces is the key raw material for attracting strange mushrooms and is a link in the industrial chain. This group is also an important natural resource for wasteland development companies, and their survival must be ensured.

Zhou Yi immediately ordered: "Target the Spine Hunter."

"Emerald City, activate!"

As the command was given, the elevator slowly rose up, with steel bars wrapped around its feet at the bottom, and a large amount of soil wrapped around it like a pair of thick sandy boots. Unlike the last time when it was walking lightly and weightlessly, this time it was walking on the earth waves, which was more stable and efficient.

The Emerald City initially maintained a constant speed, but soon began to accelerate. Its huge body turned into a huge shock wave that swept across the ground, leaving two wide and even trenches on the land.

Inside room 3101, Zhou Yi looked out the window.

This place faces north, and the sand and rocks on both sides keep receding.

Fortunately, the information exchange with the Emerald City at the consciousness level has extremely low latency and is accurate. Otherwise, just commanding the movement and direction of this huge monster would be a difficult problem that tests one's skills and proficiency.

The bumpy feeling inside the house is very light.

The only drawback is that during exercise, the water and heating in Emerald City are cut off, and everything is focused on maintaining body movement.

The sandboarding giant arrived at the scene 18 kilometers away in 20 minutes. Its peak speed can reach 100 kilometers per hour, which is similar to that of an ordinary express train, but it cannot maintain high speed for a long time.

The Emerald City in its full strength state left Zhou Yi stunned.

Only then did he realize that he could drive the Emerald City for land travel. Apart from the high fuel consumption, the speed was quite good.

……

Arrive at the target location.

Through the camera of the Red Falcon, Zhou Yi saw the appearance of this spine hunter.

In the illustrated manual, it is shaped like a large white flower.

But in reality, this flower is really too big, about the size of a basketball court.

It floats in the air, and its petal-like limbs capture clawed pigs on the ground. Like grabbing a doll, it twists it lightly and skillfully, removes the bones inside, and stuffs them into its three-petal-like digestive mouthparts.

The discarded flesh and internal organs left a bloody trail on the snow.

The clawed pigs tried their best to flee, but they were too slow in front of the flying spinehunters. The only thing that took time was extracting the light seeds from the corpses.

There are even clawed pigs that specifically go to die, buying their companions time and space to escape.

The Ridgehunter enjoys his kill.

With the blessing of [Alert], Zhou Yi saw that the Spine Hunter was glowing red all over, indicating that it was extremely dangerous.

Kestrel said: "The chimpanzee is used to honing his skills by killing prey."

"In addition to absorbing light, they specialize in hunting fresh bones, mainly spines. The physiological structure of this species is quite special. It is shaped like a mollusk, but its entire body is covered with a layer of external cartilage. When attacking, the spine hunter can twist, harden, and even sharpen its body. Its multi-legged limbs can all become sharp weapons."

"They consume the bones of other life forms to further expand and strengthen their bodies."

Zhou Yi immediately thought: "Why does it feel a bit like a bony fish?"

"Because it is a high-level direction of bony fish evolution."

Hong Jian said: "I don't know if this ridge hunter is weak or injured. The body itself is very unstable and cannot be completely considered a Class B creature. It should be the one that hunted the long-necked crocodile in the Dead Sea in the north."

These observations and communications are completed in an instant.

Zhou Yi's battle orders had already been issued.

The Emerald City was ablaze with light, and with it as the center, the prototypes of houses slowly rose from the ground around it. In less than a minute, fifteen flying houses had taken shape and were launched into the air.

The spine hunters also pay attention to this architectural life.

But instead of leaving, it dropped its clawed pig and flew towards this side.

Red Falcon judged: "The strength of the Emerald City itself is very attractive to spine hunters. They always want to hunt the spines of powerful organisms."

Zhou Yi's face turned cold.

Let's touch each other and see which one is harder.

Warm-up completed.

The falling flying house left red tracks, completely blocking the Spine Hunter's range of activities and detonated instantly.

Amid a huge roar, a bright light rose from the center of the explosion.

The light dispersed the tremendous energy that was originally concentrated in the bombardment in all directions, creating a crater-like radiation area and producing strips of steaming glass on the ground.

There was a glowing spherical object in the pit.

The spinehunter turned into a giant milky white glass ball. Several cracks appeared on its smooth surface, and some light blue mucus oozed out from it.

Being injured seemed to make it even more angry, and it flew towards this side at a rapid speed.

"This is the [Light Prism Exoskeleton]."

The Red Falcon captured the scene and compared the data in real time: "This ability will disperse and weaken the external energy impact. Its effect is related to the degree of mastery."

Zhou Yixin said it was a pity.

This damage reduction feature is a bit difficult to deal with.

The flying house bombing itself is a range-type fire coverage. When encountering this kind of opponent with special defense mechanisms, the weakness of single-point breakthrough capability is exposed.

During flight, the Ridgehunter's form quickly changes into a prism-like structure.

After closing the distance, a strong light from the front mirror rushed straight to the Emerald City, as if trying to pierce through this huge Dead Sea alien. This sudden attack caused ripples of light and shadows to appear on the surface of the Emerald City, and a large amount of white smoke rose.

Zhou Yi was not panicked at all.

What Emerald City fears least is this kind of direct energy impact.

Just as he expected, the damage caused by this point-to-point attack was limited, and a considerable part of it was absorbed into the Emerald City's body and turned into energy reserves.

Finding the attack ineffective, the Spine Hunter stopped decisively.

But it didn't seem to want to give up. It circled around the Emerald City and returned to its spherical form to continue the confrontation.

Zhou Yi also had a headache.

The Spinehunter has the ability to fly, and its [Light Prism Exoskeleton] allows it to be both offensive and defensive.

The strength of the quasi-B-level monster still exceeded his expectations.

The person who came here is not kind...

We have to find a way to kill this guy.

Unexpectedly, the other party spoke first.

"You monster, why did you break into my hunting ground? What do you want to do? I will never let you steal my prey here! Are you trying to start a war with our family?!"

Zhou Yi was stunned.

The spinehunters can actually communicate directly.

Its hunting ground?
Does this mean... I'm the one coming?
(End of this chapter)