Chapter Thirty-Eight: Dangers Everywhere

  Tang Tian had no idea that this variant carp would be so difficult to deal with. In just one encounter, his side had already suffered one death and one injury. At this rate, they wouldn't even make it to the forest.

  After the mutated carp shot out the bony spines on its back, as if its body was a bit weak, Zhao Daniu quickly appeared behind it, and the steel needle in his hand swiftly stabbed into the head of the mutated carp like a black awn.

  Bang!

  Affected by Zhao Daniu's terrifying stick, the mutated carp's head was tilted to one side, its mouth open as if it were about to let out a miserable cry.

  Tang Tian seized this moment, and with a swift slash of his long knife, he chopped horizontally at the mutated carp's open mouth.

  Pfft!

  Tang Tian's knife sliced along the mutated carp's mouth, almost cutting it in half! The mutated carp was killed by this fatal blow and fell to the ground, struggling for a moment before becoming still.

  "Combine forces to kill the fourth-level mutated carp", Tang Tian got such a prompt in his mind.

  It wasn't long before Tang Tian understood the meaning of "combined strength" in the hint. The mutated carp's body emitted a white glow of experience, which split into two groups, one large and one small, and entered Tang Tian and Zhao Daniu's bodies respectively.

  "This should be the team mode. But it's just that the experience gained is different depending on who made more of an effort", Tang Tian thought to himself as he received the larger bundle of experience light.

  Although the mutated carp's body surface was slippery and difficult to deal with, it wasn't that hard once a knife was inserted into its mouth, which is how Tang Tian managed to succeed in one strike.

  Apart from the experience and white light, the variant carp also burst out a white treasure box. After killing the monster with one hit, the demon coins that must be burst out were collected by Tang Tian, who picked up more than ten of them, and finally opened the white treasure box.

  "Open the white treasure box and get a fish scale armor."

  "Fish scale armor, ordinary equipment, made of tough fish scales, can slightly play a certain protective role."

  Looking at the fish scale armor in his hand, Tang Tian got a hint in his mind. Although it was a good piece of equipment, Tang Tian did not put it on but instead put it away to be distributed according to their contributions when they returned.

  After collecting the items, Tang Tian looked at the originally calm riverbank, which was now turbulent with waves everywhere. He immediately shouted: "Everyone quickly move away from the riverbank to avoid being attacked again! The two dead people will be left here for now, we'll deal with them when we come back. The injured one should return to the village to recover. Others follow me and continue forward. Today, we must investigate what kind of monsters are around here and their levels, so that we can make effective arrangements later."

  Tang Tian gave an order, letting the person whose arm was pierced by a mutated carp bone go back, while the others followed him to leave the riverbank and continue advancing in the direction of the thicket.

  Just after leaving the village, someone had already made sacrifices, which made Tang Tian's heart even more vigilant. This world was too dangerous, and he really didn't know what even more terrifying things were waiting for him ahead.

  And this is just a small place like Shijiazhuang, if you look at the whole country, the world, how many ferocious mutant beasts and zombies will there be? How powerful will they be?

  Tang Tian didn't dare imagine!

  Due to their previous encounter, the group dared not be careless and kept a safe distance from the riverbank.

  Tang Tian walked at the forefront, he had to set an example for these people. If he hid in the crowd, after everything was over, he would be known as weak and incompetent, afraid of death.

  Carefully sizing up their surroundings, the group walked very slowly, but neither Tang Tian at the front nor anyone else noticed that the mud beneath their feet was slightly loosening.

  Boom! Ahhh...!

  At this moment, in the crowd, the mud underfoot suddenly burst open, and a soft thing as thick as a bucket emerged from underground, covered with mucus, rushing out of the ground two or three meters high. A person was swallowed by its round mouth full of sharp teeth, emitting a painful scream.

  Tang Tian was always paying attention to his surroundings, and just as the man let out a blood-curdling scream, Tang Tian reacted and turned around to see this scene.

  "Mutated earthworm, level 5, lives underground, good at ambushing, especially when walking in the wild, be careful of your feet, you never know when it will attack you."

  The Eye of Reality activated, and Tang Tian obtained information about this monster.

  "Attack, attack it quickly and save people!" Tang Tian shouted loudly, and the man also rushed towards the mutated earthworm quickly.

  When they heard Tang Tian's words, these people finally reacted and launched an attack on the mutated earthworm with the weapons in their hands.

  However, the variant earthworm's body is extremely soft and has a layer of mucus, so these first- and second-level villagers can't cause much harm to it.

  The attack by these people apparently enraged the mutant earthworm, which bit down on the person with its mouth and then flipped its three-meter-long body outside into a horizontal circle.

  At that moment, everyone around was knocked flying away with great force.

  This was Tang Tian rushing over, the long knife in his hand transformed into a bright snowy light, and with one slash it landed on the mutated earthworm's body.

  Pfft... Bang!

  Tang Tian swung this knife with almost all his strength, using a slashing motion from bottom to top. In an instant, the water bucket-thick mutated earthworm was sliced into two segments by Tang Tian's single slash.

  The mutated earthworm was cut off, and its body wriggled on the ground for a few moments before it stopped moving.

  "Kill the 5th-level variant earthworm", Tang Tian received a prompt in his mind.

  Just as Tang Tian was about to organize people to rescue the person whose lower body was still in the earthworm's mouth.

  Rumble... rumble... rumble...

  The ground was continuously broken, and again a dozen or so earthworms broke through the ground. Under this sudden attack, several people were bitten, some were bitten on one leg, some were bitten on one arm, and some had their entire head swallowed from behind.

  Tang Tian felt a slight vibration beneath his feet and quickly leapt away.

  Just as Tang Tian jumped away, the spot where he was standing just now had its mud broken open, and a mutated earthworm burst out from underground.

  If it weren't for Tang Tian dodging in time, he would have ended up being swallowed as well.

  Tang Tian's face turned cold, and just as the earthworm was about to emerge from the ground two or three meters away, he slashed his knife down onto its body with great force. In an instant, the earthworm was cut into two segments by Tang Tian's single slash.

  No time to care about the experience and loot from the worm's death, Tang Tian quickly scurried out, his knife flashing, another worm was cut into two segments by Tang Tian. This worm had a villager's arm in its round mouth, after Tang Tian killed it, the villager was saved, quickly pulling his hand out of the worm's mouth, his entire arm covered in sticky liquid, looking extremely disgusting...

  Tang Tian didn't stay for long, he took his knife and ran around, killing the centipedes and rescuing the villagers who were bitten.

  The other villagers who were not attacked also reacted and knew that it was a matter of life and death at this time, and they also plucked up the courage to attack the surrounding earthworms with their knives in hand. Although the effect was not great, several people could still kill them together.

  Apart from Tang Tian, Zhao Daniu was the most ferocious, his steel club dancing and whirring as he struck, often smashing half of an earthworm's body into pulp with a single blow, truly ruthless...

  Under Tang Tian's fierce attack, the earthworms that quickly crawled out of the ground were all beheaded, and everyone was rescued. Tang Tian arranged for someone to take these injured people away from this dangerous place immediately.

  He himself was quickly running among the corpses of mutated earthworms, collecting all the things that burst out of the mutated earthworms and quickly leaving this place.

  Who knows how many more things like this will come out if we dig deeper...