vncnus Chapter 79 Fleas
Chapter 79 Fleas
After bypassing the cemetery, Yu Jing wandered through the woods.
The thick layer of humus accumulated over the years covered the ground, and every step he took caused it to sink softly, forcing him to slow down, for fear of accidentally stepping into something dangerous.
He would occasionally glance at the cemetery, but his mind was filled with the scene he had witnessed during his novice trials.
If the cemetery is full of people suffering from bestiality, why are those fish-men specifically tied to crosses?
They're all patients with the Beast Transformation Disease. Aren't they afraid that the fish-man corpses will continue to spread the disease?
Recalling the gruesome sight of the fishman's corpse being tortured, and those scarecrows that seemed to have been used to frighten the fishman.
The fear and hatred of the people who did these things is obvious.
Could the fish-men be the root cause of all this?
During his novice trial, Yu Jing was only thinking about reaching the tower as soon as possible to escape the alien world. He didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, or rather, he was unwilling to spend time investigating them. Now, looking back, the scene he saw at that time was full of contradictions and strangeness.
Just as Yu Jing was about to jot down these suspicious points, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the monster detector on the Torch Watch, and he involuntarily froze.
The pointer has reached mark 5, indicating that we are about to enter the red danger zone, which means that there are monsters nearby!
Even if you deliberately avoid cemeteries, are you still being targeted?
Having anticipated the dangers of the alien land of Blood Healing, Yu Jing remained calm. As he continued forward, he hung the fluorite lamp he had been carrying on his waist and took out a combat stimulant from the medicine bag beside him.
Without saying a word, it was plunged into the neck and injected into the body.
The instructions provided by the store describe the specific effects of this injection in detail.
It can significantly improve physical recovery speed in a short period of time, and the side effects are reduced to a level that ordinary people can easily tolerate.
The premise is that there should be no abuse.
He switched the revolver to his left hand, which was already loaded with powerful armor-piercing rounds. His right hand quietly reached behind his trench coat and rested on the hilt of the Bone Sacrifice short sword.
A strange noise came from the branches overhead; it was coming!
Yu Jing, who was prepared, suddenly turned around, raised his gun, and pulled the trigger in the direction from which the sound came.
Accompanied by a sharp screech, a repulsive-looking monster, lying prone on a high tree trunk, came into view.
Its appearance is like a combination of a human and a mosquito. Its bluish-gray, jagged body is very similar to the trees next to it. Its dry, narrow limbs are covered with coarse, stiff bristles, and the ends have barbs that embed into the tree trunks. Its already hunched back is raised, and its sparsely haired head is highly distorted, looking like the flat shape unique to insects. Its bulging eyes are fixed on Yu Jing, and several blood-red tongues hang from its mouth, flicking back and forth.
What's most striking is its bulging abdomen, which reveals a large stomach sac filled with dark red blood plasma.
However, the monster's stomach seemed to be shriveled up, with very little dark red blood plasma.
Perhaps this is a key reason why it was so eager to launch an attack on Yu Jing.
boom! boom! boom!
Keep firing until the magazine is empty.
After this period of training, coupled with his constantly enhanced senses and physique, Yu Jing's shooting accuracy has skyrocketed.
Even when firing with his left hand, his accuracy was still 2 out of 3.
The monster was shot in the back and shoulder, leaving two bloody holes. Instead of running away in pain, it became ferocious and launched a surprise attack on Yu Jing. It used its two hind legs to kick the tree trunk for leverage and sprang out like a flea.
Yu Jing squinted his eyes to track its movements.
Once the monster was overhead, he immediately stepped back, drew his sword, and then spun around to deliver a powerful upward slash.
The cold glint flashed and disappeared in an instant.
The monster landed with its head severed from its body, and after a few violent twitches of its limbs, it became completely still.
He swung his knife to wipe away the blood and grime, now able to handle these low-level monsters with ease.
Despite the seemingly insignificant victory, Yu Jing did not let his guard down after collecting the Soul Fire.
I glanced at the monster detector; the pointer hadn't stopped, proving that there were still monsters lurking in the shadows nearby.
Perhaps it followed the monster at its feet, or perhaps it was attracted by the sound of gunfire.
In short, this is not a place to stay for long!
Reload the revolver and quickly withdraw from the battlefield.
Before he had gone far, he heard a series of sounds behind him. When he turned around, he saw several monsters gathered around the corpses he had just killed, vying to suck the flesh and blood of their own kind.
The monsters that failed to get a spot bypassed them and continued to leap back and forth between the tree trunks, relentlessly chasing after Yu Jing.
Having not tasted fresh flesh for so long, their extreme hunger caused them to burst forth with astonishing speed and numbers, resembling a swarm of blood-sucking fleas, only much larger.
"Damn, did we disturb a flea nest?"
Yu Jing knew in his heart that these monsters had most likely chased him from the cemetery.
Luckily, he chose to take a detour, otherwise he would be surrounded by them in the graveyard and have nowhere to run.
Yu Jing, who had just used combat stimulants, still had plenty of energy, but he was carrying a pack, and it was unrealistic for him to run past these bouncy creatures in the forest while carrying a heavy load.
As for abandoning his luggage and fleeing lightly, Yu Jing is not considering this option for the time being.
He had only just entered this foreign land and hadn't even found a fishing village yet. Abandoning the supplies in his baggage would have too great an impact on his subsequent exploration.
Moreover, the current situation is far from requiring such a compromise.
After a brief moment of thought, Yu Jing decided to use [Stealth Powder].
The Explorers Headquarters provides enough for about three uses, so using it once wouldn't be a waste given the current situation.
He first threw a smoke bomb behind him to obscure the monsters' vision, then slowed down and grabbed a handful of dust from his satchel, sprinkling it on his head and letting it fall on him.
Taking advantage of the shifting light and shadow around him, Yu Jing quickly stepped into the shadows under a nearby tree, his figure gradually becoming blurred.
After the dozen or so "fleas" that had followed them rushed through the smoke and found that they had lost their target, they immediately fell into chaos, rushing around everywhere, trying to force Yu Jing out in this way.
Hidden in the shadows, Yu Jing watched them pass by again and again, his brows furrowed.
The cloaking dust had a limited duration, and these creatures' persistence with their prey exceeded his expectations.
Just as Yu Jing was beginning to hesitate about whether to use another dose of the Concealment Powder to prolong its effect, a scream mixed with terror and wailing suddenly came from above, causing him to hurriedly look up to check.
From Yu Jing's perspective, all he could see were several thick, long black shadows suddenly rushing out of the tree canopy and killing several "fleas" in mid-air.
The commotion caused by the "fleas" failed to provoke Yu Jing, but instead attracted other large creatures from the dark, dense forest.
Just moments ago, they were relentlessly hunting Yu Jing, but in the blink of an eye, they became the prey of another terrifying being!