Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 185 - Slapped Flying!

Chapter 185 -185 Slapped Flying!

Sun Jingtao and Ye Qing quickly cleared an empty area ahead, and Kong Wu immediately jumped down.

Boulders and chunks of mud were still continuously falling from above.

The two men in front were protected by helmets.

Kong Wu’s head was hit by several stones, small as they were, it still hurt quite a bit.

“Smack!”

Misfortune does not come singly, a shiny black Emperor Scorpion fell from the sky, landing neatly on his shoulder.

This scorpion was quite fierce, with pincer claws the size of palms slashing towards his cheek, and its venomous scorpion’s sting raised high.

“Kong Wu, be careful!” Su Dai’s pupils shrank, and she screamed in fright.

Kong Wu could clearly feel the weight of the scorpion.

Before the scorpion could plunge its red scorpion’s sting into his arm, Kong Wu was already shrieking hysterically, reflexively grasping the scorpion’s body and “whoosh” tossing it out into the fog.

The entire movement was fluid like flowing clouds, clean and decisive.

“F*ck! That damned thing! So scary!!” Kong Wu couldn’t help but curse and then he quickly headed towards the engine, still shaken.

“Humming” among the roaring sound, the assault boat was swiftly activated and gradually moved away from the cave entrance.

Visibility was limited, and Kong Wu’s boat did not move very fast.

From the water surface ahead came the “crackling” sound of objects hitting the water.

Jiang Yan and Ye Qing knew that was the sound of Song Qian and the others throwing the Emperor Scorpions from the cabin into the water.

“Honey, be very careful!” Su Dai shouted with concern, fixating on the blurred shadow of the assault boat on the water.

Sun Jingtao responded with an “Okay!”

“These scorpions are not right,” Ye Qing furrowed his brow.

Jiang Yan glanced at him, “What do you mean?”

“The Emperor Scorpion is one of the world’s largest scorpions, even without mutation, individuals can grow up to twenty or thirty centimeters.

However, they generally live in tropical rainforests or deserts, usually in hot regions.

Before the high temperatures came, Xiangyun had a climate similar to Anming’s, with warm winters and cool summers, not hot.”

“Could it be someone was breeding them, and then the temperature here just happened to be high, allowing them to survive and then proliferate to this scale?” Jiang Yan analyzed.

Before the apocalypse, many people kept exotic pets, and it was not out of the question for someone to keep these giant scorpions.

As for high temperatures and deserts, setting up a complete landscape box at home would suffice.

However, this was still a remote wilderness, how the scorpions got here, and the extent of their population was a problem.

Because even with natural reproduction, it takes time.

And from the onset of high temperatures until now, only a few months have passed.

Moreover, a bad feeling began to emerge in her heart.

According to Sun Jingtao’s earlier words, these scorpions are nocturnal.

It’s clearly daytime now, yet suddenly so many scorpions have appeared, falling into the water and onto the boats, one after another; they should not be targeting them.

After all, the ones they killed yesterday were light yellow scorpions, a clearly different species.

Even if it was for revenge, they couldn’t direct it at them.

This looked more like a collective migration and escape.

Could it be an earthquake is coming?

Xiangyun was not situated on an earthquake belt, but the previous earthquakes in nearby cities had altered the crustal structure, and it was not impossible.

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“Maybe.”

Meanwhile, Ye Qing finished speaking, withdrew his gaze, subconsciously turned around for a look inside the cave, and his pupils constricted:

“Not good! The scorpions are all coming out of the cave!”

Jiang Yan and Su Dai turned their heads to look inside the cave, and involuntarily inhaled a breath of cold air.

The area where they had been burning the fire was now occupied by several shiny black Emperor Scorpions.

These scorpions, like a daredevil squad, slowly crawled over the gasoline and mothballs, breaking through the “Barrier” defensive line set up by the trio and slowly making their way towards the cave entrance.

Further inside, was a dense army of scorpions.

The sound of the assault boat’s engine outside somewhat covered their “rustling” crawling.

Plus, earlier, the attention of Jiang Yan and the three was focused outside, so they were unaware of what was happening inside.

Fortunately, the cave was artificially carved, the walls and the ceiling were quite smooth, with only a few stronger scorpions making it to the ceiling.

Most of the scorpions were moving on the ground.

“Honey, have you cleared the scorpions?” Su Dai called out urgently.

Sun Jingtao, covered in sweat and panting, replied, “Not yet, wait a minute. What’s wrong?”

Only the scorpions on the surface of the cabin showed obvious poisoning.

Those underneath were much more aggressive.

Even with a last-minute dose of insecticide, the poisoning process still needed some time.

Not to mention some had burrowed into luggage bags and storage.

Only Sun Jingtao and Song Qian, who were more skilled, had avoided getting stung so far.

“It’s fine, take your time,” Su Dai didn’t want her husband to worry, and quickly replied.

Su Dai looked to Jiang Yan and Ye Qing, “What should we do?”

This time, she was so anxious that tears came out directly.

With wolves in front and tigers behind, not to mention they were all giant poisonous creatures; were they doomed?

Jiang Yan frowned, struggling with whether to take out the flame thrower from her “Space.”

But then she saw Ye Qing quickly bend over to unscrew the can of gasoline Kong Wu had left at the cave entrance.

Jiang Yan immediately realized, he was preparing to burn the scorpions.

Almost forgetting the weapon at hand.

“You guys move back, watch out for falling scorpions above,” Ye Qing took a breath, then picked up the gasoline and quickly walked into the cave.

He then threw the gasoline across the cave entrance in front of the first few scorpions.

This amount of gasoline was much more than what was spilled on the “Barrier” isolation zone earlier.

The scorpions sniffed and visibly slowed down their movement.

Then he took out a windproof lighter and a piece of cloth from his pocket, wrapped a small stone with the cloth, lit it, and quickly threw it over the gasoline trail.

A fierce flame “whooshed” up, and the three of them felt a wave of heat in front of them.

A strange smell accompanied by the scent of burnt protein quickly filled the air from within the cave.

“Xiao Ye, hold on a few more seconds, we’re almost done clearing!” The others on the assault boat, having noticed the firelight coming from inside the cave, shouted.

“Alright.”

The three replied in unison, focusing intently on their surroundings.

Within two seconds, the assault boat approached the cave entrance.

Song Qian said, “Is there an umbrella in the bag? Take one out to hold up and shield us.”

“I think so,” Su Dai hurriedly answered.

Jiang Yan and Ye Qing also quickly glanced inside the cave and the walls before putting down their backpacks to rummage for umbrellas.

The three paid no attention to the cliff outside where a hungry Emperor Scorpion, with claws held high, crawled into the cave entrance.

It glanced at Jiang Yan, the closest target, let go of its limbs, and free-fell toward her head.

The black body was only halfway down—

“Slap!”

A powerful and invisible force suddenly slapped it away!