Only after they had created some distance did they finally get a full view of the mutated giant snail.
The mutated torso looked plump and full, like a huge, juicy lychee jelly. The wet, mucus on the surface of the torso was translucent and faintly emitted a peculiar fishy smell.
Unlike its slow, crawling pace before the apocalypse, the mutated giant snail is like a rampaging mini-tank, its plump foot almost like tank tracks, allowing it to move at lightning speed.
Wherever it passed, the withered grass and trees touched by the sap were instantly corroded and turned into black ash.
The giant snail that led the attack failed, and tilted its head to softly examine Wu Hainan's orange down jacket.
"Be good, listen to me. If you hit my friend, you can't hit me, okay?"
Wu Hainan winked at the giant snail.
Jiang Qichen was furious and rushed over to pull him away, yelling, "What time is it! Still spouting nonsense!"
The next moment, a round hole suddenly opened below the snail's tentacles, and a dark shadow shot swiftly toward Wu Hainan's location.
Wu Hainan subconsciously raised the fire shield.
Pfft!
Before anyone could react, the dark shadow had already pierced through Wu Hainan's shoulder blade and then quickly retracted.
Blood splattered on the dark, icy surface, a shocking expanse of red.
"What the hell? It's even evolved into a hidden weapon!" Wu Hainan clutched his shoulder, wincing in pain.
"It's a snail's radula!" Lu Sheng threw out a huge electric net, trapping the mutated snails underneath. "Juan'er, temporarily surround them with an earthen wall!"
The small hole beneath the snail's tentacles is its mouth, concealing a long, thin tongue covered in serrated teeth. Judging from Wu Hainan's wound, the snail's evolution has reached the point where its teeth are armed; even its radula has mutated into a saw.
After being fed several jugs of crystal core juice by Lu Sheng over the past few days, Zhang Xiaojuan's earth-type ability has broken through to the third level.
The hardness and height of the earthen wall that was summoned at will underwent a qualitative change.
A dozen giant snails were trapped inside the earthen wall, anxiously banging against it and making dull thuds.
"This thing is so slimy and disgusting! Let's just blow it up!"
Sun Di's eyes watered from the stench of the slimy substance. He pulled a new type of grenade from his pocket and threw it into the wall.
"Don't throw it away!"
Before Lu Sheng could finish speaking, the grenade had already fallen into the earthen wall along a parabola and was swallowed by an unlucky jelly snail.
boom!
A huge explosion rang out.
Countless sticky fragments and scalding liquid splattered like meteors as they crashed down on the two groups of people.
Zhang Xiaojuan and Sun Tiantian immediately raised earthen shields and ice walls, placing them over the heads of the group.
The fragments from the exploding snail resembled countless incendiary bombs, quickly leaving large and small corrosive pits on the ground upon impact.
Fortunately, Lu Sheng's shout alerted his people, and the earth shields and ice walls were erected in time.
Jiang Qichen wasn't so lucky.
The ice wall erected by Li Song alone only withstood two rounds before being burned with several large holes by the corrosive fragments.
Wu Hainan was already injured, and the liquid splattered from the body parts burned his buttocks.
Xiao Lin summoned vines to protect Jiang Qichen and Sun Di, but his own arm was corroded and mangled.
It took more than ten seconds for the aftershocks of the explosion to finally subside.
"Juan'er, reinforce the wall first." Lu Sheng got up and looked around. Two snails had been blown up inside the earthen wall, and the remaining snails were completely enraged. A crack had already appeared on the edge of the earthen wall.
"We'll help too!"
To increase the stability of the wall, Xiao Yu and Zhang Xiaojuan worked together, their two dragons, one water dragon and one earth dragon, intertwined and smashed into it.
The viscous mud completely sealed the cracks in the earthen wall, and with Sun Tiantian's ice spike spell rapidly freezing them, it temporarily stopped the giant snail's powerful charge.
"Snail bodies are 80% water. If you throw a grenade in, it will only blow up the corrosive liquid of the mutated snail everywhere."
Lu Sheng glanced at the still-shaken Sun Di, his tone tinged with anger, "From now on, all your actions must be approved by me, otherwise we'll part ways now."
Sun Di knew he had gotten himself into trouble, so he pursed his lips and hid behind Wu Hainan.
"What do we do now?"
Jiang Qichen's expression was complicated, revealing no sign of anger or resentment. In the end, he simply asked in a deep voice.
"You guys go back to the car and heal your wounds first. I'll handle the rest," Lu Sheng said coldly, glancing at them.
Wu Hainan, clutching his scalded buttocks, limped closer and asked, "Is there any possibility that we can just drive away?"
“Snails have an extremely keen sense of smell, and cars can’t keep up with giant snails. Moreover, if a military truck is hit by corrosive liquid, the doors will deform and everyone inside will be trapped.”
"Drive to the next intersection first, I'll catch up with you in ten minutes," Lu Sheng ordered without further ado.
Jiang Qichen and his men knew they were in the wrong, so they didn't ask any more questions and took Sun Tiantian and the others to get in the car and continue on their way.
Only after the military truck completely disappeared from sight did Lu Sheng take out two bags of large-particle industrial salt from his spatial storage.
She coiled the strong spider silk she had previously captured, looping one end around the protruding corner of the earthen wall and holding the other end in her hand.
Lu Sheng gripped the spider silk, used it to leap up the uneven earthen wall, and poured both bags of industrial salt onto the giant snail.
The moment the coarse industrial salt touched the giant snail's moist body, it stung them, causing them to writhe wildly.
Salt can dissolve the mucus on the surface of snails and cause cell dehydration due to osmosis.
This is considered a safe and pollution-free treatment method.
Sure enough, not long after the industrial salt was sprinkled on, a lot of sticky moisture seeped out from under the bodies of these giant snails.
Before long, the giant snail, which was like a small tank, turned into a small ball the size of a fist, leaving only empty shells.
[Item Obtained: Giant Snail Slime x5 (can corrode any item, be careful not to ingest it)]
[Item Obtained: 5 Salt Bombs (Highly Destructive Inhumane Explosives)]
[Items Obtained: 10 Intermediate Crystal Cores]
[Bonus Reward: 50,000 points]
Lu Sheng placed the salt bomb in the most convenient spot in the room, then got up and caught up with Jiang Qichen and the others' car.
After meeting up, neither group was in the mood to talk in the car.
This accident drained the Desert Eagle team of their strength and abilities. Except for Jiang Qichen, who was injured, the entire team was wounded, and Wu Hainan had a large burn mark on his buttocks, leaving him ashamed and lying face down on the car.
Although Shiraishi of the Desert Eagle Squad had reached the third level in healing abilities, healing so many people at once, coupled with his own serious injuries, had left him completely exhausted.
The car sped northwest and finally stopped at the entrance to a mountain road.
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