Hei Deng Xia Huo
Chapter 199 Ready
Li Ang calmly put away his Colt revolver, raising his index finger forward.
Buzz—
A dark green ray of dissolution, spanning a long distance, bombarded the microvilli gaps of a macrophage, instantly corroding a huge opening twenty meters in diameter.
A massive amount of cellular fluid gushed out from the wound. The macrophage unknowingly took two steps forward, its body visibly withering, its movement speed becoming increasingly slow until it was overtaken by other macrophages behind it, trampled, and became a large pool of skin and membrane.
“The defense against energy attacks is slightly weaker, but it is still difficult to deal with for ordinary players.”
Li Ang's mind raced. Macrophages were numerous, widely distributed, moved quickly, and their attack power and defense were comparable to deep-sea behemoths. Most fatally, they didn't just devour.
Bang!
As the distance between the two sides rapidly closed, the foremost macrophages flung out nearly a hundred tentacles from their body surfaces, extending almost two thousand meters, blanketing the sky and covering Li Ang.
Ordinary macrophages could extend their tentacles to capture bacteria from afar like amoebas. The macrophages within the giant's body also possessed this ability, and because of the difference in size between the two sides, an ordinary attack was like a barrage of beyond-visual-range rockets washing the ground.
"Heh."
Li Ang's eyes narrowed, and he drew the Xin Yuan staff from the void, expanding it to two hundred meters in length. With a casual wave,
while smashing forward, countless plant vines extending from his sleeves also entangled the Xin Yuan staff,
sweeping forward like the silk threads of a horsetail whisk, entwining every strand of macrophage tentacle that came crashing down.
"Break."
Swamp Divine Power poured out, plant fibers piercing into the macrophage tentacles, driving straight in, quickly analyzing the composition within.
Li Ang himself, on the other hand, released the Ten Finger Dissolution Art once more.
The dark green beam shot out rapidly, but just a second before hitting a macrophage, it was blocked by a monster that suddenly drilled out of a crack in the ground.
The monster's volume was much smaller than the macrophage, only equivalent to the volume of ordinary cells, but its surface shell membrane presented a crystal-like, glittering color.
The dissolution beam hit the crystal shell and was actually absorbed by half its power. The remaining half of its power only corroded a small dent in the shell membrane.
"Hmm? Cells that specialize in defending against energy attacks?"
Li Ang frowned slightly, activating the Hawkeye Vision skill. He saw that beneath the macrophages in front of him, a large army of strangely shaped and diverse immune cells was constantly emerging.
There were mainly two types: one with more claws and fangs on its surface, and the other with more and richer surface armor.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes.
The former, like assassins, were responsible for eliminating infected cell compatriots,
the latter could produce antibodies that would combine with pathogenic microorganisms, causing them to lose their pathogenic effect.
"Has, has a transcender died already?"
Li Ang stared at the crystals on the surface of the B lymphocytes, expressionless.
He didn't know the specific situation of other players, but if all the contestants faced a situation where they were frantically attacked by the giant's immune system as soon as they were teleported in, there would inevitably be casualties.
"The crystals on the surface of the B lymphocytes are completely evolved to target energy attacks.
If the immune system inside the giant's body is like the real world,
then it is very likely that a player died, and their corpse was swallowed by macrophages. The latter collected the gene fragments of the transcender, produced antigens on the surface, activated helper T cells, and then the helper T cells mobilized cytotoxic T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes to besiege and intercept the wound.
Within the giant's body, these two types of cells are like the servant armies of the assisting macrophages, uniform, unafraid of death, and constantly updating their defense methods against the enemy.
It's just like... a Zerg nest."
The vast, countless army of immune cells surged toward him,
the entire pipeline was shaking violently, as if it would collapse in the next second.
"A vast life form composed of 40 trillion to 60 trillion huge cells, comparable to Earth.
An immune system that can constantly evolve and grow.
An infinite battlefield rich in biomass."
Li Ang felt the violent tremor of the pipeline, and suddenly opened his eyes,
"Then let me see the comparison between an immune system that has evolved for hundreds of millions of years and a Zerg nest!"
Along with his words, a long glass box suddenly fell from the void.
Li Ang slapped his left hand heavily on the long box with a "pa" sound,
Countless servant-level and beast-level Zerg fell from the bottom of the pet breeding box and landed on the pipeline surface.
As soon as they landed, they fearlessly roared at the vast army of immune cells in front of them.
Among them, there was even a terrifying behemoth whose size was no less than that of a macrophage – the Leviathan, the first creation of the Zerg, the most powerful Zerg leader.
Li Ang's right hand, on the other hand, waved forward, tearing a grand gate shimmering with dazzling starlight in the space.
Behind the gate, it was not a seascape, but an absolute red and black.
Zerg nest motherships in red and black were quietly moored in the airspace,
when the stargate opened, the biomass light bulbs on the surface of all the motherships lit up simultaneously,
the Overminds hidden within instantly established a vast psionic network.
"Kraken Zerg nest mothership ready in airspace."
"Chimera Zerg nest mothership ready in airspace."
"Scylla Zerg nest mothership ready in airspace."
...
Countless thoughts surged in the psionic network, transmitting to Li Ang, who was still expressionless and suspended in mid-air.
"Begin."
The will of the Zerg nest Creator, like steel, was instilled into the minds of hundreds of millions of Zerg units,
All the Zerg nest motherships suspended in the high altitude behind the gate opened their deck hatches in unison, projecting tens of thousands of Zerg toward the gate.
Beast-level, heavy-armor-level, guard-level, praetorian-level...
Deadly biological weapons leaped out of the stargate with operational efficiency far exceeding that of real-world aircraft carrier deployments.
And behind them was a mountain of flesh and blood – the Zerg nest base. Under the action of the grappling hooks shot out by the motherships, this huge Zerg nest base with enormous volume and weight was able to land smoothly,
and as soon as it landed, it spread out rapidly, establishing a complex pyramid-like structure with dazzling speed and efficiency.
The rich biomass contained in the pipeline was a highly efficient supply comparable to nutrient solution in front of the Zerg nest base with swallowing function.
The Zerg nest base didn't even need to dispatch drones. It directly laid out the creep, using the huge root system at the bottom of the creep to directly extract energy and biomass from the ground,
and sprayed the converted nutrient solution through the creep onto the surface of all dehydrated Zerg units nearby, allowing those Zerg to quickly recover from the dehydrated state and restore their combat capabilities.
The first Zerg nest base was laid out, and its combat power and logistical capabilities had been improved to a level sufficient to carry out a medium-sized war.
And this only took less than half a minute.