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Chapter 1201 Deep Sea Terror

"What is this?"

The black beetle blurted out his question, and following his gaze, the green and red beetles also noticed something amiss. After doing the same thing as the former, they too discovered these tiny fish.

Did this kind of creature originally exist on Earth?

Green Beetle started using the database carried by the Scarab, but only received the response "No relevant data". Later, he expanded the scope to no longer limit it to Earth, but the result was still the same.

"How is this possible? There is not a single relevant record in the database. This is an unknown life form that we have never seen before."

However, even without data, some information about the creature can be gleaned from its appearance and the characteristics it exhibits.

However, after the scarab beetle's assessment, the result left the three speechless: the creature in front of them did not conform to the characteristics of deep-sea creatures.

"It's as if it was created out of thin air," the red beetle exclaimed.

"Never mind all that nonsense," the black beetle interrupted its sigh. "Let's eliminate these things first."

These fish have devoured the vast majority of the spaceships, and the crew members on those ships that have been partially eaten are obviously doomed. Their task is to rescue the remaining crew members.

You have to understand that their advance force only has this many troops. Black Beetle may not be afraid of anything else, but if all of these troops die here because of him, he will definitely face a military court.

In more serious cases, there might not even be a trial; once the main force arrives, the commander could simply remove the scarab beetle and pronounce his death sentence.

No living being wants to die. The black beetle can accept sacrificing its life on the battlefield, but it cannot accept being sentenced to death by the planet like a criminal.

This thought was like a death knell; the black beetle's hands transformed into two cannons, which it began firing at the fish.

The initial power was not high because the fish were too close to the spaceship. In order not to kill the remaining crew members himself, his first task was to scare the fish away from the spaceship.

Surprisingly, after being attacked, these fish did not scatter and flee like ordinary wild animals. Instead, they continued doing what they were doing as if nothing had happened.

The black beetle instantly understood. Even if a wild animal is not attacked itself, it will keep its distance after witnessing the tragedy of its kind, let alone a group of fish that live in groups.

While gathering together can sometimes embolden these small, vulnerable creatures, it would never be to this extent.

To achieve this level of control, it's clear that someone is manipulating these fish, making them fearless of death.

But who exactly is it? According to the database, they know that Aquaman in the Justice League has the ability to communicate with aquatic animals, but he shouldn't be able to make them rush to their deaths like this, right?

Even ants struggle to survive, let alone fish, whose genes have the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune ingrained in them. The deep sea is often far more brutal than the land.

“Someone wants to oppose the Reach Zerg,” Black Beetle said through gritted teeth. He felt that nothing good had happened since he came to Earth.

Black Beetle originally thought he came to Earth to accumulate military merits, but unexpectedly, he didn't accumulate any merits at all, but a military court was not far away from him.

"Activate the scanning function!" Black Beetle commanded. "We need to find that guy who's trying to play the hero, or none of us will escape judgment." With that, Black Beetle activated most of the scanning functions on its armor, attempting to find the mastermind controlling these fish, but neither sonar nor thermal imaging yielded any results.

Both sonar and thermal imaging would be interfered with by the dense schools of fish, so there was no need to use any other scanning systems.

“Our scanning system can’t penetrate these schools of fish,” Green Beetle warned. “If we want to find the mastermind, I suggest we retreat first.”

"Even if we retreat, we won't escape a military court trial!" Black Beetle shouted sternly. "You two go and try to rescue as many crew members as possible, I'll go find the real culprit."

Under Black Beetle's command, Green Beetle and Red Beetle swam towards the spaceship that had not yet been completely devoured, while he himself swam towards the direction where the fish were most concentrated.

After the black beetle approached, the fish stirred for a while, but quickly calmed down. After a short while, some bolder fish approached it and began to try to eat the black beetle like they were eating a spaceship.

Unfortunately, the black beetle's scarab armor is far more robust than the spaceship's armor, and the armor itself is composed of a group of nanobots.

Therefore, the bold fish were killed by nanobots as soon as they got close to the armor, and a vacuum zone of blood and water was formed around the black beetle.

Black Beetle noticed that the surrounding fish were no longer coming closer, and he guessed that they were probably scared of being killed, which saved him a lot of trouble.

However, the black beetle had no intention of letting them go. It raised the cannon in its left hand and fired a shot that killed countless small fish. It vented its anger and swam into the depths.

However, what the black beetle didn't know was that as it swam, a huge black shadow was following it from directly below.

Gradually, the black beetle drifted further and further away from its companions, and the shadowy figure began to approach it. The surrounding fish even made way for it.

And so, the shadowy figure silently appeared behind the black beetle, which remained completely unaware.

"boom!"

The black beetle fired another shot, the sound of which was muffled in the water. It then seized the momentary, stiff shadow after the attack and made its move.

A pair of strong, powerful hands gripped the black beetle's shoulders firmly. The beetle was startled by the sudden attack, neither by its own surprise nor by the beetle's artificial intelligence.

Black Beetle lived up to his reputation as a renowned warrior of Reach. After a brief moment of panic, he reacted quickly, extending several appendages from his waist to stab at the hands that were trapping him.

"Ding Ding Ding!"

The series of metallic clanging sounds were muffled by the water. The black beetle was surprised to find that the creature trapping it had an unusually tough skin. Ordinary appendages and spikes could not break through its defenses, so there was no way to get it to let go.

In that case, the black beetle gathered its appendages together, turning them into a strange blade that was constantly trembling.

This is a high-frequency blade; even the strongest metal will become like tofu in front of it. Even the other scarab warriors dare not confront such a weapon head-on.

Perhaps sensing the danger of the high-frequency blade, the dark figure actually released its grip on the black beetle.

(End of this chapter)