Chapter 179 178. Encounter

In the cave where old trees and swamps overlap, the mud is as thick as ink, swallowing up all the light from the fireflies above.

A group of mud monsters are indulging in it, enjoying the comfort of a hotbed.

Compared to other monsters living in the same cave, such as beetles, swamp pythons or fog frogs, the number of mud monsters has grown like weeds.

Just a few days ago, their population numbered less than twenty.

Such explosive reproduction is all thanks to a "feast" - the dead Pujis have abundant magic power in their bodies, and decomposing any one of them can cause the mud monster to split three times.

The reason they can reproduce so quickly is purely because the resources are so abundant.

A mud monster lazily half-floated on the surface of the mud, quietly dissolving the last third of puff remaining in its body.

Suddenly, its body trembled, and several bubbles quietly rose up with a slight "pop" sound.

Also emerging was a new individual that was two sizes smaller.

The ignorant newborn mud monster grabbed a dead branch and stuffed it into its body. The food had already been divided up by its predecessors, so it could only find some branches to eat as it was just born.

The sudden split made the original mud monster a little smaller. It sank to the bottom of the mud and rolled around, replenishing some mud and water into its body.

There were faint sounds of movement above the quagmire.

When it floated up again, the newborn mud monster had disappeared, and only a dead branch broken into three pieces was floating beside it.

Before its simple consciousness could piece together what was happening, a magic cannon accurately hit its body.

Snap——

The mud monster's body exploded instantly, but it did not die immediately.

The mud monster had no vital parts, so it only lost blood when attacked. The remaining parts struggled to gather themselves together again...

A foot stepped down with tremendous force!

The remaining body exploded and the mud monster died completely.

Louisa's half body was in the mud, and she moved forward with a gloomy face.

It had not been long since Cave No. 8 was occupied, and apart from the mud monsters, there were not many monsters of various types.

But the environment here was so smelly, dirty and disgusting that she had to step in personally to make sure all the mud monsters were destroyed.

Even the monsters living here had smelly blood when drawn from it, which made her lose her appetite.

I was disgusted the first time I attacked Cave No. 8, but I didn’t expect to have to do it a second time.

The Pujis are very adaptable to this environment. They move their legs faster and can even run on the surface of the mud.

Although there are a large number of mud monsters, most of them are newly split individuals and have not grown up at all.

After only half a day, the entire cave was cleaned up and became suitable for Puji to survive.

Thanks to the fact that the monsters did not completely destroy the fungal blanket, Louisa did not need to wait for the fungal blanket to spread like she did the first time. She could go directly to the next cave - the basilisk cave that she failed to defeat last time.

It was another daunting place, and Louisa was prepared to waste a few days there.

However, when she actually stepped into the entrance of the snake cave, she immediately discovered something strange - the hissing sound and rustling sound of scales rubbing against each other that should have been everywhere in the depths of the snake cave had disappeared.

Snake holes of varying sizes still lurked on the rock walls, but no living creatures were crawling through them.

Louisa frowned and went deeper, surrounded by Puji.

The entire snake cave was shrouded in a suffocating silence, as if all the snake monsters had evaporated overnight.

At the deepest part of the snake cave is a huge pit with layers of dry, gray-white snake skins piled up at the bottom.

Relying on her night vision, Louisa found some broken snake eggs under the gray and white snake skins.

The snake's cavity did not burst naturally after birth, but was directly crushed to the ground.

Then he captured some scattered dragging marks on the ground - not the winding S-shape of a snake, but rough straight scrapes, as if something heavy was being forcibly dragged away.

The air nearby was also filled with the smell of snake blood, but it was already very faint. If she wasn't a vampire, she probably wouldn't be able to tell it.

"Destroyed by... something?" Louisa whispered to herself.

prey?

But what monster could have done this?

These invaders, apart from these useless snake skins and the blood that almost dissipated in the air, did not even leave behind a piece of the basilisk's skeleton, which can be said to be a very clean meal.

Even the oldest fungal mats will leave behind some hard bones that are difficult to decompose.

Ordinary monsters would always leave some residues and crumbs after a full meal, but would never do it so thoroughly.

But if it was a monster like a slime, there would be no reason for these snake skins to be left behind.

For a moment, Louisa couldn't think of any known monster's habits that would match the situation before her.

Look at this snake cave, I wonder how many years it took the basilisks to reach this size. The fact that the basilisks can exist here for so long is enough to prove that there are no natural enemies around that can completely exterminate them.

Louisa thought it was most likely something that came out of the crack.

Looking around, Louisa suddenly raised her lips and said, "Is this considered a ready-made gift?"

Is it good news that I don’t have to eliminate the basilisk bit by bit by myself?

Sniff——

Just as Louisa was about to call Puji to start spreading the spores, the tip of her nose twitched slightly.

She smelled a familiar scent...

Louisa held up a finger, and a tiny ball of blood gathered at the tip of her finger.

Instead of weaving the blood threads as usual, she flicked her fingers and the scarlet spot fell to the ground.

A crescent-shaped scarlet thin blade suddenly extended from the ground and swept forward like lightning!

In the empty air, a series of teeth-grinding "crackling" sounds suddenly rang out!

The light twisted and shattered strangely, and countless beetle corpses with their disguises broken appeared out of thin air!

Purple body fluids spurted out violently from their bodies, which were less than ten centimeters long. Wherever the blood blades passed, a dazzling purple blood corridor was plowed out.

The dead silence lasted only a moment.

The next moment, the dense and hair-raising crawling sounds came rushing in from all directions like a tide!

The two short legs of the outermost Puji were instantly cut off by the ferocious giant pincers on the beetle's head, and it was then completely swallowed up by the surging tide of beetles.

Then the self-destruction started...

Many bugs were blown away, but more of them swarmed around.

Louisa decisively transformed into a bat and flew out quickly. She had a serious psychological trauma from this situation of fighting one against many.

At the same time, she moved her mind, and those Pujis that could not outrun the beetles all turned around and rushed into the insect swarm, turning into gorgeous fireworks.

"Boss! The guy you're looking for!"

The guy I'm looking for?

Lin Jun, who was teaching Norris skills, paid some attention back to the front line.

【Magic Perception LV7】

【Sound wave detection LV6】

The enemy that Louisa encountered soon appeared in Lin Jun's perception.

[Race: Chiss-Claw Beetle]

[Level: LV9]

[Racial Talent: Heartless]

[Fixed Effect: Mind Control]

[Skills: Cold Resistance LV5, Refraction Invisibility LV4, Giant Pincer Attack LV3, Chitin Shell LV3...]

In addition to the huge number of beetles, Lin Jun also swept out a guy that Louisa did not notice.

[Race: Qis-Eyeworm]

[Level: LV31]

[Racial Talents: Careless, Floating]

[Fixed effects: Mind Control, Mind Node]

[Skills: Night Vision LV7, Refraction Invisibility LV6, Acceleration LV6, Cold Resistance LV6...]

Is this the eyeball Norris was talking about?

(End of this chapter)