Chapter 75 Exploring the Lost City 2
"There are only a few of us in this group. This is Jindie and I teaming up with you for the first time. We definitely didn't know your constitution beforehand, so we naturally couldn't prepare the Intoxicating Gastrodia elata in advance. So, we've ruled that out for now. Your companions have been through life and death with you many times. If they wanted to kill you, they wouldn't risk it in front of your new companions, as there are plenty of opportunities. Of course, having been through life and death together, they're naturally trustworthy."
Eliminating those, only Bai Yan remains, and she's the most suspicious. Yun Xiang tried to recall when Bai Yan made her move. "Oh, do you remember when we were picking the dragon heart fruit, I said I suddenly smelled a strange odor?"
"I remember. I even smelled it, but there was nothing." Lin Ziyu also remembered.
"That was probably Bai Yan's first time, and she didn't use the Drunken Gastrodia elata. She was probably testing us on purpose. She was unconscious the whole time afterwards, so it was impossible for her to do anything. Until yesterday when our combat uniforms exploded—I'm sure she didn't get close, that was today—Oh," Yun Xiang suddenly realized, "right, just now, when Bai Yan hid behind you, our attention was all on Bai Mingyang, so we overlooked her."
"What a cunning villain!" Lin Ziyu was secretly annoyed and blamed herself for getting into trouble.
"What should we do next? I don't think I've ever heard of mutant animals in the maze city before?" Although Lin Ziyu and the others were still hoping for a lucky break, years of fighting still made them maintain a defensive posture at the first moment.
"I just saw a yellow tail with brown markings burrowing into the ground." Xie Yu reminded Lin Ziyu.
"Mutated animals are underground?"
"It could be in the wall."
"Can you guess what animal it is?" Yun Xiang looked at Xie Yu.
Xie Yu shook his head. "The chances of a mutant snake are low, and they're mostly concentrated in the Gekkonidae, Lizardidae, and Monitor families. We often see Gekkonidae tails, so the likelihood is low. The tail we just saw was 2-3 meters long, so we infer it was particularly large. It disappeared very quickly, so its limbs must be very well-developed, and its digging ability is particularly strong. Judging by the speed at which Sister Lin was hit, she definitely has a violent temper."
"So we're targeting the Varanidae? Desert monitors!" Yun Xiang had barely finished speaking when, "Boom!" "Run!" Xie Yu warned everyone, then pulled Yun Xiang up and ran. The wall behind them collapsed rapidly, and they didn't stop until they turned another street.
"Did you see clearly what it was?"
"Desert monitor lizard! That guy has very developed eyelids and round pupils, especially that forked tongue, which is like a radar antenna. No matter where you run, it can sense your scent and then bite you. Damn, it's very difficult to deal with! My family encountered it once when we were on a mission. We almost ran our legs off and finally had to give up the mission." Huang Shanshan said while panting.
Yun Xiang found it hard to imagine that Huang Shanshan, who was known for her delicate and beautiful appearance, would swear, but seeing as everyone seemed to be used to it, she must be like that on a daily basis.
"Don't you want to kill it? This thing is valuable, no worse than the electric eel." Qi Lian couldn't understand it. If she encountered it, she would definitely not let it go easily.
"That requires a life-or-death kill. This guy is a famous hunting expert, and his digging ability is particularly strong. After the mutation, these abilities were not only retained, but also improved several times. The most hateful thing is that he originally used his tongue to find his companions, but now he roars to summon them, and the sound is so loud that it can make people bleed from all seven orifices. The most unbearable thing is that he was originally non-toxic, but after the mutation, his whole body is poisonous. Tell me, how do we deal with him?" No one wants to lose. It's just that you can't win. It's stupid to force it when you can't win.
"Holy crap, so powerful? Then what about us—?"
"Of course we have to find an exit and escape!" Before Chu Xu finished speaking, Xie Yu made a decision, "Hurry up, there must be more than one under the ground."
"We will still be chased if we escape, unless we leave Lianjiao Star. What if we go back and kill those monsters that were lured out by the medicine on Sister Lin?" The talismans in their hands are not weak. As long as there is no large-scale outbreak, it should be no problem to deal with a few of them. Yun Xiang thought it was worth a try.
"hiss--"
"ah--"
"My head hurts!" A sudden, piercing roar sent a splitting headache. Yun Xiang subconsciously touched her nose, and sure enough, it was bleeding. She had finally experienced how powerful this guy was.
The cries continued. Yun Xiang found earplugs in the spacecraft and gradually adjusted himself. He then took out a soothing agent to calm the raging power within him. Seeing that everyone had almost recovered, he said, "The sound wasn't coming from this side." The implication was that it wasn't the same ones they had encountered.
"Could it be that someone else has been poisoned by the Zui Tian Ma powder?" Qi Lian was suspicious. "Who is so arrogant as to dare to compete with the president in hatred?"
"If you can't speak, just shut up!" Lin Ziyu glared at Qi Lian unhappily. Qi Lian stuck out her tongue and said nothing.
"Could it be Bai Yan?" The more Yun Xiang thought about it, the more likely it seemed. "Do you think the fight between the brother and sister just now was deliberately performed for us? After all, Bai Mingyang already knew that Bai Yan had poisoned her before he beat her." Yun Xiang felt that he had some conspiracy theorists.
Xie Yu followed Yun Xiang's train of thought and suddenly felt that Yun Xiang might have grasped the truth. "The first half is true. Those scratches on the face can't lie. The second half of the talisman battle should be fake. Bai Mingyang is such a life-threatening person. He doesn't use his own talismans easily when he encounters danger. It gives people the feeling that the talismans are gone after they are used up. He is so stingy. Would such a person easily waste talismans?" Xie Yu did not mention the brother-sister relationship because it was not convincing.
"According to you, why did they do this?"
"Be the oriole! 'The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind', this is Bai Mingyang's usual tactic," Jin Jiaren flipped through his precious notebook.
"The results are always the opposite of what he expected, and this time should be no exception. Bai Yan must have gotten some of the drug on herself when she applied it, otherwise it wouldn't have stimulated the desert monitor lizard to come out from the ground."
“…”
"Not enough to accomplish anything, but more likely to cause trouble!"
"Never mind, let's go out first and make plans later."
"Boom!" Yun Xiang and his team were about to turn a corner when a wall in front of them collapsed completely. More than a dozen desert monitors crawled out of the ground one by one and rushed towards them.
"Quick, retreat!"
"Swoosh!" The intermediate explosive talisman flew towards the desert monitor lizard in the front. The desert monitor lizard quickly turned its body and swept its tail towards the explosive talisman. "Bang", the tail was blown away and a stream of venom was sprayed out. Yun Xiang activated the defensive talisman in time to intercept the poison outside the water shield.
"Is this desert giant lizard stupid? It doesn't have an iron arm, but it deliberately rushed forward."
"It's not stupid, it's very smart. Its tail can regrow after blooming, but a bloom on its head could kill it."
"Hey, these cunning guys."
“There’s no road ahead!”
"Just explode! No matter what!"
“Boom!”
"Damn, another big wave!"
"Over there, there's nothing over there!"
"Pooh...poison is spraying!"
"Bang!" The defensive talisman was added in time.
(End of this chapter)
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