Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Half an hour later.

Still in the waterway system, the team members are maintaining a very fast speed, shuttling through the maintenance passage above, but now they have reached the end of the maintenance passage. If they want to continue to keep up with the hunters in front, they must go down to the waterway.

The hunter's movement speed was not fast, but judging from the hunter's fighting scenes witnessed by the team before and during the tracking, he should not be moving at full speed. After discussion and analysis, the team members believed that the hunter's behavior should be due to his mistaken belief that he was still following the team, and he did not seem to want to be discovered by the team members. This means that the hunter's goal may not be to kill the team members. However, this is just speculation. Blindly contacting a hunter often does not end well.

"boom!!"

At this moment, the hunter who was running in front suddenly stopped, but it was not his own will, but because he had reached the exit to the city center. And at a manhole cover above, some hunter creatures sensed the hunter's presence, crashed through the ground, and smashed into the waterway.

These hunter creatures are not the leatherworms or stranglers that can be seen everywhere, but three other types of hunter creatures. One of them is very small, and the largest one is no more than one meter. They are like some centipedes with beetle wings, able to fly quickly in the air. The abdomen is covered with tiny hollow spikes, from which some highly toxic substances can be sprayed. According to known information, this hunter creature is called a winged moth. There are many and thorough studies on this small hunter creature.

Long before the advent of the Renegades, this type of hunter creature had been studied in detail, mainly their toxic body fluids, which can be used to treat many viral diseases after being diluted hundreds of times, and the original solution diluted dozens of times, mixed with some chemicals, can be used to make some controllable, powerful chemical agents used to corrode rust or other dirt. Undiluted, with the addition of some specific chemicals, it can be used as a military door-breaking explosive. These special substances are faster and quieter than thermite and similar things, and will not cause fires. The most important thing is that there are so many winged moths, so the cost can be almost zero. Of course, the work of capturing winged moths must be done by machines. After all, for most creatures, the highly toxic body fluids of winged moths are extremely deadly. And it is almost impossible to treat.

But the weaknesses of these moths are also obvious. Their small size and insect-like body structure make them very fragile. With proper protection, they can be killed with civilian electric shock guns. In addition, the body material of these moths is very conductive, so fishermen have used electrified fishing nets to catch them in large numbers a long time ago. However, due to improper protection, there have been many accidents.

These winged moths are very weak, and even if hundreds of them gather together, they cannot break through the composite building materials used in the waterway. It is not them that destroy the waterway, but another kind of hunter creature.

The hunter creatures that destroyed the top of the waterway were called pseudo-goats, but this was just a nickname. The real scientific name had long been forgotten in the long river of time. These creatures looked almost exactly like ordinary goats, but they were huge. The largest known individual could grow to about 9 meters. They had no mouth on their heads, and their horns were made of a material similar to metal. They had large eyes, but only one, which was also protected by a protrusion of metal-like material. There were two huge cracks on both sides of their bodies, which were filled with conical teeth that could rotate at a certain angle, actually replacing the work of the mouth.

The pseudo-goat is strong and powerful, but its strong body does not have an intelligent brain. It is difficult for it to complete complex behaviors on its own. Other hunter creatures will use special calls to communicate with the pseudo-goat and tell them what to do. They are like some brainless thugs. However, although their IQ is very low, they can understand the calls of all other hunter creatures.

Their eyesight is also very poor. It's not that they can see very close, but the bumps that protect the eyes block most of their vision. These pseudo-goats can only observe things in a straight line in front of them. Although they can observe other positions by rotating their eyeballs, most of their vision will be blocked, and their visibility is very low.

It sounds like these pseudo-goats can be captured and raised by humans through some means, but in fact it is impossible, because once these pseudo-goats are separated from other hunter creatures, they will immediately become extremely irritable, and these guys are immune to most toxins, so it is impossible to use sedatives to calm them down. In addition, these guys are extremely strong and it is difficult to trap them, so for a long time, research on pseudo-goats has been stagnant.

However, in an emergency, a captured pseudo-goat ran into the winged moth's research laboratory. Unlike these brainless pseudo-goats, winged moths can be captured and bred artificially. After the researchers used simulation technology to give instructions to these artificially bred winged moths, they found that they could use these artificially bred winged moths to control the pseudo-goat. This discovery was a revolutionary breakthrough at the time. Since then, research on pseudo-goats has made rapid progress, and the characteristics of this brainless and violent creature were soon mastered.

Pseudo-goats are true omnivores, eating everything, including inedible materials such as metal. Although these inedible materials do not provide them with energy after being eaten by pseudo-goats, they will gradually change their physique. The more metal they eat, the more their bodies will gradually become similar to metal, extremely hard and difficult to destroy. The more biomass they eat, the more their physique will become similar to that of normal organisms, and they will be easily killed. Since then, people have tried to artificially breed pseudo-goats, but the result has ended in failure. After being separated from wild hunter groups for too long, these pseudo-goats will become controllable within a certain period of time, but will suddenly die after an uncontrollable period of time. The cause of this death has not yet been accurately determined.

Not to mention that after these guys died, the smell of their rotting corpses would arouse the wildness of other hunter creatures. Even the artificially cultivated offspring of winged moths would immediately regain their wildness after smelling this smell, and would show irreducible hostility and willingness to attack any species that were not hunter creatures.

Similar to strangler worms, pseudo-goats serve as pioneers in the hunter creature group. Strangler worms have amazing defense and a large-scale propulsion capability, while pseudo-goats are extremely powerful and can easily tear apart the defenses that small and medium-sized hunter creatures cannot break through. Although their defense capabilities are much lower, their strong immunity to toxins and their body material that can be changed by eating a lot, as well as their strong adaptability, have made them and strangler worms the nightmare of all witnesses who have seen the hunter creature group. For a long time, these pseudo-goats and strangler worms were simply impossible to deal with.

But if there are only some brainless vanguards and winged moths that can be easily eliminated, the damage they can cause is actually not too difficult to deal with. The really difficult one is the third type that often appears with other hunter creatures. It is considered a weird creature among all hunter creatures.

While the hunters in front were easily killing a large number of winged moths with fire, and withstanding the impact of the pseudo-goats with equally jaw-dropping brute force, the team members noticed that behind these pseudo-goats, there was a strange hunter creature. Its body was very thin, a bit like a half skeleton floating in the air, with no bones below the ribs, but five skeletal arms, four of which were in normal sequence, and one grew on the shoulder bone. The spine was very long. If compared with a human, the spine would be several dozen centimeters long after extending beyond the ribs, like a tail.

However, their heads are not made of bones, but a wriggling tumor. They have no obvious facial features, but occasionally some visible electric currents appear on them. Two irregular bone tubes with multiple branches grow on the inside of the ribs, from which some compressed energy gushes out from time to time. This thing allows this kind of creature to fly and quickly change the direction of flight. In addition, its own weight is very light, so this kind of creature is extremely difficult to attack in actual combat. Moreover, in previous experience, some of these creatures also have a certain short-range transmission ability. The people who first discovered this creature called it "living disaster", but later researchers gave it a name, but the name is tongue-twisting and few people would use it. They just called these guys nightmares. At that time, many people would use this guy to scare children, mostly unreliable parents. But it is undeniable that it is indeed very effective, after all, those parents are also afraid of this thing.

In addition to their extremely strong mobility, Nightmares also have very high IQs. Unlike most hunter creatures, they can not only simply analyze the battle situation, but also scout in advance the areas where the biological groups are about to attack. Their mobility makes them difficult to be discovered, and even if they are discovered, they can evacuate quickly.

Through years of research, people have discovered that nightmares can emit signals of a specific frequency. These signals can be seen as a very efficient cry that can alert other hunter creatures and, to a certain extent, give orders to other hunter creatures that are not higher than their own class. It is a bit like a temporary commander on the battlefield. With the cooperation of nightmares, hunter creatures of lower classes such as stranglers, pseudo-bodied goats, and winged moths can often cooperate well and exert combat effects that are higher than their own abilities. However, like the stereotypical manipulators, compared to their control talents, their own strength is not that impressive.

But this does not mean that the Nightmare Demon has no threat at all. On the contrary, if the number of people is not large enough and the weapons are not strong enough, a single Nightmare Demon can cause great damage. In addition to releasing special signals to control other hunter creatures, the Nightmare Demon can also release some powerful electric currents. After the Nightmare Demon is teleported, it will leave a stable energy ball at the starting point and destination of the teleportation respectively. The Nightmare Demon can create a lightning chain that can extend a distance by directly hitting the energy ball with electric current. Anything concentrated by the lightning chain, as long as it can conduct electricity, will suffer damage similar to being directly poked into the mouth by a high-voltage wire.

Fortunately, teleportation is not something that can be used casually by nightmares, so as long as you can beat nightmares in numbers or the quality of your weapons, you still have a chance to defeat them. Of course, if your gun skills are accurate enough to hit the energy balls left by nightmares before they release electricity, you can also defeat them. It's just that nightmares rarely appear alone.

For example, in the scene in front now, under the control of the Nightmare, the winged moths and the pseudo-goats are attacking the hunter in an orderly manner. The pseudo-goats use their bodies to block the fire attacks of the hunter for the winged moths, and at the same time they keep attacking to interrupt the hunter's energy storage, while the Nightmare always hides in the back, using the lightning chains he creates from time to time to deflect the energy rays released by the hunter to prevent the pseudo-goats from being fatally injured.

However, the strength of the hunter in front seemed to be beyond the nightmare's expectations. It didn't expect that the winged moth's venom would have no effect on the hunter. The attack of the pseudo-goat was basically a blunt attack and could not damage the hunter's body. Only its own lightning chain could cause some damage to the hunter, but it was not an ability that could be used casually. It also needed to avoid fatal attacks from the pseudo-goats, not to mention the hunter's abnormal recovery ability. The only advantage now was that the energy-storing rays released by the hunter took about the same amount of time to store energy as the time it took to recover its own teleportation ability. But for now, it could only maintain such a stalemate.

"Crack! Crack!"

"Zi Buzz~~"

After deflecting the hunter's energy beam once again, the nightmare sent out a special signal, calling for support from other nearby hunter creatures. Not long after, including the team hiding nearby, they heard the cries of the Ge?3?9 and the rolling sounds of the strangler worms coming from other directions deep in the waterway.

"He seems to be talking?"

"It could also be swearing. It's rare for hunters to have language, but it's not surprising."

"The tone is too calm, totally different from his previous angry state. Analyze the hunter's language."

When the situation was about to get worse, the team members observed that the hunter seemed to start saying something. They used the equipment to analyze the language used by the hunter and soon got a real-time translation. However, what the hunter said was not good news for the team.