While Sheyan and Ramtas were fighting, two Cockatrices flew into the air, but they were effortlessly swept back by Ramtas' staff made of tree trunks with ear-piercing cries.
Obviously, from the emphasis of this attack, the Cockatrices also "judged people by their appearance". They probably thought that the bigger ones would be stronger ….
In addition, the performance of the three cyborgs was also commendable. Each of them was designed to carry 40 kilograms of weight, but after dividing the weight equally, the three of them only needed to carry 60 kilograms of equipment in total. So, the three of them also brought their weapons and defensive gear with them. They stood back to back in a triangle formation, holding something like a riot shield in their left hand, and a light rapid-fire weapon like an MP5 in their right hand.
Sheyan's request for them was not to help kill the enemy, but to protect themselves. It was enough for him to not cause any more trouble.
The Cockatrices and the other animals could clearly sense the body composition of the cyborgs. They were completely made of plastic and cold synthetic rubber. To them, the cyborgs were no different from mud and stone, so they would not attack them directly.
Sheyan and Ramtas had to wait for the disease to slowly worsen and break out, so they chose to stall for time. All of a sudden, the strong wind that was raging across the field stopped. A few drops of water hit Sheyan's hair, causing his scalp to ache.
A bolt of lightning zigzagged across the sky, followed by the rumbling of thunder.
At that moment, a torrential rainstorm came down like a waterfall. For a moment, everything in front of them was white!
The crazy Cockatrices knew how to take advantage of the weather. They immediately pounced out of the grass again, letting out strange cries one after another. However, Sheyan was already prepared to deal with their simple attacks.
Although the Cockatrices were quite fast and stealthy when they pounced, they lacked follow-up changes after they pounced. They may be fatal to ordinary animals, but for a veteran like Sheyan, who had been through hundreds of battles, it was a piece of cake.
After taking a defensive stance for a while, the disease began to break out frequently. The internal organs of the Cockatrices began to viciously torture their health. All kinds of symptoms began to appear frequently. It was only then that Sheyan and Ramtas launched their counterattack. Strangely enough, these creatures fought to the death without retreating. They were extremely crazy.
After fighting for a while, Sheyan suddenly retreated. He raised his leg high and stomped down on a Cockatrices, then grabbed its neck with a backhand!
The silver liquid metal life-form on Sheyan's high-energy glove suddenly flashed strangely. Sheyan exerted his strength and broke the Cockatrices' neck effortlessly. The crisp sound of bones breaking could not be muffled even by the sound of the wind and rain.
The death of one of their kind drove the rest of the Cockatrices into a frenzy. They attacked desperately, as if they had been injected with chicken blood. However, the powerful virus always caused huge flaws in their movements.
As time passed, the Cockatrices were killed one after another. In a moment of carelessness, Sheyan sliced off the neck of a Cockatrices with a backhand slash. However, the severed head of the Cockatrices drew an arc in the air. Like a centipede, the head viciously pecked at Sheyan's arm!
A strong feeling of numbness spread from Sheyan's arm. He took a step back and immediately lost all feeling in the part of his arm that was pecked. The pain quickly spread to the surrounding area. When he took a closer look, he found that his HP had dropped by 400 points in an instant!
Sheyan was shocked. Based on his defence, he should not have lost so much HP even if he was pressed hard by an electric drill, let alone a peck like that.
Sheyan raised his arm with the help of a bolt of lightning that streaked across the sky. He saw that the part of his arm that was pecked had turned greyish-white. Cracks had appeared in an area about the size of three coins. After digging at it, he found that the cracks had turned into fragments and powder that looked like soil and stones!
However, the intact flesh around the wound was also rapidly wriggling and growing, peeling off the mutated parts of his body. But what followed was, of course, an intense stinging pain.
"An attack like that … could it be petrification?" The thought flashed across Sheyan's mind.
In fact, petrification was not something that only existed in fairy tales. It often happened in daily life. For example, there were plenty of patients with kidney stones and gallstones. Muscle calcification was also a common case. Tuberculosis could even be cured by calcification … If the time process was accelerated by a hundred times, it would be petrification in the truest sense.
If a certain creature had a psychic ability that targeted this aspect, it was not difficult to understand why it would have the ability to petrify.
Sheyan checked the information of the Cockatrice that he had detected earlier. After looking through it, he found that there was an additional description of its biological ability:
[Biological Ability: Petrification. When attacking, there is a certain chance of petrifying the part of the enemy that is attacked. Usually, the angrier a Cockatrice is, the greater the chance of petrification. When it is depressed or physically weak, the chance of the ability activating is greatly reduced.]
After reading the description, Sheyan became even more vigilant. It seemed that the Cockatrice was definitely not a remarkable creature in this world, yet it still had such a powerful ability. Just imagine being surrounded and pecked by a dozen Cockatrice …. With that in mind, Sheyan began to think that it would be a good idea to join up with his allies as soon as possible.
After a simple sweep of the battlefield, Sheyan found that there were no more keys dropped. Strictly speaking, keys were actually additional spoils of war that the Realm gave him, so the natives of this world could not see them. Sheyan was not fighting under the guidance of the Realm, so of course he did not have a key.
But just because he did not have a key did not mean that he did not gain anything.
The three cyborgs stepped forward and skillfully dismembered the dead Cockatrices, then stored them. They had an offline database, so they could search for a lot of information, so they provided a lot of useful information to Sheyan. "That's right. That's right. That's right.
The beak of a Cockatrice was believed to contain the secret of the Petrification ability, so it was the most expensive and was bought by a large number of research labs at a high price.
The meat of a Cockatrice was delicious and chewy. During Thanksgiving, it was regarded as a high-end, upgraded version of a turkey, so it was always sold on Taobao in the universe.
Due to the fact that Eastern culture was already very popular in the Interstellar Alliance, and the saying of 'flesh complementing flesh' was very popular, male Cockatrice kidneys would be snatched up as soon as they appeared on the market.
In short, the five Cockatrices had brought him a profit of at least 10,000 utility points. If he was lucky, it was even possible for him to get 50,000 utility points.
In addition, Cyborg No. 1 humbly suggested to Sheyan that if an animal fought to the death without retreating, it often meant that their nest was nearby, and there were cubs or eggs inside that must be guarded.
Sheyan recalled the previous description – "Due to their fondness for shiny objects, their nests will be filled with glass shards and pebbles. Sometimes, there will also be ores and gems." Thus, he decisively chose to proceed.
Fortunately, the nest of the Cockatrice was at the mound that Ramtas wanted to take Sheyan to, so it was on the way. By the time they arrived, the wind and rain had gradually subsided, but the thunder and lightning streaking across the sky were like golden snakes dancing wildly in the sky. The frequency was getting stronger and stronger, and they would occasionally strike the ground. Boom! Thick smoke rose from the ground. It looked like it might develop into a thunderstorm!
Sheyan immediately understood why the trees he found along the way were sparse and not tall, and why their bark had grown like that. It turned out that this was a planet with a strong magnetic field, so the probability of thunderstorms was quite high, so the trees had to face the risk of being struck by lightning often. Over time, the trees naturally became like this. Those that did not become like this had obviously been eliminated by the cruel nature.
With that in mind, Sheyan looked at the metal instruments on the backs of the cyborgs and broke out in cold sweat. He immediately ordered everyone to start digging from the side of the mound. They had to make a hole that could shelter them from the lightning as soon as possible.
The height of this mound was about seven or eight meters. Sheyan was digging two meters from the ground, so he was not afraid of the threat of rainwater pouring in. The three cyborgs aside, Sheyan and Ramtas could be seen as human bulldozers. They dug out a simple hole in a few minutes. The three cyborgs had also cut down three trees and brought them back to reinforce the hole. They finally managed to make a shelter before the thunderstorm arrived.
At this time, Ramtas was too big. It was lying down next to the fire, chewing noisily, and vomiting out the remains of the Cockatrices that it had discarded earlier. Sheyan knew its body like the back of his hand. This big guy was a monster born from the combination of this harsh natural environment. As expected of the King of Arabia, it had five stomachs!
The first two stomachs were called rumens. When it ate, it would wolf down food for the sake of speed, so it could be swallowed without chewing. The food would be softened by gastric juices and saliva inside, and fermented under the action of other bacteria.
After fermentation, the food would enter another chamber — the beehive stomach. The beehive stomach would then feed it back into the mouth and chew it carefully.
Finally, it would enter the other two stomachs for full digestion. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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