Superbase Evolution

Chapter 24: Black Bird
Immediately, several screams were heard, and dense swarms of steel-tailed scorpions crowded around the mount's legs, and their scorpion tails with cold flashes at the tips stabbed at the mount's hooves and legs.

The alloy mounts were able to withstand the stings of scorpion tails, but the legs and hooves of the steel pets were not so lucky. They were stung by countless scorpion tails. They jumped desperately in fear and several mutators were nearly thrown off.

"Save people, rush over!" Wang Tianer acted decisively, rushed over on his horse, and pulled over Wang Jiaji, a rebel who was about to be thrown off, and the two of them rode on the same horse.

Everyone followed suit, pulling those mutators who didn't have alloy mounts onto their own mounts, and then rushed forward quickly.

They had already gone seven or eight miles deep into the flower path, and if they retreated further, they simply rushed forward.

Fortunately, the tails of those steel-tailed scorpions could hardly cause any damage to the alloy pets. Everyone rushed past and trampled countless steel-tailed scorpions to death.

After rushing for four or five miles, the road was filled with densely swarming steel-tailed scorpions, and there was no telling how many of these creatures there were.

From afar, I saw a canyon in front of me. The canyon was connected to the flower path, and they were clearly separated by only a thin line. However, there was not a single colored steel flower in the canyon, and the densely packed steel-tailed scorpions seemed to be blocked by a mysterious force. No matter how crowded it was, they could not rush into the canyon.

Everyone was cheered up and rushed towards the canyon at an accelerated speed.

Just as the people in the front were about to reach the mouth of the canyon, they suddenly saw a colorful light emerging from the ground, and the mutant who was rushing in the front was pierced through along with his mount.

The man looked down at the bloody hole on his chest and the huge colorful scorpion tail sticking out at an angle. His face was full of horror. He opened his mouth to say something, but no sound came out. Only streams of blood gushed out.

Under the shocked gazes of the crowd, the man's body and mount were lifted up and suspended in the air. A giant colorful scorpion tail behind him swayed slowly, causing the man's body and mount to sway in the air.

Everyone's eyes were filled with horror. You have to know that the man and his mount were both made of alloy grade, yet they were penetrated so easily. The hardness of the scorpion's tail was amazing.

A few riders were unable to stop their momentum and tried to rush past by turning sideways, but two colorful scorpion tails emerged from the ground and pierced through their mounts in an instant.

Fortunately, the two alloy-based mutators reacted quickly enough, jumped off their mounts sideways, and landed in the dense swarm of scorpions.

The steel-tailed scorpion's tail pierced them, making clanging sounds non-stop, but fortunately the steel-tailed scorpion was not strong enough to pierce their alloy shells.

The two men brushed off the steel-tailed scorpions on their bodies, jumped up immediately, and landed on the mounts of the responding mutators.

The ground cracked open, colored steel flowers flew everywhere, and a scorpion as huge as an elephant with a colorful body crawled out from the ground. The three scorpion tails behind it were hanging with the corpse dancing strangely.

"That's an alloy-grade Demon Armor Scorpion King... No... The Demon Armor Scorpion King should only have one scorpion tail... How come it has three..." Lao Ye stopped in front of Lin Shen and said in horror.

The Demon Armor Scorpion King swung its three scorpion tails violently, and the corpse hanging on them was immediately thrown out like a cannonball and smashed heavily on the ground, leaving a big hole on the ground. In just a moment, it was submerged by the rushing steel-tailed scorpions, and there was no doubt that it would die.

The Scorpion King swung his tail and tried to stab other Mutators. An Alloy Mutator was unable to dodge and could only use his alloy-wrapped arms to block the scorpion tail.

Unexpectedly, the scorpion's tail was so powerful that the alloy mutator and his mount were knocked to the ground, with cracks appearing on the alloy shell on his arms.

The other mutants dodged when they saw this. The ferocious three-tailed scorpion king stood in front of the canyon, and for a moment no one dared to rush forward.

"Damn it, you're looking for death." Wang Tianer saw two of his alloy-based mutators being killed, and in anger he threw out a black crystal-like pet capsule.

The pet capsule transformed into a huge black crystal bird in mid-air, with a wingspan of four or five meters. It turned into a black lightning and rushed towards the three-tailed scorpion king.

The three-tailed scorpion king waved its terrifying scorpion tail and stabbed at the black crystal bird that was flying towards it, but the black crystal bird stretched out both claws and actually grabbed one scorpion tail each.

The third scorpion tail stabbed towards the big bird's chest. The big bird lowered its head and pecked at it, actually breaking the hard colorful alloy scorpion tail in half.

The claws, which were like hooks or blades, exerted force suddenly, and the other two scorpion tails broke immediately.

The big bird let out a strange cry, grabbed the broken tail and swung it, throwing the huge scorpion king's body into the air.

With a flap of its wings, the big bird flew up against the flow, like a moon blade slicing through the sky, instantly cutting the Scorpion King's extremely hard body in half. The body fell heavily to the ground, creating two large holes in the ground.

The bird looked up to the sky and let out another long cry, then flew back to Wang Tianer and circled above his head. "Is that the black bird?" Lin Shen looked at the black crystal bird. It looked like a phoenix but without feathers, and like a crow but with a voice like a phoenix.

The reason why the Xuanniao Base is called the Xuanniao Base is because a nest of crystal-level Xuanniao eggs was discovered nearby. The Lin, Qi, and Wang families all made their fortunes thanks to the Xuanniao.

It is said that at that time, the ancestors of the Lin, Qi and Wang families found the nest of the Xuanniao together, each got a Xuanniao egg, and relying on the power of the Xuanniao, they established a Xuanniao base.

Later, the Lin family lost the Xuanniao and declined to the point where they were almost kicked out of the three families. Fortunately, the Lin family had a second master, Lin Yin, who allowed the Lin family to stabilize the situation.

To this day, Xuanniao is still the strongest pet in the Xuanniao base. Even though the three companies later obtained crystal-based pets from other channels, they are still difficult to compare with Xuanniao. Legend has it that Xuanniao may be a top-level crystal-based creature with all four attributes.

Because the Lin family no longer has the Xuanniao, Lin Shen has never seen one. He only heard this from his family members.

The Xuanniao of the Qi and Wang families has been passed down and rarely appears. Now Qi Shuheng and Wang Tianer are the heads of the two families, so it is not surprising that the Xuanniao is on them.

No one knew whether they were frightened by the fierce power of the black bird or because the Scorpion King was dead, the steel-tailed scorpions like a tide stopped attacking everyone and burrowed into the ground, retreating completely in a moment.

"Senior Brother Lin did not lie to me. The Xuanniao is indeed a top-level crystal-based creature." Concubine Bai said while staring at the Xuanniao.

"It's just a black bird. It's not bad in a small place like ours. But in a place like the Cape Base, it will be nothing." Wang Tianer said as he asked people to collect the genetic transformation fluid from the Scorpion King's body.

Everyone saw through his thoughts. He directly used the Black Bird to kill the Scorpion King. In addition to avenging his family, he probably wanted to monopolize the Scorpion King more.

The Scorpion King is obviously not an ordinary alloy creature. Both its body materials and genetic transformation fluid are rare and good things.

The Scorpion King was killed by Wang Tianer, so naturally no one competed with him for it, allowing him to collect the genetic transformation fluid.

The Scorpion King’s body naturally couldn’t be left here, so Wang Tianer directly asked two mutants to bring their pets to drag the body back to the base.

After everyone entered the canyon, it was almost dark. After discussion, they decided to rest here for one night and continue their journey early the next morning.

Lin Shen and Lao Ye lived together in the tent, while Wei Wufu kept watch outside the tent.

Lin Shen asked Lao Ye to give him a tent, but Wei Wufu refused to use it. He just sat outside Lin Shen's tent, leaning against his backpack and closing his eyes to rest.

"Fourth Master, something seems to be wrong at the flower path today." Inside the tent, Lao Ye lowered his voice and said to Lin Shen.

"What's wrong?" Lin Shen asked.

"We didn't find any steel-tailed scorpions during the first two explorations. After we went in and reached a place where we couldn't advance or retreat, those steel-tailed scorpions suddenly attacked. It was obviously premeditated. Ordinary genetically modified creatures don't have such intelligence. Moreover, that magic armor scorpion king actually had three tails, and it was much more powerful than the magic armor scorpion kings we had seen before. The genetically modified creatures here are very unusual." Lao Ye said.

"The genetically modified creatures here are indeed a bit weird." Lin Shen nodded slightly.

"This is not the main problem. The really strange thing is the black bird." Lao Ye's eyes flickered.

"Are you saying that the black bird is too strong?" Lin Shen asked doubtfully.

Lao Ye shook his head and said, "The Black Bird is very strong, there is no doubt about that, otherwise the three families would not be able to rely on the Black Bird to establish a base."

After a pause, Lao Ye's voice lowered a little: "Didn't you see? Those steel-tailed scorpions are very afraid of the black bird. Not only the steel-tailed scorpions, but even the three-tailed magic armored scorpion king is also afraid of the black bird. When they saw the black bird, their movements became a little stiff, otherwise they wouldn't have been killed in just two hits."

"Maybe it's just because Xuanniao is too strong. After all, there is a difference of one level." Lin Shen murmured.

Lao Ye did not comment, and said mysteriously: "Brother Xiaowu, I seem to have heard from the Fourth Master that the place where the ancestors of the three families found the black bird eggs seems to be near this canyon."

(End of this chapter)