Chapter 292: Scout bug?

The man, however, saw Liang Yu turn and leave.

This made him very puzzled; what exactly did the other party want to do? He neither killed him nor took his belongings, only leaving him completely numb and paralyzed on the ground.

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Suddenly, the man understood Liang Yu’s intention.

This person disdained killing him, thinking it would dirty his hands.

What time is it now?

Basically, it was when Survivors were heading back, and if he encountered them, he would be a piece of fat meat in their mouths.

Coupled with this box of glowing crystals, the man didn’t think he would be an inconspicuous target.

As for the Survivors, even if they didn’t kill him, they wouldn’t take him back for extra food; they would just take the glowing crystals from the box and the supplies on him and leave.

But the man also couldn’t move, seeing that the sun would rise soon.

When the sun rose, he would not only die, but die a miserable death.

He had heard from those who ventured out during the day to collect supplies and were scorched by the sun about that feeling.

At this moment, he finally knew fear; the person from before was not a fat lamb to be slaughtered at all, but clearly a beast in sheep’s clothing.

Now he regretted it immensely; he clearly had the chance to take some supplies back, at least a three to five-day supply.

If he conserved, it would be enough to last him a week.

Now he could only regret, his mouth only able to emit whimpering sounds, completely unable to speak.

Soon, the man’s whimpering attracted nearby Survivors.

And unfortunately, these Survivors were all from the same team; they all discovered the man.

They glanced at the sky, and after only two or three seconds, sped towards the man.

At this moment, the man felt despair, because he had seen one of them before, and thinking of his impending fate, the man slowly closed his eyes.

As expected, the man was directly lifted by them, along with the box of glowing crystals, and they quickly ran towards their distant hiding place.

They did not know what consequences their actions would bring them.

Liang Yu, on the other end, had already returned to his RV, taken a comfortable hot bath, and was now eating breakfast in the dining area.

While eating breakfast, he organized the things he encountered and uploaded them to the database.

As a result, Liang Yu ate this breakfast for a long time, during which he drank two large basins of soy milk before finishing his breakfast.

However, although breakfast was over, he still couldn’t rest.

He still had things to deal with, such as the Sixteen Type being attacked by the Zerg underground and self-destructing.

Except for that one Sixteen Type, the others were currently safe and sound.

So, after Liang Yu checked on Lan Ling in her room, he returned to lie on a beach chair at the water park.

He controlled all the Sixteen Type guarding the cave entrance to enter the underground.

Liang Yu lay on the lounge chair and projected the scene from inside the cave.

Deep underground, these Sixteen Type quickly arrived at the location where the previous one had self-destructed.

As it was dark all around, Liang Yu turned on the Sixteen Type’s lights, illuminating the dark and damp surroundings.

No signs of Zerg were found around, which made Liang Yu wonder if it was just a coincidence, and only this one Sixteen Type was so unlucky to encounter wandering Zerg?

Just as Liang Yu was thinking this, the Sixteen Type’s detector sounded an alarm.

Liang Yu was startled; it seemed this incident was not accidental.

Perhaps this path led directly to the Zerg’s nest.

Just as Liang Yu was thinking this, the result was a bit speechless.

The Sixteen Type was not mistaken; it did indeed detect an insect, but it was just a lone one, not a swarm at all.

However, a word suddenly appeared in Liang Yu’s mind, and he remembered a snarky, hateful, and mocking image.

Could this single insect be the Zerg’s vanguard scout?

Could it be that the Zerg had evolved to such a degree?

To send scouts to investigate the situation, the more Liang Yu thought about it, the more absurd he found it; he personally preferred to believe that this was just a coincidence and not a scout sent by the Zerg.

Liang Yu did not hesitate, a laser beam directly killed this lone insect.

Then, after walking a bit further, the Sixteen Type again sounded an alarm, and indeed, another lone insect was discovered, which was also dealt with by a laser beam.

Liang Yu felt that once might truly be a coincidence, and a second time could still be explained by luck, but if after continuing forward, a third lone insect was encountered.

Then Liang Yu would have to take this matter seriously.

However, unfortunately, the Zerg also seemed to understand the principle of ’no more than three'.

After this, Liang Yu did not encounter any more insects, and just as he thought it was a coincidence, several Sixteen Type had already arrived at a fork in the road.

Besides the path they came from behind, there were five paths leading forward, and Liang Yu was still hesitating about which way to go.

Suddenly, from the darkness of the five passages ahead, dense swarms of insects emerged; their forms varied, some with huge fangs.

Upon seeing the invading Sixteen Type, they all sprayed corrosive liquid towards the Sixteen Type’s direction.

This H-venom attack method seemed to be standard for every insect.

Liang Yu made the Sixteen Type quickly form a defensive formation, and the energy shield directly enveloped all the Sixteen Type, preventing them from being attacked by these liquids.

After defending against one wave of their attack, Liang Yu had the Sixteen Type maintain the energy shield and fired a round of lasers at the Zerg.

Among the Zerg, several insects with huge pincers stood at the very front, taking the Sixteen Type’s lasers.

However, the cost was that their several huge pincers turned red, making Liang Yu think they looked like enlarged lobster claws, or perhaps these pincer insects themselves had some of their genes.

These huge pincers immediately distracted Liang Yu’s attention; he was still wondering if these pincers could be eaten, and if so, how best to eat them.

He didn’t notice a huge rock falling from above the Sixteen Type, smashing onto the Sixteen Type’s energy shield, knocking down both the Sixteen Type and the energy shield.

It was clear that this boulder was also made by the Zerg, but that wasn’t the point; the point was that after the Sixteen Type were all knocked down, the Zerg actually retreated directly, choosing not to finish them off.

This way of acting was very un-Zerg like.

However, Liang Yu quickly thought of the reason for this; perhaps it was because of the previous Sixteen Type’s final self-destruction, which made them wary, and thus they didn’t dare to step forward to finish them off.

If that were true, Liang Yu honestly didn’t know whether he should be worried or happy.

What worried him was that these Zerg had truly evolved intelligence.