Chapter 259
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Chapter 259: Parasite
"How did you crash?"
Feeling the acceleration caused by gravity, Wang Xiao had a curse ready to voice.
This was not what they had planned. In his contingency plan, the life force of a Third Level extraordinary beast should have been enough for him to absorb for some time. He never expected the creature’s foolishness to exceed his imagination.
This kind of death was comparable to driving without looking at the road, evoking a sense of contributing to the reaper’s performance.
At that moment, Wang Xiao was still beneath the Giant Bird, his whole body descending along a slant. If this continued, he would be the first to hit the ground.
That wouldn’t do.
The unconscious Giant Bird had already given up the fight. Wang Xiao gritted his teeth and activated all his strength.
He gripped the Giant Bird’s feathers tightly, gathering its flailing pair of wings around himself in the air, then he twisted his body forcefully.
“Boom!”
The Avian Creature crashed to the ground. Thanks to Wang Xiao’s efforts, its body became the best cushion, providing excellent padding with its flesh and feathers so that Wang Xiao sustained hardly any injury at all.
He coughed twice, feeling his internally displaced organs shift back into place, and began making his way toward Ink Drench again.
Compared to the damage caused by hitting the ground directly, internal injuries meant little to Wang Xiao; after all, he was not missing any components, and healing simply required less life force.
The struggle with the Giant Bird lasted only a few seconds. When Wang Xiao once again turned his gaze toward Ink Drench, he was shocked to find that the massive alligator extraordinary beast was now less than ten meters away from the superpowered individual.
Of course, Ink Drench’s abilities were also quite agile. There was no rule that activating them meant she couldn’t move.
At that moment, Ink Drench maintained her invisible bleeding slot while skillfully engaging the alligator.
Ink Drench cleverly moved to the right side of the alligator, whose row of eyes on that side had all burst during the recent Electromagnetic Cannon attack, making it difficult to accurately lock onto her position.
Meanwhile, on the surface of the alligator’s body, the armor-like scales were gradually becoming rough and mottled. Although this change was slower than the feathers of the Avian Creatures and the quickly decaying cannon fodder, it was indeed an effective method of attack.
The invisible threat was far more terrifying than the visible enemy.
With every pull and tug from Ink Drench, the alligator clearly grew angrier.
Just when she thought she could maintain her field a bit longer, the alligator’s long, thick tail suddenly whipped forcefully to the side of its body.
The alligator’s tail resembled a long whip tapering toward the end, and the whip effect manifested vividly.
The tip of its tail accelerated, quickly cutting through the air and producing a tremendous explosive sound.
Simultaneously, the scales near the tip of the tail exploded in layers.
This came from the alligator’s own control and was not due to outside attacks.
The explosive scales gained tremendous kinetic energy from the tail’s whip and flew toward Ink Drench at a speed beyond the eye’s capability to track, like dozens of shotgun blasts aimed to turn the area into a death zone.
Before the sonic boom from the whip reached Ink Drench’s ears, she had a bad premonition.
But the attack happened in the blink of an eye, and even if her mind reacted, her body couldn’t respond in time.
Moreover, the scattering scales fell like a torrential downpour, and amidst such extreme weather, how many could avoid getting drenched?
Just as Ink Drench’s pupils narrowed in an attempt to locate the hidden scales in the air, a thick, low wall suddenly appeared before her.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
After a series of rapid sounds, Ink Drench saw the object blocking her path.
It was a massive, irregularly shaped wooden panel, its surface a combination of gray and dark green, as if soaked in water for a long time, covered in moss and mold.
The powerful scales now densely pierced above this panel, adding further to its already weathered appearance.
Meanwhile, the scales that were not blocked shot toward the back, striking the thick city wall and leaving behind horrible marks.
This was…
“Are you okay?”
From above, Wang Xiao stood on the pale skull of the alligator revealed by the cannonfire, looking down at Ink Drench.
As Ink Drench nodded and instinctively looked up, she instantly understood what had occurred.
The object blocking her was a piece of the alligator extraordinary beast’s head armor. After the previous cannon attack, this massive and hard scale had become precariously balanced.
Seeing he couldn’t stop it, Wang Xiao jumped onto the head of the alligator and directly tore it off, throwing it away.
“Maintain your ability; I’ll draw its attention!”
Standing on the alligator’s head, Wang Xiao had a brilliant idea. If the plan was executed properly, this creature might be even easier to handle than the earlier Giant Bird.
The alligator’s enormous body created a flat spot on its head like a small plaza.
And everyone knew that when an alligator had an itch on its head, it couldn’t scratch itself.
Gazing at the holes left by the cannon’s impact that had burst its eyes, a sly smile crept across Wang Xiao’s face.
Ignoring the vibrations from the alligator thrashing its body and head, Wang Xiao took two steps forward and dove into the alligator extraordinary beast’s wide-open eye socket like a fish entering water.
Even though its mind was disturbed by the mycelium, and despite its body receiving substantial enhancements during its anomalies, the alligator still possessed the significant weaknesses of majority carbon-based life forms—making it difficult to truly kill the parasites within.
Now, a very lively parasite had burrowed through its eye socket and was creeping closer to the brain, causing it to go wild.
A terrifying roar echoed into the skies, and Ink Drench felt her hearing temporarily vanish.
Wherever the sound waves reached, the extraordinary beasts wrestling with humans, avoiding bullets, and climbing walls all swiftly changed direction, rushing toward their leader.
Among the extraordinary beasts, the dominance of higher ranks over lower ranks was absolute, and the biological field local network provided by the mycelium significantly reinforced this hierarchy among them.
Upon receiving the signal from their superior, the swarm of insects quickly made their way over, their countless footsteps even drowning out the gunfire on the city wall.
Some extraordinary beasts engaged in battle with humans exposed their backs to their enemies and recklessly shifted their attack targets.
Above the city wall, the Puppet Master manipulated the familiar Four-Bladed Mantis, rampaging through the insects without restraint under Beacon’s shining enhancement.
Hearing that furious roar, her movements suddenly halted for a moment, followed by a wave of dizziness, as though her body was no longer under her control.
