The young lady has experienced countless life and death situations, and at those moments, she was not by her side. If something happened to the young lady, she would be far away in Xiosta and probably wouldn't know anything about it.
When her thoughts returned again, White Wolf and Ceylon had already recorded the data. She did not speak, but silently followed the two and continued to move forward, concentrating on her own guard work.
Not long after, White Wolf and Ceylon made new discoveries.
"Ceylon, what is this trace?"
"I don't know. It looks like something heavy was dragged over. Hey, look at that cluster of red crystals."
"This piece must weigh several dozen kilograms. It should be some kind of ore. Have you seen it?"
"No, it's strange, there seems to be no record of this kind of ore."
"Give me the sampling equipment."
"Well, Miss Olicia, do you need me to teach you how to use it?"
"I have learned."
"Have you studied it?"
"I worked at Rhine Life for a while before, and Ms. Hemer taught me."
"Wow, Rhine Life is the ideal workplace that many people dream of. How do you feel about being there?"
"I felt it wasn't as good as Bingshi, so I resigned and ran away. And you came to Bingshi all of a sudden. Your vision is a hundred times better than mine." Miss White Wolf blinked and began to talk nonsense seriously.
Ceylon took the sample bag handed to her and was about to make some jokes, but she suddenly discovered something.
She frowned, carefully observed the contents of the sample bag, and compared it with the large piece of 'ore' in front of her. Her face gradually turned pale.
Chapter 2022 Giant Originium Worm 12-23-12 00:02:
Miss White Wolf noticed that Ceylon's expression was not right and she immediately became alert.
"what happened?"
"This thing." Miss Ceylon's lips turned pale and she shook the sample bag gently. "It's not a natural ore, but the secretion of the Originium worm. I have never seen such a large crystal cluster of secretion."
White Wolf frowned, looking at the red crystal in front of him, which was the size of a millstone, and asked, "How big is the secretion mass of a normal Originium worm?"
"It's the size of a fingernail and weighs less than 20 grams."
"So, there might be a giant Originium worm in the volcano?"
"Judging from this mass of secretions, yes. I'm afraid it will be very, very large. This is simply impossible. The largest Originium worm that scholars have discovered in the wild so far is only half a meter tall."
After discovering something was wrong, Miss Hei also joined the discussion. After checking the ground, she quickly agreed with Ceylon's inference:
"The traces on the ground look like something heavy had rubbed against it. Look here, the edges and corners of the volcanic rock have been crushed into powder. If a giant creature had pressed on it, this would have been the case."
"Then let's look for it based on the traces." White Wolf suggested, "The indentation is very obvious, it shouldn't be difficult to find it."
"Okay." Hei nodded, then looked at Ceylon worriedly. She was a little distressed because she knew that under such circumstances, it would be impossible to persuade her young lady to go back.
At this time, Miss White Wolf began to remind him: "Ceylon, you must follow the orders of me and Hei in all your actions. Don't run around, don't talk loudly, and don't scream no matter what you see. Can you do that?"
"Please believe me." Ceylon nodded seriously.
"Yes." Miss White Wolf smiled slightly, "I believe you."
She turned back and said to Hei, "We are not sure about the temperament of this Originium creature yet. Just in case, prepare your weapons. You and Ceylon stay together, and I will lead the charge alone. If there is any danger, you must first ensure Ceylon's safety, and then provide sniper support."
When it comes to fighting, Hei doesn't like to listen to anyone's orders, but Miss Olisia's order happened to be in the area that she could not refuse. She made an OK gesture and decided to follow the other party's arrangements.
The investigation into the mysterious monster officially began.
Miss White Wolf followed the traces on the ground, nimbly moving through the volcanic rock blocks, constantly avoiding the high-energy stone worms on the road and marking the body fragments left by the mysterious monster.
Hei led Ceylon and walked behind. Since Miss White Wolf had already explored the road ahead, they walked much more easily. Miss Ceylon then focused on investigating the surrounding environment.
Following the traces of the mysterious monster, everyone went down and behind a huge volcanic rock, Miss White Wolf suddenly stopped.
Her ears trembled, and she could distinguish the incessant sounds of magma bubbles bursting, as well as another unusual movement in between, a hoarse hissing sound, a bit like stone being rubbed under high pressure.
She slowed down her pace and followed the source of the sound, slowly approaching. After climbing over a piece of iron-black basalt, her eyes fixed and her breathing suddenly stagnated.
About twenty meters in front and below, there stood a gigantic Originium creature nearly ten meters tall, with dark red rock armor covering its surface. The red light in the core area of its body was so bright that it was blinding. Just getting close to it made one feel that the temperature was much higher than other places.
Miss White Wolf observed silently, then slowly retreated. When she reached a safer distance, she signaled Hei and Ceylon to come over carefully, and then pointed the giant Originium creature to the two from a distance.
"What a huge Originium bug." Miss Ceylon was nervous and excited, trying her best to hold back her breath. "It's an individual in a completely natural state. If the instructor knew about it, I'm afraid he would rush over in a flying vehicle right away."
"Ceylon, take notes first." White Wolf said, "We need to think about how to deal with this guy."
Miss Ceylon took out a telescope, squinted one eye, and began to observe. After a while, she took off the telescope and frowned, saying, "That guy is not right."
"what happened?"
"Look at its front right side, where the mouthparts are."
Miss White Wolf took the monocular telescope and looked at the place Ceylon mentioned, only to see several volcanic source stone worms being ground and swallowed by huge mouthparts.
There were many volcanic Originium worms on the ground nearby. They all seemed to be suppressed, lying there motionless, just waiting to be eaten by the huge Originium creatures.
Miss Ceylon frowned and thought. The situation before her was beyond her understanding:
"Volcanic Originium Worms mainly feed on energy, so it is impossible for them to grow such mouthparts. Moreover, Originium Worms have a strong sense of community and are extremely docile to their own kind. They don't even show hostility, let alone devour each other."
"In my opinion, this guy is a new species." Miss White Wolf put down the telescope and handed it to Hei. "So the Originium Bug habits you mentioned probably won't work on it. I think the important thing is why it eats other Originium Bugs and what this behavior means to it."
"The nutrients of volcanic Originium worms are energy, which is usually obtained from Originium and volcanic ore. That creature directly swallowed other Originium worms, which is equivalent to letting other Originium worms help complete the energy extraction process. It took a shortcut and took the results."
"So that's how it can grow so big?"
"From an energy perspective, yes, swallowing other Originium worms gave it the capital to grow to giant size, but what exactly happened to it itself requires further research."
"It's a pity that we can't catch this thing, but leaving it alone won't work. The Originium bug ecosystem has already been destroyed. Black, what do you think?"
Miss Hei began to string the heavy crossbow: "Get rid of it. This kind of monster is a hidden danger if it stays in Xiosta. The environment inside the volcano is complicated. We can't bet that it will appear in a place that is easy to contact next time."
White Wolf nodded. "It's already this big now. If we let it grow for a while longer, who knows what problems will arise. We should solve them as soon as possible. Ceylon, wait for us in a safe place."
"Okay, then be careful."
Ceylon knew his own weight, so he decisively hid in the back, looking at White Wolf and Black from afar.
"Ms. Hei, can we really handle such a big guy?" Miss Bailang watched Hei calmly sorting out the crossbow, wondering if she was too calm.
In fact, she herself was not very confident, after all, she had never dealt with such things before.
"The odds are very high. Its large size means it moves slowly. To me, it's a sitting duck. Even if we really can't handle it, escaping the scene won't be a problem."
That’s right, Miss White Wolf thought, if you really can’t beat him, you can just run away, this guy is just a big fool.
Chapter 2022: The First Confrontation 12-24-12 00:03:
While Hei was debugging the heavy crossbow, Miss White Wolf also began to organize her own weapons and equipment.
Her weapons were simple, gloves on both hands and a noble ceremonial sword. The gloves probably wouldn't be of much use, and punching such a mountain-like monster would make her look like a fool.
What about the ritual sword? It seems that it won't work. The enemy is a 'fire monster' with an extremely exaggerated body. In comparison, my sword is like a small toothpick.
How to fight this?
She picked up the telescope again and measured the giant Originium worm. The more she looked at it, the more difficult it seemed to be to deal with. In the scorching heat of the volcano, her frost Originium skills were completely useless, which meant that she could only rely on ordinary attacks.
If it is a normal attack, can it break the defense of the big Originium worm?
I'm afraid it's very difficult, not to mention Miss Hei.
She has a lot of experience in working with ranged units (here referring to Miss Nightingale and Miss Platinum), and knows very well that the latter's weakness lies in high-armor targets.
Even her sword couldn't cut it, so ranged units would just be able to scratch it.
Thinking of this, White Wolf turned around and said, "Miss Black, if we want to attack its body, the most troublesome thing is the red rock armor. Let's discuss a strategy first."
"Is Rock Armor troublesome?"
"Isn't it troublesome?"
"Don't worry about Yanjia, I have a way to deal with it." Hei thought for a moment and said calmly.
What can you do? It can't be that crossbow, Bai Lang was very confused.
Although she was puzzled, she did not question it any further out of trust in Miss Hei's ability. Since she said so, she might have some special skills.
Hei put the adjusted heavy crossbow back on his back and said, "Let's go. My crossbow has a short effective range. I need to find a suitable angle."
"Yeah." Miss White Wolf followed behind Hei, observing the opponent's heavy crossbow curiously. After debugging, the crossbow was twice as large as before and was more than one meter long. Three crossbow strings of different lengths were stretched taut on the bow, which was like a precision instrument, two red and one black.
White Wolf had used a crossbow before, the kind used by the Mafia, but compared to what Miss Hei was carrying, it was like a children's toy. The opponent's crossbow was almost out of the scope of a crossbow after it was deployed.
The two of them lowered their steps and approached the giant Originium worm little by little. However, when they were still a long distance away from their target, the giant monster in front seemed to have discovered something unusual.
This guy's senses were much sharper than expected, White Wolf thought secretly, it was impossible for a normal Originium worm to detect someone sneaking towards them so quickly.
Seeing the monster's eating speed slow down and its huge insect body slowly twisting, White Wolf quickly whispered, "You go find the sniper area, I'll attract its attention."
Hei nodded silently, bent down with a heavy crossbow on his back and dived into the volcanic rocks on the side.
Don't worry, Miss White Wolf looked at the monster that was gradually turning around and began to comfort herself. It looked very clumsy and must move very slowly. She could probably easily dodge its attack. Besides, maybe this guy wouldn't attack at all. It was just a large Originium worm...
It only took the giant Originium worm one second to make the ignorant little Rupert understand a truth: all his ideas were just unrealistic fantasies. An Originium creature that has grown to such a size certainly cannot be a simple creature.
An indescribable huge scream suddenly sounded, and wild sparks flew all over the sky, along with volcanic debris, wrapped in hot wind and charging towards her. At the first sight, Miss White Wolf was almost blown away.
Even though she hurriedly hid behind a huge basalt rock and gripped the edges of the stone with her fingers, she still felt her arms numb from the shock.
The huge monster's body tilted forward, and on its sides, holes the size of bowls were distributed irregularly. At this moment, flaming balls were spewing out from all the holes diagonally upwards.
At first Miss White Wolf thought it was an ordinary fireball and thought her Originium skills could block it a little, but when she saw the first fireball fall to the ground and blast a hole in the rock, she began to feel her scalp tingling.
The explosive power of this thing doesn't seem to be very strong, but it is more than enough to deal with her small body. Being blown up is no joke.
Miss White Wolf hasn't been so miserable for a long time. The monster in front of her is like an armored vehicle loaded with infinite explosive incendiary bombs, just pouring out ammunition crazily.
As the passive party, she could only give up all her intentions to attack and try her best to avoid the aftermath of the explosion. At the same time, she thought with a smile that if someone took a camera to film it at this moment, it would definitely become excellent material for a monster movie, and she could compete for the Best Actress award with this.
Unlike the disheveled Miss White Wolf, on the dark side of the volcanic rock not far away, Hei was lying on the ground, squinting one eye, with her right hand lightly pressing the trigger of the fully opened heavy crossbow. The fire balls that were accidentally ejected to the nearby area exploded one after another, but she seemed not to see them and just focused on her aiming.
Under the effect of the Originium technique, black mist gradually lingered over the heavy crossbow. Her breathing slowed down and her eyes became more focused.
Press with your right index finger.
The black armor-piercing arrow broke away from the heavy crossbow and slammed into the weak area of the rock armor on the side of the Originium Worm in a highly rotating posture like lightning.
There was a loud bang.
Miss White Wolf saw the giant Originium worm's body suddenly pause, and the fiery red crystal pieces flew off where it was hit, revealing a lava-like red core. It didn't look like it was hit by an arrow at all, it would be more appropriate to say that it was knocked down by an armor-piercing bullet.
On the ledge, Hei half-knelt on the ground, quickly reeled in the bowstring, and took aim for the second time. However, the injured monster was aroused to its ferocity, and after another deafening roar of fire, a sky full of fireballs smashed towards him recklessly.
Hei's second arrow was interfered by the fireball and only hit the monster's side stone armor before falling to the ground. She had no chance to shoot a third time. Under the enemy's crazy attack, the only good strategy was to get up and dodge.
Hei's evasive action was very smooth, but Miss White Wolf on the other side was not so lucky. After seeing that Hei's attack was effective, she moved forward, ready to make the final move at any time, so when the monster attacked madly, she had no chance to distance herself.
There was no shelter to hide near the monster, so the White Wolf could only risk being injured by the fireball. He gritted his teeth and rushed back to the monster.
She blocked with her sword, and several fireballs that were about to hit her body were chopped into pieces in advance, exploding in the air. The flames flowing with molten lava dripped onto her legs, leaving deep red scars.
If it weren't for the protection of Originium Technique, these lava dripping on my body would not only leave scars.
Fortunately, the monster did not go crazy enough to attack itself, and the white wolf successfully escaped to the monster's side and got a moment to breathe.
Chapter 2022: Using Magic to Defeat Magic 12-25-12 00:02:
The so-called moment of respite is really just a moment.
Obviously, the monster had clearly captured the trail of the white wolf. It stopped its long-range attack, and the downward-slanting air vents on both sides opened, spewing out white high-temperature steam.
Miss White Wolf knew how powerful the steam was, but there was nowhere to hide nearby, so she could only leap up, climb onto the huge stone spikes on the monster's body, and jump onto the monster's back in a few jumps.
The monster's body was shaking, as if it was a cruise ship in a storm. The white wolf kept jumping on its back, changing positions to maintain balance.
At this moment, another armor-piercing arrow whizzed over, followed by a loud bang. White Wolf felt the body of the monster she was standing on shook. She looked down to see the wound caused by the armor-piercing arrow.
Wherever the armor-piercing arrow touched, the rock armor was completely shattered, and it could be concluded that the monster was definitely injured, but unfortunately, the monster was too huge, and even though Miss Hei's heavy crossbow was of an outrageous size, it could only hurt the surface area.
After shooting again, Hei also realized this problem. Her weapon was originally designed to fight against humans, so it was normal that it was ineffective against the monster in front of her. There should be no one in this world who always carries weapons specifically for fighting giant monsters when going out.
The problem is not just that the armor-piercing arrows are weak, she also didn't bring too many arrows this time. She can only retreat early today and come back next time when she is fully prepared.
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