manynovel Chapter 79 The Moment of Strangulation
Chapter 79 The Moment of Strangulation
The tall grass, almost completely submerged in orange-red, was sped by in off-road vehicles.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
While urging him on, Wei Zai turned his head to look behind him. In his remaining right eyeball, he saw a dragon's face covered with scales, with magma flowing beneath each scale.
The golden salamander swung its massive body rapidly, raised its left paw, and slammed it heavily onto the vehicle.
"bite"
A beam of dark blue light shot towards them.
The longsword, its blade gleaming with a chilling light, pierced into the dragon's palm.
Immediately, a figure broke through the air and arrived.
Bang!
A powerful punch landed heavily on the golden salamander's forehead.
Tony Leung's pupils constricted sharply, and he exclaimed in shock, his scalp tingling, "Holy shit!"
Upon realizing that the man in the tattered combat uniform was likely a field agent from Blue Shield Company, Wei Zai's eyes lit up.
"Rush, rush, rush!"
Ten meters ahead, a group of people were running for their lives.
Ada tried to turn the steering wheel to avoid it, but Wai-jai didn't care and grabbed the steering wheel directly.
The two men exerted force from the left and right, causing the off-road vehicle to sway from side to side.
"Be careful!"
Qi Te shouted a warning and quickly grabbed the closest senior student, Maggie, and pulled her to the side.
Without saying a word, Ji Chenyu picked up Yue Wanwan and charged forward, while Qiao Yi used her last bit of energy to teleport Cao Yingchong away.
Because of the excessive speed, the two men grabbed the steering wheel, and the SUV lurched and crashed through the crowd like a wild horse.
D3 shoved Liu Baichuan aside, but he didn't have time to escape and was knocked flying.
A C-level defensive ability user isn't that easy to kill, but the off-road vehicle seemed to have crashed into a rock, the front of the vehicle was dented, and then it rolled over.
"what!"
The screams rang out again.
The students and team members, who were running wildly, were astonished to see a figure suddenly fly up and hover in mid-air.
No, it's not flying.
Instead, a thorny vine wrapped around his ankle and lifted him up.
As Qi Te ran, he looked up at the teaching assistant Ding Xiang, who was hanging upside down.
Heart-shaped leaves, crimson red.
Qi Te's brow furrowed, and the image of a terrifying plant that G4 had mentioned on the road to the border naturally came to mind.
The Queen Vine can easily strangle D-class abnormal creatures, hence its other name, the Strangler Vine.
These hibernating creatures will not awaken to hunt unless they are "activated" by blood. Once an injured animal gets close, it will be mercilessly strangled.
They don't eat meat, they only suck blood. After strangling an animal, they suck its blood dry within half an hour.
The root system is very developed, and the level of danger depends on the size.
"It's a Queen Vine! Watch your step!"
Qi Te ran and shouted, while Cao Yingchong raised his hand and waved, the wind blades slicing through the vines, but they did not break through them.
In just two seconds, Ding Xiang was wrapped in vines like a mummy, with sharp thorns piercing his flesh, but he felt no pain at all.
Because the neurotoxin numbed his sense of pain.
This is also why the Queen Vine can silently capture its prey and then slowly enjoy its deliciousness.
No matter how much Qi Te reminded him, it was useless. His superhuman perception allowed him to see and hear the vines sprouting from the ground in advance, thus enabling him to dodge them effectively. Others did not possess this ability; they could dodge one vine, but not the second.
People kept getting their ankles or waists tangled, and then being hung upside down in mid-air by thick vines.
Not far away, Tony kicked open the car door and climbed out, picked up his backpack, and staggered around like a drunkard who had drunk fake alcohol.
He not only failed to realize he was going the wrong way, but he also didn't notice the piece of rearview mirror stuck in his neck, struggling forward purely on his survival instincts. However, he overlooked a vine that was creeping towards him like a python.
At the same time, the pillar of fire swept in again.
The vines that had been lying dormant underground suddenly burst forth from the soil.
The vines, as thick as the arm of the man in D3, swept wildly toward the source of the erupting pillar of fire.
Clearly, the group, who had barely escaped the swarm of Devouring Insects, had mistakenly entered the territory of Queen Vine.
The moment of annihilation has arrived!
"Awooo, Roar!"
The roar of the dragon resounded through the sky, echoing above the scorched earth and corpses.
It goes without saying that Xu Su died in battle!
With their speed boost, Ji Chenyu and Yue Wanwan successfully entered the buffer zone. The defensive tower was just a hundred meters ahead.
Seeing the two people waving anxiously at him from ahead, Qi Te looked around with a serious expression.
Fire, fire everywhere.
Blood, blood everywhere.
Suspended in mid-air were the Blue Shield team members protecting him, including the dwarf uncle and G4. Also present were teaching assistant Ding Xiang, senior student McGill, and senior student Qing Feng...
Yes, as long as I put all my strength into it and rush forward, I can escape.
But what about them?
There's also Jiang Luo, who went missing. During the first playthrough, he was carried to the mountaintop by the robot AA, but this time he's probably already swallowed up by the beast tide.
Qi Te sighed deeply, letting a vine reach out and wrap around his ankle.
"Tezi!"
"Zite!"
Ji Chenyu, Yue Wanwan, and Cao Yingchong shouted at the same time.
But Zit stopped struggling.
This time, he chose to face death voluntarily.
.......................
Darkness descended, and after the chaos subsided, Zit's consciousness returned.
However, when he tried to open his eyes to see where he was, he was surprised to find several small goldfish swimming around in front of him.
No, it's not a real goldfish, but a holographic projection accompanied by soft, tinkling music.
At this moment, he was lying in a small crib.
Before Qi Te could react, hurried footsteps sounded.
Immediately afterwards, two figures appeared outside the projection.
"The index for the southern sea area has broken through the critical level. This time, I might..."
"No, you must come back, you must!"
"Listen to me, Eun-soo, this is your only chance. Before you leave, Ha-ho will cut off the power and create chaos, and Che-ho will cover you and the children as you leave the lighthouse."
"We'll go together!"
"Eun-soo..."
"I understand. This is the condition you and the minister agreed to, isn't it?"
"I will do everything I can to get back to you. You and the children bear my mark; no matter where you are in the world, I will find you, believe me!"
"cold..."
.......................
"Huff~ Huff~"
As with every regression, Zite gasped for breath, like a drowning person just surfacing.
A jumble of information floods the brain, but the brief memory of what just happened fades away like quicksand, bit by bit.
Qi Te put down the collection box, took out his phone, recorded the information with voice, and uploaded it to his cloud drive.
His mother's name was Qi Xiu, and the woman who spoke was named En Xiu. Although he couldn't see her face clearly, his intuition told him that she was his mother.
So, that calm and magnetic voice came from the father!
For the former Qi Te, this title was completely unfamiliar, because this character had never appeared in his life. But at this moment, he felt a strange sense of familiarity with that man.
This sense of familiarity quickly vanished as memories faded.
The feeling was strange, like there was an eraser in my mind that wiped away that memory.
Forget about those thoughts for the moment, Qi Te checked the time: 15:29 PM.
Including the minute spent recording and uploading, the accurate time point for the backtracking should be 15:28, while the first backtracking was at 15:48.
The college hostage incident was only replayed once and has no reference value. However, the subway incident's replay time in the third playthrough was moved forward by 5 minutes from the second playthrough.
The Fang Shu incident has been delayed by ten minutes in three weeks.
This time, it arrived a full twenty minutes early!
Does this mean that my ability to rewind from death has been upgraded?
This possibility cannot be ruled out.
With that in mind, Zite abandoned all the unusual creatures he had collected and only picked up the collection box containing the poison dart toad.
During both the first and second playthroughs, this giant toad played a crucial role at key moments.
After quickly adjusting his breathing and heart rate, Qi Te strode towards Outpost No. 3, rapidly processing the information in his mind.
On the first playthrough, at the top of Whisper Valley, the entire party was instantly vaporized by a pillar of fire spewed by the Golden Dragon Salamander.
Therefore, it can be determined that Whistle Valley is the most dangerous place, and thus, after retracing the route, it was deliberately avoided and detoured to the north.
This choice did indeed avoid the area where the beast tide broke out, but unfortunately, because the car ran out of fuel, it eventually collapsed in that terrifying tall grass.
The buffer zone was so close, yet death was just one step away once again.
But it wasn't all for naught.
First, the reasons for the outbreak of the beast tide.
Hibernating anomalous creatures cannot awaken suddenly for no reason, especially not on a large scale. Excluding the mental interference of Sequence 0 creatures, it can only be another terrifying entity.
Golden Dragon Salamander!
Although it is only Zite's speculation and cannot be confirmed, it is the most reasonable one.
The awakening of a giant creature is a very loud event. In addition, the possibility that the spread of biological pheromones may have caused a large number of hibernating creatures to awaken as well cannot be ruled out.
On the way to the border, the convoy passed through an old town. With Cao Yingchong's reminder, Qi Te also saw mottled marks on the buildings that looked like claw marks.
G4 stated that the damage was caused when the black dragon salamander's scales scraped against the wall during a fight with other anomalous creatures.
Black dragon salamanders are hibernating creatures, so the golden dragon salamander, which belongs to the same family but has evolved to the highest level, must also hibernate.
Otherwise, the border region at the edge of winter would not be in the current situation.
So, why did the golden salamander awaken?
Qi Te's eyes were slightly glazed; he vaguely sensed that he was not far from the truth.