Chapter 57 Half an Armored Cavalry Platoon

Steel Blade Mantis.

It is more than two meters tall and about five meters long. When the dorsal wings are fully extended, the wingspan is more than six meters.

To be frank, except for its slightly slender body, it is larger than Ruger's small tank.

The forelimbs of ordinary mantises can be roughly divided into three sections, corresponding to the upper arm, forearm and hand of humans.

The difference is that the forearm of mantises is generally longer and thicker than the upper arm connected to the body.

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And this part often has hard serrations, which can easily hunt food with the slender and sharp hands like hooks.

The steel blade mantis is based on the mantis, and its structure is basically the same.

However, from the forearm to the hand, the forelimbs of nearly two meters in total have all been replaced with steel blades.

Moreover, from their record of being able to easily cut off the shield-and-blade skeleton with a slight swing, it can be seen that the steel is quite extraordinary.

The most ridiculous thing is that ordinary mantises are typical insects, with a pair of blade arm forelimbs plus two pairs of supporting legs, exactly three pairs of legs.

However, although the steel blade mantis also has two pairs of supporting legs, it has an extra pair of forelimbs.

In other words, a mantis has four steel blade forelimbs that can be folded like a guillotine.

Each set of steel blade forelimbs consists of a serrated blade forearm and a sharp scimitar hand, a total of eight steel blades.

Coupled with the burst speed provided by the high-frequency flapping of two pairs of membranous wings, a steel blade mantis is at least equivalent to four elite scimitar light cavalry.

Ruger, who was happily collecting guns and cannons over there, heard Tia's warning and looked back, and saw three steel blade mantises rushing towards him.

In his eyes, it was nothing but a three-headed mantis, but a mighty army...

Okay, it's a bit exaggerated to say a mighty army, but it's at least half an armored cavalry platoon, right?

If the mantis is regarded as a special armored vehicle.

In short, someone who was just happily taking the spoils into the space, suddenly saw such a horrifying scene, and he was almost fuming.

It wasn't the heat rising, but the soul was gushing out of his seven orifices.

Now, he didn't care about the weapons that hadn't been recovered yet, and ran towards Tia.

Not to mention, the speed was quite fast, much faster than his historical record of the 100-meter race.

It's a pity that even if it broke his own historical record, it was only a little more than eight meters per second.

The speed of the steel blade mantis flying over there was not supersonic, but at least a few points faster than ordinary arrows.

No matter how you look at it, it won't be less than 60 meters per second.

Moreover, Ruger had seen how they harvested the Sword and Shield Skeletons, and knew that their current speed was at most cruising, not their limit at all.

If this continued, Ruger would be chopped into dozens of pieces by the Steel Blade Mantis behind him before he could even reach Tia, not to mention how far he could escape.

"Tia, cover with fire!"

He shouted to the front.

"Ah? This..."

Tia had also thought about covering him, but she was a little confused about how to do it.

The only weapons she could use were two shotguns and a grenade launcher, except for cold weapons.

The effective range of the long-barreled pump-action shotgun was 50 to 80 meters, which was obviously not suitable for dealing with the mantis that was still hundreds of meters away.

The long-barreled shotgun was not good, let alone the short-barreled one.

The high-speed grenade launcher had enough range, but the grenades in her hand were all impact-detonating fuses.

In other words, the ammunition had to hit the target or fall to the ground to explode.

The dual-purpose lethal armor-piercing bullet is indeed very useful against machine-gun crabs and fire spiders, but it is mainly because those two kinds of ghosts are on the ground.

Ghosts crawling on the ground have a limit no matter how fast they are, and it is absolutely rare to exceed the speed limit.

120 kilometers per hour, converted to only 33 meters per second.

At this speed, it is naturally impossible to avoid high-speed grenades that can reach 240 meters per second.

But it is just like once a person runs, it is not easy to be shot by a bow and arrow.

The flying speed of an arrow is five or even eight times the running speed of a person.

The flying speed of a high-speed grenade is even only four times the flying speed of a mantis.

In a nutshell, Tia really has no confidence in using a grenade launcher to hit a flying steel blade mantis.

Not to mention, if something goes wrong, a grenade falls to the ground and accidentally explodes Ruger.

Because of this, Tia is really entangled in how to "cover".

But now that Ruger had spoken directly, she couldn't just not act.

After thinking about it, she simply ran towards Ruger, swinging the 88 gun barrel on her shoulder.

A 1.75-meter-tall loli with a sturdy and well-proportioned figure rushed straight towards her, waving a six-meter-long, three-ton stick in her hand.

This scene, even though Ruger was knowledgeable, was almost petrified.

What is this for?

In ancient times, anti-aircraft guns were used to hit mosquitoes, and now there are cannons to beat mantises?

But people use cannonballs to hit mosquitoes, and Lady Tia's cannon only uses the tube itself to beat mantises?

"Brother Lu, get down!"

Just when Ruger was full of complaints and didn't know where to start, Tia, who was running in front of him, yelled first.

This is his good character, not being hypocritical at critical moments.

After hearing what Tia said, he didn't think twice and immediately took advantage of the momentum to lean forward. He fell onto the gravel ground and slid forward.

Even though he was wearing a thick enough heavy armor, he could feel the burning pain in his arms that were supporting his chest.

But soon he didn't care about it anymore, and turned his head to look behind him.

As a result, he saw a giant mantis rushing forward, with its blade spread out, about to swing at his back, being swung away by Tia's 88 cannon stick.

Snap~

After a crisp collision, the guy flew to the horizon at a speed several times faster than when he came.

Home run!

Ruger stared at the mantis that was hit and almost shouted.

"Brother Lu, don't stand there, help!"

While shouting, Tia raised the cannon barrel and swung it at the two steel-bladed mantises in the back row again.

However, after seeing their little leader being swung away by that weird giant iron stick, the two mantises behind them no longer dared to be arrogant.

While continuing to fly forward, they both started to accelerate.

It was the same speed burst used when harvesting the sword and shield skeletons before.

In an instant, the two mantises that were about to be swung away by Tia again had dodged the attacking gun barrels.

At the same time, the four sets of knife arms fired at full power!

"Swish~Clang~"

The 88 gun barrel in Tia's hand had been cut into several pieces.

"Ah!! My gun~~"

Seeing that the gun she had carefully selected for a long time was dismembered, Tia was immediately angry.

She looked forward with one hand, pulled out the three barrels on her leg, and with one hand, pulled out the pump behind her, and at the same time grabbed two shotguns in her hands, and fired a round of rapid fire at the sky.

Bang bang bang bang~

3+1 buckshot was fired, immediately blocking the surrounding airspace.

The steel blade mantis has high attack and high speed, but its defense is a bit poor.

Although the two pairs of membranous wings are much harder than those of ordinary mantises, they will be dented by a large piece even if they are not broken after being hit by a steel ball weighing several hundred joules.