Chapter 12: On the Way
Seven blood-red lightning balls, one in the center, and the other six around the center like satellites, kept rotating, while rotating, from the size of a fist to the size of a human head, and at the same time the range slowly expanded, from a radius of one meter at the beginning, and soon spread to a radius of fifty meters.
It was precisely because of this that the mercenaries of the sword discovered the existence of these blood-red lightning balls.
"W-what is this?" the sword mercenaries saw the blood-red lightning ball for the first time.
"That's, war beast?" the sword mercenaries looked at the lightning ball, and the lightning ball floated above Xiao Ming's head—to be exact, on top of the purple bead lying on top of Xiao Ming's head.
Xiao Ming's right eye was as white as the sun, and countless thin arcs crawled out of his right eye, causing the arcs of his whole body to flash randomly, all the arcs of electricity surged towards the body of the purple bead above his head, and the purple bead raised his head, made a long roar in the sky, opened his small mouth, and spit out a red lightning bolt connected to the blood-red lightning ball above. And the blood-red lightning ball that had always remained the size of a fist split into six other blood-red lightning bolts that were also blood-red and connected to the other six lightning balls that were growing larger and farther away.
"Energy reception, this is something that only high-level star beasts can do. That star beast doesn't look like a holy star beast, what kind of ability is this Xiao Ming?" Fu Yanwan said in shock.
"This is his secret! We can't inquire! Otherwise, ......," Yan Xinjie said meaningfully.
"Yes, these people are terrible, too dangerous. Even if we can't be friends with them, we can't be enemies!" Fu Yanwan nodded in agreement.
Yan Xinjie showed a meaningful smile.
While the two were talking, the blood-red lightning ball had reached two hundred meters and finally stopped.
"Lei Yao!"
Xiao Ming snorted. Zizhu, who received the order, immediately let out a long roar. The seven blood-red lightning balls became extremely violent in an instant. Especially the six blood-red lightning balls on the periphery. Countless lightning bolts crawled out of the blood-red lightning balls, at first they were only as thick as hair, but soon those hair-like lightning bolts were entangled with each other, and they became bigger and bigger, but in the time of one breath, they had turned into countless red lightning bolts as thick as arm's length.
The lightning came out like a torrential rain, and like a violent wind, falling mercilessly towards the surroundings.
How could those Blue Polar Snakes block the power of lightning. He was beaten to the point that his skin was torn apart and he died quite miserably.
The blue polar snake with a range of two hundred meters was wiped out in two breaths, and those red lightning bolts did not disappear, but spread outward like an infectious disease, and the earth turned from blue to red in a moment. A dense explosion sounded in everyone's ears.
As if it had wisdom, the lightning spread to a blue snake, and it did not exert its strength outside, but directly drilled into the mouth of the blue snake. No matter how powerful the star beast is, the inside of the body is also a defensive weakness. This is even more true for low-level star beasts like the Blue Polar Snake. Defenses outside and in vivo vary greatly.
The red lightning stretched for five hundred meters before finally disappearing, and the Blue Pole Snake in this area had been wiped out.
Although the blue snake is not afraid of death, but in the end there is still the survival instinct of the creature, first the king of the population was killed, followed by a large number of instant deaths of companions, these blue snakes finally understood that the prey in front of them was not easy to mess with, although unwilling, but still quickly retreated, the blue on the ground gradually disappeared, and once again turned into the darkness in the jungle.
"I, we won?" a mercenary with a sharp sword slapped his face in disbelief.
"Win, we stepped on a nest of blue snakes, not only won, but also lost a single person!" the other mercenary recounted what had happened, but there was a deep disbelief in his tone.
"Win, win!" the sword mercenaries finally came to their senses and cheered loudly.
The despair at the beginning and the ecstasy from the current to the current one made their feelings rise and fall greatly, and they couldn't help but scream in ecstasy.
Generally speaking, if you don't have enough preparation, you encounter so many Blue Polar Snakes, and it is already quite a good result to be able to escape a few in the end, how can it be like now, no one is damaged, and the Blue Polar Snake is repulsed?
"Quiet, bunch of fools, have you forgotten who saved you?" Yan Xinjie snorted vigorously to stop the carnival of his subordinates.
The mercenaries reacted and looked at Xiao Ming and the others, their eyes full of gratitude and awe.
At the beginning, although they knew the strength of Xiao Ming and the others, they were still a little unconvinced in their hearts, thinking that even if they had some gaps with the other party, they would not be too far behind, and even because they were old mercenaries, they should surpass the other party in some aspects.
But now the mercenaries realized how naïve they had been in the first place. They are no match for the Black Angels at all, and if the Black Angels were to deal with them, they wouldn't even have a chance to run.
On behalf of the sword, Yan Xinjie expressed her most sincere thanks to all of you in the Black Angel. Our lives were saved by you, and we will repay them in the future!" Yan Xinjie walked in front of Xiao Ming and bowed.
The mercenary world attaches great importance to kindness, especially life-saving grace. Because mercenaries are all professions that lick blood with knives, no one will know if they will be saved by another person at a certain moment, so they attach great importance to saving lives. If a mercenary ignores even the grace of saving his life, he will be despised by the mercenaries of the entire mercenary world.
"Deputy Head Yan is too polite, we're just protecting ourselves!" Tifa smiled faintly.
Of course, Yan Xinjie knew that Tifa was saying kind words, with Xiao Ming's strength, if it weren't for the people who protected the sword, the process of ending the battle would be faster. Maybe you don't even have to unfold the photon shield. However, she did not continue to dwell on the surface, but said: "Great grace is not grateful." We will definitely repay you!"
The atmosphere between the two sides became more harmonious. The eyes of the people of the sword who looked at the black angel were full of adoration.
Zhubu Island covers an area of 500 square kilometers, there are many jungles on the island, and it belongs to the tropical rainforest climate, even if everyone is not weak, in the jungle full of snakes and star beasts, the speed can not be fast. According to the initial prediction, the two sides will only roughly complete the search of the entire Zhubu Island in three days.
Among them, Xiao Ming and the left road they walked, in terms of distance, is closer than the middle road, shorter than the right road, of which the environment is complex Cheng dù is the largest, from day to night, everyone has been in danger many times, such as the blue snake This super danger has also been encountered twice, but because of the strong strength of Xiao Ming and others, in the end, they are all saved from danger. However, this also embarrassed the people of the sword, which made them feel that they were a burden.
But fortunately, Xiao Ming and the others never put on the face of a benefactor, let alone have any arrogant meaning, which also made the people of the sword more grateful to Xiao Ming and them.
The environment in the jungle is too complex, and the role of holographic scanning is minimized, and the range that everyone can guard is less than fifty meters. And Xiao Ming also understood after passing through the Blue Polar Snake that in such an environment, there were many special star beasts that could evade the first search of his soul searching technique, so no one dared to be careless, although the action was not slow, but it was not fast.
At seven o'clock in the evening, they barely made it to the expected location.
"We greatly underestimated the situation here, and it seems that the planned three days are simply not enough. If the situation on the other two sides is the same as ours, unless they also have the combat power on our side, it will be impossible to reach the predetermined location!" Yan Xinjie came to Xiao Ming's side when she was camping, intending to discuss the next situation.
"That's what we can't control, let's hope they succeed!" Tifa's face was light.
In fact, they had already known about Team Zero's situation from Minabo Celestial News. There were also several dangers over there, but there was no exaggeration here, coupled with the strong strength of Team Zero, so it was also possible to reach the predetermined location without danger, but the situation on the right side is unknown. After all, they don't have any connection to them.
A hint of strangeness flashed in Yan Xinjie's eyes, but it quickly disappeared: "I don't know what specific plans Miss Tifa has next?" She also knows now that it is impossible to talk to Xiao Ming to achieve results, it is better to find Tifa directly to be effective.
"We don't have any plans for the time being, we can only see walking. Zhubu Island is full of crises, and it's really a headache!" In other words, there is no clear purpose for this mission itself, just search Zhubu Island around, and it would be better if you could figure out the cause of death of the teams in front of you. And now what they have encountered can almost prove how the previous team died, not to mention anything else, just that a large area of blue polar snakes, waiting for idlers to come in and die as many as they want.
Perverts like Xiao Ming are in the minority after all.
"Ha, you see, I actually found the piebald fruit, what a surprise!" After setting up camp, mercenaries went out to search the surrounding environment to make sure that the surrounding area was a safe place, and at the same time set up some early warning traps, and if possible, also needed to collect some useful materials, maybe food, maybe something else.
Because they didn't play much role on the road, the mercenaries who were searching for the sword when they were camping all rushed to do it. As a result, one of the first mercenaries to come back came back with a smile and a dozen black and gray fruits like grapes.
This is the fruit of a plant called Spotted Flower. The whole of this kind of spotted is a bright red with golden spots, and the veins on the back of the palm-shaped leaves are also all yellow, and many small black and gray fruits will be produced under the leaves, which are not actually fruits, but a kind of leaf nodules, which are used by the flower to store excess nutrients and keep them for use in special periods.
This small black-gray fruit has an extremely luscious taste and is a pretty good energy supplement, but the spotted strain itself is also dangerous, except for this small black-gray fruit, the juice secreted by other parts will become highly toxic as long as it is stained with blood. Therefore, even if this piebald fruit tastes excellent and has high nutritional value, no one will artificially cultivate it. (To be continued......)