Chapter 65: Engulfing
Kate held her breath and quietly shuttled through this demonized jungle.
After a long day's journey, it was already evening when he arrived at the vine jungle, and according to the time announced by the examiner, he would meet him at the temple on the morning of the third day at the latest.
As a biology expert targeting phantom beast hunters, although Kate was also the first time he had seen the mutated animals and plants of the vine jungle, this did not prevent him from making correct judgments about their habits.
Even if the creatures here have become several times larger, their habits are still similar to those of the outside world. Coupled with the fact that the jungle is mostly populated with small arboreal animals, and those large predators are usually found at the edge of the rainforest or in river valleys, it is not difficult to make your way through this jungle with increased vigilance.
Of course, this is only for experts like Kate.
There was another scream in the distance, followed by the roar of a beast, and Kate immediately stopped and hid in a mass of bushes.
The shrub was several meters high, and a large number of algae, mosses and lichens were intertwined, and they climbed from below to the branches of its trunk, as if to coat it with a heavy layer of armor.
With Kate's size, it was more than enough to hide inside, and with the cover of those epiphytes, it was even more difficult to detect his presence from the outside.
Kate knew what that scream meant, and it had happened several times since he had followed the candidates' vanguard into the jungle. He mourned for the unknown candidate for a moment in his heart before slowing his breath to make his presence as weak as possible.
Anyone who takes the hunter's exam is prepared for the worst, so Kate doesn't want to be in such a situation to help someone she doesn't know. What he is worried about now is whether the screams made by the examinee before he died will implicate him.
Soon, Kate was heartily glad for her decision to go into hiding instead of continuing to move forward recklessly.
The movement in the distance was like overturning the dominoes, and just half a minute after he hid in the bushes, the soil where he was originally was suddenly arched, and a dozen ugly creatures that looked like centipedes but were clad in carapace shook their heads and crawled in the direction of the candidate's attack.
On their heads, they have a large number of tentacles the size of their little fingers, which wave up and down as they go, pointing them in the air with the smell of blood. At the same time, there was a sound of climbing on the palms around her, and Kate did not dare to look up, only resting her hand on the hilt of the knife, but fortunately the monkeys that appeared in the trees did not notice him. These furry, ferocious-looking humanoid beasts were three or four meters tall at each end, and their hands and feet were so well developed that Kate could only see black shadows skimming over the barbs growing from the trees overhead.
In addition to these two unknown creatures, whether it was the spider scorpion crawling on the ground, or the mutated dragonfly flying away in a swarm, it made Kate break out in a cold sweat.
Only now did he know that there were so many peepers lurking in the area where he thought he had eliminated danger all the way!
Damn it! Are all those professional hunters monsters, and still have the energy to explore the ruins in this terrifying environment?
Kate's original confidence in her own strength was shaken at this moment. The creatures that had just appeared after being attracted by the smell of blood, whether it was the giant group of hundreds of monkeys or the even more numerous insects, were not something he could deal with now. In fact, in addition to their own caution, the powder that has been prepared in advance to greatly eliminate their own smell has also played a large role.
But even if the smell of the whole body is eliminated, if you meet the poisonous insects and beasts that just passed by face-to-face, unless the creatures in this jungle have no eyes, it will still be difficult to escape.
"My current position should be the limit of what the candidates can reach, if you don't count those two......"
"That candidate named Lucy is indeed very strong, incomprehensibly powerful, this jungle may be as harmless to him as the back garden, but it is impossible for the hunter exam to have such candidates outside of common sense every year."
"The examiner will not give an unsolvable assessment, there must be a way to pass here." Kate pulled the beret down a little, covered her forehead, and turned away decisively:
"I can't go any further tonight, I don't know what awaits me yet, those will be back soon, and it's no longer safe here......"
"Wait for the number of candidates to arrive here tomorrow to increase, and then make plans, now find an open place to replenish your spirits."
When Kate makes a rational decision, Dongba is in the biggest desperate situation of his twenty-five exam career.
Dongba, who unexpectedly awakened his ability to read, although he is still a rookie in Rhodes's eyes, his strength has also rocketed to the forefront of seventy-four candidates, which can be said to be second only to Lucy and Rhodes.
Just when he was expanding like never before, and he realized that the world was in my hands, Lucy's unintentional anger cruelly pulled him back to reality.
In addition to the joy of appreciating the murdered candidates, Dongba has not collapsed under these successive ups and downs, and his 25 years of examination experience have brought him not only the joy of appreciating the murdered candidates, but also a life principle. Those who are weaker than themselves will be bullied unscrupulously, and those who are stronger than themselves will do everything possible to please and wait for the opportunity to plot and frame them.
As for being too strong and boundless, then hold your tail and bow your head and behave without intersecting with him. Anyway, this kind of pervert is bound to get a hunter's license, and he won't see it in the second year.
Before the start of the second exam, Dongba made up his mind that he still had to take the next exam, but he had become stronger, and he would be happier if he could see a few more unlucky candidates. As for the two Luci Rhodes...... The retreat is that as long as you don't touch their moldy heads, the other party can't come to get along with a little person like yourself for some reason, right?
So, coincidentally, when Kate heard the scream, Dongba happened to be next to the dead candidate. The roar of the beast was the wail of Dongba's spine broken by a punch.
"Ha-ha......"
Dongba gasped for breath as he was confronted with the carcass of a dark-skinned, truck-sized two-headed cheetah that had just slapped the head of an unlucky candidate off the ground when he attacked him.
Dongba threw dozens of punches at its two heads, which were larger than his whole body, until his whole body was out of strength. The reason why I lost my mind was because of the fear that had accumulated in my heart for many years. In the past, not to mention this body type, even an ordinary cheetah Dongba could only escape. And now, Dongba once again feels the power of Nian.
"In this way, I can be regarded as avenging you, and I will regard it as my reward for watching this good show."
Dongba slapped off the flesh on his hands and said with a smile to the candidate who had become a headless corpse.
"If I'm not mistaken, there was another candidate in the direction I came from, and it seems to be the stubble I encountered in the first exam?"
Dongba narrowed his eyes slightly, and a dangerous light flashed through them.
Even if you are extraordinary, it is only to that extent, and Uncle Dongba is getting stronger all the time. Do you just kill him, or do you set a trap for him and the creatures of the jungle to kill each other?
"Hehehe, Huinian can really do whatever he wants, let Uncle Dongba prepare a tragic script for you!"
Thinking of this, Dongba couldn't help but let out an intermittent snicker, and just as he couldn't wait to start his business immediately, there was a rustling sound all around.
Dongba's smile froze on his face, he looked left and right, and found that he didn't know when he was surrounded by hundreds of disgusting insects the size of an adult, and he couldn't name them, and dozens of huge mosquito beasts with hideous mouthparts were circling in the sky, these mosquito beasts were bright red all over, and several of them could faintly see the shape of a human being on their swollen abdomen.
And these insects are just appetizers, and Dongba's telekinesis-enhanced ears can clearly hear the sound of stomping on the ground from far and near, and it is obvious that there are even bigger beasts following the smell of blood.
Swallowing hard, Dongba had just wrapped the few remaining thoughts around his legs when he was swallowed up by an overwhelming swarm of insects.