Chapter 127 Desert Survival Day 13 (15) The Final Treasure Chest Guard...
Yu Miaomiao has cleaned up the monster corpses on the field. In 20 minutes, the next batch of patrolling monsters will appear. Walking out of this wasteland is the main road leading directly to the final treasure chest guarded by the final BOSS of the Dark Oasis.
After a short thought, she decided to keep going. She had already come this far and currently only had one card for the same adventure destination. She didn't know what she would encounter next time. If things didn't work out, she could always turn back immediately.
When Hua Bie told her about the situation on the last section of the road, she didn't ask carefully. She thought she might be defeated by the herd of mammoths, but she didn't expect to end up here now.
When she was taking a break, she sent an inquiry message to Hua Bie. He said he was busy and would reply later, so she only received his message now.
"Hua Bie: Because the situation I encountered in the first half of the oasis was somewhat different from yours, I'm not sure if you'll experience the same thing as me. The final boss I saw, the monster I encountered last time, should have been easy to kill, but before I could even reach it, I encountered a swarm of ant monsters and scavenger birds. I had no choice but to hide in a cactus, and was even scratched by a monster that triggered its guard mechanism, forcing me to turn back."
If it is the guardian monster we encountered last time, could it be the armored scorpion again?
She had dealt with it once before and knew that this five-meter-tall monster had skin as hard as iron, with only a soft section at the tail. She only needed to cut off that small section, stab it with a horizontal knife and stir it a few times. After it started to ooze pus, she could shoot a shotgun bullet into the gap to kill it.
It was because the whole process was both complicated and bizarre, and it was her first time trying it. She tried many methods and lost a lot of shield durability after being swept by its big pincers and steel tail before she figured out a way to defeat it. So it took a lot of time, and attracted two groups of more than 20 patrol monsters, which made her very tired.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Is the treasure chest guardian monster you encountered also an armored scorpion?"
"Hanabetsu: A scorpion? No, it's a tiger."
tiger?
Yu Miaomiao immediately thought of Xiaoguai. Could it be that... Xiaoguai is the final BOSS of Dark Oasis?
Thinking about it this way, it seems to make sense. After all, Xiaoguai is so strong and is indeed worthy of being the final BOSS, but what should she do if it is Xiaoguai.
Before she could ask about Xiaoguai's physical characteristics, she received new news from Huabiexin.
"Hua Bie: To be precise, they were two geckos disguised as tigers. When their health bar was only at 10%, they merged into one tiger. It was quite strange, but in the apocalypse, it made sense. I knew I had to kill both of them, there were too many monsters, and I was injured, so I had to withdraw."
Hua Bie has already seen Miaomiao's progress in the strategy of not lacking water and the ranking of monsters killed. If she has only gone to this one adventure site and achieved such a high progress, it is equivalent to surpassing his progress in a single adventure site.
In order to save trouble, he was too lazy to take the side road after reaching the main road. He thought that he would kill the final BOSS as soon as possible and then slowly explore.
If possible, it would be best... to invite her to lead the way, but he just thought about it and gave up. He was too embarrassed to ask for it. If the other party asked, he couldn't say that he was a little directionally challenged, otherwise he wouldn't have been caught up by that group of people.
He is a very impatient person. Every time he enters the expedition area, he thinks that he is not short of supplies, so he will just open the boxes directly. Even if Meow Meow tells him that many treasure chests are hidden in some secret places, he has no patience to check them one by one. He often picks up a knife and starts to chop monsters as soon as he starts searching, and forgets to search carefully as he walks.
So the supplies he obtained from so many trips combined were not as much as what Miaomiao got in one trip when she was not short of water. It seemed that he was not very capable, but how could he admit that he was not capable? It was because he was careless last time that he had to flee in a hurry. No, it was not in a hurry, but he was forced to do so.
Seeing that the other party had not responded for a long time, Hua Bie became impatient and wanted to say something to explain, but then he saw the next message.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Is it a black and white striped tiger, or?"
Yu Miaomiao carefully recalled Xiaoguai's appearance, and no matter how she thought about it, it didn't look like two geckos combined, but just to be sure, she still asked this question.
When Hua Bie received this message, she was momentarily distracted. Shouldn't she be asking about the monster's moves or weaknesses? Why was she so concerned about its patterns? Had she encountered one before? Was she trying to confirm whether it was the same species?
"Huabie: The combined monster is about five meters tall. Aside from having four eyes, it looks no different from an ordinary tiger. Its body has a yellow base with multiple narrow black stripes running horizontally. Its tail is speckled with black fur. It lacks the "king" character on its head that a normal tiger would have."
Hua Bie tried to describe it as detailed as possible. Seeing that the other party did not respond, she quickly added the characteristics of the monster and the killing elements to see if it was the one she thought it was.
Yu Miaomiao confirmed that these were not like those of the zebra cat, and expressed her routine gratitude. She also told the other party how to kill the armored scorpion. In her eyes, it was a form of mutual help.
But when Hua Bie saw this long list of methods to kill monsters, he was stunned. He imitated the words "thank you" and silently closed the dialog box.
Why does he feel that the monsters encountered by this Meow Meow, who has no shortage of water, are more difficult than his?
How did she come up with this method of killing? She said she couldn't chop the armored scorpion's shell with a horizontal sword. If it were him, he would definitely use a grenade or something to blow it up. Could it be that she doesn't have such a weapon?
No, from the supplies she shared last time, she had one. Could it be that she had used it up? When he thought about how she could still progress faster than him despite being so short of weapons and resources, Hua Bie suddenly felt that he really needed to change his impatient temper.
Yu Miaomiao, who walked onto the rattan arch bridge, had no idea of the impact her words would have on the other party.
An endless lake appeared in sight, with an arch bridge connecting to the only walkable path. Dead branches were scattered on both sides of the road. A little further back, there was a thick fog, and it was impossible to see what was in the depths.
The originally bright sky turned gray.
The road conditions were similar to what Hua Bie had described. Once she stepped onto the narrow path of dead branches, scavenger birds would keep flying over. However, she was not worried. After drinking half a bottle of Happy Coke, shooting any bird would not be a problem.
On the way down, she was thinking about a question: why was the BOSS that Huabie encountered the same as the previous monster?
Could it be that the final boss everyone encounters is the same monster they encountered last time?
When she thought about it, she felt that it was unlikely. In that case, how difficult would the final BOSS be?
Could it be that the real difficulty lies in reaching the final treasure chest? Just like Huabie last time, he was surrounded and forced to hide in a cactus, forcing him to return to the city?
If this is true, she would like to see how difficult this road is.
Eight scavenger birds appeared in the air at the same time, chirping in unison and flying towards her.
“Swish, swish, swish————”
After four arrows were shot, eight birds fell into the lake and were eaten clean by the cunning catfish in the water.
She wanted to reach out and grab it, but she didn't have the strength.
Forget it, she could only decompose at most one portion of the mucus out of a total of eight portions. There was no need for her to wait until these were almost over her head before shooting them. The sooner the danger was resolved, the better.
Yu Miaomiao kept calm and continued to move forward.
The lake water at her feet would occasionally hit the grass on the path with the waves. At this time, seven or eight cunning catfish would swim up with the tide and bite at her shield. Sometimes they were too slow to chop, and the rest would jump back into the lake with the fish meat that she had chopped in half.
So along the way, she got almost nothing.
Yu Miaomiao now only has three primary shields left. She is wearing one with a durability of 30 points, and the full-value one and the remaining 40 points are still in her backpack. She plans to replace the full-value one after the one on her body is broken. If even the full-value one is broken, she will return immediately.
The last 40 points must be kept as a guarantee for returning to base.
She didn't walk fast, and there were still some treasure chests left on dead branches or on the river bank, and she didn't miss any of them.
After 20 minutes, she was greeted by 24 bee monsters.
These bee monsters flew over from the misty lake and lined up in a long arc on the left and right. Because she was wearing a hat, they did not notice her.
Yu Miaomiao stood in place and gestured the direction of each flying arrow, and shot arrows quickly. When the remaining five were about to reach him, he killed one with the blood-dripping steel knife and took off the head of another.
Unfortunately, after cutting, this blood dripping knife must be retracted before it can be thrown out, otherwise it will kill monsters faster.
The remaining three were quickly chopped to death by her, but it was indeed very difficult to swing the knife in this narrow corridor. While ensuring that she was not attacked, she also had to be careful not to step into the water. No wonder it was so difficult to kill Huabie.
But she still has enough ammunition and can continue!
After killing them, she only had time to dismember the bee monster that died in the middle of the road. The rest were eaten by the cunning catfish. She was quite speechless.
She had been walking on this road for more than an hour, killing herself all the way. She had no choice but to drink half a bottle of Happy Coke and eat some tangerines to maintain her physical strength. When she was extremely hungry, she would just swallow a steamed bun in one or two bites.
There were more and more bee monsters along the way, and the number of scavenger birds reached an astonishing 50. If this continued, her arrow set would not be enough. Fortunately, Lulu and Ziren sent news that the supplies had been delivered, which relieved her pressure.
The boundless lake water on both sides can gradually be seen at the lakeshore. There is a metal wall with vines wrapped around it. The top of the wall is invisible. Looking up, it seems to be towering into the clouds.
As she walked deeper and deeper, the lake gradually narrowed. She could see that the vines were covered with sharp thorns. Who were they trying to prevent from getting out?
Is the system so kind? It traps all monsters in the exploration area and prevents them from harassing the survivors?
After Yu Miaomiao finished refilling half a bottle of Coke, she finally saw a crescent-shaped desert land. This desert area looked like a crescent from a distance.
The left side of this desert land is also surrounded by a high metal wall, and the right side is also a crescent-shaped lake with green bubbles in the water. The two sides form a clear Tai Chi-shaped circular area.
She estimated that she was about 50 meters away from the land. She could vaguely see a black and white striped monster lying in the desert, its body curled up in a ball. She couldn't tell what kind of monster it was.
but....
Why...
Yu Miaomiao vaguely felt that this monster was a zebra cat.
So is this the final treasure chest guardian monster?
For a moment, she didn't know whether to advance or retreat.
If the monster guarding the treasure chest of the final boss is Xiaoguai, it would be too much of a coincidence.
What does the system mean? Send a monster with its own thoughts to her, let the man and the cat "live together day and night", cultivate feelings, and then see how she kills it?
Or let her watch helplessly as the animals, who had already developed emotions, treated her badly in order to protect the treasure chest, so that she would know that the companionship of these past few nights was all fake?
Or maybe it was just to prevent her from killing or opening the treasure chest, because once it was opened, the treasure chest guardian monster would disappear, and Xiaoguai would... die completely.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a little sad. Did she really have to kill the zebra cat who helped her kill so many monsters and protected her safety every night just to pass the level?
While she was waiting, sixty scavenger birds flew from the sky again. She heard the sound of flapping wings behind her. She looked back and saw sixty bee monsters as well.
At the same time, in an instant, the sky darkened.
The sixty bee monsters turned into ant monsters right under her nose.
Each monster's feet were covered with small tentacles, which just supported them to walk on the water. Because their feet were very hard, the cunning catfish in the lake followed them and bit them all the way, but they couldn't bite off any of them, but they still slowed down their progress a little.
Yu Miaomiao: ...
"I know you're a game, but you don't have to act so unrealistically. At least there should be a process of transformation. It's really XX."
After cursing in his heart, Yu Miaomiao entered the ruthless killing mode.
Shooting arrows, throwing blood drops, swinging swords, swords and arrows intertwined, and unknowingly, she was getting closer and closer to the desert land. Perhaps because of her instinctive trust in Xiaoguai, she even trusted her back to the zebra cat who was still taking a nap, and only occasionally used her peripheral vision to observe the movements around her.
When she turned around and chopped at the scavenger bird that had flown in front of her, she noticed that she was less than 10 meters away from the treasure chest guardian monster. This distance had triggered the treasure chest guardian monster's protection mechanism.
Logically speaking... the treasure chest guardian monster would definitely come to attack, but...
The monster that was originally curled up in a ball has stood up. It is a black and white tiger with frizzy fur. It still has a big tiger head and no "King" mark in the middle of its head.
Under that muscular body, you could even see the blood flowing in the muscles under the stripes on the body. When he saw Yu Miaomiao looking back, he let out a familiar "meow".
It’s a zebra cat, so it should be Xiaoguai.
Yu Miaomiao sighed and looked at the group of ant monsters rushing over from behind, almost squeezing the entire path into a long strip. Even if the newcomers might not see it, the road was so narrow that he had nowhere to hide. It would be better to use the return card as soon as possible.
Turning her head to look at Xiaoguai again, her eyes suddenly became firm.
She quickly clicked to use the snake and insect repellent in her backpack, then turned sideways and walked into the crescent-shaped desert area while shooting birds.
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