Chapter 119: Desert Survival Day 13 (7) It turns out that I’m unlucky…
Yu Miaomiao was a little reluctant to go over there. She had originally thought of going in after she had glasses to block out the insects or tools to completely kill them.
However, it is still daylight now, and I don’t know when I will come here next time. There is no difference between opening the treasure chest at night and during the day, but the one here is even more terrifying if it is opened at night.
Yes, I heard that in that area, there are so densely packed locusts that they cover the sky. Once you enter, they will cling to your skin and suck its food.
What they suck is not blood, but human flesh.
The locusts here are a little different from those in the real world. They are the same size as ordinary locusts, but their mouthparts are as big as their bodies, with a feeding tube hidden in two scissor-like serrations.
When a person approaches, they will swarm over the person's entire body. When sucking flesh, they will first pierce the person's skin with their sharp mouthparts and inject an anesthetic liquid to make the person feel no pain. Then they will use their saw teeth to cut the skin around it and then use a feeding tube to suck the cut skin little by little.
The survivor who sent this message said that when he left the expedition site, not a single piece of skin on his body was intact. The countless pits of blood and flesh made him unable to bear to look at them. His entire body looked like minced meat, which was scary. When he left the expedition site, the pain from his skin being torn was almost more painful than he died.
Although Yu Miaomiao has a primary shield and is now wearing rusty armor, the thought of that scene is still a bit creepy.
Yu Miaomiao asked Hua Bie how he dealt with it, and Hua Bie replied that he had come wearing a shield, but it broke, so he didn't deal with it and would come back next time.
But today, she didn't know where she got the courage from, but she wanted to give it a try.
She had walked that difficult road and gained unexpected rewards. She didn't want to give up easily before trying.
She also had snake and insect repellent potion in her hand. This thing was effective against the insects of patrolling monsters and the snakes of treasure chest guarding monsters. It was impossible for it to be useless against insects like locusts.
The entire oasis is about ten meters wide, and this small area occupies about five or six meters. It is located right in the center of the oasis road, with sand paths close to the lakeshore on both sides.
The cacti surrounding this area are of different heights, but the tallest ones are nearly ten meters high, and they look huge at first glance.
On the right side of the area, there is a yellow cactus about 20 to 30 centimeters high that has withered into a small ball. This should be the entrance.
Yu Miaomiao walked over carefully holding an umbrella. She always walked in the middle of the avenue. Even if she wanted to walk past here, she had to go around to the sandy road on the side.
Walking along the road, lying on the lush grass were the corpses of animals in various miserable states. Some had only half a leg left, still lying there. From time to time, a few hamsters came out to prey on them.
When she passed by the carcasses of two sharp-horned sheep, one large and one small, she happened to see the one near the lake being torn by a cunning catfish that jumped out of the lake. The catfish behind it jumped out of the water one after another and dragged the carcass into the lake like a relay race.
The first fish to jump out of the water jumped too far, and after flapping its wings twice on the sand, it lost its vitality. Its body, swollen like a balloon, slowly shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a mummy.
Be careful to avoid the desperate catfish near the sheep's corpse, and a familiar bee monster appears on the side of your vision.
Because of the cactus blocking her view, she did not notice them at first. The stripes on the bees' bodies were clearly visible, and they were only a few meters away from her. Fortunately, she was holding an umbrella, so they had not noticed her yet.
The three patrolling monsters in front of him were just holding up their shields vigilantly. Unlike the leisurely patrolling monsters he had seen from a distance before, the three of them faced Yu Miaomiao, forming a triangular defensive posture, and constantly probing the air with the two black tentacles on their heads.
It seems that they came because of the sound, rather than being stuck to the two-hour timer.
A shot was fired, blowing the bee monster in the center's head apart. The bee monsters on the left and right changed their attacking postures and flew towards her with guns in hand.
As soon as the second bullet was fired and killed the other one, the only remaining bee monster flew to the front.
Instantly switching the weapon in his hand to a horizontal sword, Yu Miaomiao tilted his body to the left to avoid the spear, and at the same time pushed off the ground with his left foot, swinging the horizontal sword towards the bee head with strange facial features.
"Puff" the bee monster's blood splattered all over the ground, and it fell to the ground. The shield and spear on its forelimbs also fell to the ground. Before they were completely turned into ashes, she used her sword to compare with the spear.
My knife is about 2 centimeters longer than my spear, so this should be my safe distance.
There was no cloth bag dropped next to the three bee monsters that turned into ashes. It seems that there is no hope of getting a good harvest today.
Yu Miaomiao bent down to pick up the Rattle Mushroom and the Red-shouldered Mushroom. If the system didn't give them to her, she wouldn't be able to pick them up by herself. Even if there were no conditions, she had to create them.
After picking up a dozen or so, she faced the area full of locusts.
The locusts inside were not the yellow or green color she knew, but light blue, almost blending in with the sky. If she didn't know that these insects would suck human flesh, she would probably easily regard insects with such clear colors as friendly.
But that shouldn't be the case. After all, their feeding tubes are black. In the entire area of more than 100 square meters, from the height of the top of the cactus to the ground, there are countless black lines running horizontally and vertically, like a QR code placed in the area in front of her. Thinking that these are tubes for sucking human flesh, her scalp felt numb.
It took her two seconds to mentally prepare herself for using the potion, and she mustered up the courage to step over the yellow cactus.
Her feet were a little slippery because there was some thick blood on the dry grass on the ground. Only then did she notice that a small gray hamster was coming out from the corner, putting down a small piece of meat, and quickly returning to the ground.
I don't know if it was because it walked slowly or if it was just the way the program was designed, but before the little hamster could get its entire body back into the small hole, part of its tail was surrounded by a dozen locusts and eaten clean. It didn't even look back before disappearing from sight.
The small pieces of meat on the ground were quickly eaten up by locusts.
So those little hamsters are bringing meat from outside for the locusts to eat.
I didn’t expect that the expedition site has its own ecological chain.
The area in front of him was empty. There was almost nothing there except the blood plasma and dead grass on the ground. The only thing there was two treasure chests buried deep in the ground with only the top of the box exposed. One was brass-colored and the other was silver.
I didn’t expect that the things in this branch area are all good things. If I can dig them all out and open them, it will be worth the trip.
Yu Miaomiao's whole body was affected by snake and insect repellent potion, so every time she moved in this area, the locusts beside her would be squeezed aside by an invisible force, two fists away from her, and the small black tubes next to her became more dense.
Her trypophobia was about to kick in, "I'm safe!"
After cheering herself up, she continued walking forward. The ground was a bit slippery, so she walked very carefully until she stopped in front of the first treasure chest closest to the exit.
These insects don't attack her now because she has the effect of the potion on her body, but these locusts are all treasure chest guardian monsters, they are not easy to deal with. Once she touches the box, no matter how scared they are, they will launch a final attack on her like the long-horned snake.
Can my primary shield and armor withstand the bites of these swarms of locusts?
She wanted to give it a try. If it didn't work, she could just not open the treasure chest and run a distance to escape the battle. The worst that could happen would be triggering a patrolling monster. She was becoming more and more confident in shooting now.
It would take quite a while to dig up and open treasure chests. If there was only one treasure chest, she could run out with the chest in her arms. As long as she could open all the treasure chests immediately, the guardian monster would disappear.
But now there are two of them. The moment she picks up the treasure chest, she will probably be chased by these locusts. Even if she runs away, the locusts will still chase her. This is where the protection mechanism comes in.
How to stop the locust attack? Water and fire.
The lake is full of cunning catfish, and hiding in it is tantamount to seeking death.
Fire, there was no way to place a fire in there, and she didn't have any handheld fire-related tools.
In fact, there are 3 bottles of insecticide, but they can only kill insects within 5 square meters. There are hundreds of square meters here, so it should be impossible to kill them all.
What else?
Looking around, she tried to find a pattern in the area.
The cacti here are very big. Not only are they tall, but each one is almost as wide as two of her. It seems that Huabie hid in this kind of cactus to avoid the attack of the scavenger birds.
Does this cactus have such high defense?
And why are the locusts trapped here when there are no locusts outside? Is it because of this cactus?
Could it be that the cactus is some kind of restriction that temporarily locks these locusts inside? Then can she hide in it even when being attacked?
Yu Miaomiao was not in a hurry to open the treasure chest. She walked to a giant cactus within five steps of the treasure chest.
She cut open one side of the cactus with a knife and kept an eye on the shield with her peripheral vision.
The locust did not react and continued to avoid her, its durability still at 100.
After breaking the cactus from the top to the bottom on one side and lifting up the thorny skin, I was surprised to find that there was nothing inside, not even any flesh.
Such a big cactus is actually empty, just like a decoration, but it can just fit two people. It feels more like a safe house for people to hide in?
If she finishes digging, hides in with the treasure chest, opens it, then runs out to dig another one, and then hides in again, is it feasible?
Once she had a plan, she implemented it immediately. Yu Miaomiao made a decision and decided to open the silver treasure chest that was farther away first. The quality of the treasure chest represented the quality of the items inside. If the shield could not protect it, she would run away after opening it. At least she opened an extra silver treasure chest, which was a considerable gain, just like last time.
She walked closer to the silver treasure chest and tore open another hole in the nearest cactus to make sure it could accommodate her and the treasure chest.
After changing into light wind shoes, she took out the stone pickaxe without hesitation and started digging at the sandy grass next to the silver treasure chest.
She deliberately kept a distance to prevent the pickaxe from directly hitting the treasure chest.
The moment the pickaxe hit the ground, she observed the movements around her.
Well, the locusts still didn't attack her. It seems that as long as she doesn't touch the treasure chest, she will be safe for the time being.
After digging for two minutes, most of the box was exposed. Although the box was not very wide, it was very deep, and it seemed that there were good things inside.
When she was almost digging to the bottom, her shield was pulled and she could clearly feel the wire touching her skin.
Looking down, she saw six hamsters gnawing at her shield.
Whether it was the first one I met or the hamster that I just saw burrowing into the ground, the health bars were all yellow. Why did the health bars on the heads of these ones turn red at this moment?
Did you just dig them up? There's no trace of hamster blood or corpses under the stone pickaxe. That's not right. Could they be one of the guardian monsters?
Without time to think, Yu Miaomiao slashed at the little hamsters with his sword. After killing them easily, he increased the speed of excavating the land, and a huge treasure chest was soon exposed in front of him.
Not knowing how heavy this box, which was like a large storage box, was, the moment she was about to pick it up to try, she was ready to unlock it on the spot or pick it up and run away.
It’s a bit heavy, but if you can carry it, then run!
The lock was a bit difficult to open, and the moment she touched the box, the locusts that had been trying to avoid her swarmed over with flashing blue-green wings. She picked up the box and ran towards the dug cactus with all her might.
When the locust was close to her, it hesitated for a moment, but still pounced on her desperately, bit her shield, and then slowly fell down, probably dead.
She ran wildly, with the corpses of locusts following her all the way.
It seems that the snake and insect repellent potion has taken effect. I didn't expect that this potion can kill insects.
But the potion can only kill the insects after the locusts bite through Miaomiao's shield. There are at least tens of thousands of insects here. If each one bites her, her shield will definitely be broken first, not the insects.
Hide in the cactus hole, pull up the skin, and all the locusts should be blocked out.
I hope so. She took out the night vision goggles, put them on her head, and illuminated the dark cactus cave. There were indeed no locusts. The shield's durability was only 70. She had to go out of the cave a second time. Just in case, she was ready to put on a new primary shield again.
"Sizzle, sizzle." Just as she was about to put it on, she heard the sound of the iron wire on the shield rubbing against the inner wall of the cactus.
Looking down, she saw a dozen little hamsters that appeared out of nowhere, circling around her feet, each holding onto her shield and gnawing on it.
They are not insects and will not die after eating all the food. Soon, another little hamster emerged from the ground.
She can't wear two shields at the same time, otherwise she would definitely wear them all on her hands, giving her N layers of protection.
If I change it now, there will be a gap in protection, and the hamsters at my feet can get in immediately. The armor on my body only reaches my ankles, and the Breeze Shoes will definitely not be able to withstand bites.
The hamsters came one after another, and it seemed that they could not be killed all, so they could only open all the boxes first.
Yu Miaomiao took out the lock-picking tools, squatted down and poked the lock of the silver treasure chest.
[Lucky trait successfully triggered. Exploration Land Gift Pack: 42 Screws, 12 Copper Ingots, 11 Iron Ingots, 27 Titanium Ingots, 2 Thorny Rose Seeds, 13 Fibers, 8 Happy Cola, 5 Salted Egg Yolk Rice Dumplings, 2 Dark Oasis Exploration Single Trial Coupons, 2 Intermediate Nutrient Solution Fragments, 2 Adsorption Pulverizers, 2 Flamethrowers, 2 Oversized Rain or Sun Hat Crafting Plans. Deposited into the system warehouse.]
Was it just for this moment that I'd been unlucky for so long?
It had been a while since she had triggered her luck, so she couldn't help but feel excited and quickly scanned the new items.
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