Chapter 283： Unlock the ground thorn

Tang Fang was stunned. Is it possible that bone worms do not possess life energy and rare elements? To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than a slug that is possessed by a strange creature after it dies, and then undergoes genetic mutation and becomes a strange species. It is somewhat similar to Roy's state before. It is not so much an animal, but a special genetic parasite.

Thinking of this, he sighed, and took a lot of effort to get rid of it. He didn't want to end up but got nothing.

Some self-deprecating smiles, shook his head, just waiting to get up, I didn't know that there was a "buzz" in my mind, my thoughts were out of control, and they quickly moved to the brain space.

At this moment, in the StarCraft 2 system, the Protoss interface becomes darker, the Terran interface becomes darker, and finally the Zerg interface becomes darker.

The field of vision is dark, and the cursor lights up, blinking, blinking, and blinking continuously for 10 times. Then, a string of characters flashed.

"System, restart......ok!"

"..."

"Prepare, dates..."

"Update...15%...44%...87%..."

"Release."

"Run,!"

"..."

The system window returns, the psychic flame is lit, the eagle totem is lit, and the heart of the swarm shines.

"This...this is?" Tang Fang stayed in place. This situation has been experienced twice before, and he is very clear about what it means to appear such a picture, the system has been upgraded! The first time is to expand all the first-generation buildings of the Protoss, and the second time is to unlock the fire bat and nurse MM in the human barracks. So this time, what will it be?

Tang Fang looked down at the two corpses of the bone worm, and with a thought, he directly focused on the Zerg base. Pick a larva. Press the hot key, the production menu on the right does not change. He calmly commanded the larva to hatch a worker bee, selected the target, and clicked on the basic building menu. There were no new buildings to unlock.

He did not believe in evil and returned to the main interface. Then point out the advanced architecture menu. Still no change.

"Weird, there are no new units unlocked, and no 1st-generation buildings appear. 2nd-generation buildings like Infected Abyss and Tunnel Worm are still gray and unbuildable. Is it possible that the content of other races is updated?"

This thought was fleeting, Tang Fang shook his head, bone worms really have nothing in common with the two races of humans and gods. Its weird ability. The characteristics of swallowing belong completely to the category of Zerg.

Could it be the Zerg’s three bases and the Worm’s Nest unlocked? Thinking of this, he moved the cursor to the wormhole. The "Upgrade Worm Nest" option in the lower right menu item is still locked in gray.

"!" Tang Fang couldn't help but swear swearing, this **** system, what has been updated, can't you give me a hint? "Emma. Do you know the updated content of this system upgrade?"

"I'm sorry, Commander, I can't get the content updates of Insect and Gods 2 bases. I can only confirm that it is not a human-related upgrade."

Withholding Emma, ​​he turned his mind back to the Zerg base, and simply came to a carpet sweep. I have selected base buildings one by one. Minaret, everything is business as usual; split pool, no change; the same is true for cockroach greenhouse; evolutionary cavity is the same; Hydralisk nest...

Hydralisk's Nest? This...what is this?

In the Heart of the Swarm version of StarCraft 2, there are only 2 upgrade items in the Hydralisk Nest, "Upgrade Deep Groove Spines" and "Upgrade Tendon Amplification". However, at this moment, there is another upgrade item in the menu. In addition to the "Evolved Deep Groove Spines" and "Evolved Tendon Amplification" in the first and second grids of the menu, a new evolution item "Mutated into Ground Spikes" (also known as lurkers, stalkers) appears in the lower left corner of the menu. , Earth spider.)

The ground thorn is a newly evolved creature in the Zerg race, and it is also a more deadly creature. These creatures are mainly used to defend Zerg nests and Zerg colonies floating outside the main base. They evolved from the Hydralisk and can send out dense spikes to deal with the enemy, but the ground spikes must go underground to carry out this kind of attack. Any unit on the ground will be pierced immediately by this kind of attack. These spikes themselves can penetrate. Through muscles, steel, and even reinforced armor. The only weakness of stalkers is that they have no defensive capabilities when on the ground.

Of course, the powerful attack power can sometimes become a double-edged sword. When the ground stab is in a buried attack, because the huge needle stab that pops up is a range attack, just like a human siege tank, it is easy to accidentally injure allies.

It is a ground thorn, a unit that makes people and the second race of Gods heard in the interstellar 1 era. In StarCraft 2, ground thorns were removed from the battle for gameplay considerations, but they can still be seen in the Swarm Heart campaign.

The ground thorn combines stealth, range attack, and powerful attack power. Its existence is a nightmare for light armor units. Even mechanical units such as siege tanks and Goliath robots can walk around in its ambush range. Will suffer.

As for the machine gunners wearing Ma Runjia, their power armor is the same as paper in front of the ground spear.

Ma Runjia is still like this. If you replace the "Guardian Knights" and "Earth Knights" of the empire, which are indistinguishable from **** in Tang Fang's eyes, you can imagine how miserable the members of the team would end up on the ground. .

The ground thorn attacked from the ground up. Thinking about the situation that the soldiers were about to encounter, Tang Fang felt the chrysanthemum tight. Using the ground to assassinate the enemy's infantry is too vicious, too insidious, and it feels uncomfortable to think of being poked.

Just unlocked the Hydralisk, and sent a sting, like a doze and someone gives a pillow, there is absolutely nothing better than this. There were ground thorns in ambush in front and siege tanks behind. This is simply a nightmare for the Imperial Army.

Tang Fang glanced at the solitary Hydralisk in the base with a smile, and then moved the cursor to the "Mutated into Ground Spike" option in the lower left corner of the Hydralisk Nest Research Menu.

Remember that the upgrade cost in the game is 200 crystals, 200 gas, here is still 10 times the cost, 2000 crystals, 2000 gas.

Click the upgrade button at will, the resource value drops to 322925,66815. After five or six seconds, the research is over. Next, Tang Fang moved the cursor to the Hydralisk again, and the mutation command in the lower left corner of the right menu appeared.

Move the cursor to the option. The display change costs 50 crystals, 100 gas, and occupies 2 units. There has not been a situation where the cost has doubled, which shows that the size of the ground thorn is not too large.

"Well, it's better to mutate and take a look." Thought of this. The only Hydralisk at the base in his circle. Press the mutation hotkey.

The Hydralisk molted into an egg, and after about 3 seconds, there was a strange sound of "Zaga". A thorn appeared on the moss.

In the Zerg base, it is naturally impossible to observe the size of the ground thorn, so Tang Fang decided to summon it to the real space. However, just as he was about to move, he heard a muffled noise above his head.

Boom. Wow!

The fine concrete and the large pieces of wall skin fell off, and the dust spread like a waterfall on the side of Tang Fang.

In the distance, Grant and Bai Hao were shocked. When they looked up, they saw a figure flashing out of the hole in the ceiling, and the high-frequency sword in their hands pierced towards Tang Fang's head.

Oops, it's the blood wolf warrior! The two faces changed. I never thought that the enemy would launch a sudden attack from the exhaust duct on the ceiling.

In this way, the blood wolf warriors just fought and retreated, I am afraid it was a conspiracy by Faraday and others to disperse their own forces. It happened that Tang Fang didn't know what to study next to the bone worm corpse, and was distracted. The enemy seized the opportunity and suddenly shot out from such a tricky position.

In order to avoid the splashing gray-black slime, according to Tang Fang's instructions, the two were far away from him, facing this situation, they were simply beyond reach. The ceiling is about 6 meters high from the top of Tang Fang's head. The distance is very short, and there is sand and gravel. It is useless to shoot.

"Tang Fang (boss), be careful!" In a hurry, the two yelled.

The long sword pierced through the air, and the moves were fierce. If it was solid, Ma Runjia's armor thickness would definitely be irresistible.

At the time of life and death, Tang Fang couldn't tell, couldn't listen. He drew his sword with his right hand and flicked it upwards. With a "zoom", the two swords intersected, and the tip of the long sword that fell above hit the blade.

A strong surge came, and only felt his waist sink, his mind turned, overclocking electromagnetic pulses flooded into the booster module of the power armor, the output power was overloaded to 150%, he was holding the weight above, like a weightlifter, standing slowly Up.

The person who launched the surprise attack was Stevenson. As a member of the lone wolf, he has more keen intuition, more accurate judgment than ordinary soldiers, and of course, he has important skills.

On the other hand, Stevenson is a pervert. Compared with pedophiles, NTR plots, mature women control and so on, he is more distorted. He likes to collect exquisite right arms and eyeballs. Of course, this belongs to his personal interest. People like the Thirteenth Prince will be blind selectively. They are talented and easy to use. Those bad hobbies, just let him go.

Most people who are a bit clever and talented have more or less minor problems. Just like Stevenson, he can be called courageous and strategic. Using the TS-001 specimen to snipe Tang Fang and others is the best way to kill them. If not, when the battle is anxious, organize blood wolf warriors, rely on cloud bombs, flash bombs, smoke bombs and other explosive bombs to cover the enemy's sight, and then launch a surprise attack with weapons such as high frequency swords that are sufficient to break defenses.

If the enemy finds it and responds effectively, the follow-up plan will be implemented. The blood wolf warriors will fight and retreat to disperse the enemy's forces. At this time, he will lead people into the exhaust channel on the ceiling, and when the opponent's strength is weakened, he will find the gap and launch a sudden attack.

The entire sniper action is one after another, just like a combination punch of an old fighter.

Stevenson feels that he has a high regard for the enemy. The TS-001 specimen is Faraday's darling. With its terrifying power, the enemy is just a group of lambs to be slaughtered. However, the development of the matter seriously deviated from the predetermined trajectory. The guy who had always been invisible was able to excite high-energy currents, inhibit the cell activity of TS-001, and finally used a high-frequency sword to split it in half.

Stevenson, who was hiding in the ceiling ventilation duct, was already retreating, but when the situation changed, the enemy leader actually studied the body of TS-001 and was in a state of distraction. This undoubtedly gave him a chance, a chance to kill with one blow.

Stevenson was never an indecisive person, so he took a shot, aimed at the enemy chief’s Tianling Gai, and made a formidable blow. At a distance of 6 meters, plus the weight of the "Earth Knight", this sword can be called a lore.

However, the Goddess of Destiny always likes to make jokes like this with human beings, and the smug sword is actually blocked. Not only that, the guy actually took the weight on his head and stood up easily.

Stevenson was in a daze. What kind of monster is this guy in front of him?

Tang Fang was not interested in talking to him. Talk about your abilities. Chat about your ideals. With a swing of his sword, Stevenson was immediately bounced away with a strong force.

When he was in the air, Stevenson looked cold. The high frequency sword slashed again. Tang Fang hummed softly and withdrew his sword horizontally. "Zheng" was another crow of gold and iron, and bursting sparks shed like rain.

Boom!

Stevenson touched his feet on the ground, taking advantage of his opponent's sword to parry. Raise his right hand, stretch his fist forward, and hit the opponent's door.

Tang Fang had never thought that he would use his fist. In anxious situation, his left hand leaned out to meet the shadow of the fist, squeezed hard, and with a "pop", he firmly grasped Stevenson's right fist.

The fight between the two of them was a spark. When Grant and Bai Hao reacted and were about to rush to the battlefield, dust was sprinkled on the ceiling. In "Bilihanglu", five blood wolf warriors jumped off from above. The high frequency sword in his hand is horizontal. Quickly cut to the two.

Grant and Bai Hao were taken aback, because they didn’t have the corresponding weapons in their hands, and they couldn’t use their guns in hand-to-hand combat. As they were hiding themselves, the two zealots approached them one by one, hugged their bodies and moved back. , Quickly escaped from the sword light shrouded area.

At the same time, the 6 fanatics next to him waved their wrist psychic blades and went straight to the 5 blood wolf warriors.

On the other side, the flames of the high-frequency sword chopping lightened the faces of Stevenson and Tang Fang. Of course, the expressions of the two cannot be seen under the helmets, but a series of invisible murderous auras enveloped both sides, so strong that it is suffocating.

After Tang Fang pinched the opponent's right hand with his left hand, a suspicion flashed in his heart. Stevenson's right hand is bare, without arm armor. Based on the hard feeling from the palm of the hand and the strength, it is certain that it is not a human arm, but also an unusual prosthetic arm, more like a mechanical arm. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to resist Ma Runjia's strength.

Soon, what happened before his eyes confirmed his guess. Stevenson’s right arm popped out of a launcher, which was rectangular in shape and had a caliber of more than 20mm. It was a type of cluster rocket.

Tang Fang couldn't help but stunned. His hands were caught by him. The distance between the two was less than one meter. With Ma Runjia's armor thickness, it was absolutely difficult to withstand the successive attacks of several cluster rockets. I really didn't expect that the opponent's robotic arm not only has the function of increasing power, but it also hides a miniature cluster rocket launcher.

"Humph!"

As the launcher was adjusting its angle, he snorted coldly, concentrated, and mobilized the extreme high-energy electric current lodged in the brain space, and he wanted to give his opponent a taste. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a gray shadow passed by, and several octopus-like tentacles wrapped around Stevenson's mechanical arm.

The tentacle material twisted, only to hear a "creak", the mechanical arm holding his left hand broke into two pieces with a "crack" in the opponent's grunt.

The mechanical arm made of titanium alloy was unexpectedly broken!

Tang Fang lost consciousness for a while. At this point, the tentacles were constantly changing. The surface of the originally twisted tentacles squirmed and quickly split into a slightly thinner tentacles, and then stabbed Stevenson's left hand like lightning.

During the flight, the tips of the tentacles became pointed and hardened, until the arm armor of the nearby "Earth Knight" had become a spear-shaped blade.

Hearing the sound of "Puff!", the spear passed through, and a large pool of blood sprayed on the ground. Stevenson snorted, and the high frequency sword in his palm fell weakly. Tang Fang first twisted the hilt of the sword and flew his opponent's long sword, while flicking his wrist forcefully, the long sword slashed across with a blue light in the thunder and lightning.

Sting...

The earth knight's breastplate was divided into two, like paper cut by a sharp blade. The blood seemed to overflow from the sink, flowing from the scars that ran across the chest.

Stevenson stood upright, and Tang Fang cut his ribs directly with that sword, cut through his heart, and he was dead and could not die again.

The gravel falling from the ceiling hit the surface of the power armor "beep" and the blood sprayed his face. Until the end, Stevenson didn't want to understand one thing, why? Why would the great and merciful Lord abandon him this time? Isn't he the darling of fate, just so dead?

That flawless arm, he has not had time to put it in the showroom...

On the other side, the zealots also solved their opponents and stepped back to the side. Tang Fang raised his head and looked forward. Two people stood not far from Stevenson's body. On the left is Aros, on the right is Roy.

The right arm that had turned into a tentacle earlier is recovering quickly, and after a few breaths, it has returned to its original state. Roy's face turned pale, perhaps it was the first time he saw the tragic scene in front of him, or it may be that the blow just consumed too much energy, and his body was a little bit too much.

"He...he...who is he?" Grant and Bai Hao rushed over, and they saw the scene just now. Roy's arm reminded them of the rotten flesh possessing a slug.

At that time, Bai Hao did not enter the morgue inside the experimental hall and did not know the existence of Roy. As for Grant, after taking a close look at the boy, he finally remembered his identity: "You... are you Roy?"

"It's me." Roy nodded and stroked his right arm lightly.

"Why are you here? And, your right arm..." At this moment, Grant's mind was full of question marks.

"Let me talk about it." It was Tang Fang who spoke. He threw the Gao Zhoubo sword to Bai Hao, then waved to several people, walking forward and briefly recounting what happened to Roy.

After hearing what Tang said, Grant couldn't help sighing, his face was sad. Bai Hao walked to Roy and patted him on the shoulder.

"By the way, how about Valentine and them?" Tang Fang turned to look at Aros.

The veteran said blankly: "I let them wait in the experiment hall. There are three machine gunmen guarding them outside, so there shouldn't be any danger."

"Yeah." Tang Fang nodded, letting go.