Chapter 1609: Stealth Game

When a Demon Puppeteer manipulates their work to hurt people, they usually hide in the dark to control it. Cao Wendao was ambushed by the opponent first, so naturally, he was in an unfavorable position from the start. So as long as Wei Yishan was dragged out, Cao Wendao had the confidence to rewrite the battle situation.

At the moment, he threw out three flying snakes. Their colors were all brownish-brown with patterns, and the thin snake bodies had wings, with a fleshy high crown on their foreheads.

Looking closely, these were all variants of cobras; the wings of the flying snakes were actually formed by the distortion of the thin membrane bulging behind their heads. But their flying skills were superb, and they could even hover in mid-air.

As soon as they appeared, they drilled into the jungle to patrol everywhere. Flying snakes also possessed the keen senses of snakes, able to sense the body temperature of prey from a yard away, thereby judging its size, shape, and vital points.

Cao Wendao knew Wei Yishan wasn't far from here and might have used camouflage, but the heat emitted by a human body couldn't fool the flying snakes.

The three flying snakes quickly patrolled a circle and expanded the search range outward.

One of them flew behind Cao Wendao, and he heard a "swoosh" strange sound. The flying snake fell from mid-air, a blood hole punched through its snake body.

The object that pierced the flying snake then plunged into Cao Wendao's back! In the front, out the back.

Wei Yishan's second demon puppet finally appeared.

It wasn't satisfied with opening a hole in Cao Wendao's heart, so it swirled in mid-air and burst out two more blood holes in succession.

With vital points pierced, how could Cao Wendao persist? With a head-first dive, face down, he collapsed.

The bat demon puppet in mid-air then turned to look for the Ghost Ape.

At this time, the Ghost Ape was almost buried alive by the mud slugs. The bat demon puppet's neck bulged, and it spat a mouthful of acid at it.

Strangely enough, the mud slugs, which were impervious to water and fire, were sprayed by the acid, and with a "hiss," a pit was burned out, accompanied by bursts of white steam.

Effective!

The bat demon puppet flapped its wings, and a small whirlwind blew up on the spot. It sprayed violently again, and the acid turned into mist in the wind, all spraying onto the mud slugs.

This pale yellow mist was inconspicuous, but when it shrouded the mud slugs, it caused them to shrink rapidly, dehydrating instantly.

Whether slugs or leeches, they were all afraid of strong acid.

The originally fat and bulging mud slugs turned back to the thickness of a palm, and their bodies lost their toughness, falling off the Ghost Ape on their own.

The Ghost Ape spat and spat several times, having just eaten a mouthful of sticky paste, which was smelly, fishy, and corrosive.

It walked to Cao Wendao to take a look, and then used its stick to flip him over.

Cao Wendao's eyes were tightly closed.

Dead just like that? The Master of Red Hut, who rarely missed, a great Demon Puppeteer from the Heavenly Palace, collapsed and died in less than two rounds?

Dong Rui was still a bit incredulous, so the Ghost Ape tentatively poked the corpse with its weapon a few times.

Hmm, very elastic.

Immediately after, the Ghost Ape made a signature move: it grabbed Cao Wendao's corpse and tore it into two halves with lightning speed! With a "splat," a blood mist exploded, and internal organs and blood flowed all over the ground.

Even if Cao Wendao was faking death, being torn apart by hand made it real death. The Ghost Ape even crawled close to the ground and sniffed a few times, nodding.

It was indeed the smell of human blood.

At this time, the two flying snakes had slipped far away, and the creek side suddenly became quiet.

After more than ten breaths, nothing changed on the battlefield, and a person walked out of the forest.

Dong Rui.

Cao Wendao's death appearance didn't look fake, so he had to come out to clean up the battlefield and loot the spoils; besides, Qingyang was only one or two miles away, and he didn't have much time to waste.

Beating a leader of a Demon Puppeteer organization to death—the results were exceptionally fruitful. Thinking about how much precious data he could obtain from the other party, Dong Rui felt itchy.

He didn't want to walk close to the enemy's corpse, so he stood a yard away and observed for two more glances.

Cao Wendao's wound was bleeding, his face was exceptionally pale, and he looked a bit bloated.

Did this guy eat too much salt for dinner?

Dong Rui was just about to step forward to loot the corpse when he suddenly noticed that Cao Wendao's wound was a bit strange—it was actually turning yellow.

The blood flowing out also changed color from deep red to orange-red, just not obvious in the dark light.

Moreover, there seemed to be radioactive filaments, or flocculent matter, in his wound.

Dong Rui's suspicions arose, and he stepped back, pointing at Cao Wendao and saying to the Ghost Ape: "Poke again..."

Before the word "him" could be uttered, Dong Rui's mind raced, and he suddenly received a warning.

He was not a martial artist after all, not as sensitive as He Lingchuan. The Ghost Ape on the side was connected to his heart, grabbed its master, and regardless of the ungraceful posture, jumped with all its might.

However, it was too late.

Just as it grabbed Dong Rui, the ground at its feet sank slightly, and a giant abyss mouth suddenly appeared! This mouth opened to its maximum, with a diameter of three yards (ten meters) and a row of fine serrated teeth on the edge.

Of course, "fine" was relative to this mouth; every tooth here was the size of a human palm.

Such a big mouth could swallow two Ghost Apes with ease.

It rushed out from underground, just like a giant shark attacking prey on the sea surface, giving no time to react.

With a loud "clack," the monster's giant mouth closed, and it leaped out of the ground due to inertia.

This was surprisingly a large reddish-brown fish, with two eyes on the top of its head, which could tilt upward when focusing. Its body was covered with dark gray spots, making it easy for it to camouflage as a giant rock or riverbed at the bottom of the water.

Its body length was also about three yards, meaning that when it opened its mouth to the maximum, the ratio of mouth to body was severely out of balance.

The prototype of this monster fish was called a "Skin-Turning Blenny," living near the estuaries of South Sea islands, liking to lurk in shallows to hunt, but its body size usually didn't exceed three feet, and even as a monster, it didn't exceed five feet, and its mouth wasn't as ridiculously large as this.

Cao Wendao had strengthened, or rather specialized, it, enlarging the proportion of its mouth and incorporating the characteristics of a mudskipper, forcibly turning it into a semi-amphibious monster—swimming in water, walking underground, and of course, limited to damp underground.

Its belly also had extra space; once swallowed by this thing, it would be difficult for even a Ghost Ape to escape.

Cao Wendao was good at making insect puppets, but his craftsmanship wasn't limited to making insect puppets!

When he camped by the creek, he released this thing to guard. Usually, it also moved in the water and underground. Cao Wendao faked death while ordering it to sneak underground, squat directly below Dong Rui and the Ghost Ape, and launch a surprise attack.

The Demon Puppeteer hidden in the dark was the most dangerous. Now Dong Rui had walked out of the jungle himself, which was abandoning his greatest advantage.

Instead, Cao Wendao hid in the dark jungle, and the situation was reversed.

However, he wasn't very happy either.

When the Skin-Turning Blenny landed back on the ground, it also raised its sail-like dorsal fin and turned a few times, as if swimming in the water.

In the past, he commanded this big guy to ambush targets, and it worked nine times out of ten. But this time, Cao Wendao's face sank because he discovered that the Skin-Turning Blenny's belly was empty.

This surprise attack had actually failed? He noticed a shadow flash in the woods.

Now it was Cao Wendao's turn to raise his vigilance, pulling out his belt and flicking it lightly. ===== CHAPTER 1610 =====