My sampan can be upgraded

Ling Qi turned on the visual special effects of bullet time, and the energy bullets of the automatic rifle were almost connected in a line, quickly clearing the bugs within his sight. He felt as if he had returned to the scene when he participated in the virtual shooting competition, and his movements were skillful and natural.

The iron beetle, which looked like an armored vehicle, moved towards them with its thick legs like folding spears, waiting for an opportunity to attack. Ao Ying's heavy machine gun bullets hit them, exploding shallow craters like fireworks.

"What level of bug is this? The defense is so strong. I remember that in the game, heavy machine guns can kill iron beetles." Ling Qi asked in surprise.

"This is a bug that slowly evolves by relying on the energy of the universe in the starry sky environment. It is much more powerful than the bugs that evolve quickly after getting enough food on the planet. There is energy blessing on the carapace!" Ao Ying knew more than Ling Qi.

Ling Qi looked intently and found simple lines on the armored beetle's carapace, connected to form an energy matrix. When the energy bullet hits the top, it is first buffered by a layer of energy body, and the penetration and explosive power are greatly weakened.

This is very difficult to kill.

Ling Qi saw hundreds of iron beetles, and some of them were outflanking them from other directions. If they can't find an effective method, they will have to retreat, unless Ao Ying, a little master, still has a trump card.

At this time, the female beetle suddenly stretched out its tentacles and dragged back the beetle corpse floating in the channel.

It is devouring insect corpses to recycle energy.

"Let's retreat one more circle and wait until the insect leaves the tentacle range of the mother insect before killing it. We can't let it gain energy." Ling Qi thought of the terrifying ability of the insect tribe to attack and called on the two women to retreat again.

As they retreated, an iron beetle seemed to have found the opportunity and suddenly accelerated its speed to pounce on them. It used its long barbed legs to kick on the passage, gaining extremely high speeds, like a magnetically levitated locomotive.

Ling Qi clearly caught the movement of the iron beetle. It stretched out its sharp front legs in the air, poking at Ao Ying like a spear master.

Uh-huh!

Ling Qi waved his hand, and a ten-meter-long bolt of lightning shot out from his palm. The dazzling electric light hit the iron beetle head-on. The iron beetle stagnated and was shot into a row of huge holes by the machine gun's large-caliber energy bullets.

Ao Ying exclaimed in surprise: "A good idea is to use lightning to disrupt the energy circuit on its body surface, causing a short-term energy disorder, and the carapace defense will be temporarily reduced."

After finding a way to deal with it, Ling Qi felt relieved. She wanted to see what Ao Ying's planetary level strength was, so she joked to her: "Don't you have planetary level strength? Why are you still using a heavy machine gun? Come up. Hand-to-hand combat!”

"Haha, you think I'm stupid, why should I fight hand-to-hand when there is a way to save effort... Be careful, there are iron beetles on your side. Xiaorou, you are responsible for the small bugs on the front, I specialize in fighting the iron beetles."

"No problem, hehe." Xiaorou held an energy pistol in each hand and quickly shot at the little beetle.

Ao Ying twisted around and pointed her gun towards Ling Qi. Many iron beetles surrounded her from the second and third ring passages. They were so huge that they could only follow one another, completely losing the advantage of the insect swarm.

Ling Qi had known the movements of the insects early on, so he threw out lightning at will. The first iron beetle was shot dead by a machine gun in the blink of an eye. Its body blocked the path of the insects behind it and was brutally dismembered and dragged away.

"There's still no way to stop the female worm from gaining energy!"

The three of them watched helplessly as the insects worked together and dragged the insect corpses into the middle for the mother insect to recover. As soon as one side shoots someone, the other side will automatically clean up. This cooperative attitude makes them helpless.

More than 300 iron beetles were killed one after another, and the small beetles were almost eliminated.

By this time, the electrical energy in Ling Qi's body had also been consumed, and the meteor became dim. To his relief, he gained a lot of experience from killing the iron beetles, and the upgrade progress increased by 30 percentage points, reaching 76%.

"Ao Ying, if my lightning energy is exhausted, is there any way you can kill the Iron Beetles alone?" After Ling Qi finished speaking, he looked towards the central area and found that the last batch of more than 60 Iron Beetles had just rushed halfway and then retreated. He went back and guarded the mother insect.

"I haven't tried it, but I think it should be fine. I'm a planet-level person." Ao Ying checked the energy magazine. There was only a very small amount of energy left, so she threw it aside and took out an energy sword to prepare for close combat.

"The bug has retreated. Let me recover first and go directly to the central area!" Ling Qi began to practice on the spot. The little energy in his body circulated to form a matrix, quickly absorbing the surrounding free energy.

An hour later, he recovered 50%, and the meteoroid was no longer dim.

"Let's go, finish the work early." Ling Qi stopped practicing and asked the two of them to push in again.

The three of them walked through the passage and reached the platform next to the central hall, where they saw the complete image of the female insect.

The mother worm is not the maggot-type Ling Qi imagined at all, but a giant tentacle monster. The main body is thirty or forty meters in size. There are tentacles of different lengths at every angle on the body. The length is nearly a hundred meters, and it is entangled in the hall. around. Some of the short tentacles were only a few meters long, and some were dozens of meters long. At this time, they were grabbing insect corpses and stuffing them into the giant mouth.

Its body bulged and shrank, emitting strong energy fluctuations. Around it, the remaining dozens of iron beetles clustered around, forming the last line of defense.

Ao Ying's face changed: "It is evolving with the help of recycled energy. I understand, there is a lack of food intake here, so it first breeds a small number of beetles to collect free cosmic energy, then swallows the beetles to promote its own evolution, and then breeds more beetles , forming a slow growth cycle.”

"So awesome?" Ling Qi was shocked. He was able to develop his tribe just by absorbing cosmic energy. Isn't it even more incredible than human cultivation?

"The Zerg are the most efficient in utilizing energy, and this is what makes them scary."

Uh-huh!

A tentacle about one meter in diameter and more than thirty meters long was like a giant whip, whipping towards Ling Qi and the others like lightning. The expressions of the three people changed drastically. They kicked off the platform and shot in three directions.

Behind them, huge tentacles struck the platform, causing a large piece of the platform to collapse.

Ling Qi was horrified to see that the structure around the hall had been corroded very weakly. Using this method of corroding first and then dismantling it, the female insect did not have to worry about being unable to break away from the spaceship after growing in size.

Before the three of them had time to activate the thrusters and retreat, other tentacles waved at the same time and were drawn towards them respectively, and the three of them were immediately in crisis.

The mother insect used some tentacles to fix on the spacecraft to gain strength. The speed of the attack was too fast, and the tentacles brought out an afterimage and chased the three people.

Whoa, Ling Qi used the bullet time special effect to shoot a bolt of lightning that hit the tentacle. While the tentacles were slightly stagnant due to the electric shock, he kicked hard on the tentacles, changed the direction and shot towards the female insect's head.

On the other side, Ao Ying and Xiaorou were like rubber balls with strong elasticity, borrowing force from various walls to bounce back and forth to avoid the attacks of the tentacles. In this gravityless environment, if there is no borrowing point, the movement will be very inflexible, and a bad move will float into the mouth of the female insect with the inertia.

"It's not easy to handle, and there's no flexibility at all."

Ling Qi took the time to look at Ao Ying and Xiaorou and found that he was the slowest among the three. After Xiaorou's transformation, she became the most flexible due to her talent. Ao Ying, with her planet-level strength, could achieve a speed no less than that of a tentacle every time she borrowed power. Only he had no talent for speed and his strength was neither above nor below, so he was almost drawn. .

"Brother, be careful!" Xiaorou exclaimed in panic when she found Ling Qi shooting at the female insect.

In the flash of lightning, Ling Qi quickly approached the mother insect, and two more tentacles came diagonally towards her with afterimages. Ling Qi used the effect of his skills to barely see the trajectory of the tentacles, but he wanted to avoid it but had no way to use it.

Seeing that Ling Qi was about to be hit by the tentacle, two thunderballs appeared in his hands at the same time, and he slapped it with his backhand. Two thunderballs exploded behind him, and a powerful thrust instantly acted on him. At the last moment, his speed increased suddenly, passed through the attack path of the tentacles, and hit the female insect's head.