Chapter 60 (1/2)

Chapter 60 Mantis

Those pairs of eyes were well hidden; they were as green as the ferns around them, and what made them more strange was that they didn’t even have pupils. They blended so well with their body that if Chang didn’t know their presence beforehand, he would’ve walked pa.s.s the fern without knowing he was under surveillance. This plant–like organism was an excellent hidden attacker.

Obviously, if anyone were to bypa.s.s them without noticing their existence, then there would be only one consequence – death. Regardless of what level they were, even though they were much weaker than him, as long as he was unprepared, his fate would be death in this jungle.

However, since Chang had learned that there were 2 lurkers, he was no longer concerned about them. As those eyes got closer and closer to the soldier, Chang hastily shouted out to remind him.

“Hey! Be careful!”  Chang jumped out from the bush, “Something is behind your back!”

“What?” That soldier seemed relieved as he heard a human voice, and he quickly walked towards to the source of the sound.

“There is something behind your back!” Chang reminded him again.

“Something behind me?” The soldier looked back, but he noticed nothing except for some bushes and saplings. “What are you talking about? Where are you? Are you alone too?”

The man kept asking in a high volume, but what he didn’t know was that a “sapling” behind him straightened its body, and it moved as swift as wind but silently.

The “plant” bided his time well; it was so unnoticeable that no one would ever be aware of its presence. The next second, it had become a killer. As it moved, only a flash of green light was seen, but the soldier who was alive a second ago, now had his head disconnected from his body permanently – a brisk wave chopped off his head like a sickle. Perhaps he was decapitated too fast, so the flying head was not instantly dead in the air. For a moment, he was even able to make an expression.

From surprise to terror!

The terror was seized forever on that face – “bang” – the head landed on the ground and rolled forward, and thus a lively body had completely lost the breath of life.

“F*ck!” Accompanying a curse was a bolt ejected from the crossbow.

Whoos.h.!.+

10 meters was not a far distance for that bolt to travel as it firmly stabbed into that monster’s body.

The sharp spine penetrated the green armor, causing mild damage.

The monster turned around as it received an unexpected attack. It swung back and forth as if it was looking for the attacker. However, it lost its disguise as it changed its position, and finally Chang knew the ident.i.ty of these creatures.

They were two mantises. They weren’t huge in particular, but the lines of their figure were smooth and sophisticated, like well-built architecture. They stood with four limbs and their “sickles” were wide open. Although they stood up completely, they still looked like saplings. They looked extremely vigorous even though they were only as high as two-thirds of a human adult.

“What’s going on?” Ming Yi stood beside Chang the whole time. but he didn’t see the tragedy in the fog. He first saw Chang and Jing whispering to each other, and then he heard Chang communicate with a person that he didn’t see. When he thought they finally found the soldier, Chang shouted “monsters” and shot a bolt. It was rather confusing to him how Chang acted.

“Two monsters attacked the soldier.” Chang pointed to the murky fog and described it to Ming Yi, “They seem like mantises, and they are smaller than us, but they are hard to deal with. Be prepared.”

“Alright.”