Chapter 284: Desert
Although Mount Kinabalu is called a mountain, everyone who has experienced a bloody trial on Mount Kinabalu has never seen the true appearance of Mount Kinabalu.
In the middle of a barren desert, Ron walked alone, the wind howling in the desert, and the flying sand rolling in the sky.
Ron had been walking in the desert for a whole day, but he still hadn't made it out of it.
This is a desert full of dangers, and the creatures that can survive in this desert have tenacious vitality and strong strength.
The creature that Ron encounters the most in the desert is the golden sand beetle.
The golden beetle sand worm hidden under the desert senses the approach of its prey through the vibration of the sand, and then bursts out at the moment of approaching, dragging the prey into the bottom of the sand and devouring it with its terrifying huge mouth.
Ron suddenly stopped, his body shook slightly, and he staggered back a position, and then he saw a burst of yellow sand rising into the sky, and in the flying yellow sand, a golden sandworm with a diameter of more than one meter suddenly broke through the ground from where Ron was standing just now.
The golden carapace covers the body of the sandworm, shining in the sun, the sandworm is like a centipede that magnifies countless quilts, but it has no hands and feet, no arthropods, and even no facial features, only at the front end of the body there is a huge mouth like an abyss, the giant mouth is full of fine fangs, once the prey is bitten by the sandworm, those fine fangs will pierce into the body, so that the prey has nowhere to escape.
The carapace on the golden sand beetle is very hard, even with Ron's picky eyes, the physical defense of these sand beetle carapaces will not be worse than that of ordinary third-order fighters, Ron almost suffered a big loss on its hard carapace when he encountered the first golden sand beetle, Ron punched the carapace, and it only made it slightly dented, let alone kill the beetle, and even let it be injured.
Compared with the beetle's huge body more than ten meters long, a small fist mark on the carapace can't even be found if you don't look carefully.
Under the special terrain of the desert, the golden sand beetle already has the strength to compete with ordinary third-order warriors.
What surprised Ron even more was that he felt a faint fluctuation of divine power in the golden sand worm's body.
Most of the golden beetle sandworms that broke through the sand stretched out of their bodies stretched out of the sand layer and rose upward.
The fine killing slid through the cracks in the sandworm's carapace, and the huge shadow beneath the hideous and terrifying body shrouded Ron.
The sandworm that missed the blow bent the outstretched body of the killing layer downward, and the huge mouth at the top of the body opened, aiming at Ron and swooping down again.
With its size, it could have swallowed Ron straight into its stomach in one bite.
Ron took a step back, dodging the sandworm's swoop, his palms flashing with blue lightning.
The body at the end of the sandworm was still buried under the desert and was not revealed, and the upper half of the body that protruded out was bent like an arc-shaped arch, burrowing into the desert again.
As the upper half of the sandworm's body continued to shuttle, the sandworm's tail finally emerged from beneath the desert.
At the end of the sandworm's body, there is a dark fat that looks like a tail, which is the only place where the sandworm is not protected by a carapace.
The tail of the sandworm was like a long whip, and it swung rapidly, and with the shuttle of its body, it burrowed into the desert again.
Ron's electric right hand suddenly stretched out, and at the moment when the dark fat like a tail passed by, he suddenly grabbed it, and the fine electric light turned into a blazing thunder the moment he grasped the sandworm's tail.
The golden sand beetle, whose tail was held, was about to use brute force to break free from Ron's restraints, when a strong thunderbolt power spread out from Ron's hand, and invaded the golden beetle's body, which was not protected by a carapace.
The golden sand beetle's body suddenly stiffened, then trembled a few times, and no longer had the strength to continue down.
A burnt smell came from beneath the desert.
Ron grabbed the tail of the sandworm and pulled it hard, and the golden beetle more than ten meters long was directly pulled out of the desert by Ron.
The hideous, hard body lay limply on the desert, wisps of scorched smell mixed with black smoke wafting from the junction of the golden sand beetle's carapace.
The tail without carapace protection was the golden beetle's biggest weakness, and the moment it was held by Ron, the powerful power of thunder and lightning instantly entered its body, destroying and even roasting its soft internal organs.
Ron pulled out a dagger and slipped through the sandworm's head into the gap in the link of the fourth golden carapace, priing open a piece of golden carapace, revealing the tender flesh that had been charred inside.
The dagger dug deep into the charred flesh, and with a flick of it, it picked out a thumb-sized golden core.
This is the core of the golden sandworm, the center of the divine power in its body, and the sixth sandworm core that Ron has collected along the way.
After the core was removed, the corpse of the sandworm suddenly turned gray, as if it had been blown in the wind and sand for a thousand years, and the corpse quickly disintegrated into fine dust in the yellow sand, which dispersed with the wind, and there was no longer a trace of flesh and blood creatures.
The transformation of the sandworm's corpse after losing its core is a reminder of the eerie nature of Ron's desert.
After hunting the ninth golden beetle, Ron finally saw a different color in the desert.
It was a giant green cactus.
Each thorn on the cactus stretched out sharply, like a sharp sword.
Ron looked at the cactus from afar, and his instincts told him that this giant cactus was the core of the entire desert.
The cactus stood silently in a sand dune, Ron did not rush closer, even if it was thousands of meters away, Ron still felt a faint danger from the direction where the cactus was.
Ron was observing the obvious palm, and noticed that the cactus suddenly trembled slightly, Ron's heart jumped, and his intuition told him that the cactus had discovered his peep.
Although the cactus seemed to be just an immovable plant, Ron still did not take it lightly, but soon Ron's face turned iron, Ron suddenly pounced forward, and a golden sand beetle broke through the ground from where Ron was standing, but Ron did not mean to kill it, but quickly ran in the direction where the cactus was.
The desert under his feet suddenly trembled, as if an earthquake was coming, and behind Ron's running, one golden figure after another broke through the earth, setting off the yellow sand in the sky.
Ron walked in the desert for days before he came across a few golden beetles, and in a matter of moments, dozens of golden beetle sandworms broke through the ground and came to the chrysalis.
Even with Ron's strength, he had to temporarily avoid the edge of the swarm of golden beetles.