Chapter 237 One wave after another.
"This won't do!" Gu Qi said. "The headlights have too narrow a range; we can't see anything in the woods, and there are just too many of them!"
Lu Xici: "Gu Wan, throw fireballs and set this area in front of us on fire. I'll control the fire to prevent it from spreading, so don't worry about throwing them..."
Gu Wan had just thrown out three or four fireballs when the ground suddenly trembled violently.
The pebbles at their feet began to tremble, as if some enormous creature was moving underground.
The ground suddenly bulged up, and the gravel bounced up like popcorn.
Lu Nange's mental power was the first to sense the danger: "There's something underground!"
Chi Yanzhou reacted extremely quickly, and a bolt of lightning struck the epicenter of the tremor, creating a crater two meters in diameter on the ground.
Amidst the smoke and dust, a pair of yellow, vertical pupils suddenly opened.
Everyone: "A mutated pangolin?"
Jiang Zhian: "Where would we get pangolins from in Ping City?"
He Zhuo: "God, this is too outrageous! It even spawns jungle monsters, right?"
As the smoke cleared, the mutated pangolin was revealed in its entirety; all the scales on its back were metallic, with edges as sharp as knives.
Even more terrifying is that its tail forks into three bone whips at the end, which are lashing at the crowd at a speed that is difficult to see with the naked eye!
"boom!"
Lu Beiye's golden shield was dented from being struck.
"Leave it to me!" Chi Yanzhou's body surged with lightning, and a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket, mixed with a column of water, struck the pangolin's head, causing its scales to stand on end.
At the same time, a dense flapping sound came from the sky—hundreds of mutated bats formed a dark cloud and pressed down from above.
They have two pairs of deformed membranes, and their swollen green vesicles on their abdomens wriggle constantly as they fly, with corrosive liquid churning inside.
"Acid bats!" Chi Yanzhou shouted, breaking his fight with the pangolin, "Don't let them get close!"
Lu Nange: "Zhuo-ge, Ji Xian-ge, shields up! Gangzi, clear out the bats!"
"Don't worry, my beauty!"
Gangzi shrieked and charged into the swarm of bats, its broad wings flapping violently. The cold air instantly froze more than a dozen bats into ice blocks, which then crashed to the ground with a crackling sound.
"Watch out behind you!" Lu Nange's warning came a step too late.
A stream of acid shot out from the shadows, striking Gangzi squarely in the wings.
With a hiss, a wisp of smoke rose, and the feather was instantly corroded, leaving two large holes.
"Ouch! Beauty! Gangzi...it hurts so much!" The macaw cried out and spun around before falling.
"Zhizhi!" Lu Nange shouted urgently.
From among the originally sprawling vines, one instantly retracted its sharp thorns, softly wrapped around the shrunken and drooping Gangzi, and steadily handed him into Wen Qing's arms.
A healing aura emanated from Wen Qing's palm as she carefully wrapped the injured wing.
Gangzi buried its head in its wings, looking aggrieved, and began to sob.
"Back-to-back defense!" Lu Nange shouted sharply, withdrawing her released mental energy.
She raised her hands, and dozens of wind blades intertwined above her head, forming a violent tornado that forcefully pushed the dark swarm of bats towards the mountains and forests.
The bats caught in the wind blades were instantly torn to pieces, and green acid poured down, landing on the trees and the ground, causing them to sizzle as it corroded them.
Lu Xici's curtain of fire formed a moving circle of light around everyone, and the flickering flames illuminated more threats hidden in the darkness.
Just as the battle was at a stalemate, a rustling sound came from the distant tree canopy.
Countless silvery-white threads fell from the sky, trapping more than a dozen mutated bats.
The unfortunate prey were quickly dragged up to the treetops and instantly wrapped up in cocoons.
"It's a swarm of spiders!" Lu Xici's fire curtain illuminated the treetop—where hundreds of spider cocoons hung, some still writhing violently.
"Holy crap!" He Zhu stomped his foot, sending earth spikes flying that pierced through two mutated hedgehogs. "We haven't even finished killing the hedgehogs, and then the pangolins appear, followed by a swarm of bats, and now even spiders are coming in droves? This damn heavens, why bother with all this roundabout stuff? Just kill me already!"
Gu Qi interrupted coldly, "Who are you cursing at? Save your energy, the spider swarm is coming."
Not far away, Lu Nange flicked her finger, and a wind blade shredded the last few acid bats, causing blood mist to spread.
On the other side, Chi Yanzhou and Gu Qi's teamwork was perfect—lightning exploded in the water mist, shattering the giant pangolin's scales.
The pangolin collapsed to the ground with a thud, its three bone whips twitching spasmodically a few times, clearly on the verge of death.
The mutated spiders swarmed rapidly along the silvery-white spider silk toward Lu Nange and the others. On their swollen bellies, the pale skull patterns flickered with each breath.
Eight covered eyes glowed orange in the darkness, like will-o'-the-wisps hanging in a graveyard.
Lu Xici leaned closer to Lu Nange: "Nannan, how about I give you some explosives and I'll blow them up?"
A blinding beam of light suddenly shot in from afar.
The engines of the military off-road vehicle roared as it approached, kicking up clouds of dust.
"People from the military!" Lu Nange.
General Cheng's gruff voice came through the loudspeaker: "You little brats! Did I arrive just in time?"
A dense hail of bullets poured into the jungle in an instant, scattering branches and leaves.
The lead car braked suddenly, and Jiang Jing jumped off, followed closely by the Jiang family's superhumans.
"Dad?" Jiang Zhian was both surprised and delighted: "How did you all..."
"Nonsense!" Jiang Jing glared. "Do you think I'd let you two little brats go back on your own? Besides, I need to say goodbye to Xiao Lu and the others in person!"
When General Cheng strode over, the mutated pangolin was already dead, and Zhizhi even rolled back the crystal core.
He patted Chi Yanzhou on the shoulder: "Little Chi, are you alright?"
Chi Yanzhou shook his head: "Uncle Cheng, I'm fine. How come you..."
"I felt something was wrong as soon as I received your call." General Cheng glanced at the still dark sky. "The weather was too eerie; I was worried something might have happened to you. Luckily, you made it in time."
He Zhuo: "Brother Yan, let's stop talking! This thing can't be cut or burned!"
"Shi Xu!" Lu Nange shouted.
Shi Xu, who had been blinded by rage, suddenly turned around and darted to her side in a few leaps: "Lu Lu?"
Lu Nange pointed to the approaching spiders and said, "Leave the rest to them. Shi Xu, will you help me deal with those spiders?"
Shi Xu: "I'll listen to Lu Lu..."
The moment he closed his eyes, a whooshing sound came from afar—"Bang!" A spider that was about to pounce exploded.
Seeing that Shi Xu's mental power was effective against the spider, the others began to deal with the hedgehog with peace of mind.
Chi Yanzhou: "Uncle Cheng, these mutated animals are a menace if left alive. We'll try our best to exterminate them, but if there's really no other way, we'll have to burn this mountain down."
General Cheng: "If the fire gets out of control, the entire city of Ping..."
"No, it won't." Lightning crackled at Chi Yanzhou's fingertips. "Brother Ci's fire-based abilities allow him to control the range of the fire."
General Cheng nodded: "Do it your way!"
Lu Xici raised his arms, and crimson waves of fire surged out like a tide, but stopped abruptly three meters away from the trees, forming a perfect wall of fire.
At the foot of the mountain, a row of military vehicles simultaneously turned on their high beams, the bright beams illuminating the trees in front of them.
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