Chapter 21: Basilisk
Seeing Alan stop to pick flowers and plants from time to time, Mr. Hunt smiled helplessly.
I thought that this child lived in the town and had a rare opportunity to climb the mountain and get close to nature, so I was very excited and regarded this dangerous hunting operation as an outing.
In fact, Allen is not lacking in experience in surviving in the wild.
He had gained even more hunting knowledge through atavistic meditation than Mr. Hunt.
In addition, the eyes have evolved dark vision, and there is no need to deliberately look around, and you can see the shadows in the trees clearly, so it is very relaxed.
Walk to the shallow stream of the stream.
I heard a dog barking.
The three of them stepped forward to investigate.
The two hounds were wagging their tails, sometimes reaching out their claws to pull at the dead fish on the riverbank.
A palm-sized fish, with a white belly, is lying stiff on the river beach.
Alan crouched down to observe, and secretly used the system to identify.
Sure enough.
"These fish are all poisoned." Alan whispered.
Mr. Hunt nodded and took off his hunting bow.
"The basilisk's lair, just upstream of the stream!"
"It drank water in the stream, and the toxins seeped into the water, and the nearby fish and shrimp also suffered."
The hounds were in front, and the trio followed.
Walk along the stream.
When I was about to reach the top of the mountain, I suddenly heard an eagle chirping in the sky!
Alan looked up.
Tile blue sky, without a single cloud.
The falcon was hovering low at altitude, eager to dive down.
Mr. Hunt took his fingers in his mouth and blew a sharp whistle.
Hearing the master's command, the falcon re-spread its wings and abandoned the dive.
"The falcon can't beat the basilisk!"
Mr. Hunt explained to his son and Allen.
"Indulge it to pounce, be sprayed with a mouthful of poisonous gas by the basilisk, and you will definitely die!"
"Dad! Don't be verbose, let's go! Robin's face flushed with excitement, "If you drag it out any longer, the basilisk will slip away!" ”
"Don't come here!" Mr. Hunt glared at his son, "Be honest and follow me!" ”
At this moment, in the bushes ahead, the howl of a hound was heard.
There is also a squirming movement.
Alan hurried over and saw more than a dozen hounds in a circle from a distance.
Among them is a large purple-scaled python, coiled in a snake formation, spitting out a forked tongue, and confronting the hound.
As Robin described, the monster had a blurry human face.
Compared to ordinary pythons, it looks even more hideous and terrifying!
Perhaps this is the so-called "uncanny valley effect".
Alan gestured back.
Remind father and son to wear gas masks.
The trio went around to the upwind and shot the basilisk with their bows.
At the same time, the hounds also launched a siege on the basilisk.
The first arrow that Eren fired, a little less accurate, flew past the basilisk head.
Robin shot quite accurately.
Unfortunately, the short bow has limited energy storage, and the arrow did not even pierce the skin of the basilisk, so it was bounced off by the snake scales.
Sou!
Mr. Hunt draws his bowstring and shoots a sharp arrow!
The accuracy is impeccable, but unfortunately the strength is still a little reluctant.
Shoot at the basilisk, only half an inch into the flesh.
The basilisk hissed and roared in pain, flicked its tail violently, and actually wrapped itself around the shaft of the arrow and pulled it out.
A trace of blood, flowing down the arrow wound, was obviously just a flesh wound.
Mr. Hunt's face turned blue.
If the arrow was deeper, it would have been barbed into the flesh.
If the basilisk dares to forcibly pull out an arrow, it will definitely tear off a large piece of flesh.
But he had done his best.
I didn't expect the basilisk's scales to be so hard!
The bow and crossbow are hard to hurt the basilisk.
The hound bites and makes even more wasted effort.
Take a bite of it!
The canine teeth were immediately blocked by the slippery and hard snake scales, and they involuntarily slid open.
There was a click, and a bite was lonely.
The basilisk took advantage of the situation to fight back, grinning wide, and spewing out a black poisonous gas.
The three hounds on the opposite side couldn't dodge and inhaled the poisonous gas.
First, he was injured by the toxin, and he burst into tears and wailed.
Within ten seconds, the toxin spread to the central nervous system.
The three hounds fell one after the other, convulsing and foaming at the mouth.
Seeing that he was no longer saved.
Hunter shot a few more arrows, but still couldn't inflict a heavy blow on the basilisk.
Of the more than a dozen hounds, half of them have been killed by basilisks.
Continue on this momentum.
It wasn't long before all the hounds were killed.
After that, the trio had to face the basilisk head-on.
The situation is not good!
Mr. Hunter, who is an experienced man, made a decisive decision.
"Robin! Allan! You two retreat first, I'll cover! ”
"Daddy......"
Robin's face was pale, his voice trembled, and he was no longer in the spirit he had when he went up the mountain.
Alan's face was as calm as ever.
He didn't want to give up halfway.
So he put aside the crossbow, passed past the father and son, and stepped forward alone.
It's time to show the real thing!
So far in the battle, Alan has been secretly observing.
Different kinds of crossbows, shot from different distances.
And the bite of the hound.
By observing the killing effect of the above attack on the basilisk, he had already calculated that the basilisk's scale armor was roughly equivalent to level 5 innate defense.
Hound's teeth, ordinary bow and arrow.
It's hard to pierce the basilisk's scale armor.
However, Alan has mastered the "Penetrating Strength".
Armor piercing is not a problem for him.
The most terrifying attack of the basilisk is the toxin.
Snake teeth biting and spitting poisonous gas are equivalent to level 3 toxin attacks.
Ordinary people and animals, bitten by it, or inhaled poisonous gas, will be paralyzed if they don't die.
However, Alan is not afraid.
He had deliberately taken off his mask and inhaled a small amount of poison gas.
Stress test your own anti-toxic constitution.
Level 2 poison resistance, unable to be completely immune to level 3 snake venom.
But it can at least offset seventy percent of the toxin damage.
After inhaling the gas, Alan was only slightly dizzy and nauseous.
Hold on for two minutes and the discomfort will automatically disappear.
On this premise.
Try to stand upwind and wear a face covering.
Basically, you can ignore the poisonous gas spewed by the basilisk.
In the worst-case scenario, even if you are bitten by the basilisk's fangs, you still have time to take medicine and detoxify.
What's more, Alan came prepared today.
You have more than one hole card in your hand.
Now it's his turn to deal the cards.
First card!
Alan pulled out the lime bag he had brought with him and smashed it at the basilisk.
Burst!
The paper bag hit the basilisk on the head and exploded, sending a large amount of cloudy smoke and dust into the air.
Except for lime.
Alan is also very thoughtful to mix realgar powder, garlic powder, and a variety of highly toxic herbs from the glass garden.
It's full of technology and hard work!
And then there's the second card!
Alan pulled out a copper bottle from his backpack.
Pull out the bottle mouth barrier and shake the liquid in the bottle evenly.
Throw it out!
In the process of studying pharmacy with Ms. Sora, Alan borrowed from his previous life to collect many minerals with properties similar to gunpowder.
Both solutions in the bottle are stable when stored separately.
Once mixed together, it becomes flammable and explosive.
Burst!
The copper bottle smashed into the basilisk, received a strong impact, and exploded!
Suddenly flames flew and black smoke billowed out.