Part 2
Li Dao’ai nodded. Bubbles started to rise from the damp soil in the forest not far away, as if it were boiling. Then, the soil kept churning, and the smaller mushrooms began to shake at their roots. Jacqueline pulled out the roots of the mushrooms one by one. The faint blue light of the uprooted mushrooms finally went out.
Just as they were pleased that this method was working, a strong wind suddenly arose in the forest, blowing the mushrooms in that area like saplings in a gale, shaking them violently. They knew that Cheng Tianbi was attacking!
Cong Xia shouted, “Tianbi, what’s wrong?!”
Cheng Tianbi didn’t reply. They couldn’t even see where he was, only able to judge his approximate location based on the wind direction. At the same time, a dark shadow shuttled through the forest at high speed, seemingly entangled in a fight with Cheng Tianbi.
“Go and see.” Cong Xia jumped onto Abu’s back. Tang Yanqiu, Liu Fengyu, and Deng Xiao followed. Abu leaped over the swamp and headed straight for the forest.
But as soon as they stepped into the forest, a low growl rumbled in Abu’s throat. Its fur stood on end, its body arched back, and its sharp claws extended, a standard attack posture.
Cong Xia looked up and saw many pairs of eyes in the forest. Yes, eyes.
Because the mushrooms in this area had been uprooted, the faint blue light that had provided a little illumination was gone. Now the surroundings were pitch black, and only pairs of small green eyes shone brightly.
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At the same time, Liu Fengyu let out a low shout, raising a giant red petal with a diameter of five meters in front of Abu. An indescribable smell wafted over. The wasps, flying too fast to brake, crashed into the petal. Their bodies were like they had hit burning coals, instantly digested clean.
Deng Xiao, carrying his infinite energy machine gun, jumped onto a large mushroom and fired wildly at the ambushing mutated animals. “Go to hell!”
The roaring bullets kicked off the battle. The people on the shore rushed towards the mushroom forest. Looking at the various multiply mutated creatures rising into the sky, they both feared and anticipated this moment.
The entire mushroom forest was no longer peaceful. Everyone joined the battle. Thinking about how these creatures had been lying on the mushrooms, watching them go in circles, waiting for the opportunity to capture them all, everyone felt a chill down their spines, while a raging fire burned in their chests. It would have been better for them to fight earlier, at least now they were full of energy and could fight these creatures for three hundred rounds.
For a time, the sounds of weapons, fighting, and roaring echoed throughout the underground cave.
Shen Changze pulled Zhuang Yao onto Abu’s back. “Protect your brain domain evolved humans. Mr. Sun said these mushrooms are interfering with their brainwaves.”
Cong Xia asked in surprise, “How are they interfering?”
Zhuang Yao said, “They’re preventing us from forming the ‘Aversion Energy Field.’ We’re in a very dangerous situation.”
Deng Xiao grabbed him and carried him on his back. “Just stay with me.”
A golden cheetah rushed out from the depths of the forest. It wasn’t large, reaching only Abu’s chest, but its speed was incredibly fast. In a few leaps, everyone could only catch glimpses of its shadow before it reached Abu, opening its jaws to bite at Abu’s throat.
Abu jumped up, its large paws fiercely swatting at the cheetah. The cheetah got a mouthful of Abu’s fur, but Abu’s fur was too thick, and with the energy armor protecting it, the cheetah didn’t bite into any vital areas, only tearing off a small piece of skin. At the same time, Abu’s paw hit the cheetah’s face, sending it flying.
The cheetah rolled as it landed and jumped up, completely unharmed, and charged at Abu again. At this moment, Tang Yanqiu, who was blocking aerial attacks, had to fly down to help Abu.
Just then, a fiery red shadow darted out like lightning, pouncing on the cheetah. The two beasts rolled on the ground together, biting each other ferociously. Everyone looked closely and saw that the ferociously roaring monster was Duoji.
Duoji was at least three times larger than the cheetah. The battle, which originally seemed to have no suspense, became unpredictable when the cheetah’s body bristled with spines like a hedgehog.
Tang Yanqiu shot an arrow at the cheetah, piercing its shoulder blade, but the cheetah didn’t care, roaring fiercely at Duoji.
Tang Yanqiu soon couldn’t help Abu anymore. More and more wasps were flying towards them. The wasp monster he had shot down earlier had disappeared into the swarm.
Liu Fengyu continuously used giant petals to block the wasps’ attacks. Abu also waved its claws and scratched. Cong Xia threw out burning jade talismans, exploding jade talismans, and freezing jade talismans, barely managing to protect himself. They were forced to retreat by the increasing number of wasps. Everyone else was also busy defending themselves, and no one, except Duoji, could help them for the time being.
Where’s Tianbi?!
This was the question Cong Xia was most concerned about right now. Without effective group attack skills, it was too difficult to deal with these small, numerous, and agile wasps. They would rather face a giant earthworm at this point. At such a critical moment, where had Cheng Tianbi gone?
Liu Fengyu was the first to break down. The wasps constantly attacked his energy armor, draining his energy rapidly. He shouted angrily, “Cheng Tianbi, where the hell are you?!”
Soon, a strong wind swept back, and the overwhelming bees were sucked into a wind vortex. Their fragile bodies were torn to shreds in the high-speed rotating wind.
Cheng Tianbi grabbed Cong Xia, his voice deep, “Are you alright?”
Cong Xia’s legs were trembling with exhaustion. “Where did you go?”
Cheng Tianbi gritted his teeth and didn’t speak.
Cong Xia glanced at him and noticed that Cheng Tianbi’s eyes were bloodshot and his face was extremely pale.
“Tianbi? What’s wrong?”
“I’ll tell you later.”
Chu Xingzhou rushed over and flew onto Duoji’s back. The heavy pressure immediately slowed the cheetah’s movements. It felt like a thousand pounds of pressure on its body, its internal organs about to explode.
Duoji lunged forward, biting fiercely, and finally snapped the cheetah’s neck.
Cong Xia finally had time to heal the injured. Fortunately, they were all minor injuries, but they only had half a minute of peace before a dark shadow rushed out of the mushroom forest. Its figure was extremely large, and the ground shook violently as it ran.
Everyone focused their eyes. If they guessed correctly, it should be the pangolin they had seen behind the mushroom before. But this thing only had a head that still resembled a pangolin; its body was almost like a triceratops, not only large and stocky, but its armor also shimmered with black light, looking harder than steel. With a sweep of its giant tail, several rows of mushrooms with a diameter of six or seven meters were knocked down like bowling pins. It looked like a formidable opponent with explosive combat power.
Tang Yanqiu drew a light arrow and shot it hard at its eye. The pangolin tilted its head, and the arrow hit its face with a crisp ding, falling straight to the ground.
Everyone was stunned.
Chu Xingzhou chuckled, “You guys have fun.” He then rode Duoji towards another battlefield.
Cheng Tianbi said, “I’ll deal with it, you guys go inside.”
“No.” Tang Yanqiu drew another explosive arrow, his voice cold. “I’ll deal with it. You escort Cong Xia to find the puppet jade.”
Cheng Tianbi didn’t hesitate, “Let’s go!”
They didn’t dare waste time and rushed into the forest. Not far away, countless dark shadows were moving, surging towards them. They didn’t know what price they would have to pay to get past these things and reach the puppet jade.
Tang Yanqiu gripped his arrow, watching the pangolin charge towards him, aiming at its eyes once more.
Relying on its hard armor, the pangolin was fearless. Its massive body stood upright, its sharp claws, as long as Tang Yanqiu’s arm, slashing fiercely at him.
Tang Yanqiu flapped his wings, dodging quickly, but he couldn’t fly too high. It was too dark here. He had to stay within his range of vision, which meant he had to be within the pangolin’s attack range.
The pangolin missed its attack but didn’t give up. Before its body landed, its other claw swiped over. Tang Yanqiu stepped on its claw and flipped over, running towards its face along its thick, short arm.
The pangolin saw through his intentions, its cone-shaped head swinging its long jaw at him. Tang Yanqiu leaped into the air, landing on its head, raising his bow to shoot. The pangolin suddenly slammed its head towards the ground, forcing Tang Yanqiu to jump up. The pangolin didn’t actually ram its head into the ground, but instead curled its body into a ball, like an indestructible iron ball, with no vulnerable spots to attack. At the same time, the iron ball rolled towards Tang Yanqiu.
Tang Yanqiu flew higher, thinking he could easily avoid the attack, but the pangolin rolled in front of him, suddenly unfurling its body, its giant tail whipping towards Tang Yanqiu with incredible speed.
Tang Yanqiu barely dodged in time. He flew to the side at the fastest speed he had ever achieved, but his wing was still grazed by the tail. A sharp pain shot through him, and he was sent flying like a kite. After hitting a large mushroom, he steadied himself, enduring the pain that felt like his internal organs had shifted, spread his wings, and shot back towards the pangolin. The pangolin was now hanging upside down, its softest underbelly exposed, the perfect time to attack. Tang Yanqiu pulled out three explosive arrows in mid-air, holding them between his fingers, and without hesitation, drew his bow and shot, all three arrows aimed at its belly.
The three arrows pierced deep into the pangolin’s belly. The explosive arrows bloomed like lotuses upon impact, expanding the wounds and increasing blood loss.
The pangolin howled and jumped up. Tang Yanqiu didn’t give it a chance to breathe. The moment it turned over, three more explosive arrows were embedded in its body.
The pangolin had a low-slung body. After turning over, although it protected its belly with its thick back armor, it allowed the six exposed arrows to penetrate deeper into its belly. Enraged, it charged madly towards Tang Yanqiu.
Tang Yanqiu was now confident. He jumped onto the pangolin’s head again, aiming for its eyes.
The pangolin didn’t dare try the same trick again and simply closed its eyes tightly, its two large claws swatting at its head. Seeing it close its eyes so tightly, Tang Yanqiu pulled out his military knife from his boot, stabbed it into the gap of its eyelids, and pierced its eyeball. Then, without time to retract the knife, he quickly jumped away, the pangolin’s claws scraping past his boots.
The pangolin howled in pain on the ground. Tang Yanqiu had no time to waste, so he simply stabbed its other eye blind, then grabbed his bow and flew towards the depths of the forest.
It didn’t take him long to catch up with Cheng Tianbi and the others. In fact, they hadn’t run very far, constantly harassed by monsters. From a distance, he heard Cheng Tianbi let out a cry he had never heard before, a cry filled with complex emotions, “Captain—”
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