Chapter 2301 - Life-Hanging Flies (2/2)

“Mu Bai, is there anything strange about these flies?” Mo Fan asked quietly.

“I can’t say for sure, there are a lot of tiny organisms in this world. They have better alertness and ability to predict danger, like how some animals are able to predict an avalanche, earthquake, or storm…” Mu Bai said.

“Which means we might be in trouble if we keep going on like this?” Zhao Manyan pointed out.

“More or less, these Life-Hanging Flies are very familiar with the swamps. They know where the dangers and traps are, so they have basically placed a claim on us in case some other creatures come and steal their food,” Mu Bai explained from a scientific angle.

Killing and driving away the Life-Hanging Flies was meaningless. They were not the direct cause of death.

They were merely waiting for the living to die. As for why these people died, there had to be something deadly in the swamps.

The Life-Hanging Flies knew what the thing was, but the Federation Army who had just come into the swamps had no idea what it was. The Life-Hanging Flies were merely following their own instincts, but as rumors started to spread, they suddenly became a curse…

“Help, someone, pull me out!” Someone was shrieking like a crow that had fallen into water.

“There’s quicksand ahead, look out!”

“Damn it, I can’t pull my legs out too…”

The group of people who were leading the way were stuck in quicksand.

The quicksand was holding them tightly. Some had already sunken to their knees.

However, they were unable to pull their legs out no matter how hard they tried. They were only sinking deeper!

“Earth Mages, what are you doing? Use Earth Wave!” Mason yelled.

The Earth Mages quickly constructed Star Orbits. Brown Stars spread rapidly across the swamp.

However, the soil in the swamp was abnormal. The Earth Wave that was supposed to alter the structure of the soil was not working here!

“Pull me up, quick, I’m almost out of breath!” someone yelled, just before his head dropped below the surface of the mud.

The mud had climbed over his chin. It poured into his mouth as he finished the sentence.

The man would soon die of suffocation after his mouth was filled with mud.

“What’s going on? Is this mud some kind of bottomless abyss?” Mason blurted out in shock.

“Sir, check this out!”

Cory was a Summoner. He Summoned a creature that resembled a hippopotamus.

A Plant Mage immediately Summoned some vines. They wrapped around the chin and neck of the suffocating soldier while the other ends of the vines were tied to the Hippopotamus Beast.

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If humans were not strong enough to drag the soldiers out of the mud, a Summoned Beast might be able to do it.

Cory patted the Summoned Beast on the back.

The Hippopotamus Beast was very strong. It was leaving deep footprints as it gathered its strength.

The Hippopotamus Beast did not let the soldiers down. It soon dragged the soldier who was almost drowned out of the mud.

Unfortunately… his body did not come out with his head!

Blood was pouring out of his neck, which was still stuck under the mud. It was like a little red fountain.

The head tied to the vines fell beside Cory and his Hippopotamus Beast. The terrifying expression on it sent shivers down everyone’s spine!