Chapter 64: Disappearance
On the way back, Li Youcai fed on the water flow around him to quickly replenish his consumption, and at the same time used his supernatural power to recover from his injuries.
And Yang Yuhuan's state is much better, she just consumes too much spiritual power, and if she supplements it with pills, she can basically return to a perfect state.
It's just that their desire to return safely was soon shattered.
I saw that there were four Jindan stage "light worshippers" around, swimming out of the darkness quickly, surrounding the two of them from four different directions.
The four men formed a triangular pyramid and blocked all escape routes for the two.
At the heads of the two of them, a "Light Worshipper" covered in thorns like sea urchins spoke: "If you two plan to return to Dawning City alive, then hand over all your belongings and leave naked, and we can spare your lives." ”
Li Youcai looked around at the four people, and suddenly laughed: "To be honest, you appeared in time, in fact, the two of us have just been deflated and are in a very bad mood." I really appreciate you showing up in time to allow us both to vent. “
Before these four "light worshippers" could react, Li Youcai directly turned into a stream of water and continued to spread.
At the same time, Yang Yuhuan activated the talisman weapon on his body to ensure that the other party could not break his protective shield in an instant.
Although the four "light worshippers" reacted a little slower, they still rushed forward quickly.
When they entered the range of the water that Li Youcai had turned into, they felt that something was wrong.
Because these streams of water are full of toxins, the toxins of the hydra.
Although the aborigines of the Sea of Freedom also mainly cultivate their physical bodies, they do not have top-level exercises such as the "Foodie's Treasure Book", and they will still be greatly affected when facing toxins of the same level.
The most obvious thing is that one of these four people directly foamed at the mouth and fainted.
The remaining three weren't much better, and the thorny sea urchin began to twitch.
A starfish, who seemed to be the strongest of the four, was the only one who could still struggle to escape.
The last man, who looked like a salmon, was convulsed like the sea urchin, and although he didn't faint directly, he couldn't move.
At this time, Yang Yuhuan launched an attack on the only starfish who could still move, and she did not really smash him with her sword, but kept hitting this starfish with the spine of the flying sword to ensure that he could not escape from Li Youcai's current.
Soon all four people lost their ability to resist, and Li Youcai did not show mercy to his subordinates, and directly fed on the flesh and blood of the four people to supplement his own consumption.
Robbers like this don't know how many lives they have in their hands. Even just now, if the two of them obediently did what they were told, the result would definitely be that they would be humiliated and killed by these four people after losing all their ability to resist.
After Li Youcai regained his human form, the flesh and blood of the four "light worshippers" disappeared completely, and all that was left at the scene was their storage magic weapons, as well as some parts that were not easy to digest.
For example, a few fish bones on the salmon and a few special spines on the sea urchin are all relatively good materials, and the two of them naturally want to take them into their pockets.
Li Youcai and Yang Yuhuan continued to walk back, and before returning to Dawning City, they encountered two more robberies.
Most of these robbers were "light worshippers" in the Jindan period, and they did not encounter the Yuanying level.
In fact, the master of the Yuan Infant level is already enough to sit on one side, and he disdains to rob in this kind of place.
Even if you want to rob, you will do it on a richer route.
The two of them returned to the city without incident, and by this time the city was already full of rumors, all rumors about the anemone reef.
So far, there have been many people who are confident that they will be able to save their lives, and they have tried to find out what happened, but most of them have not returned.
Among them, there are many survivors, like Li Youcai and his wife, who encountered the hydra of the Jindan period, but it is obvious that these hydras are not the culprits who killed the Yuan Infant master in seconds before.
Rhapsody has officially released the mission, but now no one dares to take it. After all, it is rumored that even the Yuanying master is a super monster that was killed in an instant, and ordinary people were just sent to death in the past.
Li Youcai first sent Yang Yuhuan back to the accommodation for her to have a good rest, and he found a tavern and prepared to go in to inquire about the news.
This tavern is called Old John's Tavern, and after entering, it is full of people, and many people are drunk and die here.
Li Youcai found a no-man's corner and sat down, ordered a glass of beer and drank it slowly.
To be honest, the wine here is far inferior to the elixir and jade liquid of the Jade Void Palace, as well as the malt beer of the dwarf clan, so it is difficult for Li Youcai to drink in large gulps.
Fortunately, he wasn't here to drink, and now his attention was on the conversation around him, and with his super hearing, he heard a lot of useful news.
In fact, according to the accounts of those who survived, things are actually pretty much clear.
Rhapsody has basically determined that the reef should be occupied by a female hydra who is about to give birth.
Hydra is a very powerful life, but their strength from birth to maturity is from weak to strong, especially when they are just born, they are extremely fragile, and after entering adulthood, they can be comparable to the grandmaster, that is, the master of the distraction period.
Before this, they were relatively weak, so in order to ensure the smooth growth of the cubs, those immature hydras all followed the mother.
So now, the female hydra who is about to give birth should use that reef as a nest, and the Jindan hydra encountered by Li Youcai, his wife and others should be the juvenile hydra that acts with the mother, patrolling around the reef and playing a role as a warning to the mother.
Because once the hydra grows to the level of a diamond, that is, the primordial infant, it will leave its mother body to survive on its own.
But the mother hydra that is about to give birth should also come out to help from time to time.
This is the reason why those previous Yuanying masters were directly killed in seconds.
Hearing these news, Li Youcai was extremely happy.
First, I was glad that the two of them didn't meet the mature hydra.
Second, I am also glad that I did not succeed in killing the juvenile hydra, otherwise once the mature body is lured out, even if the two of them have a way to protect themselves, I am afraid that they will be seriously injured.
Li Youcai continued to eavesdrop on other people's conversations.
Although Rhapsody has basically determined what a monster is, there is no direct evidence after all, so the mission they issued is still to crusade against unknown creatures.
The reason why it wasn't the company itself was because the Rhapsody Company wanted to keep its own strength to guard Dawning City, and it was difficult for the headquarters to send people to support when the heavens and all the worlds were in chaos.
Therefore, the crusade task fell to these local cultivators in the Sea of Freedom.
And there is another very important reason, that is, even if you don't care about these hydras, after the mother gives birth, they will leave.
This is also why although this task is hung out, the reward is not very rich, to put it bluntly, the purpose of the rhapsody company is also very simple, if there is a master who happens to be here, he will do this task the best.
If not, then wait until the hydra leaves on its own, and it's not impossible.
Anyway, there is nothing too valuable in that reef, at most it is just a restaurant in Dawning City, missing a few dishes such as anemones and sea snakes.
After learning enough information, Li Youcai returned to his residence and shared the news he got with Yang Yuhuan.
After combining today's experience, the two decided to go on adventures in the future, and it was best to find a team to go out together.
After all, the words of two people are still too easy to have accidents, not to mention anything else, just talk about the waves of bandits that the two people encountered on the way back.
Although it is not far from Dawning City, and the value of the items produced by that reef is not high, most of the bandits on this route will not exceed the Jindan period, but it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no accidents.
If they really encounter a few Yuanying or even higher-level opponents, they will most likely not be able to come back.
In fact, intercepting the team returning to the city is a common occurrence in the Sea of Freedom, after all, the benefits of doing so are too high.
And with the level of chaos in the Sea of Freedom, it is quite normal for these things to happen.
If you can join a team, then you can avoid this kind of thing to the greatest extent.
And the crisis encountered today also made Li Youcai's somewhat inflated heart become down-to-earth again, after all, he once killed the Jindan monk by building a foundation and cultivating it, and it is inevitable that he will underestimate the heroes of the world, and today's events have made him understand his position from the beginning.
The two rested for a few more days, and then went to the Rhapsody branch again, intending to find a team to join here.
It just so happened that in the past few days, there was a large team of monks who had just come here for a gathering.
The name of this team is Hong Jian.
This is a team formed by a master of the Grandmaster (Distraction) level.
In addition to the captain of the distraction period, there are five diamonds (Yuan Ying) and dozens of gold (Jindan) masters in the team.
And now this team has taken on the task of defeating Hydra.
In fact, you don't need to take a task like this at all, as long as you go and kill the Hydra, then take the objects on the Hydra and return to the Rhapsody branch to hand in the task.
And this team is to expand their influence, so they hype up in the hall that they want to kill Hydra.
At the same time, they are now short of manpower, because they plan to hunt down all the juvenile hydras, so they need someone to cooperate with them to surround them.
They hope that they can recruit warriors above the silver (Zhuji) level, as well as mages above the bronze (god training) level at least here, and the more the number of them, the better.
Li Youcai and Yang Yuhuan also registered, but it was the hydra they met before that made the two of them suffer and made them both feel uncomfortable.
Li Youcai claimed to be a gold-level warrior, while Yang Yuhuan was a bronze-level mage, and after a simple demonstration of ability, both of them successfully entered the team.
This team has been recruiting here for two or three days, Li Youcai and Yang Yuhuan are the last people to sign up, and when everything is settled, this team gathered everyone and formed a huge team of hundreds of people, heading towards the huge reef.
When they reached the reef, the team dispersed according to the plan they had set before.
The master of the Grandmaster took his core army as the main force and went deep into the interior of the reef.
The others who have joined in the past few days have spread out around the periphery as auxiliary personnel in case any fish slip through the net.
These hundreds of people, basically have their own teams, they spread out in the form of their own squads, barely forming a huge encirclement network, and agreed to send signals to rule the surrounding people as soon as they found the hydra.
Soon the main team entered the inside of the reef, because the encirclement was still a little far from the reef, so all the outsiders could not see the figure of the person who entered.
Everyone is just outside waiting for the fish to appear and get a piece of the pie.
It's just been a long wait. There was not the slightest movement inside, and many people noticed that something was wrong. But the thought of having a grandmaster (distraction) master in charge, there shouldn't be any surprises.
Moreover, the most powerful hydra found so far is only the grandmaster (distraction) level, and even most of the hydra monsters are diamond (primordial infant) level.
There are actually core members of Hong Jian on the periphery scene, yes.
After seeing that their teammates had been in for so long and there was no news, they took the initiative to contact the people inside.
But the result was that the message sent in was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response.
Even if you make a call, there is no answer, or the signal is out of range.
You must know that the mobile phones here are all issued or sold by Rhapsody companies.
By the means of the Rhapsody Company. There can be no extra-signal conditions inside this sea of freedom.
The only possibility is that the other person's phone has been destroyed.
Then it turned out that something was wrong with the people who went in, and they failed to send any signal to the periphery.
At this time, the stragglers of the encirclement panicked when the door opened, after all, these people were just a rabble, but this Hongjian team was summoned to use as an encirclement.
Even Hong Jian didn't let them really stop those fish that slipped through the net, and used them more as a cordon.
The peripheral personnel began to gather together and ask the three gold (Jindan) warriors, and many people saw the scene when the mobile phone had no signal just now, so soon everyone knew that something was wrong.
The three gold (Jindan) soldiers who stayed at the scene were also a little panicked.
They offered to organize some people to go inside the reef and see what was going on.
But who wants to do this kind of cannon fodder task at this time?
Li Youcai thought about it, he really wanted to go in and have a look.
But like this, which was at least mixed up at the Yuan Infant level, he really didn't have the confidence to be able to get out of it.
And there was also a Yang Yuhuan by his side, so for the sake of insurance, he pulled Yang Yuhuan and quietly retreated from the crowd.
At this time, many people left quietly, so the departure of the two of them did not attract much attention.
Li Youcai took Yang Yuhuan back to Dawning City, this time the road was calm, after all, such a big team came out before, and those kittens and dogs naturally died down and didn't dare to come out to do business.
After returning Yang Yuhuan to Dawning City, Li Youcai sneaked back to the vicinity of the reef.
He was going to watch things go from afar.
But the scene in front of him stunned him.
The team composed of stragglers and rabbles before has disappeared.
He sniffed hard with his nose, and found that there was not the slightest smell of blood in the sea, and listened carefully, and there was no unusual sound around.
The team that was so large before disappeared as if it were like this.
He had come to the reef from Dawn City, and he hadn't seen anyone along the way.
You must know that he is walking in a completely straight line this time, and if someone returns to Dawning City, he will definitely walk in a straight line, then they will definitely meet.
So where did that big crowd go?