Chapter 41: The Akame Praying Mantis
Although the psychological state is extremely unsatisfactory, Zhou Ming and the silver-armored boy at least retain a trace of sanity, as a hunter, unless you have the strength of Hong Menglong, it is not a good idea to rashly approach the fierce beast with unknown strength, so Zhou Ming and the others did not step directly into the mine, but used the cover of shrubs and long grass to search along the edge of the mine, hoping to lock the location of the fierce beast before the fierce beast found them.
This was originally a very time-consuming thing, because the mine is not small, and it is not easy to go around the mine while remaining hidden, but fortunately, this is a coal mine, Zhou Ming noticed that there were traces of a collapse on the side of the coal mine hill, which was obviously destroyed by man-made people, or "beasts", which was really a very convenient good thing for Zhou Ming and the others, because coal has a characteristic, that is, it fades...... Now a series of clear black footprints on the ground allowed Zhou Ming and them to find the insect beast that the miner said was on the east side of the mine without any difficulty.
The small inverted triangular head looked left and right around, the half-meter-long double sickle was licked by it with its mouthparts, and the emerald green and narrow body showed its agility, but unfortunately, Zhou Ming observed for a long time, but he couldn't recognize this fierce beast.
"The Akameo Mantis, a third-level strength, is known for its agility, has the ability to fly in a straight line over short distances, and its main means of attack is the double sickle of the forelimbs, which is extremely offensive and weak, and its weakness is that it has a long and soft belly. The silver armored young man's voice was still a little trembling, but these data seemed to be unconsciously said from his mouth the moment he saw the fierce beast, this is the background, he has experienced a perfect system of learning, in terms of fierce beast knowledge, the silver armored young man is indeed stronger than Zhou Ming.
"Very detailed and a big help. Zhou Ming really wanted to give the silver armor boy a kind smile, but after working hard for a long time, he squeezed out a smile that was not much better than crying, and Zhou Ming himself was embarrassed to turn to the silver armor boy, "With your current state, how far can you guarantee the accurate maximum range?"
"I don't know," the silver-armored boy took a deep breath to calm himself down, "I can only aim with my left hand, within thirty meters, it should be, it's okay, but the red eye mantis is very fast, if you can't contain it, it can dodge my shot." ā
"Then I still use the routine just now, I rushed over to attract the attention of the Akame Mantis, trying to lead it this way, you hide here and don't move, and wait until you are close enough to make a sudden move. Zhou Ming wanted to follow the previous method of the two of them to bring down the bald robbers, one person attracted attention, and the other person took the opportunity to make a move.
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"I'm sorry, but can you try to adjust your condition?" Zhou Ming was cheering up the silver armored boy at the same time, he was also cheering himself up.
"IāI can't do it, I probably can't do it, I ......" the silver-armored boy cried as he spoke, he really didn't want to think back to the scene of his murder again.
"Don't cry, we're here to save people, not to kill people, don't put the living in danger for the sake of the dead!" Zhou Ming's eyes were also red.
"But what can the two of us do alone, the red-eyed mantis is not something we can deal with now!" The silver-armored young man roared at Zhou Ming while crying, he was completely desperate, just because the two of them had a lower rank and one star, and a hunter apprentice, there was no hope at all if they wanted to kill the red-eyed mantis of the lower three stars......
"Shut up! I've had enough!" Zhou Ming also broke out at this time, yelling at the silver-armored boy, because he was far away, he was not afraid of being discovered by the red-eyed mantis, "If it weren't for our weakness, the three robbers wouldn't have targeted us; if it weren't for our weakness, the six miners would have been rescued by now; if it weren't for our weakness, no one would have died at all today! Think about your purpose when you set out from the Hunter's Guild, think about the worker who desperately ran to the Hunter's Guild for help, and now you tell me that you want to give up?" Okay, if you give up, I'll go by myself, I tell you, I fought for my life, and I will fulfill my promise, I will absolutely rescue those six miners!"
He was unwilling, he was still full of confidence when he set off, and now he has fallen into such a situation, the miner who fought with his life to ask for help gave all the hope of saving his workers to Zhou Ming before passing out in a coma, how could Zhou Ming, who took over this task, fail?
"I ......" Zhou Ming's words woke up Yinkai at once, they killed the group of robbers is an established fact that has already happened, and it cannot be changed, but to save the six miners who hid in the mine and did not dare to come out did not allow them to slack off, now that the red-eyed mantis has not stepped into the mine, it does not mean that it will not enter the mine, this fierce beast is naturally bloodthirsty, once it finds that there are still living creatures under the mine, it will definitely kill it and enjoy the food.
"I'm sorry, I ...... just now" The silver-armored young man shook his head, his face was slightly better, he picked up the crossbow with his left hand, and took out the small silver crossbow from the space spar as well, "My right hand can't be lifted now, and I can't wind it, so at most, two crossbows will shoot an arrow each, whether it's a win or a defeat, I can only help you get here." ā
"Then let's customize the plan in detail, plan one, I try to break the double sickle of the red eye mantis by fighting the knife and using the advantage of weapons, if this plan can be successful, then we can easily kill it. Plan two, I'll lure it in, you hide here, I'll try to contain it, and then it's up to you to kill it. Plan three, if the first two plans fail, you can only improvise, and then do your best to obey the destiny of heaven......" Zhou Ming spit out the resentment in his heart, and at this time he actually recovered his state, and the hand holding the earth's swords became strong again, walked out of the long grass, and walked firmly in the direction where the red eye mantis was.
Walking into the mine with such a swagger, it is impossible for the red-eyed mantis not to find it, the little green head is crooked, and a pair of red eyes are tightly locked on Zhou Ming, stopping the action of licking his sickle, as soon as he turns around, the wings behind him suddenly open, and under the high-frequency vibration, the red-eyed mantis instantly accelerates, and sprints towards Zhou Ming by flying close to the ground.
According to the predetermined plan, Zhou Ming turned around and ran away, but he did not run in a straight line towards the ambush site, just now the silver armored boy mentioned that the straight line sprint speed of the red-eyed mantis is amazing, with Zhou Ming's speed, before he can run to the predetermined ambush site, it will be nailed to the ground by a sickle, so Zhou Ming borrowed the method of dealing with spiked porcupines when he was in the hunter school, and used "s" The method of running made it impossible for the red-eyed mantis chasing him to use its wings to make a straight sprint, but his tricky moon body method allowed him to not need to slow down when turning, so that Zhou Ming brought the red-eyed mantis all the way to the edge of the mine, and not far away, the silver-armored boy was ready to go.
"Don't be in a hurry!" Anyway, the red-eyed mantis can't understand human language, and it won't hear from this sentence that there are people in ambush around, so Zhou Ming simply shouted, although he led the red-eyed mantis here, but if he couldn't successfully contain its movements, it would be difficult for the silver-armored boy to hit its vital point with the crossbow arrow shot by his left hand, and it would be difficult to hit its vital point and achieve the effect of killing with one blow, so he let the silver-armored boy continue to hide, and he tried to attack first.
Twin knives against double sickles, the same two-handed weapons, also known for their flexibility, Zhou Ming suddenly rushed back at the red eye mantis, the double knives danced, forming a knife net in front of him to cover the red eye mantis, and on the other side, the red eye mantis's counterattack was also the same, the double sickles were waved indiscriminately, and the earth evil double knives were intertwined.
The sound of "clanging" broke out no less than thirty times in a few seconds, Zhou Ming suddenly withdrew, and retreated to five meters away with the trick moon body method, the double knives of the earth demon were still a little heavy for him, and the continuous high-speed fight ended with his exhaustion, the double sickle of the red eye mantis was even harder than he imagined, in such a fight, even the machete used by the hunter robber before would definitely be cut off by the sharp edge of the earth demon double knife, but the double sickle of the red eye mantis was actually intact, and the first plan ordered by Zhou Ming was a complete failure.
"Start plan two. Zhou Ming shouted again, and rubbed himself at the same time, his tricky moon body technique had been opened since he started to seduce the red-eyed mantis, and he was about to reach the limit until now, so he was ready to fight quickly, using the flexibility of the tricky moon, he went around to the side of the red-eyed mantis in an instant, and with a wave of his double knife, he was about to stab the red-eyed mantis's abdomen.
For the weakness of his body, the protection of the red-eyed mantis was very timely, and with a shock of wings, the red-eyed mantis that jumped up not only avoided Zhou Ming's blow, but also aimed the double sickle at Zhou Ming and fell from the sky.
Zhou Ming had no choice but to roll forward, dodging the slash of its double scythe from under the belly of the red-eyed mantis, and at the same time waved the knife with his backhand before getting up, no matter what position it could hit, anyway, even if it was injured a little more, it would be good.
As a result, Zhou Ming's knife slashed at one of the leg joints of the red-eyed mantis impartially, although the red-eyed mantis has a layer of carapace protection on the leg, but the joints are very fragile.
The red eye mantis, who suddenly lost his center of gravity, leaned his whole body to the left, how could the silver-armored young man ignore such a good opportunity, get up and shoot, but with a "click", his metal crossbow turned out to be stuck.