Only in this area the Drill Slug can be found and used. Initially Maggots and a new blue-colored variant of Chowmein-Conga will be faced but later, as the player goes deeper inside the nest, Giant Caterpillars and Big Snails will appear too. Here the player will discover bugs that mutated due to the toxic wastes and established their nest. The player then must use a warp tube decorated with Japanese materials and writing, which will take them to the hideout of the Division 6, a reminiscent division of the Japonese Army unaware of the end of the Second Modern War 2 years ago.Ĭenotaph route: After entering the wine storage area and before choosing to go straight, the player can choose to pull another lever (similar to the upper path) and go underground.

Quick boss route: The player can disregard the lever and keep going straight to the waterfall that leads to a stone chimney that leads the player down to face the boss.ĭivision 6 route: If the player chooses to go down, they will initially travel through a wine storage area to a Japonese Army's storage where some Man Eaters had been living. The player will then arrive to an abandoned storage area where vegetation has covered all the place: here the player must collect enough energy cells by killing more Man Eaters in order to open the device's door. In this place Mummies and Dog Mummies will be found. Mummy route: When reaching the top of the ruins, the player can choose to pull a lever and open an entrance that leads inside the ruins.

Some stone statues resembling an ancient culture will be seen on the background as progress is made. Through in this route, many Man Eaters will be faced as well as some Huge Locusts. Pyramid route: If after discovering the outbreak the player decides to go up, the path will lead them to climb up the ruins. This mission is the one which probably contains the most alternate routes. Then the landscape background will show that the aforementioned troops had set up a facility near an ancient pyramid to presumably make biological experiments, with plants which went wrong and become Man Eaters and other mutated fauna. Initially the player will ride the Camel Slug to fight against some Rebel Army forces. The Desert Ruins are presumably located in the middle of a Mexican desert and is where Mission 4 of Metal Slug 3 takes place.

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