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Chapter 184: Chapter 124: The 10,000-Meter Sandstorm · Hunter of Insects (Please Subscribe)_2

Furthermore, with just 10 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin per bottle, Song Chi had prepared dozens of bottles in this storage space for emergency use.

In an area where Yellow Sand Floating Land storms were relatively less frequent, the door of the Cang Qiong hovering a hundred meters in the air was slowly opened, and a Fire Peony Soldier Figurine wearing military exoskeleton powered armor leapt down from it.

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Bang!

The rapidly descending Fire Peony Soldier Figurine crashed into the yellow sand below, creating a huge pit, but in front of its Second Rank puppet body, coupled with the exoskeleton armor absorbing part of the impact, such a collision could hardly cause any significant effect.

At the same time, the brainwave beacon attached to the soldier figurine quickly issued a command to release pheromones.

After opening the glass bottle, the Fire Peony Soldier Figurine swiftly threw it onto the sandy soil beneath its feet, then with the aid of its exoskeleton armor, it took more than ten steps in a sprint, before slightly bending its body downward, and in the next second, with the assistance of its own legs and the exoskeleton armor, it leaped up and landed precisely back onto the Cang Qiong hovering nearly a hundred meters above.

Having retrieved the Fire Peony Soldier Figurine, Song Chi quickly controlled the Cang Qiong to ascend again, only stopping once it reached a height of a kilometer.

The last time he encountered a sandworm that resembled a huge earthworm, it was over a hundred meters in length; naturally, he would not put himself in danger.

In the Cang Qiong Main Control Room, the projection screen enlarged dozens of times showed the glass bottle with pheromones quickly being sucked into the sandy bottom by the quicksand, but the pheromones inside had already spread out in all directions.

Seeing this, Song Chi waited patiently, like a hunter standing guard for prey, quietly awaiting the arrival of his quarry.

A few minutes later, his normally calm eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze shifted to a location dozens of kilometers away from where the pheromones had been deployed, where under the surface of the sand, there had just been a slight disturbance.

Just as Song Chi thought that sandworms would soon converge on the area, another ten minutes passed without any sign of movement from below.

"If one bottle isn't enough, then I'll add a little more!"

No sooner had he spoken than he vanished in front of the control console, and within seconds, Song Chi reappeared holding five more of the same glass bottles.

The Fire Peony Soldier Figurine swiftly repeated its previous actions, throwing five bottles of pheromones into the same spot below.

This series of actions did indeed have a significant effect.

Perhaps the continuous six bottles of pheromones caused a qualitative change in concentration; in any case, not long after, noises started emanating from the surroundings. Moreover, it was not a single noise, for from all directions beneath the yellow sand, different sizes of vibrations began emerging, followed by swift sand dragons streaking through.

His eyes moving, Song Chi quickly calculated and analyzed the number of these sand dragons and the specific ranks of the sandworms hidden beneath them.

There were a total of eight sand dragons that had appeared, four of which had a diameter of ten meters like last time, three more were about seven meters, and the last one was particularly astonishing, with a diameter of fifteen meters, and its speed as it tore toward the center of the pheromone diffusion was the most formidable.

"Second Rank Peak? Or possibly Third Rank Level sandworm?"

Muttering to himself, he did not slow his movements; the ship's body tilted slightly downward, and the muzzles of both the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon and the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon aimed at the ground below, where the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon was already gathering streams of light, and a phantom sword shadow was rapidly coalescing.

Seconds later, the eight sand dragons had converged in the sand below, and on the enlarged projection screen, fine sand began to spew upwards from the ground. Amidst the swirling yellow sand, the image on the projection screen quickly became enveloped by the thickening dust storm, making it impossible to clearly see what was happening below.

Seeing this, Song Chi pressed the fire button for the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon without hesitation, while the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon began furiously firing down below.

Boom boom boom!

In the midst of a violent roaring, countless barrages poured into the soil and sand below, making the flying yellow sand around grow even more fierce.

Although Song Chi had no knowledge of the specific situation below, he had never ceased firing the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon. He could hear from the howls coming from below that the sandworms were thrashing violently, a sign of their ultimate frenzy after being severely wounded.

Soon, the air filled with thick, pungent odors mingled within the sand dust, emanating from the blood of those sandworms.

Under the influence of a large amount of pheromones, which already possessed a strong attraction to these kinds of sandworms, now coupled with the intense stench, the sandworms beneath the yellow sand grew even crazier. Every moment, from all directions, more and more sandworms rapidly converged.

In response to this, Song Chi's eyelids twitched continuously as the sheer number of converging sandworms was too great, with dozens arriving every minute from great distances.

Even the dust clouds could not hide everything; occasionally, one could see the dark silhouettes, easily a hundred meters in size, beneath the thinning dust. They opened their jaws wide, frantically biting and gnawing at their own kind next to them.

What was once a gray-yellow sandy surface was now stained with dark green patches from the stench-ridden blood sprayed from the inside of the sandworms. Bits of flesh were scattered everywhere, creating a horrifying sight.

Despite his twitching eyelids, Song Chi's hands never stopped moving. Once the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon finished buffering, he immediately began to recharge it again. On his side, the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon had been firing non-stop from the beginning.

Under this relentless barrage, the Floating Land Origin reserve on the Cang Qiong continued to rise. Although sporadic traces of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin would appear, the vast majority was still First Rank. In a short period, the Cang Qiong had accumulated several hundred strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin.

That is to say, the vast majority of sandworms below were of Second Rank Level, and after several hours of fire coverage, hundreds of Second Rank sandworms had perished under the Cang Qiong's gunfire.

Hundreds of Second Rank worms, such a staggering number, it's no wonder Song Chi's reaction was so intense.

However, amidst his astonishment, he also felt some excitement. Even though he wasn't lacking First Rank Floating Land Origin, the profit he gained was still tangible and validating the astonishing firepower of the Cang Qiong brought natural excitement.

Of course, of the current battle spoils, the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon only accounted for a small part of the credit.

Although its power was tremendous, it was after all a single-target attack, and each attack required a considerable amount of time for charging and buffering, which greatly limited its attack frequency.

On the contrary, the Blue Quality Electromagnetic Ray Cannon truly shone this time. Its "Lightning Arc Splash" feature was simply a masterpiece for area attacks. Each shot could splash onto several surrounding sandworms. Even if the power wasn't very strong, the accumulation from shot after shot resulted in a large number of Second Rank sandworms falling.

Just when things were getting intense, at one moment, Song Chi felt a sudden jolt in his heart, an inexplicable sense of horror surged within him, and a chill ran down his back.

Glancing around the projection screen with the corner of his eye, he quickly noticed something, and his eyes trembled fiercely. Subconsciously, he continued to instruct the Cang Qiong to ascend, but before it could ascend much, a pitch-black energy sphere shot through the dense dust below, heading straight for the Cang Qiong in the sky.

Hummm!

The black energy sphere, over ten meters in diameter, rippled violently upon Cang Qiong's Energy Shield. The force of the impact was so strong that it sent the airship's body flying nearly ten meters upwards, though this wasn't too noticeable because the Cang Qiong was already ascending.

Song Chi instinctively glanced at the Dark Matter Energy Shield's Shield Value, and then his pupils constricted simultaneously.

[Shield Value: 3215800/4120000]

The formerly full Shield Value had dropped by a fifth.

Keep in mind that this was an Orange Energy Shield, enhanced to Third Rank Level, with a defense value of two hundred thousand. Considering this, the attack strength of this pitch-black energy sphere was well over a million.

Looking down again, the vast yellow sand could not conceal the enormous shadow below, with a diameter of a hundred meters and a length exceeding a kilometer.