Chapter 130: The Burrowing Mantis
After a muffled sound of "bang", Lin Hu's voice came from the team: "You guys jump down directly, the cave is only five or six meters above the ground." ”
In the game, if the player jumps from too high a distance, it is possible to fall to death, hearing Lin Hu's safety report, Xia Hao and the others jumped into the crypt one after another like dumplings.
In the dark crypt, visibility is low. A meandering passage, about three or four meters wide, stretched into the darkness, and the soil around it smelled strangely musty.
Lin Hu is a barbarian, he came to the front of the team, turned his head and said, "The fourth brother and I are in front of the road, and you are responsible for the output in the back." ”
The passage was not wide, and Xia Hao and Lin Hu had just walked a few meters before they encountered a brown mantis. This is a monster called the cave-dwelling mantis, with a level of up to 25, two forelegs as sharp as knives, and even a certain chance to shatter the enemy's armor during the attack, which is a headache.
"Everyone, be careful, if one piece of equipment is broken, it will be more than worth the loss." Lin Hu reminded in the team channel.
In fact, Hou Tao and the other three people, after seeing that the first monster turned out to be a level 25 cave mantis, their faces had changed, they didn't expect this task to be so difficult, and they were such a powerful monster at the beginning.
At the same time, Hou Tao and the others were also very happy, fortunately they called Xia Hao, otherwise they would definitely be wiped out this time.
With Xia Hao and Lin Hu acting as tanks in front to open the way, the others only need to do their best to output, and the battle is extremely easy.
After killing the first burrowing mantis, it left a round object on the ground, and nothing else, not even a copper plate, but fortunately it gave a lot of experience.
"This is a quest item, Mantis Eggs, we need to collect 100 of them." Hou Tao stepped forward to pick up the mantis egg and said.
Xia Hao encouraged: "It seems that we got off to a good start, and we broke out one when we came up." ”
There are many forks in the winding passages, and most of them are dead ends, and it takes a lot of time to turn back to find the right way.
In addition, the caveman mantis was more difficult, and everyone walked forward for an hour, and finally explored the end of the crypt. It was a relatively spacious open space, where more than a dozen praying mantis gathered, and behind these praying mantises, a huge king of praying mantis crawled.
"Let's stop and recuperate." Lin Hu said.
After Xia Hao asked Lin Hu to lead people to retreat far enough away, he tentatively launched an attack on the King of Mantis, and soon got the information he wanted, and he also had a general strategy in his mind. Retreating to the place where Lin Hu and the others were, the King of Mantis did not pursue, which made Xia Hao feel at ease. Xia Hao told his plan again, and the others naturally had no objections.
Xia Hao and the others stepped out of the passage with confidence, came not far from the praying mantis, and began to fight. Xia Hao used his ultra-long attack distance to shoot arrows at the nearest praying mantis. What everyone didn't expect was that this time it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and more than a dozen praying mantis pounced on them at the same time.
This unexpected change disrupted Xia Hao's plan at once.
"Get back into the passage!" Lin Hu hurriedly shouted, as a barbarian of the alien beast family, he should step forward to resist first.
The more than a dozen praying mantis that swarmed were limited by the width of the passage, three praying mantis rushed to the front, and the other praying mantis were all blocked behind them, even so, to deal with the attacks of three praying mantis at the same time has made Xia Hao feel very difficult, mainly because the characteristics of the mantis smashing equipment are too disgusting.
If they faced a single mantis, the five of them could naturally easily control it, but if the three praying mantis attacked at the same time, Xia Hao and them were a little powerless.
"The fourth child and I took off our armor and took turns to come forward and resist." Lin Hu is a barbarian profession, and his own defensive ability is the highest, so he took the lead in meeting it. Xia Hao removed the armor, and his attributes were directly reduced by more than half, so he was naturally not as suitable as Lin Hu to play the role of a meat shield, but he was better at maneuvering, and he could also delay the attack of the praying mantis.
Lin Hu's barbarian took the form of a giant spirit bear, his huge body occupied half of the passage, and at the same time blocked the progress of the two praying mantises, Xia Hao and they were left with only one praying mantis. Although this tactic was effective, the consumption of Lin Hu was extremely huge, and everyone knew that time was precious, and they had no time to chat at all, so they launched an attack in a nervous and orderly manner.
The praying mantis has always maintained the order of three side by side, and as the praying mantis in front falls, it is natural that the praying mantis in the rear will step forward to take its place and continue to attack.
"I'm running out of medicine, you can replace the mouse!" When there was still half of the praying mantis left, Lin Hu suddenly shouted.
"That's too fast, isn't it?" Hou Tao shouted on the team channel, "If it continues like this, when we eliminate these praying mantises, there will be no medicine left to continue to fight the king of praying mantis." ”
"Destroy the praying mantis first!" Xia Hao said to replace Lin Hu.
Time passed minute by minute, and a total of twelve praying mantis were all killed, leaving Xia Hao and them with more than twenty mantis eggs, and only the lone king of praying mantis was left prostrate on the ground.
The King of the Mantis is about two meters long, and its body only occupies about half a meter, and the rest of it is a belly that looks like a huge one.
After resting for a while, the group slowly approached the king of the mantis, and after reconnaissance, they learned the information of the king of the mantis, which is a monster at the level of a 30-level wild map BOSS, but its basic attributes are much higher than those of the wild map boss of the same level.
The King of Mantis has two skills, Mantis Guard and Endless Breeding. The mantis guard will summon a group of praying mantis to protect its own safety at a critical moment, and endless breeding is to continuously breed young mantis to attack the target, and the king of the mantis himself will lose 10 points of blood per second.
Thankfully, the Mantis King has one of its biggest weaknesses, which is that its belly is too large to move.
This 30-level wild map BOSS-level king of praying mantis, in addition to having no attack power, other attributes are higher than the bandit capital killed by Xia Hao, although this king of mantis has no attack power, but it also has the skill of summoning praying mantises, just a group of praying mantis is enough to give Xia Hao and others a headache.
"Looks like we'll need to go back and get some more medicine before we can continue." There is humanity.
Hou Tao looked at his task list and said a fact that made everyone helpless: "There is a new change in the task prompt, you must kill the king of the praying mantis to complete the task, if you leave now, the mission will be considered a failure." ”
"Let's fight, how do you have to fight, and finally hang up!" Zhou Qi said indifferently.
"Fourth, what do you think?" Lin Hu asked for Xia Hao's opinion.
Xia Hao smiled and said, "It's a pity to give up now, keep fighting." ”
For Xia Hao, there is hardly much danger in a battle at this level, because he has already decided that if it comes to a critical moment, even if he exposes his identity, he will help others complete this mission.
"Then blame it!" Lin Hu took a deep breath and said with determination.