Three hours have passed since the large army left Langya City, and based on the foot strength of a first-order evolver, they have traveled approximately 20 kilometers. However, the roads in the mountains and forests are rugged and undulating, and the distance cannot only be calculated as a straight-line distance in two-dimensional space. As the saying goes, "Looking up the mountain and running to death", the distance that looks very short actually involves going up and down the mountain, going around and around, and is actually much farther than it seems.
At this time of year, the hillsides in the north are already turning yellow. The yellow-brown dead grass on the hillside is half a person's height, and there may be a few birch trees with all their leaves in the middle of the grass. When I saw the untrodden paths around me, I knew that this was a place with few human traces. Starting from the hillside, the mountain becomes steeper. Halfway up the mountain, you can see a landslide, and a cylindrical concrete structure is exposed among the messy mounds of soil and gravel. Two rectangular holes were cut into the off-white concrete wall, making it look like a turret.
"Is this here?" Lang Hua stopped and asked Xing Wutian.
"That's right."
He pointed to the hillside and said: "This air defense shelter has dug out the bottom of the mountain. Over there is the entrance to the northwest."
Sure enough, under the leadership of Xing Wutian, people crossed a stream and went around to the shade of the back mountain, and finally saw an artificial cave entrance. This is a reinforced concrete porch with gray and black mottled marks everywhere, and most of the mountain camouflage coating painted on the wall has long since fallen off.
The entrance to the porch is square, more than 3 meters high, and is also half-hidden in the earth and rocks. According to Xing Wutian, if the magnitude 3 earthquake at the beginning of this year had not caused a small landslide, this air raid shelter might have continued to be buried by the soil.
"After all, it is a facility that was built more than a hundred years ago. It is not easy to preserve it like this." Yang Bensheng looked at this place with emotion. "The construction technology back then was far worse than it is now."
"The quality is pretty good." Lin Wenjin nodded, "Pouring such a large amount of concrete was a difficult problem at the time."
Lang Hua turned on his flashlight and walked in first, followed closely by the others. Because we have to deal with a mutated snake this time, everyone except those with abilities have to stay outside the cave.
Inside the porch is a hall with an arched dome at the top. It is also a 100% reinforced concrete structure, and there are still traces of the strips left by the formwork during the construction. There is a diagonally upward corridor on each side of the hall that leads directly to the outside of the mountain. They are all made of red bricks. Lang Hua speculated that these should be sentry posts used to monitor the enemy's situation.
People stood in the hall and finally saw the real door of the air defense station. The door was ajar, the green paint was peeling off, and there were traces of rust all around the door frame and hinges. As soon as Lang Hua waved, the others stopped moving forward and spread out to crouch.
Xing Wutian whispered at this time: "The snake is inside. We pried open the crack in the door to search, but we were caught off guard and suffered a big loss."
Only then did people see traces of artificial pressure on the door. It was confirmed that what Xing Wutian said was true.
"There is no light source here, and we can't see our fingers. It would be detrimental to us in a fight."
"Yeah, our noses and ears are not as sensitive as black corpses."
Li Liping asked at this time: "Can you push the door open first?"
Lin Wenjin objected on the spot: "No, these two doors are made of thick steel plates on the outside and filled with concrete on the inside. They weigh at least 3 tons. And if there is too much movement, they will be easily attacked."
"What should we do?"
Lang Hua said at this time: "Lead out that snake first, and then open the door."
Lin Qian asked worriedly: "Are there other mutant creatures inside?"
"No, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. There is no reason for two mutated creatures to live in harmony." Lang Hua said with a smile, "Unless there is more than one mutated snake inside. But if that is the case, there is no need for one to attack Wang De and the other snakes. Can you stay and watch the show?"
"Yes, there was indeed only one snake attacking us from beginning to end." Xing Wutian nodded and admitted.
"Brother Xia Qing, it's up to you this time. Lead the snake out of its hole, do you understand?"
Seeing Lang Hua's playful face, Xia Shuang was furious. She immediately pouted and said, "Why should Xia Qing go? Why don't you go?"
"Shuang'er, don't be rude to leader Lang Hua." Lei Li's face darkened and he was about to get angry. Not to mention that they were able to break out of Shashi safely all the way because of Lang Hua's love. Just because he managed to recruit such a group of people at such a young age in the first month of the end of the world, he deserves the respect and awe of others.
Lei Li always judged people very accurately, and he had a premonition that Lang Hua would definitely shine in the apocalypse and achieve a great career. And even if you are from a powerful family, there is absolutely no harm in being friendly with people like this.
Xia Shuang's stubborn temper also rose: "Hey, it's so dangerous in there, if Xia Qing is good at it..."
"Chief Lang, Xia Qing is willing to explore the way." Xia Qing didn't care and directly accepted the task with clasped fists.
"What a courage!" Lin Wenjin praised. You must know that the dangers in this cave are unknown. The previous things were all their inferences. No one can say the true situation in the cave.
"You! I don't care about you anymore." Xia Shuang said angrily.
"Brother Xia Qing misunderstood." Lang Hua grinned and said with a smile, "There is no need to take risks. I said, just 'lead' the snake out of the cave. In this mountain forest "Brother Xia, your ability should be very applicable."
Xia Qing immediately understood what Lang Hua meant, which was for him to use his wood ability to activate vines to explore the path. But there is no wood-type ability user around Lang Hua. How does he know how to use wood-type abilities so clearly?
Seeing Xia Qing's sudden realization, Lang Hua patted Xia Qing on the shoulder with a "teachable" attitude. However, Xia Qing was a head above Lang Hua, so this scene looked a bit funny. The angry Xia Shuang curled her mouth and muttered "pretending" to end the matter.
As a result, everyone laughed and the atmosphere in the team became much more relaxed. Even Yang Xiaoxiao, who was squatting in the corner, couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
The others continued to disperse, leaving only Xia Qing in front of the defense gate. His evolutionary ability "Ivy" is a pure wood ability. It can not only control plants to attack, defend, and detect, but also stimulate the growth of plant seeds for his own use. After reaching the intermediate level of ability users, wood type ability users can even control mutant plants that have awakened evolutionary abilities, and their strength ranks high among "element type" ability users. It can be said that in the mountains and forests, the wood ability is the absolute king.
After a while, a green ray of light emerged from behind Xia Qing, and a green vine broke out of the ground. This vine is only as thick as a thumb, but it is extremely flexible, as if it is alive.
"go."
The green vine shot out with a "whoosh" sound, and in the blink of an eye it rushed into the air defense shelter through the crack in the door. Time passed by, and Qingteng was making a fuss in the darkness under Xia Qing's control, but no movement was heard. Just when people couldn't help but wonder, the ivy suddenly tightened. Xia Qing said in a deep voice: "I took the bait!"
People were overjoyed, but the next moment Ivy suddenly relaxed, and Xia Qing's expression changed accordingly. He felt the direction of the big snake's movement and hurriedly shouted back: "Get out of the way! It's coming out!"
Everyone only took two steps away when they heard a loud "boom" and an khaki-colored python as thick as a bucket came out from behind the door. The snake's body hit the steel door with some pain. The scarlet snake hissed and vomited, and its smooth scales kept bulging, leaving no doubt that there were muscles under the snake's skin! If anyone is caught, his bones and tendons will be broken!
"A python? Isn't this a reticulated python?"
Hearing someone behind him exclaim, Lin Wenjin retorted casually: "Don't talk nonsense, the pattern of the markings is wrong."
Yang Bensheng also recognized it: "It's a common snake here, but why is it so big?"
"It must have awakened the ability to grow in size." Lang Hua asserted. The next moment he turned his head, but couldn't help but said in surprise: "Xiao Heizi, why did you come in? Didn't I ask you to stay outside?"
Although Duan Hei has good fighting talent, Lang Hua thought that he was still young and did not bring him in at all.
"Chief, I..."
"What are you doing? It's very dangerous here, get out quickly!" Lang Hua urged, "Everyone listen to the order, retreat and get outside!"
At this time, the mutated golden snake was already crawling forward, and in the blink of an eye, its entire body was exposed from behind the door. People couldn't help but gasp when they saw it. This large snake is more than five meters long. The diamond-shaped scales all over its body are densely packed and densely arranged. Although the dark gray snake has yellow-brown patches on its body, it obviously does not form a network pattern. Lin Wenjin and the others made a good judgment. This was just a local golden snake with the ability to grow to giant size. But that’s okay. The 50 species of golden snakes known so far are all non-venomous, and the possibility of becoming poisonous after mutation is low.
Most people had already evacuated the hall, and the ordinary evolvers outside the porch were quickly evacuated by Lin Qian and others. In the huge entrance hall, the big snake and several ability users looked at each other. Its snake head swayed left and right, and finally aimed at the green vine on the ground and Xia Qing next to the green vine.
With a "swish" sound, the big snake attacked first, and its raised snake head shot out like lightning, straight to where Xia Qing was sitting!
"Damn, it's so fast, it must be a speed-type black beast!" Lin Wenjin was shocked. Just now, in order to buy time for others to retreat, Xia Qing didn't move after the big snake appeared. He is not a defensive ability user, how can he receive this blow?
In a matter of seconds, the snake head as thick as a bucket rushed to Xia Qing in the blink of an eye. But at this moment, a white obstacle appeared out of thin air, which was Li Liping's ice shield. Sure enough, the defense master in the team needs to take action at the critical moment!
Suddenly, there was a "click" that was beyond everyone's expectations. Perhaps the ice shield was formed in a hurry and the structure was still not dense enough, or perhaps the collision of the big snake was too strong and the ice shield eventually shattered. The snake head passed across, and although it was a little confused by the impact, its power remained unabated and it still pounced on Xia Qing!
"Xia Qing, get out of the way!" Lin Wenjin shouted hurriedly, raising the sliding crossbow in his hand and shooting directly at the big snake. Each crossbow arrow had the skill effect of "Maimang".
At this critical moment, Xia Qing suddenly flipped backwards, and the snake's head hit the ground and fell into the air. Others couldn't help but admire Xia Qing's courage for actually identifying the direction of the big snake's attack with static movement. You know, in a fight involving life and death, not everyone has the courage to strike first and strike first.
The stainless steel crossbow arrows hit the big snake at the same time, but failed to pierce the opponent's Linjia. Lin Wenjin almost thought he was dazzled. what is that? It was a spark. The crossbow arrow actually caused a spark on the snake's scales!
"careful!"
Yuandun's snake head struck out again very quickly, like a ping-pong ball that bounced off the ground, giving no one any time to react. Compared to other black beasts, the big snake's reaction was not unpleasant. But it may not have expected that Xia Qing's response was not slow at all!
"Ivy-net!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the ivy from before quickly coiling around itself into a net. The net blocked the snake's attack path and was hit head-on the next moment. However, compared to the ice shield, the net composed of vines is obviously more resilient. The vine net that exuded a gleaming green light actually stopped the big snake, and Xia Qing never moved backwards from the beginning to the end. It was obvious that he had strong confidence in his ability.
At this time, attacks from other ability users also arrived. Under the control of Yang Bensheng, a ball of air carried a huge force and smashed the big snake back to the ground with a "bang". The thunderous fingertip lightning knocked the big snake into convulsions and then had no further results. Li Liping's ice pick wiper blades scattered, but they smashed on the surface of the snake scales, shocking countless people's jaws.
"Damn, it's a defensive ability, this snake has a second ability!"
Lin Wenjin cursed loudly, but Lei Li, who was in the outer circle, hurriedly reminded: "This is a third-level black beast, everyone spread out!"
As early as the big snake appeared, Lei Li felt a vague acupuncture sensation in his brain. Now that the second-level lightning method was ineffective, he confirmed his judgment - this big snake was of a higher level than himself. And the existence that can resist the second-level lightning method is at least in the early stage of the third-level!
"Whoosh——"
But Lei Li was still a step too late. The big snake rolled on the spot. Its huge snake tail was shaped like a steel whip and as fast as lightning, and it directly swept away Lin Wenjin from the side.
"Bang!"
Lang Hua appeared in time and supported the flying Lin Wenjin from behind, so that he did not hit the wall with his head. The big snake wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but Lin Wenjin raised his hand and blocked it with a wall of fire.
As expected, flames are still effective against these black beasts.
"Old Lin, are you okay?" Yang Bensheng said anxiously from the other side.
"The skin injury is not a problem." Lin Wenjin gasped, "Be careful, this beast is very strong!"
Lang Hua also activated the perception effect of the "Crystal Core Field" at this time. In his mind, the peak energy field of the mutated snake in front was vaguely the same as his, and it was obviously at the early stage of the third level. It was only because Lang Hua was of the same level and did not feel any pressure from beginning to end that he misjudged the opponent's evolutionary level.
But what he still couldn't figure out was how could a third-level black beast appear at this time, not long after the disaster broke out? Could it be that the big snake became more aggressive before hibernating, and besides eating humans, it also devoured other black beasts?
Yang Bensheng has already taken over the next stage of the attack. His mind controls the air flow, sometimes turning into heavy punches, sometimes turning into ropes, causing a lot of trouble for the big snake. The thick-skinned snake ran rampant in the hall and hit the wall, causing the old dust to fall down like falling snow.
Although the team of ability users had a numerical advantage in this battle, they were still unable to cause any damage to the big snake. If things go on like this, they might be overwhelmed by the opponent! Just like Yang Bensheng, although he has outstanding talent, he is only in the middle stage of the first level and his crystal energy reserves are extremely limited. How can he support long-term combat consumption?
Thinking of this, Lang Hua shouted in a deep voice: "The speed-type ability users stay, and those with defensive abilities stay. The other first-level ability users, withdraw immediately!"
But before he could finish speaking, there was a figure in the corner that pounced directly on the big snake. The big snake was currently fighting with Yang Bensheng in mid-air and could not avoid this attack at all!
"Xiaoxiao, what are you doing! Come back!"
Yang Xiaoxiao suddenly appeared above the big snake holding a wolf fang dagger. The big snake seemed to be aware of this, but the next moment a crimson light flashed in Yang Xiaoxiao's eyes, and the big snake became sluggish for a moment.
The "Phantom" disrupted the serpent's perception, and the "Confusion" skill made it dizzy for a moment. This moment is not long, but it is enough for Yang Xiaoxiao! The sharp blade pierced the snake's left eye and stirred it violently. Then she decisively dropped the dagger and retreated quickly. Yang Xiaoxiao's figure slowly disappeared into the darkness again.
Such timing made even Lang Hua couldn't help but applaud. He was right, Yang Xiaoxiao was a born fighting genius and a born shadow assassin!
"Thunder chain piercing!" Lei Li was indeed a veteran warrior, and his reaction at this time was not unpleasant. He immediately gathered all the crystal energy in his body and followed Yang Xiaoxiao to hit this killer shot.
The silver-white thunder snake flew and stabbed into the snake's other eye as accurately as a sharp arrow. The huge brown eyeball burst suddenly, the skin and flesh at the wound were scorched, and wisps of green smoke kept coming out. Lei Li does not have the interference ability of Yang Xiaoxiao. He can make a decision in an instant and accurately hit another snake eye in motion. This strength should not be underestimated!
The big snake has no vocal cords, and the pain of having two blind eyes makes it keep rolling. It finally retreated, its scales rubbing against each other and making a rustling sound to intimidate the enemy. It was much weaker than before!
The snake's tongue is a chemical detector and its eyes are heat sensors. Having lost its eyes, the big snake is no longer majestic. Now it is like a blind man who can only let mermaids eat meat.
Unless it can quickly escape back into the darkness, which is its home. There, the big snake is still capable of fighting. But even if the big snake has such high intelligence, it is completely impossible. Because neither Yang Xiaoxiao, who was hiding in the darkness, nor Xia Qing, Yang Bensheng, who were eyeing it, would obviously give it such a chance.
Finally, Lang Hua picked up the Miao knife and walked over slowly.
"I will take your life!"
He suddenly ran quickly and arrived in front of the big snake in the blink of an eye.
"Empty blade slash!" Just one knife penetrated the snake's body. After the knife body entered the body, Lang Hua felt an obvious blocking force.
"Re-engraving - Dominance!" He then roared, using his right arm to use the blade to cut the flesh and blood, and completely cut open the snake's "seven inches" vital point, that is, the entire heart!
As Xia Qing made the green vines tightly bind the Orochi who was about to fight back, the battle came to an end.
