Chapter 481: Mutated Ape
Without hesitation, he decided to turn around and bypass the opponent. Naturally, he did not realize that the final result of the battle between the two beasts was that the mutant gibbon swiftly took out the crystal core of the mutant black bear.
The fist-sized crystal core was stuffed into the mutant long-armed monkey's mouth along with flesh and blood. However, it felt something more attractive and the monkey looked in the direction Liu Rui left.
After a moment, he grabbed a branch with one hand and wandered after him.
The huge body was extremely flexible. Just as Liu Rui was about to climb up the tree to re-determine his position, he felt a stream of water with murderous intent hitting him.
Thinking he had run into a teammate, Liu Rui was delighted and quickly moved away and looked back, only to see a mutant monkey with injuries all over its body looking at him.
The close distance allowed him to clearly see the opponent's scarred body. The loss of hair to cover the scars was a medal of every battle.
Liu Rui was startled, and then the mutant monkey leaped towards him flexibly, grabbing him with its deformed and overlong arms. Behind him was a crisscrossing forest, and there was no escape. Three fireballs as big as ping-pong balls suddenly shot out from Liu Rui's body, one went towards the opponent's big hand, another went towards his legs and feet, and another hit him directly on the vines wandering in the woods.
Even though the monkey's IQ was not low, it still found it difficult to defend against attacks from three directions at the same time. The first thing to notice the attack was the outstretched hand, and the high temperature ignited its thick hair with a hissing sound. By the time it felt the pain, the fireball had already drilled into its flesh at an extremely fast speed.
The mutant gibbon was startled and swung his hands vigorously twice, but the fireball went deeper. He roared, revealing his ferocious teeth with bloodshot eyes. The other hand that was holding the vine was also attacked, forcing him to let go immediately and fall from the air with a loud "bang", which shook Liu Rui twice.
He felt as if the ground had become brittle.
Both hands and thighs were hit by fireballs at the same time. The mutant gibbon became enraged and automatically mobilized countless strong water streams from its body to pull out the fireballs that had entered its body.
The condensed high-temperature fireball can melt the surrounding skin the moment it enters the human body, and combine with water to turn into boiling water in an instant. Liu Rui saw that the skin around the wound turned pale and lost its vitality, and it looked like it was completely cooked.
His heart skipped a beat. Although he couldn't be sure of the mutant monkey's level, the instinctive ferocity displayed by the other party made Liu Rui feel uneasy.
He was hesitating whether to run away or fight hard.
If they ran away, it would be easy to lose Xu Sa's direction. On the bright side, even if they did not take the wrong path, they would end up bringing this huge beast to where Xu Sa was, and the two of them would face this beast alone...
Just as he was hesitating, the mutant gibbon slapped its chest, let out a long roar towards the sky, and ran towards Liu Rui with its teeth bared. At the same time, the surrounding water vapor condensed into a circle of water curtain that trapped others inside.
Liu Rui immediately controlled a fire dragon to surround his body. Hissing steam rolled and water droplets scattered everywhere, falling on his clothes and immediately forming a bubble.
This was the first time that Liu Rui felt burned after awakening to become a fire-type mutant. Ignoring the new pain in his body, a huge fire dragon suddenly burst out from his body and rushed towards the mutant ape.
The mutant ape had just suffered a loss from the fire tongue, and immediately dodged when it saw this. It blocked part of it with its random water arrows, and formed a water shield in mid-air to block most of the fire dragon. At this time, fireballs of varying sizes hidden in it passed through the water shield and attacked.
The mutant monkey retreated immediately, but Liu Rui, knowing that he was difficult to deal with, quickly ignited the circle of bushes in front of him. With the help of his supernatural powers, even though the surroundings were dark and damp, the trees burned at an extremely fast speed, instantly igniting the monkey's long hair.
Immediately, all the hair on his body was scorched into curls, and the mutant monkey formed a circle of water film around his body to protect himself. At the same time, he began to attack Liu Rui with his own brute force, and hit the opponent's head.
Liu Rui knew he was no match for the mutant monkey and turned around to flee. The trees were toppled over and over by the mutant monkey's great force, with one or two being uprooted from time to time.
Liu Rui kept walking, and fireballs kept shooting back from his body. The mutant monkey became more and more reckless in its anger, and along with his Tarzan-like physique, water droplets condensed in the air were chasing him. The water droplets suspended in the air gradually changed from the size of a needle tip to the state of water droplets.
Liu Rui had seen this move of Ning Yuan, the most aggressive water-based mutant in the team. Thousands of water droplets spun and hit the zombies in an instant, turning them into a sieve in an instant.
Liu Rui, who had been walking and fighting all night, did not have sufficient supernatural powers. After several confrontations with the mutant apes, his supernatural powers and physical strength were quickly overdrawn. Even when he sensed danger and forced himself to condense his supernatural powers to protect himself, he was unable to use much supernatural power. Just when he doubted that he could not get out of here.
As the mutant monkey once again pulled up a tree that was blocking the way, the ground beneath his feet began to shake. Liu Rui, who didn't know what was happening, looked down in confusion and saw a crack in the ground along the direction of the man and the monkey. Mud and vegetation were falling down. He reacted very quickly and grabbed a hanging vine to secure himself.
However, when the mutant monkey landed again, it fell directly to the ground. It waved its arms and tried to grab something, but everything it grabbed fell with it.
The sudden situation interrupted its ability. Liu Rui was holding the cane and before he could finish vomiting, the backpack on his shoulders was grabbed by him, dragging him down to the bottomless ground...
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The pulling force from behind was so great that even though Liu Rui held on to the vine as thick as his arm with all his strength, he still fell into the ground along with the vine. His fire ability was of no help at this moment. He looked up at the sky blocked by the dense forest, but not a single ray of light could be seen under the hazy cover.
There was a sound of the mutant monkey falling to the ground, but one of its hands was still able to steadily pull Liu Rui down. It was estimated that the height was probably more than ten meters, which was not high for a mutant monkey, but a human would probably be half dead if he fell down.
I don't know if I will die immediately...
I wonder if I can wait until a healing psychic saves him...
have no idea……
Can I still see Xu Sa?
Tears fell from the corners of her eyes. It seemed that she would not have the chance to accompany him through this difficult end of the world.
Liu Rui struggled for a few times, his strength draining away. As he was getting farther and farther away from the crack, just before he closed his eyes resignedly, a face as delicate as a sculpture appeared in his field of vision.
Liu Rui's eyes suddenly widened, and he murmured in disbelief, "Brother Sa!"
"Throw away the backpack!" Xu Sa hung himself upside down on a big tree nearby with a rope, shouting, and a thick bolt of lightning struck the mutant monkey that was holding Liu Rui's arm.
After absorbing most of the night's lightning, Xu Sa's supernatural powers were mostly restored.
He had been hanging on the tree for a long time before, so he naturally saw the flickering fire in the distance. If he couldn't be sure of the situation at first, then seeing that the other party was moving towards here, he immediately confirmed that it was a teammate.
Among the team going out this time, only three people have fire-related abilities, but the only one who can clearly distinguish that this lightning application belongs to him is Liu Rui.
In this kind of environment which is not suitable for marching at all, normal soldiers would only look for a safe place to stay. Only Liu Rui, who had no life experience, would stubbornly rush towards him.
Xu Sa touched his chest, where his heart was beating violently, as if it would jump out at any moment. A heat surged in his blood, making his body boil after being drenched by heavy rain for half the night.
If it were a few years ago, he would never have imagined that such a little stutterer could affect his heart so much.
But it was this person who made him clearly realize that he was the one chosen without any consideration.
Xu Sa couldn't help but grin and look at the half mountain that stretched between the two of them. Between going to meet him and staying where he was, he chose the latter.
The thunder and lightning gradually disappeared, but the lightning balls still flashed on the treetops from time to time, guiding the direction for those coming.
Xu Sa went down to the ground and scattered the corpses of animals killed by lightning around him. He picked up a few small, half-cooked ones and filled his stomach with the tasteless and dry food. After collecting a few more and waiting for Liu Rui to come and eat them together, he returned to the tree and discharged lightning from time to time.
After a few hours, the intensity of the fire-based abilities that flashed from time to time along the way decreased significantly, and Xu Sa knew that Liu Rui's abilities were about to be overdrawn.
He landed on a big tree, and then God helped him. The lightning net drove away all the dangerous creatures around, leaving him no chance to understand the danger here.
Seeing that Liu Rui's S-level ability had only advanced half of the way in several hours, it seemed that it was not easy, so Xu Sa immediately decided to pick him up.
When the mutant monkey and the mutant black bear started fighting, Xu Sa had already traveled most of the way. Although he encountered various mutant creatures that were eyeing him covetously along the way, his supernatural power had a strong control over the creatures. Although covering his body with lightning consumed some of its power, at least he did not rush forward recklessly. The knife in his hand for self-defense did not even have a chance to see blood, as it was covered with more of the mucus of insects or vines.
Realizing that was the direction Liu Rui was heading, Xu Sa sped up while continuously absorbing the crystal core that Lu Xiao gave him when he left.
Although using it too early might mean that it would be difficult for the two of them to replenish their superpowers, and even more difficult to survive in such an environment, Xu Sa was extremely grateful that he arrived at the critical moment.
Animals have a natural fear of lightning. After mutation, their IQs have increased slightly, so they will not engage in head-on confrontations. They would quickly withdraw their attacks the moment before the lightning made contact, but Xu Sa still directed the lightning to attack the mutated ape.
The lightning extending into the ground illuminated a small area underground, allowing Xu Sa to clearly see the underground river, the caves full of stalactites, and the stone cones standing on the ground like sharp spikes.
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