Chapter 357: Chapter 132: Is the Nest Empty?
White Hair finally managed to snatch Mu Fan’s food, but he spat it out after just two bites.
It was too dry!
He hadn’t finished one piece; it felt like his throat was being scratched if he didn’t drink water.
His eyes turned to Mu Fan again, looking at the bulging backpack filled with compressed biscuits, making White Hair’s cheeks twitch.
This freak!
“The next few days are going to be tough…” White Hair whispered.
“Hmm.” Mu Fan, after finishing his water, tore open another pack of compressed biscuits and stuffed them into his mouth, mumbling indistinctly.
White Hair decided he didn’t want to talk to this glutton anymore.
The next morning called for an urgent assembly!
Lin Hao directly ordered everyone to gather early, dividing them into 25 small teams for simultaneous exploration.
Accompanying soldiers drove the “Heavy Hammer” Siege Tanks, leading the way.
All team leaders drove standard military Mechas, clearing the way.
Watching the imposing movement of the heavy tanks, their flat muzzles switched to siege mode and fired two rounds, blasting a clearing of thousands of square meters!
However, up to where Mu Fan and his group’s Spider Car stopped yesterday, not a single Zeg was spotted.
How could this be?
There shouldn’t be an absence of Zeg entirely.
Luo Jianjin, the person in charge of this large troop, frowned and looked around, sending out four Mechas for rapid forest movement.
Five minutes later, the message from the Mechas was that there were no traces of Zeg up to the indicated shale entrance!
Not even a single Zeg corpse was on the ground.
The main force then advanced to the vicinity of the shale, with Mu Fan and others walking to the entrance, waiting for further instructions.
However, along the way, Mu Fan checked the shady sides of the air-root plants several times, and this time, he found no remnants of Insect Moss.
“Formation expand, Heavy Hammer switch to siege mode!”
The 25 teams dispersed around, the stunning AA5 model “Heavy Hammer” tank extended its mechanical arms into the ground on both sides, its double barrels retracted, forming a flat 130mm Plasma Shock Cannon, with the steel muzzle angled at 45 degrees toward the sky.
Once everything was ready, Luo Jianjin, taking no chances, called over a team of engineers.
“Deploy the scouting robot.”
A nearby soldier nodded and placed a small Mechanical Spider at the entrance, which quickly became active and rapidly crawled into the exposed shale entrance.
Luo Jianjin, holding a tactical tablet, gestured for Mu Fan to come over and handed him another tablet.
Mu Fan, startled, stared at the tactical tablet, which showed the first-person view from the Mechanical Spider. Familiar tunnels reappeared on the screen.
But… the Insect Moss was gone?!
Seeing Mu Fan frown, Luo Jianjin asked, “Is there a problem?”
“Hmm.” Mu Fan nodded, pointing to the revealed rock walls on the tablet, “Those reddish-brown special mosses are gone.”
He couldn’t directly mention “Insect Moss,” otherwise it would surely draw the military’s attention.
Luo Jianjin, looking at the tablet, confirmed Mu Fan’s observation.
Mu Fan had mentioned before that he discovered the Zeg’s lair by accidentally touching the flesh moss left on the shady side of air roots.
Now, these flesh mosses had completely vanished, leading Luo Jianjin to a faint conjecture.
Yet Mu Fan had already concluded in his mind that the Zeg in this nest must have relocated!
Because the disappearance of this Insect Moss was just too clean!
“A fork in the road ahead,” reported the engineer to Luo Jianjin.
And the bearded man looked at Mu Fan.
“Turn left.” Mu Fan pointed out the direction for further infiltration.
The Mechanical Spider deftly changed direction, continuing along the path they had travelled.
Familiar scenes unfolded until, finally, when the screen turned again, the empty underground nest finally appeared!
Mu Fan’s heart raced with excitement, “Yes, this is the place, now remembering the thick swarm of Zeg sends a chill down my spine.”
“Have we arrived?”
“Last time we went in, those Zeg were below this platform.”
“Go down.” Luo Jianjin gestured, and the engineer, understanding, quickly manipulated the Mechanical Spider forward.
The screen suddenly flipped over and was adjusted in a moment, likely due to the Mechanical Spider hanging beneath the platform, adjusting the camera angle.
Below … utterly empty!
“How come there is nothing?”
Mu Fan and White Hair looked at each other and both shook their heads.
Suddenly, an engineer pointed at a spot on the screen, “Commander, look!”
After enlarging the image three times, they finally spotted a puddle of scattered blood and flesh at the end of a pit shaped like a flattened stomach.
“Mu Fan… this is a giant incubation egg,” Black’s voice suddenly came through, having been monitoring the synchronized footage all along. As the image appeared, Black finally spoke up.
“The scattered egg membrane flaps are over six meters in length. Considering the decay values without the nutrient supply from the Fungus Blanket, the original height of this giant incubation egg should be around eight meters. According to the records, the egg hatched less than 24 hours ago, and the Zeg that emerged could be one of the following—”
“Rhino Worm, Lord, Swallower, Corruptor, Plasma Worm larva! Any of these… I believe you wouldn’t want to encounter.”
Black’s words once again revealed astonishing information.
Having secretly studied up on Zeg Clan information via his handheld tablet, Mu Fan had seen the appearances of these five Zeg types.
Merely viewing the three-dimensional images was enough to feel the horror of these Zegs.
Among the information provided by Black, these Zegs were absolutely high-tier beings in the Zeg Clan.
The mere presence of any individual could influence a battle scenario.
And now, Black was telling him that such terrifying creatures existed here.
Mu Fan’s heart raced, his eyes occasionally flashing a shallow black aura.
The bloodlust rose among the cold, and Mu Fan forcefully shook his head, finally dispelling the unfathomable aura.
“Mu Fan, Mu Fan?”
It took Luo Jianjin calling out twice before the young man’s eyes snapped back to focus.
Apart from Luo Jianjin, who originated from the Special Combat Team, there were two other military advisors present. They also furrowed their brows at the sight of such a massive egg, as there was no record of such a large egg in the military database.
Moreover, according to their database, the Zeg Clan should also have species called Brain Worm and Cliff Worm, as well as a potential flying creature, but none other.
These insects shouldn’t have had such enormous size.
“Commander, the ultrasonic detection is complete, and a three-dimensional map of the tunnel has appeared.”
Pressing an icon, a half-section of an underground tunnel was displayed.
“How come it’s only half?”
“There is an obstacle blocking it; about ten meters deep from the recent fork to the right, we encountered an obstacle, possibly cut off by the Zeg.”
The engineer quickly had the Mechanical Spider crawl over, and indeed, a massive rock had completely sealed it off.
The detection wave couldn’t penetrate this obstacle, indicating that its thickness was over ten meters.
“All right, come back.”
Luo Jianjin waved his hand, issuing the command to retract the detection.
The Mechanical Spider hastily returned to the surface and was packed up.
Everyone looked toward Luo Jianjin, awaiting his command.
Zhang Shaotang, Xize, Joe Bollen, Gao Baiyun, Shi Sen, these elite student representatives all watched Luo Jianjin intently.
His command would determine their fate.
The bearded man’s usually straightforward demeanor vanished, and after a moment’s thought, his finger pointed toward their front, his gaze seeming to pass beyond the rocky slope.
“Deploy the Warfire All-Terrain Detection Vehicle! Troops—advance forward!”
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