169: Chapter 123: Arrow Bamboo Forest, Rat King, New Camp_3 169: Chapter 123: Arrow Bamboo Forest, Rat King, New Camp_3 Facing such an overwhelming victory, Xia Hong couldn’t help but feel much more relaxed.
After all, these were nearly four hundred low-level Cold Beasts.
Under normal circumstances, even with more than a hundred people present today, even if everyone in the Great Xia Camp risked their lives, they wouldn’t dare to fight against this group of Rodents.
Ninety-nine bows, over three thousand Iron Arrows.
Unexpectedly, they really resolved this formidable threat!
Xia Hong’s heart was in turmoil.
He looked back at everyone, waved his big hand, and was about to ask people to gather the prey on the ground.
But before he could speak, he felt a slight tremor under his feet.
“Everyone, quiet down!”
Instinctively, Xia Hong thought the movement beneath his feet was caused by everyone’s excitement, so he signaled everyone to quiet down.
But as soon as he spoke, he suddenly realized something was wrong.
With the hardness of the ground in the Ice Abyss World, it’s impossible for a group from the Logging Realm to cause such movement.
“Get out of the way!”
Xia Hong turned his head and shouted to everyone, then suddenly flung his body to the side to dodge.
He felt it vividly, the movement was right under his feet.
The people, confused and startled, quickly reacted out of instinct, scattering in all directions.
It all happened in an instant: Xia Hong flung himself to the ground, everybody scattered, and before their movements were complete, the spot where Xia Hong had just stood burst open with a red glow about an inch wide, breaking through the earth.
The red glow broke through the ground almost instantaneously.
Before Xia Hong could fully dodge, it had already pierced through the sole of his foot, shooting straight towards his head.
Panic flashed across Xia Hong’s face, his pupils filled with blood.
Despite his reaction to dodge his head, the speed of the red glow was just too fast, making it impossible to fully evade.
A pierced head would mean death or at least losing half of his life.
At that critical moment, Xia Hong didn’t even know who was shouting; he just felt himself being slammed aside, followed by the red glow piercing through something with a muffled sound.
Xia Hong couldn’t care less about his pierced foot; he whipped around to find out that it was Luo Yuan who had pushed him away.
Luo Yuan had been thrown back over ten meters, a fist-sized blood hole in his shoulder, and he fell to the ground, his state unknown.
Even worse, the red glow piercing through Luo Yuan’s shoulder continued forward, penetrating the bodies of seven or eight more people, two of whom were unlucky enough to have their heads pierced, making survival impossible.
“Something is underground, everyone scatter, Xia Chuan, save Luo Yuan!”
Dragging his injured leg, Xia Hong shouted angrily at everyone and looked back at the ground he had just stood on, now with a newborn fist-sized round hole, his pupils constricting.
This red glow, whether in size, speed, or lethality, was completely different from those emitted by the earlier Rodents.
Not to mention, it shot out directly from underground!
Judging by the distance from the initial tremor, the red glow’s origin was definitely five or six meters deep.
Which meant, this underground Rodent had an attack range far beyond other Rodents.
“It’s the leader, definitely the leader, these Cold Beasts indeed have a leader!”
Whether from the exceptionally high intelligence of Cold Beasts or the previous encounter with the Frost Wolf pack during migration, Xia Hong had vaguely sensed it before, but he dared not confirm as he hadn’t seen it.
Now, he could finally confirm it.
However, it’s a little too late.
Looking down at his pierced foot, despite the pain-induced cold sweat pouring down his forehead, Xia Hong ignored it, pulling out some Golden Sore Powder from his pouch and hastily applying it, then immediately turned to give orders.
“Everyone, stay where you are, do not move, do not make any sound!”
Since it’s hiding underground to launch a sneak attack, no matter the strength of this Rodent King, at the very least, its nature must be extremely cautious.
If it doesn’t emerge, it can only rely on hearing to determine human positions.
With the Ice Abyss World’s low temperature, even above the ground, it’s extremely difficult for species’ scents to travel, let alone the Rodent King hiding underground, making it impossible to determine human positions through scent.
It can only rely on hearing!
As Xia Hong’s words fell, everyone immediately froze in place, even Xia Chuan, who was carrying Luo Yuan, stood still.
The previously noisy environment turned silent in an instant.
Sure enough, as everyone remained motionless, the movement underground also stopped abruptly, with no subsequent red glow shooting out.
In the whole field, only Xia Hong was moving.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to stop, but his earlier command to keep quiet had already exposed his position.
Xia Hong could clearly feel that the Rodent King was darting around beneath his feet, sticking closely to him, evidently preparing to shoot a second red glow.
“This vile beast, even underground it moves so fast, it’s over!”
The Rodent was already fast, especially given that the underground Rodent King wasn’t affected by the Teng Jiao Poison.
Realizing that no matter how he ran, the underground Rodent King was right behind him, Xia Hong felt somewhat desperate.
Based on the penetration power and speed of the first red glow, there’s no way he, with his injured foot, could dodge.
Once the second red glow shoots out, he would inevitably die!
“Big brother, I’ll help you!”
“Leader, I’ll assist you.”
Just as Xia Hong was in despair, four voices suddenly rang out in succession from the crowd.
It was actually Xia Chuan and Zhao Long’s three brothers.
At this moment, Xia Chuan had placed the unconscious Luo Yuan on the ground.
While rushing towards Xia Hong, he constantly shouted, and Zhao Long’s brothers did the same, charging while shooting arrows madly at the underground area behind Xia Hong.