Chapter 151: Deception Under Illusion

If the Fierce Beast yesterday used propeller-style propulsion, then this Fierce Beast, which looked like a Ping Pong Fish, used jet propulsion.

This sudden acceleration left Zhou Liming dumbfounded, and he found it somewhat hard to accept in his heart. The abilities of Fierce Beasts could truly be described as ever-changing, and each one possessed unique movement and attack forms. Like the Leaf Sac Beast using the leaf sacs on its back to launch light clusters similar to energy bullets, or the sonic attack of the Flying Bat Beast, each had its own characteristics.

If it was floating forward just a moment ago, now it could be called flying.

The moment this Fierce Beast suddenly accelerated, Zhou Liming felt that something was wrong. Without hesitation, he left the lakeside, ran into the woods, and hid far away from the lake.

In the blink of an eye, this Fierce Beast flew over the lake, its dolphin-like cries sounding even more cheerful. It was seen diving fiercely from the sky, and from its sharp nose, streams of pale green mist were sprayed out, instantly dyeing a large patch of the sky pale green.

This mist seemed to have weight; once sprayed out, it sank towards the ground.

“Holy crap, what is this thing?”

It was Zhou Liming’s first time seeing this kind of attack method. It was very gentle, without the vigorous dragon breath of the Flying Dragon Beast, without the crackling purple arcs of the Electric Spirit Beast, without the reckless rampaging of the Boneback Beast, and without the blue light clusters of the Giant Worm Beast that could level an entire street.

But Zhou Liming knew that this pale green mist was definitely not simple.

If you thought a Level Five Fierce Beast’s Form Skill had no killing power , you would probably die a miserable death. There would be fights among Fierce Beasts too; could a Level Five Fierce Beast with no killing power survive? Without attack methods that could surely deter others, it would have been killed by its own kind long ago.

Perhaps to verify Zhou Liming’s guess, this layer of pale green mist covered the woods in just a few seconds and sank among the trees.

Change began to unfold in this instant…

The emerald green woods, under the mist, changed at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was like a young man whose skin was rapidly aging, soon turning into a layer of wrinkled skin. But this was not the most terrifying part; the terrifying part was that even though the young man had turned into an old man in an instant, it did not stop. The skin continued to age, finally becoming dry and withered, until it turned into countless powders.

Yes, this patch of woods was enacting this terrifying scene.

Trees were rapidly turning yellow, and leaves fell naturally without wind, quickly carpeting the ground with a layer. During this falling process, they turned from yellow to withered in mid-air. By the time they landed on the ground, a spectacular scene of a layer of leaves had just formed, but in the next second, these withered leaves turned into powder, covering the ground below.

First the leaves, then the branches and trunks, until this patch of woods was left with only a layer of powder with a hint of greyish-white.

Zhou Liming swallowed his saliva desperately. “What the hell kind of Form Skill is this? It’s too terrifying. It completely violates the laws of nature. It’s like controlling time and evolving all this at ten thousand times the speed.” Zhou Liming completely could not believe everything he was seeing.

In this woods, there were still a dozen people struggling under this mist, their skin aging rapidly.

“Help, help! Save me, save me…”

“Come save me, I beg you, save me!”

“Ah, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die.”

Terrified screams, helpless eyes… these dozen struggling people became weaker and weaker. The shrill screams they let out made everyone who heard them creep out.

But the people in the Cave did not dare to move a muscle, even if among these dozen people, there were their friends. That pale green mist, at this moment, became a devil, a forbidden zone for life. Anyone who witnessed all this was filled with panic. The evolution process of a person from youth to old age strongly stimulated everyone’s senses.

Even Zhou Liming lost the courage to save them at this moment.

The Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast in the sky continued to make these dolphin-like cries. Suddenly, it continuously sprayed out airflow from its rear, and then it was like a balloon that was deflating, flying chaotically in the sky, constantly making “whooshing” sounds, and spinning around desperately.

With the jetting of the Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast, Zhou Liming could perceive that the Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast was shrinking.

Zhou Liming initially thought it was his illusion again, but in just a moment, this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast with a diameter of fifty or sixty meters actually shrank by half, leaving a diameter of only about thirty meters. But this was not the end, because it was still shrinking, constantly shrinking, as if it really was a balloon full of gas.

Witnessing this, Zhou Liming’s thoughts could not keep up with the rhythm of the Fierce Beast’s changes.

In just about a minute, the dozen people who were struggling just now had completely turned into dried human bodies. The shouting and crying for help disappeared, leaving silence. They were all lying on the ground, motionless.

And the Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast in the sky changed even more astonishingly, shrinking to a diameter of less than ten meters, and was still shrinking further. Gradually, it began to become narrow and long, no longer round like a ping pong ball as it was just now.

“Damn it, can someone tell me what the hell this thing is?”

Of course, no one could tell Zhou Liming the answer; in fact, everyone wanted to know the answer.

Finally, this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast, which had just been huge with a diameter of fifty or sixty meters, shrank to about five meters. Then it could no longer support itself to fly, slowly fell to the ground, and then used that small row of tentacles to crawl around, quickly arriving in front of these dozen dried corpses, piercing its long nose into these corpses.

Zhou Liming was completely confused; everything about this Fierce Beast was baffling.

No one dared to startle this Fierce Beast that was doing who knows what; they all held their breath, watching its every move nervously. Everyone was praying that it would not spray that damn pale green mist again. No one wanted the scene that just unfolded before their eyes to replay on their own bodies.

The speed of this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast was very fast; all the corpses were pierced by it. Then it returned to the first corpse it had pierced, actually extending its mouth, seeming to be sucking something.

“Is it eating?”

Zhou Liming widened his eyes. These corpses were already dried up, with only a bit of withered skin stuck to the skeleton, and it was still eating? Wouldn’t that be too weird? Moreover, Zhou Liming could see its throat moving, as if it were swallowing something. What good was there for it to swallow from dried corpses? Zhou Liming completely could not understand.

Its meal time was not long. After sucking all the corpses once, it just glanced at the Cave, turned away with no interest, and let out a cheerful cry. The satisfaction in it could be heard by anyone.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew over, blowing away the fading pale green mist.

Then an even more incredible scene appeared in everyone’s eyes. Anyone who saw this scene stared dead at everything they saw, their eyes almost popping out.

“Holy crap…”

Zhou Liming only felt that he was about to explode with anger. Not just the others, even he himself had been completely deceived. The magical everything just now made him ignore using his aura, which caused this bitter result. This method of being deceived right before his eyes, and then the other party swaggering to harvest the fruits of victory, gave Zhou Liming an impulse to go berserk.

The woods that had turned into powder in everyone’s eyes just now appeared alive and well before everyone’s eyes after this pale green mist was blown away.

The dozen people who had turned into corpses were indeed dead, lying on the ground, leaving only bones and a skin sack. Their flesh and blood had been sucked dry by this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast using a spider’s feeding method. One could imagine that its first step just now, when it pierced its sharp nose into the dried corpses, was to inject venom, and the second step was after the venom melted the flesh and blood into liquid, which was when it just ate.

Now Zhou Liming had figured everything out.

This sprayed pale green mist carried a deceptive hallucinatory property, able to produce an illusion for things within its coverage. For example, the woods withering into powder was all a human hallucination; the real woods were still there. And these people shouting for help also fell into the illusion, thinking they were aging and dying. In fact, they were just affected in their brains and fell into a coma.

Poor Zhou Liming did not notice this scene at all but was immersed in the shocking scene of withering into powder.

Not only that, but even this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast was deceiving everyone. Its body had a film-like layer of skin that could expand itself about ten times like a balloon, allowing it to float in the air. Just now, to come down and eat, it had to discard its disguise to facilitate its landing and feeding.

An incredibly strange method, but it succeeded, successfully deceiving everyone who did not know it, and successfully challenging everyone’s imagination.

The first to react was Wang Ruijin. He picked up his submachine gun and started shooting frantically. Bullets constantly flew past this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast, which had started to retreat. Tang Rui and the others also woke up and joined this venting action. Unfortunately, the bullets hitting this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast did not even cause injury, let alone kill it.

Seemingly full, the mouth of this Ping Pong Fish Fierce Beast suddenly opened wide, and then it started sucking air frantically. In a moment, it expanded several times and floated in the air.

After it had sucked enough air, it returned to its previous spectacular size of fifty or sixty meters. Under everyone’s angry gazes, it seemed unaware of anything. Its rear sprayed air like farting, constantly pushing it forward, gradually moving away.

The whole process seemed somewhat leisurely…