Devil moth.
One of the deadly and high-risk alien species in the wasteland.
Although its single combat power is not strong, a gnawer may be able to fight it to a standstill, but if it is ranked according to the degree of danger, I am afraid that even the crawler will have to admit defeat.
Danger factor, at least B level or above!
This creature usually appears in groups. Its larvae feed on spirit leaves, and the adults are omnivorous and mainly meat.
The larvae have no combat ability, but the mouthparts of the adults are extremely sharp and have a strong bite force!
It is said that the strongest devil moth queen in the group can even tear steel. And ordinary devil moths can bite through several bulletproof vests.
Of course, not every nest of devil moths can give birth to a devil moth queen, just like not all crack claw crabs have their queens.
But even so, it is dangerous enough.
What is more interesting is that although this kind of alien species is a pest, it is not completely useless.
For example, the larvae of the devil moth will secrete a kind of silk thread called "devil silk" to make cocoons.
It is said that the strength of this devil silk is very high, even exceeding some high molecular biopolymers, and its material is light, so it is usually used to make high-performance armor. This material is not only popular among wastelanders such as mercenaries and caravan guards, but also very popular among the upper class of Boulder City.
However, this kind of alien species is not common, and its demand for living environment is even more demanding than that of mutant leeches.
First of all, it needs enough light and heat, and secondly, their larvae need to feed on spirit leaves, otherwise the tribe cannot reproduce at all.
As for spirit leaves, it is said that they can be used to make a mildly addictive stimulant. If it is simply brewed into tea, it also has a refreshing effect far better than ordinary coffee and tea.
Why does a thing like spirit leaves appear in an abandoned greenhouse site?
This is what Chu Guang can't figure out the most.
According to the description of [Makabazi] on the forum, they encountered quite a few devil moths in the greenhouse...
Makabazi: "Fuck! You can't imagine how unlucky I am! My friend Bianjie and I were planning to go to the ruins of the greenhouse to see if there were any good things that could be recycled, but as soon as we entered, we were attacked by moths!"
Ye Shi: "It's okay to poke your face into the bushes, but it always reminds me of someone. (Funny)"
Ya Ya: "Hahahaha! This person has died twice! Noob! Aloha! Hahaha! o(*≧▽≦)ツ"
Makabazi: "(#`Д′)!"
Fang Chang: "Don't worry about whether you are noob or not, how did you get in?"
Kuangfeng: "I am also curious about this question. If I remember correctly, the door outside the greenhouse is electrically switched? And it has been rusted. Lao Bai bent two steel pipes but couldn't pry them open, and it didn't move at all when he blew them with gunpowder. We all suspect that it was a game sticker."
Makabazi: "Brother Bian is a firefighter, and he is also a perception system. This guy walked around the tower-like greenhouse and kept whispering to me that there must be a fire escape to get in. I thought it made sense, so I searched with him for a while, and sure enough, we found a safety door in the warehouse!"
Fang Chang: "Safety door in the warehouse? I seem to have seen that, but it can't be opened, right?"
Kuangfeng: "Well, that thing is also electric."
Makabazi: "The magical part is here! We tried to pry it open and it really couldn't be opened, but we found a distribution box in the room. Brother Bian checked the distribution box and found that the switch inside was stuck and the fuse was burned. Brother Bian wanted to fix it, but he couldn't understand it at all. We scratched our heads for a while and thought of a stupid way. Unplug all the replaceable plug-ins in the box, and then find all the replaceable parts around to replace them."
"We didn't even think we could succeed, but after replacing a few things, I don't know if they were batteries or fuses, the light on the door magically turned on! Then we couldn't wait to open the security door and walked into the greenhouse... and then I bumped into the faces of those big moths!"
Edge paddling: "It's called the Devil Moth! I asked!"
Macabazi: "Hey, brother Edge is back? Are you okay?"
Edge paddling: "Hehehe, it's okay, VM is brought back, and my equipment is also saved. It's just that the injury is too serious, and it was repaired by teammates."
Crow Crow: "o(*≧▽≦)ツ"
Fang Chang: "I just saw that the official website has updated the information of the Devil Moth. It is said that the silk thread produced by the Devil Moth larvae is a textile material with excellent performance. The teeth of the Devil Moth can be used to make tools such as daggers and scissors, and the spirit leaves eaten by the larvae can be used to make stimulants."
WC really has mosquitoes: "Fuck! High-level equipment materials?! Isn't that a fortune?!"
Canyon Escaping Mole: "You have to live to spend your fortune. Look at Brother Ba and Brother Edge, one is a strength system and the other is a perception system, both of them are LV4, but they died directly, isn't that enough to explain the problem?"
Fang Chang: "Well, what surprised me most was that the LV4 perception system didn't have a search judgment. The concealment of the devil moth is probably higher than that of the creeper!"
Lao Bai: "This is indeed terrifying when you think about it carefully, and there are crops in that greenhouse? In other words... there is electricity in it?"
Fang Chang: "This possibility is very high. The power supply system of the gate and the cultivation system inside the greenhouse may be two completely different power supplies. Let's make a bold assumption. What is the most worrying safety issue of this highly integrated greenhouse?"
Lao Bai: "Power outage?"
Fang Chang: "That's right! Unlike traditional agriculture, once this kind of greenhouse loses power, it means that the ventilation system, water supply system, and lighting system are completely interrupted. It only takes a few hours for the crops to die in an unsuitable temperature, air, and light environment. So in addition to relying on the public power grid, this facility should also be equipped with an independent power supply. "
Kuangfeng: "Well, and the backup power supply for the internal facilities should not be the same as the external facilities."
Ye Shi: "What power supply can work for two hundred years? !"
Canyon Escape Mole: "Are you stupid? The pre-war era in the game background is already half a utopia, right? Controlled nuclear fusion is not basic operation? One kilogram of helium-3 can generate 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, and one hundred tons is enough for the world to burn for a year. What's the concept? Assuming that there is a one-ton fusion fuel rod inside, let alone two hundred years, I estimate that it will be no problem to use it until the next century. "
Kuangfeng: "Don't even need nuclear fusion, even the solid-state hydrogen batteries that often appear in science fiction works are enough for a long time. Since hydrogen itself is not active, as long as the battery structure is not damaged, the battery can theoretically be preserved for a long time. "
Ye Shi: "How is it possible? ! Even if it is controlled fusion, does the equipment not need maintenance?"
Canyon Runaway Mole: "So what else do you want? Do you want the game developer to build you a machine to verify it? Does EVE have to build you a star gate? Does JK Rowling have to cast a spell for you?"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Fang Chang quickly tried to smooth things over.
"Okay, okay, the setting of Night Ten Diamonds is too stubborn. Let's ignore it for now and tell me what you think."
Canyon Runaway Mole continued to type.
"It's very simple. I guess this should be considered a monster spawning point. The official website said that Devil Silk is a good thing, and there are also materials for Devil Moth, as well as those spirit leaves that can be used as stimulants. It is obviously a high-yield book. The problem now is how to spawn monsters safely. It is definitely not possible to charge head-on. Even the LV4 strength system brother can't stand it. I guess it will be difficult for others to go."
The players discussed it for a full 10 or 20 pages, and Chu Guang read it all the way to the end.
The group initially decided to try a fire attack, which happens to be able to restrain insect-type aliens, but the downside is that the loot will also be burned, and it is unlikely that there will be anything left.
Some people also mentioned putting air conditioning in.
But the building itself is durable enough, and it may not be so easy to demolish the greenhouse. In addition, if the facilities inside are still working and there is enough heat generated, it is hard to say how effective it will be to open a hole as big as a window.
Finally, after some discussion, a group of people decided to lead the devil moths out of the safe passage and then defeat them one by one outside.
When the number of devil moths in the nest is reduced, rush in and quickly plunder a wave and then retreat.
As for the mosquito...
He chose not to be a human, leaving a sentence that I am best at this job, and then logged off the official website early and went into the game.
Chu Guang didn't know what he was doing, but he didn't interfere with the players' gameplay. Now the active substance reserves in the outpost are sufficient, allowing them to be a little bit dead.
Devil's silk can not only be used as armor, but also as a specialty to be traded with other survivors' bases. It's so cool.
Especially as this group of players analyzed, there is a high probability that there is a recyclable controlled fusion battery hidden in this greenhouse.
If this is true, then it will be a real fortune!
...
The players have strong execution.
A team of cars was pulled on the official website. A group of people went online on time at 6 o'clock in the morning of the wasteland time, and surrounded the greenhouse ruins with a lot of guys.
It's too bad to shoot moths with a gun. When bullets are not luxurious enough to be fired at will, cold weapons with larger wounds and lower costs are better.
A group of people acted separately and quickly found the structural diagram of the greenhouse, and searched for some replaceable parts that had not been looted.
The round tube with the thickness of a thumb is probably some kind of solid fuel cell, which can power independent equipment such as gates and firefighting equipment. The round tube with the thickness of an index finger is probably some kind of fuse used in professional equipment. The specific material is unclear.
Not all settings in this game are exactly the same as in reality.
The Cow and Horse Squad did not participate in this operation. The commander of the operation was the book brother "Canyon Escape Mole" who had a high prestige in the forum.
When everyone heard that he was a painter who had lost his job and changed his career, they immediately invited him to the position of commander.
Brother Mole lived up to expectations and quickly formulated a battle plan.
"The entire greenhouse is divided into the above-ground part and the underground part. The above-ground part has only 5 floors and the underground part has 10 floors. According to unreliable analysis, the location of the 9th underground floor is probably connected to the paralyzed urban drainage system. I estimate that the devil moth came in from there, and the spirit leaf seeds are likely to be brought by them!"
"The 10th underground floor should be the location of the backup reactor! The devil moth may have turned it into a mother nest!"
"According to the description on the design drawing, there is an active closing valve connecting the first and second greenhouses."
"Strategically, we close the valve and cut off the connection between the first floor and other floors, so that the entire first floor is ours!"
[Construction Site Boy and Brick] nodded excitedly.
"What a good idea! Close the door and fight the dog! Go down layer by layer, and we will definitely reach the mother nest! Those devil silks and materials are in our pockets!"
[Elf King Fugui] excitedly cheered.
"Sell it to the rich woman Teng Teng!"
A strength player asked.
"The question is how to do it?"
[Canyon Fleeing Mole] tapped the map and drew a plug at the end of the passage with a charcoal pencil.
"Tactically, we need two tanks in the front, using concrete waste and wood as cover to block the devil moths outside the passage, and then two agility players follow behind and poke out from the gap with spears! These insects don't have much brains, they will just swarm over. If we cooperate better, there should be no problem!"
"Let's do it!"
The two strength players cooperated, with the temporary cover made by carpenters, and set up simple obstacles along the way in the safe passage leading to the greenhouse ruins.
These obstacles are mainly to facilitate their retreat so that they will not be surrounded by the devil moths that pounce on them.
When they were about to approach the exit of the passage, the two strength players threw the sacks of concrete fragments on the ground and used the wood sent in from behind to build temporary fortifications.
The interlaced wood was like layers of nets, supported by several main beams, locking the entire half-meter wide space tightly. It took two hours to complete this fortification.
These moths were as long as arms, and the small ones were half an arm long. There was no need to worry about them drilling through the holes left.
"Everyone get ready, I'm going to pull the monsters!"
As he said that, a strength player took out a Molotov cocktail from his waist, stretched it outside the bunker to light it, and threw it towards the open space in the greenhouse.
With a crisp sound, the bottle broke into pieces.
The flames jumped up with a sizzling sound, immediately attracting the devil moths lying on the wall around.
There was no flammable material around, and the fire did not burn for long and soon went out.
But then these aliens discovered the "dazzling" heat sources hidden behind the simple roadblock.
A tooth-grinding friction sound came.
Moths smashed over like bullets, hitting the wooden shelter hard, and knocking the arm-thick wooden sticks to squeak.
The two sides collided firmly!
"Damn! These moths are really strong!"
"Hurry up! I can't hold on anymore! Damn!"
"It's moving, it's moving! You guys bear it!"
The agile player squatting behind did not dare to hesitate, and immediately stabbed out the spear in his hand, retracted it, and stabbed it again, repeating the simple and primitive piston movement.
Although not every shot can accurately hit anything, but such random stabbing can always kill two unlucky guys.
The devil moth's advantage was not its defense. Its soft abdomen was like paper. When it was poked with a spear, the spear tip instantly became wet with blood and intestines of insects, as well as cilia from its wings.
"Is this going to end?!"
"Put more force!"
"Fuck! I'm trying harder, but there are too many!"
"I can't stand it anymore! Stop poking, come and help me."
However, the unlucky child was only halfway through his words when the wooden fortifications were like a dam that had burst, and were washed away by the tide of insects.
Even if the strength players tried to hold on, the bunkers could not hold on.
The wood was bitten to pieces.
Soon the bones and flesh were also broken.
Before the four little players even turned around, the connection with the clones was instantly disconnected, and they rolled back to the official website to OB.
Since there was no chance to retreat, the roadblocks they left along the way were completely useless.
The passage was filled with short wails and deafening humming of wings.
The players guarding the entrance of the passage exchanged glances and looked at each other in bewilderment.
"It was given away so quickly?"
"I don't know... but I heard the sound and I guess it's gone."
The first round of attempts ended in failure.
However, these players did not give up. Instead, they became more and more courageous and soon started the second round of action.
This time, the front row became three strength players, followed by two strength newbies as substitutes, responsible for repairing the bunkers and replacing the exhausted players in the front row.
In the back row were three agility players, each carrying four spears, and a physical player carrying the "Hellfire 0.3" of Goblin Technology, holding the line behind.
This thing was sponsored by Mosquito for free. It doesn't cost money. Just go back to the official website and write a user experience after using it.
It is said that this version of "Hellfire" is equipped with a backfire valve, so the flame will no longer burn back along the fuel.
However, even Mosquito, who swore that this guy was so powerful, could not guarantee that there would be no other accidents.
Otherwise, why is it called a trial product?
It's already free, so what else do you want?
In short, if you can't use the products produced by Goblin Technology, don't use them, and don't use them unless it's absolutely necessary. This is also the teaching of the front-line commander Brother Mole to the soldiers.
The nine players were finally ready and headed into the passage together. The crowded formation blocked the road.
They were completely at odds with these moths, and they would not give up until they got back this place.
However, judging from the current battle situation, the progress does not seem optimistic.
These moths seemed to be endless, rushing over in waves.
In the end, the 9-man team couldn't stand it anymore and had to use goblin technology. Before the flamethrower exploded, everyone evacuated and temporarily closed the entrance to the safe passage.
The battle lasted from morning to evening. Counting the team that was wiped out before entering, the players paid the price of 4 deaths and 2 injuries.
And the devil moths on the first floor probably died hundreds of them, or even more.
As for the exact number, it is not clear. After all, in this case, it is impossible to count the results of the battle, and it can only be estimated by feeling.
The battle loss ratio is 4:100+, which can be said to be very strong. Ordinary survivors, let alone facing such monsters, even have difficulty in having the courage to enter the nest.
The only flaw is that there is no loot today, and only a wave of the opponent's living forces are consumed...
Looking at the late sky, the players who have been frustrated can only wait until tomorrow even if they are unwilling.
Chu Guang, who was OB throughout the whole process, was completely expected to come back for the result of "4 deaths and 2 injuries" and didn't take it seriously.
The great victory over the predators a few days ago has made the players somewhat arrogant. It is not a bad thing to suffer a little loss.
Fire attack is a good idea, but the number is a problem. Moreover, hunting is different from war. The former needs to preserve materials.
Maybe we can try smoke next time?
As the price of growth, a small amount of casualties is completely acceptable to Chu Guang. Anyway, as long as the VM is picked up, it is not too bad.
Especially Chu Guang recently discovered that the gnawer can also extract active substances.
Although the amount is pitifully small, one can only provide 0.1~0.2 units, and the waste discharged is useless and can only be thrown into the septic tank as biological garbage, but it is better than nothing.
Killing the gnawer is not very difficult.
As long as it is not encountered in narrow terrains such as subways and ruins, even a new team can easily kill a few by kiting.
So far, among the 100 new players, more than 70% have reached LV1, and the highest level among the old players has even reached LV6, and they are almost at their taillights.
Chu Guang's "Manager" sequence has been developed to 9%, which is LV9 in game terms, and is only a little away from LV10.
Maybe he can break through by commanding another battle or following the players to gain experience.
It is indeed quite rare to find a leader of a force like himself who is not only smart but also brave in the survivors' strongholds outside the barbarian tribe.
It is not too much to be a little proud.
Chu Guang, who was patrolling the industrial area with a sledgehammer on his back, thought so in his heart.
At this moment, Brother Levin from the No. 81 Steel Plant suddenly trotted towards him.
The little player's face was as red as a furnace, and he didn't know whether it was blown by the northwest wind or out of admiration and worship for himself.
"Dear Administrator! I have an important matter to report to you!"
Chu Guang said, stopping to look at him.
"Go ahead."
Brother Levin clenched his fists excitedly and took a deep breath.
"Your customized armor!"
"We've finished it!"