Become the strongest in the world of gods through game experience

Chapter 160 Strange Cave

There were many holes about the size of a thumb around the tree. Zhang Xiaoyuan pondered for a moment and then asked the two of them to step aside.

"Comrade Xiaoyuan, what are you doing? Don't be reckless!"

He Qing shouted from the side that if there really was a powerful and terrifying magical beast, he would immediately report to his superiors and seek support.

"You two, step back a little further."

Zhang Xiaoyuan turned her head to look at where the two were, and continued speaking.

"Huh? What is he trying to do?"

He Qing didn't understand Zhang Xiaoyuan's actions, but Yulia recalled her encounter by the river in Zhang Xiaoyuan's village, and her expression changed slightly as she thought of some unpleasant memories.

"You can't go wrong by listening to Brother Xiaoyuan. He won't hurt you."

Yulia obediently stepped back, retreating several hundred meters away.

He Qing didn't understand, but he had a feeling that something extraordinary was about to happen, so he also left.

After watching the two retreat a sufficient distance, Zhang Xiaoyuan nodded, clenched one fist tightly, and aimed it at several caves.

Shattering power coalesced at his fist, and other skills were simultaneously unleashed, transforming his fist into a colorful sphere shimmering with various lusters.

Some villagers passed by and saw something sparkling under the tree. Thinking it was something valuable, they wanted to go and take a look.

"Hey, don't go over there, it's dangerous," Julia warned.

"Hmph, I think you two are trying to keep the treasure for yourselves."

The villager curled his lip, looking as if he had seen through the two of them long ago, snorted coldly, and excitedly ran towards the colorful ball of light.

"It's alright. Let him suffer a bit later, and he'll learn his lesson in a couple of days."

He Qing spoke lazily, knowing all too well the character of the people in this village.

Less than fifty meters after the villagers ran away, he noticed that the colorful ball of light moved and crashed rapidly toward the ground.

"Oh, my treasure!"

The villagers shouted anxiously.

Then he felt the ground shake violently, and before he could stand up, the ground beneath his feet collapsed.

As if an earthquake had struck, ravines crisscrossed the land, large swathes of forest were torn apart, and the ground collapsed by more than fifty meters.

The villager screamed as he fell.

He originally thought he was lucky to have found a treasure, but then he encountered an "earthquake," what bad luck!

Fortunately, the ground tremors stopped after a while. He was stuck in the soil, but his head was still sticking out and he could still breathe through his nostrils.

"save……"

He tried to shout for help, but the surrounding soil vibrated and immediately rushed into his face and mouth, choking him and almost making it hard to breathe.

But what frightened him even more was that his back suddenly touched something hard, which pricked him and hurt a little.

'What the hell is that?'

The villager was nervous and wanted to turn his head to look, but he was buried under the soil and couldn't move at all. However, he still managed to see what his back was touching.

A black ant, about 20 centimeters long and 8 centimeters wide, poked its antennae out of the soil opposite him, its head sticking out and staring at him with curiosity.

"you……"

Before the villager could finish speaking, the black ant opposite him suddenly opened its mouth wide, its sickle-shaped mandibles opening just wide enough to swallow the villager's head whole.

"Ahhh-"

Upon witnessing such a ferocious beast, the villagers screamed and immediately fainted from fright.

Hearing the commotion, Zhang Xiaoyuan was about to throw another punch.

Just as the villager was about to be eaten by the monster, he rushed over and stomped the large ant into the ground with a flying kick.

However, ants can carry food that is ten to twenty times their own weight, and mutated ant monsters have an even more astonishing load-bearing capacity.

Zhang Xiaoyuan stomped down hard, but only managed to make the ant monster bleed, instead of killing it.

call out!

Zhang Xiaoyuan reached out and grabbed the villager, then threw him forcefully in the direction where Yulia and the other person were.

"what--"

The moment he was pulled from the ground, the villager woke up again.

But this time I was woken up by the pain.

A dark, ant-like monster pierced the villager's back skin with its foot and stuck to his body.

As the villager swung his body, the ant monster fell off him, tearing off a piece of his skin in the process.

"Heh, I told you not to go there, now you're behaving yourself."

Yulia summoned vines to catch the villager, while He Qing gloated and made sarcastic remarks.

Upon hearing this, the villager became anxious and, in a moment of panic, fainted.

He Qing: "Hehe!"

Bang!

With a tremendous force from Zhang Xiaoyuan's foot, the ant-like monster beneath her feet burst open with a loud "bang," just like a balloon reaching its breaking point.

After the other ant-like monster devoured the villager's flesh, it went berserk, squeaking and charging towards Zhang Xiaoyuan.

However, its body was already covered in cracks. Even though its level was twice that of the ant monster, reaching level 40, it was still smashed by Zhang Xiaoyuan's punch, dropping a mid-level [Armor Transformation] skill emblem.

Clearly, this ant-like monster had just taken a direct hit from Zhang Xiaoyuan, otherwise it wouldn't have died so easily.

Squeak!

As the ant-like monster died, a series of piercing "squeaks" came from underground, and dozens of dark figures burst out of the air, surrounding Zhang Xiaoyuan in the center.

Zhang Xiaoyuan's eyes were cold. Upon closer inspection, she discovered that these were actually black ant-like monsters, eight of which had faint patterns on their carapaces.

All eight ant-like magical beasts were level 45 or higher.

[Black Ant Beast: A magical beast evolved from mutated black ants, possessing outstanding defensive capabilities. Under the leadership of the queen ant, the colony is united and grows stronger day by day...]

"It turns out to be a clan. The information feedback from the mole cricket monsters mentioned the queen ant. It turns out that queen ant monsters really exist, and this clan seems to have quite a few members."

"However... it would be better to have more."

A smile appeared on Zhang Xiaoyuan's lips. Before these black ant monsters appeared, 79 experience points were credited to him.

Most of these experience points are only a fraction of an inch, but they still add up to 79 points, which shows that a large number of monsters died.

Zhang Xiaoyuan guessed that the punch that had just been unleashed with all its might must have killed many of the newly born black ant monsters.

shhhhhh!

After identifying the enemy, the Black Ant Beast immediately launched a charging attack on Zhang Xiaoyuan.

With so many of them, Zhang Xiaoyuan couldn't defend against them all at once and had to activate the [Earth Guardian] skill.

Now that he is on the ground, he can continuously absorb the power of the earth, making his earth shield more durable.

Each time the Black Ant Beast rammed into him, it would dent his earth shield, but it would quickly recover after absorbing the power of the earth.

In a short while, large patches of black armor plates appeared on the ground; these were all the corpses of the black ant monsters that Zhang Xiaoyuan had smashed.

At this moment, only the eight black ant monsters of level 45 or above remained on the field, and their auras were still strong, just like Zhang Xiaoyuan, whose stamina would not be consumed.

"Once we've wiped you out, we can go find your queen ant. Hopefully, she'll drop some good items or skills."

Zhang Xiaoyuan licked her lips, her eyes lighting up with excitement.