The metal-hard mouthparts bit down, but nothing came out!
It turned out that at the critical moment, Li Xiao's body penetrated the treasure box as if passing through illusory light and shadow, and fell directly to the ground.
"Is this treasure box fake?" This was Li Xiao's first thought.
"Oh my god! What a big centipede!" This was his second thought!
Hearing movement behind him, Li Xiao turned around and saw a huge centipede as thick as a human!
Its body was hanging on the stone wall, with only its head hanging down, exactly where it was standing.
Seeing this scene, Li Xiao instantly understood what had just happened. It must have been the accidental stumble caused by not touching the treasure box that saved him!
Cold sweat continued to seep from his forehead, and his mind instantly remembered the name of this creature——
Ancient Malu!
This ancient creature is the largest arthropod discovered by humans so far!
The overall length can reach nearly four meters!
The ancient millipede in front of Li Xiao was terrifying just by its appearance!
I can't find the right words to describe it in detail, so I can only summarize its appearance into one sentence:
It can make people with trypophobia "intensely die" directly!
(If you want to know what it looks like in detail, just find an ordinary centipede, and then imagine that it is the same size as you. Then you will know what it looks like, and you can barely understand what Li Xiao is feeling now!)
Gu Malu missed a hit, and his body stopped again, motionless. Only the long tentacles swung back and forth, collecting the smell in the air!
It has almost no vision and can only use smell and sound to determine the location of prey.
He wants to locate Li Xiao's position again!
"What's going on? How could this ancient Malu attack me? Didn't I apply insect repellent? Doesn't the insect repellent have any effect on the ancient Malu?"
Li Xiao's head turned rapidly, and he figured it out in an instant.
"Damn, I forgot I went into the water just now!"
Seeing that Gu Malu didn't seem to notice him, Li Xiao took advantage of this opportunity and launched an action!
His eyes were fixed on Gu Malu, and he cautiously took a step back...
Although the ancient Malu's eyesight was poor, his hearing and sense of smell were extremely sensitive. Li Xiao just made a little movement, and the ancient Malu discovered him again...
The next second, the ancient malu bent its body, and then flew towards Li Xiao's current position like a tightened spring springing out!
At the critical moment, Li Xiao rolled awkwardly to the side and forward, and barely managed to avoid Gu Malu's attack!
"Crack!"
Gu Malu's hard mouthparts bit into the stone ground, and two deep marks suddenly appeared on the ground!
"I'll choke you!" Li Xiao saw Gu Malu's attack power and was once again glad that he had dodged it.
You know, the ancient millipedes in the game are extremely dangerous creatures in caves.
And in this "real person game", it's even more dangerous!
But Li Xiao was no longer the rookie who just came to Ark. When Gumalu lost Li Xiao's position again, Li Xiao fought back!
The spear suddenly appeared in his hand, and then he held it tightly and stabbed it out!
"Ping!"
The stone spear tip pierced the carapace on the back of the ancient Malu, and actually produced some sparks when it collided with its carapace.
There was no puncture! The carapace was so hard!
Li Xiao failed to hit the target, so he quickly retreated, and the spear in his hand was replaced by a bow and arrow...
However, before he could take action, Gu Malu attacked Li Xiao first!
I saw a ball of black mucus spit out from its mouth and shot towards the back door of Li Xiao!
"I'm just waiting for you!" Li Xiao, as a master player of the Ark game, how could he not know that this ancient Malu has long-range means.
Although they had fought several times, Li Xiao still paid attention to its mouth to prevent it from spitting out mucus!
Turning sideways and raising his head, the ball of slime passed in front of Li Xiao and hit the stone wall next to him.
Different from the mucus spitted by Dilophosaurus, the mucus spitted out by this ancient millipede is extremely corrosive.
There was a "squeaking" sound, and pungent white smoke continued to emit from the place where the mucus came into contact with the stone wall.
In the blink of an eye, a hole was corroded into the stone wall!
Turning back and glancing at the severely corroded stone wall, Li Xiao became a little more fearful of the ancient Malu in front of him.
But now is not the time to be afraid, Li Xiao stretched the bow in his hand to the full moon!
The arrow pointed at Gu Malu's head...
"I wonder if your head is strong enough?!" Li Xiao said, letting go of the bowstring with his fingers!
The head of this ancient millipede is not big, and it is constantly moving, so it should be difficult for an arrow to hit it.
But it was too close to Li Xiao, and with Li Xiao's superb archery skills, if he couldn't hit the head, it wouldn't be worth his hard work for the past month.
Gu Malu rushed towards Li Xiao again, but was interrupted by Li Xiao's arrow! The strong force caused its upper body to fall backwards.
The painful screams of Gu Malu were immediately heard, followed by corrosive slime flying everywhere!
This ancient Malu was shot in the mouth by an arrow from Li Xiao. The pain caused the body to stand up, and its struggling head threw out a lot of corrosive mucus accompanied by blood!
It seems that this arrow hit the organ in its mouth that stores corrosive mucus...
Afraid of being splashed by the mucus, Li Xiao hid behind a stone.
The ancient Malu here, after twisting and struggling for a while, fell heavily to the ground and died completely.
Its entire head was corroded by its own acid, which was the real cause of its death...
"call--"
Heaving a sigh of relief, Li Xiao ignored the already dead Gu Malu, but turned to the treasure chest that was still glowing.
"How did it penetrate just now? Could it be that the way I opened it was wrong?"
He stretched out his right hand again... but still passed through without touching the treasure chest.
He rubbed his chin and thought, his brows knitted together.
"How do I open this thing?"
When his eyes caught sight of the implant on his left arm, Li Xiao slapped his head.
"You must use it!" He said as he moved the implant on his left arm closer to the treasure chest.
The moment the implant came close to the treasure box, the treasure box slowly melted like an ice cube encountering a raging fire!
The melted and dripping liquid transpired into mist like evaporating water, slowly dissipating into the air...
The implant on his arm flashed a few times. Li Xiao opened the menu and several green drawings appeared in the production column:
[Remarks: Compared with the original animal skin top, the high-quality one is more comfortable to wear. As for the data? It is also better, but just a little bit...]
…
[Bow (excellent)]
[Damage: low]
[Durability: High]
[Production requirements: wood x10 fiber x30]
[Remarks: A little stronger than the original bow...]
…
Sure enough, there are blueprints for high-end equipment in the treasure chest, but this is just a green high-quality treasure chest, and the equipment level that is opened is only high-quality.
With the treasure box in hand, Li Xiao jumped back into the water...
The biting chill made him shiver again, and he hurriedly swam to the other side.
However, when he was about to dock, Li Xiao suddenly felt something bit him on his calf, causing severe pain!
Enduring the pain, he climbed onto the shore.
The trousers on the calf are somewhat damaged, and when you look into the rip, you can see that there are two rows of fine tooth marks on the calf!
Fortunately, most of the damage was blocked by the animal skin pants, and Li Xiao's wounds were not too deep.
Looking into the underground river, a large fish was swimming in the water. It was the fish that attacked Li Xiao just now.
However, the light in the underground cave was not very bright, so Li Xiao could not see clearly what kind of fish it was.
He recalled the fish creatures in the game——
"A giant piranha? It doesn't look like it. One bite of that thing will probably make you lose two taels of meat!"
"It must be a saber-tooth salmon!"
Li Xiao took out the spear and said fiercely: "Sabre-toothed salmon, right? Uncle, I haven't eaten fish for a long time, so I will eat salmon sashimi today!"
After that, he jumped into the water again!
…
A few minutes later, Li Xiao had several wounds on his body and climbed out of the water to the shore in frustration.
"Damn it, I'm swimming too fast! I can't hit it at all!"
"Wait until I bring the fishing rod next time and hang you up, you little bastard!" Li Xiao twisted the wet clothes on his body, but his eyes caught something unusual.
In the shadow of the mountain wall, there is a huge insect figure - eight legs, a huge belly, densely packed compound eyes...
It's a spider! And there's more than one!
Looking closely, on the mountain wall next to the underground river, four or five huge spiders have gathered at some point! Their eyes are staring straight at Li Xiao!
"Is it too late for me to apply insect repellent now?" Li Xiao was stunned and murmured in a low voice.
What answered him was overwhelming cobwebs flying towards him...
These spider webs are very sticky and extremely tough. Once they get on your body, it will be difficult to get rid of them.
Li Xiao wanted to hide, but unfortunately there were too many cobwebs. These spiders covered every place he could hide with cobwebs!
In the blink of an eye, his whole body was covered with white spider silk, shrouded in a vast expanse of white.
Then, these spiders came forward and wrapped Li Xiao bit by bit in spider silk, finally turning into a large mummy-like cocoon.
This cocoon is thin from top to bottom and thick in the middle. It is much more beautiful than the one Li Xiao tied when he tamed Dilophosaurus for the first time...
These spiders stepped forward and tried to drag the cocoon deeper into the cave, but they suddenly backed away when they approached the cocoon.
A faint scent of lemon wafted out from the cocoon, but it caused these spiders to retreat quickly as if they were encountering the god of plague!
But it was Li Xiao who took out the insect repellent from the cocoon.
The smell of repellent drove the spiders away, leaving only large cocoons on the ground.
Then, the cocoon began to squirm continuously, like a maggot - Li Xiao inside tried to break free.
The cocoon rolled and squirmed, but showed no signs of damage. It seemed that he had underestimated the tenacity of the spider web.
Then I saw the cocoon stood up awkwardly, changed from squirming to jumping, and started jumping around aimlessly.
"oops!"
A stone on the ground tripped the cocoon, and Li Xiao's groan of pain was heard from inside.
Ten seconds later, the big cocoon stood up again, still jumping!
Several spiders hid far away and watched the cocoon scurrying around...
Then, I saw this cocoon...
This big cocoon that kept jumping around... got tripped up again...
Rolling and screaming... fell into the underground river...
A group of spiders: "..."
A few minutes later, Li Xiao climbed up from the river again with scars on his face. There were a few bite marks on his face and a lot of cobwebs on his head.
The cocoon made of spider webs on his body lost its stickiness when it came into contact with water. In the water, Li Xiao broke free from the shackles of the cocoon.
When the spiders on the side saw Li Xiao coming up, they rushed up again in a swarm!
However, the next second, he was frightened back by something held high in Li Xiao's hand.
It’s an insect repellent! And it’s an insect repellent that dissolves in water into a liquid!
I saw Li Xiao shining the liquid insect repellent on his head and pouring it down...
Throwing away the wooden bowl in his hand, he looked fiercely at the spider not far away.
"Come on! Let's tie up the labor and management again! The labor and management really want to give you a spear each and kill you disgusting things!"
"And you!" Li Xiao suddenly turned towards the direction of the underground river, his eyes were already spitting out fire:
"You're addicted to biting, right? There's no end to it, right! When labor and management come next time, I'll definitely kill you!!!"
After saying the cruel words, he turned around and strode away deep into the cave...
Spiders:°0°.°0°
Sabertooth Salmon:0.0
…
Finally, we are almost reaching the deepest part of the cave. According to memory, we turn the corner in front and reach the place where the artifact is placed!
As expected, after the corner, there is also a large space.
On the ground deep in that space, a suspended, green-rayed long object was slowly emitting wave-shaped energy fields.
It’s the artifact—the hunter!
A smile appeared on Li Xiao's face. After such hardships and obstacles, he was finally going to get the artifact!
But when he got closer and saw the surrounding terrain clearly...
The smile on his face disappeared instantly, and turned into a volcanic eruption of anger!
"What a cheating thing?!"
Li Xiao's earth-shattering roar came from the cave...
If you look closely, you will see that there is a bottomless pool around the artifact!
The artifact is on the central island in the middle of the pool!
Li Xiao suddenly sat on the ground.
He is now doubting his life! He wonders if he has been tricked! He wonders if the Ark system is deliberately playing tricks on him!
If you want to get the artifact, you must swim through the pool...
And when you swim through a pool, the insect repellent you put on your body will be washed away by the water and lose its effectiveness!
There are only two options now:
The first is to return to the original route without getting the artifact. The insect repellent on your body can help you return to the ground safely.
Second, Liu Shui took the artifact and returned the same way...
The difference is that he has to face hundreds of giant spiders and giant scorpions!
He is extremely upset now and regrets why he didn't bring more insect repellent, even just one more one!
Go back the way you came? But the artifact is right in front of you. You have gone through so many hardships to get here. Do you want to return empty-handed?
Li Xiao was extremely confused...
Finally, he gritted his teeth and slapped his thigh, deciding his choice!
He stood up, smiled bitterly, and jumped straight into the water...
