"Well, stop looking at me like that. I may not be able to use you. Try to improve yourself."

Zhang Mu took advantage of the Black Obsidian Bug's inattention and slapped it again. Then he spoke to Yuan Rui as if he was a different person.

"Yuan Rui, wait for me here. You see, the strength of these monsters has been weakened a lot. Stay here peacefully. Since this bug bargained with me, I won't take it with me. Let him/her accompany you."

"No, uncle. I can do it alone. Besides, this place is so close to you. You can see what happens. Let Xiao Hei go with you. Not to mention the inside of the cave, there are so many monkeys outside."

Seeing that Zhang Mu still insisted on going alone, Yuan Rui couldn't help but get anxious, her voice sharpened, "Xiao Hei and I came here to help you, uncle. If you don't want to take me with you, then I'd better go back. Anyway, I'm a burden in your eyes.

Don't worry about me, just take Xiao Hei with you."

Yuan Rui yelled at Zhang Mu and turned around to go back the way she came.

In this case, he was really anxious and wanted to leave Zhang Mu.

Every time Zhang Mu let the obsidian protect her, he had to face those monsters alone. Yuan Rui completely exploded. She felt that if Zhang Mu lost his life in the future, it must be because of her that he was held back.

Zhang Mu didn't expect that Yuan Rui, who was usually weak and timid, could be so powerful when she got angry. He was instantly stunned. If they were not still some distance away from the guards at the cave sentry post, and those guards' abilities were weakened at this time, causing their hearing to deteriorate a lot, they would have been discovered by those mutant monkeys by now.

Zhang Mu naturally couldn't let Yuan Rui go alone, especially in the dark. She might not be able to escape even from an ordinary first-level zombie, let alone a mutant beast.

He had no choice but to step over in an instant, grab the jogging Yuan Rui, pull her back, and without explaining anything, he said, "Okay, I'll take you with me. Are you going back now to seek death?"

After getting Zhang Mu's promise to take him with him, although he was scolded by him, Yuan Rui was still very happy in his heart. He smiled instantly, leaving Zhang Mu speechless.

A woman's face is really unpredictable, with its ups and downs.

However, Zhang Mu did not simply let Yuan Rui do what she wanted. He thought about it carefully and had his own considerations. Without the Obsidian Worm as a big meat shield, he might be at a disadvantage even when facing the weakened mutant monkeys. If he could protect Yuan Rui, then even if he was surrounded, Zhang Mu could at least recover his peak combat power once.

Zhang Mu didn't waste any words. He directly made the obsidian worm grow larger and landed heavily on the open space in front.

The Obsidian Bug also knew that this was not the time to fight with Zhang Mu, so it just followed his orders obediently.

boom!

Such a blatant provocation directly attracted the attention of all the mutant mountain monkeys standing on the periphery. They didn't care that the obsidian worm was several sizes larger than themselves. Now that their intelligence was suddenly weakened, they had long forgotten the rules and orders. With murderous eyes and bared teeth, they all rushed towards Zhang Mu and the others.

Throwing away the long stick in their hands, they returned to their original four limbs and rushed forward, completely ignoring the original formation and tight defense levels. A group of wild monkeys came closer and closer to Zhang Mu with a mighty and violent momentum.

Just what I wanted!

Zhang Mu was delighted. If they still obeyed orders and kept the original rules, Zhang Mu might have a headache for a while. If they only remembered to tear apart the provocateurs in front of them, then there was nothing to fear.

"Carry Yuan Rui!"

Zhang Mu placed Yuan Rui directly on the neck of the Obsidian Worm, letting Yuan Rui sit at the connection between its neck and carapace, and then commanded the Obsidian Worm to fly upright at a low altitude. Yuan Rui was at least four meters above the ground, so the wild monkeys with such reduced agility should not pose much threat to her.

The obsidian worm remained motionless in the air behind Zhang Mu, waiting for Zhang Mu to make a move.

Swish!

The fastest mutant mountain monkey had already arrived in front of Zhang Mu, completely unaware that it was the only one to arrive first, and even its closest companion was about ten meters away.

The mutant mountain monkey jumped high up, much taller than Zhang Mu, and scratched Zhang Mu's face with one claw, trying to split Zhang Mu's head open. It seemed that it had already imagined the delicious taste of Zhang Mu's brain.

Are you coming here to die? If you are so confident, sharpen the knife you gave me.

Zhang Mu was not at all panicked when facing the wild monkey's close attack. He slowly squatted down and took a firm horse stance, waiting until the wild monkey's claws were about to scratch his face.

He moved!

The horizontal blade instantly came forward, and with his solid lower body, he steadily received all the impact force brought by the wild monkey pressing down from the air.

A monkey, a knife, and a man.

This scene froze in the darkness for half a second. Zhang Mu smiled and twisted the blade in an instant. Even though only the ferocious wild monkey was left, the only thing left in his eyes was the fear of the sudden danger.

But soon, its fear dissipated.

Zhang Mu's knife was so fast that it didn't give the monkey a chance to react. It broke through the monkey's closed claws and pierced its heart. The hot blood spilled onto the knife.

Even though it was surrounded by mutant monkeys, the Obsidian Worm slowly moved to Zhang Mu's side. It stretched out a small claw and picked out the first-level beast core from the wild monkey's head. It then licked and chewed the brain with relish.

"Xiao Hei, you are so disgusting."

Yuan Rui, who was sitting on the neck of the Obsidian Worm, couldn't stand the Obsidian Worm's way of eating, so she slapped its head hard, and the Obsidian Worm swallowed it reluctantly in one gulp.

The Obsidian was very unhappy that its joyful eating was interrupted, so it took out its anger on the wild monkeys that pounced on it.

In order to keep Yuan Rui sitting firmly on it, the Obsidian Worm did not even lower its head, and used only a pair of small claws to tear the wild monkey in front of it apart alive. It was surrounded by a group of wild monkeys, and it just shook its body casually, and the spikes on the edge of its carapace directly pierced the wild monkeys that stuck to it.

It was pulled back to the ground by the weight of the corpse hanging above it, and then it twisted its body as it rushed forward.

"Hey, slow down."

"Damn Xiao Hei, are you doing this on purpose? Don't splash blood on me, it's disgusting."

Hearing Yuan Rui's screams not far away, Zhang Mu chopped down the last wild monkey in front of him with a knife, skillfully picked up the animal cores in the brains of all the corpses on the ground, and then chased after it with a smile.

(End of this chapter)