The black cat's whole body was tense, and his mind was filled with images of those insects covered with short white hairs rolling and squirming. Not surprisingly, if the raging swarm of insects flooded the camp, Senior Sister Kolma's low-match trio
The human expedition team could not hold on for more than a minute before they would be eaten clean by those bugs.
Although Zheng Qing has never been bitten by a corpse-eating beetle, he has seen the scene of marching ants on TV - it is so vast and unstoppable that all organic matter along the way is turned into food for the insect swarm, leaving only a field of bare stones and
Although mud and corpse-eating beetles are not the same species as army ants, they pose no less of a threat to black cats.
If they catch up, they will definitely eat them up and wipe them clean, leaving only a pile of clean bones!
In his mind, he imagined a poisoned black cat lying swollen and limp in the forest, staring blankly at the sky, with corpse-eating beetles crawling all over its body. Zheng Qing couldn't help but shuddered and ran faster and faster.
One step, two steps...A red lightning suddenly flashed across his mind.
The black cat's pace slowly slowed down.
A strange emotion spread from the bottom of his heart - why am I so scared? Behind him is the exit of the secret realm, and there is a line of defense around it. Just retreat normally. Why was he thinking so much and being so scared just now?
Then a question came to his mind:
What did these bugs eat to survive before? According to the number of their groups, even the entire Silent Forest can hardly satisfy their appetite, let alone this underdeveloped secret world.
In addition, the appearance of the endless swarm of insects was too coincidental, and the image of the swarm of insects raging came to mind. The rustling sound of the swarm, which was low in front and high in the back, vaguely revealed a bit of deliberateness.
The black cat stopped.
"Wait a minute," he growled, turning to look at the dark forest behind him: "Do you feel weird?"
"What's weird? Run, run out first and talk!" Korma grabbed the Dharma book in one hand and the talisman in the other, staring nervously at the gap between the ancient locust trees: "There are still fifteen seconds to go.
Open the exit of the secret realm. Faceless will retreat first later, followed by Black Cat. I will hold the line... After Faceless goes out, be sure to strengthen the defense of the camp in the Silent Forest immediately, and be careful not to capsize in the ditch."
Elena nodded silently, leaning against the exit of the secret realm, carefully paying attention to the movements in the woods to the left and right.
The rustling footsteps of the insects swarming behind the bushes seemed to become more rapid.
"The ecological environment of the secret realm cannot support such a large swarm of insects." The black cat raised its ears, and its two pupils flashed with thought: "I mean... what do they usually eat?"
Kolma, who was maintaining the ceremony, stiffened for a moment.
The gypsy witch glanced at the black cat thoughtfully: "Maybe these are some mutated bugs that usually lie dormant underground... and only wake up when they encounter prey?"
The black cat chuckled: "Hey... mutation also needs to pay attention to the basic process. Don't mutated bugs need to eat to reproduce? For such a large bug swarm, regardless of daily survival, simply allowing them to be born requires a large number of corpses.
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As he spoke, he glanced at the rabbit carcasses discarded at the edge of the forest, and added: "These rabbits alone cannot support so many bugs. If there are really so many bugs, these rabbits cannot grow so fat."
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"Perhaps they feast on the sun, drink the dew, and eat wood, stone chips, and soil." Korma finally turned around and glanced at the black cat.
The black cat tilted its ears, paying attention to the movements in the forest, and its expression became more determined: "If they eat wood, stone chips and soil, then what do we have to worry about?"
The leader of the expedition team finally gave up arguing with the black cat.
"What do you want?" She still maintained the magic ritual of exiting, just in case.
"Give me a Pure Heart Talisman...it's included in the stack of talisman papers I gave you before." The black cat stared intently into the depths of the forest and ordered softly: "You all should use one too."
Without Korma's order, the gypsy witch shook her hands and threw out a Pure Heart Talisman, which landed on the black cat's forehead. In the blink of an eye, three straight wisps of green smoke rose up in front of the crack of the ancient locust tree, quietly
The sound disappeared among the heavy canopy of trees.
The originally panicked expressions of the two witches quickly calmed down. At the same time, the rustling in Zheng Qing's ears and the frightening images in his mind faded a lot at the same time and almost disappeared.
Korma bit her lip with an annoyed look on her face.
There is no doubt that they just experienced an extremely realistic hallucination. She almost, almost gave up on this first expedition mission. Although the basic data of this secret world has been collected by the expedition team,
But the gap between the task completion degree of 50% and the task completion degree of 100% is obvious.
No one has that much time to waste on the way in and out of the Silent Forest.
Although he was annoyed in his heart, Kolma was not impulsive, but showed the qualities of a qualified hunter.
She quietly gestured to her two companions and changed the follow-up mission.
'Since the unknown creature only dares to hide in the woods and use illusions, it means that its actual combat power is very weak.'
'The black cat climbed up the tree and ambush me from above.'
'Faceless and the captain set out from both sides, outflanking them from left to right.'
The two witches had talismans such as 'Transformation', 'Light Body' and 'Breath Condensation' affixed to their bodies. They crossed the edge of the camp and quietly went behind the bushes. Compared with them, the black cat was born with corresponding skills.
, so those talismans were no longer wasted.
There was a black cat with keen senses and a witch who was good at divination in the team, and they quickly located the suspect at the edge of a small puddle less than 20 meters away from the camp.
Or, to use a more accurate word, 'suspect bug'.
It was a fat, white guy, about an inch thick and a foot long, and looked like a slug. There was a ring of black tentacles of different lengths on its head, which looked like the tentacles of a snail.
When the black cat stared at it, it was sitting on the edge of the puddle, and the tentacles on its head were rising and falling, as if it was accompanying a beautiful piece of music.
Until two witches blocked it in front of the puddle.
The tentacles on the head of the 'slug' stopped flapping. The illusions in Zheng Qing's and others' minds and the rustling sounds imitating the footsteps of a swarm of insects in their ears also stopped abruptly.
The truth is revealed.
"Crack!"
There was a crisp sound, and the fat white insect was stepped on by Kolma and turned into a pulp. I don't know if it was an illusion, but the black cat felt that the light around it flickered for a moment, as if a light bulb was broken.
It raised its head and looked at the sun and moon hanging in the sky.
The sun and moon stayed there dimly, exactly as they were when first seen.
The black cat shook his head, getting rid of the doubts in his heart.
"You are such a waste." Black Cat looked at the cold mutant insect with some heartache: "Bring it back alive, even if you don't exchange credits, you can still make a lot of money in the wandering bar."
"It's not our purpose." The leader of the expedition team replied simply: "Besides, I hate bugs!"
The black cat sighed and finally did not clean up the mess.