Chapter 138 Mystery Monster of the Fores (1/2)
”Silly, come here.”
Gao Peng waved Silly over, and Silly drifted to him.
Puchi? Puchi?
The past few days of intense battles had taken its toll on the body and mind of familiar and monster trainer alike.
The forest view might be stunning, with a beautiful sunrise that took his breath away, but Gao Peng was still getting tired of it after spending so many days in it.
He yawned. For the past few days, his main motive had been collecting valuable items.
”A Red-Banded Silverleaf is worth three credits, which is one credit less than a Blue-Light Goldenrain Flower. But the size of a Red-Banded Silverleaf is smaller than a Blue-Light Goldenrain Flower by almost half, so when factoring in the size, the Silverleaf is more valuable,” Gao Peng muttered to himself.
He took out a Blue-Light Goldenrain Flower from Silly's personal space dimension and placed two Red-Banded Silverleaves inside.
The thrifty Gao Peng was making careful calculations. Diligent, frugal, and overflowing with passion, he was the standard of an eligible bachelor in this new era.
As he walked ahead through the forest, the sounds of birds and insects suddenly vanished, leaving nothing but the empty sound of the blowing wind.
The quiet, spooky, dark forest seemed to be hiding something horrifying. The trees here were denser, blocking out most of the light from above, and shadows were all around.
The low winds began to carry a faint, foul smell, like that of raw fish being left out to rot in the middle of July.
Crunch.
With each step he took, the crunch of fallen leaves beneath his feet was deafening in the silence of the forest.
Gao Peng furrowed his brows. Something was out there watching him.
”Be careful.”
His familiars didn't need Gao Peng's warning. They had already sensed that something was amiss. Da Zi's eyes, normally carefree, were carrying a cautious glint. Silly was obediently sitting atop its master's head with its tentacles gently waving.
Stripey suddenly noticed something and charged at a bush, shouting.
Chi!
Rustle, rustle.
In the direction of Stripey's charge, a bush shook a little, and out hopped a white rabbit, fleeing as quickly as its legs would allow it.
Seeing that it was just a rabbit, the familiars relaxed a little. But then a pitch-black blur shot out from the bush behind the rabbit and struck it like a snake striking its prey.
A long, thin insect limb had pierced through the back of the rabbit's brain and out through its forehead. The limb was white in color, with bluish-purple discolorations like those on a corpse. Red blood trickled drop by drop from the brows of the rabbit.
The long limb came from deep within the bushes. Just the exposed area of the limb was at least fifteen feet long.
On the surface of the limb were rings that separated it into multiple segments, like a growing bamboo plant showing the signs of growth.
chloo.
This bamboo-like limb retracted, disappearing into the depths of the bush, and the rabbit fell flat on the ground with a twitch.
In the middle of the rabbit's forehead was a bloody hole roughly the thickness of a thumb. Fresh blood trickled out.
Just from a segment of the limb, Gao Peng was unable to see the monster's attributes. He would have to see at least four-fifths of the entire monster before he could do so.
The forest once again fell into a deathly silence.
Gao Peng squinted and then let out a laugh. He had seen plenty of movies where characters in similarly horrifying situations would act like idiots, insisting on proceeding headfirst even when it was clear that danger was up ahead.
There was more than one path to take, so why gamble with his life? This was an easy choice to make.
Facing the direction of the monster, Gao Peng slowly backed away, saying, ”Let's go back the way we came.”
He and his familiars slowly retreated, never taking their eyes off the direction of the monster.