Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Chapter 158: Once Again, Knowledge is Power

As if in response to Su Li's words, the dark seawater continued to churn, and finally, a huge head with bloodshot eyes, resembling a demon, emerged from it.

Qi Guohui pulled Su Li aside to dodge.

At the same time, a burst of ice flowers suddenly exploded on the head of the skinny insect, a cover attack by Sophia and Jingzhe.

Then, a beam of white light was released from Xiao Gao's hand in the distance and wrapped around Su Li's body. The scald blisters on Su Li's body quickly dried up and fell off, revealing pale pink skin.

Because Jingzhe and Sophia shifted their attack, the fat worm finally found an opportunity. It plunged into the lava lake, away from the rocky platform.

Even though its eyes were already shattered, it was still able to locate its companions using pheromones and other factors.

"Go, Great Serpent Lord, burn them all!" the mad old man roared.

The fat worm, whose upper body was emerging from the lava lake, shone with red patterns, and the lava below surged, as if someone below had taken a deep breath.

The fat worm's body began to swell from the bottom up, and this swelling continued to move upwards until it reached its mouthparts.

"dodge!"

Crimson lava shot out from the fat worm's mouthparts like a high-pressure water gun, sweeping across the area where Su Li and the others were.

Fortunately, the fat worm's eyes had already been shattered, making its aim extremely poor. Su Li and the others simply dodged slightly and avoided the attack.

But the fat worm's attacks seemed endless. It kept spewing air, its body acting like a pump, drawing lava from the lava lake.

Worse still, its attack was not friendly fire-resistant. When the lava hit the skinny worm, it only splashed a little water, causing the worm to stagger, without causing any effective damage.

The skinny worm isn't in good shape either. A large patch of its midsection has turned black, caused by Su Li disrupting its energy channels. However, the skinny worm hasn't lost its mobility. Once it starts moving again, with one constantly burrowing and charging underground to harass, and the other constantly spitting lava, it will be extremely difficult to fight.

“This can’t go on.” Su Li carefully observed the position of the skinny worm. “We must paralyze one of them before we can deal with the other.”

"What are your thoughts?" Qi Guohui asked directly. He knew that Su Li's understanding of these monsters far surpassed theirs.

"Let's beat a dog when it's down, take out the skinny one first," Su Li said. "Give me some time to slack off; I need to gather some information."

"it is good."

Qi Guohui and Su Li immediately separated. Su Li dispersed the magical energy above the mountain, trying her best not to attract the attention of the skinny insect.

At the same time, Qi Guohui threw an ink bomb on the spot, obscuring Su Li's figure, and then rushed out, striking the shield in his left hand with the sword in his right hand.

A shockwave instantly attracted the attention of the two parasites.

Xiao Gao immediately gave Qi Guohui a speed boost.

Sofia noticed that Suli hadn't come out and realized that Suli might have some unusual ideas.

Whatever Su Li wants to do, let's give him a chance first.

Sophia discards the metal-attribute bullets. She reloads with new bullets and then enchants them.

This time, he performed an earth-elemental enchantment.

Sofia switched the gun to automatic fire mode, aimed at the fat worm's body, especially at those huge black spots, and pulled the trigger.

After the fat worm started spewing lava, the black spots kept expanding and contracting. Sophia didn't know what this was for, but she guessed that the contraction was necessary.

Whatever the enemy wants to do, we must stop him from doing it.

Several bullets accurately hit a black spot on the side of the fat worm. The earth elements in the bullets intertwined, using the fire elements emanating from the fat worm's body as nourishment. The fire generated earth, which quickly spread and solidified into energy rock, blocking the hole in the center of the black spot.

Then a few more bullets were fired until the magazine was emptied.

In an instant, all the holes on the fat worm's body were plugged up.

As more blocks were added, the effect became immediately apparent. The lava flow spewed out by the fat worm slowed down considerably, seemingly affecting its pressurization capability.

This immediately reduced the pressure on Qi Guohui's side.

Qi Guohui constantly dodged, while using his control skills to interrupt the skinny insect's movements. If the skinny insect moved away from him and charged forward from a distance, it would be difficult for him to dodge. By maintaining close-range trembling and relying on his agility, he could still maneuver around it.

After a minute of this back and forth, Qi Guohui heard a heavenly voice.

"Alright! I'm coming, use the smoke to cover me!"

Qi Guohui was overjoyed, then took out a few more ink balls and threw them towards Su Li.

Using the ink as cover, Su Li quickly approached the skinny insect and then raised the mountain-like weapon in his hand.

As the mountain sloped upwards, a yellowish-brown glow quickly gathered.

"Get under control!"

"it is good!"

Qi Guohui gritted his teeth and narrowly avoided a bite from the skinny worm. Then, with all his might, he slammed his shield down on the worm's head.

"Concussion strike!"

"Boom"

The skinny worm's head made a dull thud, clearly indicating it wasn't a good head.

At this moment, Zuli also completed the preparation for the mountain collapse.

Su Li's foot scraped against the gravel, and a phantom image of a collapsing mountain flashed across her body.

The earthen-yellow giant sword, with the force of a collapsing mountain, slammed violently into the thin worm's body.

"Boom!" "Crack!"

The skinny worm's body slammed onto the ground, accompanied by the crisp sound of bones cracking. The skinny worm let out a loud roar, and its entire body suddenly stiffened.

Having succeeded in his attack, Su Li, his hands trembling, quickly retreated, dragging his sword with him.

Then, the thin worm's body began to writhe violently, and the writhing posture was very strange.

With the location where Su Li shattered as the node, the insect's upper and lower body seemed to have two wills. The lower body was uncontrollably spiraling and twisting, slapping the ground haphazardly, while the upper body was looking back at its lower body.

"How did you do that?" Qi Guohui spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and then asked.

“It disrupted the nerve pathway,” Su Li explained succinctly.

He didn't just casually look around when he visited that anatomy lab.

Those specimens had completely shown Zurich the structure of these parasites.

Su Li concluded that this series of parasitic biological weapons had two exploitable weaknesses, one of which was the energy core. This was equivalent to the dantian in humans; attacking it could instantly paralyze the parasite's entire energy system.

One is the two nerve centers in the spine.

No matter how strong these parasites are, they are still only at the Black Iron level and cannot use magic energy to control their bodies instead of their nerves. Their bodies are hundreds of meters long, and the speed of their nerves cannot keep up with the length of their bodies. Therefore, two structures similar to relay stations have grown in their spinal cords to enhance the speed of nerve signal transmission.

That person wrote in their diary that the spinal cord nerves of this parasite, used as a weapon, are specially designed to be extremely powerful. Unless they are directly severed, the remaining nerves can temporarily replace the functions of other nerves.

However, the central nervous system is irreplaceable. Although it can be repaired after being broken, it takes a very long time.

Once the structure of these transit stations is destroyed, the parasite's brain becomes like a feudal monarch, where the vassals of my vassals are no longer my vassals, and I lose control over my lower body.

Su Li's attack just now destroyed the nerve center in the front half, causing the parasite to become paralyzed.

Previous observations were based on previous data and the parasite's body curvature angles to estimate the number of vertebrae and their approximate length, and then based on this data, the location of the transit nerves was estimated.

Luckily, I got it right.

The nerves in the lower half of the worm's body were still in an excited state. Even though the central nervous system had been lost, it still retained a strong reflex ability, controlling the body to convulse wildly.

However, it no longer poses much of a threat.