Chapter 462: Hunting
In the siege formation of the Black Tide, the tower level is generally located in the second echelon, and in the process of the first echelon of the hunting level storming the city wall, the players who are defending the city wall are suppressed by throwing skills.
As a result, the tower at the end of the Kuroshio will undoubtedly become particularly conspicuous.
"At 12 o'clock, three thousand meters away, there is a lone tower level, which is a little suspicious." Cheng Yanqiu said with a tactical binocular.
"Well, I've found out too, but if there's a 'king-level' parasite there, it should be guarded by more than one tower." Qi Lin was a little puzzled, the first 'king-level' parasite that he sniped out before was as many as four tower-level guards guarding it, and the number of guards at the second 'king-level' should be about the same.
"Wait...... There is something wrong with the iron tower level...... "Qi Lin suddenly found that two of the arms of the iron tower level were dragging the arms of a female parasite, the female parasite hung her head, her long dirty hair was scattered to the ground, and her hips were on the body of the tower-level parasite-Originally, Qi Lin thought that this female parasite was part of the iron tower level, but after a closer look, he found that the bodies of the two were actually separate.
Connecting the female parasite to the tower was a thick tube resembling an elephant's reproductive organs, which pierced deep between the female parasite's legs, and the female parasite's abdomen gradually bulged as the tube pulsated.
This is...... The mating behavior of parasites?!
Qi Lin was momentarily stunned, because according to Qi Lin's understanding, coupled with the intelligence collected by the alliance, although parasitic worms will use human bodies as a breeding ground for hatching parasitic worm eggs, each parasitic worm is male and female - that is, parasitic worms do not need to mate with another individual to reproduce new offspring.
In the human bodies of those who were parasitized, the original reproductive organs were also gone, and they were alienated into cells similar to beehives, which provided a place for the development of the eggs excreted by the parasitic worms.
Why exactly...... Why would this tower-level parasite do this behavior that is very similar to human mating?
Just when Qi Lin felt puzzled, the abdomen of the female parasite finally swelled to the limit, and exploded with a "bang", and white eggs mixed with a large amount of viscous liquid squirted out from the broken abdominal cavity.
After pulling out the meat tube, the tower class grabbed the body of the female parasite and threw it aside, at which point, a group of ordinary parasites carried over more than a dozen human corpses that had just died, and placed them next to the pool of eggs.
As if sensing the lure of these fresh corpses, the eggs that erupted from the abdomen of the female parasite from before quickly hatched into white and fat larvae, and then squirmed their bodies and burrowed through the nostrils of these corpses.
The dozen or so corpses quickly stood up from the ground, but Qi Lin found that some parts of the bodies of these newborn parasites had actually dissolved, and the skin and flesh had turned into disgusting pus, exposing the internal organs and bones inside.
Immediately after, the dozen or so newborn parasites hugged and entangled...... It didn't take long for them to become a new "tower-class" parasite.
"That's how the 'Tower-class' parasite was born?" Qi Lin understood that the female parasite before was just a common ordinary-level parasite, but this tower-level tower-level iron tower injected some substances with special genes into the chamber used by the ordinary-level parasite to cultivate insect eggs through that meat tube, causing these eggs to mutate.
And the alien parasitic worms hatched from these eggs can form a new "tower-level" parasite.
Although this scene surprised Qi Lin very much, it showed that this tower-level parasite was not the target they were looking for.
Casually entering the detailed information about the reproduction of the "iron tower-level" parasites into their personal brains, Qi Lin and Cheng Yanqiu continued to search through the telescope among the dense groups of parasites.
Now more than half an hour had passed since the counter-charge troops and decoy forces had been wiped out, and only a small part of the corpses had been cleared under the walls, and the clean-up troops had to retreat back into the walls again, and the Kuroshio had once again forced under the feet of the walls of Herrens.
But the only thing to be thankful for is that after several rounds of high-intensity attack and defense and the baptism of artillery fire, most of the alien species in this second wave of the Black Tide have been killed, although there are still hundreds of thousands of parasites, but more than ninety-nine percent of them are ordinary parasites, for the players defending on the city wall, as long as the city wall has not been filled by corpses, then these ordinary parasites are just a walking target.
Although, these targets are really durable.
The supply of ammunition has always been a big problem - several front-line ammunition depots under the city walls have long been emptied, and the logistics troops have simply piled up boxes of ammunition from Herrens Town in the open space behind the city walls, but this batch of ammunition is also running out and is about to run out.
The bullet casings on the city walls were already several inches thick, and in addition to the large number of bullet casings, there were also barrels that had been scrapped due to overheating.
In the old era, there was a very famous war term, called "Van Vliet ammunition", that was in the Korean War in 1951, when the United States army attacked the 983 heights occupied by the Chinese Volunteers, it consumed 360,000 rounds of artillery shells in only nine days, with an average of 350 rounds per gun per day, which has completely surpassed the highest level during World War II——,. Van Vliet ammunition volume".
And now, the amount of ammunition consumed by the Herrens Line, calculated in terms of unit time alone, I don't know how many times more than the "Van Vliet ammunition volume".
The weakness of the parasite is only the head and spine, and ordinary soldiers can only rely on luck to accurately hit these two parts, coupled with the rough skin and thick flesh of the parasite, even if they can hit, with the firepower and penetration of conventional light weapons in the old era, it is difficult to penetrate the muscles of the parasite's skin.
This leads to the problem of the average number of ammo consumed for every normal-class parasite killed.
Hunt and Tower require more.