Chapter 25: The Secret Realm of Mist
Besides, our classmate Jiang Hua was fleeing in embarrassment at this time.
Since the first battle to defeat the two giant spiders, Jiang Hua was full of confidence, and after getting familiar with the body that had greatly increased his strength, he began to run around the forest a little unscrupulously, looking for an opponent to temper. Don't say it, whether it's really Ji Tailai, Jiang Hua's bad luck has been swept away these days, and all the ones he has encountered one after another are not as strong as him, after killing a few giant ants and a group of unknown giant unicorn beetles, Jiang Hua was targeted by a big mantis.
After sweeping the giant unicorn beetle, Jiang Hua was cleaning the battlefield, and he found that the beetle's single horn was very hard, and the tip of the horn was very sharp, and one of his calves was not noticed by the beetle with a slight sweep of the horn tip and cut the flesh. The length and size of the horn are also very suitable for weapons, Jiang Hua just smashed a horn off the head of the beetle with a stone, and a large blue and blue mantis attacked him silently from the side.
Spiders, ants, and beetles and the like even if they become huge, their attack power is not very strong if they don't have special abilities, but praying mantis is different, ordinary praying mantis is also the existence of the upper reaches of the food chain among insects, not to mention giant mantis the size of a car. The sneak attack came too fast, the alarm in his brain just started, the sickle-like serrated forefoot of the praying mantis had cut Jiang Hua's head, Jiang Hua subconsciously raised his hand to block, and a huge force came from the unicorn in his hand, the unicorn was hit and flew away, and Jiang Hua's body also took a few steps backwards.
Jiang Hua, who had experienced several battles, was no longer a rookie, he quickly continued to retreat, his eyes quickly searched around, fortunately, the single horn that was knocked away was not far away. Jiang Hua understood that there was no way to deal with this monster without a weapon in his hand, and the two powerful forefeet of the praying mantis, who were good at fighting, could not resist it at all.
Seeing the position of the unicorn, at the moment when the praying mantis pounced, Jiang Hua jumped sideways and landed on the edge of the unicorn, scooped up the unicorn, Jiang Hua put the unicorn across his chest, staring at the mantis's movements, he was ready to meet this natural fighting insect for a while.
I won't go into detail about the details of the battle here, if you think about it, Jiang Hua, who is not a rookie, has only one ending against a natural warrior, a fiasco.
This is the scene at the beginning of this chapter, where Jiang Hua fled in embarrassment. Jiang Hua was able to escape or the result of the praying mantis being a little light, there were few opponents in the same level, and it was already disdainful of the insignificant Jiang Hua, it was Jiang Hua who killed a group of unicorn beetles at one time that aroused its interest slightly, but he didn't expect this strange species to be quite powerful, and he was careless and escaped by him.
Jiang Hua was covered in blood again, with several lacerations on his arms and legs, and endured the pain, Jiang Hua struggled to escape, and the praying mantis followed behind him unhurriedly, obviously not chasing with all his strength.
Jiang Hua, who was on the run, suddenly became happy, because he found that the thick and faint fog at that time began to thicken rapidly, and his chance to escape finally came. The praying mantis didn't seem to pay attention to the changes in the fog, and still followed Jiang Hua slowly, until the fog was completely enveloped, Jiang Hua's figure completely disappeared in its eyes, the mantis just waved its front feet twice, and then turned away, Jiang Hua may be just a small toy on a whim in its eyes, used to amuse.
Jiang Hua plunged into the dense fog, and he couldn't tell the direction, afraid that the praying mantis would catch up with him with blood, but he still didn't slow down his running speed, and he didn't have to worry about hitting a tree while running, and the trick of dodging had been learned a few days ago.
Jiang Hua wondered as he ran, why are there all insects, spiders, ants, beetles and praying mantis, and they are all giant mutations, is there no serious animal? Is this an insect paradise? Just dodged and dodged a big tree, and suddenly his feet were empty, Jiang Hua's body instantly lost its center of gravity and fell headlong.
"It's over......" At this time, Jiang Hua's mind was full of scenes of people falling from a height and falling into a blur of flesh and blood, "I can't even leave a whole corpse!" Jiang Hua was a little strange how he wasn't scared at all, and his mind was full of weird thoughts.
"Plop ......"
There was no blur of flesh and blood as expected, only the hot sensation of the skin and the suffocation caused by the choking of water in the nasal cavity.
"Why is it so hot? Is this TMD boiling water?" Jiang Hua didn't have time to congratulate himself on the fact that he could fall into a whole corpse, and sadly found that although he couldn't fall to death, it seemed very unpleasant to be a scalding ghost or a drowned ghost.
Empty of strength but can't swim, Jiang Hua was inexplicably ashamed, his limbs fluttered in the water indiscriminately, but he still couldn't get out of the water, quickly recalled the method that his classmates taught him to tread water when he was a child, kicked down hard with his feet, paddled up with his arms, and his body was finally exposed to the water.
After taking a few big breaths of air, the uncomfortable feeling of suffocation gradually subsided, and his body was slowly sinking again, Jiang Hua hurriedly continued to tread water. The white mist on the water surface was vast, and the skin of the arms was red from the water, but the wound became not very painful after the initial severe pain, but felt that the skin and flesh at the wound were constantly wriggling and a little itchy.
It's not a way to be in the water all the time, Jiang Hua is ready to find a random direction to move ashore. Jiang Hua, who was recalling the swimming posture method, suddenly felt that the temperature of the water was rapidly decreasing, and soon it became a normal temperature, and then the dense fog on the water surface also quickly subsided, and the surrounding scene was clearly imprinted in his eyes.
This is a valley, surrounded by steep and towering cliffs enclosed an irregular circle, in the middle of the valley is the small lake where Jiang Hua is located, the small lake is not much bigger than the pond in his hometown, the valley is lush with plants and trees, overgrown with strange flowers and plants.
Jiang Hua visually measured the distance, and began to try to swim towards the shore closest to him, and his body began to sink after a few flutters. As soon as his head was in the water, Jiang Hua found through the clear lake that a black shadow was rapidly rising towards the water, and before he could see what it was, an irresistible force instantly pushed him out of the water, and cannonballs flew towards the shore.
Jiang Hua, who was stumped, shook his head, and stood up half-sitting with his arms supported, only to realize that it was the dense grass that saved him, so that he would not fall to death and be killed twice. Touching the weeds around him, he found that the grasses were very tough, and the two-finger-wide leaves were as textured as soft metal.
A dark shadow obscured the light above Jiang Hua's head, and Jiang Hua suddenly remembered the reason why he was ejected into the water. Kankan turned his head, and only saw a large patch of snow white in front of him, two frog legs comparable to the body of an elephant standing firmly on the ground, and the flippers were as thick as half Jiang Hua's height.
"This Nima should be a frog, right!?" Jiang Hua's heart instantly galloped with thousands of grass and mud horses.
I saw the "frog" slowly bow his head, Jiang Hua was shocked again, the snow-white eyes were replaced by the blood-red eyes, the belly and legs of the "frog" were snow-white, but the back was blood-red, and the round-shaped bulges looked very crazy.
"This is not a frog, but a toad", the strong contrast between white and red in the toad's body made Jiang Hua's heart chill, and he quickly moved back a few meters with his hands on the ground.
The toad didn't make any moves, just stared at Jiang Hua with a pair of giant eyes. One person and one monster big eyes to small eyes, the toad does not move, Jiang Hua does not dare to move, he knows that toad frog creatures are only interested in moving things, and if they do not move, they may not be able to attract the other party's attack.
Jiang Hua's judgment was very wrong, he forgot that this was not the earth, and the creature on the other side was not an ordinary toad. After a few minutes of stalemate, the toad suddenly opened its mouth, and a cloud of white gas instantly enveloped Jiang Hua, and before Jiang Hua could react, his body was frozen into an ice sculpture, and he lost any consciousness, only his consciousness was still awake.
Jiang Hua didn't know that the toad's psychological state at the moment was also terrifying, his own cold was enough to freeze the ant-like creature on the other side into pieces, but when the cold entered the other party's body, it was blocked, and the toad was keenly aware of the flow of cyan brilliance on the body surface of the opposite creature, and although his cold qi froze the other party, it did not cause much damage. The toad faintly sensed it in his heart, only to see it suddenly continue to bow its head, aiming its back at Jiang Hua, one of the round-shaped bulges on its back opened its mouth and opened a small mouth, and a hot colorless air flow stirred the distorted air around it and sprayed it towards the "ice sculpture" Jiang Hua.
Jiang Hua was still studying how to get out of the ice sculpture, and the burning pain spread all over his body.
"Is this the so-called Nine Heavens of Ice and Fire!?" Jiang Hua's arms weakened, and he fell to the ground again. The sudden cold and heat made Jiang Hua's strength dissipate completely, and he could only lie here now and let others slaughter.
The toad saw that Jiang Hua did not turn into the gray ash as he imagined, which confirmed its sense even more, and stared at Jiang Hua in the grass with a complicated expression for a while, and the toad's body instantly shrank, becoming the size of an ordinary toad, and jumped and turned away.
Jiang Hua didn't see such a magical scene, he was waiting for the judgment of death with his eyes closed, but there was no movement left and right. Jiang Hua opened his eyes curiously, looked up slightly, but saw nothing, and the "Grim Reaper" was also gone. Jiang Hua exhaled a long breath, his heart was relieved, and he felt that the qi in his body was slowly recovering, meditating on "refining the body", and the speed of qi recovery quickly accelerated. With the growth of strength, the physical strength that could be recovered immediately after meditating on the "Body Refining Duel" now takes several cycles to gradually recover.
Jiang Hua, who was fully charged, stood up again vigorously, looked around, and there was no shadow of a toad as far as his eye could see, not even a single thing that could move.
"That thing must be at the bottom of the lake! it's safe for now. Jiang Hua, who let go of his heart, was suddenly embarrassed to find that he was now naked, and the only tattered clothes on his body turned into fly ashes under the heat of the toad, but the miraculous thing was that he didn't have any burns, not even a single hair was burned, and all the wounds on his body that were originally cut by the praying mantis had healed, only visible road scars, and the blood and sludge stains on his body were also cleaned by the lake.
Jiang Hua finally had a chance to observe his body, his limbs were a little thicker than before, with a little force, the muscles bulged up, and the fat in his abdomen disappeared, although there were no exaggerated eight-pack abdominal muscles, but they were also very solid. Although there was no one here, not even an animal, Jiang Hua couldn't help but cover his shame with his hands. Suddenly remembering the weeds that held him when he landed, Jiang Hua was overjoyed, isn't that a natural clothing material.
Putting on the clothes and shorts that he knitted by himself, Jiang Hua completely relaxed, looking at himself like a savage, Jiang Hua smiled, and then walked around in a small area to check the surrounding situation.