Chapter 296

the number this time

was far more than the number they had encountered at the Floating Water Spirit's place—

far, far more!

That was truly thousands!

They surrounded the food landing point in a circle,

like a Great Wall,

waiting for the food to descend.

The sound of swallowing saliva rang out frequently.

Including Miss Jiutiao Meise,

all the professionals couldn't help but tremble slightly.

This number—

are you kidding me?

Why

were Miss Jiutiao Meise and the others so afraid?

The reason was simple!

Under the Appraisal skill,

any one of the parasites pulled out at random

was far from something they could deal with!

Level 60 to 70 reinforced elites—

the levels were a full major stage apart!

Each one

had the strength of a level 40 leader!

The key was

this number that covered the mountains and plains!

The unit 'thousand' probably couldn't even describe it!

Hearing Lingxin's voice rang out in his mind:

"The Flame Seat Crab has over a hundred feeding areas."

"This is the smallest one, and the number of parasites is also the smallest."

"Li Yao, look at that one."

Li Yao looked over in the direction Hearing Lingxin pointed.

"That is the leader."

"Before it eats, no parasite dares to eat."

Its appearance was no different from other parasites,

but the leader stood on two legs

and held a trident about a meter long.

It stood in the center of the parasites,

and the surrounding parasites consciously made way for it.

"Very strong."

For monsters above the leader level, if they were more than five levels higher, Appraisal could not be used.

Li Yao could only make a preliminary judgment based on the aura on the opponent.

The further one walked on the path of cultivating 'momentum,'

the more precise the judgment!

"Are you confident?" Hearing Lingxin asked in a low voice.

It really wanted freedom,

but it was more worried about the lives of Li Yao and the other clan members.

"I can try," Li Yao laughed.

For some reason,

the parasite leader was ten levels higher than the Purifier,

but the pressure it brought to Li Yao was not as powerful as the Purifier's.

On one hand, it was because Li Yao had become stronger;

on the other hand,

it was still that saying:

among True Name-levels, there were also differences in strength.

Ten levels

were not enough to make up for the gap between it and the Purifier.

If it were a one-on-one fight,

Li Yao was confident

he could slay the leader within a few minutes!

But the most troublesome thing now

was that dense mass of parasites!

Among these parasites,

besides the type seen in the Floating Water Spirit dwelling,

there was another type

with a fin cannon on its back,

and there were quite a few of them!

At a glance, they were long-range attack monsters.

One round of firepower, and they would definitely kill all the chess pieces instantly!

Even the Devourer couldn't withstand it!

Li Yao looked up and shone his flashlight at the ceiling.

"Hearing Lingxin, if we fly to the highest point, can the parasites attack us?"

Li Yao asked.

"I don't know."

"The clan members who fought the parasites didn't come back alive."

At this time,

the 'rumbling' sound of water heard from afar earlier

was already right in their ears.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

A deafening roar came from above,

startling everyone so that their bodies trembled violently.

It was estimated to be a monster swallowed by the Flame Seat Crab,

still alive while flowing down the esophagus,

emitting an unwilling wail.

Immediately after,

turbulent seawater, carrying countless creatures, fell down,

filling the empty ground below in an instant.

A large amount of seawater rolled over,

then flowed away from somewhere unknown, soon disappearing without a trace.

After it calmed down,

countless parasites poured in, pouncing on those monsters that hadn't completely died yet.

Stomping, biting, scale-bombing!

But they didn't dare to swallow;

the leader was there, and they had to wait for the leader to eat first.

Li Yao and his party stood on high ground,

the flashlight's bright light like a sun hanging in the air,

eye-catching, yet no parasite attacked them.

Li Yao noticed this.

This was a good thing.

The best solution

was for him to go down alone and capture the leader alive amidst the ten thousand troops.

But he couldn't guarantee

that while he was killing enemies below,

these parasites wouldn't rush up the slope

to hunt the professionals and the chess pieces.

Being afraid of strong light

didn't mean they wouldn't be afraid when encountering a life-and-death crisis!

"Li Yao, let's go."

Hearing Lingxin suddenly said.

"Go?"

"No, I mean, bypass them."

"If you want to be sure of defeating the leader, then bypass them!"

"The leader will eat first; after it's full, it will lead the team to the excretion site."

"We will intercept the leader there."

So that was it!

Li Yao felt a joy in his heart.

If he had followed his own idea,

the old clan leader probably wouldn't have agreed to let him bring the clan members to take risks, right?

At that time, perhaps he could find a narrow place

to face the leader and a small number of parasites!

"Go!"

Li Yao jumped down along the back of the slope

and then, along the edge area,

snuck behind the parasites.

The parasites naturally had long since discovered Li Yao and the others,

but with the flashlight present

and a large amount of food right before their eyes,

they had no interest in braving the strong light to hunt those few 'meat chunks.'

Seeing this, Li Yao and the others also accelerated their speed

and arrived at a location where they could see the leader from the furthest distance.

Hearing Lingxin: "They eat very fast; they won't wait too long."

Li Yao nodded, and then discovered

that those monsters swallowed by the Flame Seat Crab also began to organize a counterattack.

Giant monsters fell from the esophagus, dragged down by their massive size;

the powerful inertia and gravity left them either dead or crippled.

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Li Yao swept his eyes over them;

those giant monsters over dozens of meters

didn't have a single one

with more than one-tenth of the HP bar on their heads.

On the contrary, those small monsters had luckily escaped a disaster

and were organizing to confront the parasite army.

Li Yao silently released his perception,

seeing the monster slaughter more clearly.

No,

it was a one-sided massacre.

The Flame Seat Crab swallowed countless monsters in one gulp and threw them into this slaughterhouse without seawater.

Losing the seawater, these marine monsters had no way to adapt for a while,

their strength less than one-tenth of what it was,

and they could only wait for the parasites to slaughter them.

It was a brutal killing, like a bloody battlefield.

Often, one living monster had to face dozens of hideous parasites!

Soon, their necks were bitten through, and they lost their lives without any ability to resist.

Hearing Lingxin's soft, cold body curled up,

changing from human-sized to something he could hold in both hands,

lying on Li Yao's shoulder, shivering.

Li Yao looked at it

but didn't say much.

It was hard to imagine

how Hearing Lingxin and their clan survived such scenes.

Was it because they were too weak, had no utility value, and were abandoned for a short time?

Very likely.

In this kind of place, sometimes being weak was actually a good thing.

"It's coming."

Hearing Lingxin suddenly said,

curling up even smaller.

"I know."

A powerful aura was walking toward Li Yao and the others.

This aura, to Miss Jiutiao Meise and the others,

was a feeling that made them extremely uncomfortable, as if they could be killed at any moment.

The parasites, which were afraid of strong light, no longer hid far away from the flashlight's light.

They didn't walk into the light,

but they presented a surrounding posture toward Li Yao and the others.

Li Yao stopped,

his gaze piercing into the depths of the darkness,

seeing those crimson eyes.

Malice overflowed, evil and incomparable!

Li Yao looked at the owner of the eyes from afar.

"It's probably an order higher than instinct that made them suppress their fear," Miss Jiutiao Meise forced herself to stay calm.

Li Yao didn't speak, asking through his mind: