98. Gathering Beetles

"It seems that we are lucky!"

Muzi smiled, and took the initiative to go forward to pick up the crystal nucleus, and then he just started.

"Wait a moment!"

Feng Luo suddenly called out to stop him, his eyes fixed on the direction of the crystal nucleus.

"What's the matter, Brother Feng?"

Muzi stopped in doubt.

Before Feng Luo could speak, he saw that the crystal nucleus that had landed next to the commander of the mutated rat shook twice automatically at this moment, then floated up into the air, and quickly "fleeed" along the corner of the wall to one side.

"What's going on, the crystal nucleus will still run?"

Mr. Jiao's eyes froze.

"There are ghosts in the game!"

Boss Meng was also a little puzzled.

"boom!"

While everyone was still a little dazed or even surprised, the M110 in Feng Luo's hand had already fired a gunshot.

"Snapped!"

The crystal nucleus fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and at the same time, the system prompt was passed in everyone's field of vision.

[You (your team member) killed a level 25 harvesting beetle (common), and you gained experience value 16 (XX)...]

"I see!"

Now everyone understood what happened, of course it wasn't a ghost, but a monster.

In Feng Luo's strengthened line of sight, he had already roughly seen the appearance of this crystal core-stealing monster.

It is a beetle with a brown body covered with a lumpy dark brown carapace.

But to be precise, it is not very appropriate to say that they are beetles.

Because their bodies are not spherical like the previous self-explosive beetles, but overall oval, with two scorpion-like pincers on the front end and six jointed legs below.

The crystal nucleus exploded by the mutated mouse commander was held by it with one big pincer, and it ran at high speed with its six jointed legs.

But because of their brown bodies, it was difficult to be seen in such a dim environment, and they moved against the dimly lit walls, so no one could see them clearly before.

Then, after Feng Luo shot and killed one, everyone realized that it was a monster that was "making trouble."

It's just that for monsters to "steal crystal cores", similar to players' behaviors of grabbing equipment, everyone still feels a bit against harmony.

It's enough to be robbed of equipment by players, and there will be strange things like being robbed of loot by monsters?

"Ah, look, there are more over there!"

Because of the weird situation before, Chengzi hid behind Boss Meng with some fear. When she looked away, she found more "thefts".

Not only the crystal nuclei, but also some larger crystals exploded by ordinary mice, were also secretly grabbed by a few brown collector beetles and ran quickly.

"Stop them quickly!"

Mr. Jiao yelled, the staff in his hand glowed, and a ground thorn more than fifty centimeters high came out of the ground, sending a brown beetle flying heavily.

However, even if it was lifted into the air, the big pincers of the brown beetle like a scorpion here still firmly grasped the spar.

"boom!"

It wasn't until now that Feng Luo, who felt very hot in his hand, shot it up in the air with great precision, and then let the e-level energy spar fall.

However, although everyone tried to intercept it one after another, in the end, they were still escaped by a gathering beetle.

It crawled into a dark corner, and disappeared behind a pillar the size of two people.

However, before that, Feng Luo also got their information.

[Collecting beetles, level 25 normal. Species ID: JCG-02364, Estimated HP: 2800. XP-S3 chip fit: 35%. 】

Compared with the previous self-exploding beetle, the fit rate of this "gathering beetle" reached 35%, which meant that there was a one-third chance of success, but Feng Luo was not very interested in them.

Because from the name of the beetle, he knew that it was probably an auxiliary pet, and he needed a pet that could help him fight.

However, the appearance of this beetle further proved that there might be something he wanted in the ruins of this ruin.

"Hey, it's strange. Why does the sculpture on this pole look like a god?"

Mr. Jiao, who failed in chasing the last beetle, held up his staff and circled the "pillar" twice, then said with some doubts.

"Idol?"

Feng Luo froze, then walked over quickly.

This is an irregular "pillar" full of two people, about four meters high, and the top is connected to the ceiling of the parking lot.

The color of the pillar is grayish-black, the surface is not flat but undulating, and the middle part looks more like a human figure, which is probably why Mr. Jiao thinks it is a "god statue".

The top of the pillar is covered with holes the size of a sea bowl, and the gathering beetle that stole the spar probably ran into the hole to escape.

"This shape..."

In Feng Luo's mind, the building that he saw through the M110's sniper scope and thought it was a portrait sculpture came to mind. He found that the materials of the two were very similar, both stone-like but not quite stone-like.

But the holes distributed on the two are exactly the same, except that the holes in the former are smaller, which are probably only suitable for self-explosive beetles to enter and exit, while the holes in front of them are larger, enough for gathering beetles to enter and exit.

"I see!"

Feng Luo now figured out why a large number of self-explosive beetles suddenly appeared behind them. These guys ran out from the pillars, or "god statues"!

Inaccurately speaking, it should have come out of the ground, because if you shine a strong flashlight on the "god statue" in front of you, you can see that the hole actually leads to the ground.

Below the entire ruins, there are likely to be channels dug by insects, or directly borrowed urban drainage systems.

In other words, these beetles are likely to be under the feet of the players at this time.

"However, how did they avoid detection? Is it because the passage and the 'Idol' itself have the function of isolating detection? Or..."

Feng Luo thought of another possibility, but he couldn't prove it for the time being.

And at this moment, a notification came from his communicator that someone had applied for a call.

"Old Feng, where are you and how are you doing?"

Mu Wu's voice came through the communicator.

"We hid in the underground parking lot of a building, escaped the pursuit of those self-explosive beetles, and have not lost staff for the time being. How about your losses?"

Feng Luo expected that the damage caused by the sudden explosion of the beetle attack would definitely not be small.

Although they sent a warning message to Muwu and the commander-in-chief the moment they discovered the situation, the time was not enough for everyone to retreat successfully.

"The loss was huge. This wave of beetles broke out, and three teams were wiped out immediately. Even a mecha was surrounded by hundreds of beetles and destroyed. We went to the positions of the Longyin Mercenary Group and the Veteran Tribe, and the losses are estimated to be even more serious!"

Mu Wu's voice was a little heavy. After all, it was quite unexpected to encounter such a situation just at the beginning of the mission.

"The situation is a bit unexpected. This is only in the 20th level area. There may be similar troubles in the 30th level area and the 40th level area. So the boss has decided to hire another 500 players from the Veteran Tribe and the Dragon Mercenary Group. Otherwise, Don’t allow the task to be completed!” Mu Wu said.

"Well. Anyway, so much money has already been invested, so it's okay to spend a little more!"

Feng Luo didn't care about this, since it wasn't his own money that was spent anyway.

The downsizing of nearly 100 people has a great impact on the plan, because the death penalty in "War Discipline" is relatively serious. In addition to losing the first-level experience, you have to wait 12 hours before you can log in to the game again.

In other words, even if these people rushed back to join the war, they would have to wait until tomorrow.

So increasing the number of hired players is a must.

"In addition, because the head office in the North District was not attacked by the self-explosive beetle on a large scale, there are relatively many people left. Therefore, we decided to send five teams over to help us catch up with the progress first, so as to avoid monsters being killed by one party's progress too fast. Gather to a certain area."

In the communicator, Mu Wu said again.

Fifty people, Feng Luo felt a little small, but it was up to him to decide what the "eldest young master" An Yexingchen thought, so he didn't say anything about it.

"By the way, after our research, we found that these beetles may..."

Feng Luo told Mu Wu what he had just thought about the "Idol".

"You mean, these beetles all came out of the holes of the 'Idols', and their passages or gathering places are underground?"

At the end of the communicator, Mu Wu pondered for a moment.

"To be precise, I don't think that thing is actually a statue of a god. It is formed by the accumulation of soil dug out by beetles when they dig tunnels. You must know that many insects can use special secretions to make the nests they build harder than muddy ones." Dirt is no less.”

Feng Luo said.

"It's a little unreasonable to have a pattern like a god statue on it. Speaking of which, there seems to be a 'temple' in the center." Mu Wu said.

"Each species has its own architectural style, maybe these beetles like to do that. Or, in fact, the game company is playing tricks to add to the atmosphere!" Feng Luo said.

"It's possible, so that's it. I'll ask someone to investigate those "god statues" immediately."

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