NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 16: Thug Mantis
The overall height of the mechanical heart is about one meter, and the interior is hollowed out, which is where the energy stone is placed.
First, he tentatively touched the surface of the mechanical heart. In addition to the cold touch, his fingertips could also clearly feel some uneven lines. This is a gray-blue pattern that is neatly arranged and regular. Su Yu guessed that when the energy transmission is normal, these lines will light up, just like the blue light on the outer spine of the mechanical monster.
After groping around and confirming that it was safe, Su Yu stood in front of the mechanical heart, passed his palm through the gap, and held the energy stone in the center of the mechanical heart. He slightly bent it with his hand, with a subtle and clear 'click' sound, the energy stone was successfully removed.
The energy stone with a faint blue light fell into the palm of his hand. Sensing the abundant energy contained in the energy stone, Su Yu's mood rose slightly. He did not stay any longer. He turned around and rushed to the other mechanical heart in the mechanical monster. After taking out the spare energy stone inside, he returned along the passage he came from.
Holding two energy stones, Su Yu stepped on the head of the mechanical monster and jumped down, landing steadily.
After leaving the darkness, the energy stones no longer glowed under the sunlight, but they were still beautiful and crystal clear, like two pure gems. Staring at them for a long time will even give the illusion there is water flowing inside.
This external state of the energy stone is obviously normal, that is to say, there is no problem with these two energy stones... This picture made the audience in the live broadcast room very confused.
[I have a question, can anyone answer it ma? These two energy stones still have energy a, so the question is, why did X10 stop working?]
[The system for converting and transmitting energy is faulty, right? After thinking about it, there is only this one explanation.]
[The main energy may fail, the backup energy may also fail, but think about how low the probability of both failing at the same time is, so...]
[So the special ability of this Earth contestant is luck, I understand! I know! Those who go against him will not end well! Okay, I'm telling you the truth, I won't accept any rebuttal!]
Seeing the last comment, other viewers in the live broadcast room after being silent, they accepted it! Since it doesn't make sense logically, it can only be explained from a metaphysical explanation! And this explanation is very reasonable, isn't it ma! From Bai Wuqing to X10, this Earth contestant has proved to them with reality what good luck is!
The audience in the live broadcast room suddenly realized, and in the mechanical monster's body, where no one could see, the mud worm that hid its merits and fame was slowly crawling out along the channel it had corroded. Su Yu didn't take it out directly with the energy stone, not because he disliked the mud worm, but because he didn't want to expose the mud worm for the time being.
During the game, contestants would be followed by a live broadcast. Su Yu didn't know how many people were watching his live broadcast room, and he didn't know if anyone would notice the connection between the mud worm and these things, but he still wanted to hide these Zergs and their abilities as much as possible. It's always better to have more trump cards.
Holding two energy stones, one large and one small, Su Yu returned to the blood pool in the house. To be precise, it should be called an energy pool or a Zerg pool, but it doesn't matter, either name is fine.
Perhaps he had developed a habit of eating jade, he actually wanted to eat the two energy stones directly. Resisting this strange thought, Su Yu let go of his hands, and the two energy stones fell vertically into the blood pool without making any sound. In the blink of an eye, the energy stones were submerged in the red liquid in the blood pool and disappeared.
Although it was invisible to the naked eye, Su Yu could sense that the blood pool was absorbing the energy inside the energy stones at a very fast speed. It might take only two or three seconds for the internal energy of the two stones to be completely absorbed, then crushed and completely integrated into the blood pool.
The efficiency was amazing, which made Su Yu think of the pile of jadeite raw stones on Earth. Because he used the 'wish stone' to make a deal, the country brought him more than ten trucks of raw stones. Later, when he learned that his special ability required the consumption of jadeite, the country brought him another pile for free.
The thoughts were so biaised, Su Yu stopped in time and returned his attention to the blood pool.
His mind moved slightly, and the game-like interface created by the system appeared in his mind again.
[Bee Mosquito: Energy required 10]
[Flower Explosion Bug: Energy required 20]
[Blood Fantasy Spore: Energy required 10]
[Mantis: Energy required 100]
[Mud Worm: Energy required 20]
[Soldier Worker Ant: Energy required 50]
The energy required to exchange for Zerg did not change at all, except for the energy number in the upper right corner.
[Energy posseded 240]
That is to say, excluding the remaining 20 energy from the last time, the two energy stones contain 220 energy stones.
Sure enough, the energy of jade on Earth is not as good as the energy stones in the interstellar space... Su Yu just thought casually, he didn't regret using the 'wish stone' to trade with the country.
Turning his attention back to the Zerg exchange table list, Su Yu closed his eyes and thought for a while, he soon made a decision. He wanted to exchange two with the highest energy consumption, that is, a mantis and a soldier worker ant. In addition, he continued to hatch two bee mosquitoes and two flower explosion bugs.
This time, a total of 210 energy was used, the energy number that had just risen fell straight down again.
After making a choice in his mind, Su Yu took a last look at the blood pool, turned around and went to the kitchen. Among the alien fruits, he picked out two familiar ones, washed them, then came to the sofa in the living room, sat down, and ate the fruit.
[I came to watch contestants compete, not to watch contestants on vacation! ! !]
[Is he going to stay here ma? Is he not going to look for promotion medals ma?]
[Some people are fighting, fighting to the death I say, while others are eating fruits, crunching a few bites]
[Tell a horror story... This Earth contestant's luck is so good, maybe he can get a promotion medal in the remaining two gift boxes... An outrageous guess is that he may get two promotion medals.]
This comment is so scary, but what's even scarier is... it's really possible!
The comments in the live broadcast room were chatting, Su Yu was eating fruit, his eyes wandered to the two gift boxes on the ground, watching silently, but without moving, until he finished the fruit in his hand, he took two tissues, wiped his hands, and walked slowly to the gift box.
The audience in the live broadcast room held their breath, wondering if their terrifying guess would come true, the time to reveal the secret had come.
Under their nervous gaze, Su Yu picked up the gift box and was about to open the prize.
The next second, the two gift boxes in Su Yu's hand disappeared one after another.
[What's going on? Where's the gift box ne? Why did it suddenly disappear!]
[Hmm... maybe it was put into the space storage device ba.]
[I just came to the live broadcast room, so I don't understand, so I ask, where does Earth civilization get the money to buy space storage devices for contestants.]
[This Earth contestant picked up a total of five gift boxes in the game, this was drawn from one of the gift boxes.]
Just as the barrage guessed, Su Yu put the two gift boxes into the pendant storage device.
After the experience just now, Su Yu has decided not to open the remaining two gift boxes for the time being, at least until his ability is not enough to deal with the possible dangers in the gift boxes, he will not open them. Anyway, the gift boxes are in his hands and can be opened at any time, so there is no rush.
After doing all this, Su Yu felt a familiar feeling in his heart, just like the first time Zerg was hatched, two weak consciousnesses emerged in his mind.
Su Yu did not rush back to the blood pool, but turned around and sat back on the sofa.
Are these two consciousnesses newly hatched bee mosquitoes ma? Su Yu tried to attach his mental power to one of the consciousnesses. Sure enough, his vision was divided into two, one for himself and one for the bee mosquito he controlled.
Su Yu sat on the sofa and waited, staring at the movement in the blood pool with the bee mosquito's vision.
Under the bee mosquito's gaze, two flower explosion bugs slowly crawled out of the blood pool. Su Yu still waited patiently. After a few minutes, the calm blood pool finally showed unusual movements. Unlike the silent flower esplosion bugs when they crawled out, the surface of the blood pool shook obviously, two thick dark green tentacles were exposed first. As the tentacled creature slowly crawled out of the blood pool, its overall appearance finally appeared in Su Yu's sight.
This is an ant, which looks similar to ordinary ants on Earth, except that it is dark green and about one meter tall. If an Earthling sees it, the first reaction will definitely not be an ant, but a monster, then turn around and run away immediately.
"..." Controlling the bee mosquito to circle around the soldier worker ant, Su Yu thought that among the low-level Zerg, the flower explosion bug might be the most beautiful, followed by the blood fantasy spore, but these are not important. Thinking about the ability of the soldier worker ant, in the inheritance memory, it is a little expert in finding energy, it also has certain transportation capabilities and attack and defense capabilities. After all, it is a Zerg hatched with a high energy value of 50, so it is naturally very useful.
Su Yu gave orders to the soldier worker ant in his heart, and saw the dark green giant ant beside the blood pool moved its antennae. After receiving the order, it quietly moved its body and came to the guest bedroom silently, then climbed out through the open window. Seeing this, Su Yu ordered another bee mosquito to follow the soldier worker ant, so that he could quickly know what the soldier worker ant encountered.
When the soldier worker ant left, the last Zerg in the blood pool was finally hatched.
The mantis, which is worth 100 energy, has no strange special abilities. Its only advantage is that it has high defense and can fight. In Su Yu's inheritance memory, the mantis is the most powerful one among the low-level Zerg.
This is a perfect thug. When Su Yu received the inheritance memory, the first one he wanted to hatch was it. However, the energy required to hatch a mantis is too high, he cannot choose other Zergs after hatching it. In this comparison, the practicality is far less than that of several other low-level Zergs, so Su Yu simply gave up.
The mantis is larger than the soldier worker ant, and may have reached the height of an adult human male.
As for its appearance, like the soldier worker ant, the appearance of the low-level Zerg mantis is also very similar to that of the mantis on Earth, with a triangular head, protruding compound eyes, and the mantis's iconic sickle-like forelimbs... The only difference between the two is that the forelimbs of the mantis on Earth are just metaphors, while the forelimbs of the Zerg mantis are real descriptions.
Su Yu separated a small part of his mental power and attached it to the mantis. Don't know if it was because of his lack of mental power, but the feeling of controlling the mantis was obviously much more difficult than controlling bee mosquito and mud worm, as if there was an invisible resistance wrapped around him.
[You can try to mobilize the energy in your body, it can replenish your mental power.] The system said.
Is it still possible ma? Su Yu heard this and tried to use the energy in his body. Sure enough, the difficult resistance disappeared instantly. He controlled the mantis and came to the window of the guest bedroom. Like the soldier worker ant, he let the mantis crawl out through the open window, and the bee mosquito that was synchronized with his vision also flew out.
Looking around, Su Yu's eyes finally fell on the mechanical monster stuck in the mud. The mechanical monster that completely lost its energy would never have a chance to move again... From this point of view, it was simply the best wooden stake, or a sandbag.
Su Yu decided to use this mechanical monster to test the strength of the mantis.
Controlling the mantis was too mentally exhausting. Even if he could convert energy, he couldn't withstand this consumption rate. After just a short while, Su Yu's temples had already begun to throb and ache.
Completely withdraw the mental energy attached to the mantis.
Su Yu ordered the mantis to 'attack the mechanical monster in the distance.'
The mantis's triangular head tilted at a strange angle and twisted to where the mechanical monster was. A second later, it understood Su Yu's order and took action. It almost jumped directly onto the mechanical monster, raised its sickle-like forelimbs, and chopped down. The sharp, cold-glowing foot spikes on the forelimbs, like gears, scratched the metal shell of the mechanical monster, making a harsh 'squeaking' sound.
Controlling the bee mosquito to fly over and stop above the mantis. Through the vision of the bee mosquito, Su Yu could clearly see that every time the mantis chopped, it would leave a clearly visible cut-like scratch on the metal shell.
'Aim at one place to attack.' Su Yu ordered.
The mantis obeyed the order and continued to attack the same place. After about five or six times, the place attacked by the mantis had an obvious metal dent and a faint fracture.
'Try to tear it apart' Su Yu ordered again.
The mantis paused in its chopping action, then hooked the small gap that had been broken and tore it apart in both directions. This time the sound was even more harsh and unpleasant, with a creaking sound.
In the Interstellar Tournament, only when the general live broadcast is turned on can the complete competition venue be seen, the screen in the individual live broadcast room will only follow the contestants' actions, that is, the screen in the live broadcast room is limited to the place where contestants can see.
Su Yu's current situation is obviously not within the range of following the broadcast, which is also what Su Yu did on purpose. When the Zerg hatched this round, he did not go to the blood pool, but chose to watch with the bee mosquito vision, just because he did not want to expose the mantis and the soldier worker ant to the live broadcast audience. If he is lucky enough to not be exposed in this, it can be used to pit people in the next game.
Su Yu covered up very successfully. In the eyes of the audience, they only saw that the Earth contestant on the screen was eating fruit all the time. After eating the fruit, he sat on the sofa, tilted his head, and quietly looked at the scenery outside the French window. He looked like he was in a peaceful state of mind, as leisurely as if he was really on vacation.
Audience: "..." Don't have the energy to spray anymore. They want to watch people fight, not watch people on vacation!
This kind of live broadcast is really boring. Some viewers have already thought about whether to switch out of the channel and watch the live broadcasts of other contestants... While thinking, they saw that the barrage suddenly started chatting. When they looked closely, what? There was a sound? Are there other contestants coming? They sat up straight in excitement.
[What's going on? I seem to hear a kind of... metal scraping sound?]
[Did you hear it too ma? I heard it just now, and I thought I heard it wrong.]
[What happened outside? Are there other contestants coming?]
Outside the house, invisible to the audience, on the back of the mechanical monster, a mantis was trying to tear its shell with brute force. Finally, with a sharp 'sizzling' sound, the mantis successfully tore off a large piece of metal shell. It used its forelimbs to respectfully hold the shell high and presented it to the bee mosquito possessed by Su Yu's consciousness.
'Very good...' Su Yu praised. He was very satisfied with the mantis' attack power. It was worthy of being the one with the highest attack power among the low-level Zerg. This level of power should be enough to deal with most dangers.
After receiving the praise, the mantis' triangular head turned happily. It threw the metal shell in its hand casually. The same metal materials collided together, making a louder sound. When the metal shell slid onto the grass, it was quickly swallowed by the mud.
[There is really a sound! I just heard a loud sound a!]
[It should be the sound of something hitting X10! My God, someone is finally here!]
[Fight, fight! Fight quickly! I almost fell asleep watching this live broadcast room!]
The live broadcast room was waiting excitedly.
Ten minutes passed...
Half an hour passed...
Su Yu got up and washed himself another fruit. The fresh fruit fragrance and slight sweetness were very much to his taste. After the game was over and he returned to Earth, he would look for how to buy it.
Live broadcast room: "...?" They suspected that there was a problem with the live broadcast equipment of the Ange civilization, and they had evidence! If there was no problem with the live broadcast equipment, how could there be only sound but no other movement ne?
Another half an hour passed, the ground suddenly shook, but soon, the vibration subsided again. Will this mechanical planet also have an earthquake? Su Yu remembered the rules of this game. There seemed to be a sentence that mentioned this. To be on the safe side, he turned on the light screen and read the rules of the game carefully again.
②: When the time is a multiple of two, the mechanical maze may change.
It seems that the mechanical maze is indeed changing. Thinking of this, the next second, Su Yu suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart, as if something was calling him.
It's a bee mosquito! Su Yu reacted quickly. Following the call, he attached his mental power to the bee mosquito and opened his vision simultaneously.
With the help of the bee mosquito's vision, Su Yu quickly scanned the surrounding environment. Sure enough, the maze corridor outside was no longer what he remembered. Although it was not completely changed, most of the positions had changed. For example, the wall that was bombarded by the mechanical monster had disappeared, and was replaced by a clean and new one.
The strange existence that made the bee mosquito choose to call Su Yu was two orcs with beautiful faces. Both of them had ears on their heads and a tail hanging behind their waists. They were fluffy and cute, which might be very in line with the preferences of some people on Earth, of course, not including Su Yu. If it was really a kitten or a puppy, he might still be moved. As for the human form, forget it.