Chapter 151: 148: Three Baits

148: Three Baits

Humans cannot look directly at the Black Goat of the Woods, because the Black Goat of the Woods has eyes all over its body; looking directly at it means meeting its gaze, and the result of meeting its gaze is the corruption of reason and the collapse of the spirit. People will be influenced by the Black Goat of the Woods and transform into evil madmen, inclined toward Slaaneshi madness and a fanatical worship of the "Inverted Creator." Living beings will become immersed in the desire for reproduction, and the target can be any living thing, even the Black Goat itself.

It is also difficult for humans to kill the Black Goat of the Woods through conventional means. The Black Goat of the Woods does not fear high temperatures or flames, its body is tough, and it possesses an extremely perverse regenerative ability. Unless it is a weapon of mass destruction, it is very difficult to cause it effective damage.

Therefore, when everyone discovered that the Abnormal creature in the forest was a Black Goat of the Woods, their first reaction was only to feel that it was difficult and thorny.

"Retreat?" Li Duojin lowered his voice and opened the communication channel on his headset.

"No, there is a plan." Zhou Shaobo responded in the channel, then proceeded to explain the plan in detail.

It was not a meticulous plan, nor was it a brilliant one; when facing the powerful and terrifying Black Goat of the Woods, human strategy has no effect.

Zhou Shaobo intended to send out two people one after another as bait, and then the remaining two would launch an attack.

If this plan did not succeed, it would be a dead end; there would be no possibility of survival.

Those responsible for acting as bait were Huang Hua and Zhang Chi. The two of them were teammates who had cooperated with Zhou Shaobo countless times and had been through life and death together. Their coordination was tacit, and they understood Zhou Shaobo's operational patterns. Having them act as bait would allow Zhou Shaobo to perform to his fullest potential.

Li Duojin remained where he was, waiting for the right moment to act.

After the plan was given, Zhang Chi waited for an opportunity to act. He suddenly jumped out from the bushes, threw a grenade without hesitation, and fired at the grenade, causing it to explode in mid-air.

The Black Goat of the Woods was caught off guard, and the painful, infant-like wailing sounds were constant. Immediately, it ejected several black tumor-like growths that pierced through the smoke of the explosion and lashed out at Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi turned and ran, jumping back and forth between the trees in the forest, dodging the attacks of the Black Goat of the Woods as nimbly as a black panther.

Just as the Black Goat of the Woods was focused on dealing with Zhang Chi, another grenade descended from the sky and exploded right in its face again. The power of this explosion seemed even stronger; the Black Goat of the Woods' mountain-steady body was actually blasted back several meters.

Facing the sudden sneak attack from Huang Hua, the Black Goat of the Woods immediately split other black fluids from its body and chased after Huang Hua fiercely.

In an instant, the Black Goat of the Woods began to attack both Mysterious Investigators simultaneously.

Seeing this, Li Duojin felt sweat on his palms. He crouched in the grass, not knowing when it would be his time to act, and wondering what he could actually do.

Li Duojin saw that the Dog Team's Group Leader, Zhou Shaobo, had not moved for a long time, while his two teammates, Huang Hua and Zhang Chi, were being hunted down by the Black Goat of the Woods. Both of them had sustained varying degrees of injury while dodging and fleeing.

Seeing that his two teammates, Huang Hua and Zhang Chi, were barely holding on, while Zhou Shaobo, who was hidden somewhere, refused to show himself, Li Duojin could no longer endure it and immediately took action.

Li Duojin drew the sidearm at his waist and suddenly stood up. But just as he was about to fire, he saw the black mucus of the Black Goat of the Woods whistling toward him. In his perspective, those black mucus strands became solid; their tops split open, and every piece that looked like black fluff turned into a sharp blade. Combined with its fierce lunging ability, the black mucus, which was like octopus tentacles, became the most terrifying weapon in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Li Duojin finally became convinced that the murderer who killed that poor maintenance worker at the amusement park was the Black Goat of the Woods before him!

The threat of death struck his brain like a frantic alarm bell. Li Duojin's heart pounded, but he felt as if the whole world had slowed down, while only he seemed to be running at double speed.

Deep in a life-or-death predicament, just as Li Duojin was blushing and wanting to escape but not knowing what to do, Zhou Shaobo, who was hiding in the dark, struck again. He jumped out of the bushes, took out a transparent bottle containing a single suspended water droplet, and released it.

The moment the water droplet was released, the Black Goat of the Woods, which had been struck by it, immediately began to roar in pain. That suspended water droplet was extremely alluring, like a crystalline pearl; it seemed as if it could crush a brand-new jeep out of its place.

However, when the water droplet landed on the Black Goat of the Woods, the Black Goat of the Woods' body began to ache incessantly. The water droplet was like a cannonball; unaffected by resistance, it continued to fly forward slowly, squeezing the Black Goat of the Woods as it advanced.

The Black Goat of the Woods attempted to withstand the water droplet head-on, but the obstructing parts of its body were easily pierced and torn apart by the droplet.

Just like that, the immobile Black Goat of the Woods was like a living target, pushed by the water droplet, its body constantly being squeezed by the droplet until the droplet squeezed the Black Goat of the Woods' body into a state resembling a meat patty. Finally, the droplet began to shoot through its flexible and tough body, opening a large hole in it.

Taking this opportunity, Huang Hua and Zhang Chi sprinted back. Both of them threw the grenades they were carrying. Before long, firelight flashed in the forest, and intense thick smoke, firelight, and terrifying explosive winds surged out.

As the thick smoke dissipated, the Black Goat of the Woods had turned into a puddle of sludge, and the plasma and meat-like fragments that made up its body were splattered everywhere.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Shaobo did not hesitate at all and threw a few more high-explosive grenades, directly blasting the Black Goat of the Woods, which had turned into pieces of rotten meat, into even finer fragments. Its body, capable of super-speed regeneration, was blasted into a mangled mess and almost lost all activity.

Li Duojin came back to his senses. He looked at Zhou Shaobo and said in a calm voice, "Team Leader Zhou, if you wanted to use me as bait, I would have no complaints."

"Sorry, this was the only way to achieve the effect," Zhou Shaobo said regretfully. He truthfully admitted his act of using Li Duojin as bait.

Li Duojin was expressionless and did not speak.

In the previous action, it appeared that Huang Hua and Zhang Chi were used as bait, and in reality, according to the situation, this was indeed what happened at the beginning. But one must not ignore the intelligence of the Black Goat of the Woods itself; it was also very clear that the surprise attacks by Huang Hua and Zhang Chi were just a facade, so it secretly sent out the rest of its body to find the people hiding nearby.

Li Duojin's position was extremely close to the Black Goat of the Woods, so the Black Goat of the Woods naturally discovered him as expected and made him the target of its attack.

It was precisely because it discovered Li Duojin that the Black Goat of the Woods suddenly changed its usual behavior, surrounding him with all its attacks, wanting to kill Li Duojin directly.

And Zhou Shaobo grasped this brief gap to launch a fatal attack on the Black Goat of the Woods, and when the Black Goat of the Woods had almost lost its ability to fight, Huang Hua and Zhang Chi took the opportunity to circle around and launch a finishing blow on the Black Goat of the Woods.

It could be said that the three members of the Dog Team had intended to use him as bait from the very beginning.