In the apocalypse, any animal or plant could mutate, and no one could guarantee what kind of mutations they would develop. Take the Flame Tiger and the Red Wolf, for example. These two are mutants, their bodies growing larger, smaller, and changing at will. Their advantage is that they haven't been infected, but that doesn't mean there won't be mutated animals that are infected again, like the mutant snakes and trees that were previously infected. These will also undergo changes, just like the dinosaurs of ancient times, which would change their size due to changes in the climate and environment, just to survive.
What’s different now is that their bodies are changing because of some unknown virus.
"Always pay attention to your feet. Scorpions can move freely in the soil. We can only observe the changes on the ground to find scorpions. They may be hiding. My mental power can't see them at all," Shangguan Wan said, looking at Han Lie sideways.
Han Lie shook his head regretfully and said, "I didn't see it either."
Suddenly, the red wolf howled, charging towards a rock. Its entire body suddenly expanded several times, its fur bristling as it moved in both offensive and defensive motions. Its front paws flexed, and its hippopotamus-sized head lowered slightly with its front body. Its deep green eyes fixed intently on the rock, and a threatening snort emanated from its black nose. Shangguan Wan immediately used her mental power to examine the scorpion. From the rock, extending downward, it had impaled its body and head on the rock in a head-first dive. Looking down, she saw the segmented tail stinger, a fist-sized stinger topped with a curved needle. Then, the rear end, as thick as an arm, stood upright, crowned by a fist-sized stinger. Its six-segmented abdomen was nearly fifty centimeters long.
Further down was a rock that resembled a large, raised boulder. Flanking its sides were three pairs of slender legs, with a slightly raised crease in the center. It also had a pair of rather large pincers, locked together, giving it the shape of a large, black scorpion. It was undoubtedly this scorpion. Furthermore, numerous smaller scorpions were wriggling on the surface of the rock, slowly moving towards the outside. Their movements were slowed by the zombie virus.
In fact, scorpions are the fastest. After attacking people, they can disappear quickly without a trace.
In the entire glaring desert, this one rock is the only place where they hide, which makes sense. After all, scorpions tend to build their nests in dry places.
"Red Wolf, come back." Shangguan Wan saw the scorpion below move and immediately called the big cute one with its fur standing on end to come back.
The red wolf, sprinting back from such a distance at top speed, was so massive, like a hippopotamus. Its massive footsteps shook the ground, startling the scorpion, which had been motionless. Perhaps because its head was buried too deep in the ground, it hadn't been able to smell the food. The two movements it made were merely its own, but the trembling of the red wolf's run had startled the scorpion. With its swift tail, it pushed the large rock against its tail, revealing its black stinger.
"Be careful, be prepared." Han Lie quickly took a step closer to Shangguan Wan, hiding half of her body behind him. Shangguan Wan felt warm at the sight, her eyes fixed on the black tail stinger.
If you see something like a drop of water on the tail stinger, you know it's the one that attacked you. Because the drop of water on the tail is always there, it means it's not a drop of water, but a reservoir of venom.
A ball of green light appeared in Shangguan Wan's hand, ready to shoot at the scorpion at any time.
But when the scorpion's tail had retreated three sections, it suddenly changed direction, and its entire body broke out of the soil.
Shangguan Wan watched as the earth in front of her cracked, followed by several more, extending to a point not far from her. Then, a pair of large black pincers emerged from the ground, their tips piercing the ground. She saw thin, hairy legs slowly rising to support the body.
"Swish!" A scorpion appeared before Shangguan Wan and the others, its tail half buried in the dirt. The scorpion's eight legs supported its body as it moved forward, its dangling tail yanking directly out of the ground. As it emerged, it stood upright, its stinger dangling down to its head, the barb still bent, preventing it from directly impacting its skull.
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