Chapter 20: Reptiles
The four-clawed creature made its way along the upper shelves, its red pepper-faced footprints fading and fading, all sorts of goods bitten open along the way, and the destruction continued to a pack of blue shattered crystals.
It was just a dusty aluminium lunch box, square, with the lid and one side of the aluminum sheet torn open, and a few pieces of broken blue crystal leaking out of the folded inner packaging of old newspapers. The footprints of the pepper face came to a complete halt here, leaving only a few scattered scales on the ground.
If you put a piece of scale in your hand and look closely, you can see that there are traces of sharp objects rubbing on its outer surface, but it is not known whether it is a tooth or a claw. "Could it be that this scale was pulled off by an unknown creature on its own?" Qian Jing was not sure of his guess. For now, it seems that the unknown creature has been unable to overcome its appetite for anything along the way, until it encounters a blue crystal shard. It never continued to eat anything else, and probably went crazy and ripped off its scales.
"Definitely don't touch that blue crystal, it's probably something particularly dangerous!" Qian Jing looked around, and then said to the stickman: "If you want to see people in life and see corpses in death, have you found that unknown monster?"
The stickman is still trying. They can jump and fly in the sky, and their mobility is not to mention, but they are too small and there are obstacles that are larger than them, so their vision is severely limited. Qian Jing cautiously walked through three more rows of shelves, that is, after about half an hour, the stickman finally found the lost creature.
It was a strange-looking four-legged lizard with an inverted triangular head, nearly two meters long, and a huge tail that took up half of its total length. Its body is covered in blue-purple scales, layered on top of each other like armor, in line with its eggshell appearance. The guy was sleeping hunched up, his eyeballs moving under his closed eyelids, as if he were in a sweet dream. At the same time, it holds the tip of its tail in its mouth, and its chameleon-like tongue keeps licking its tail, and it is not known if it is some kind of fetish.
Qian Jing held his breath, carefully observed, and slowly took out his mobile phone to take a picture of it. He was sure that he hadn't touched anything or made any unusual noise, but the big lizard suddenly woke up and locked his gaze directly on Qian Jing. The long tail popped out of its mouth with a whoosh, then raised high. On the tip of the tail, a blue crystal shard can be seen.
The large lizard opens its mouth, its neck vibrates at high speed, and it makes a continuous "click" sound to intimidate. It is completely devoid of the fatigue of ordinary people when they first wake up, but it is ready for battle in an instant. Along the position of the spine, from the top of its flattened head to the tip of its tail, the scales are erect, resembling the dorsal spine plates of the stegosaurus. It's just that its erected scales glow slightly and swing slowly, like a spinnaker in the wind.
"I don't have any ill intentions, I just ......" As soon as Qian Jing opened his mouth, the lizard launched an attack, not giving him a chance at all! It suddenly lowered its head and closed its mouth, and the scaly sails on its back were all upright at the center line. A cloud of blue-purple light traveled along the scales in turn, moving from the top of the head to the long tail, and finally reached the blue crystal shard.
Although he didn't know what the name of this lizard was, Qian Jing knew what category it belonged to, that is, the "don't be tough, flash mob" category. Anyone who regularly plays computer action-adventure games knows that once the opponent is standing still but preparing to attack, it must be a long-range means and must quickly roll and dodge.
Qian Jing jumped to the right as fast as he could, shielding it with the shelves on this side. To be honest, he didn't know how he reacted, maybe it was the agility he had cultivated by dodging opponents' attacks in the game, or the life and death crisis had activated the biological instincts hidden in his body. At this critical moment, Qian Jing tried to stick to the ground and minimize the attack surface of his body as much as possible. And then......
A blue ball of light shot through the shelves, and neither the metal frame structure nor the goods on the shelves could stop it. The light ball hole passed through, flew in front of the tip of the nose of the money mirror, and continued to pierce through the shelf on the other side. The wreckage of the shattered cargo was only then splashed with a loud bang, filling the field of vision like snowflakes.
A moment can be forever, especially with the adrenaline rush. Obviously, the blue energy ball was fast, but Qian Jing still saw the arc hovering outside the sphere, as well as the faint core inside the sphere. What kind of attack is this? When will the next attack arrive? The low flight altitude of the energy ball, apparently following its own dodge trajectory, shows that the lizard is very agile and has the ability to adjust its trajectory. This time it could be luck, what about the next time?
If you don't push yourself, no one knows what the limit of human thinking speed is. Qian Jing reached out and grabbed the base of the shelf, and with a hard pull, his body flew out on the smooth ground. At this moment, the lizard swooped into the two rows of shelves, and its mouth full of teeth suddenly closed, but it just failed to bite Qian Jing's calf! The crisp and powerful "click" sound made Qian Jing's hair stand on end, and the upper and lower rows of teeth also slammed together. In less than three seconds, Qian Jing had already dodged two attacks, but he lost his body balance and cover! He fell to the ground, and the lizard was standing in front of him, this was definitely the worst position!
"Attack!" Qian Jing roared out of fear. The lizard staggered and shook its head continuously, the scales on its skull were lifted into the air in pieces, and three pillars of blood shot into the air, but it still did not fall.
What's going on? The stickman throws a steel needle, each blow is enough to pierce through the reinforced concrete, how can he not kill this lizard? Qian Jing gasped and had to order the stickman, who had no weapons, to pounce on him and fight hand-to-hand. He hurriedly painted on the floor, making new villains and steel needles.
In fact, the penetration ability of the steel needle is too strong, and it successfully creates multiple small holes in the lizard's body, but it does not have much destructive power to the lizard's internal organs, and a lot of energy is wasted when it hits the ground after penetration. On a firearm, this is called too much penetration, and too little stopping force. Specially designed warheads are capable of piercing through the skin, taking a hit, and then tumbling, wreaking havoc in the target's body. Although the stickman's steel needle left a lot of bleeding spots on the lizard's skin, internal organs and other parts, bloodletting is a slow process, and Qian Jing may not be able to hold out until that time!
The stickman pounced, flailing his fist and attacking! The lizard swayed from side to side as it was beaten, struggling to balance with its tail and trying to turn its eyes. It struggled to see who the attacker was, but it was a tiny black monster! The lizard raised its tail and cast an energy orb at itself. Under the reflection of a burst of blue lightning, the stickman on the lizard's body burned and was all cleaned up.
Qian Jing felt the breath of death.