Suddenly, Meng Chao's smooth movements showed a moment of hesitation.
He pulled out an object the size of a pebble from the depths of the Will o 'the Wisp Dragon's carcass. It was as red as a heart.
He used the probe to poke the strange "heart" gently, and the red vines that had not died in the Will o 'the Wisp Dragon's carcass let out screeches and tried to stretch toward the "heart".
Meng Chao soaked the "heart" in condensing stabilizing fluid, and his expression became incredibly grave.
"What, what happened?"
Wu Wu licked the greasy rice off the corners of her mouth, patted her stomach, and went forward to ask.
She could tell that Meng Chao was uneasy.
"This is a Blood Flower's sclerotia. It's an organ similar to a heart or a brain. It's the most important thing in a Blood Flower settlement. No matter how many times the raging bacterial flora split and how large they grow, there's only one sclerotia. As long as the sclerotia is destroyed, the entire Blood Flower settlement will wither within a short period of time and die completely," Meng Chao explained.
"But usually, a Blood Flower's sclerotia should be round. Based on the number of bacterial flora here, it should be bigger. It should be the size of my palm.
"But now, it's only half the size, and it's oval."
"So?" Wu Wu narrowed her eyes.
"So, it just split once," Meng Chao explained.
"Blood Flowers reproduce by splitting. The bacterial flora from a sclerotia can continue splitting until they turn into thousands of bacterial flora that are similar to blood-red vines. Then, they form a huge settlement.
"The sclerotia usually doesn't split unless the settlement is so big that the host can't support it. To prevent the host from dying, it will split into two and search for a new host to form another settlement.
"Based on the size of this sclerotia, it won't last more than three days. During this period of time, the two Blood Flower settlements won't be too far away from each other so that they can take care of each other until they grow mature and have the ability to survive on their own."
The group felt their skin crawl. "Are you saying that there's a superbeast with a Blood Flower infested in it nearby?"
"I'm saying …"
Meng Chao sniffed the increasingly strong stench of blood in the fog and listened to the shuffling footsteps of death. He enunciated each word clearly. "Everyone, it's best if you check your shoelaces and travel light, because later, you'll have to run!"
In the fog, pairs of scarlet eyes converged into a destructive ocean, wriggling and surging over.
At first glance, it was just a normal monster that was incredibly small. It was a gray Swamp Rat.
Aside from being fond of chewing through all sturdy materials, including reinforced concrete, and often leaving holes in the roads and skyscrapers that humans had worked hard to build, it did not have a lot of offensive power.
But rodent-type monsters had crazy reproductive abilities, so they could often gather together to form a rat horde that filled the sky and drowned out monsters that were much larger than them.
Without the support of heavy firepower, they were one of the monsters that normal soldiers and low-grade superhumans did not want to run into in the wild.
Moreover, the Swamp Rat had a ferocious glint in its eyes. Its veins were bulging, its fur was peeling off, and terrifying tumors were protruding from its body.
Many of the sarcomas ruptured, and thin and bewitching blood-colored vines crawled out of them. They were obviously infested by the Blood Flower bacterial flora.
Everyone sucked in a cold breath.
He did not expect the Blood Flower settlement to have the ability to parasitize groups.
Regardless of whether it was Shao Jianqing and her party or the quartet from Agricultural University's martial arts course, when they faced the raging blood-red rat horde, they no longer hesitated. They turned around and ran.
But Meng Chao remained kneeling on one knee. The speed of his hands increased by another level, and his fingers turned into two balls of gray fog. He harvested the last bit of the Will o 'the Wisp Dragon's carcass in front of the blood-red rat horde.
"Meng Chao?"
The group ran more than one hundred meters in one go. When they saw that Meng Chao did not catch up to them, they turned their heads around to look, and they were dumbfounded to find that he was actually not afraid of death.
The blood-red rat horde practically surrounded him, but his gaze and hands remained calm as he packed up all the materials.
It was only when dozens of Swamp Rats infested by Blood Flower bacterial flora jumped high into the air and opened their bloody mouths at him that he flung his huge backpack behind him and drew the two Surging Lightnings that were stabbed diagonally into the ground. He swung his saber and shredded the Swamp Rats into pieces before he fled madly.
When he did not move, he was like a mad dog whose tail was on fire. Meng Chao and the group continued closing in on each other.
When he was one kilometer away, he was already on par with Shao Jianqing.
"Isn't this guy a little too fast?! He's running at top speed!"
The group gasped in amazement.
Then, he heard the sound of "slurp slurp, kacha kacha" coming from behind him.
When they turned their heads around, they saw countless monsters lurking in the bushes and swamps. Wolf Crocodiles, Ghost-arrow Pigs, and Hundred-eyed Toads jumped out and fled in panic with them.
Unfortunately, they were still half a step too late. All of them were devoured by the blood-red rat horde, and huge "rat bumps" swelled up.
When the rats dispersed, all that was left was a pile of white skeletons.
This scene caused the group to feel their skin crawl. They quickened their footsteps, and their chests heaved. They only cared about gulping down fresh air and could not even speak.
No, there was one more monster that could speak.
While Meng Chao ran, he asked Shao Jianqing and the others, "Do you have time to listen to me introduce the Ultimate Style?"
"Huh?"
Shao Jianqing, Xu Sheng, and Han Xing were dumbfounded. With inhuman gazes, they stared at Meng Chao, who remained calm even after he ran for a few kilometers while carrying materials that weighed hundreds of kilograms on his back.
Just how many lungs did this guy have? It has to be known that he had just fought three hundred rounds against the Will o 'the Wisp Dragon infested by the Blood Flowers!
"It's just as you can see, the Ultimate Style is famous for its endurance. If we can win, we'll keep them busy, and if we can't win, we'll run. Our survivability in the battlefield is very high," Meng Chao explained patiently.
"As the Blood Flowers and other new fungi, bacteria, viruses, parasites, and mutated creatures appear, the Monster War will continue becoming more intense. The monsters in the future will become more difficult to deal with, and all sorts of monster hordes will appear nonstop. In the future, you'll run into situations like today's. It's very necessary for you to learn the Ultimate Style."
Wu Wu chimed in by the side. "It's very necessary!"
"What the heck?"
When Shao Jianqing, Han Xing, and Han Xing saw that they were echoing each other, they could not control their expressions at all.
"The Ultimate Style might be a brand new martial art that has just been born, but it's definitely not an unorthodox martial art. It's an orthodox martial art that has a long history. The day before yesterday, we passed the ISO0050 cultivation system quality certification from the Supernatural Tower. As long as you follow the cultivation manual, the risk of spirit energy deviation is very low. It's compatible with most of the cultivation methods and fighting styles. It doesn't matter whether you're a gunslinger, a monster controller, a machine master, a heroic spirit user, or a martial artist of another martial art, you can learn it," Meng Chao said.
"You're specially recruited students from the alliance of the five universities. You have unique statuses, and your futures are limitless. That's why I've specially created a special package for you." If you can come to the Ultimate Style cultivation cabin every day for thirty days and upload your logging records to your circle of friends and social media, we will give you a 20% discount on the gene medicine, high-calorie nutritional fluid, and all sorts of cultivation resources you consume, based on the cost price.
"Don't worry, this activity is sponsored by Yan Organization. There won't be any extra expenses. If you don't believe me, you can ask Wu Wu."
"I can prove that it's really 20% off the cost price."
Wu Wu originally ran with the Ghost Leopard.
But while wolves, tigers, leopards, and other monsters were skilled in short-distance sprinting, they were not good at long-distance running.
The Ghost Leopard might have been biochemically modified, but after running a few kilometers, it started foaming at the mouth. Its tongue was hanging out, and it started staggering.
Wu Wu decided to grab its neck and toss it behind her. Then, she carried it and ran.
When Shao Jianqing, Xu Sheng, and Han Xing saw the Ghost Leopard hunching its head and looking dumbfounded, they were a little dumbfounded.
'Is this the power of the Ultimate Style when it comes to cultivating branch meridians?'
Suddenly …
Duan Lian, who was at the back of the group, screamed in pain.
He was the biggest and the slowest in the group. The moment he was careless, he stepped into a hole that a gnaw-type monster had crawled out of the wild. He twisted his ankle and fell to the ground.
Two Swamp Rats seized the chance to jump on his thighs and bite his butt.
Even though he had the biochemical fighting suit to protect him, the pain still made him scream in pain.
When he heard his scream, Meng Chao hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he gritted his teeth and turned around.
"I'm sorry about what happened last time. Treat it as me returning the favor. If this happens again, you'll have to pray for the best!"
Meng Chao kicked the two Swamp Rats away and grabbed Duan Lian's shirt to toss him far away from Xie Feng and the others. Then, he removed his military-grade backpack and tossed it over as well.
Meng Chao drew his Surging Lightnings and faced the raging rat horde.
'Come!'
Meng Chao gritted his teeth and made up his mind. 'Looks like the northern offense failed in my previous life because of the Blood Flowers. A lot of the monsters here were infested with parasites, and their fighting strength increased by leaps and bounds.
'I won't let you bastards have your way in this life!'
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With the support from the Ultimate Style, he swung the future One Hundred Saber Techniques to its limits!
"What a crazy saber technique!"
Shao Jianqing, the three specially recruited students, and the Four Great Kings of Agricultural University's martial arts course witnessed another side of the Ultimate Style.
When Meng Chao fought against the Will o 'the Wisp Dragon earlier, he spun like a top at high speed, but most of the time, he only used it for dodging.
Now, he would let everyone understand just what a minion harvester was.
With two sabers in his hands, he turned into two tornadoes of death that intersected with each other. The sabers and the air surged, creating a powerful suction force that sucked the Swamp Rats into the shadows of his sabers and tore them to shreds.
Countless Swamp Rats pushed against each other and pounced on him fearlessly. He was also very patient and persistent. He fulfilled their requests for them to seek death.
In an instant, a bloody path filled with corpses appeared under his feet.
And as he moved forward boldly on this bloody path, he was a God of Slaughter who fought his way up from the bottom of hell!
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