Chapter 693: Peacock and Phoenix
"It seems he took out the crystal core of the monkey queen!"
No wonder he was chased by so many monkeys. This really disturbed their nest.
Zhuang Mingxu sighed, "Your tendency to get into trouble is just as great as when you were a child."
"When I was a kid... I was quite obedient," Lu Weiyi said with some confidence.
"Yes, he looks very obedient," Zhuang Mingxu teased in a light-hearted tone, observing the surroundings and re-determining their location.
With the replenishment of a crystal core, Lu Weiyi's supernatural powers were replenished a little again. When Zhuang Mingxu was sure of his position, he picked up Taotao again and coaxed the little girl with tears in her eyes.
The jade space given to him at the beginning has not yet been fully absorbed, and because of other things that diverted his attention from time to time, it was even thrown aside from time to time. Zhuang Mingxu simply tied it up and hung it close to his body. At this time, it was exposed, and only a small piece of it was absorbed.
He didn't know what was going on and there was no one around to ask. Lu Weiyi didn't want Zhuang Mingxu to blame himself, so he could only suppress his worries in his heart.
"Those people who had jade spaces were taken away by me. You can get another one." A coin-sized jade Buddha appeared in Lu Weiyi's hand and he handed it to Zhuang Mingxu.
"You can keep it for Taotao. I've always been with you and there's no need for it." Zhuang Mingxu didn't even raise his head.
"There are several more."
"Then return the bigger one to Wu Yue and Li Zhuang." Zhuang Mingxu showed no intention of accepting it.
It was clear that he was still feeling uncomfortable, and that insisting on doing so was a form of self-punishment. Lu Weiyi did not insist and put the jade away again.
After determining the direction, the three people and the bird set out again. This time, there was a spiritual being leading the way, and no more blind animals came up.
"Does it have a name? It can't just keep chirping all the time." Although Zhuang Mingxu couldn't see the spirit body in front of him, he was never pecked to death by it, and from the animals that came later, he could also feel its lively temperament.
He quite likes such humanized little animals. The spiritual body condensed by Lu Weiyi always gives him a feeling like his childhood.
Especially when the other party caught some prey, its tail would seem to rub against him inadvertently, as if seeking praise.
Zhuang Mingxu could imagine what it looked like at that moment. It must be holding its head high and looking dignified, clearly wanting to be praised but not wanting to show it.
Exactly the same as Lu Weiyi when he was a child.
"It's called a mixed-haired chicken," Lu Weiyi said in a cold voice.
“Ga——”
"That's called a troublemaker."
"quack--"
"Or just call it a mixed-feather duck. It sounds the same as the quacking sound."
The man and the bird started arguing as if no one was around. From time to time, Zhuang Mingxu could feel the giant bird in front of him flapping its wings in anger, as if it wanted to bite someone. Lu Weiyi threatened him that if he dared to attack, he would force him to take it back. He was forced to stop, but he pretended to push Lu Weiyi unintentionally.
Her lively appearance makes people laugh.
"Okay, don't be angry with it. It's late at night. Please respect the mutant animals around you," Zhuang Mingxu advised. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Since it thinks it is a phoenix, just name it Phoenix."
Just as Lu Weiyi was about to deliberately refute, he heard Zhuang Mingxu say, "The phoenix rises from the ashes in fire and is reborn from the ashes."
Lu Weiyi immediately understood that he was referring to himself.
The peacock spirit rubbed its head against Zhuang Mingxu happily, and Zhuang Mingxu stroked its neck. The silky touch in his hand reminded Zhuang Mingxu of the mutant peacock again, "I wonder if they look the same."
"It's different." Lu Weiyi glanced at the spirit body that was peeking out from beside him and commanded it to catch the mutant animal. "It has no color and emits a halo all over its body. You can tell the difference from a living thing at a glance."
Zhuang Mingxu fantasized, “Wouldn’t that look very holy?”
Lu Weiyi looked at the figure that shuttled through the woods, pecking at the insects on the trees from time to time, "...if it doesn't move."
Although he couldn't see it, he could hear the sound like a woodpecker pecking at the tree trunk, and Zhuang Mingxu couldn't help laughing.
Looking at the person next to him who had completely unloaded his burdens, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how great it is.
He had been waiting for so long. Even though Lu Weiyi's language and thinking had been restored after his rebirth, he still had the incompatibility that had accumulated over the years. Now he had finally let go of some of it and integrated into the world.
With the spiritual body around, the journey was much safer. After absorbing several crystal cores, Zhuang Mingxu and Lu Weiyi sat directly on the phoenix and were carried by it through the woods.
Not long after, the two entered the mutant bear's territory. Zhuang Mingxu wanted to observe Lu Weiyi's combat power on the spot and make plans to measure his future opponents, so he did not enter the space.
Lu Weiyi was worried about his safety and left Phoenix with him.
The mutant bear, sensing that its territory was being invaded, kept roaring at the few people, waking up the sleeping Taotao. The child pursed her lips in unhappiness, but did not cry after Lu Weiyi gave her a finger to hold it.
Lu Weiyi stood opposite the mutant bear with his child, asking for the umpteenth time whether the person on the other end of the intercom was okay.
"etc"
In order not to affect the battle situation and to collect more intuitive observation data, Zhuang Mingxu took Phoenix for a long time before he stood firmly on a large tree branch a hundred meters away.
After all the equipment, including the walkie-talkie, telescope and night vision goggles, was put in place, he said to Lu Weiyi that we could start.
Then--
He felt a powerful pressure coming from the direction where Lu Weiyi was. He walked towards the mutant bear as if nothing had happened. The mutant bear, which had just been slapping the ground and roaring fiercely, now shouted a few degrees lower and even began to retreat.
Just when Zhuang Mingxu wanted to ask what was going on, Lu Weiyi in the telescope suddenly accelerated. When he caught sight of the other person again, he was already standing next to the mutant bear, holding a huge bloody crystal core in his hand. He was using the mini stream he had just condensed to wash away the blood stains on it. Next to him, a bear that was twice as tall as him slowly fell to the ground.
"..."Zhuang Mingxu, "?"
"What's going on?"
"Huh?" Lu Weiyi was puzzled. "He's dead."
"Just... just died like that?" Zhuang Mingxu was even more incredulous.
He saw nothing at all.
"..." Lu Weiyi was silent for a moment, then asked, "Do you still remember the scene where SS-level psychics hunted C-level zombies?"
Zhuang Mingxu didn't respond, so he knew that the other party had thought of it, "I just don't have enough energy, not that I don't have any superpowers at all. This mutant animal is so much different from others..."
Lu Weiyi didn't say anything else, but he had made his intention of using a butcher knife to kill a chicken very clear.
Zhuang Mingxu looked at the instruments in front of him and felt like a fool.
When he and Phoenix returned to Lu Weiyi, he had already absorbed the crystal core he had just obtained, with a look of unsatisfied desire on his face, "This level is not enough, I need a higher level."
Looking at the time, most of the night had passed. They couldn't waste any more time like this. Lu Weiyi said to Zhuang Mingxu, "You take the Taotao Golden Space, and Fenghuang and I will go hunt the mutant animals."
Without waiting for Zhuang Mingxu to refute, he assured, "I only kill S-level ones, and leave immediately if I encounter higher levels."
S-level is already a very powerful existence in Zhuang Mingxu's eyes.
But he knew better that the higher the level, the higher the level of crystal cores were needed. He told Lu Weiyi the direction of the Mountain God Base, nodded reluctantly and took Taotao into the space, but he was thinking about artificially catalyzing some high-level mutant animals for their use.
Without the people restraining him, Lu Weiyi breathed a sigh of relief. The phoenix became even more attention-seeking. In its eyes, there was no difference in level. It would peck at insects without super powers, and would attack animals with super powers immediately.
It fully demonstrates the image of being fearless.
Lu Weiyi was forced to experience a few minutes of swimming in the mutant bees' nest. He was almost submerged in the honey and came out sticky. He also experienced being stuck in the mutant spider's web and saw the thrill of long legs that were as tall as him moving towards him step by step.
He visually felt a toad as tall as him spraying venom at people, and was almost eaten by a Venus flytrap.
Zhuang Mingxu in the space was not worried at first, but when he saw all kinds of strange and mutant creatures that he had never seen before entering the space, the calmness on his face gradually began to crack.
He suspected that they had not entered the same world. He had clearly spent a harsh winter at the foot of Lao Mountain and even led a team across a mountain to look for mutated plants, but he had never seen animals with so many changes.
Many of them still maintained their original form and could be recognized at a glance, but their size had changed more than a little. The smallest bee in sight was as tall as a three-year-old child, and the sting on its tail could pierce a person through.
Zhuang Mingxu remembered that when they passed through the Ping'an base, Su Yan and his team were also attacked by mutant bees. The largest stinger they removed was only a few centimeters. It had only been a few years...
Thinking of the communication that has not been restored yet, Zhuang Mingxu felt a little worried. He was not sure whether the unique environment here caused the creatures to grow so huge, or whether the whole world had changed again.
While he was worried, the man and the bird outside started quarreling again.
"If you can't lead the way, then go back to the conscious area and rest. What are you walking to?"
Phoenix had once again bravely entered the mutant wild boar's territory. Although it quickly took out two S-level crystal cores, the man and the bird had no tacit understanding, so it flapped its wings and fled, leaving Lu Weiyi surrounded.
Even though he was an SSS-level psychic, he was not familiar with the jungle, especially at night which slowed down his movement speed. Under the desperate attack of a group of mutant wild boars, he had to kill them all.
Before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, Phoenix came towards him with a tiger cub in its mouth, stuffed it into his arms, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Behind it, there were two mutant tigers in their prime, staring at him with bared teeth.
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