Bright Moon Forest (IV)
Wrapped in moonlight-like phantom beast armor, Song Baiyue's body drew a meteor-like trajectory in the air.
His movements were faster than his thoughts. His right fist, condensed with extremely compressed silver light, collided violently with the centipede's tail whip.
"boom--!"
The air wave exploded, and smelly mucus spurted out from the depressions in the centipede's shell.
“Puff.”
After a struggle, the centipede's venom-filled legs finally penetrated the defensive light curtain of Song Baiyue's phantom beast armor.
He groaned, already injured.
"Are you okay?" Linyin saw that his flying hair was stained with blood, and there was a hint of anxiety in her tone.
"I won't die." He raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and stood forward slightly.
Behind him, Linyin gritted her teeth, still trying. She gathered all her inner energy into her hands, trying to burn the centipede's carapace bit by bit, but every time she burned through a layer of carapace, more mucus flowed out, solidifying into a new shield.
The monster that went berserk was indeed difficult to deal with.
She used her other hand to release her true energy to cut the surface of the shell, while bending her knees and kicking the centipede's trunk. Unexpectedly, the moment she jumped into the air, the centipede seemed to have found the right opportunity and suddenly swallowed her entire palm.
Song Baiyue's slightly frail figure stood resolutely before her. The energy surrounding the Phantom Beast Armor surged, continuously converging in front of them, propping up another layer of light curtain.
I don’t know if it’s because Song Baiyue was injured, but cracks have appeared on the light curtain.
Linyin knew that once the light curtain was broken, the length of the centipede's legs would be enough to string her and Song Baiyue together into a blood gourd.
She was breathing rapidly and could clearly hear her own violent heartbeat: "Get out of the way! We can't die here together."
She pushed Song Baiyue hard, but it didn't move her. "What are you doing? If we both log off together, how can they get out?"
Song Baiyue remained silent, his phantom beast armor gradually disappeared into the mist, and his whole body exuded a strange and dangerous aura.
Seeing the tail whip coming back, Lin Yin's heart was set, and the infinite true energy condensed into a blade of light as thin as a hair. Without hesitation, without trembling, it was like cutting bread -
Cut towards his wrist which was bound by the shell.
A critical moment.
"Meow, ow, ow!"
The kitten ran out of the bushes where it was hiding, and its meow sounded like a tiger roaring in the mountains. Linyin's heart tightened, fearing that something might happen to the kitten. She stopped what she was doing and looked in the direction of the kitten.
The kitten's amber eyes shone brightly, its tiny fangs bared, its fur was several times fluffier than usual, and golden lines flickered beneath its fur.
It seemed as if there were layers of invisible ripples spreading outwards with the kitten as the center. Lin Yin channeled a portion of her true energy into her eyes, and after activating her true energy vision, the circles of sound patterns were clearly visible.
After hearing the kitten's cry, the Rust Centipede's body trembled slightly. As the sound patterns in the air increased and denser, the amplitude of its trembling became stronger and stronger. Finally, with a loud bang, its feet could no longer support its huge body and it fell heavily to the ground.
The squirming shell stilled, and Linyin finally pulled her fingers out. It was still waving its tentacles and legs, trying to stand up. However, perhaps because its frenzy had consumed too much of its physical strength and vitality, the red mist on its body gradually dissipated, and its struggles became increasingly weak.
Kill it while it's sick.
Everyone attacked together in perfect harmony.
Yuzhu delivered a fierce spinning kick, striking the centipede's remaining hooked leg hard. Using all her strength, she severed the leg in half, leaving only the other half still connected to the centipede's mouth.
"Try harder! It's already at the end of its strength." Linyin keenly discovered that the defensive strength of the centipede's shell and claws was not even as strong as before it went berserk.
Song Baiyue wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, formed seals with his hands, and a silver ball of light spun around, and beams of brilliant silver light fell on them.
Everyone's strength quickly recovered. Under the siege, the centipede gradually began to show signs of fatigue. Its movements became sluggish, and the wounds on its shell became more and more numerous, and dark green blood flowed all over the ground.
Lin Yin found the right moment, jumped high, and poured the infinite true energy into her legs. With an unstoppable momentum, she stepped down hard.
After a few violent twitches, the centipede's body finally stopped moving.
"Pah."
After seeing what happened to the centipede, the kitten fainted in relief.
………………
Song Baiyue leaned against the rough trunk of a tree, a medical kit and some dressings at hand. This ancient tree, which looked hundreds of years old, had a huge canopy that completely blocked out the afterglow of the setting sun, casting his face in shadow.
There was a big cut in his training suit, and the wound on his chest had stopped bleeding after a simple treatment.
On the other side of the tree, Rin was also sitting and resting. The kitten lay quietly in her arms, only its belly rising and falling slightly.
The kitten's fur seemed a bit darker than usual... Would that earth-shattering cry have damaged its vitality? Or perhaps it had overdrawn its life force?
Rinyin was a little worried.
From her diet to her daily routine and intelligence, the kitten wasn't like an ordinary pet. However, after so many rounds of testing, she didn't show any characteristics of a mythical beast. Perhaps she was a pica kitten, perhaps due to a genetic mutation or developmental abnormality, who had invested all her skill points in intelligence and longevity.
For such a special kitten, Linyin only hopes that it will be healthy and happy, because if some strange symptoms appear, there is a high probability that there will not even be any reference treatment samples to be found.
"Kitten, what did you do?" Linyin gently touched the kitten's ears. The scene of it fainting would make her heart tighten every time she recalled it.
He brought the bleeding part of his knuckle to the kitten's nose and gently shook it a few times. The kitten's tightly closed eyelids, upon smelling the familiar scent, struggled to open a crack. Its tongue instinctively darted out, gently licking the blood.
The blood was licked clean bit by bit, and the kitten became more alert. It tried to twist in Rinyin's arms, rubbing its head against Rinyin's chin.
Linyin's heart felt as if enveloped by warmth, and he didn't notice Song Baiyue skillfully applying a bandage to himself on the other side of the tree trunk. His brow furrowed slightly, beads of sweat forming on his forehead. But he simply gritted his teeth and remained silent.
People should not compare themselves with cats. Comparing themselves with cats will only make themselves angry to death.
He fumbled through the medical kit for a long time before finally pulling out a small bottle of antidote. Pulling the cork out of the bottle caused the wound to tug. He tilted his head back and gulped the potion down. The cantaloupe-flavored potion spread throughout his mouth, but it was unusually sour and astringent.
"Drink some water?"
A girl's water bottle was handed to her from the other side of the tree. Song Baiyue lowered her lips, took it steadily, and took a sip.
Well... water can relieve a hundred kinds of sourness and astringency. He feels much better now.
Beneath another tree, Kaiya and Yuzhu worked together to dismantle the centipede's massive body. Yuzhu, wielding a portable folding saw, sliced through the carapace; Kaiya, taking the severed portion, used a knife to gradually remove the remaining tissue covering it. A stripped carapace was a valuable biomaterial, potentially worth selling.
Crystal squatted aside, holding the hooked foot that Rinyin had cut off in her hand, gesturing with interest.
"This length should be enough to grind into a curved awl..." The rust centipede's hooked legs are hard and have a cavity for storing venom. If they are made into weapons, they may be very effective.
Open the toolbox and get to work!
In the quiet, peaceful yet bustling atmosphere, a person slowly woke up in the grass.
"So the Heaven-level Fantasy Beast Armor isn't that great after all. I overestimated you."
When some people wake up, it only makes people hope that they will never wake up.
When Ma Huyou woke up, the severe pain in the back of his head had not yet subsided. When he saw the dressing on Song Baiyue's chest, he opened his mouth and started to offend people.
"Can you please shut up?" The person who made the honest man Yuzhu unwilling to work and couldn't help but confront him must not be an ordinary swordsman.
Hadn't he taken a course on mythical beasts? A Heavenly-level mythical beast's strengths lay in its intelligence and coordination, not its absolute combat power.
And this time, Song Baiyue stood directly in front of Linyin to block her leg, which greatly attracted Yuzhu's recognition.
"Why bother with him? If he hadn't eaten something indiscriminately, this thing wouldn't have run in front of us in broad daylight." Kaiya grinned and swung his knife to shovel the centipede meat, dodging the dark green blood splattering out, while joining the conversation.
"Bang."
Rinyin once again knocked down the troublemaker who was talking nonsense with one punch, and instructed Kaiya: "Next time when you don't need him to walk by himself, knock him out again when he wakes up."
They have big things to do next. The main course of this trial hasn't been served yet, so they can't let this big trouble mess it up.
"Am I dreaming? We actually beat the berserk earth-level monster into this." Kaiya finally separated the centipede's shell in his hand and looked at the potholes on its surface with a dreamy look on his face.
"Why didn't you tell me how dangerous this time was?" Yu Zhu complained, "You only remember eating meat, not getting beaten."
"Oh, yeah..." Kaiya came back to his senses and began to beg Crystal, "Sister, you are my sister. This forest is so dangerous for a weak person like me. Can you give me some self-defense photos with that disc?"
"No, it's a waste to give it to you. That one takes so long to make, and the raw materials are hard to find. I'd have to go to the thrift store near the school gate to look for antique CDs." Crystal refused flatly. "I can give you a few cans of Lei Bi to play with. That one's easier to make."
Kaiya took the two cans glumly. "Never mind, it's better than nothing."
"The disc is good and very useful." Linyin said this from the bottom of her heart. The control that stuck the centipede to the ground was very critical and gave her enough output space.
Crystal's eyes lit up at Linyin's praise. "I still have some in stock, take them all, Boss!" She pulled a stack of them out of her belt, counted them, and stuffed them all at Linyin. "But the Rust Centipede isn't a power type. If it were a Dunjia Earth Spirit with tough skin and flesh, great strength, and the ability to burrow into the ground, these might not be that useful."
"You keep it." Linyin pushed the disc back. Crystal was a genius among geniuses, using scrap materials to create a trigger trap that could detain an Earth-level esper for over ten seconds. If it weren't for the Federation's strict prohibition on the unauthorized sale of lethal weapons, she definitely wouldn't be unable to afford the Frost Wolf's esper eggs.
"Then, boss, you can use this." Crystal tossed the centipede's hooked foot, which had been roughly polished, wrapped it with a few layers of torn training uniform fabric and handed it to Linyin. "I saw the gap on your dagger."
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