Chapter 18 - Chapter 18 Vulnerabilities

Before Peter could give any orders, a sufficient number of Stinger Dragonflies had gathered around and immediately launched an attack. Thousands of Stinger Dragonflies swarmed forward. Each Jackal - Man was stabbed at least a dozen times by the tail stingers of the Stinger Dragonflies and immediately fell to the ground, unable to get up. Seeing that the altar had been cleared, Peter immediately controlled the Stinger Dragonfly he was possessing to land on the surface of this altar. As he consumed divine power and his divine sense slowly spread, he finally sensed the aura of the Divine Domain core two meters underground in this stone altar. Peter was overjoyed. Finally, he had found it. Immediately, he arranged for the Stinger Dragonflies around to destroy and dig the altar. Dense Stinger Dragonflies landed on the altar and began to gnaw. Considering the small size of these dragonflies, Peter estimated that it would take at least two hours to dig out the Divine Domain core. During this time, he could only observe the battles of each team of the insect swarm, make timely adjustments, and wait patiently. "Hmm?" An exclamation came from Peter's mouth. He suddenly noticed a new situation among the fighting insect swarms. Old Holly was lying motionless on the ground at this moment. Sully was also lying not far from him. The two Jackal - Men stared at each other. There was also a Jackal - Man corpse lying next to them. It was another member of their team, the Jackal - Man whose face had been sprayed with corrosive acid. With a terrified look on his face, Sully spoke to Old Holly, "Captain, what should we do now?" "I don't know either. Let's wait," Old Holly said, his face full of depression and having given up resistance. Previously, after receiving the order, Old Holly led the team and quickly returned to the Divine Domain. Since there were two wounded in the team, including Sully, a young Jackal - Man he favored. He decided to personally send Sully to the medical emergency point at the rear of the Divine Domain and give this young Jackal - Man, who had rabbits on his mind, a good talk on the way. So, with two wounded, he just managed to avoid the first wave of the insect swarm's attack. When they stood in the distance and watched the huge insect ball that gathered above the army. Old Holly turned around, picked up the two wounded, and started running at full speed. As an experienced old Jackal - Man, he calmly made his own judgment on the situation. Facing an insect swarm of this scale. Having witnessed the horror of the bugs, based on his experience and instincts, he knew that if he got involved in a battle of this scale, he would most likely not survive. Later, when the battle on the frontal battlefield ended and the Machete Cockroaches began to chase these fleeing Jackal - Men. As land - based creatures, how could they outrun the flying Machete Cockroaches in the sky? Old Holly, with two wounded, was still caught up. Looking at the continuous swarms of flying insects in the sky, winding forward like a terrifying giant python, he knew he couldn't escape. Just after he placed the two wounded team members on the roadside, a small group immediately detached from the insect swarm in the sky and flew rapidly towards their location. Facing this group of approaching Machete Cockroaches, numbering over a thousand, Old Holly's courage to fight to the death was destroyed by the instinct of fear. It was too late to escape at this time. The flying Machete Cockroaches descended from the sky in a circular formation, surrounding the three of them in this area in a hunting posture. Just as Old Holly stood in the center of the circular encirclement, waiting for death to come, the slowly - closing encirclement of the Machete Cockroaches bypassed the fallen Jackal - Man team member whose face was injured and unconscious. "Sully, don't move," Under the sense of impending death, Old Holly immediately noticed this situation. His mind was racing at high speed. With all his potential unleashed, he felt that his thinking had never been so clear in his life. A flash of inspiration came to him, and he immediately stopped Sully, who was about to get up. Sure enough, the flying and landed Machete Cockroaches did not attack Sully. Instead, they bypassed Sully, who was lying motionless on the ground, and continued to close in on Old Holly. Sully's survival confirmed Old Holly's guess. Without hesitation, he made a forward dive on the flat ground. In less than a second, he changed from a standing position to a prone position on the ground and did not move anymore. Sure enough, the surrounding Machete Cockroaches did not attack him but crawled around his body, as if observing and judging what this Jackal - Man, who had suddenly fallen to the ground, was trying to do. At that time, Old Holly could only stare wide - eyed, looking in horror at these bugs crawling around him, so frightened that he even stopped breathing. As it turned out, he had gambled right. Soft chirping sounds of insects rang in his ears. The surrounding Machete Cockroaches began to disperse and slowly took off, rejoining the large group in the sky. Only three Machete Cockroaches flew to a nearby tree and quietly watched the three motionless Jackal - Men lying on the ground. In Old Holly's experience and understanding, in this situation, the other side was the watcher of the captives, and the three of them were the surrendered captives. Old Holly tried to communicate with these bugs through language, but the other side didn't respond at all. However, as soon as he made the slightest move, the back sickles of the three Machete Cockroaches on the tree would be raised high, assuming an attacking posture. The immobile waiting was long. Old Holly witnessed the dense Piercing Tarantulas surging from a distance and then skillfully splitting in front of the three "lying - dead" Jackal - Men, directly bypassing them. Until the unconscious Jackal - Man woke up. The Jackal - Man, whose eyes had been corroded by the acid and was already blind, just made a move when the three Machete Cockroaches surrounded him. Seeing this situation, Old Holly immediately shouted to remind the other not to move. But this blind Jackal - Man still instinctively sat up and turned towards the direction where Old Holly's voice came from. Old Holly watched as the three surrounding Machete Cockroaches mercilessly swung the sickles on their backs at this blind Jackal - Man, cutting several huge gaps in his skull and spilling his brains all over the ground. Looking at the two Jackal - Men lying on the ground, Peter was sure that he had never given an order to take captives. What on earth had made these Machete Cockroaches act like this? Moreover, he found that this was not an isolated case. On the map model, this was the situation in a large number of areas where the red and green dots overlapped. Peter immediately sent a question to the Machete Cockroaches that were watching the Jackal - Men on the ground. "Why are you taking captives?" As he touched the line of faith, he transmitted this message to one of the Machete Cockroaches guarding the captives. "Hmm." Peter felt the hesitant and confused emotions of the Machete Cockroach through the line of faith. He immediately realized that this question was beyond the comprehension of the Machete Cockroach. Ordinary insect - swarm units, apart from the instincts given to them by their genes, had very simple intelligence and could only understand some simple questions and Peter's orders.