Chapter 151: Three Baits
Humans cannot look directly at the Black Goat of the Woods, because the Black Goat of the Woods’ eyes are all over its body. Looking directly means making eye contact, and the result of eye contact is the corruption of rationality, the collapse of spirit. People will be influenced by the Black Goat of the Woods, turning into evil madmen, tending toward the madness of Lust and fanatical adoration of the “Inverted Creator.” Creatures will immerse themselves in the desire to reproduce, and the object can be any creature, even the Black Goat itself.
Humans also find it difficult to kill the Black Goat of the Woods through conventional means. The Black Goat of the Woods fears neither high temperature nor flames, its body is tough, and it possesses an extremely pervert regeneration ability. Unless it is a large-scale weapon of mass destruction, it is hard to cause it effective harm.
Therefore, when everyone discovered that the anomaly in the forest was the Black Goat of the Woods, they immediately felt it was difficult and tricky.
“Retreat?” Li Duojin lowered his voice and opened the headphones’ communication channel.
“No, there’s a plan.” Zhou Shaobo responded in the channel, then explained the plan in detail.
It was not some meticulous plan, nor any outstanding plan. Facing the powerful and terrifying Black Goat of the Woods, human strategies had no effect.
Zhou Shaobo planned to send out two people as bait one after another, then have the remaining two launch an attack.
If this plan failed, it would be a dead end, with no possibility of survival.
The ones responsible for being bait were Huang Hua and Zhang Chi. The two had already cooperated countless times with Zhou Shaobo, teammates who had gone through life and death together, with tacit cooperation. They understood Zhou Shaobo’s action patterns, and having them act as bait would allow Zhou Shaobo to perform even more fully.
Li Duojin would stay in place and act according to the situation.
After the plan was given, Zhang Chi seized the opportunity and moved. He suddenly jumped out from the bushes, unhesitatingly threw out a grenade, and shot at the grenade, causing it to explode in mid-air.
The Black Goat of the Woods was caught off guard by the blast, continuous painful infant wails sounded, and then it shot out several black tumor-like things, breaking through the explosion’s smoke screen and lashing toward Zhang Chi.
Zhang Chi turned and ran, repeatedly leaping back and forth between the trees in the forest, evading the Black Goat of the Woods’ attacks like a nimble black panther.
Just as the Black Goat of the Woods was focused on dealing with Zhang Chi, another grenade fell from the sky and exploded right in its face again. This explosion seemed even more powerful, and the Black Goat of the Woods’ mountain-like sturdy body was actually blasted back several meters.
Facing the sudden sneak attack from Huang Hua, the Black Goat of the Woods immediately split off other black fluids from its body and fiercely chased Huang Hua.
In an instant, the Black Goat of the Woods began attacking two Mystic Investigators at the same time.
Seeing this, Li Duojin broke out in a cold sweat. He crouched in the bushes, not knowing when it would be time for him to act, or what he could actually do.
Li Duojin saw that Dog Group’s group leader Zhou Shaobo had not moved for a long time, while teammates Huang Hua and Zhang Chi were being wildly hunted by the Black Goat of the Woods. They had all sustained varying degrees of harm during the evasion and escape process.
Seeing that teammates Huang Hua and Zhang Chi were starting to falter, but Zhou Shaobo, hidden somewhere, still refused to show himself, Li Duojin finally couldn’t endure it and immediately took action.
Li Duojin drew his pistol from his waist and suddenly stood up, but just as he was about to fire, he saw the Black Goat of the Woods’ black slime whistling toward him. In his view, those black slimes became solid. Their tips split open, and every one of those black fuzz-like things turned into sharp blades. Combined with their swift thrusting ability, the Black Goat of the Woods’ black, sticky slime, like octopus tentacles, instantly became the most terrifying weapon.
Seeing this, Li Duojin finally confirmed that the killer who murdered that poor maintenance worker in the amusement park was the Black Goat of the Woods right before his eyes!
The threat of death rang like a mad bell in his brain. Li Duojin’s heart pounded, but he felt the entire world slowing down, while only he seemed to be moving at double speed.
Deep in a desperate situation of life and death, as Li Duojin flushed red-faced wanting to escape but not knowing what to do, Zhou Shaobo, hiding in the shadows, took action again. He jumped out from the bushes, then took out a transparent bottle containing a suspended water droplet and released the suspended water droplet inside.
The moment the water droplet was released, the struck Black Goat of the Woods immediately began to roar in pain. That suspended water droplet was extremely alluring, like a precious pearl. It seemed capable of squeezing a brand-new Jeep out of its place.
However, when the water droplet landed on the Black Goat of the Woods’ body, the Black Goat of the Woods’ body began to ache endlessly. The water droplet was like a cannon shell; unaffected by resistance, it steadily flew forward, squeezing the Black Goat of the Woods as it advanced.
The Black Goat of the Woods tried to resist the water droplet head-on, but the parts of its body blocking it were easily pierced and torn by the water droplet.
In this way, the immobile Black Goat of the Woods became like a live target, pushed by the water droplet, its body constantly squeezed by the water droplet until the water droplet compressed its body into something resembling a meat patty. Finally, the water droplet began to shoot through its tough, sturdy body, opening a large hole in it.
Taking this opportunity, Huang Hua and Zhang Chi rushed back. The two each threw out the grenades they carried, and soon the forest was ablaze with firelight, thick smoke and fireworks billowing, along with terrifying explosive winds surging out.
When the thick smoke cleared, the Black Goat of the Woods had turned into a puddle of muck, with the slurry and meat-like fragments that made up its body splattered everywhere.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Shaobo didn’t hesitate and threw out several high-explosive grenades, directly blasting the Black Goat of the Woods, now reduced to chunks of rotten meat, into even finer pieces. Its body, capable of super-speed regeneration, was blasted to pieces, almost losing all activity.
Li Duojin came back to his senses. He looked at Zhou Shaobo and said calmly, “Group Leader Zhou, if you wanted to use me as bait, I wouldn’t have any complaints.”
“Sorry, only this way could produce the effect.” Zhou Shaobo said with regret, honestly admitting that he had used Li Duojin as bait.
Li Duojin was expressionless and said nothing.
In the action just now, it seemed Huang Hua and Zhang Chi were used as bait, and in fact, according to the situation, that was indeed what happened at the beginning. But do not overlook the Black Goat of the Woods’ own wisdom; it was very clear that Huang Hua and Zhang Chi’s assaults were a feint, so it secretly sent out other parts of its body to search for people hiding nearby.
Li Duojin’s position was extremely close to the Black Goat of the Woods, so it naturally discovered him without surprise and targeted him for attack.
It was precisely because it discovered Li Duojin that the Black Goat of the Woods suddenly changed its behavior, directing all its attacks to surround him, wanting to kill Li Duojin directly.
And Zhou Shaobo seized this brief gap to launch a fatal attack on the Black Goat of the Woods. Then, when the Black Goat of the Woods had almost lost its combat ability, Huang Hua and Zhang Chi took the opportunity to flank it and deliver the finishing blows.
It could be said that the three in the Dog Group had planned from the start to use him as bait.
