Volume 1 The Tower of Flesh Chapter 9 Prey
At the end of the night, the two hunters split up to prepare for their mission.
"Where's Flamin's lair?" asked Aita Leeben.
What a little girl like Anne could know, as the Prophet's deputy, there was no reason why she should not know.
"Just south of the No. 2 hunting ground you are going to, why are you and Zhou Haomiao asking this?"
"He asked you too?"
"yes, but I don't think you're stupid enough to go back and find the dead. β
"What is the range of motion of Flamin?"
"Not necessarily, you know that better than I do. But judging from the fact that it has not harassed us in the past year, it should not leave its territory easily. β
"Hmm. β
Li Ben didn't intend to waste too much time on the conversation, he picked up his sword and headed for the second hunting ground.
The forest is deep and leafy, and the ten-kilometer journey does not take too much time to complete. But in the mountainous and forested areas, due to the complex terrain, rugged cliffs and sharp thorns are headaches, there is no road, so you can only carve it yourself.
It's not a quiet stretch.
From time to time, writhing vines appear in the forest, large mouths disguised as flower petals, and branches that entangle people, all of which are mutated by the forces of chaos and harass Li Ben as he passes.
If ordinary people were attacked by these plants, most of them would die directly. Fortunately, after this year of hunter training, he is no longer an ordinary person.
The training of Chaos Hunters is not just about physical enhancement and knowledge learning. People use potions with chaotic powers for body-specific enhancements.
This type of potion will only form a curse if it is used on ordinary people. Only by completing the physical chaos can we benefit from it.
The two skills of five senses enhancement and chaos power perception are necessary for chaos hunters, and Li Ben and Zhou Haomiao naturally also used the potions that obtained these two skills, and after confirming that there were no side effects, between the particularity of the two, they also used physical enhancement potions.
This potion is dispensable for Chaos Hunters, because after their physical body is chaoticized, their strength will definitely increase, and taking the enhancement potion can only get a temporary boost, and it will make Chaos's oppression of the spiritual soul stronger.
Due to the different abilities obtained by visitors from the other world, many of them cannot directly improve their physical strength, and the missing part of their strength will become a fatal weakness when facing chaotic creatures. It is necessary to strengthen the strength by training intensively after taking potions for a long time.
The special abilities of the visitors from the other world come directly from their souls and are limited by their physical bodies. This is the opposite of the Chaos Hunters.
Don't look at Li Ben's body shape has not changed, under this restrained body, there is a more powerful explosive power than a brown bear.
The chaos around them exuded a palpable oppressive force, and this pressure penetrated through the flesh and directed at the soul. This invisible threat to the life of Order has spread throughout the universe.
This is 15% of the Chaos Erosion degree, which can already make people feel obvious discomfort, and if you listen carefully, there seem to be bursts of strange whispers in your ears.
Leeben used his hunter perception to explore the details of these whispers, but he was unable to obtain anything of value other than a slight headache and irritability.
The mission is to hunt down two Level 3 Chaos creatures.
Generally speaking, as long as you wander around the land for a while, you will attract guys who try to devour you. But this way is still a matter of luck, Li Ben didn't want to waste time, and on the way here, he had already collected some magic materials and made potions that could attract specific monsters.
Ignite these herb mixtures in the air, and the smell will attract human-faced spiders. All he had to do was hide and wait for his move.
About half an hour later, there was a rustle in the bushes.
Li Ben held his breath and stared, and in his field of vision, a giant spider appeared on the tree with a very human-like head, but it had four eyes on its head. It clings to the rough bark of the trees, jumping back and forth through the woods, wandering cautiously when it comes to the herbs.
After confirming that no other creature was nearby, it quickly leaned forward and gently poked the smoking herb mass with its whisker legs, making the smoke thicker.
The human-faced spider enjoyed the smell so much that it simply took a pill ball in front of it and inhaled it with its nose, like a smoker. Maybe these herbs are no different from drugs to him.
Li Ben didn't rush to make a move, he wanted to see if he could attract a second one.
In order not to startle the snake, his position is actually more than 50 meters away from the human-faced spider, and if the concentration of smoke emitted by the herb drops significantly, he will sneak close to the big spider while it is still addicted.
Didn't you?
After a few more moments, the second human-faced spider never appeared. Lee Ben didn't plan to wait any longer.
He drew his silver sword and drew a pistol from his waist to shoot his prey in the leg as it fled.
Level 3 Chaos Creature is a monster that can easily slaughter ordinary humans. Without Chaos Hunters, four or five of these creatures could destroy a tribe. If silver swords are used, they cannot be sliced through their shells without enough strength.
If you use a firearm to fire silver bullets to deal with it, ordinary people who are not agile enough, not to mention whether their marksmanship is accurate enough, even if they can hit, they are far from being fatal with one hit, and before killing the monster, they will be devoured by it at close range. Unless the entire tribe has enough guns and ammunition to form a dense barrage, it will be able to survive the attack of such monsters.
And from the reality of the situation, people in this world do not have military factories that produce firearms, and all the bullets and guns are made by themselves in small workshops. Although there is no shortage of silver mines, there is nothing more valuable in terms of practicality than equipping a Chaos Hunter with a silver sword to refine it on a large scale and craft it into single-use bullets, which are sufficiently equipped for ordinary people.
A fatal law of this world is that the more creatures of order gather, the easier it is to attract the erosion of chaos, whether it is the natural chaotic power or those embodied monsters, they will be keenly aware of it.
At that time, those who gather together will face an endless wave of monster frenzy and will eventually be swallowed by the abyss.
This is the fundamental reason why human beings in this world must wander outside in the form of tribes to survive.
Li Ben used the stealth skills he has been practicing for the past year, plus the use of the prop "Pure Water", to completely cover his own scent, and successfully came to the back of the human-faced spider.
The psychological pressure of seeing this monster up close is enormous, and it comes from a deep-seated belief that no one has ever spoken, but knows it: that of all creatures of the same size, humans are the weakest.
Li Ben is not a native of this world, so he doesn't know what the human beings here think, but as far as he is concerned, it takes many attempts to attack this monster without the slightest fear, and it takes many attempts to grow his courage.
However, this year he did not practice in vain, his heart tightened, puffed up a breath, and used the "special sword movement for monsters" taught to him by Instructor Geoffrey, aimed the blade at the vital point of the human-faced spider, jumped up and struck it, jumped on its back and accurately stabbed the silver sword into the back of its head.
"Poof!"
After the sharp blade pierced the carapace and shattered it, the feedback from the blade of the sword was like a stab into the soft mud, and the green slime that splattered from the breach flew up to Li Ben's arm and the side of his face.
This feeling of nausea is not much better than when I first took anatomy class in college.
A thick fishy smell came out, and the human-faced spider just screamed, and the three pairs of feet and bearded feet curled up for a moment, and then stopped moving.
Lee's attack directly destroyed its central nervous system, turning its brain and spinal cord into a pulp.
"It's a lot easier than you think. He cut off the spider's humanoid head as proof.
If Jeffrey hadn't been caught eavesdropping, he would have graduated, but it can be seen that the task is still very simple, and he is not deliberately embarrassed.
In fact, for the fledgling Chaos Hunters of this world, it is not an easy task to accomplish. Because they want to hurt the third-level chaos creatures, they must need to transform, and it is impossible to sneak close to the monster for a sneak attack, so the final result is to fight the monster hard, so that some newcomers will also have the risk of death.
Since Geoffrey had always thought about these things with the thinking of a native Chaos Hunter, and it was the first time he had trained visitors from the other world, he had forgotten that Li Ben and the others could exert their supernormal strength in a normal posture, and he was worried that it would be too difficult for them to hunt two monsters in a row at once.
The next thing is to find the second prey.
Judging from the previous waiting time, the number of monsters in this area is small and the distribution is very sparse, otherwise it would not have burned for so long and only attracted a human-faced spider.
Just prepared, Lee Ben also prepared a mixture of herbs to attract another monster - the black hedgehog. He walked through the forest for half an hour, completely away from the previous hunting spot, and then repeated his trick and ignited the bait again.
Generally, the size of the black hedgehog is not particularly large, and when it lands on all fours, it is only half the height of an adult human, and its ability to be rated as a third-level is related to its ability to fire poisonous backstabs in addition to the thick skin and strength that monsters have.
The black hedgehog's back spines are as thin as steel needles, so you can imagine the sheer number of stingers it can fire from its back. Those toxins are all highly poisonous with a curse effect, and ordinary people basically don't live more than two hours if they are recruited. It's quite difficult to kill it with a sword with a backstab, but its belly defense is poor, which is considered a weakness.
As the name suggests, the black hedgehog is black all over its body, and this black color belongs to the black that can blend in with the night.
It has no protruding muzzle and nose, its face is a slightly protruding round ball, its eyes and mouth are black, and if it lies on the ground, it will look like a huge pure black caterpillar from a distance.
The strength of this difficult monster is close to level four, but due to the comprehensive consideration of factors such as its mobility ability, flexibility, intelligence, and range of activity, it is characterized as level three.
Here it is! Li Ben has already figured out how to deal with it.
It would be naΓ―ve to want to win again by sneaking in from behind. However, taking advantage of its low intelligence, he places the burning herb ball on a high place, so in order to obtain the smell, the black hedgehog will try to climb a tree, and will expose the weak point of his abdomen, and then attack with a pistol.
After taking damage, the black hedgehog will curl itself up and reflexively shoot spikes in all directions, and after dodging this wave of attacks, Lee originally planned to jump and move up the tree, get close to the black hedgehog and fall from a high place to attack, so as to win.
However, man is not as good as heaven. The black hedgehog does have low intelligence, so when it finds out that what it wants is in a tree, it does not choose to climb the tree, but instead hits the trunk with its own body, trying to shake the herb mass down in a way that is transmitted by vibration.
But it worked.
Looking at the black hedgehog enjoying the fruits of victory, Li Ben couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
What's next? There doesn't seem to be much better way to do it. You wouldn't be stupid enough to go head-to-head with it. Anyone who sees the flickering chill on its back is the only option they can think of is to flee.
Persimmon should be picked soft pinch. Li Ben is not a reckless man, although he knows that he has a special ability, but if he is really attacked by such a dense stinger, I am afraid that the red liquid in his body that replaces blood will all be dyed black, and whether he can still have the ability to recover at that time is not to be discussed, at least the toxin is not something he can bear.
It was not the same thing as being shot and the purely physical damage of being shot, and he instinctively felt the danger.
Withdraw. Look for other prey.
Although I have learned about these monsters from the monster illustrated book provided by the tribe, I have a completely different feeling when I actually face them, and some of the characteristics roughly recorded in the books are difficult to understand if I don't experience them myself.
It's better to be more cautious in surviving in this world. This is not a game world.
"Boom, boom!" the earth shook suddenly.
The black hedgehog suddenly woke up, immediately abandoned the herb group, and hurriedly fled, coincidentally, the path it escaped pointed to the place where Li Ben was hiding.
Li Ben, who was about to leave, naturally saw this scene, even if he didn't know where the roar came from, judging from the appearance of the black hedgehog running away in a panic, the hint of danger could not be more obvious.
He also started running.
At this time, he was running at full speed, no slower than the black hedgehog. So a man and a beast started a chase in this woodland.
The roar came suddenly, and it went suddenly, Li Ben glanced back, and the black hedgehog was gone.
He wanted to stop and check, but his sixth sense kept warning him, and a wave of unease welled up in his chest.
It was already afternoon, the sun was setting in the west, and the people and trees in the dense forest were pulled out in long shadows.
Li Ben finally stopped, and there was silence all around, except for his own wheezing sound filling his ears.
What the hell is going on? The answer was soon revealed to him.
Flamin!The legendary creatures of chaos have appeared.
The poisonous python on the tail of the giant monster bird is holding a black hedgehog, and the stinger on the black hedgehog poses no threat to it at all.
Why is this place? As Leeben pondered this question, the giant monster bird had already swooped down on him.
It was impossible to escape, so he immediately cut off his left hand and wrist, and then picked it up with his right hand and threw it into the distance.
Flamin looked at the delicious human in front of him and sneered in his heart, did he think that he would pick up that hand like a dog and let him go?
The strange bird emitted a frost magic from its left eye, and immediately Li Ben's body condensed into ice, and even the surrounding trees and shrubs were not spared. It opened its huge beak and picked up Li Ben, instigating two pairs of dragon wings to fly back into the air, and the huge air currents erupted with a roar, shaking all the frozen branches and grass leaves into powder.
Flamin's lair is built in a cave on a cliff face, and if no natural cave can be found, the creature will carve one out of its own with its hard beak and thunder magic.
After bringing the prey back to the nest, there were two strange birds in the cave, one large and one small. Staying in the nest are the female monster birds and their young.
The newly hatched baby Flamin is the size of an adult, and judging by the bloodlust and fury it displays when it fights against the black hedgehog that is not yet dead, it does not need the protection of an adult Flamin at all.
After killing the black hedgehog, little Flamin turned his gaze to the human who had frozen into popsicles, and he stepped on it with his foot, shattering Leeben's leather armor and sword blade, and the ice slag shattered all over the ground. Because Lee Ben didn't react, it quickly lost interest.
After turning around, the snake tail and the bird's head bite and eat the black hedgehog together, and sometimes the front and back heads will feed each other and play games for themselves.
In the middle of the night, the well-fed and well-fed Flamin family fell asleep, and two giant birds, male and female, sandwiched the baby Flamin bag in the middle. Their snake tails are like cold-blooded animals, and they will find a warm place to maintain their body temperature during sleep, so they will bury their tails under their abdomen.
Leeben was lucky not to be eaten directly, and the giant birds were ready to save him until the next day.
At night, there was no light in the cave, and the moonlight from the outside world could only stay on a small piece of rock and soil at the entrance of the cave.
The man who had been frozen into a popsicle slowly regained his consciousness.
The body is unconscious, and it is not even possible to tell if the part below the neck is still there. Using the Hunter's Perception ability, two huge chaos clumps were not far from him, with a smaller presence in between.
The terrifying oppressive force emanating from them makes people's souls feel as if they are caught in the cracks, unable to breathe at all.
Li Ben instantly understood what situation he had fallen into. If this situation continues, even if your body recovers, you will be discovered by the monsters the moment you move, and you will have no way to survive after that.
Is he going to die here? It's a novelty to be buried in the belly of a monster from another world.
Stay conscious. This kind of sobriety at this moment is just a frenzied torment for the average person.
You can't do anything in the dark, and the only thing you can do is probably count the countdown before death comes.
However, the so-called life contains the instinct of the trapped beast to fight, and before the real death comes, it will always look forward to all possibilities.