Chapter 200: Venom-spewing Millipede
No, the ground underfoot is getting stranger and stranger, especially that slide just now.
With every step forward, Yu Jiang’s heart tightened a bit more; she couldn’t say what was wrong, but she just felt uncomfortable.
Yu Jiang slowed her breathing and sent a message in the team channel, “Be careful! Something’s off here.”
The sky outside was still bright, but in the dense forest shrouded by layers of vegetation, visibility was already blurred.
Upon receiving Yu Jiang’s reminder, the teammates immediately lightened their steps, hands loosely gripping their weapons.
“There are too many smells mixed here, I can’t distinguish them. I’ll set up a device.”
Han Jiang Gu Ying took out something like a rooftop alarm, chose a spot, operated it a few times, and placed it on the ground.
“This thing can detect recent movement traces left by nearby living creatures. When triggered, it becomes a simple trap.”
Hunter Detector.
Han Jiang Gu Ying and Desert Eagle were hunters of two different development paths; one specialized in tracking, survival, traps,
the other was a gun-wielding output changed in the adult era. This time, they each chose a three-star difficulty instance suited to themselves.
With this device in place, everyone felt a bit more at ease and was just about to continue forward when, as they lifted their feet, the ground moved.
This movement was very obvious; no one could ignore the sense of danger permeating around them.
The fermented stench from the damp soil, along with the smell from some creature’s body, sprayed out in an instant.
“Run fast!”
Before Yu Jiang’s voice fell, the ground surged upward, and dark brown hard exoskeleton appeared in view, with poison glands growing on both sides emitting a pungent odor.
Sharp large jaws on the front head, ridiculously long antennae, and a pair of compound eyes; when it stood upright, it shocked everyone quite a bit.
It had only revealed half its body; such a colossal thing at least two stories tall made the ground tremble with every movement, not to mention Yu Jiang and the others were standing on its back.
Strawberry Candy tensed up all over, her mind only flashing two words: ‘Done for.’
Surrounding branches and vines were crushed and snapped; Yu Jiang and the others were also flung to both sides.
There was no time to react; except for Shi Xu who used his slender Miao Blade to steady himself, flipping in mid-air and even pulling the nearest Yu Jiang, the others could only protect their vital spots as best they could.
The ground was wet and soft, so being flung wouldn’t hurt too badly, but the thorny vines and broken branches along the way wouldn’t feel good either.
Han Jiang Gu Ying was flung into the water; his device activated, instantly lighting up and shooting out several movable metal wires that bound the goal.
But in front of such a massive body, a few tightening metal wires were obviously insufficient, at most binding it for 5 seconds.
“Get far away, watch out for poison!” Yu Jiang shouted urgently.
This was a giant mutated scarlet centipede, also called centipede; it was poisonous all over, and its sprayed venom could cause blinding.
Not to mention not being able to chop through its armored body; even if chopped, the splashing venom from inside would make oneself the unlucky one.
Yu Jiang had no time for anything else; in the heat of the moment, she pushed Shi Xu away with her hand, forcing his drawing motion back, and dragged him retreating backward.
Shi Xu looked at the hand on his hilt and Yu Jiang’s inexhaustible strength; his collar was even deformed by her tug— at this moment, his eyes cleared.
She knew he was fast, yet still took him along while escaping.
She remembered at the start of their cooperation, she had run back herself without hesitation, the meaning clear: if he couldn’t make it, they would part ways.
Shi Xu’s mouth corners pursed slightly; he raised his hand to block a sweeping sharp side armor of the mutated millipede with the flat of his unsheathed blade, protecting Yu Jiang’s head as they retreated.
Before the others could get up from the ground, the poison glands on the side of the mutated millipede sprayed out large amounts of reddish-brown, foul-smelling misty venom like spraying pesticide.
This smell was indescribable; one whiff made you want to roll your eyes—hard to rate. Even with Yu Jiang’s poison resistance, it made her nauseous and dizzy.
It wasn’t poisoning; it was just too foul, and the concentration was high.
“Can’t take it, ugh.” She thought of Player Team 6 who needed to catch up soon after dark; if they came, they’d suffer too.
“Aaaah!!! What is this thing! My eyes hurt so much! Where’s the healer?”
The five people instantly scattered running or shouting for the healer; the scene was chaos.
On Yu Jiang’s team side, Han Jiang Gu Ying fell into the water and thus avoided the mutated millipede’s venom attack. Strawberry Candy had high defense; she and Kuang Kuang Kuang were okay, but the venom spray area was too large.
Even at Shi Xu’s speed, they got a bit on them; the two women hadn’t escaped either.
Intermediate Detox Pill could only prevent blinding; the blurred vision debuff would last 1 hour.
This thing was too poisonous; without Intermediate Detox Pill or healer purification, blinding would last 2 hours, and health value would drop 20 points.
“No way out, the river water isn’t deep—head there! This thing probably can’t swim!” Player 10 shouted while running from behind.
In front of this mutated millipede, they were like little rats; its massive body could send them flying several meters.
Its body was surrounded by poison, so they couldn’t get close and could only run.
“Don’t come into the water!” Han Jiang Gu Ying shouted loudly.
In the dim light, he was seen holding a bloody blade, arduously climbing out of the water. “There’s something in the water!”
“I’ll go help him; you take the other two and run first.” Shi Xu said in a deep voice.
“Wait a moment.” Yu Jiang took out the four-leaf clover from the flower pot, facing the floating misty venom in the air ahead. “Dear four-leaf clover, blowing wind, level three!”
[Four-leaf Clover: What smell is this!!! Ugh, I wanna run away.]
Perhaps the four-leaf clover also hated the pungent odor; its rotation speed was much faster than usual.
It couldn’t blow away the venom completely, but blowing it toward the opposite direction would at least reduce the concentration a bit.
“Okay now, be careful.”
With that, Yu Jiang put away the four-leaf clover and quickly moved toward Strawberry Candy and Kuang Kuang Kuang, leading them while running and observing the surroundings.
This thing liked to live in groups; if there was a big one, there were likely small ones nearby.
On the right riverbank, though Shi Xu had a debuff layer and blurred vision, it didn’t affect his actions; the assassin profession also had passive advantages at night.
The thick, patterned thing in the water leaped out to wrap around Han Jiang Gu Ying from behind and drag him back to strangle when.
Shi Xu gripped his blade with both hands and advanced to support, stabbing ruthlessly, accurately, and swiftly into the snake’s body; it fell back into the murky yellow river water in pain.
The mutated millipede on the ground was still swaying left and right, about to spray pesticide—no, spray poison again.
After the team of five broke free, they immediately dashed madly toward their original destination.
As for the other team, the reminder had been given; whether they could catch up was for them to consider.
Yu Jiang frantically chopped through the obstructing plants ahead, while Shi Xu covered the rear, defending the crazy writhing mutated millipede from behind with the other teammates.
“You okay?” Yu Jiang looked at the drenched Han Jiang Gu Ying.
“No problem.” Han Jiang Gu Ying shook his head, panting. “That thing ambushes in the water, faster than on shore; once wrapped, it’s nearly impossible to break free. Good thing I sensed something wrong and threw the trap net first.”
The hunter’s passive allowed him to detect abnormal water flow immediately; otherwise, he’d have died there today.
They hadn’t detected the millipede because it had stayed still in the soil; by the time it moved, it was too late to run out of attack range.
