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Desert Scorpion

Desert Scorpion

Aug 23, 2024

"Ah! This is simply not a place for people to stay. The temperature in the mountains has never been so high!"

Xiang Luoxi complained while kicking the little melon sitting on his shoulder fiercely. Although its weight was not worth mentioning, it could sit there comfortably, while he had to travel under the scorching sun.

Not only that, the man and the mouse didn't even have a destination, so they could only keep going. Xiang Luoxi couldn't stand this tormenting process anymore.

"You are quite comfortable! How about letting me sit on your shoulders and take me for a walk?"

"How can that be? I am also here to show you the direction. Otherwise, it will take you forever to get out of such a large desert?"

Xiang Luoxi curled his lips, and the whole person was like a deflated ball, without any spirit.

Finally, about 20 or 30 meters away from him, there was a black rock about four meters high, and the surface had been eroded by wind and sand, which were all traces of time.

Behind the rock, there is a shady place.

Without much nonsense, Xiang Luoxi dragged his heavy body to the huge rock with all his strength and sat down on the ground.

"Huh~" Xiang Luoxi breathed out in relief, and the whole person felt much more comfortable.

"Hiss~ What is this?"

Xiang Luoxi was directly frightened by the sudden human-shaped skull. He didn't care whether he had the strength or not. He bounced back and flew three or four meters. The little melon on his shoulder was bounced out like a cannonball, and flew nearly ten meters away, smashing a big hole on the soft sand surface.

"Puff!" The little melon opened his mouth and spit out a large mouthful of sand. He was rubbing his dizzy brain with a confused face. He saw Xiang Luoxi in front of him rolling and crawling over, and didn't care whether the sand on the ground was hot or not, and he directly lay behind the little melon.

"What happened? You're so scared!"

The little kid grimaced in pain, and his two little claws kept scratching Xiang Luoxi's face, leaving several bright red marks on it.

"That place... there are so many... so many skulls!"

Under the rock where they had been enjoying the cool before, there were more than a dozen skulls densely placed. Especially without knowing it, Xiang Luoxi sat on a white bone, which made people shudder when thinking about it.

The skulls were neatly arranged in three rows. In the center of each skull, there was a hole about the size of a finger. The hole was not neat, as if it was forcibly dug out by some sharp weapon.

Could there be all kinds of dangers hidden in this uninhabited desert?

At this moment, many black spots that appeared inexplicably on the surface of the yellow sand were slowly moving towards them, attracting Xiang Luoxi's attention.

"What is this?"

A closer look revealed that the black spots on the ground were actually needle-like objects with sharp edges on the top.

What is amazing is that they can actually move in the sand. Their bodies seem to be hidden underground. When these black spikes move, the sand also rises and falls.

Suddenly, a brown giant scorpion broke out of the ground. Unlike the scorpions in the forest, this brown scorpion is more than half a meter in size. Its eight tentacles are frightening, and its surface seems to be polished by sand and becomes extremely smooth. The black needle-like object seen earlier is actually the tail needle of this brown giant scorpion!

Judging from the number, there are more than twenty giant scorpions like it. Those human skulls may have come from their hands.

Xiang Luoxi's brain was blank in an instant, and fear filled his heart. He even forgot the most basic escape.

"Hurry..." Xiaogua, who was standing on Xiang Luoxi's shoulder, pulled his ears with his trembling claws.

"Run!!!"

Xiaogua's sharp voice came into his mind and he woke up instantly. Xiang Luoxi's whole body seemed to have opened up his Ren and Du meridians, and he ran away without caring whether the sand was burning or not. In just one breath, Xiang Luoxi ran ten meters away.

"Yes! That's it! Run!" Xiaogua kept urging him on his shoulder, and his nervous heart was about to reach his throat.

Those neatly arranged skulls were undoubtedly the food that the giant scorpions had eaten. Xiang Luoxi felt an unprecedented power, and his speed reached its peak in an instant! This is the fear of facing death!

"How is it? Did I get rid of them?"

Xiang Luoxi's black hair was blown back by the wind, and he did not forget to ask Xiaogua about the situation of the giant scorpions.

Feeling the whistling wind beside his ears, Xiang Luoxi only felt that his speed had reached its peak, and these giant scorpions should have been thrown away by him.

"No! No!"

Xiaogua wanted to jump up anxiously. Even though Xiang Luoxi's speed had exceeded the limit, the giant scorpions still followed closely. Are you kidding me? How can a two-legged creature outrun an eight-legged one?

Xiang Luoxi looked back and got goosebumps all over his body. He saw more than 20 giant crabs swarming behind him, running towards him frantically. He felt a chill on his back and sped up like a chicken.

If he fell into their hands, he would be eaten into a pile of bones in just a moment.

"Hurry up! We are getting closer and closer! If they catch up with us, we will die!"

Xiang Luoxi clenched his teeth, his expression was a little stiff, and the feeling of dry mouth became stronger and stronger. In such a desert, it is too fatal to have no water.

Feeling the hot wind whistling by his side, Xiang Luoxi used all his strength and asked hysterically:

"Why are they staring at me? Can't you communicate with them? Tell them that my meat is not delicious, can you let me go!"

"Shut up! Run!"

Xiaogua actually gave up communicating with them directly, and now only wanted to run as far as he could.

"You!"

Xiang Luoxi was very angry when he saw the indifferent Xiaogua, and shouted loudly:

"Since you can communicate with them, find a way to let them let us go! I don't want to be eaten by a group of scorpions! Hurry! Otherwise I will throw you down!"

Xiaogua's eyes were about to pop out, and he gritted his teeth and said viciously:

"Do you think I don't want to communicate with them? It's not that I can't do it, but that they can't do it!"

"They can't do it?" Xiang Luoxi didn't dare to stop at all, and could only continue to listen to Xiaogua's explanation.

"They are just a group of cold-blooded predators with low IQ! Even among all the monsters, they are the majority without brains! I can communicate with them, but they can't understand me. In their eyes, you come here to bring them food!"

Xiang Luoxi was stunned, and then showed a bitter expression. He didn't expect that he would meet a group of brainless things and couldn't even hear the words clearly.

In fact, the wisdom of most monsters is relatively low. When the monsters are weak, they only know how to hunt and reproduce, which is also the most basic survival. Only monsters with slightly stronger strength can have wisdom comparable to humans. As for the group of giant scorpions behind him, they are just a group of guys with simple limbs and developed brains.

"Not only that." Xiaogua continued.

"What they are talking about now is that they want to gnaw you until only your skull is left. It seems that they haven't encountered prey for many days. If they meet you today, they will definitely not let you go!"

After hearing this, a black line appeared on Xiang Luoxi's forehead. He really wanted to sigh at his luck. He sneaked out of the village, but he was kidnapped in less than half a day.

After that, he was inexplicably knocked unconscious by their attack. When he woke up, he came to this uninhabited desert. He walked for two hours and found nothing. It's like they threw me here out of thin air. Isn't this just letting me fend for myself?

"What about you? They won't eat me and then let you go!"

Xiaogua swallowed his saliva a little heavily, and pointed his little claws at a giant scorpion at the back. The size of this giant scorpion is much larger than the others. The stinger on its back is about the size of a fist. If it hits it, I'm afraid it will die directly.

Not only that, other giant scorpions did not dare to line up with it, but just followed it silently, as if they were afraid of its huge stinger.

"That one, well... seems to be their boss. It said that no one can touch me after it catches me."

"Huh?" Xiang Luoxi gritted his teeth and uttered three words one by one:

"Why... what?"

Xiang Luoxi refused to do it on the spot. Why should they bite him to the bone after catching him, but no one can touch Xiaogua after catching him?

Is this the discrimination chain of monsters? Just because he is a human?

Xiaogua was frightened and trembled a little, but he was not frightened by Xiang Luoxi's harsh words, but by the giant scorpion that led the way.

"It said I was its dessert, and it wanted to eat me to pieces..."

Xiang Luoxi calmed down, but he burst out laughing:

"Hehe, then my end is pretty good, I have one more skull than you."

Xiaogua opened his mouth, as if choked by Xiang Luoxi's silly words. At this time, Xiang Luoxi actually had such a stupid answer. Is this really a human? Why does it feel that his IQ is lower than that of the giant scorpion behind him?

Xiaogua grabbed Xiang Luoxi's right ear and pounced on him viciously.

"Ah!!!"

"Is it me or you that is abnormal! Is it time to worry about the end now? Can you run faster! I don't want to die without any residue left."

Xiaogua looked back and saw that the leading giant scorpion was getting closer and closer to them, less than ten meters away. The giant scorpion was very fast, even Xiang Luoxi couldn't get rid of it, and the distance between the two was slowly shrinking.

At the same time, Xiang Luoxi had gradually felt exhausted. Although his desire to survive temporarily allowed him to break through his own limits, he was just an ordinary person after all. After running for a long time, Xiang Luoxi was already exhausted and out of breath.

"It's over!"
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