It's a hell game, who can still be a human being?

Chapter 69 Rat Pack
"Heart of the Ocean (enhanced) has taken effect."

As the system prompt sounded, sewage flooded Liu Zheng's mouth and nose.

Despite the effect of the Heart of the Ocean, he still felt suffocated.

I was suffocated by the stench.

It turns out that what you smell on the shore is just a little top note. Only when you stir up the stagnant water can you enjoy the real base fragrance.

He felt like he needed to have his limbs amputated from the forehead down.

Surprisingly, when Liu Zheng actually jumped into the water, the corrosive alternation of hot and cold did not reappear.

Apart from being a little smelly, it is no different from ordinary sewage.

It doesn't even have that sticky or greasy feeling, it's even quite refreshing.

This made Liu Zheng feel a lot more at ease.

Although he will not die due to the effect of the Heart of the Ocean, the excessive consumption of blood and flesh will also affect his combat effectiveness.

"You, come here!"

He hooked his finger at the skinning monster with an extremely arrogant attitude.

The flayer stared at him coldly and licked his paw.

There was not only blood on the claws, but also a lot of minced meat.

"what?"

Only then did Liu Zheng realize that he was injured.

He touched his waist and found a fist-sized piece dug out on the right side.

But it’s not a big problem. With the 100% recovery speed bonus, the wound is healing at an astonishing speed.

Liu Zheng waited for a few seconds, and seeing that the skinning monster had no intention of coming over, he simply took the initiative to attack.

The tentacles wrapped around the boning knife and swung it out like a dart.

With his current strength, the momentum of this attack was equally astonishing.

However, in the eyes of the skinning monster with excellent dynamic vision, Liu Zheng's attack was not fast.

It even has time to think whether to dodge or fight back.

Finally, it made a decision.

The skinning monster swung its claws again, but this time the degree of expansion was much smaller.

But according to its calculations, such force is enough to tear apart the prey in front of it.

But it doesn't know that there are such things as props in this world.

The sharp claws accurately hit the middle part of Liu Zheng's tentacle, but only tore half of it before being blocked by the bones inside.

"Heart of the Ocean" effect 50: Reduce damage taken in water by %.

"I didn't expect that."

He grinned and waved his tentacles again.

The intense exercise caused the wound to expand again, and a large amount of blood spurted out.

But Liu Zhengquan didn't care.

Opportunities are fleeting, and you can only seize them if you are quick and decisive enough.

The boning knife drew an irregular arc and pierced into the skinning monster's back.

This monster's defense was not as strong as its attack power. With the two damage bonuses combined, the boning knife went straight into the handle.

"what!!!"

The skinned monster let out a hoarse scream.

His hair stood on end; this was definitely the voice of a human male.

The skinner gave him a hateful look, then turned and ran away.

"Fuck, my knife!"

Seeing this, Liu Zheng immediately chased after him.

The knife was borrowed. If it was lost, the White-Feathered Chicken would definitely skin him cleaner than the Skinning Monster.

With the bonus of the Heart of the Ocean, his speed in the water is no slower than on land.

The seriously injured skinning monster's speed became slower and slower.

As one gained strength while the other lost strength, Liu Zheng gradually caught up with it.

Just as he was about to attack, a rustling sound suddenly came from the other side of the river.

The sound approached quickly and soon turned into rumbling thunder.

Liu Zheng's heart trembled, and he immediately sank his whole body into the water.

In the blurred vision, black rats the size of a palm ran out from the darkness.

They formed a circle, biting each other's tails, with their heads and tails connected.

After reaching the river, the rats immediately changed their formation and gathered towards the center, forming a sphere.

The rat ball rolled forward, across the river, toward the skinning monster.

The skinning monster made threatening sounds and tried its best to escape.

Unfortunately, its threats were ineffective and it didn't escape fast enough.

The rat ball quickly caught up with the skinning monster.

Everything becomes one, and one becomes everything.

The rat ball disintegrated into countless black rats, drowning the skinning monster.

"Ahhh! It hurts so much. Help me, who come and help me?" The skinning monster let out a horrifying scream.

Liu was listening to the deformed sound in the water and felt a little chilly.

Could it be that the flayer was once a human?
Or is this just a trap for it to lure humans?
He had no chance to find out.

Because the rats quickly left the skinning monster and formed a circle again.

The monster that once had bulging muscles was now nothing but a pile of cleanly gnawed bones.

"Squeak!"

A black rat barked a few times in the direction of Liu Zheng.

The rats soon came to the river, and pairs of colorful eyes stared at Liu Zheng under the water.

He took it in stride.

If the rats could get into the water, they should have swam across just now.

Sure enough, after a stalemate, a particularly large black rat cried a few times.

At its command, the rats gathered into a ball again and disappeared into the darkness on the other side of the river.

Liu Zheng stuck his head out and waited for a while. Seeing that the group of rats had indeed left, he went ashore.

"When the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman gains."

He walked over to the pile of bones and sighed.

After getting hit hard twice and being soaked in the stinky water for so long, I ended up getting nothing.

Fortunately, the rats didn't take the boning knife away, otherwise it would have been a huge loss.

In fact, Liu Zheng was just eager to try it out and wanted to drag a few black rats into the water to give it a try.

But after thinking about it, I forgot about it.

If he had a mortal enemy and the rats were waiting for him on the shore, that would be a problem.

He picked up the boning knife, and suddenly an idea came to him, and he chopped at the pile of bones on the ground.

Bone chips flew everywhere, leaving a shallow knife mark on the bone.

"it is as expected."

Liu Zheng nodded with satisfaction.

The skinning monster has such strong explosive power, its bones must be very hard.

Otherwise, it would break its own bones before attacking its prey.

Liu Zheng picked up four bone sticks.

Now even if he returns the knife, he will have a backup weapon.

After judging the distance, it is about 300 meters away from the entrance.

After thinking about it, he decided to fish here again.

Liu Zheng jumped into the sewage river again and then took the attractant.

After waiting for about ten minutes, still no fish took the bait.

If it were in reality, he would definitely suspect that he was just unlucky.

But now he has the buff of "never go air-free" and the bonus effect of the attractant.

If you still can't catch any fish, it only means that there are indeed no fish in this section of the river.

Or try going across the river?

Liu Zheng raised his head and looked at the dark passage ahead.

It should be connected to other sewer spaces and have other tributaries.

After being excited for a few seconds, he gave up.

Maybe the rats are waiting for him inside now.

He didn't want to be the turtle that climbed into the jar on its own initiative.

Since he had no intention of exploring new paths, Liu Zheng decided to go another 500 meters forward.

If there is still no fish after walking another 500 meters, then there are really no fish.

After all, we are almost out of the street lined with plane trees.

He got up, went ashore, and walked along the river bank.

After walking about 200 meters, he made a new discovery.

There were some black things on the ground.

Liu Zheng squatted down and scraped the meat twice with a boning knife.

After careful research, he concluded that these should be the skins of baked potatoes.

And the fire was getting bigger.

Liu Zheng leaned in closer and smelled it, and could faintly smell a scent of pine.

He didn't think there would be pine trees in the sewers.

In other words, these baked potatoes were brought down from up there by someone.

Who would bring baked potatoes to eat in the sewer? It looks like they're on a spring outing.

Thinking of what French Plantain had said before, Liu Zheng's expression changed.

Could it be that person?

(End of this chapter)