Chapter 118 Desert Survival Day 13 (6) The knife strikes quickly and accurately...
The knife slid in an arc in the air, and with blood splattering, Yu Miaomiao chopped it hard in the middle of the hump of the last camel.
There was a height difference between her and the camel, and coupled with the continuous explosive force, the remaining strength was a little insufficient. The knife only penetrated diagonally into the camel's back about five centimeters deep, not enough to cut it in half like the previous one.
"Woo~" The camel let out a mournful cry and immediately kicked its legs to run away. The sword that had not cut through was pulled away by it by its side.
Blood gushed out of the blade. It gathered its last bit of strength, opened its serrated mouth and bit at her relentlessly.
There is only a small amount of health left in the bar, and he is not dead yet.
Yu Miaomiao dodged and immediately raised the knife to chop at the hideous monster's head which was two or three centimeters away from him. In an instant, blood spurted out and a strong fishy smell spread on the shield, which then slid to the ground. Its head fell to the ground and the blood bar disappeared.
Fortunately, she was protected by a shield, so not only was she not injured, but even her clothes were not dirty.
Treasure Chest Monsters will turn into ashes after death, but killed wild monsters can be dismembered.
[Failed to trigger the lucky trait. Decomposed to obtain 1 slime, which has been stored in the system warehouse.]
The grass that had bled quickly returned to its original state, as clean as new grass, as if nothing had happened.
All the things that look realistic and can harm the survivors are just programmed. Are the lives of the survivors as worthless as a string of digital codes?
Yu Miaomiao tutted. The more this happened, the more she became more competitive. Why? It was so sloppily designed, and they didn't even wait for her to leave before reverting to the original state. Were they afraid she wouldn't know it was just a game? Didn't they really take her seriously?
She really wanted to see what kind of monster the final boss of this adventure was designed to be.
Yu Miaomiao held the sword tightly and walked into the main road. With every step he took, he used the sword to chop at the growing aloe vera.
These aloe vera leaves spread out in lanceolate patterns, each with dozens of layers stacked on top of each other, are more than twice as tall as her. Each leaf is not so much growing as slowly expanding like soaked wood ear mushrooms.
Some of the leaves along the way even swelled to become almost transparent, as if the aloe vera juice inside was about to explode.
Yu Miaomiao heard from Hua Bie that this road was very difficult to walk on, so he only came here once. The rest of the time, he took the other main road with eggs and foxes.
There were no monsters on this road, so she didn't need to hold her umbrella or hide carefully to avoid being discovered.
The difficulties Hua Bie mentioned were the situations she faced on the spot.
When she stepped one foot into the barren sandy grassland, the aloe vera on the roadside began to swell. In the second half, the road was filled with aloe vera crisscrossing horizontally and vertically on the ground. She had to chop her way through to cut a path that was wide enough for people to pass through.
But when you split the aloe vera, aloe vera juice will gush out. It's okay if there are only one or two puddles of thick liquid, but later it will cover the ground. Once your feet are slowly covered with aloe vera juice, they will become increasingly sticky, making it uncomfortable and even difficult to take a step. Add to that the slope, and you will only walk slower and slower until you are filled with the rapidly growing aloe vera around you. The aloe vera leaves themselves are soft, but the small thorn-like teeth on the edges of the leaves will prick you. If you split them quickly and run all the way, you will miss the treasure chest hidden in the thick leaves, and this part of the journey will be in vain. Don't mention that last time, he was wearing armor and hacked his way out, and he only opened one treasure chest during that time.
When Yu Miaomiao made the first cut, he tried to open the system backpack in real time, and the aloe vera liquid could indeed be put into it.
Yesterday, Lulu learned how to make a new medical item - anti-inflammatory medicine. Aloe vera liquid is needed as a material for its production. This thing is currently only produced in the Dark Oasis, and this road happens to have the most aloe vera.
If you walk to the oasis section, the aloe vera there is larger, but it is scattered, so it is not so convenient to collect.
Aloe vera liquid *1, *2, *3, Yu Miaomiao's backpack instantly had 100 more bottles of aloe vera liquid. She split the road in front of her, and there was a treasure chest lying in the lower right corner. She squatted down and opened it with tools.
[Failed to trigger the Lucky trait. Adventure Land Gift Pack: Aloe Vera Liquid*2, Iron Ingot*3, Copper Ingot*1, Scrap Iron*2, Leather Arm Guard*1.]
Arm guards? They were defensive ones, and she just happened to be wearing them.
The aloe vera on the other side of her bare hands was growing at an alarming rate, with some leaves already poking at her shield. She simply took out her long axe and started working left and right.
The shield was very strong and could block the thorns from the leaves, but it could not stop the aloe vera that kept squeezing and growing towards her body from all directions.
After opening the treasure chest, Yu Miaomiao gripped the knife handle tightly, tensed her arms, and chopped at the thick green branches and leaves in front of her that were growing longer and wider. When she swung the knife, she felt as if she had divine power, a feeling she had never experienced before.
With one cut, four or five leaves were cut off, and the splashing aloe vera juice entered her backpack before it even hit the ground.
She collected all the aloe vera juice that would have been sticky on her feet, and the sandy road on the ground became cleaner and cleaner. Yu Miaomiao's hand swung the knife without stopping for a moment.
Every time she squatted down to pick up a treasure chest, she would use her hands with leather arm guards to block the aloe vera squeezing from the side of her head. After collecting the remaining five treasure chests, Yu Miaomiao finally walked out of this road.
Unlike the one with the fox and eggs, this road has no forks and is the main road leading directly to the oasis. This road is not that difficult.
Looking at the 589 extra portions of aloe vera liquid in her backpack, she felt that she had reaped quite a good harvest. Holding an umbrella, she sighed and said, "Is this a blessing for collectors? As long as they collect quickly enough, they won't be trapped by the aloe vera liquid."
If we have to say how difficult this journey was, it was climbing up and down the slopes and wielding the knife. Fortunately, her physical strength had reached a new height. Now that she stopped, she felt a little tired, and her physical strength dropped to 18 points.
Drink half a bottle of functional drink to instantly replenish your physical strength.
Yu Miaomiao stood at the exit of the fork in the road, looking at the vast oasis ahead. Without the cover of night, she could truly see the scene here.
It was not as lively as she had imagined. There were corpses scattered all over the green grass, and animals were eating and chasing each other everywhere. It was simply a chaotic hunting ground.
The animals that were supposed to eat grass were now gnawing on meat, and the hunting methods of each monster were completely different from what she had imagined.
The closest one was a five-humped camel gnawing on the neck of a fox, and then carrying it aside.
Then it ran to a cave entrance covered by grass, waited for a while, and bit a gray hamster that had just come out. With a hard bite, the hamster exploded in its mouth like popping fruit pulp, and then was swallowed into the camel's stomach.
And where the fox was lying dead, a little hamster appeared, quickly tore off a small piece of meat, and quickly burrowed back into the ground.
On the distant shore, an animal resembling a spotted hyena was hooking a fish with its claws. Its claws had long been bitten off by the cunning catfish in the pond, but that did not prevent it from continuing to catch fish. The moment it lowered its head, its face was bitten by seven or eight cunning catfish. It used its claws to casually pull the fish off its face, put it in its mouth and started to chew it. The green fish blood flowed into the wound on its face, but it did not react.
Every animal's behavior seems to be just to eat for the sake of eating, without any emotions of its own.
Layers of ripples were appearing in the "clear" lake water on both sides, and densely packed cunning blue-green catfish were biting each other in the water.
The farther the lake stretches, the more cunning catfish there are in it, which is really scary to look at.
This group of fish seemed to be tireless, chasing and biting non-stop. Their blood also merged with the lake water, making it difficult to tell whether it was fish blood or water.
The vision is better during the day. You can see a young mammoth dozens of meters away, eating something with its head down, probably some meat.
Further behind, there is a roadblock formed by willow trees, and the specific situation cannot be seen clearly.
The first five-humped camel was the treasure chest guardian monster. Yu Miaomiao was some distance away from it, so it had not yet shown the disordered behavior it had shown before.
A shot was fired, hitting the camel in the head, and it fell in a pool of blood.
Before she could get close, four spotted hyenas came running out from somewhere, pounced on the dead camel, and began to bite its body with their thick conical front teeth.
Four? Should I kill them and dismember them, or...
Yu Miaomiao walked towards the large cactus on the left, intending to go around behind the plant.
"Yi——" A familiar bird song came from a distance. It was a scavenger bird!
It came really quickly.
Four spotted hyenas that were eating happily suddenly fled in all directions with their long ears spread out like rabbits. They seemed to be very afraid of the bird.
The Scavenger Bird is not a patrolling monster, but it may appear as long as there is rotten meat.
If a human appears within its perception range, it will immediately track them down, and any attempt to hide or avoid them will be useless.
What about the tortoise breathing technique?
Yu Miaomiao had already practiced a regular posture this time, which could support her standing with the umbrella in her hand. She wanted to give it a try. If it didn't work, she could just kill him with her sword when she got closer. Anyway, she still had the shield to protect her.
Breathing - exhale - inhale
The scavenger bird that was originally swooping down instantly lost its target and began to circle right above Miaomiao.
It really works. It seems that this tortoise breathing technique is effective against all apocalyptic monsters.
"babble--"
While circling, the scavenger bird did not stop calling, and it was unclear whether it was calling its companions or looking for its target.
No matter which one, in this map, as long as you make a high-decibel sound, it will attract patrolling monsters.
At this angle, she couldn't see clearly what was happening above her head. She hadn't expected this bird to be so cunning, knowing how to hang above the cover. She remembered that last time she had spent more than fifty arrows to kill three of them.
This time she prepared 40 rounds of shotgun bullets. Since her shooting skills are so good, her archery skills will definitely be much better than last time.
The sooner the trouble is solved, the better. Yu Miaomiao took a few steps back, and the change in breathing rhythm allowed the scavenger bird to find its target again and fly straight down.
She immediately replaced the musket in her hand with a crossbow and shot three arrows in the direction of the swooping scavenger bird.
She still remembered how the scavenger birds dodged last time. They seemed to deliberately fly upwards and then fold their wings to fall, so she shot her remaining two arrows at a higher place and a few bird points lower respectively.
Got it!
The second arrow was still a little low, it could have been higher, but the third arrow hit the scavenger bird directly in the chest and abdomen. It let out a soft whine and fell straight from the sky.
Before she could get close, the four spotted hyenas reappeared, each of them gnawing at the camel's carcass as if they had been hungry for days.
Looking at the four dogs gnawing on the "fruits" of her victory, Yu Miaomiao took out her crossbow and shot arrows one after another, each arrow hitting the dogs' stomachs. Before the hyenas could react, they died beside the camel while chewing the meat in their mouths.
Holding an umbrella, I approached the corpses. Only the arrows that missed could be retrieved, and the other arrows that hit the target would be dismembered along with the corpses.
[Failed to trigger the lucky trait. Decomposed to obtain 1 slime, which has been stored in the system warehouse.]
【...】
It was all mucus, and there was only one of them. Yu Miaomiao felt unlucky every time she heard the system sounds.
Open the first Guardian Chest.
[Failed to trigger the Lucky trait. Screws*24, Iron Block*13, Copper Block*8, High-quality Sand*2, Mineral Water*1, Wood*1, Cotton*1, Seasoning Salt*2, Rubber*1, Plastic Block*1, Stone*1, Animal Hide*1, Slime*3, Happy Coke*2. Stored in the system warehouse.]
Yu Miaomiao: ///
Happy...Coke?
How could she be happy? She kept failing at being lucky, and the monsters still didn't drop anything.
【Name: Happy Cola (1/1)
Level: 10
Introduction: Drink it, that's it, become the violent little Nezha
Attributes: Drinking one bottle can restore 100 points of lost physical strength. If the physical strength is less than 100, it will temporarily increase the physical strength to 100 and increase the movement speed by 120% and attack speed by 150% for one hour.
Well, she will definitely be happy.
Isn’t this an enhanced version of functional drink? It’s simply divine happiness water.
She was already so brave with only 50 points of stamina, so it was hard to imagine what it would be like with 100 points. It was a pity that this box didn't trigger luck, otherwise she would be so happy if she got a few more bottles.
She wants to save such a good thing for use in critical moments of battle.
The second and third scavenger birds came one after another, just like last time, except that this time, she came prepared.
There was an interval between the arrival of each bird, giving her just enough time to shoot it.
“Whoosh—”
After a short rest, she pulled the bowstring fully, roughly estimated the angle at which the scavenger bird would arrive in the air, and shot it into the air.
The arrow went straight through the scavenger bird's head, knocking it out of the air.
So accurate.
Yu Miaomiao couldn't help but admire the great benefits that this wisdom value brought her. She once again gave herself a nickname, Archer Meow.
It would take some time for the next one to arrive, and she didn't want to waste time there, so she continued to move forward.
Hiding from two little foxes along the way, we came to a space surrounded by large and small cacti of varying heights.
Although she couldn't see what was inside, Yu Miaomiao knew that there was a treasure chest inside. Hua Bie had specifically mentioned this place to her.
And there is not just one treasure chest guarding monster inside, but a group of them.
“Whoosh.”
Before the carrion bird arrived, she shot an arrow into the air.
This time she estimated wrongly and shot in vain, which was a bit of a slap in the face of the title she had just earned. Without hesitation, she shot the second and third arrows immediately.
The scavenger bird flying in the air was shot and fell into the area surrounded by cacti with its body twisted.
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