Chapter 15: Shadows
Si Moxue watched the man who was a few meters away standing quietly in front of her, casting a shadow that shrouded her.
At this moment, Sim Moxue's heart, which had been beating wildly, slowly calmed down.
Those who come are not good, only go all out.
The man's clothes were in tatters, and clusters of thick and long thorns stood up on his back, shaking like trembling steel bars, colliding with each other and making a sound. The rest of the exposed skin was covered with tiny thorns, and at first glance it looked like it was covered in black armor.
If you look closely, it is not difficult to find that the thorn on the man's right calf is missing, as if it has been torn off by someone, and the bright red tender flesh is exposed to the air and trembles.
Although he was in disarray, his clothes were ragged, but when he fought there, Si Moxue could still feel a breath.
A breath from the strong.
Si Moxue's fingers trembled slightly, and her hands unconsciously repeated the action of clenching and releasing them, and fine sweat oozed from her palms.
The man is a porcupine genetic hybrid, a hybrid who combines attack and defense.
The porcupine hybrid was injured, his eyes were a little glazed, and he seemed to be unconscious. He blocked in front of Si Moxue, neither attacking nor retreating.
Si Moxue didn't dare to act rashly.
After a while, the eyes of the porcupine hybrid suddenly narrowed, and he looked straight at Si Moxue: "Are you the non-hybrid person?" β
Before Si Moxue could answer, the expression of the porcupine hybrid changed from confusion to ecstasy, and then from ecstasy to resentment, and finally he looked at Si Moxue with a hideous face: "Since you sent it to the door, then I'm welcome." β
I saw the porcupine hybrid snort angrily, bowed his head suddenly, the muscles on his back shook, and several 30-centimeter-long thorns shot out like arrows from the string, heading straight for Si Moxue in front.
The distance between Si Moxue and the porcupine hybrid was only two meters, and with such a close distance, it was almost impossible to dodge in the face of the spines shot by the porcupine hybrid.
In an instant, the thorns shot in front of Si Moxue's eyes.
As early as the moment when the porcupine hybrid lowered his head, Sim Moxue realized what he wanted to do - shooting the thorns on his back was the last self-preservation trick for the porcupine in the face of the enemy.
This porcupine hybrid used this trick as soon as he came up, presumably because he wanted to kill with one blow and pursue a quick victory.
Si Moxue's right leg withdrew slightly, the muscles of her legs tightened, and a warm current flowed from her heart down to every muscle fiber in her legs. She clearly felt that the strength of her legs had never been stronger.
Then the power exploded, and Si Moxue ejected from the spot, stepping on the wall to move left and right, avoiding the thorns shot by the porcupine hybrids.
"Oh? It's fast! The porcupine hybrid watched Si Moxue fall back to the ground from mid-air, stabilized his body with his hands, and couldn't help but praise.
Si Moxue stood up, a thorn pierced deep into her right shoulder, and the oozing blood stained her clothes red.
"It still doesn't look fast enough." The porcupine hybrid smiled playfully, a hint of pride flashed in his eyes, but his expression was full of regret.
Si Moxue held the end of the thorn with her left hand and slowly pulled it out.
The end of the porcupine spines has an inverted hook, and once it pierces into its body, it tightly grasps the flesh around itβand with Si Moxue's movements, the blood flows more and more.
Si Moxue finally pulled out the thorns completely, and a small stream of blood gushed out of the wound, and there were still a few strands of flesh hooked at the tip of the thorns.
"I could be faster." Si Moxue threw away the thorns, pressed the wound, and said coldly.
"Really? Then see if you're faster, or if I'm shooting faster. β
The porcupine hybrids struck each other with their fists, the muscles on their backs contracted, and one after another hard thorns, with a dignified sound of breaking wind, shot towards Si Moxue.
Si Moxue's feet moved quickly, like a sensitive cheetah, dodging the thorns while making a detour towards the porcupine hybrid.
Closer, closer.
A short blade flipped out of Si Moxue's hand, and the moment it staggered with the porcupine hybrid, it stabbed him fiercely.
There was a cacophony of rubbing. The short blade came out of his hand, and Sim Moxue was punched away by the porcupine hybrid and hit the wall.
"You think you can break through my defenses with just a knife?" The porcupine hybrid straightened up, the spines on his back retracted, clinging to his body, and laughing.
"These short thorns on my body are my best protective shield, as a non-hybrid person, you can't break through without a weapon."
The hybrid picked up the thorn that was thrown away by Si Moxue from the ground, and his laughter became more and more crazy, approaching Si Moxue step by step: "I advise you to admit defeat early, the feeling of being stabbed by a porcupine thorn, but no one wants to suffer it a second time." β
Si Moxue pressed the wound, her voice trembling slightly from pain: "What if, I say no?" β
The porcupine hybrid had already walked up to Si Moxue and stood still, and when he heard this, he raised the thorn in his hand and said cruelly: "Then, I'm sorry." β
The expected screams did not come, but the porcupine hybrid threw away his thorns and half-squatted on the ground with his legs covered: "You, what did you do?" My legs, why are my legs unconscious? β
Si Moxue calmly stood up from the ground and brushed the dust off her body: "Before the outcome is decided, don't easily underestimate your opponent." β
She revealed the fangs hidden in the palm of her hand, and there was a little blood stain on the tip of the tooth, which was the fangs lost by the previous lizard genetic hybrid: "The venom of the lizard, after poisoning, will be paralyzed and unable to move within a few seconds. Yes, I can't break through your defenses, but from the very beginning, your defenses have holes. β
Smoxue was referring to the wound on the porcupine hybrid's leg, which she quietly smeared on his wound when the porcupine hybrid walked up to her and persuaded her to surrender.
"Calculate the time, the poison should have spread all over the body by this time."
Before he could finish speaking, the porcupine hybrid's body lost control and fell to the ground.
Si Moxue hummed Xiaoqu and took away the number plate on his body, ignoring the eyes of the porcupine hybrid who was eager to eat her alive: "I will not admit defeat, no matter what means I use, I will pass this assessment and get that bottle of body strengthening reagent." β
The porcupine genetic hybrids have already obtained four number plates, all of which have been collected by Si Moxue - she has now collected 497 points and can pass the junior wasteland hunter assessment.
The next thing she has to do is to collect as many score cards as possible within the specified time, in order to be able to enter the top ten points in this assessment.
"Thank you." Si Moxue stuffed the number plate into her pocket, thanked the porcupine and porcupine hybrids on the ground, and turned to leave.
After walking a few steps, Si Moxue came back again: "I almost forgot, I can't let you just lie here." β
She took out the porcupine hybrid's distress bell, used it in front of him, and returned it to him: "You wait here for a while, the rescuers will come soon." Then she turned away again.
The porcupine hybrid, who had been paralyzed and unable to speak, somehow overcame anesthesia and shouted hatefully at Si Moxue's departing back: "One after another, I remember you, non-hybrid, I will make you regret what you did today!" β
Si Moxue waved her hand to show her casualness, leaving behind the shouts of the porcupine hybrids, and walked into the maze in a dashing manner.
According to the time, there are still more than three hours before the end of the level assessment, and Si Moxue has already collected the 400 points needed to pass the assessment, and even scored 97 more points, so she is in a happy mood, the pain in her shoulder has been reduced, and her walking steps have become brisk.
However, before she had gone far this time, Si Moxue's heart jumped wildly, and a sense of crisis even worse than meeting a porcupine hybrid overwhelmed her, and even made her legs tremble slightly.
Si Moxue stopped and looked around, there was no one and no trace of the desolate people.
What the hell is going on?
Holding the pounding heart, Si Moxue took a few deep breaths, and after the heartbeat was not so violent, she forced herself to open her legs, holding the short blade in her hand, and walked towards the road ahead step by step.
After walking for about fifty meters, I still didn't see anyone, but the sense of crisis didn't dissipate, and I still followed the shadow. It seemed that someone was following her closely and watching her from a place where Si Moxue couldn't see.
"Da, da-"
The sound of falling objects.
The hairs on Si Moxue's body stood up in an instant, her nerves were tense to the extreme, she clenched the short dagger, and shouted sharply forward: "Who? β
There was no response, only the flickering street lights in front of the road.
Si Moxue lightened her breathing to the extreme, and walked forward slowly, wanting to find out......
It's a piece of nut that's falling off.
The lighting system of the underground labyrinth was in disrepair, many parts were rotting and falling off, and the sound just now came from a falling nut.
Although it was just a false alarm, Si Moxue's tense nerves were broken. She slashed and stabbed in the air with her knife in her hand, shouting, "Who the hell is it?" Whether it's a human or a ghost, give it to me! β
Si Moxue, who was shouting, didn't notice that in the shadow of the corner behind her, half a black shadow poked out.