#2830 - suck
The wound pierced by the beam was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye!
“Bang! Bang bang!!!”
The Licker swarm, enduring the beam's firepower, rapidly lunged towards the defensive shields erected by the front row of players!
The Lickers' sharp claws scraped against the alloy shields, creating a series of sparks, and the immense impact force sent the shield-bearing players flying backward!
“Shhh! Shhh!!!”
Two Lickers on the right side rapidly darted through the breached defensive line, quickly dragging the players who had fallen from the impact into the sand, disappearing completely.
The surrounding players didn't even have time to rescue their comrades, watching them being swallowed by the desert!
The players were instantly drenched in cold sweat.
In just half a minute of combat, two comrades were already in a life-or-death situation.
Wayne had never seen such terrifying alien creatures before.
Each one's strength level already exceeded that of an elite!
Seeing the players' front line instantly torn apart, Wayne, in desperation, took out an energy grenade from his backpack and threw it in the direction the alien creatures were charging.
“Bang!!!”
The energy bomb exploded, and an invisible shockwave instantly spread out in all directions.
Affected by the energy shockwave, large swathes of the Licker swarm were momentarily stunned and dazed.
“Run!”
Wayne shouted and turned to run.
The remaining mercenary group players also immediately fled for their lives.
At this point, who cared about formation!
If you ran slowly, you would die!
A group of Lickers, affected by the shock bomb, froze in place for 5 seconds, then immediately recovered and continued to chase Wayne's team madly.
Damn it!
Even more terrifying was their extremely fast movement speed on the sand!
The distance between the two sides was rapidly shrinking!
Players who ran slowly were immediately pounced on by a large number of Lickers, dragged into the sand, and disappeared.
Of the original team of over a hundred people, more than a dozen were pounced on by the alien monsters and dragged into the sand during the escape.
Seeing that the rear of the main force was about to be overtaken by the alien monster swarm again, Wayne gritted his teeth and threw another shock bomb behind him.
“Boom!!!”
The shock bombs were the latest technology provided by the ship, with a limited number available for exchange, costing 100,000 each, and were effective in restraining alien creatures.
Despite the high price, they were even unavailable outside, and the ship provided very little, so they would be immediately snapped up by players as soon as they appeared, and could be sold for ten times the price with a simple resale.
He had only exchanged for three to prepare for the unexpected.
Wayne's only consolation now was that they hadn't ventured too deep into the desert.
As long as they left the desert area, they would be safe!
In this crisis, Wayne used up all three shock bombs he had, and only then did he successfully return to the edge of the desert.
The subsequent players also left the desert area one by one, feeling as if they had escaped with their lives, and sat in the forest outside the desert, panting heavily.
Looking back, the alien creatures gradually dispersed after entering the edge of the desert and disappeared back into the sand.
Wayne calmed down, looked around, and his face was terribly pale.
Of the large mercenary team of more than a hundred people, only less than fifty managed to escape!
Another mercenary group leader walked to Wayne's side, looked at the peaceful desert, and a strong sense of dread rose in his eyes, "Those monsters... I think they didn't appear for no reason, did they...?"
“Hmm….”
Wayne stared at the desert in front of him, his eyes filled with deep fear.
No wonder they couldn't see the burrowing sand locusts; it turned out that there were far more terrifying monsters lurking in the desert than the burrowing sand locusts.
But it was very strange.
Why were they the only ones attacked?
Wu Xiao and his group clearly ventured into the desert area just like them, so why weren't they attacked by the alien creatures?
Could it be…
They had a way to avoid the alien creatures?
Because they knew in advance, they were unwilling to take them into the center of the desert together…
A hint of anger appeared in Wayne's eyes.
Damn Wu Xiao!
“Everyone, this matter can't be left like this!” Wayne gritted his teeth, looked at the other two mercenary group leaders who had suffered heavy losses, and beckoned to his trusted subordinates, instructing, “You go find Acrylic now and ask him to come and help. Tell him that we agree to all the conditions he offered! Tell him to come immediately!”
“Yes! I'll go contact him!”
At the same time, in the desert, Wu Xiao and others saw Wayne's team, which was almost wiped out by the Licker swarm, and a layer of cold sweat instantly covered their backs.
Such terrifying creatures!
Fortunately, they didn't listen to Wayne's coaxing to lead them, otherwise, they would probably be in no better situation than Wayne now.
Or even worse!
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One hour later.
The crystal cave of the mind.
The gemstone in Fang Heng's palm turned into a cloud of powder, quickly weathering in the air.
【Hint: Player's zombie clone has completed the tempering of the mind gem, player obtains S-grade mind gem *1】.
【Hint: Player absorbs the power of the mind gem (quality: S), player obtains high-level mind science experience points +2891】.
【Hint: Player's current high-level mind science level has been raised to the maximum level, player cannot obtain more skill experience, please try to improve the skill level】.
【Hint: Player triggers academic advancement task - Advancement of Master-level Mind Science】.
Task name: Advancement of the Mind Master.
Task type: Academic advancement task.
Task description: On the road to mind science, you feel that you have once again fallen into a bottleneck. Please find ten mind gems (SS grade) and successfully pass through the mind storm to complete the advancement of Master-level Mind Science.
“Master level…”
Fang Heng glanced at the game prompt and muttered to himself in a low voice.
Not easy to handle.
Even if the gem tempering skill is maxed out, you can only get S-level mind gems.
You still have to rely on other means to continue upgrading the gem quality.
Can't get it for now.
In this case, if you want to quickly advance academically, you can only go back to the ship to exchange for a master-level skill book.
Speaking of which, after hanging up for so long, you should have collected a lot of contribution points and S-level mind gems.
It should be no problem to exchange for a master-level skill advancement book, right?
Go take a look.
Fang Heng got up.
Not far away from the cave edge, S-level mind gems had already filled a whole box.
Usually, about one ton of ore can only temper out 5 S-level mind gems.
Fang Heng estimated that there was definitely no problem in exchanging for a master-level advancement book.
Not far away, Zaka and others were still sorting gems.
Zaka was already sweating profusely.
Good fellow, this is much more tiring than sorting express delivery!
From the beginning, due to the small number of zombie groups and the limited ore obtained from mining, Zaka could still chat and laugh while slacking off.
But as the multifunctional engineer shovels arrived one after another and Fang Heng's Licker proliferators gradually appeared, until now, Zaka was already too tired to speak.
Several piles of crystal ore, as high as small mountains, had already been piled up next to the three of them.
