booktalesy Chapter 104 Insects and Beasts Outside the Wall
Chapter 104 Insects and Beasts Outside the Wall
Those insects outside the wall are really rude.
Richard sneered and decided to teach them a lesson.
What are the noble etiquette rules of the Kingdom of Kiel?
Small flying blades, derived from the fusion of a fourth-order blade insect cocoon and a third-order knife insect cocoon, were launched from the arm.
In an instant, it tore the sneak-attacking blade insect into pieces.
He leaped off the blood orange tree.
The pioneers in the team immediately cooperated and took out the insect repellent explosives they carried with them.
They've had their eyes on these insidious little devils for a long time!
All the pioneers quickly put on their gas masks.
One after another, insect-repelling explosives were thrown onto the tree canopy and detonated with a bang.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Explosions echoed one after another.
Instead of the usual flames and smoke of a gunpowder explosion, there were only wisps of eerie blue smoke slowly spreading out.
Blue mushroom-shaped mist!
Once inhaled, this substance can cause animals to fall into extreme depression, and may even lead them to despair and commit suicide!
Richard had already taken several bottles of mushroom mist samples back with him when he first collected the essence insect fluid.
He came up with a brilliant idea and commissioned Glolo to develop this insect-repelling explosive.
This is the second time we've come to collect the essence of the insect venom.
Besides collecting the necessary supplies, they also had two other objectives: to retrieve the mushroom-man mist left behind from last time, and to capture some live mushroom-men as well.
This is why Richard chose the dangerous Fungus Forest as his first stop, rather than other relatively safe areas.
Blue smoke is silently drifting across the entire blood orange grove.
It began to diffuse and spread, turning into a pale blue color.
In no time.
The fallen leaves in the forest rustled and trembled, and some blood oranges hanging on the branches swayed gently.
About ten minutes passed.
All the unusual activity suddenly subsided, and deathly silence returned.
With a flash of cold light, the flying blade precisely sliced off a blood orange that was still trembling.
Richard grabbed one and crushed it with a flick of his fingertips!
The pulp was completely crushed, and the blood-red juice splattered everywhere.
Inside, a dry, brittle maple leaf was curled up.
He lifted his leg and brushed aside the gray snow and layers of fallen leaves on the ground. Sure enough, there were more scattered underneath, withered leaves turned from the corpses of the blade insects.
It seems the blue mushroom mist is indeed effective.
"Collect carefully."
Richard uttered a single sentence and then cleaved away all the blood oranges in this area that had trembled in his memory.
Some pioneers with iron handguards began to climb the blood orange tree.
They don't need to collect too many; a few dozen kilograms of samples will suffice.
The primary target should still be the essence of insect venom.
……
The pioneering team continues its exploration.
They stopped when they came across a large, clear forest pool.
Ponds are obviously among the most dangerous areas in the forest.
Almost every pool of water was inhabited by ferocious aquatic insects and beasts. Even the most foolish pioneering lord would not casually lead his troops near a pool of water.
But who is Richard?
He now has a top-quality cocoon that he can't find a use for.
I wish a Tier 3 insectoid beast would appear right now so I could fight it for three hundred rounds!
It's a strange thing, really.
From Stormwind to here, I haven't seen any insectoid beasts along the way, just lots of small insects...
Richard even wondered if he had swept too much ground during his first exploration.
They wiped out all the insectoid beasts in this area of the Northern Snowfield!
I even said I'd hunt a few insects and beasts this time, just for a treat.
Just as my sister said before she died, only the meat of wild insects and animals is fresh.
That flavor was truly unforgettable...
However, the team has only just arrived here.
The sounds of two thousand people's footsteps, the clanging of equipment, and their breathing mingled together.
The commotion instantly startled the predator deep in the pool, causing it to rush out.
It was a three-legged toad that was as fat as a pig.
A muffled thud echoed across the water.
The three-legged toad suddenly leaped out of the center of the pool!
It hopped and skipped towards the shore, sometimes leaping out of the water and hovering in mid-air, sometimes plunging back to the lake bottom, splashing large amounts of water. Its bizarre movement was enough to make anyone's scalp tingle.
What's even more terrifying is that its back and forehead are covered with countless eyes of all sizes.
These eyeballs move erratically, each one flashing a cold light, and looking into them causes physical discomfort!
Richard stared at the monster, making no attempt to name the hideous creature.
He simply asked the little girl dream bug, and immediately determined this guy's life level.
Tier 3, Early Stage of Mature Form!
I really don't want to notice that every time it jumps, a few red, blue, and green eyeballs will randomly fall off its back.
Some of the detached eyeballs were still connected to half a transparent nerve.
As the toad swung through the air, it finally fell into the water, its pupils still darting around as it fell...
Richard watched this scene and felt a churning in his stomach. He had absolutely no appetite for the creature's appearance.
According to common biological knowledge on Earth, amphibians like toads have a defective visual system. They cannot see stationary objects, and it is difficult for them to lock onto their prey if it remains still.
But Richard dared not be certain that these bizarre alien creatures would follow the same physiological structure as species on Earth.
What if this similar appearance is simply a result of convergent evolution, while the internal physiological structure is completely different?
What's more, this three-legged, multi-eyed toad in front of us has so many eyes all over its body.
No matter how you look at it, or how much you try to deceive yourself, it doesn't look like the kind of stationary object that you can't see clearly!
Richard stared intently at its chilling appearance, unable to even muster the thought of getting close, let alone charging up for a three-hundred-round battle.
Because of those densely packed eyeballs all over his back, which kept falling off and moving around.
This involuntarily reminded him of the fifth-tier super-giant insect beast he had encountered before.
Its tentacles were covered with eyeballs that were even juicier than the toad in front of it!
Just a little longer, and Richard felt his scalp tingle, as if tiny eyes were crawling all over his skin, and the discomfort of trypophobia almost overwhelmed him.
Since I don't want to fight this toad head-on, I certainly won't be foolish enough to challenge it to a one-on-one duel.
Richard raised his arm and waved it behind him.
The surrounding pioneers immediately understood and drew their crossbows in unison, instantly filling the air with a chilling atmosphere.
Just then, the three-legged, multi-eyed toad leaped out of the water once again.
With a powerful push from its sturdy hind legs, it was only a few jumps away from the team of pioneers.
But in that instant, the Trail Blazers pulled the trigger.
A series of sharp crossbow bolts shot out into the air.
With a sharp whistling sound, it shot straight towards the toad's soft belly exposed in the air!
But this three-legged, multi-eyed toad was not entirely unprepared.
Just as the crossbow bolt was about to hit, a long, fleshy pink tongue appeared.
It suddenly sprang out from its wide mouth; its tongue was incredibly elastic, with a suction cup covered in mucus at the tip.
The long tongue swung rapidly in front of the toad.
Like a nimble whip, it splashes up clumps of transparent, viscous liquid wherever it goes.
The crossbow bolts that came whistling through the air failed to pierce the strange tongue; instead, they were stuck firmly to the sticky substance on it.
Like fish caught in a net, one by one they lost their strength.
In the blink of an eye, not a single crossbow bolt could hit the toad's body!
In the next instant, the long tongue flicked its wrist, and the bundle of arrows stuck together was thrown into the pool behind it with a muffled splash, creating a ripple.
Richard stood at the front of the line, watching Toad's ingenious maneuver, but his face showed no sign of panic.
What are you pretending for? If it doesn't dare to take the arrows head-on with its body, it means its physical defenses aren't that great!
How dare such trash attack our well-equipped pioneer team?
Let alone a team of two thousand people, even if there were only two hundred, how big of an appetite could it possibly have?
Richard's eyes sharpened, and he raised his hand and waved to both sides.
He shouted in a deep voice, "Change formation! Shoot in the blind spots!"
With his command, another series of arrows shot out into the air!
This time, the crossbow bolts weren't just aimed at the toad's belly.
The pioneers had quickly dispersed, forming an arc-shaped line along the shore.
He aimed the crossbow at every part of the toad's body.
Sharp arrows shot out from multiple tricky angles, sealing off all of the toad's escape routes!
Richard stared at the toad surrounded by arrows, a cold smile playing on his lips.
He refused to believe that the three-legged toad had a tongue.
It can protect your butt!