Chapter 18

Qi Yuancheng hid in the tree and watched the battle below. Sure enough, he noticed that the tiger's movements were slow, and it seemed that its two front paws were constantly hitting the insects, and they were corroded by the green acid splashed by the insect corpses. One of the paws appeared to be badly wounded, and a faint amount of green smoke came out. And the accumulation of insect corpses and acid on the ground is almost making the tiger have nowhere to stand.

Qi Yuancheng felt the horror of these little things more and more, but what made him wonder was that it could be inferred from the death of the black bear before that the purpose of killing the black bear was to seize the letter stone, but why did the insect swarm leave themselves and the letter stone alone, but instead entangled with the tiger?

Thinking of this, Qi Yuancheng thought of a possibility, could it be that his red mist actually blocked the insect swarm's induction of the letter stone? So that they have not discovered the existence of themselves and the letter stone until now?

"In this way, the tiger found me, most likely through a keen sense of smell." Qi Yuancheng became more cautious, he consciously thickened the red mist again, he didn't want to be in close contact with such a terrifying insect.

At this point, the swarm seemed to be a little impatient with teasing the tiger. Once again, they stretched out a "tentacle" behind the tiger and launched a sneak attack one after the other.

The tiger was very alert, and rolled on the spot to avoid the attack of the two "tentacles", but this roll was also stained with green acid, and the fur suddenly rose white smoke, and the tiger roared in pain, and staggered around the circle to dodge the attack of the insects.

Seeing the tiger's actions, Qi Yuancheng was still a little puzzled. Compared to fighting the swarm like this, the tiger will have a higher probability of survival if it chooses to escape.

"Could it be that it has attracted the swarm and is still circling around me, is it trying to borrow a knife to kill people?" Qi Yuancheng felt a chill in his heart. If so, then the wisdom of this Northeast Provincial Tiger is also terrifying.

Qi Yuancheng thought about it carefully, but he no longer panicked. Judging from the current situation, it is only a matter of time before the tiger is defeated, and the swarm has not found itself so far, and it should be very safe. He looked at the exhausted tiger below with some schadenfreude, and said in his heart: "It's not so easy to yin me." ”

At this time, the tiger, which had been burned by acid in many places on his body, raised his head and whispered twice at Qi Yuancheng on the tree. Qi Yuancheng only felt a tremble in his heart, and he clearly heard a trace of pleading from the tiger.

"That's not right! If the tiger wants to kill me, it only needs a few claws to break the tree where I live, so why bother attracting bugs? Qi Yuancheng suddenly realized that he had made a mistake, "The tiger wants to use my ability to destroy the insect swarm!" ”

When Qi Yuancheng was struggling in his heart, the tiger below couldn't dodge, and resisted a wave of insects, it could only barely protect its head and eyes with its claws, but this time the tiger's claws no longer had any intact fur.

Although Qi Yuancheng was anxious for the tiger, he didn't dare to be careless. He carefully controlled a wisp of red mist drifting towards the swarm, trapping a lone bug. When the Gu poison played a role in the body of the insect, the entire insect swarm froze for a moment as if time suddenly stood still, and then it flew around like a fryer.

With the help of the Gu poison, Qi Yuancheng actually felt a burning sensation from the insect under his control, and his Gu poison almost failed. He guessed that his Gu poison might have been partially killed after coming into contact with the green acid in the insect's body.

Qi Yuancheng became even more afraid of the ability of insects. After returning from Shiyin Village, he had done an experiment, his Gu poison red mist could survive in the water for a long time, some common chemical agents could not kill them in a short time, and even they could hold on to hundreds of degrees of flame for more than 1 minute, and the acid of these insects actually eliminated the Gu poison in an instant.

At this time, the insect swarm that had just been disturbed by Qi Yuancheng's Gu poison temptation slowly recovered its state. They paused their siege of the tiger and began to search for the culprit who had caused their companions to lose contact, much to their uneasiness.

A few insects tentatively flew into the edge of the red mist, and Qi Yuancheng cautiously stood still, fearing that it would cause a siege by the insect swarm.

More and more insects entered the red mist, inhaled Gu poison, and even some insects landed on Qi Yuancheng and flew away again. It was also at this time that Qi Yuancheng observed these insects up close. He found that the appearance of these insects was that of the locusts very common in Northeast Province, but because the whole body was covered with green acid, the color of the locusts was no longer an inconspicuous earthy gray, but a strange turquoise. Qi Yuancheng could feel a faint burning sensation transmitted from the Gu poison killed by the acid, but he still held his breath and did not launch the Gu poison to control the insects, but only consciously increased the release of the red mist to allow more Gu poison to enter the insect body.

After a period of observation, Qi Yuancheng can be sure of two points: first, although the acid in the insect's body can eliminate the Gu poison, this is not the insect's deliberate behavior, but the innate nature restraint, so the insect is not aware of the abnormality of the red mist; The second is that the insect's perception ability in the red fog is greatly reduced, and its movements and reactions are also greatly sluggish.

Because the bugs shifted their target, the tiger that had just struggled to support it got a little respite. It looked up at the swarm's movements, and saw that the insects seemed to have temporarily lost interest in themselves.

The tiger didn't take the opportunity to escape, but just staggered away from the battlefield covered with insect corpses and green acid just now, and came to the bushes on the side to rub off the acid on his body.

Qi Yuancheng is still observing the movement and activity of the insect swarm. Due to the constant consumption of Gu poison and the pain of receiving feedback from time to time, Qi Yuancheng's source field power consumption gradually increased, and even with the replenishment of the letter stone, it was still in a state of slow passing.

"This is not the way, and after a long time, I will run out of oil and the lamp will run out." Qi Yuancheng began to get anxious, and the current situation made him a little dilemma.

When he first saw the insect tiger battle, Qi Yuancheng fought with the idea of "sitting on the mountain and watching the insect and tiger fight", but after seeing the power of the insect swarm, he began to be vigilant. Especially when he found that the acid of the insect swarm had a restraining effect on his Gu poison, he also began to retreat, but there was a swarm of insects and a tiger below, and it was not so easy to run.

Qi Yuancheng also thought about whether to eliminate the insect swarm to prevent future troubles, but he found that just maintaining the consumption of the insect swarm to Gu poison had already overdrawn his ability, and if he wanted to mobilize the source field power to control these tens of thousands of insects, he was afraid that he would hang up before the tiger.

At this time, Qi Yuancheng noticed that the tiger below was wiping the acid off his body in severe pain.

"This big guy didn't take the opportunity to escape!? What the hell is it thinking? "Qi Yuancheng doesn't understand the tiger's plan." You can't wait until I'm killed by bugs before you come and grab the letter stone, right? Qi Yuancheng denied his inference almost instantly. He had always had a feeling that tigers had no ill will towards humans, and bringing the swarm here would never cause trouble to Jiangdong.