A field of blood orchids bloomed under the dense forest.
The soldiers cried and ran towards the flower field.
"Found it… it's blood orchid!"
"Truly, it's really blood orchid."
"We can go home, leave this damn place."
However, reality is always a fragile thing.
The atmosphere around them suddenly quieted, then countless fist-sized Chela Bees flew down from the trees.
The Guardians of this flower field were the Chela Bees here.
The population of these Chela Bees was very large, almost occupying one-tenth of the Amazon Rainforest.
It was they who spread the pollen of the blood orchid outwards, constantly changing the surrounding ecosystem.
Information about the Chela Bees appeared in Lin Fan's God's Eye.
Parasitic Chela Bee: A parasitic bee species with venomous stingers that can lay eggs inside the enemy's body and hatch rapidly through the organism, but these inferior swarms will not survive for more than a few minutes. Extremely afraid of Fire.
More than a dozen Marine Corps soldiers were all hit, their bodies covered in venomous stingers, then swelling appeared in those places, and many small things were hatching under their skin!
As the swelling of their bodies grew larger and larger, these soldiers' bodies swelled like balloons to their limit, and then burst with a bang.
But there was no blood splattering, but hundreds of thousands of inferior Chela Bees, their piercing wing beats creating low pressure, making the surrounding air incredibly oppressive.
The remaining few soldiers tried to flee back, but they were enveloped by those inferior Chela Bees, leaving only screams inside, and then no bones remained.
These inferior Chela Bees were the soldiers of the Parasitic Chela Bee; they created combat power in this way, protecting the flower field, no matter how many enemies came, they would become flower fertilizer in the ebb and flow.
Colonel Tuode's spirit collapsed; all the soldiers he had carefully selected were buried in this mission. He didn't know how much effort he had spent cultivating these elites, who were so fragile and vulnerable in this Blood Orchid Ecosystem.
Now, in the river channel behind them were large groups of giant Electric Eels, and in front of them were thousands of venomous stinger Chela Bees.
No way to heaven, no door to Hell.
"This isn't a battlefield, this is Hell." Colonel Tuode had experienced over a hundred battles, large and small, in his life, but he had never fought so frustratingly, so utterly without the power to retaliate, as he did this time. "They're all dead… dead…"
Lin Fan picked up the Gauss Rifle Tuode had dropped on the ground and re-modified it with his own Gauss Rifle.
Lin Fan had now transformed from a new recruit into a veteran; his merits would accumulate with his command of the battlefield situation and his individual combat performance, and the veteran rank unlocked a new type of technological equipment: the Hellfire Thrower.
Manufacturing Technology: Hellfire Thrower.
Iron Ore Required: 100 kg.
Introduction: In the vast Universe, many unknown creatures exist. In the early colonial era, humanity faced an insectoid civilization that parasitized, infected, and reproduced at high speed. Therefore, after several top Engineers worked together, a large-range, long-distance thrower was born, helping humanity get through those difficult years. The Hellfire Thrower has a maximum range of 50 meters, and its extremely compressed solid fuel is sufficient for five minutes of use.
Lethality: Tier 2.
Lin Fan picked up the Hellfire Thrower, and flames of nearly a thousand degrees Celsius crashed into the inferior Chela Bees.
Countless screaming inferior Chela Bees fell, emitting black smoke, or directly turning into ash.
Lin Fan even ignited the trees, destroying the Parasitic Chela Bee's hive, but the blood orchid also spread with the flames.
Gwen and Jessica immediately collected Blood Orchids; as long as they obtained three or more blood orchid samples, the mission would be considered successful, and Osborn Company would dispatch a special rescue team to meet them.
Colonel Tuode lost his mind, knelt before the sea of Fire, then got up and ran frantically into the sea of Fire.
Gwen was half a step too late and couldn't hold Colonel Tuode back; by the time she reacted, Colonel Tuode had already become a Pyro.
The only surviving soldier of this mission: Lin Fan.
And because Colonel Tuode committed suicide, Lin Fan inherited Colonel Tuode's Marine Corps Base, with 0 existing soldiers.
Each Marine Corps Base has its own arrangement, so if there are still survivors within the Base, regardless of rank, succession is by seniority.
Gwen then verified the number of blood orchid samples with Jessica and sent a signal to Osborn Company's satellite via a special transmitter.
Half an hour later.
A civilian transport helicopter, modified from an apache transport helicopter, landed at the coordinates.
Osborn Company's private armed forces arrived at the rescue site.
Lin Fan, Gwen, and Jessica boarded the helicopter, leaving there and returning to New York.
At the same time, the Overlord had arrived at the Mississippi River bank and began deploying Zerg forces.
100 Splitters.
10 Worker Bees.
The Splitters began a destructive encirclement and suppression of the surrounding organisms.
As Zerg, Splitters are first and foremost immune to any toxins, unless the quality of the toxin exceeds their immune System, otherwise it will be homogenized.
Red Centipede, Jungle Giant Scorpion, and Titan Longhorn Beetle became the primary destruction targets of the Splitters.
These highly venomous insects, which were fatal to humans, were powerless against the Splitters, and were quickly killed by the Splitters.
Although the biomass content was relatively low, the sheer numbers were also very high; the Splitters directly found the nests where these venomous insects gathered and ruthlessly smashed their way in to tear and devour.
By the time Lin Fan returned to Manhattan, the number of Splitters here had already increased to several thousand, enough to escort the incubation of his second Initial Zerg Base.