Chapter 81: Old Enemies Reunited (Two in One)

With the recovery ability of the Heart of the Wilderness.

Yu Ke joined the battle after a short rest.

He did not approach the water monster, but used sharp bows and arrows to kill from a distance.

The siege of eight extraordinary people plus a dozen members of the elite hunting group is close to the top configuration of the civilians in Danhang area, and even the water monster cannot withstand it.

If the battlefield is deep in the water, it may have a chance to gain an advantage by diving and raiding. This monster that has lost its mind and has undergone large-scale deformation is trapped in the dense forest area, and its bloated body makes it difficult to move forward or backward.

The filthy blood with phosphorescence is sprinkled all over the forest water.

Flowers representing infection grow in the hideous wounds, which make this monster that is on the verge of death look particularly bright.

"Quick and decisive, otherwise it may be deformed again."

Aiming at the neck of the giant beast, Yu Ke shot an arrow. Thinking of filling in the gaps in the description of the giant beast, Yu Ke reminded the three hunting team leaders in the communication channel.

"Understood, flash bombs ready!"

Yalang hunting team leader Zhao Qi shouted with hot air pouring out of his mouth and nose.

Although the Forest Protection Bureau did not reveal too much information about Pandora to them, the hunting team knew that the deformed beast was afraid of strong light.

Boom~ Boom~ Boom~

Only a few muffled sounds were heard, and the grenade launcher threw out several flash bombs.

The sudden burst of strong light made the giant beast fall into a brief trance, and its body was also slow.

The best time to end the battle has come.

Yu Ke stopped at this moment and moved closer to the edge of the dense forest area to check the situation in the water.

According to previous speculation, he believed that Pandora was not far from here, hiding somewhere in this water area, and the trend of the giant beast's defeat might cause Pandora to emerge from the water or reveal its true colors.

This is the only chance, and we must seize it.

This is also the main reason why Yu Ke asked the Forest Protection Bureau to monitor this area in advance. The area of ​​​​Jinghu Lake is too large and covered by water mist, so his observation range is limited.

The three hunting groups that seized the opportunity fiercely attacked the giant beast in the water, bringing this encirclement to an end.

The hair on Hu Yingjie's face has shown signs of fading, so he simply burst out with all his strength while the blood agent is still effective, with his arms wide open and his five fingers tightened into claws, and dark green energy gathered immediately.

Zhao Qi and Li Jiangong did not hesitate, and each used their strongest means to rise up.

In an instant, a dark green airflow, a bright silver spear, and two sharp long knives swept across the neck of the giant beast, completely destroying its head, leaving only the stinking flesh and blood scattered and falling, and the corpse fell into the water, shaking up a large wave.

Hunting success!

The three hunting team leaders landed on the ground, with uncontrollable joy on their faces, and the cheers of the hunting team members were also one after another.

Successfully hunting a monster of this size is undoubtedly an unprecedented feat.

Even if it is difficult to collect trophies due to infection, the hunting video alone can still allow them to return to Danhang City and gain a prominent reputation such as giant beast hunters. The Forest Defense Bureau, which has reached a cooperation agreement in advance, will also pay them a generous bounty for this.

Turning back and seeing this scene, Yu Ke couldn't help but frown.

He was of course happy that Hu Yingjie and others had solved this monster.

The problem is that until now there is no sign of chaos or ferocious beast activity in the nearby water.

This was not what Yu Ke had expected.

Undoubtedly, the state of this water beast's distortion was the most serious Yu Ke had ever seen. The concentration of the infection source in its body was even more exaggerated, completely different from the distorted beasts he had encountered before. It could even directly attack with the color of chaos!

This made Yu Ke infer that Pandora was hiding nearby.

Could this guy be just an accidental product?

Or did Pandora not care about the distorted beasts it had infected, or did it sense the presence of Yu Ke and others through the successive defeats of the distorted beasts and chose to retreat and hibernate in advance.

Just as Yu Ke was struggling with the complicated thoughts in his mind, the sound of gunfire suddenly rang out in the dense forest, which made him look fixed, and the cheers of the hunting group members also stopped abruptly.

Zhao Qi and Li Jiangong thought that their men were too excited and fired accidentally, and were about to start a reprimand.

Unexpectedly, there was another explosion, and a group of blood suddenly spurted out of the forehead of the Fenghuo hunting group member standing at the edge of the team, and his body was carried forward and overturned to the ground.

Now everyone reacted, it was not an accidental discharge but an enemy attack.

"Poachers! Hurry up and find cover!"

Yu Ke didn't care about looking for Pandora at this time, and suddenly stood up and shouted.

You know, this area is now concentrated with three A-level hunting groups, Silver Fox, Fanglang, and Fenghuo. The only ones who can break into the Mirror Lake like them and dare to shoot and attack at this time can only be those poachers with no bottom line.

Facts have proved that Yu Ke's guess is correct.

He just got up and hid behind the tree, and when he looked up, he saw more than 20 gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms and masks in the dense forest not far ahead, pouring firepower towards this side, and from time to time there were grenades and rocket launchers flying over, causing a series of explosions.

"These bastards, they are looking for death!"

Li Jiangong, with a long knife protruding from his forehead, gritted his teeth and cursed, and slashed the tree trunk with his arm blade, leaving a gully.

The three hunting groups consumed a lot of ammunition and physical strength to hunt the water beasts, and many people were injured. This group of poachers appeared at the time when they were most tired. The purpose is self-evident, that is, to snatch the fruits of victory.

Fortunately, the members of the hunting group present were all elite, and there were extraordinary people in charge. After the initial chaos, they quickly launched a counterattack. Several extraordinary people took advantage of the complex environment in the woods to approach the poacher team.

Yu Ke looked at the interlaced firepower network in front of him, and his eyes swept over the group of poachers, and his heart became more and more confused.

Judging from the current situation, there are no extraordinary people in this group. Who gave them the courage to provoke the A-level hunting group?

No, that's not right.

The position where they appeared was just diagonal to the body of the water beast. They all used guns, threw grenades and flash bombs as if they were free, and it was clear that they didn't want to fight in close combat, and planned to just waste time.

Shouldn't the purpose of sneak attacks be to make a quick decision?

With this thought, Yu Ke suddenly turned back to look at the water beast, and quickly realized that it was their ultimate goal.

The team of poachers with guns was probably just a bait to attract attention!

"Don't be fooled by them, the poachers' target is the body of the beast, intercept them!"

While reminding the three hunting leaders, Yu Ke rushed to the body of the beast with a longbow, ready to take precautions in advance, and halfway through, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow crawling in the water under his feet.

He hurriedly lowered his head to check, but the situation in front of him made Yu Ke's scalp numb.

Countless black worms came out of nowhere in the dense forest and swamp. They shuttled between the roots of the giant trees and rushed straight to the corpse of the giant beast, as if they were running towards a feast.

In order to find out what these black worms were, Yu Ke jumped from the roots of the giant tree to the water surface.

As his mind turned, two streams of water immediately trapped the black worms and raised them, allowing Yu Ke to see them more clearly.

These black worms were about 30 centimeters long, like enlarged versions of leeches, but with two whiskers at the front, and sharp conical teeth between the mouthparts below, and layered semicircular shells on the back.

Yu Ke had no information about this kind of worms in his memory.

But there was one thing he was sure of.

That was that the appearance of these black worms here was by no means a coincidence, but was manipulated by a certain existence!

As they approached the corpse of the water beast, the water surface was already filled with countless black worms. They entered the body of the beast from the bright flowers blooming on the corpse, as if they were gnawing at the remaining flesh and blood of the latter.

Are there still worms that dare to compete with Pandora for food?

Faced with this incredible situation, even Yu Ke didn't know how to deal with it for a while.

He couldn't destroy the remains of the beast immediately. The number of worms was too large, and a considerable number of them had already drilled into the corpse of the beast. If he wanted to kill them, he had to drill into the infected wreckage.

Yu Ke's entanglement didn't last too long.

The reason was simple. Compared with his helplessness, the chaotic color in the corpse of the beast was obviously more concerned about these "invaders".

The infection source whose dominant position was challenged immediately attacked these worms. From Yu Ke's perspective, he could clearly see that the bright flowers gradually diffused brown and yellow powder mist.

Through the study of the mutated mandrill, the Forestry Bureau learned that pollen would contaminate all objects touched by it, which was one of the main means by which Pandora eroded the Mirror Lake Forest.

The body of the water beast should have been the source of infection, and the stimulation of the insect swarm accelerated this process.

Yu Ke stopped his steps. He didn't want to get close at this time. If he was infected, the consequences would be disastrous.

However, in the few seconds he hesitated, something even more bizarre happened. Facing the extremely dangerous brown-yellow fog, the black worms surrounding the water beast not only did not retreat, but became more and more crazy!

These insects of unknown origin carried the infection of Pandora and shuttled back and forth in the flowers, so that the crowded flowers kept wriggling, and the skin and flesh of the beast's body fell off in large quantities.

Pandora's infection was ineffective against them!

What exactly happened?

Yu Ke looked at the black worms trapped by the water flow beside him, and the information to fill in the gaps finally emerged.

The filthy insect: a kind of insect born from highly toxic filth, with extremely strong vitality, in order to reproduce the tribe, it will look for filthy things that can make the tribe evolve at all costs.

Almost at the same time when Yu Ke finished reading the information about the insect, a large group of black long insects suddenly gushed out from the flowers. They entangled with each other, hugged each other into a sphere, and forcibly tore open the infected flowers with their shells.

The moment it escaped, this "insect ball" suddenly collapsed, and was replaced by an ordinary calf-sized insect with turbid yellow wings, which forcibly took off under the cover of the former.

Under it, six limbs tightly clasped a heart filled with chaotic colors.

That was definitely not a simple deformed organ. Yu Ke could sense that it contained some indescribable filthy energy.

Although Yu Ke didn't know what the energy in this heart was, he knew very well how terrible the harm of this thing was. Regardless of whether this insect was recruited by the poachers' organization, he had to stop it!

Without any hesitation, Yu Ke bent his bow and shot two arrows instantly.

This flying insect was not small in size, and the distance was only 20 meters. Yu Ke had 100% confidence in shooting it.

The premise was that there was no forced interference from external forces.

Seeing that the flying insect that had successfully "treasure-grabbing" was about to be shot, the person hiding in the dark finally couldn't hold back, and a thick and long tongue rushed out from the diagonal pull, forcibly intercepting the arrow.

'Can't you bear it anymore? '

Yu Ke looked in the direction of the tongue, and what came into view was a familiar hunched figure.

There was still nothing next to him, only a tongue disappeared with the rebound.

A blue-gray pointed-mouthed rat face, a fierce beast servant that could be invisible.

It was the member of the Nightmare Organization who pretended to be a ghost and attacked ordinary people in Danhang City not long ago!

"Heh, should we say it's fate?"

The rat-faced man obviously recognized the longbow in Yu Ke's hand, and his voice became colder and colder.

"It's true that if you don't take the road to heaven, you will go to hell. Today, no one from the Disaster Prevention Bureau will help you to prevent disaster!"

"I should have thought of it earlier. Only a guy like you who hides his head and shows his tail likes to fiddle with disgusting insects. Why, your left hand just happens to be sharp, so you are bold and rush to Jinghu Water Marsh to be abused?"

Yu Ke glanced at the exposed left hand of the rat-faced man. If he remembered correctly, he severely injured this guy's left hand with frost and cold air that night, but he didn't expect it to recover as before after just a few days.

The members of the Nightmare Organization who were killed in Jinghu Forest last night suddenly appeared in his mind.

Yu Ke suddenly realized that the Nightmare Organization might have learned the detailed information of the distorted beast through the experiments of his subordinates, so they wanted to forcibly seize the infection source in the giant beast's corpse.

"Yu Ke, what's going on here?"

Hu Yingjie and his men rushed here, noticed the rat-faced man and the flying insect confronting Yu Ke, and hurriedly asked.

"Leave this to me, you must stop the insect and don't let it run away!"

Before Hu Yingjie finished speaking, Yu Ke pointed at the flying insect in the air and said in a deep voice.

If possible, Yu Ke would like to shoot the flying insect down himself, but he knew the strength and means of the rat-faced man in front of him. If Hu Yingjie and others who had greatly consumed their physical strength stayed, they would definitely suffer a great loss.

Especially the beast servant named "Wu Xiang", if the perception is not strong enough, it will be easy to find a flaw.

In comparison, the flying insect that is busy escaping is undoubtedly easier to deal with.

Although they were confused about the situation at the scene, Yu Ke's identity still made Hu Yingjie and others have enough trust in him, and they immediately chased the flying insect and tried to intercept it.

The rat-faced man had no intention of stopping them, and let them leave, staring at Yu Ke with his eyes under the mask.

His idea seemed to be the same as Yu Ke's, both wanting to stop the enemy's strongest combat power.

"It seems that you have accomplices hiding in the dark. It can't be cockroaches. It's a bit disgusting."

Yu Ke drew out the arrow, and seeing the calm appearance of the rat-faced man, his heart sank.

The Forestry Defense Bureau or the Disaster Prevention Bureau has devoted all its attention to the plan to find and eliminate Pandora in this operation, but they don't know that in addition to Pandora, there is also a group of poachers who came to smell the "smell of blood" in the Mirror Lake Forest!

"So what? Now that the thing is in hand, do you think you can get it back with those spent force?"

The specially made steel claws covered his palm, and the rat-faced man smiled sinisterly,

"Why don't you take care of yourself first? I let you take advantage of me last time, and this time I plan to get it back with interest."

"Of course, as long as you die quickly!"

Yu Ke half-closed his eyes, released the bow and arrow, and instead grasped the handle of the Leviathan axe, with murderous intent in his words.

Sorry, the update is a bit late.

My New Year is over, and I have returned to Hangzhou today. I am a bit tired. I have only slept for five hours in the past two days. I will resume normal updates tomorrow, and the number of words will be as high as possible.