Zhang Chao pulled the trigger of the Reverse Zigzag Crossbow. "Bang!" A mutant beast that looked like a badger had its head pierced by a steel arrow. It fell to the ground without a sound. The few of them walked past the corpse and continued forward, leaving it lying on the side of the road.
"Level one mutated beasts aren't worth much. One catty of meat can only be sold for two catties of food coupons. If we can't find a level two mutated beast, we'll have to use a lot of bullets to cover the cost." Qian Dakui explained in a low voice. He knew that it was Luo Yuan's first time here.
"Level two mutated beasts are worth a lot. One catty of meat can be sold for up to 30 catties of food coupons, and that's just the recycling price. It's even higher in the black market. People would fight to buy 100 catties of food coupons. But only three catties of meat per person can carry.
"Level one mutated beasts?" Luo Yuan asked doubtfully.
"That's what the base says. The mutated rats we killed at Lake Donghu were level one, and the Rat King was level two. The base has a special method to detect them," Qian Dakui explained.
According to the system's classification, white was level one, and level two was light blue. Luo Yuan nodded.
Light blue level beasts were usually huge. Even the smallest of them could weigh more than 50 catties of meat, and the bigger ones could weigh hundreds of catties or even a ton. If they were lucky enough to kill a level two mutated beast, the cost of renting weapons and ammunition would be negligible. They could even make a profit. Indeed, when the risk was compared to the profit, the price of a blue level beast would be even higher.
"Wait, don't move!" Zhang Chao, who was walking at the back, shouted anxiously.
Luo Yuan immediately stopped and looked around cautiously. He was a little confused when he didn't see any movement.
Zhang Chao took out his military knife and walked over quickly. He picked up a leaf in front of Luo Yuan. As soon as the leaf fell to the ground, it moved as if it had a life of its own. It wiggled along the ground and crawled into the darkness.
Luo Yuan then realized that it was not a leaf, but a green worm. Its skin color and shape were very similar to the leaves around it. It was difficult to tell them apart without looking closely.
"Damn, it's a mutated leech!" Yang Dawei took a closer look and cried out in shock. He rushed over, pulled out his kukri knife, and cut the soft green worm into two. Dark red blood flowed out.
After Yang Dawei killed the Mutated Grasshopper, he did not heave a sigh of relief. Instead, he nervously said to Qian Dakui, "Quick, help me see if there's one behind me."
Qian Dakui's face was also solemn. He lifted Zhang Dawei's shirt and said, "No, everyone check!"
As he spoke, he also began to check his trouser legs.
Although Luo Yuan was a little confused, he felt that something was wrong when he saw their reaction. He quickly used his Sense to check his body, but he did not find such a thing.
They checked each other's bodies.
"No!" Zhang Chao tightened his trousers and sighed in relief.
"Me neither!" Qian Dakui said. He then looked at Luo Yuan and said, "Boss Luo, do you want to check too?"
Luo Yuan shook his head and said, "It's alright, I can sense that there's nothing on me."
When Qian Dakui thought about how he could easily discover the existence of the invisible person, he did not ask any more questions. In his heart, however, he felt that the other party was more and more unfathomable.
"Luckily, you found it early." Yang Dawei looked relieved. "I didn't expect there to be such a mutated grasshopper here. If it had burrowed into your body, it would have been over."
Luo Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He quickly asked, "You mean it can burrow into your body?"
Yang Dawei nodded, a flash of fear in his eyes. "If it sticks to your body for a few minutes, it will burrow into your body through the wound. The scariest part is that the process will not hurt or itch, and you won't even notice it. When the mutated grasshopper has sucked enough blood, it will ovulate a lot.
Within half a day, you will be as thin as a mummy and die of blood loss. When that time comes, the mutated grasshopper will burrow out from all parts of your body. It will be a horrible death. " When he finished, his voice was a little low. "One of our friends died like that. We gave up on that area, but I didn't expect it to appear here."
Luo Yuan's scalp went numb and he had goosebumps all over his body. The disgusting grasshopper that had only sucked a little blood before had actually evolved to such a terrifying level.
"Should we still go over?" Zhang Chao asked.
Yang Dawei looked a little nervous.
Qian Dakui looked at Luo Yuan. Seeing that Luo Yuan did not object, he thought for a while and said, "If there's one here, I'm afraid there are other places as well. Let's go!"
Although Luo Yuan was the one who had killed the invisible man, he knew that the people from Hedong City would definitely blame it on them. If they found out that the invisible man was dead, they would not rest until he was dead. Today was undoubtedly the best opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop.
Zhang Chao nodded and quietly picked up his sniper rifle to follow them.
Yang Dawei hesitated for a while, sighed, and followed them.
The few of them were on high alert, carefully inspecting every branch that crossed their path. In just a few hundred meters, they discovered a few more mutated leeches. Not far from the side of the road, they even found a shriveled animal carcass, causing them to tremble with fear.
"Shh!" Qian Dakui pushed the branches aside and put his index finger on his mouth to signal them to be quiet.
A few people were sitting in an open space, their faces solemn. One of them was lying on the ground weakly, his face bloodless.
Through the gaps between the branches, Luo Yuan could see that the four of them were the rest of the people from Hedong City. He was not sure if it was an illusion, but he felt that the person lying on the ground seemed to have lost a lot of weight.
"That person was infected by a mutated grasshopper. He won't be able to live. There are only three of them left." Yang Dawei whispered happily. He took out a grenade from his backpack and loaded it into the launcher.
"Wait, there are too many branches in front. I'm afraid the grenade will be blocked. Come closer!" Qian Dakui stopped him.
Yang Dawei nodded and picked up his rifle. He crouched down and moved forward slowly.
They walked for another ten meters and stopped again.
Suddenly, one of the people opposite them seemed to have noticed something and looked over in their direction. The next moment, his expression changed and he shouted, "Run! It's the Donghu … "
"Bang!"
Before he could finish his sentence, Zhang Chao's sniper rifle went off. His body was instantly split in half.
Then, another grenade exploded not far in front of them.
"F * ck, I missed again!" Yang Dawei shouted in annoyance. Without a lot of practice and professional training, it would be difficult for an ordinary person to master such a heavy weapon.
Qian Dakui opened fire with his old light machine gun.
After a short moment of panic, the remaining two people quickly found a hiding place and started to fight back.
Bullets whizzed through the air, and for a moment, it was a heated battle.
Both sides were amateurs, so the bullets were not accurate at all. Luo Yuan felt that their marksmanship was not much better than his. Other than one person who had been killed by Zhang Chao's sniper rifle at the beginning, both sides had been fighting for more than ten minutes, but no one had been injured.
"F * ck, how dare you sneak attack us! You Donghu people, I'll kill you all today!" the other side cursed.
"F * ck, you're talking big when you're about to die," Yang Dawei scolded back.
The next moment, an artillery shell landed not far in front of them and exploded into a fireball.
"Those people from Hedong City rented a mortar! Dawei, don't save the grenades. Hurry up and fight back!" Qian Dakui almost jumped up and shouted when he saw that the other side was also using heavy firepower.
Luo Yuan was lying on the ground, feeling more and more irritated. His mind was buzzing.
The human eye had a buffer time for vision, mainly to protect itself during the evolution of living things and to prevent the brain from overexerting itself. The limit of the speed at which images could be detected was 24 seconds. In other words, if an action was completed within seconds, the naked eye would not be able to see it. The speed of a bullet was 700 to 800 meters per second, so it could travel 30 to 40 meters in 124 seconds. It was impossible to see it with the naked eye. Only a high-speed camera with a higher frame rate could see the bullet's trajectory.
But this was not a problem for perception. Although it was similar to vision, it was not an organ of the body. There was no delay in the neural reflex arcs. It was an extension of consciousness. As long as you could perceive it, you would be able to see it in your consciousness.
No matter how fast the bullet was, it would still leave a high-speed blur in your consciousness. To make matters worse, your perception was extremely sensitive to moving objects.
He found that whenever a bullet flew past the area of his perception, his consciousness would be unconsciously drawn to that blurry dot.
Once or twice was fine. However, it had been almost ten minutes since the fight started. There were at least dozens of bullets flying past this area, if not a hundred. His attention was constantly forced to move here and there by his perception, and sometimes when there were too many bullets, his attention would be forcibly divided into several parts. He was about to go crazy.
Suddenly, his nostrils itched. He touched it and felt something wrong. He looked down and was shocked to see that his hand was covered in blood.
Just as he was thinking about whether he should take a step back, he suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart, and his scalp went numb. Then, his attention became unprecedentedly focused, and he sensed a blurry dot shooting toward his head at high speed.
In the blink of an eye, he didn't even have time to think before his head subconsciously tilted to the side. Almost at the same time, a scorching stream of air brushed past his ear, exuding a faint smell of gunpowder!
Luo Yuan's face was pale. He took deep breaths and felt his heart beating violently.
But soon, he had a look of disbelief. Had he just dodged a bullet?
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