"The mouthparts are at least half a meter in diameter, so watch your step, move less, and try not to act alone."
Smail was very conscientious and responsible. He explained all the precautions that needed to be taken in clay activities. He spoke until his mouth was dry and he couldn't help wondering why Xia Yibing hadn't given him the water bag yet.
Xia Yibing understood his look, so she reached into her backpack, took out a water bottle and handed it to him: "It's also new, and I haven't used it yet."
It was then that Smail realized - the water bag had been drunk by two people and had been tainted with the scent of women, so this aspect should be avoided.
He didn't need the water, so he didn't take the kettle. He waved his hand and walked away.
"Smail." Frick came up to him. "How are they? Are you used to it?"
"It seems there is no problem at the moment." Smail looked back.
The gray-haired girl squatted down, as if studying how hard the soil was.
"She is a God-Eater. That policeman doesn't look like an ordinary person. Don't worry."
The break was said to be one hour, and when Hitzfeld asked, he learned that this was due to a special climate situation.
The possibility of encountering an attack in this climate is very low, so we can rest for a while and allow some people to adapt to the environment.
She and Xia Yibing were strolling around while chatting about the red earth creatures. After passing the second carriage, her eyes lit up and she saw Kak, Wei Lunsel, Leah and others standing together, seemingly fiddling with the camera to frame the scene.
"Draw the curtain!"
"A little to the left!"
"Maps, just walk over here at your normal pace!"
"Great! Then let's move it! Let's go around behind Maps and film him passing by!"
Kak directed a few people around in circles, and regardless of the pitiful size of the crew, he did have a bit of the aura of a big director.
"Professor." Hitzfeld woke up Weilensel.
It was the first time for him and Leah to know about the existence of movies in the world. They were very curious about it and had been fascinated by the movie from the beginning till now.
"What is it? Hitz... Phil?"
He also has a bad memory.
The girl added a new label to him in her mind.
It's only been a few days and I almost forgot her name.
"In your opinion, are there any ruins under this kind of land?" But she still started asking in a normal manner.
"Probably very small." Willensel frowned.
"It is more likely that there are relics in the fault area. The terrain there was formed by the intersection of crustal movements. If there are relics or something like that underground, they are likely to be squeezed to the surface."
"Do you have a topographical map of the red earth region with the ruins marked on it?"
"No."
"You dare come to Onsayin without me?"
"I'm only here to collect information and write a report..." Weilencel felt aggrieved, "What's the use of having a map? I can't leave the patrol team and act alone..."
makes sense.
Hitzfeld nodded his chin, turned around and found that Leah was still staring at the filming site with a longing look in her eyes.
I opened my mouth, wanting to continue asking about the slate, but suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my left eye.
Without hesitation, Hitzfeld leaped out and knocked Leah to the ground.
Before the others could react, they turned their heads and saw a huge dark black worm with a head diameter of more than one meter suddenly emerge from the ground and pounce towards them with its mouth wide open.
Chapter 35 Power
Hitzfeld held Leah's shoulder with one hand and supported himself on the ground with the other hand. When he turned over and looked up, he saw the whole scene.
This was the first time she had seen "red soil worms"... Before today, she had only read descriptions of them in some notes and books, and seen their line drawings.
In reality, the red soil worm has a slender body similar to that of an earthworm, but its body is covered with a layer of black armor.
This layer of armor is not one-piece, but is worn separately on each body segment. When the creature retracts or stretches its body like an earthworm or caterpillar, the armor will not have any effect on it.
The one Hitzfeld encountered was a big one.
The diameter of its head is over 1 meter, nearly to meters. The length of its body that protrudes from the ground is over 6 meters, standing on the ground like a strange and ferocious snake.
When she looked up at the monster, its body... those sections and rings of flesh had begun to shrink - as if a flesh spring was compressed to its limit, and then it opened its huge mouth full of sharp teeth with a violent posture, expanding it from a maximum width of meters to more than meters, and it came straight towards them with a fishy smell.
At this moment, Hitzfeld had never felt that time passed so slowly.
In perhaps less than a hundredth of a second - or a thousandth of a second, she imagined two escape plans. One was to pull out the white whale and shoot the giant insect, and the other was to roll away while holding Leia.
It would definitely be too late to shoot. The reality gave her too little time to react. Before she could reach out and touch the white whale, she and Leia would be swallowed by the giant insect.
But the second option was equally dangerous, because Leia was now in a state of shock and her body was very stiff. She was completely a burden... Rolling with Leia in her arms was too slow, and they might not be able to escape from the approaching shadow in time.
In the critical moment, Hitzfeld's mind went blank.
She didn't even realize what she had done. When she regained feeling in her body, she had already kicked Leah away.
Thanks to the dry and cracked ground, the surface was flat and there was no grass growing on it, so the friction was lower than that of ordinary mud. Leah was kicked more than two meters away by her, and she also rolled away with the reaction force of the kick.
A loud "bang" was heard behind him. The giant insect had a mouthful of dirt. Its protruding sharp fangs moved like a cutting machine, and instantly dug a huge pit on the spot, almost submerging half of its head.
Although it failed to catch its prey, it did not show any "emotional" behavior.
This thing did not pull out its head to continue attacking, or let out a few "angry roars". It continued to dig in the soil in this posture, and the sharp spikes on the outer layer of the armor occasionally rotated to cut through the soil. In a blink of an eye, it had drilled most of the way in.
It wants to run!
Hitzfeld gritted his teeth - if she remembered correctly, the red earth worms were not stupid beasts. They had the most basic wisdom and were always extremely vengeful.
If they let this thing run away without causing any damage to it and failing to really hurt it, it is conceivable that they would be harassed endlessly by it during the rest of their trip to the red soil.
Without hesitation, she quickly pulled out the white whale from under her armpit and aimed at the giant insect.
But he did not pull the trigger immediately, because there were many people shooting at this time, and several bullets had hit the giant insect's black shell, but only left a few dents before being bounced away.
"Xia!" Hitzfeld growled, straightened his posture, and lay on his side while maintaining his aim, "Time...!"
Xia Yibing knew what she meant.
In fact, she was now filled with anger.
In just a moment of distraction, she almost lost the person closest to her... The panic and fear that surged up in that instant all turned into anger at this moment, and this anger evolved into an extreme streak as she ran and charged.
"Cha-"
Even on the hot sunny day on the plain, everyone around was dazzled by the light. They were surprised to find that the hard armor that was helpless even against pistol bullets at close range actually oozes blood after the white light flashed!
And there was a lot of it! A smooth cut appeared in the center of his armor, and large streams of purple-red blood were splattering like a fountain!
hum-
The ground shook, and people standing close could vaguely hear the giant insect roaring underground.
But not enough.
This level of damage was not enough to deter it. Its first choice was to dig a hole and escape, and the frequency of its body twisting became more and more frequent.
The Changxia knife had just cut a bloody wound on its body a second ago, but in the blink of an eye, the wound disappeared.
Xia Yibing knew that this was not a supernatural event, but the giant insect's body was too long and it drilled into the ground too fast, so that the injured part of the body had already sunk into the ground... She didn't have much time to waste!
Thinking of Hitzfeld's danger just now, she gritted her teeth, took a step forward and rushed forward, seizing the moment when the giant insect shrank its body and raised her long sword -
puff!
With one move——he stabbed fiercely into the gap of the armor!
The next moment, the giant insect continued to drill into the ground by inertia... but the Changxia Sword was still inside its body!
The powerful resistance came head-on, like a flesh and blood body facing an oncoming locomotive, but Xia Yibing did not intend to hide.
She also grasped the hilt of the knife with her left hand, her face ferocious, she gritted her teeth and growled, in this brief moment she held the angle, and once again - using the inertia of the giant insect's dive, she raised her hand and swung the knife!
stab-
The armor was shattered and the blood of insects flew everywhere.
A huge horizontal wound appeared on the giant insect's body!
At the same time, Hitzfeld was ready to shoot.
The unique climate of the Red Soil Plains gave birth to a sun that was far more violent than Wayne's. Like a tyrant, it poured light and heat onto the earth without restraint.
With the generous gift from this tyrant, the charging speed of the white whale was far beyond her imagination. When she counted to 3 seconds, it began to get hot. At 6 seconds, she had even lost the concept of "hot".
Can't wait any longer.
If she waited any longer, she was afraid that the shooting alone would cost her half her life.
In the moment before firing, Hitzfeld had a sudden idea and did not aim directly at the exposed body of the giant insect.
She tilted the muzzle of the gun a little, aimed at the ground... and then pulled the trigger directly.
This time she didn't hear any gunshots.
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but in the reflection of her left eye, there seemed to be a golden-red beam of light shooting out from the muzzle of the gun, like a laser ray penetrating the soil.
Between her and the giant insect's drilling hole, a layer of soil was blown away first.
People watching from the outside clearly saw the worm's body tremble.
Immediately afterwards, on the other side of where she fired the shot, the ground farther away from the worm shook again, blowing up a large piece of sand out of thin air, like a detonated landmine.
This was the decisive blow.
The body of the giant worm collapsed limply, with its head and tail stuck in two caves respectively. In the middle, its stomach, which was cut open by the Changxia knife, began to flow out some half-digested animal corpses and large pieces of light yellow pus.
The smell of earth and blood could not cover up the stench of these things. Many people who came closer pinched their noses and then looked at the ponytailed woman standing with a knife in awe.
too strong.
Even if her weapon is sharp, her mobility and reaction speed... her strength should not be lower than that of the golden knight without armor?
"Aisun!"
Xia Yibing did not even look at the spoils. Instead, he immediately threw away the long Xia knife, letting it dissipate in the air, and ran to the smoke and dust behind, calling out the girl's name.
"Aisun! Aisun—"
"Ahem! I'm here..."
A hand stretched out from the gradually dispersing dust. Hitzfeld supported himself on the ground with one hand and covered his face with the other, half lying in a position six meters further away from his original position.
It turns out that what Alwin gave was truly high-quality goods.
As long as this thing has enough sunlight to charge, and is paired with special large-sized pistol bullets, one shot can have the effect of a homemade cannon, and its penetration far exceeds that of ordinary homemade cannons.
It's just that the recoil is too great.
Her right shoulder, if she was sensing correctly, was dislocated.
Chapter 36: Campsite
After the situation gradually calmed down, the attack storm continued and brought great shock to the patrol team.
On the one hand, for people like Weilancel, Leah, and Kak who had never seen such a giant insect, they finally fully realized the horror of the red soil.
On the other hand, for powerful knights like Smail and Frick, it was the first time they discovered that this detective team that came all the way from Wayne Port... didn't seem to particularly need their protection.
They are powerful enough in themselves.
Whether it was the knife or the scary pistol, what they lacked was only the experience to survive for a long time on the red land.
Five minutes later, Hitzfeld was half lying on the thick blanket contributed by the knights, allowing Xia Yibing to kneel beside him and bandage his wounds.
Her injuries were not serious. Apart from a dislocated shoulder, the other injuries were just abrasions caused by rolling on the ground. After disinfecting with alcohol, the bleeding can stop on its own without any care.
But Xia Yibing disagreed with her playing like this. She insisted on bandaging her again, and she had to do it herself.
"Has anyone told you that you look like you need more medical resources than I do?" Hitzfeld teased her while gasping. After all, even though it didn't matter, it didn't feel good to have alcohol on the wound.
"Ouch!" Then she let out a short cry of pain. It was the woman who was dissatisfied with her attitude and poked her dislocated shoulder.
Hitzfeld was right, she looked really scary now.
