The eyes of Shao Jianqing and the other specially recruited students were dyed red by the bloody fog Meng Chao stirred up.
"I'm … a little displeased. I feel like I'm being underestimated," Xu Sheng said with narrowed eyes.
"That's right. In the past, I've always been in Meng Chao's position. I'm the one killing the monsters, and the others are in charge of watching dumbfounded by the side," Han Xing said.
"I'm full now. I can continue fighting," Wu Wu said.
"Then what are we waiting for? Are we really going to let Meng Chao use the Ultimate Style to kill all the monsters alone?" Shao Jianqing brought out the huge sword that looked like a helicopter rotor again.
The four looked at each other and smiled before they rushed forward.
Xie Feng, Sun Ya, Duan Lian, and Jiang Rui looked at each other at a loss. They could see the indignation on each other's faces.
"Damn it. Even though we're normal people and can't compare to these four … no, five monsters, no matter what, we're the Four Great Kings of Agricultural University's martial arts course. There's no reason for us to watch them fight while we flee!"
With a crack, Duan Lian adjusted his sprained ankle. With a livid expression, he injected a powerful painkiller and struck his chest. With an angry roar, he rushed forward.
The nine outstanding members of the new generation in Dragon City moved forward together. They were like nine rumbling armored trains that charged back and forth in the blood-red rat horde. They crushed them and killed them.
Their vitality magnetic fields clashed against each other, causing their spirit flames to burn even brighter. They managed to suppress the raging rat horde.
The power of the rat horde lay in their numbers and how they gathered together.
Even with the stimulation from the Blood Flowers, the Swamp Rats were not powerful monsters. They were scattered and scattered like a sheet of sand.
Soon, the split rat horde was extinguished by the nine people's steel boots, which were like swaying flames.
But the strange bloody fog still floated, surged, and gathered above the Swamp Rats' mangled carcasses.
The slurping sounds of bacterial flora growing came from all directions.
Tentacles that looked like blood vessels crawled out of more Swamp Rats' carcasses. As if they were threading a needle, they pieced the mangled carcasses back together. In fact, they pieced the flesh of different Swamp Rats together and turned them into monsters with two heads, three to four tails, and eight claws.
"…"
Shao Jianqing and the others gasped for breath as they watched this scene in disbelief.
Meng Chao spat and wiped off the blood and cold sweat on his hands with his pants.
The probability of the monsters infested by the Blood Flowers turning into the undead was 50% higher than that of normal monsters. Usually, they had to be killed twice.
The second time was usually more difficult to kill.
This was the reason why he turned around and ran in the beginning.
But since they had already fought to this extent, it seemed like they could only fight to the bitter end.
"Find its sclerotia!"
"These bacterial flora belong to the same settlement and obey the commands of the same sclerotia. As long as we get rid of the sclerotia, all the bacterial flora will wither. This is the way to completely kill it!"
The group looked at each other and surrounded Meng Chao to help him block the continuous attacks from the Undead Swamp Rats so that he could search for the Blood Flower sclerotia.
Meng Chao decided to close his eyes. His nostrils flared as he sniffed for the strongest scent of blood in the air.
After they turned into undead, they might not be faster or stronger, but their toxicity and corrosive properties would usually increase by leaps and bounds. Besides, the distribution of their organs and bone structure would be different from when they were alive. Their weaknesses would also be greatly different, so they would be even more difficult to deal with.
Sometimes, even if the group's weapons cut off the Undead Swamp Rat's head, it would still spit out something that looked like a carnivorous flower. It hissed and continued to pounce on the group's carotid artery.
Even if they cut it in half from the head to the tail, there was a possibility that some bacterial flora would crawl out of the bloody cut and tangle with the torn limbs of the other undead Swamp Rats. Then, they would turn into a brand new monster.
The deformed and ugly creatures that looked like stitched monsters were terrifying and disgusting. Their mental strength indices fluctuated by leaps and bounds, and the failure rate of creating spirit energy magnetic fields kept increasing.
Every time they failed to create a spirit energy magnetic field, they revealed a lot of openings, and they were bitten by the undead Swamp Rats.
Regardless of whether it was Shao Jianqing, the other specially recruited students, or the Four Great Kings of Agricultural University's martial arts course, their nano fighting suits had long since been torn to shreds. Wisps of black smoke rose from their gaping wounds, and they were all badly corroded.
"Can we really not kill these monsters?"
The group felt their skins crawl. They could feel a bone-chilling chill from the top of their heads to their spines.
At that moment, Meng Chao opened his eyes.
"That's it!"
He moved like lightning and shot over the heads of eight undead Swamp Rats. Then, like a Golden Roc, he jumped into the air. His Surging Lightnings were his wings that were unfurled to their fullest extent.
His target was the Swamp Rat King, which had been lurking in the depths of the rat horde. It was twice the size of a normal Swamp Rat, and it was so round that its limbs were curled up.
The Swamp Rat King's body was covered in pulsating sarcomas. Bacterial flora that danced madly gushed out of its seven orifices. They danced in a strange manner, as if they were cramping, as if they were giving orders to the entire Blood Flower settlement.
The Blood Flower sclerotia was definitely living in its body.
Meng Chao pounced on the Swamp Rat King like a hungry tiger pouncing on a sheep. With a few jumps, he arrived in front of the Swamp Rat King.
The Swamp Rat King let out shrill screeches, and dozens of undead Swamp Rats immediately pounced on Meng Chao.
Meng Chao had already calculated their attack routes. The dozens of undead Swamp Rats turned into his stepping stones. When he stepped on them with his combat boots, they were reduced to mush. Meng Chao increased his speed again and again, and while in the air, he completed the structure for Demon Subduing Slash. The two Surging Lightnings intersected with each other, and the cross-shaped saber glare cut the Swamp Rat King into four pieces.
'No, the rat king is too weak. It doesn't look like it's being infested by the sclerotia!'
Before Meng Chao landed on the ground, he sensed that something was wrong based on the unstoppable force of the saber.
Just as he expected, when the Swamp Rat King's carcass was cut into four pieces, he did not see any oval-shaped sclerotia that looked like a heart.
At that moment, a snake-type monster suddenly shot up from the swamp beside the spot where Meng Chao landed. With lightning speed, it shot toward his carotid artery.
This creature had a triangular head, which was unique to poisonous snakes. Its body was covered in dark golden spots, and there were thick, deformed blood vessels wrapped around it. Some of them even burst through its scales and popped out.
Its eyes had also been devoured by the fungus, and two scarlet flowers of bacterial flora crawled out of the empty eye sockets. Its bloody mouth was opened to the limit, and countless dancing bloody tentacles were spurting out.
'This is bad! The leader of these Swamp Rats is a Golden Thread Snake! The sclerotia is also infested in the Golden Thread Snake!'
Meng Chao's skin crawled.
Usually, the leaders of monster packs were all of the same species. The rat horde was commanded by the rat king, and the wolf pack was led by the wolf king.
But this was a world where the strong preyed on the weak, where the victors were kings, and monsters were incredibly intelligent. For the sake of survival, the weak submitted to the strong, and there were plenty of situations where other races ruled over them.
Wu Wu was the best example.
As a human, she ruled over the Ghost Leopards. As long as she could bring more and fresher food to the Ghost Leopards and continue expanding their territory, as well as defeat and eat all the challengers, the other Ghost Leopards would willingly accept her rule.
It was the same for the Swamp Rats.
Under normal circumstances, the largest rat with the sharpest fangs and the fiercest personality would be automatically "crowned" as the rat king once it killed dozens of its own kind.
But if it ran into an even fiercer natural enemy, such as a snake-type monster like the Golden Thread Snake, and the natural enemy did not want to eat all the Swamp Rats in one go for some reason, it might maintain a strange symbiotic relationship for a period of time.
The Swamp Rats accepted the Golden Thread Snake's rule and regularly offered it some of their fleshy comrades as tribute in exchange for more of their own kind to live an ignoble existence. The Swamp Rats also received the Golden Thread Snake's protection.
The Golden Thread Snake reduced the amount of energy it used to hunt, and it could also use the number of Swamp Rats to fight against its enemies.
It was a win-win situation.
And when the Blood Flower ran into a rat horde ruled by the Golden Thread Snake, its sclerotia would naturally choose to infester on.
Meng Chao had chosen the wrong target right from the start.
It was already too late for him to change his moves.
After all, the Ultimate Style did not have unlimited stamina and spirit energy.
First, he killed the Will o 'the Wisp Dragon. Then, he carried out high-precision harvesting. Then, he carried hundreds of kilograms of materials on his back and ran madly through the swamp. In the end, he killed his way into and out of the rat horde twice. He was on the verge of breaking down. Right now, even his toes were trembling.
'I just made a grand entrance, and in the blink of an eye, I'm going to fail?'
Meng Chao really wanted to flick two thick, long, and perky middle fingers at this cruel fate.
At that moment, he could vaguely hear a falcon-type monster's screech in the tumbling clouds.
Then, a beam of dazzling red light shot out from the clouds like lightning.
Falcon-type monsters were the natural enemies of snake-type monsters.
Even if it was infested by the Blood Flower, the Golden Thread Snake still jumped up as if it had been electrocuted.
But it did not manage to escape the fate of being bound by the red light a few times before it was cut into eight pieces.
Dozens of bacterial flora that looked like red tentacles crawled out of the struggling Golden Thread Snake's dismembered carcass. They dragged an oval-shaped "heart" behind them, and like a burning spider, they screeched in search of a new host.
The red light that killed the Golden Thread Snake split into dozens of thin red lines that cut the Blood Flower sclerotia into pieces.
The Blood Flower bacterial flora in the undead Swamp Rats crawled out of their carcasses and shot stiffly at the sky while letting out their final screams.
What answered them was an even louder scream. It was filled with the awe-inspiring might of a Hell Beast. Then, a ball of red flames that looked as beautiful as a phoenix descended from the sky.
Amidst the raging flames, a handsome, long-haired young man hovered in the air, his face full of tears.
It was only at that moment that Meng Chao noticed that the red light that had killed the Golden Thread Snake and the Blood Flower sclerotia and saved his life was actually a ball of red flames that looked like a phoenix. It had a long and beautiful tail!
"This is … the beast soul of the Undying Bird?
"He's our old neighbor in Joyous Heavenly Garden, which is just a wall away from Blessed Heavenly Garden. He's the most outstanding graduate from Agricultural University's martial arts course over the past few years, and he's even more popular than Yan Feirou on the livestreaming platform. Among all the handsome men in Dragon City, he's the only Adonis I don't hate. He's Weeping Reaper Lin Chuan!"
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