Chapter 192 Where did the bug come from?
Previously, I had already imagined in my mind what the world beneath the quagmire would be like.
Zhou Ling thought that her most reliable guess might be some kind of underground cave or something like that, but when she actually walked through the quagmire and arrived at this world, she was so shocked that she was speechless for a long time.
Just... the real heaven and earth?
If the poisonous gas that he had been contaminated by in the quagmire had not yet completely dissipated, Zhou Ling would have doubted whether some of his previous experiences in the secret realm were just a dream. After all, the sky and the earth in the secret realm were easy to distinguish. Although he could see a barrier similar to the blue sky, the normal sun and moon could not be completely imitated, and were replaced by sunstone and moonstone.
But now in the place where she is, what is hanging in the sky if not the ordinary sun that we see outside?
"Are we leaving the secret realm?" After a long while, she hesitated and asked Da Niu and Er Niu who were scattered to explore whether the surrounding environment was safe.
"Ah?" Faced with such a stupid question, Erniu didn't react for a moment.
"I haven't left the secret realm yet. I'm still inside. This is the original appearance of the Twin Secret Realm."
Daniu doesn’t talk much, but he understands Zhou Ling the best and gives very considerate answers.
After hearing this, Zhou Ling nodded with a wooden face.
Sure enough, after staying in the fantasy world for a long time, you can accept the existence of even the most outrageous things in a short period of time.
Even the two little animals who seemed to be very familiar with this secret place, the first thing they did when they landed was to check the surrounding environment immediately, which shows what their impression of this place was.
On the surface, this place looks no different from the outside world. The green grass is unevenly dotted with many small white flowers that cannot be named. It is refreshing and comfortable. Such a beautiful scenery extends far away.
But the two little ones in front were still full of vigilance in the empty grassland. They slowed down their pace and moved forward while checking for danger.
"What are you looking for?" Zhou Ling didn't understand. Her spiritual power had not recovered yet. Without the blessing of spiritual power, she was basically a fragile person. She didn't know what danger she was about to face. She didn't dare to rush forward to help, so she thought of asking first.
As a result, the two little ones who were exploring separately in front turned back at the same time and hushed at her, asking her to be quiet.
"Shh..."
"Shh!" Erniu was a little irritable, and the volume of his shushing became louder.
Zhou Ling shut up immediately, blinked her eyes, and even breathed lighter.
When she has no fighting power and does not understand the situation, she should not rush forward. She should just hide behind and be a little waste who needs protection.
Unable to help and also being really bored, Zhou Ling pulled his mother to sit on the ground and began to study the world beneath the quagmire.
"Mom, look at this sunlight, it's just like the real thing. It's much brighter than the sunstone, and it even has strong ultraviolet rays."
If you stretch out your hand and feel carefully, you can feel the slight burning and stinging sensation of the strong sunlight shining on your body.
"Well... be careful!" Zhou Li felt comfortable in the sunshine and wanted to open her mouth to agree with her daughter. However, as soon as she opened her mouth, she almost yawned. However, before she finished yawning, she noticed a palm-sized insect jumping out from somewhere on the grass, and it tried to pounce on the back of her daughter's head.
As a mother, her subconscious reaction was to do her best to protect her child, regardless of whether the insect would bite her or not. She reached out her hand to the back of her daughter's head and swatted the huge, weird-looking insect away.
"Hiss..." The palm of my hand hurt a little. I withdrew my hand and saw a small red dot. The skin was slightly broken. It must have been caused by the insect's leg.
"Mom!" Zhou Ling was startled and turned around to see what happened to her mother's hand. But before she could do anything, she saw many palm-sized insects appearing out of nowhere on the lush green grass under her feet, and they surrounded them at a very fast speed.
Their spiritual power has not yet recovered, but the mother and daughter still have magic to resist a little.
"flame!"
They both took off the special wooden hairpins on their heads, and the one big and one small used their own blood magic to summon a raging fire and drew a circle on the grass.
The fire wall was several feet high and was indeed effective in repelling many insect attacks, but maintaining such a fire wall also consumed a huge amount of magical energy.
Not to mention that although the fire wall is high, there are some insects that are not afraid of death. They endure the pain of burning and try to pass through the fire wall and pounce on them to bite them.
"court death!"
At first, Zhou Li thought that these bugs rushed in to bite them, but not long after, she realized that these bugs didn't want to bite them at all, they just wanted to bite her daughter!
She had no objection to the two of them sharing the same hatred for a common enemy, but it was absolutely not acceptable for these damn bugs to simply target her daughter!
These bugs that rushed into the firewall were all in more or less defective states, such as missing a leg or a whisker. They were basically in low health and were easy to harvest.
While maintaining the wall of fire, Zhou Li also had to raise his feet to stomp on the big bugs.
With three consecutive kicks, he stepped on four dark green insects to death. The insect fluid splattered everywhere. The smell was not bad, but just inexplicably unpleasant.
These bugs appeared quickly, and their firewall rose quickly, which resulted in blocking Da Niu and Er Niu outside.
"Mom, can I temporarily stop my magic and make a gap in the fire wall so that they can come in?"
Zhou Ling is still just a beginner in the art of magic. It is already not easy for him to try his best to help his mother maintain the wall of fire. If the magic is withdrawn, it may not be replenished in time in a short period of time. He has this plan and needs to discuss it with his mother in advance so that she can fill the gap in time.
"Row!"
Knowing that her daughter had tried her best, she immediately agreed. It was just a matter of plugging a gap in the firewall, which was not difficult.
But just as Zhou Ling's magic was retracted, a gap appeared. Da Niu and Er Niu, whom he had called out to several times in his heart, did not come out from the gap.
Just as the gap appeared, a melodious phoenix cry resounded through the sky.
Both mother and daughter were familiar with this cry. After all, when Erniu was burned to ashes and then reborn from the ashes, he made such a cry. The sound was really novel and they both remembered it clearly.
So now, has it changed back into the colorful phoenix form and started fighting with the bugs?
Although Erniu looks like a small chicken with beautiful feathers in its usual state, its size can actually grow larger when it is in the colorful phoenix state. It is no problem for it to kill ten or eight insects with one foot.
The moment he heard Fengming's cry, Zhou Ling felt relieved. Although they had no spiritual power, the physical strength of the two beasts was still good. Even without spiritual power, their combat effectiveness was still off the charts. It was easy for them to deal with some insects.
(End of this chapter)
