Monster Hunting High School

insect! insect! insect! !

The black cat's whole body was tense, and his mind was filled with images of those insects covered with short white hairs rolling and squirming. Unsurprisingly, if the raging swarm of insects floods the camp, Senior Colma's lowly three-person expedition team will be eaten clean by the insects if they cannot sustain it for more than a minute.

Although Zheng Qing had never been bitten by a corpse-eating beetle, he had seen the scene of marching ants on TV - it was so vast and unstoppable that all organic matter along the way was turned into food for the insect swarm, leaving only a field of bare stones and soil. Although corpse-eating beetles are not the same species as army ants, they pose no less of a threat to black cats.

If they catch up, they will definitely eat them up and wipe them clean, leaving only a pile of clean bones!

In his mind, he imagined a poisoned black cat, swollen and limp in the forest, staring blankly at the sky, covered in corpse-eating beetles. Zheng Qing couldn't help but shuddered and ran faster.

One step, two steps... A flash of red lightning suddenly flashed across his mind.

The black cat's pace slowly slowed down.

A strange emotion spread from the bottom of his heart - Why am I so scared? Behind you is the exit of the secret realm, and there is a line of defense around it. Just retreat normally. Why were you thinking so much and being so scared just now?

Then a question came to his mind:

What did these bugs eat to survive? Based on the number of their groups, even the entire Silent Forest would be hard-pressed to satisfy their appetites, let alone this underdeveloped secret world.

In addition, the appearance of the endless swarm of insects was too coincidental, and the picture of the raging insect swarm came to mind, and the rustling sound of the insect swarm lowering in front and rising in the back vaguely revealed a bit of deliberateness.

Black Cat stopped.

"Wait a minute," he growled, turning to look at the dark woods behind him: "Do you feel weird?"

"What's weird? Run, run out first and talk!" Korma grabbed the Dharma book in one hand and the talisman in the other, staring nervously at the gap between the ancient locust trees: "There are still fifteen seconds to go. Open the exit of the secret realm, and then Faceless will retreat first, followed by Black Cat, and I will hold the line... After Faceless goes out, be sure to strengthen the defense of the camp in the Silent Forest immediately, and be careful not to capsize in the ditch. "

Elena nodded silently, leaning against the exit of the secret realm, carefully paying attention to the movements in the woods to the left and right.

The rustling footsteps of the insects as they trudged behind the bushes seemed to become more rapid.

"The ecological environment of the secret realm cannot support such a large swarm of insects." The black cat raised its ears, its pupils flashing with thought: "I mean... what do they usually eat?"

Kolma, who was maintaining the ceremony, stiffened.

The gypsy witch glanced at the black cat thoughtfully: "Perhaps these are some mutated bugs that usually lie dormant underground... and only wake up when they encounter prey?"

The black cat chuckled: "Hey... mutation also requires attention to basic processes. Doesn't mutated bugs need to eat to reproduce? For such a large bug swarm, regardless of daily survival, simply giving them birth requires a large number of corpses. "

As he spoke, he glanced at the rabbit carcasses discarded at the edge of the forest, and added: "These rabbits alone cannot support so many bugs. If there are really so many bugs, these rabbits cannot grow so fat. ”

"Perhaps they eat rosy clouds, dew, and wood, stone chips, and soil." Korma finally turned around and glanced at the black cat.

The black cat tilted its ears, paying attention to the movements in the forest, and its expression became more determined: "If they eat wood, stone chips and soil, then what do we have to worry about?"

The leader of the expedition team finally gave up arguing with the black cat.

"What do you want?" She still maintained the magic ritual of exiting, just in case.

"Give me a Pure Heart Talisman...it's included in the stack of talisman papers I gave you before." The black cat stared intently into the depths of the forest and ordered softly: "You all should use one too."

Without Korma's order, the gypsy witch shook her hand and threw a pure heart charm, which landed on the black cat's forehead. In the blink of an eye, three straight wisps of green smoke rose up in front of the gap between the ancient locust trees and disappeared silently among the heavy tree crowns.

The panicked expressions of the two witches quickly calmed down. At the same time, the rustling sounds in Zheng Qing's ears and the frightening images in his mind faded a lot at the same time, almost disappearing.

Korma bit her lip, looking annoyed.

There is no doubt that they just experienced an extremely realistic hallucination. She almost gave up on this first expedition. Although the basic data of this secret world has been collected by the expedition team, the gap between 50% mission completion and 100% mission completion is obvious.

No one has that much time to waste on the way in and out of the Silent Forest.

Although he was annoyed in his heart, Kolma was not impulsive, but showed the qualities of a qualified hunter.

She quietly gestured to her two companions and changed the follow-up mission.

‘Since the unknown creature only dares to hide in the woods and use illusions, it means that its actual combat power is very weak. ’

‘The black cat climbs the tree and ambushes it from above. ’

‘Faceless and the captain set out from both sides, outflanking them from left to right. ’

The two witches had talismans such as 'Transformation', 'Light Body' and 'Concentration of Breath' affixed to their bodies. They crossed the edge of the camp and quietly groped behind the bushes. Compared with them, Black Cat was born with corresponding skills, so he didn't waste those talismans.

There was a black cat with keen senses and a witch who was good at divination in the team, and they quickly located the suspect at the edge of a small puddle less than twenty meters away from the camp.

Or, to use a more accurate word, 'suspect bug'.

It was a fat, white guy, about an inch thick, about a foot long, and looked like a slug. There is a ring of black tentacles of different lengths on its head, which look like snail's tentacles.

When the black cat stared at it, it was sitting on the edge of the puddle, and the tentacles on its head were rising and falling, as if accompanying a beautiful piece of music.

Until two witches blocked its puddle.

The tentacles on the top of the 'Slug''s head stopped moving. The illusions in Zheng Qing's and others' minds and the rustling sounds imitating the footsteps of the insect swarm in their ears also stopped abruptly.

The truth is revealed.

"Paji!"

With a crisp sound, the fat white insect was crushed into a pulp by Kolma's foot. I don't know if it was an illusion, but Black Cat felt the light around him flicker for a moment, as if a light bulb was broken.

It raised its head and looked at the sun and moon hanging in the sky.

The sun and moon stayed there dimly, exactly as they were when they first saw it.

The black cat shook his head, getting rid of the doubts in his heart.

"You are such a waste." Black Cat looked at the cold mutant insect with some heartache: "Bring it back alive, even if you don't exchange credits, you can still make a lot of money in the wandering bar."

"It's not our purpose." The leader of the expedition team replied simply: "Besides, I hate bugs!"

The black cat sighed and finally did not clean up the mess.