Chapter 14 The mantis stalks the cicada
Hua Yang chose a remote path from the school. He only encountered five or six zombies along the way, and with the cooperation of the three of them, he killed them all and also harvested two crystal cores.
Hua Yang kept one and put it into the space, and gave the other to Wu Tianqi, asking him to store it so that he could quickly recover if his supernatural power was exhausted.
In the end times, crystal cores are essential supplies for those with special abilities, and they can save lives in some battles.
The school was eerily quiet, with no sound around, except for the occasional breeze that blew through the green plants on both sides, making a slight sound of branches and leaves rubbing against each other.
Hua Yang was already alert. Zombies would follow the smell of humans and roam around to bite them, but the three of them had already walked to the edge of the playground, and apart from the few zombies at the school gate just now, they didn't see any other zombies.
Suddenly, there was an unusual commotion of the grass and trees, causing Hua Yang to stop and look around. However, after looking around, she saw nothing unusual except for a bush shaking a few times.
"I feel something is wrong. Be alert and be careful. There is something nearby and it may have discovered us!"
Hua Yang had just warned Wu Tianqi and Meng Yi when a strange gust of wind appeared behind her. She instinctively fell to one side and rolled on the ground.
Although she reacted quickly and avoided the sudden attack, when she stood up and touched the back of her neck, she saw blood and knew she had been hit.
It was this thing! It was this thing that chased and attacked her in her previous life. Until he finally escaped with Yu Tianlin and his team, he didn’t see clearly what it was.
Hua Yang quickly drank a sip of the space river water, and the wound on the back of her neck healed quickly without even a scar left.
But soon, this strange feeling of wind appeared again, and it appeared behind Hua Yang.
Even though Hua Yang was mentally prepared, this thing was too fast and she had no time to react before she was hit again.
It happened in a flash. At the same moment, Wu Tianqi suddenly appeared behind Hua Yang with a ball of fiery red flame rising in his hand.
The wind-like attack dissipated as soon as it touched Wu Tianqi's flame, and made a shrill scream.
This scream was not like the ugly roar of a zombie, but rather a piercing, hollow echo of the abdomen, mixed with the sound of insect wings flapping.
But after the scream, everything returned to calm, even the grass and trees around were silent.
Hua Yang frowned, and stood back to back with Wu Tianqi and Meng Yi to prevent this thing from attacking again.
But after waiting for a long time there was no movement, so the three of them walked backwards with one in front, one on the side, and another with his back against the two of them. Although the speed was slow, it was safe.
Finally, the three of them walked slowly to the other side of the playground, which formed a triangle with the school's teaching building and the girls' dormitory. They were at the center of the triangle.
This is usually the most crowded place because there is a fountain in the center with a stone statue of a thinker in the center. The fountain starts spraying water every noon and evening, and many couples come here for dates.
But at this moment, the scene in front of the three people was somewhat creepy.
The ground was littered with corpses, blood mixed with some disgusting mucus. Besides the bloody smell, there was also an unpleasant pungent odor.
What they couldn't imagine was that among these corpses, there were not only human corpses, but also zombie corpses. Every corpse looked like it had its hands, feet and head chopped off by a perverted killer.
The edge of the wound is gear-shaped, the same shape as the wound on Hua Xiaodie's arm.
"Are we encountering a massacre here?"
Meng Yi secretly swallowed his saliva and took a deep breath so as not to appear too scared.
At this moment, flames suddenly rose in Wu Tianqi's hands, and he controlled the flames to fly in one direction.
"squeak!"
A familiar scream was heard again, and it seemed to be the thing that had just attacked them.
Hua Yang looked at Wu Tianqi curiously and asked, "How do you know the location of that thing?"
Wu Tianqi frowned, not knowing how to explain.
"I don't know where it is, but when it gets close to me, the fire element in my body seems to become active. As long as I summon the fire, I can feel its location."
Wu Tianqi was also somewhat delighted, and continued, "I tried it, and it actually hit me."
Hua Yang nodded. No wonder people in previous lives said that some people who awakened elemental powers would have an increased ability to perceive things. It seemed to be true.
Hua Yang was originally worried about how to deal with this thing. Because they couldn't even see its body, let alone anything else. And it was too dangerous for them to have such a monster of unknown nature sneak attacking them in secret.
Now that Wu Tianqi has the ability to perceive and can determine the location of the monster, things will be much easier.
So she whispered to Wu Tianqi: "When you find the location, don't attack. Tell me first and I will go around."
Meng Yi leaned forward with his fat body and asked curiously, "What about me? What should I do?"
Hua Yang looked around, fearing that zombies or other things might approach during the battle. So she said, "Be on guard for a while. If you find something approaching, call us immediately. If you can't defeat it, run away. Do you understand?"
Meng Yi patted his chest and agreed, then found a thicker tree to hide under.
But just as he hid his body, he suddenly shouted.
"Oh my god, what's that big? Go away! It's scratching my face!"
Hua Yang and Wu Tianqi heard the sound and walked over to take a look, and were both shocked.
"This is so big, is it a cicada?"
Hua Yang used her supernatural power to wrap her hands and picked up the wings of this thing. It was heavy, its belly was bulging, and it made bursts of very strange cicada chirps.
However, she suddenly laughed.
"Hua Yang, what did you think of?"
"That's right, Old Meng, I was almost bitten by this big bug. Fortunately, I have a thick skin."
Hua Yang glanced at Meng Yi with amusement. This guy must be a talent to be able to use "thick-skinned" as a compliment so proudly.
She rolled her eyes, looked at the struggling cicada in her hands, raised her lips and said to them, "I think I know what attacked us."
"What is that? You're still beating around the bush at this hour! In this world, how can a cicada grow so big? Fortunately, the cicada has no offensive ability. If bees and wasps also grow that big, and come in a swarm, won't they eat everyone to death?"
Hua Yang felt amused, but she didn't tell them that in the future, bees, wasps and even ants would indeed become that big, and their numbers would be densely packed.
"This is not a cicada, it's a cicada."
Wu Tianqi looked at the huge golden cicada in Hua Yang's hand with sudden enlightenment, and said it at the same time as Hua Yang.
“A mantis stalks a cicada?”
Hua Yang nodded and said, "It seems like we have to be the oriole for once."
"What are you going to do?"
Hua Yang picked up the cicada in her hand, ripped off its two pairs of wings with her bare hands, and broke off half of its insect legs. Then she threw it into the circular fountain pool beside her.
The huge golden cicada whose wings and legs were removed by Hua Yang did not die. Instead, it cried loudly in pain, and the sound echoed throughout the square where the fountain pool was located.
Hua Yang and the other two quietly walked to an equipment room beside the playground, and secretly looked at the location of the fountain pool.
Meng Yi was a little bit unconvinced. From what Hua Yang and Wu Tianqi said, it was a mantis that attacked them? The thing that caused the fountain pool tragedy and killed so many people and zombies, the culprit was a mantis?
"I say, Hua Yang, could you be mistaken? How can a praying mantis be so powerful? So many people and zombies were dismembered!"
"That should be correct. After the end of the world, flowers, plants and trees may mutate. Look at that cicada. Its head is much bigger than yours, isn't it?"
"But how big must the mantis be to create such a terrifying effect?"
Before Meng Yi could finish, the unusual movement near the fountain proved Hua Yang's speculation and made Meng Yi sweat profusely.
"This, is this big?"
Seeing that body size, Meng Yi couldn't help but tremble in his calves.
(End of this chapter)
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