Chapter 409
Chapter 409: All Looted!
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
Cold sweat was trickling down Li Yao's back .
It was within his expectations that strong predators might be hiding on the shore and inside the lake . But he didn't anticipate that there were invisible creatures in the air, too .
A lot of green liquid spurted out from the fracture of the broken tentacle of the strange beast inside the lake . The broken tentacle quickly withered into something like a snake .
Li Yao hurriedly activated all his probe magical equipment and released his telepathic thoughts which rippled out and sensed what was there .
Just now, his attention had been focused on the silver lake and its surroundings . The area above the lake had been overlooked by him . Since the beasts were floating in the air without any action, he hadn't noticed their existence at all .
Now that the transparent beasts had launched their attacks, naturally, there were biological reactions in their bodies . The circulation of body liquid, the rhythm of muscle movement, and their breathing all left traces .
Therefore, almost ten shadows that looked like giant bats appeared on the light beams of the six crystal suits .
The long, soft tails behind them were sucking the tentacle of the beast in the lake like a straw, while they spat silver lasers from their mouths which seemed as sharp as the swords and sabers of the Cultivators .
The strange beast in the lake had lost one of its tentacles, but it had secured one of the six-legged lizard, too . It seemed to be in no mood to deal with the transparent bats, because its tentacles retreated to the bottom of the lake quickly . After a long series of bubbles, the lake went quiet again .
After hovering for a while, the transparent bats flew to the crags and vanished among the vines .
The six-legged lizards were even faster them . They had camouflaged themselves and lurked under the earth again .
At first glance, the underground world was as peaceful as half a minute ago . The vague stink of blood and acid in the air was the only proof that a soul-stirring hunt had taken place a moment ago .
To hunt and to be hunted . Life underground seemed rather cruel .
Captain Hong Tong frowned and said, "Let's just bypass the lake . The spiritual beasts here seemed to only be interested in the creatures coming close to the silver lake . There shouldn't be a problem if we keep a distance from them .
"Team Tiger Deity must've circumvented the place, too . More secret treasures are buried deep underground . We ought not waste our spiritual energy in this place .
"If we have no gains, we can always excavate the Flowing Brightness Crystals and the Heart Locking Flowers on our way back . "
The proposal was very practical, but Li Yao disagreed .
"I think we should excavate the Flowing Brightness Crystals and the Heart Locking Flowers right now .
"First of all, the creatures in this underground world aren't morons . If faked Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were everything in this place, there wouldn't be too many prey falling into their traps . Their trick would be seen through very quickly .
"The fact that the six-legged lizards have tongues almost identical to the Heart Locking Flowers is evident enough that most of the Flying Brightness Grass and Heart Locking Flowers here are real . It is the only motivation for the prey to risk coming to the lake, even if they know there might be ambushes .
"Therefore, there's no need to fear that we will get nothing after a fierce battle .
"In the meantime, the attack pattern and the damage of the three spiritual beasts that we saw just now, although weird, are still comprehensible . They can be blocked and resolved, too .
"Their intelligence seems not very high, either, otherwise they wouldn't have gobbled up the beast puppets that I sent out without examining what they were .
"I feel that they are just spiritual beasts with strong instincts in hunting, but they haven't evolved to the level of demon beasts yet . Besides, in a monotonous biological system of an underground world, their methods of attack won't be very diversified . We should've seen most of their skills already .
"Considering the mess that they caused right now, stronger predators would've appeared if they existed, but they didn't . So, I assume that the spiritual beasts we saw were the strongest predators themselves .
"One bird in the hand is better than two in the bush . Our exploration has only just begun . Who knows what kind of weird situation we will be mired in later? Flowing Brightness Crystals can be absorbed directly to improve our strength; Heart Locking Flowers can be taken at critical moments to soothe the soul and prevent us from derangement . They might be very useful for our journey to come!
"Right now, we can collect the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures unhurriedly at our own pace, because the demons are not messing around . But if we are engaged with them in fierce battles, there is no guarantee that we can come back to this place and collect the Flowing Brightness Flowers and the Heart Locking Flowers!
"Therefore, I suggest we clean up the underground spiritual beasts and take the treasures while we can!"
Li Yao's proposal was seconded by most people .
The duller a biological system was, the fewer the attack skills of the spiritual beasts would be, because they would only have to deal with limited types of enemies .
If they hadn't seen 'Cultivators' in their entire life, there would be no way that they would have a special skill to cope with Cultivators .
Everyone gathered around and studied the battle footage taken just now carefully by stopping at each frame . Very soon, they came up with a tactical plan .
"Vulture, your hands are the fastest of all, and you are more familiar with Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures than anyone else . You will be in charge of the collection; the rest of us will cover you up with firepower!"
Under the command of Captain Hong Tong, everyone activated their Cosmos Rings and summoned dozens of beast puppets from them .
For this mission, every Orb Patroller had brought more than ten beast puppets . Now that they were rallied, they seemed to have made a battalion .
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