Chapter 234: A New Disaster Warning, Is This Time Heading Straight for Doomsday?
"What on earth are those things?" Lin Yue lay on the rooftop, covered in thick sheepskin, with his sniper rifle aimed at the bird-like creatures descending continuously.
However, their appearance made Lin Yue gasp in shock.
A monkey face, compound eyes, an insect body, eagle claws, bird wings, and even at the top of each wing, there was a human-like claw.
No matter how you look at them, these things gave Lin Yue a sense of being "patched together" awkwardly.
Not only were they assembled without any sense of beauty, but they could even be described as "horrific" and "terrifying."
Through the sighting scope, one of those "monstrous insects" landed and was wrestling with Lizardmen over a corpse, looking terrifying, but surprisingly, they didn't dare to get close to the Lizardmen.
Lin Yue observed for a while and found it to be the case.
He pulled the trigger, and a bullet pierced through the head of the monstrous insect, also piercing the body of the Lizardman behind it!
A double hit with a single shot!
[You have acquired Iron Treasure Chest X1 Copper Treasure Chest X1]
However, what is this thing called?
Lin Yue quickly opened the illustration book and found there indeed appeared something new.
"Eagle-winged insect? A bug?"
Goodness, this never-before-seen eagle-winged insect only rewarded an iron treasure chest.
He thought they could at least give him a copper treasure chest, like the Lizardmen.
Lin Yue really wanted to go over and pick up the two treasure chests now, but he couldn't manage it.
There were just too, too, too many eagle-winged insects.
A black cloud-like mass of these terrifying creatures covered the small patch of sky; where were they hiding before?
As for the corpses of the people Levik brought, he only managed to take the Storage Spaces from 12 of them; for the others, he could only watch as these at least thousands of eagle-winged insects and Lizardmen on the ground devoured them.
This time, after taking out nearly two hundred people, he thought he could instantly increase his Storage Space by at least two hundred cubic meters.
But unexpectedly, the dense scent of blood attracted Lizardmen and these never-before-seen sky creatures.
Eagle-winged insects...
He had never seen these things before.
He opened the system panel, navigating to group chats and world chats, and he found that almost everyone was discussing his previous battle.
Lin Yue had no interest in seeing how others described him as showing off; he had already shown off once before so many people; reviewing it again would only inflate one's ego.
Searching the term "eagle-winged insect," Lin Yue found some had discussed this topic.
However, it was on the world channel.
In the chat history, a person named "Shilock" mentioned that he caught the thing using a trap, putting a small piece of meat in it the night before, and by morning, it was caught in the trap, and after killing it, treasure chests dropped. Chapter provided via M|V|L@EMPYR.
Lin Yue discovered that it seemed he wasn't the only one with an "illustration book," capable of identifying mutant creatures.
On the world channel, many noticed this too, and they all discussed that these eagle-winged insects should only appear at night, not during the day; after all, no one had ever seen them during the day.
As for those who indeed saw them at night, they were dead.
However, these things that should have appeared only at night unexpectedly came out this morning.
Is it really because of that intense scent of blood? Or something else?
At that moment, the eagle-winged insects in the sky had mostly descended to the ground, and their number was massive.
The Lizardmen took advantage of the monsters not daring to harm them and kept snatching the corpses on the ground.
The scene was chaotic, and it seemed things were taking strides toward more disorder.
Lin Yue observed for a while and finally shook his head.
With a reminder from Bai, he returned to the shelter from the rooftop, no longer watching the chaos outside.
Observing was useless.
Even if he took out dozens or hundreds of them, it was of no practical help; to the total numbers of those monsters, it was just a drop in the ocean, not worth mentioning.
Besides, he had a long-standing concern about the treasure chests dropped from defeating monsters.
Would the Lizardmen take those treasure chests?
After all, they had hands, and they could even open underground stone doors. Their intelligence might not be high, but it was not low either.
If they could open the treasure chests, it definitely wouldn't be good news for the survivors.
Lin Yue even had a hypothesis: were they able to obtain the formula for making gunpowder from the treasure chests to create the thing that exploded near him before?
"Gawu," Bai called again.
Lin Yue snapped out of his thoughts and took out some food, handing it to this little guy and the others like him.
During the previous battle, they hadn't rested; they were brave and fought tirelessly, consuming a lot of energy.
While they were eating, Lin Yue sat on the sofa, looking at the system panel.
He spent a night in the Secret Realm yesterday, and though he gained quite a bit, he had indeed missed out on many things.
Like disaster prediction.
This thing, which greatly affected his actions in the coming days, needed confirmation now.
Ensuring the shelter can withstand disasters allows for greater development.
Without that, everything is useless.
"So, what will happen exactly?"
He said, clicking on the announcement board.
[Fourth Disaster: Dual Disaster]
[Disaster Type: Hurricane Storm (Category 5), Thunderstorm]
Lin Yue took another careful look at the disaster forecast.
Hurricane storm? Thunderstorm?
"Hurricanes, I believe survivors from the Lighthouse Country should be quite familiar with these."
They are landfalling tropical cyclones, incredibly destructive, with the smaller the eye, the more destructive they are—extremely deadly disasters!
Hurricanes can bring extreme rain, terrifying winds, and even those twisters connecting the sky and earth; anything not anchored down would be sucked into the death whirlpool, flying high into the sky, and then slammed hard onto the ground.
The shelters that survivors built may become mere toys in this storm's wrath.
"Wait, it seems I can check the destructive power under the hurricane's category?"
Lin Yue clicked immediately.
Category 5: Maximum sustained winds: ≥70 m/s ≥156 mph ≥136 kts ≥250 km/h
Storm surge: ≥19 ft ≥5.5 m
Central minimum pressure: <27.17 inHg <920 mbar
Potential damage: Most buildings and standalone roofs completely destroyed, some houses entirely blown away. Flooding affects large areas, survivors may need to evacuate.
Oh, this.
Oh, good heavens.
This time they mean business, huh?
If the previous acid rain combined with flooding was the system starting to show malice, this time it really bared its fangs.
"Seems like apart from my shelter outside, everything would be blown to the sky?"
Lin Yue realized he had some work ahead of him.
Greenhouses, warehouses, even the intercontinental missile launch vehicle, he needed to find a way to store them.
Otherwise, by then, flying fruit wouldn't matter much, but having Flying Brother intercontinental missile vehicle would be just too humorous.
"But if this hurricane is an otherworldly disaster, then how many storm cores might there be? And how big is the Otherworld?"
Lin Yue shook his head.
This time, there's a hurricane and a thunderstorm.
Just imagine.
Roaring thunder, ravaging storm.
It truly feels like an apocalypse approaching.