Chapter Twenty-Three: The Second Altar

In a hidden glade in a huge wetland, the dirt on the ground suddenly exploded with a bang, and a monster with a hideous face dressed in a black carapace rushed out from under the ground with a man.

"Have you arrived?" The man jumped off the monster's back and gently pulled the hood off his head, revealing a very young face.

This person was none other than Xue Hua, who had dug all the way from under the first altar.

He borrowed one of the pit worm networks that had just begun to be laid here, and burrowed into the protective ring of the second altar before the demon legions strengthened their vigilance to the point where they could not invade.

"Juggernaut, our King Bugs have detected a large number of hostile creature psionic signals approaching your location, please avoid them or let the swarm destroy them."

"I see, since it's not far away, let's keep walking!"

Xue Hua nodded, jumped on the cockroach's back again, and after covering up the traces of the tunnel a little, he quickly disappeared among the dense rainforest bushes.

Less than half a minute after he left, a group of about five hundred sheep-headed demons also came to the clearing.

The leading sheep-headed demon suddenly stopped and continued to move forward, and in the middle of the open space of the aisle, he stretched out his head and sniffed around, as if he had smelled something but was not very sure.

After a long time, the sheep-headed demon shook his head, roared at his companions behind him, and continued to lead them towards the rainforest.

What they didn't know was that not far in front of them, Xue Hua had already found the location of the second altar.

It was a waterhole filled with strange frog chirps, and the waterhole was surrounded by all kinds of frog creatures of all sizes, like the spiders in the Spider Forest.

There are both giant frog demons and ordinary animal frogs.

In the middle of the waterhole, there is a small island ten meters square, which is connected to the shore by a wooden promenade, and on the island stands a stone pillar on which a small jade frog is placed.

A large number of dwarf wizards are throwing cloth bags containing baby corpses into the waters around the island, and some dwarf wizards are dancing eerie dances around the stone platform where jade frogs are kept.

As more and more baby corpses were thrown into the pool, Xue Hua could clearly feel a strange force slowly waking up in the pool.

It was ancient and powerful, but there was a hint of evil spirituality in it.

Apparently the plans of the Evil Pact are working, and these sleeping primordial spirits have begun to awaken and taint themselves with the breath of hell.

Seeing that things were rapidly developing in a bad direction, Xue Hua did not hesitate, and directly opened the dimensional cave by his side and released the swarm in the Leviathan.

In the sky, the two node king insects worked together, and the invisible ripples instantly enveloped the entire waterhole.

However, there was a demon patrol behind Xue Hua who was quickly coming, and he didn't dare to guarantee how long the transmission of blocked information could be delayed.

Therefore, what is necessary now is a quick solution, without even a moment's delay.

The sheep-headed demons guarding the altar soon spotted the swarm of insects coming towards them from the jungle, and the demon clones met them with axes in their hands.

Due to the increased security, there are many more demon guards in this waterhole than in the previous spider caves, and there are at least a thousand or so sheep-headed demons facing the swarm alone.

These sheep-headed demons are clones, and they have no problem fighting with the current strength of the swarm, but it will be a bit difficult to break through their encirclement and interception to stop the sacrificial ritual on the island within a few minutes.

And Xue Hua can't use the air force now, which is undoubtedly sending an invasion signal to all the demon patrols around him.

The cockroaches couldn't jump that far, and the water in the waterhole blocked the possibility of the swarm quickly interspersing and breaking through.

Of course, it is possible to destroy the island with saboteur shelling, but the jade frog cannot be destroyed at all.

These jade statues are like the personal mana markers of the legendary powerhouses of mankind, and they will not be easily destroyed unless the deity is dead.

And if he didn't take away the jade frog, Xue Hua's trip would be equivalent to doing day work.

Even if the altar on the island is destroyed, when those evil covenanters come, all they need to do is fish out of the waterhole and the jade frog is a big deal, and the ritual will be held again.

However, if this problem is placed before the great evolution of the nest group, it will be difficult for Xue Hua to survive, but now it is no longer qualified to make him helpless.

I saw that the dimensional door behind Xue Hua opened, and more than a dozen monsters carrying a huge conch-like shell crawled out of it.

This is another new unit that has evolved from the biter - the Projector.

They are able to suck a unit into the shell-like ejector chamber behind them and eject it directly to a designated location (see Red Alert 3, Soviet Bullfrog Vehicle), and the projected unit will be safely grounded by the cushioning of hollow sporangia and quickly put into tactical action.

With this thing, Xue Hua was able to make the swarm cross the barrier of the pool and land directly on the island, destroying the altar and seizing the jade frog statue.

The projectors were soon lined up at the edge of the pool under the protection of the swarm, and dozens of jumping insects and cockroaches were first sucked into it by the huge snail shells on their backs.

Then, with a neat roar from the projectors, dozens of sporangia erupted from the massive snail shells on their backs.

The sporangia crossed the pool from a low altitude and crashed directly into the island in the pool, and several dwarf wizards who couldn't dodge were instantly smashed into the pool by the sporangia.

The moment it hit the ground, the epidermis of the sporangia exploded with a thud, and the jumping insects and cockroaches in it rushed out without hesitation, quickly knocking the unprepared dwarf wizards to the ground.

After killing all the dwarf wizards on the island, a cockroach walked to the stone platform, took the jade frog from its mouth, and then rushed from the wooden corridor to the direction of the swarm under the protection of the jumping worms and other cockroaches.

Xue Hua immediately sent a group of cockroaches to meet them, and arranged for a new unit, the "Spear Hunter", to clear a way for them with super firepower along with the stinging snakes.

The raid team successfully converged with the main force of the swarm under the cover of a large number of swarm units, and Xue Hua also successfully obtained the jade frog from the cockroach's mouth.

After getting this most important thing, Xue Hua didn't want to stay here for a moment.

Isha had already begun to warn him that the surrounding demon patrols had sensed that something was wrong, and they were rapidly closing here, if they didn't leave at this time, they would wait for a breakout battle!

So he immediately arranged for the swarm to start withdrawing in batches, and left the altar through the tunnel dug by the cockroaches without even bothering to clean up the battlefield.

Less than five minutes after Xue Hua left safely, the two evil deed holders who presided over the sacrificial work surrounded the waterhole from all sides with a large number of demonic clones.

However, when they saw the empty stone platforms and the holes in the ground on the shore, they understood the secret of their opponents' ability to avoid their encirclement nets all the time.

"Damn! This guy can actually make holes! ”

A deed-deed person scolded.

The other Evil Pact also issued an order to the surrounding demons with an ugly face.

"Order the three remaining altars to keep them out of the way of underground units!

Also, hurry up and gather reinforcements for me, and I must not let him succeed! ”