Chapter 193 A Strange Mountain (2/2)

The gray-furred rabbit let out a sigh of relief and continued digging its hole.

However, it began to feel the duck's eyes squirming on its back like maggots. At first, the rabbit was able to endure being stared at by the duck, but finally, it couldn't take it any longer.

It turned around, sprang forward, and gave the Adamantine Duck a powerful kick.

The Adamantine Duck staggered and fell on the ground. Then a purple light flashed across its body. In an instant, its body expanded like a balloon.

Surprised by this, the gray-furred rabbit immediately bolted from the scene.

”It's just standing there, staring at nothing... I think the name Dumby should have been given to it instead,” Stripey said quietly to Da Zi.

Thirty feet away, the Adamantine Duck was squatting at an odd angle on the ground. Its eyes were wide like saucers as it absently watched a line of ants crawling by, as if there was some deep meaning to be taken from them.

Da Zi looked at it. It just couldn't figure out what was going on inside the duck's head. Then it looked away. ”Food.”

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”Earth Spirit Cores are usually formed deep in the caverns of mountains,” muttered Gao Peng to himself.

Before him stood a 2,000-foot-tall mountain. Black stone gleamed from one side of it. The black stone was riddled with dark and mysterious caves.

Plant life was scarce on the mountain. Only a few hardy types of plants had managed to survive in such a harsh environment. From afar, the mountain looked like a huge beehive that was riddled with holes.

One could tell from its appearance that there was something unusual about this mountain. It didn't seem like a place where one could find any Earth Spirit Cores. Gao Peng shook his head.

As he was about to turn and leave, Gao Peng suddenly heard running footsteps from deep within the forest. The trees in the distance were shaking violently at the same moment.

Gao Peng frowned and waved a hand at the others to pull back.

Balls of red light burst out from the trees and hurtled towards the strange mountain. Silhouettes could be seen in the light.

The closer the caves were to the ground, the larger they seemed to be.

Gao Peng even saw a couple of caves at the foot of the mountain that were as tall as 65 feet.

There was no sign of activity after that.

Ten minutes later, another monster entered the mountain from another direction. The strongest among the monsters entering the mountain was around Level-30, while the weakest among them was in the Elite-tier.

This strange mountain seemed to welcome all who entered it.

Suddenly, Silly, who had been hovering beside Gao Peng all this time, began slowly drifting towards the strange mountain.

Gao Peng immediately grabbed a hold of Silly and took out some juice from its portable space.

In an instant, the entranced Silly regained its senses and happily picked up the juice.

”What happened to you just now? Why were you flying towards the mountain?” asked Flamy.

Silly scratched its head with a tentacle. ”Dunno. For some reason, I thought that there was delicious fruit juice up in that mountain.”

”Master, there's lots of fish up there...” Flamy suddenly pointed at the strange mountain.

”There are... Yin cedar needles too?” said Dumby in confusion.

”There's lots of Stripeys in there!” said Da Zi, whose feelers twitched excitedly in the air.

Stripey glared at Da Zi, who realized that it had said something it shouldn't have said. It quickly covered its mouth with its feet and looked away from Stripey.