Chapter 660: Strange Footprints

"A ten-person team, and three are already dead or injured. Is this common in previous years?" "No, no, it's rare in previous years." Teammates said, "The Grass Sea hunt has been going on for hundreds of years, and every kind of Danube beast has a targeted fighting method, although there are occasionally new variants. Generally speaking, our small team can handle five or six at a time. And—"

He paused: "When encountering beast groups, multiple teams will also cooperate."

Although participating teams are competitive relationships in the Fu Realm, intelligent creatures know how to be flexible, and occasionally cooperating when survival pressure is high or profitable is not a problem.

He Lingchuan was helpless: "Lie down when encountering a beast tide?"

"Usually avoid it." Teammates shook their heads, "We are not stupid, if the beast group is too large, we will try to stay far away."

"For so many years of Grass Sea hunting, the biggest threat to us is the air of the Fu Realm." He smiled bitterly, "Over the years, most people died of suffocation. Some died in their sleep, some didn't grab Shuzhu and were suffocated to death."

"This..." Yes, sleeping in the Fu Realm is a big problem. Who can change Shuzhu for themselves every quarter of an hour while sleeping? This all depends on teamwork, with some sleeping and some guarding.

He Lingchuan pointed to the low hill and asked them: "What about the situation in front of us?"

Teammates looked at each other, and one said: "Beast tides occasionally go crazy and chase people."

After all, this is another world, even if Beijia has been skillfully farming for hundreds of years, it cannot completely rule out accidents.

"What reason?"

"The leader beast goes crazy, or there is something driving it behind the beast tide."

As the teammate said, he pulled out his knife to dig for floating stones. There were too many beast corpses here, and more than half hadn't been processed by hunters yet.

For everyone, this is a treasure.

A giant ox-like Danube beast contributed a floating stone the size of a melon. The teammate wiped away the mucus on the surface and smiled from ear to ear: "This piece can at least count as third-rank!"

Things that come for free are fragrant.

When all participating teams return to the human world, they must sell the obtained floating stones to the official. The official purchases at a unified price, and the weighing method is, a purple floating stone the size of a goose egg is the standard unit, called one rank.

Floating stones are like the outer skin of Danube beasts, the more powerful, the lighter the color.

He Lingchuan glanced at the floating stone, which was an irregular cylinder, light purple, and transparent throughout. Danube beasts used floating stones to resist gravity, otherwise, their body size couldn't grow so large.

The teammate was cutting the beast corpse, and He Lingchuan suddenly saw the sand at his feet move, as if sinking.

"Careful!" He subconsciously made a move, grabbed the person's shoulder, and pulled him back.

Just as the teammate's body was pulled up, there was a "swish" sound from underground, and a planarian suddenly rushed out! Its body was thicker than a large tire, and although it didn't have legs, the force of jumping out was not weak at all. Four zhang of its six-zhang-long body came out directly, and at the same time, its mouth cavity stretched to the maximum.

If the teammate had stayed in place, he would probably have been swallowed whole!

At this moment, He Lingchuan had already seen its snout clearly.

It turned out that this thing had ten rows of fine teeth in its mouth, distributed in a spiral shape, extending from the mouth to the digestive tract. As long as it twisted its body once, the skin and flesh of the prey it bit would be evenly cut and piled up by the serrated teeth, and sent directly into its stomach!

It could be described as one step to the stomach.

When it opened its mouth wide, the outermost fine teeth protruded outward, and when it closed its mouth, they retracted inward, and the prey it grabbed could hardly escape.

He Lingchuan made a move in the Fu Realm for the first time, and ultimately miscalculated the strength and speed, and grabbing people was far less timely than usual.

Besides, the teammate's weight was no longer a hundred-odd jin, but over five hundred.

As a result, the planarian didn't swallow the whole person, but its head tilted and bit his leg!

This person let out a loud scream, and his calf immediately felt the gentle contact of the planarian's serrated teeth.

Being sucked by this thing is very difficult to get free from.

He Lingchuan pulled out Fusheng with his backhand and swung his knife out.

The cold light of the blade flashed in the air, and the planarian's head was cut in half.

Green pulp splashed.

That kind of cutting feeling was also very unpleasant, really like cutting a tire, hard and tough.

It is thought that the creatures in the Fu Realm all feed on minerals and mud, so their skin and flesh were not soft to begin with.

He Lingchuan spread his protective Qi, otherwise, if the acid pulp splashed on his face, it would corrode his face.

The planarian felt pain and hissed, and two small pits suddenly sank on the sand.

Two more planarians emerged and rushed toward the crowd.

He Lingchuan was quick-eyed and fast-handed, directly throwing the wounded person onto a nearby large stone.

These monsters can hide under the sand, but they can't hide under the stones, right? A planarian shot toward him.

When this thing came out of the ground to sneak attack, it was indeed very like a spring, fast and steady. However, He Lingchuan had long been prepared, and with a swallow-return dodge, he was already two zhang away.

Fighting is the fastest way to adapt to local gravity.

He still felt his limbs heavy, but not as unaccustomed as at the beginning. The best thing was that Fusheng was light as nothing in his hand, more flexible than his own arm.

In the Fu Realm, its performance was really great.

He Lingchuan hadn't stood firm yet, and shot an arrow from his sleeve with his backhand.

The speed of the short arrow shooting out was slightly slower than in the human world, which was probably because the arrow body became heavier and was no longer the parameter carefully adjusted by Li Qingge.

But this didn't matter, the arrowhead still pierced deeply into the planarian's body.

It was rushing to attack another Chiyan person, and He Lingchuan pulled it off with a spider rope, swinging it like a windmill toward the third planarian.

The two monsters collided and twisted for a long time on the ground.

The other two teammates also rushed up, and the knives fell like rain.

All three monsters were injured, so they hissed and found a hole to drill into.

He Lingchuan turned his head and looked, there were still a few planarians around, but they didn't come over to find trouble with him. The few that escaped left several large round holes in the sand, but the surrounding sand slid down, slowly filling the pits.

The wounded person was still shaken, and the team member hurriedly went over to stop the bleeding, detoxify, and bandage him.

"Be careful not to be happy and sad." He Lingchuan shook his head, "Didn't you say planarians don't like human flesh?"

"Probably it was protecting its food, thinking I was going to grab what it was eating. This thing has no brain." The wound was disinfected, and the person hissed in pain, "But such a large planarian is rare."

"Rare?" He Lingchuan mocked himself, "Is my luck too good?"

"It might be that there are too many beast corpses here, attracting the worm king and worm generals." Another person said, "If the worm king comes, this place should not be stayed in for long."

"How big is the worm king?"

The person pointed to the pit and said: "At least three to five times its size, ordinary weapons can't even scratch its skin."

He Lingchuan changed a Shuzhu for himself, observed on the hill for a long time, and suddenly jumped to the ground.

"I stood here just now, but the planarians behind didn't approach, why?"

These worms were clearly from the same nest, and they even helped each other. But he stood here, and the planarians behind just didn't come over, actually showing hesitation.

His question, of course, the teammates couldn't answer.

He Lingchuan observed for a while, pointed to a few footprints on the ground and asked: "What kind of Danube beast is this?"

These footprints were in rows, each as large as He Lingchuan's sole, the owner should be a four-legged creature, but the footprints were shallow in the front and deep in the back, each was a parallel three-toed, showing that this monster's center of gravity was backward, at least it could stand semi-upright.

And there were dragging traces behind the footprints, could it be a tail? He Lingchuan didn't know enough about Danube beasts, and couldn't see the problem from just these few footprints, but there were two corpses beside the footprints, which had actually been frozen into large ice lumps.

One was a Danube beast, and one was a human.

He Lingchuan touched them twice with the back of his knife, and they made a sound when knocked, clearly frozen solid from inside to outside.

There was no ice or snow on the ground nearby, the two unlucky guys could only have been attacked by some kind of divine power—

Or talent.

All three came over to watch, and then shook their heads, indicating they couldn't recognize them.

But He Lingchuan looked at the two corpses, his heart moved: "Are there many kinds of Danube beasts that can use cold ice divine power?"

"Only heard of the Frost Silver Beast."

"I haven't heard of other Danube beasts that are good at this kind of divine power."

Once this was said, He Lingchuan became interested. The teammate immediately added: "But it can't be determined that these two were killed by the Frost Silver Beast, that monster is too rare, and only lives on cold high mountains."

As soon as they entered the Fu Realm, the surface temperature was more than ten degrees below zero, and as soon as they opened their mouths to speak, it was a puff of white steam. He Lingchuan looked at the distant high mountains, it was hard to imagine how low the temperature was up there.

For the Frost Silver Beast with ice-cold talent, the top of the high mountain was indeed a more ideal habitat.

It was no wonder that few people had hunted Frost Pills over the years, not to mention the difficulty of killing the Frost Silver Beast, just climbing the high mountain was a fatal challenge.

Under this gravity condition, human visitors originally had abnormal heart rates and blood pressure, and even walking was strenuous, and they had to climb dangerous peaks and risk their lives to increase the difficulty, wasn't that going against themselves?

Besides, could the density of Danube beasts on high mountains be greater than at the foot of the mountain?

In fact, before entering the Fu Realm, He Lingchuan had purchased many light-body talismans, which were also one of the essential materials for hunters over the years. However, ordinary light-body talismans could only offset half a gravity, lasting at most half an hour; while special light-body talismans developed for the characteristics of the Fu Realm, which completely offset the influence of gravity, could only be effective for a few dozen breaths at most.

Moreover, the price was not cheap.

Therefore, most hunters basically didn't use this kind of talisman under non-emergency conditions.

He Lingchuan followed the team to the southwest, while asking about the appearance of the Frost Silver Beast.

Unfortunately, everyone had heard the name of the Frost Silver Beast, but hadn't seen it.

"The top of the high mountain is also almost a forbidden zone, besides, we don't hope to see the Frost Silver Beast."

He Lingchuan pointed to the front and said: "But it seems to have followed the beast tide to the southwest."

If it was really a Frost Silver Beast, why did it leave the safe high mountain and run to the ground? This question, no one present could answer.

The wounded person's calf was scratched with two spiral-shaped cuts, but the wounds weren't deep. He Lingchuan took a two-wheeled cart from his storage ring for him to ride, and another teammate pushed him.

Under this gravity condition, blood was squeezed toward the legs, and the wounded person shouldn't walk even more.

Fortunately, the wounds were treated in time, and the elixir was powerful, so this kind of skin trauma would basically heal in at most two quarters of an hour. Otherwise, He Lingchuan would have told someone to push him back to the human world directly.

The last day of the double monthly ticket! (ヮ)

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