Chapter 122 - Sacred Beetle
After receiving this attack, the Giant Black Scorpion was still alive, but it was already close to death.
As he moved onwards, Wei Xiao Bei had already killed 6 Giant Black Scorpions and was once again in the vicinity of the fiery red mountain range.
If Wei Xiao Bei had wasted a bit more time in the valley, he would have obtained even more evolution points.
However, he was much more concerned about the Yong's corpse. He wanted to see if he could possibly gain more benefits from it. As a result, he temporarily gave up on farming more evolution points.
When Wei Xiao Bei arrived at the spot of the corpse, he gloomily noticed that the 5 meter tall Yong had turned into skeleton. It looked as if a single touch would be enough to make the entire skeleton collapse, becoming bones fragments that could even be carried away by the wind.
Bone fragments like that did not have any worth.
Wei Xiao Bei did not know if this was a change caused by The Dust World or because of some other kind of monster.
Before Wei Xiao Bei could to decide whether to advance or return back, he saw a sand dune 1000 meters away suddenly collapse. Soon, a field of bronze colored thing moved towards the fiery red mountain range.
Bronze colored?
When the bronze colored thing was about 500 meters away from him, Wei Xiao Bei made out that it was made up of many bugs.
Could this be similar to the beetles that appeared in Lake Cui?
If they were like those black beetles from Lake Cui, he was not too worried. After all, an individual black beetle was weak. The only reason why he was a little worried about the black beetles, was because of their numbers.
However, regardless whatever he thought, Wei Xiao Bei did not dare lower his guard. He ran parallel to the bronze beetles. Because the color was different to the black beetles, when they were 200 meters apart, he was able to clearly see the beetles' appearance.
Compared to the black beetles hidden in Lake Cui, these beetles looked more like beetles. Their entire body was covered in shiny carapace. Their six legs also each appeared to be powerful and robust. Their mouths also had pincers on them but their body size seemed to be much bigger than the size of the black beetles.
Every beetle was as big as two human fists!
Wei Xiao Bei lightly poked the group of beetles with his great spear. After hitting one of them, the beetle immediately split open. Wei Xiao Bei was then able to get their names from the battlelog.
Battlelog:
You encountered 1-Star Elite Creature Sacred Beetle Descendant
You killed a Sacred Beetle Descendant
Sacred Beetle Descendant!
Wei Xiao Bei's mind began to dig deep into his memory and found the origin of the sacred beetles.
Whether it was reality or legends, these sacred beetles exist.
In reality, these Sacred Beetles were a famous dung beetle. Their food was human excrement, making them one of nature's greatest contributor.
In Egyptian legends, Sacred Beetles were creatures that symbolized rebirth.
In ancient Egypt, when pharaohs were buried, a stone scarab would be placed over their heart. The purpose was hoping that their pharaohs would be reborn like the Sacred Beetle.
In relation to Christianity, Scarabs were also high creatures. Some said that while Jesus was nailed on the cross, he held onto a small beetle that was bathed in his blood. As a result, it had gained holy powers!
As a result, the word 'sacred' was added to its name.
These beetles that were moving like a tide were most likely descendants of descendants of the Sacred Beetle.
As a 1-Star Elite Class Creature, the sole beetle had provided him with 5 evolution points!
5 Evolution points, no matter how small it sounded, should not simply be underestimated.
It must be known that even if they were 1-Star Elite Class Creatures, they were still beetles. The black beetles that came out from Lake Cui had only given him 0.25 evolution points, and these Sacred Beetle Descendants gave him a lot more.
When Wei Xiao Bei previously thrusted his great spear, even though he did not use that much force, he was still able to feel the huge rebound from the carapace.
The force behind a thrust from Wei Xiao Bei was not at all small. If it was a normal person, their full power thrust would be equivalent to a simple thrust from him.
In other words, a normal person would need to use their full force to be able to kill one of the Sacred Beetle Descendants.
Compared to the black beetles in Lake Cui, these Sacred Beetle Descendants were much more powerful.
However, Wei Xiao Bei did not have the time to explore this matter any further.
After he attacked, the beetles increased their speed. Their originally slow crawling pace increase by several fold. In a few breaths, they had crawled under Wei Xiao Bei's feet and some of them even climbed up Wei Xiao Bei's tattered pants. When one of the beetles touched his skin, it did not hesitate at all and fiercely bit on his leg.
Tear!
Wei Xiao Bei could not help suck in cold air. He stamped on the ground and retreated 20 meters from the beetle infested ground. At the same time, he swatted the 8 beetles that had been clinging onto his legs.
After inspecting the injury, there was only a small incision due to the limitations on the beetle's jaw. By the time he looked at it, it had already closed up after letting out a bit of blood and it did not seem to be poisonous.
Naturally, if he had given the beetles more time, then it still would not have been a problem even if they tore off a piece of his flesh.
From what he saw, eliminating the beetles surely and steadily was the best way to gain evolution points.
However, he quickly gave up this thought after surveying his surroundings.
The tide of beetles that was moving toward the fiery red mountain range had reached a length of more than 3000 meters and a width of more than 300 meters.
In other words, if Wei Xiao Bei escaped now, he would have a chance to leave, but if he stayed and fought with them, he would die without any chance of escape.
Luckily, Wei Xiao Bei was not an indecisive person. He instantly chose to turn around and head towards the fiery red mountain range, moving diagonally to the tide of beetles.
From his calculations, if there were no accidents on the way, he would be able to reach the mountain before the beetles.
Naturally, the danger and risks of the place was not small. After all, other than the Scarlet Pheasant, there were also much more dangerous creatures around the mountain range. And Wei Xiao Bei had already known about this fact.
Thump thump thump, rustle rustle rustle. Wei Xiao Bei dragged the great spear as he continued to charge forward. Looking at him from any perspective, his actions were incredibly dangerous.
20-30 meters away from Wei Xiao Bei, the bronze tide was sweeping over everything, covering everything in sight.
When a Giant Black Scorpion suddenly popped up in fright, it had instantly been covered by the beetles as soon as it appeared. The sound of chewing could instantly be heard, and the scorpion's erect tail at the same time, had instantly dropped down. When the tide passed, only a few pieces of hard carapace was left.
Although the Giant Black Scorpion was an inferior being in Wei Xiao Bei's eyes, it was still a terrifying monster in reality. If let the chance, it could even kill 7-8 people in a single breath.
However, in front of the Sacred Beetle Descendants, these kinds of terrifying monsters were just dregs that vanished in an instant.
Wei Xiao Bei knew that if he fell on the tide of beetles, his end would be too horrifying to imagine.
These Sacred Beetle Descendants could not be compared to normal dung beetles at all. With their strength, even the Giant Black Scorpion's steel like carapace was gnawed clean by them.
Moreover, they seemed to be resistant to poison. After eating the Giant Black Scorpions, none of them seemed to have died.
However, Wei Xiao Bei did not have time to ponder their might anymore. He did not dare stop moving at all. In fact, everytime he moved, grains of sand would actually fly behind him solely due to his speed.
Wei Xiao Bei was able to travel a few kilometers in just a short amount of time. The closer he got to the mountain range, the higher the temperature became.
When he was about 50 meters from the mountain range, the air temperature had increased to about 60 degrees Celsius.
This temperature was enough to make the majority of people feel scalding.
Even Wei Xiao Bei could feel that the air he was breathing in was like boiling water.
From this, it was easy to know that those Mercenaries were truly elites. Their bodies could endure such a temperature and had even moved towards the mountain range as they escaped for their lives. Naturally, this was done for survival, so letting out potential that normally would be impossible was natural.
One step, two steps, three steps!
When the tide of beetles were about to make it to the fiery red mountain range, Wei Xiao Bei too, took large strides towards the mountain. His body soared as he landed on the mountain wall. He relied on his balance and moved 100 meters along the mountain wall. When he landed on the ground, he had just narrowly escaped the beetles' tide of death.
When he landed on the ground, Wei Xiao Bei felt a sharp pain on his foot. His originally worn out sports shoes were now emitting a strange smell.
Just as he was taking off his sports shoes, a small group of beetles from the tide of beetles that had began climbing the mountain, moved toward him.
The injury below his foot was not that severe as there were only a few blisters. Wei Xiao Bei used the dagger t cut off the blisters and the wounds immediately closed. He would only need a few hours for the injury to fully heal.
The temperature of the mountain had exceeded Wei Xiao Bei's estimate. At the very least, it seemed to be more than 200 degrees Celsius. Otherwise, no matter how worn out his sports shoes were, the mountain wall would normally not be able to melt it.
However, Wei Xiao Bei did not care about the injury anymore, because at this time, a portion of the beetles were coming towards him.
Without a doubt, Wei Xiao Bei was like a delicacy in this barren desert for them. So they naturally, were reluctant to let him escape.
Chapter 123 - Frightening 378 Volts
Naturally, the beetles that were moving towards Wei Xiao Bei were only a drop in the ocean compared to the tide of beetles.
Most of the Sacred Beetle Descendants were climbing up the mountain range. Wherever they passed, the rare red plants were gnawed clean, and even some of the soil had disappeared.
They were like army ants. Anything thing that blocked their way, be it animals or plants, were turned into their food.
Even the temperature that had now exceeded 200 degree Celsius did not stop their advancement. This was the most frightening thing about them.
After dodging the huge tide, the few thousands that were chasing after Wei Xiao Bei did not scare him at all. He pulled the Sacred Beetle Descendants 200 meters away from the tide, and then thrust his spear at them, killing one in the process.
The Sacred Beetle Descendant's carapace's were hard yet flexible, but when the sharp spear head came down on them, even they could not escape the fate of dying.
Whoosh!
The great spear swept across the sand, killing 7 beetles in the process. With another sweep, Wei Xiao Bei killed the beetles that were just about to flap their wings to ambush him.
From this moment, the beetles seemed to have gained enlightenment. When they were 5 meters from Wei Xiao Bei, they would flap their wings and jump.
Every second or two, more than 20 beetles were jumping towards Wei Xiao Bei at a time, causing his previously skillful movements to be unable to catch up. In an instant, more than 10 beetles landed on Wei Xiao Bei's body and were about to bite him.
Release electricity!
Just as the beetles were opening their jaws and about to bite him, Wei Xiao Bei released his electricity. Wei Xiao Bei waited for the moment the beetles touched his body, and only then didthe effects of electricity become stronger!
With a flash of electric light, the Sacred Beetle Descendants were shocked to the ground, but in just a few moments, they shook their bodies and once again pounced on him again.
Without a doubt, 101 volts and 62 milliamperes were only enough to numb the beetles for a while and could not kill them.
After all, beetles had a different body structure compared to humans. As a result, something that could cause great harm to humans might not necessarily cause great harm to the beetles. In simpler terms, cockroaches and Sacred Beetles were both dirt eaters. Moreover, if a cockroach's head was chopped off, it could still live for 9 days and die only because of lack of nutrition.
From this, it could be seen that the Sacred Beetles had a strong vitality. The only reason Wei Xiao Bei was able to kill the few Sacred Beetles previously was because of the strong impact from the spearhead, causing the beetle to be completely crushed.
As a result, Wei Xiao Bei no longer dared to let the beetles surround him. He turned around and retreated a hundred meters and looked at his status panel.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei had 380 evolution points.
Wei Xiao Bei planned to place his evolution points into agility. However, after facing wave after wave of 20-30 Sacred Beetles, he realised the effect of increasing his agility would not be that big.
After hesitating for a bit, he concentrated on the release electricity skill's voltage.
His evolution points quickly decreased, while the voltage increased until 291 volts.
Kill!
Wei Xiao Bei wielded his spear and counter attacked. The previous battle seemed to have excited and even trained the Sacred Beetles' ability to fly. When they were now less than 20 meters apart, the Sacred Beetles would soar up in the air and glide towards Wei Xiao Bei.
Wei Xiao Bei was not an idiot and would not get caught off guard as easily a second time. He thrust his spear at them. Although he was able to kill the beetles like this, its efficiency was too low.
Facing simultaneous attacks of more than ten beetles, even if he could thrust it out ten times, it would not be able to kill all of them. As a result, he changed his strategy.
He bent his spear and then released it. The spear head shot out into an arc in midair. In an instant, it swatted 5 of the incoming beetles away. Afterwards, he swung the great spear, sending the majority of the incoming beetles to the ground.
The last remaining beetle landed on his shoulder. When it was just about to bite him, electricity surged into its body, making it fall to the ground.
What surprised Wei Xiao Bei was that 291 volts of electricity was still not enough to kill it at all, so he had no choice but to stomp on it to kill it.
Seeing that the beetles that he had swatted down before begin to fly up again, Wei Xiao Bei frowned. His Bajiquan was already at the state of perfection, so just shaking his spear and swinging it would be enought kill normal insects, but it was still not enough against the Sacred Beetles.
If his negative jing was a level higher, killing these beetles would not have been as big of a problem.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
With two thrusts, he killed two of the incoming beetles that were in midair.
However, more flying beetles forced Wei Xiao Bei to retreat more than 10 meters.
Bang bang. His great spear once again shot out and shook back and forth, sending most of the beetles to ground. Although the attacks were not enough to kill the beetles, cracks were slowly appearing on their shells, some seriously injured ones were even leaking out yellow fluid.
However, this was still not enough to kill these beetles, at the very least it would take ten more times to kill them.
This time, Wei Xiao Bei deliberately let a few of them charge over and attacked them with electricity when they came close. The same as before happened, and the Sacred Beetles only just fell on the ground. This time however, there were some things that were different, such as the few injuries that had appeared on Wei Xiao Bei's body.
The beetles that had been shot down by electricity could not escape Wei Xiao Bei's foot and became corpses on the sand.
With every attack, he killed ten Sacred Beetle Descendants. It was equivalent to killing a single Giant Black Scorpion. From any angle, the efficiency of killing the beetles was lower than killing a Giant Black Scorpion.
However, the amount of Sacred Beetles was enormous. If Wei Xiao Bei could kill all these beetles, then the amount of evolution points that he could obtain would be in the 10,000s.
After this point, Wei Xiao Bei thought about the bazooka that he obtained previously. IF he used that and fired it here, hundreds of Sacred Beetles would be eliminated in an instant.
Naturally, it would have been a lot better if he had a flamethrower. Although the beetles could endure the heat, he did not believe that they could endure the flames from a flamethrower. After all, the temperatures that a flamethrower could reach was at the point of being able to melt a tank.
No matter what was said, this was only his imagination running wild.
Eliminating this group of Sacred Beetles was surely not an easy task.
After fighting with these beetles for more than 10 minutes, Wei Xiao Bei had tried many ways to kill them, but he had not yet killed a hundred of them.
Most of the time was taken up by Wei Xiao Bei escaping their encirclement. If the beetles were to surround him, it would not take 20 seconds before his body would be fully covered of them. Even if he could release electricity, there was no guarantee of safety.
In the past ten minutes, Wei Xiao Bei's mind was in a high level of alertness and panic. As a result, most of his stamina had been drained.
At this time, although he still had a bit more energy, he decided to escape.
It was important to leave a bit of energy to do other things. If he staked everything and failed, then he would no longer have any chances.
In truth, his decision was not wrong. When Wei Xiao Bei had escaped for 100 meters, he suddenly noticed one thing. A Sacred Beetles were already in front of him. This meant that a small group might have taken a detour around him. If he still stayed and fought with the previous group, he would truly be surrounded.
Since he discovered the beetles' plot, Wei Xiao Bei did not have anymore thoughts of fighting them and dodged the incoming beetles.
Just from the beetles' plan, it was easy to tell that they had a certain level of intelligence.
Following Wei Xiao Bei's escape, the beetles did not follow him anymore and merged back with the main group.
In this period of time, Wei Xiao Bei still took the risk to follow behind them and killed them from time to time.
However, this kind of provocation did not stop the beetle's movements at all. They noticed that they could not chase after Wei Xiao Bei with their current speed. It seemed that they had given up on Wei Xiao Bei, which was different from what an army ants would have done.
If it was an army ants, in reality, as long as there was food in front of them, they would risk their lives to cross rivers and flames.
Naturally, if the Sacred Beetles did not have their ability to judge, they would have probably disappeared from the desert already.
Wei Xiao Bei followed behind the beetles from afar. At the same time, he focused on his status panel to look at his evolution points.
After the paying the price of a few injuries, his evolution points had reached 565 points.
This amount was not a lot, but was not small either.
Facing an army like the Sacred Beetles, Wei Xiao Bei did not have plans to save his evolution points.
After thinking for a bit, he decided to put 100 points each into all agility sub-attributes, increasing everything by 1 point, which also increased agility by 1 point, making it a total of 16 points.
In reality, 15 points was barely enough to respond to the Sacred Beetles' head on attacks.
For better or worse, Wei Xiao Bei was able to dodge one or two beetles, so they were not that much of a threat.
However, this did not mean that Wei Xiao Bei could sleep peacefully with this.
Even if he could escape while surrounded by them, he would at the very least, be heavily injured.
On the other hand, the close relationship between all the agility sub-attributes was extremely important. Not one should be less. As a result, Wei Xiao Bei would increase them all at the same time.
As for the remaining 165 points, Wei Xiao Bei placed them all into voltage.
After allocating his points, only 1 evolution point remained.
His release electricity was now able to release 378 volts of electricity. This was close to the 380 volts in industry specific usages.
This voltage was different from the 220 volts of electricity that was found in common households.
Wei Xiao Bei had previously seen a worker accidentally hitting a 380 voltage power switch barehanded. The person's head instantly shot up due to the electric current, and his brains were fried by the high voltage.
The might of 380 volts was simply incomparable to 220 volts.
Releasing electricity was very useful. Although it was difficult to break the air when the voltage was under 1000 volts, touching a beetle was enough to make them fall, ensuring Wei Xiao Bei's safety.
Wei Xiao Bei had already tested this. He had lured out one of the beetles and allowed it to jump onto his body, and then shocked it with electricity.
Although the beetle's carapace was hard, once it bit into Wei Xiao Bei's skin and got drenched in his blood, its electrical resistance would decrease. In the end, the voltage was able to pass through. The 378 volts were able to instantly move through the beetle and kill it.
Taking advantage of the fact that the beetle army was climbing up the mountain range, Wei XIao Bei tested every possible method to lure the Sacred Beetles and use the great spear or his electricity to kill them. As a result, his evolution points were slowly increasing.
His actions were similar to walking on a tightrope, but because his agility had reached 16 points, it gave him enough confidence to deal with the beetles' counterattack.
In other words, even if a beetle recklessly charged towards him, Wei Xiao Bei would be able to rely on his agility to escape.
It must be known that 16 points in any sub-attribute in agility was enough to make a normal person wide-eyed if it were shown to them.
16 points in hand-eye coordination would allow a person to see anything larger than 10 centimeters in a 500 meter radius. Moreover, it would allow a person to hit a fly with a single piece of stone.
16 points in flexibility and reflex combined together would allow a person to dodge attacks from being surrounded by more than 10 pikes. Moreover, it could increase a person's speed to be able to run 12 meters per second!
This would have already surpassed the world record by a huge amount. If he went to the Olympic Games, earning the gold medal in a hundred meter would be too easy.
Moreover, as long as he had enough patience, he could run a marathon. And as long as he maintained 60% of this speed, he could run 5 kilometers in just 11 minutes! Or even faster!
16 points in balance allowed him to walk a 1000 meter tightrope without relying on anything else.
With the combination of these sub-attributes, as long as he was not surrounded, Wei Xiao Bei would be able to easily escape from the tide of beetles. Moreover, even if he was surrounded, Wei Xiao Bei was still able to last for a longer amount of time compared to other people.
No matter what was said, Wei Xiao Bei was gaining a huge bargain from poking behind the tide of beetles.