Chapter 296: Spiritual Perception

You did not encounter any danger in his exploration deep underground. The sandworms seemed to only come occasionally, and there were not many other traces found in the tunnels they dug.

"Go in that direction, that's the direction of the underground tunnel. Let's go there to confirm it." The pulled out You pointed to a certain direction to provide guidance for the team.

"Okay! Let's go."

"Drive slowly." You reminded.

Sitting in the car again, Hu looked at the half bone blade fragment found by You curiously in his hand.

The white bone blade looked a little dark after leaving the main body, and even became a lot more brittle. With a little force, it seemed that it could be broken.

"Living bone armor..." Hu shook his head, "How can there be such a perverted race in the world."

The car moved slowly forward, and Song Ying soon discovered the existence of the underground tunnel again.

"Over there."

"Okay."

Following the same method, You went down alone again.

One or two explorations cannot confirm the true activity direction of the sandworms. Even if the underground activity tunnel collapses, it can be followed to a certain extent to confirm where the sandworms went.

"It's so chaotic..."

"It seems that there is more than one sandworm... Let it go longer."

"Yeah~ There are indeed more than one, at least three... four."

After reaching the ground and taking a deep breath, You pointed in a direction again, "Over there."

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"Over there."

...

"Over there."

The insects' movements are irregular.

Every time You went down the tunnel, he adjusted the direction for everyone.

The passages that the insects occasionally dug out on the ground were the core information source for them to be tracked down.

Bai'e has been watching the excitement. These teammates have been training for much longer than him, and they are much better than him in some professional abilities.

And he also has the ability to penetrate the enemy's interior, such as the "insect nest will". Even if there are insects ambushing underground, he will most likely be able to discover them in advance.

It is equivalent to a human-shaped early warning device, protecting You's personal safety.

But this tracking efficiency is definitely not efficient. Occasionally, when encountering a long distance, the sandworms did not leave the ground and drill upwards, and You would doubt his judgment.

Occasionally correct, occasionally continue to move forward, go back and forth, and move forward little by little.

Before understanding the responsibilities and general characteristics of this new type of Zerg, no one knew what the purpose of these sandworms' usual actions was.

Maybe they were just hunting? Maybe they were exploring the underground world belonging to the worms? Who knows.

Fortunately, the direction of the tracking was not towards the direction of the worm nest, otherwise it would be uncertain whether to continue tracking this clue.

As time passed, the light gradually became dim.

The carrier stopped quietly on the ground. The vision was too poor at night, so everyone did not plan to continue tracking.

"These sandworms seem to have the concept of 'organization' just like us." You summarized his own guess based on the actual findings at hand, "There may be occasional independent actions in the activities in an area, but their general direction of action is the same. And the sandworm squad we are tracking seems to be at least eight."

Bai Er sat in the back row and put forward his own opinion, "Maybe it's not because of the 'organization', but their 'insect nest will'?"

Bai Er, who has the "insect nest will" himself, feels that in this regard, he may understand it more deeply than anyone else.

The bugs seem to be extremely powerful, but in the last battle on the Zerg battlefield, Bai Er also discovered a weakness of theirs that is not a weakness.

The existence of the hive will allows the bugs on a battlefield to follow the command of those node bugs and mobilize at any time. However, if the management of the hive will is lost, the intelligence of the bugs themselves is quite low.

The bloodthirsty instinct can even make them attack regardless of friend or foe. Once they are released beyond the range that the hive will can manage, those low-IQ bugs that act only on instinct will probably kill themselves in no time.

Are sandworms highly intelligent or low-intelligence bugs?

There was no conclusion originally, but from the last encounter and the conclusion observed by You this time, there is probably only one reason why these things appear in groups-they need a core brain.

Node bugs that can bear the command ability of the hive will center are rare even in the Zerg. Each group of sandworms that go out needs a node bug to follow the command to ensure that they will not completely escape the control of the hive after being released.

The last time I saw the subtitles of the sandworm's explosion rate, it can also support this speculation from another perspective. The experience of this thing is only higher than that of ordinary bee worms, far less than that of the node worms like mantis worms, which can be called team commanders, and this is the premise that they are larger.

It's not that they don't want to, but they are not allowed to act alone.

This is of course good news for humans. If each of these elusive sandworms that move underground has its own wisdom and can fight in a dispersed manner, it will be difficult for humans to deal with their attacks.

But if they are just low-intelligence existences like bee worms and worker worms, then they must act in groups under the control of node worms, and they will lose their greatest advantages - concealment and suddenness.

"Xiaobai said more fundamentally."

Insects do not have messy issues such as human management, status or even worldliness. Everything is done for the most basic efficiency. They have no reason to restrict their actions for unnecessary "orders".

Hu took a pen and paper and took note of it. These personal speculations can also be handed in.

The intuition of the frontline soldiers is sometimes more accurate than the calm thinking of the think tanks at the rear.

"So the sandworms themselves are not node creatures, but they are accompanied by another more powerful node creature?"

"Is it a mantis?"

"I'm afraid not." Song Ying shook his head.

The scene of having a mantis following you while traveling rapidly underground is too low, and whether you can keep up is a question.

“Perhaps our goals need to be a little broader.”

Listening to the chatter of his teammates, Bai E said nothing, but his eyes were a little lost in looking at the underground tunnel entrance left by the sandworm not far away.

‘The node creature of the sandworm...have you seen it last time? ’

Like a slideshow, scenes from the last time he piloted the Sea of ​​Insects appeared in Bai E's mind.

Even though the situation was tense at that time and Bai E's attention was focused on avoiding it, the images that had been captured by his eyes would never disappear. They were just buried in the deepest part of his memory and generally would not be excavated.

After possessing psychic powers, Bai E found that his memory management ability had become much stronger.

When you think about something, those memories will pass through your mind one by one as if it happened live.

So every sandworm that I saw rushing out of the earth was filtered through my mind one by one.

Bai E tried to recall whether there was a different one among them, one that was obviously different from the other sandworms.

'No……'

'No……'

'No……'

When Bai E's eyes were misty, free spiritual energy escaped from the periphery of his brain.

As if there was a brief entanglement with the echoes of time and space left in the air, just for a moment, a vague and flashing dark picture flashed in my mind.

ferocious……

huge……

Bai E didn't even have time to remember more details of the brief scene, only these two keywords slowly echoed in his mind.

"noob?"

"noob?"

A gentle call came to his ears, and the mountains shook Bai E's body.

"Ah?" Bai E blinked and came back to his senses, and found that his teammates were all looking at him with concern.

"What’s wrong with you?"

"It's okay..." Bai E smiled cheerfully, thinking of Yueying's words——

"Spiritual sense..."

The spirit can communicate with all things, and its extremely focused thinking that is closely related to its own destiny will occasionally connect with time and space or the memory fragments of other living beings to obtain information that it has never seen before.

Of course, it has occasionally been proven that so-called "spiritual awareness" is closely related to the "unholy whispers" of higher-dimensional space.

There is no final conclusion for this completely untechnical thing, and what you see will completely vary from person to person.

Bai E shook his head, trying to recall the blurry scene he saw at that moment, but found that it seemed to have disappeared into a dream after waking up in the morning, and he could no longer recall any of it.

Only that feeling surrounds my heart.

Spiritual awareness...

Spiritual awareness...

Spiritual awareness!

With a thump in his heart, Bai E suddenly remembered the dizzy spell he had felt not long after he was sitting in the car during the day.

At the time, it felt like something was broken... Now that I think about it, could it be that my spiritual sense was calling the police?

Bai E glanced around, his eyes full of doubts making his teammates feel a little strange.

"What are you looking at, Xiaobai?"