Chapter 131: The Leopard Man
When Meng Chao walked towards Xie Feng and Sun Ya, the two were still in a daze, and they didn't even notice that their mentor had left in a hurry.
Meng Chao put his hand on Xie Feng's shoulder, feeling that the latter was obviously trembling, and he had goosebumps.
"Meng Chao, are you here?" Xie Feng said in a trance.
"The martial arts department lost?"
Meng Chao saw that Xie Feng's body was covered with medical gel, bandages and dressings, and said in surprise, "There's no need to be so depressed if you lose, won't you win back next time, why, you lost badly?" ”
Xie Feng swallowed his saliva with difficulty, his face slightly recovered a little blood, and nodded.
"Didn't you say that there are no masters in the beast control department this year, wait, shouldn't you lose to the same person, a very short girl, a wrinkled school uniform, yellow hair, dark skin, nose, canine teeth and chin are pointed, right?" Meng Chao's heart moved, thinking of the mysterious girl he met in the grove just now.
Xie Feng shook and covered the gauze around his neck: "How do you know?" ”
"I saw it just now."
Meng Chao sat down beside him, "If it were her, there would be no suspense about winning or losing, but I still want to know, what did she do to make you like this?"
"It's one thing to win or lose, it's another thing to be scared, I can feel that both you and Sun Ya's mental indices are fluctuating greatly, and the fear brain waves visible to the naked eye make my heart beat faster, what is the situation?"
"You don't understand, you didn't fight her in the ring, you don't know what she did!" Xie Feng said in a trembling voice.
"In the chain ring, the winner can keep the fight, and it is easy to have a string of threes, a string of fours, or even win more games in a row, but even if this girl wins seven or eight games in a row, it will not cause such a critical blow to your heart, right?" Meng Chao became more and more interested.
"You're right, she did 'a string of sevens' to beat us to the ground, and more importantly, the way she defeated us."
Xie Feng lowered his head, buried his cold sweaty face deep between his ten fingers, and said in a muffled voice, "Most of the most powerful guys in the beast control department this year are our high school classmates and acquaintances in the circle.
"Sure enough, in dozens of consecutive battles, the martial arts department was slightly superior, and in the end, there was only one player left in the beast control department, but we still had seven, including me, Sun Ya, Jiang Rui and Duan Lian.
"We're all complacent, and we think we've got the win.
"And then, the accident, no, the nightmare happened.
"Not only did that girl defeat seven of our martial arts leaders in a row, but the whole process was ...... Savage, ferocious, furious!
"She doesn't look like a student at all, she doesn't even look like a normal human, but a beast in human skin, and she has a grudge against us.
"Originally, no matter how fierce the competition between the departments is, it is also a competition between students, not to mention the point, at least it shouldn't be a trick to chase your life, take your soul step by step, and you will end up together at every turn, right?
"But she didn't care, like a madman, a 'woo' roar, fierce eyes, and a strong killing intent, I have never seen such a peer!"
Xie Feng said, uncovering the gauze on his neck, revealing a blood-drenched laceration.
"You see, that's why I lost."
Meng Chao took a closer look and sighed: "Her biochemical beast is the 'Ghost Leopard', it is very strong among the nightmare beasts, a little more powerful than the Blood Moon Demon Wolf, this bite is not light." ”
"If it was bitten by a cyborg beast, how could I be scared like this?"
Xie Feng blushed slightly, admitted his vulnerability, and said very aggrieved, "This was bitten by that girl!" ”
"Huh?"
Even Meng Chao was shocked.
The current beast masters are all talking in person, is it so brutal?
"Me too."
Sun Ya raised her arm with a wry smile, pointed to the shocking wound and said, "Look, her wrists were almost bitten off by her, I have never seen such a crazy person." ”
Meng Chao closed his eyes and imagined the picture of the yellow-haired girl suddenly pounced on her and opened her bloody mouth.
Well, Xie Feng's heart collapsed, which is also understandable.
"The fighting style is so distinct, it shouldn't be obscure, she wasn't originally your No. 1 Middle School, Second Middle School, or Jianzhong?" Meng Chaoqi said.
"Her name is 'Wu Wu', and she is not from our circle."
Xie Feng said, "After the competition ended, I learned that she didn't even participate in the college entrance examination, and she was the 'secret weapon' of the beast control department." ”
"Special admissions?" Meng Chao's eyes lit up.
The special enrollment system in this era was very strict.
Those who can be recruited by universities in advance without taking the college entrance examination are often talented, with unique skills, and real geniuses.
After Xie Feng's explanation, Meng Chao knew that the girl named "Wu Wu" did have the capital to be recruited.
She is from White Rock.
White Rock is one of the dozens of satellite towns that surround Dragon City.
Half a century ago, when it first crossed, it has been lost in the depths of the fog, separated from the main city, and there is no news.
It wasn't until five years ago that White Rock – more precisely, the ruins of White Rock – was discovered by the exploration team.
The town is not large, with only 40,000 or 50,000 permanent residents before the crossing, and there is no defense on the periphery, and it lacks sufficient industrial and technological productivity.
What the expedition team saw was not so much the ruins of the town as a fragmented cemetery.
The buildings of yesteryear have long since collapsed, the ruins are covered with vines and mosses, the splendor of civilization has been replaced by traces of barbarism, and even the bones of humans have grown delicate, deadly otherworldly carnivorous plants, emitting a strong and fishy aroma.
The army and the Transcendents have been searching the area around White Rock for a whole year, and only more than 400 humans have been rescued.
The cruel life of the other world has greatly shortened the lifespan of these people, and the oldest "elder" among them is not more than forty years old, with an average age of only twenty, and has also given birth to a litter of dirty little dolls.
Dragon City has traveled through half a century, which means that these people are all a new generation born in the other world.
And as the older generation born on Earth dies one after another, civilization is destroyed and annihilated like the towns themselves.
The new generation has become a blood-drinking savage.
It is as if they have experienced a light-speed degradation in just a few decades, activating the primeval power hidden deep in their genes, transforming themselves back into the Stone Age - strong, savage, thick-skinned, with sharp claws, they can not only silently endure great pain, but also carry heavy prey and injured kinds, and use this way of "completely integrating into the otherworld" to compete with otherworldly creatures.
Although they still retain some traces of language, writing, books and audio-visual products, they have become something like "witchcraft" and "magic" in the fragmented inheritance.
If the rescue team had found them later, the Dragon City branch that had degenerated into a tribal form would either be completely wiped out by the monsters, or would continue to degenerate and become exactly like the monsters.
As for the witch dance, it's another story.
She wasn't found in the White Rock Tribe.
Instead, it was found in the lair of a ghost leopard, not far from the tribe.
Like the Blood Moon Demon Wolf, the Ghost Leopard is also a gregarious, extremely vicious and cunning monster with a certain amount of intelligence.
However, in some extreme cases, such as when food is plentiful near the nest, and the powerful females in the colony have just lost their bloodline or even reproductive ability, they may also capture the young of other races to raise.
Even, including humans.
On Earth, there is a legend of the "wolf child".
Human children are raised by wolves, and their habits and self-perception are no different from those of wolves.
Wu Wu is such a "leopard girl" who was raised by a ghost leopard.
The rescue team estimates that when she was a child, White Rock was invaded by monsters, her parents died tragically at the hands of monsters, and she was captured by another monster, the ghost leopard.
I don't know why, the ghost leopard did not kill her, but brought her back to the nest, and from then on, she became a member of the community, learned the life and hunting methods of the ghost leopard, and gradually grew up.
And that's not the end of it.
By the time the rescue team found her, Wu Wu had become the leader of the ghost leopard colony, or rather, the "Leopard King".
"Wait."
Meng Chao was incredulous, "I remember that the Ghost Leopard's habits are more ferocious and unruly than the Blood Moon Demon Wolf, and if the leader can't show absolute strength, they won't respect it as king."
"Even, every time the new king wants to ascend the throne, he has to challenge the old king, and he must kill and eat the old king, which means that he has obtained the inheritance of the old king and is qualified to rule the entire clan!"
"That's right."
Xie Feng said with mixed feelings, "She did eat Lao Wang." ”
“…… That was a few years ago, and she was probably very young back then, right? Meng Chao frowned.
"Fourteen." Xie Feng said, "At the age of 14, Wu Wu defeated and ate the old king of the ghost leopard colony and became the new 'leopard king'. ”
Meng Chao didn't speak for a long time, and finally said, "Can such a monster go to college?" ”
"When she was first rescued, she was in a very bad condition, she couldn't read or write, she completely forgot who she was a human being, and she thought she was a ghost leopard through and through."
Xie Feng said, "However, her IQ is incredibly high, and it only took one year to learn listening, speaking, reading, writing and various social knowledge, reaching the level of her peers.
It's just that she's been receiving special education at the Monster Research Institute, and the outside world has never known about her existence.
"Until this year, she was able to completely accept her identity as a human being, and also figured out everything that happened to her in the past ten years, it is said that she has done several sets of college entrance examination papers over the years, and the scores are frighteningly high, and she has also shown an amazing affinity, deterrence and control talent for big cat monsters.