Chapter 135 Tiger-backed worm elite team, unknown danger

A few minutes ago, Shen Jie received Lin Feng's order and left the place first, returning to the entrance.

There, a group of second-level tiger spine insects were mobilized from other insect nests, responsible for cooperating with the pulse war scorpion to attack from the front and back.

Shen Jie, who could not find out the enemy's position, was somewhat stretched to the limit when dealing with the pulse war scorpion attacking from a distance, but facing the tiger spine insects that were also fighting in close combat, he was not afraid at all when he entered the wing tiger berserker mode.

Even under the influence of the Zerg genes, he became more and more excited.

Qin Hu, who led the remaining team members and followed closely, had already noticed the change in Shen Jie's state.

His tiger spine insect jaws, which were like a miniature version, were too conspicuous, and the hardness of the material was almost the same as that of the giant jaws. Coupled with the reaction speed of the gene warriors, when fighting in close combat, they were actually much more flexible and swift than the tiger tooth chain saw swords held by everyone, and could easily avoid the attack of the tiger insect jaws and wait for an opportunity to kill.

However, the most prominent change was his assimilated Zerg head, with a one-meter-long small giant jaw on his face, and a pair of Zerg limbs growing on both sides of his waist and abdomen.

With such a deep assimilation of characteristics, Qin Hu estimated that the other party's gene fusion degree must have reached more than 40%, or even higher.

What a crazy man who doesn't care about his life!

After all, even he can only barely withstand about 30% fusion synchronization.

Once it exceeds 40%, although he can still retain most of his rationality with his own tenacious consciousness, his body surface will have irreversible mutations.

For example, in order to hunt down Cheng Zhan last time, facing a team of three tiger-spine insects, Qin Hu, who was unarmed, only broke through the safe upper limit of fusion for a short time in a hurry, and when Lin Feng appeared, he directly cancelled the continued injection of zygotes.

But even if it was only a short ten seconds, Qin Hu, who had exploded too fiercely, found afterwards that a two-centimeter-high serrated exoskeleton grew on the soles of his feet and the outside of his calves, like the barbs on the hind legs of a grasshopper, hard and sharp.

Even after that, Qin Hu used a boning knife to cut it off many times, or used pliers to pull it out by the roots, but it would still grow back the next morning after a night's rest.

The impact of excessive fusion after breaking the safety limit is irreparable and irreversible.

It directly changes the cells in the body, the lowest genetic sequence. Even if Qin Hu cuts off his legs and grows them again, the protruding spikes and barbs will still exist.

Fortunately, such an impact will not continue to spread.

However, it also makes Qin Hu alert enough to keep the gene fusion degree under the safe stage of 40%.

Although Qin Hu knows that sooner or later after becoming a gene warrior, he will completely become a terrible monster that is neither human nor insect, but he doesn't want to go to that step so quickly.

He still has the capital to defend, and his wife and daughter are waiting for him to go home...

And seeing the change in Shen Jie's appearance at this moment, it evokes Qin Hu's deep fear.

He is afraid of going to the abyss step by step, and finally deformed into an insect man, unable to change back.

I was even more afraid of whether I could still clearly remember my identity as a human being at that time.

After all, one of the side effects of genetic assimilation includes memory fading and confusion and doubt about self-cognition.

But in the assimilated state, being strong is really strong.

Qin Hu had witnessed Shen Jie killing into the second-level tiger-spine worm group before, coming and going freely, as if entering an empty space.

This amazing physical attribute and nerve reaction speed are far beyond the reach of ordinary second-level early awakeners.

Qin Hu was just sighing at the young man's desperate efforts. When everyone crossed the black-spine worm group and finally squeezed to the entrance in the torrent of fleeing...

I saw many tiger-spine worms with strong breath, swinging their giant jaws, mercilessly picking up the black-spine worms that blocked the way. They had cleared a space and were charging towards Shen Jie and others.

And judging from their huge size and the momentum they exuded, the tiger-spine worm group this time was actually all in the middle or late stage of the second level!

Obviously, after the failure of the previous two waves, the Queen Mother of Haicheng has learned her lesson and will not send the weaker second-stage tiger-spine worms again!

Instead, she summoned the top forces of the Zerg and sent them all out!

She planned to solve all the invading awakeners in one go!

After all, as long as they can't escape, all the previous losses can be made up, and the true strength and physical data of human gene warriors can be obtained.

And facing the enemy, seeing Shen Jie in the form of a tiger worm in front of him, he rushed up without hesitation and directly entangled with the tiger-spine worm...

Qin Hu no longer hesitated and activated the gene fluid in the zygote behind him and injected it into his body.

Black and yellow insect armor gradually appeared on his body, and a trace of madness also flashed in his yellow and upright pupils.

Then Qin Hu sent an activation attack signal to the remaining two gene warriors behind him.

Their gene fusion degree with the black-spine worm can match more than 70%, and obtain a physical enhancement effect close to 70%. Combined with their own abilities, they can fully reach the perfect strength of the second stage.

Equivalent to a lv23 awakener.

But in this extreme state, the speed of Zerg gene assimilation will also be accelerated, and the body surface will be distorted wildly to show the characteristics of the Zerg...

The impact on rationality is also deepening.

But the tiger spine swarm is already coming fiercely.

There are a total of twelve, four of which are in the late second stage, and the remaining eight are in the middle second stage.

It has gathered the top combat power of three Zerg nests.

Even if Shen Jie and Qin Hu can attract all the late-stage tiger-spine insects, the remaining nine first-stage awakeners will find it difficult to defeat the remaining mid-stage tiger-spine insects.

Nine against eight, if it is only the early-stage second-stage tiger-spine insects, they can still barely deal with it, but if they are all mid-stage second-stage, even with the tiger-toothed chain saw sword, there will definitely be casualties.

If one person fails, the tiger-spine insects that defeat the opponent will besiege other human awakeners, thus producing an avalanche-like chain reaction.

In addition to Qin Hu, the remaining two gene warriors are also aware of the current crisis.

So if they don't fight desperately, including them, they will soon die tragically under the giant jaws of the tiger-spine insects.

As the fight between Shen Jie and the first row of tiger-spine insects was about to break out, everyone immediately fell into a bitter battle.

The cleared insect nest site also became a death arena for the human-insect war.

But what surprised Qin Hu was that Shen Jie, alone, actually took the initiative to attract three late-stage second-stage tiger-spine insects.

At the same time, he seemed to be at ease in the fight.

While avoiding the bites of tiger insects, he could also use the heavy blade of the giant jaws on the outside of his arms to cause considerable damage to their abdomens or joints.

Qin Hu, who noticed this scene, was delighted. After all, with someone to share the pressure, he could quickly deal with the last second-stage late-stage tiger spine insect, and then rush to support his subordinates.

And at present, Shen Jie's comprehensive strength is actually far above his own.

His close combat level against insects is not like that of a young high school student at all.

Even if Qin Hu activates more than 40% of the fusion degree, it is difficult to deal with three second-stage late-stage tiger spine insects at the same time in the early second stage.

There is a physical gap of nearly three times between the two. No matter how much improvement and amplification, it is difficult to make up for it, let alone dealing with three existences at the same time.

A thought of admiration flashed through his mind. Qin Hu has relied on the tiger insect fusion form, wearing two layers of thick armor inside and outside, raising the chainsaw sword, and killing the last late-stage tiger spine insect.

Relying on the speed advantage brought by its small size, and the destructive power of the tiger-toothed chainsaw sword far exceeds that of the Zerg's giant jaws under the same strength...

Qin Hu, who entered the tiger worm form, quickly defeated the powerful enemy in front of him.

Pulling the chainsaw sword out from the broken head of the tiger spine worm, Qin Hu saw that not far away, Shen Jie, who had also solved a late-stage tiger spine worm, was continuing to deal with the remaining two.

Qin Hu, who was panting and wanted to recover as soon as possible, originally planned to step forward and help Shen Jie solve the battle first, but unexpectedly found that after killing a late-stage tiger spine worm, the opponent had no signs of decline at all, and even became more and more excited.

The reaction speed was getting faster and faster, and the slashing force was even more severe and terrifying, and he didn't need his help at all.

Shen Jie seemed to have overcome the lack of endurance faced by the small size of humans, and could become stronger and stronger in the life-and-death battle.

Perhaps this is the advantage of young awakeners, and their potential is deeper than that of awakeners in their thirties and forties.

Qin Hu, who was quite self-aware, chose not to disturb the other side's battle. When he had a surge of strength in his body again, he picked up the tiger-toothed chain saw sword and went into the darkness to provide support.

However, during his short battle of more than a minute, his team members still had an accident.

A perfect awakener in the late stage of the first stage, facing a tiger-spine worm in the middle stage of the second stage, with a physical attribute value of 200, had to deal with 400 or more, and the gap in strength between the two sides was more than twice...

Even if there was a hard armor and a killer weapon like the tiger-toothed chain saw sword, the difference in strength and speed could not be made up by equipment.

Moreover, most of them were not genetic warriors, and could not burst out with a strength level above the second stage, and were several times weaker than tiger-spine worms in terms of strength.

In addition, the tiger-spine worms that were constantly refreshed were always in full bloom, and the human awakeners who sneaked into the insect nest had already experienced two battles and low-intensity magnetic storm electric shocks.

It was an ideal state to have 60% of the strength at the beginning.

At this moment, facing an enemy twice as strong as himself, he could only struggle to hold on and try to save his life.

When Qin Hu rushed to the battlefield, he saw a human corpse, with broken armor shattered all over the ground, and the whole person was cut in half from the middle.

This is the usual move of the tiger spine worm.

The tiger tooth chain saw sword also flew to the side and inserted into the ground.

Qin Hu frowned. Although casualties were expected, since Lin Feng joined, his inner expectation naturally became that everyone would be safe.

But he didn't expect that they didn't die in the distant attack of the new second-order Zerg.

Instead, they struggled to die in the most painful and tragic way under the giant jaws of the tiger spine worm.

Qin Hu, who was furious, pulled out the tiger tooth chain saw sword on the ground, plugged in the spare oil pipeline, held two swords, and roared towards the tiger spine worm closest to him.

With the two swords in hand, swinging back and forth, the chain saw sizzled, making it difficult for the tiger spine worm to open its jaws and get close, and it soon died under the crazy cutting of the giant jaws and tiger teeth.

With Qin Hu joining in, the remaining eight members fought against eight second-stage mid-stage tiger spine worms, and soon they were overwhelmed.

The powerful offensive of the Zerg was solved with a crushing blow.

At the last moment of the battle, Qin Hu, who had killed several in a row, gradually became exhausted.

Swinging two 800-kilogram chain saw swords and maintaining the tiger worm fusion form would accelerate physical overdraft.

In the last battle, with the accompaniment of two gene warriors, the tiger spine worm was successfully killed. Qin Hu directly released the state, closed the injection of the zygote's original liquid, and then looked at another fight not far away.

As expected, when Shen Jie faced three late-stage tiger spine insects alone, the battle ended faster than the battle on their side.

At this moment, the other party is already cutting and extracting materials from the tiger spine insect's giant jaw.

Qin Hu showed a smile, and the familiar energy accumulated in his body finally gathered to full, starting the small awakening of the early to middle stage of the second level.

After upgrading from lv23 to lv24, Qin Hu's genetic fusion degree and the safe upper limit that he can withstand will also break through.

By then, as a second-level mid-level genetic warrior, he will no longer be as time-consuming and time-consuming as he is when facing late-stage tiger spine worms.

And on another battlefield...

It took Shen Jie more than four minutes to deal with three late-stage tiger spine insects, which was close to the limit of maintenance. After killing three tiger spine insects, he immediately exited the frenzied fighting state of the wing tiger to avoid falling into madness due to lack of sanity.

Under high-intensity fighting, the energy consumption rate in the body has reached four to five times the normal rate. The stomach and intestines, which were full of food and drink before departure, are now ravenous.

Shen Jie sat on the body of the tiger spine insect, with his back to Qin Hu and others, and licked the insect blood from the corner of his mouth.

And before, during the battle, he had already eaten while fighting because of the burning hunger in his body.

From the time he first awakened, he had only tried to eat food briefly, but there were still some adverse reactions. Now, Shen Jie even instinctively wants to devour the flesh and blood of the Zerg to replenish his own energy.

According to the guesses that Lin Feng once told him, it should be the devouring and assimilation ability during the second level of awakening. It not only changed his appearance, but also the structure of the organs in his body.

After devouring a large amount of insect meat, Shen Jie's intestines and stomach have undergone special adaptive evolution.

Able to digest and absorb the nutrients of Zerg flesh and blood.

At this moment, he could even smell which part of the insect's body had the best texture and richest nutrition, and even gradually fell in love with this kind of food.

So while Qin Hu and the others were still fighting hard, Shen Jie had already treated the fighting on the battlefield as cooking in the kitchen. He wanted to take away the lives of the tiger spine worms while also preserving the jaw part with the best meat.

That's right, the ligament muscles connecting the upper and lower jaws are the parts of the tiger spine worm that have the best taste.

After Lin Feng took away the giant jaw and left the body behind, Shen Jie looked at the exposed biting muscles and instinctively felt the desire to devour it.

At this moment, after cutting off the giant jaw, Shen Jie turned his back to everyone. He was vigilant about the dim environment around him while silently devouring the tiger insect's biting muscles in his hand.

On the other hand, Qin Hu's elite team, who had survived the disaster, was counting all the survivors.

Unfortunately, two were killed and one seriously injured.

There are currently only eight members left, and only three genetic warriors are still capable of fighting.

If they encounter a second-level insect swarm again, they can only flee hastily.

Qin Hu squatted on the tiger spine insect corpse and ordered everyone to replace the teeth of the chain sword and then take the nutritional supplements provided by the institute. In addition to basic needs such as sugar, protein, and inorganic salts, Qin Hu also included a large amount of stimulant substances.

For awakened people, things that once stimulated ordinary people can no longer be effective. Therefore, researchers at the Biotechnology Center extracted a certain myogenic stimulating hormone from the body of insects, which can make tired, sore and swollen muscles Get back as good as before immediately...

The price is that after absorption, once the drug effect wears off, deep repair must be carried out, otherwise the muscle cells will expand and contract excessively, causing large areas of self-dissolution.

This in turn leads to a significant drop in physical attributes.

However, in the current situation, whether they can escape is another matter. Naturally, the priority is to restore their combat strength.

While everyone was resting, Qin Hu called a genetic warrior and went with him to collect the bodies of the fallen members, while also recovering the lost tiger-tooth chain sword and backpack materials.

These weapons and equipment are specially provided by the research institute and are of great value.

People can die, but the sword cannot be thrown away.

The transaction with Lin Feng was just to exchange for more needed materials.

Qin Hu only brought a chain sword with him, and returned to the team member who had just met him to cut him off. He gently stroked his eyes with unblinking eyes.

The bloodshot and swollen eyeballs were a symptom left behind after his blood pressure soared due to pressure from his waist and abdomen before his death.

It's a pity that they are already short of manpower and have to drag back the heavy corpses of the new second-order Zerg. They cannot bring the corpses of the fallen members back to the defense line.

They can only be hastily buried on the spot.

Just when Qin Hu used his hand as a shovel to dig the grave...

Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice coming from deep in the darkness.

"Brother Qin? Captain Qin..."

The voice was very weak, but Qin Hu, as a second-level awakener, naturally heard it clearly.

It's just that after distinguishing this voice, how could it be so similar to his former subordinates, those old comrades who had died in the first line of defense...

They obviously fell with the defense line, were surrounded by insects, and finally died without any body parts, so how could they appear here? !

Could it be that they hid in the main fortress and were lucky enough to escape the search of the worms, and then dug through the underground wormholes and lurked into the underground worm nests, lingering?

Thinking of this possibility, Qin Hu quickly stood up and walked in the direction of the sound.

But at this moment, a shrill scream came from a place not far away!

"Ahhhhh!!!"

"Help...help..."

This cry interrupted Qin Hu's search, because he knew without identifying that the one who screamed was the genetic warrior he summoned.

With his explosive power at the early stage of the second level, he is still capable of fighting even against the tiger spine insects in the middle stage of the second level. How could he suffer such an unexpected incident? !

And even his own breath sensing did not detect any warning, indicating that there was no second-level Zerg nearby that could threaten him!

What on earth attacked him! ?

Suddenly, Qin Hu's heart was alarmed, and the relaxation of searching for the source of the call was swept away. Instead, he tightened his tiger-toothed chain saw sword, with a searchlight on his head, and walked quickly to the place where the scream came from.

It was not far away, a hundred meters away.

The rest of the team heard the call for help and rushed over.

The team turned on the searchlight and quickly found the team member who was lying on the ground holding the broken leg.

At this moment, one of his right legs was cut straight from above the knee, and the exposed bone section was extremely smooth and without marks, indicating that the enemy who launched the attack used the sharpest blade weapon.

And the attack must be fast, speed and explosive power are indispensable.

But the tiger spine worm has no such ability at all.

Qin Hu frowned and ordered the team members to stop the bleeding of the seriously injured gene warrior first.

Because of the severe pain and excessive blood loss, after sprinkling the powder and wrapping the hemostatic bandage, the injured team member fainted directly.

Before he fainted, he tightly grasped his teammate's arm and described with blood and sweat:

"Holding a knife... a worm holding a knife..."

With such a serious injury, if he is not sent to the frontline hospital as soon as possible, even gene fusion cannot save him.

Compared with the wounds with blood clots and scabs, excessive blood loss is actually more fatal.

Ordinary people will die within a few minutes in this situation. As awakened people and genetically modified warriors, they can only barely stabilize their injuries.

However, it is not possible to leave at this moment. Qin Hu took a deep breath and must find the enemy as soon as possible, otherwise it will be more dangerous under panic.

But when the remaining seven people formed a circle, explored and guarded everywhere, and looked for the source of danger...

The result was nothing!

Whether it was on the surface or on the top of the insect nest, except for a few tiger spine insect corpses, there was no sight of the last worm with a knife that the seriously injured team member said before he fainted...

Wait!

Qin Hu's face turned pale, and he suddenly thought of a possibility.

Could it be that Shen Jie, brought by Lin Feng, fell into a state of madness because of excessive fusion of tiger tooth genes, and even after killing the tiger spine worm, he continued to hunt the living creatures in the insect nest and targeted the human awakeners? !

The more Qin Hu thought about it, the more he felt that it was very likely.

After all, he almost lost his mind, and in the test laboratory of the institute, he had seen too many experimental transformers who collapsed due to excessive fusion and became irrational killing tools.

Their appearance showed a large area of ​​Zergization, and they looked like human-shaped Zerg.

It was exactly what the seriously injured team members said.

However, when everyone was worried, a two-meter-tall humanoid worm covered in blood and covered his side waist suddenly walked out from behind a tiger spine worm corpse in the distance.

The heavy knife on his left arm's giant jaw had been completely broken, and there were also a few cracks on his right arm.

The human face was revealed in the broken head armor and giant jaw, and it was Shen Jie who was alone.

Qin Hu's expression suddenly became solemn, and he clenched the tiger-toothed chain saw sword in his hand, ready to go.

But he thought about it again...

If it was really Shen Jie who did it, then who would have caused his current serious injuries? !

If the murderer was not him...

Who else could it be? !

In the dark insect nest cave, an unknown fear gradually spread, and the survivors seemed to be strangled by an invisible claw.

The heart was already in the throat.

Any slight movement would cause a panic.

At this moment, a rustling sound suddenly came from the deep area of ​​the insect nest.

The searchlight shone in the direction of the sound, and only a thin figure was seen, dragging several huge insect corpses, walking towards everyone.

When they saw Lin Feng, everyone's hanging hearts finally fell a little.

Lin Feng saw Qin Hu and the others looking like they were facing a formidable enemy, and Shen Jie leaning against the tiger-backed worm, panting, with heat all over his body...

He frowned slightly, threw out a three-meter-long humanoid worm corpse, and asked:

"Why, how many did you encounter?"

6k, not easy.

Tiger-backed worms are okay on the front battlefield, but to deal with the human genetic warrior team, you still have to rely on warrior hunting worms.

Both have different paths to the same destination,

and it is also the only way to advance to the fourth level.