From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 146 Powerful Fire Creature

The area ahead where the temperature rises is a Gobi desert in the Liuchuan area, with little vegetation and exposed sandstone everywhere.

This Gobi desert is not large, with a diameter of less than two kilometers, and there is a sandstone hill in the middle.

Lu Heng and his group were preparing to enter the central area of ​​the Gobi Desert.

Su Muyu suddenly pointed forward and said in a hurried tone: "Flare! A flare is being fired over there."

Because of the fog, visibility during the day is less than ten meters, and the thickness of the fog can reach three hundred meters.

Therefore, a psychic without perception skills cannot see the flares in the fog.

Looking up at the sky, you can't even see the branches ten meters high.

Therefore, only the perceiver can see the flare.

Su Muyu had been letting the reconnaissance eagle fly outside the fog for reconnaissance, so it discovered the flare at the first time.

In this foggy valley, there could be no other people with special abilities except Jian Qing's team.

Therefore, the appearance of the flare must be a distress signal sent by the team led by Jian Qing.

According to the initial agreement, the number of flares fired represents the degree of danger.

"Let's go! Let's go over there. How many flares did they send out?" Lu Heng immediately led the team to rush in the direction of the flares.

"One, only one."

While answering, Su Muyu controlled the reconnaissance eagle to fly over and investigate the situation.

Since the location where the flare appeared was not far away, the Scout Eagle could arrive in just over ten seconds after using the acceleration skill.

After seeing the situation clearly, Su Muyu followed the team to provide support while reporting the situation:
"Jian Qing's team encountered a huge fire creature. This creature was ten meters tall and was emitting flames all over its body. The flames it spewed out exploded, and sparks were all over the ground."

When Lu Heng heard the description, a possibility came to his mind. He accelerated and rushed to the sandstone hill, where he saw Jian Qing's team fighting a fire creature, retreating while fighting.

This fire creature was actually a Balrog.

Just as Su Muyu described, this fire demon was ten meters tall, with flames burning all over its body. The fireball it threw hit the ground and exploded, splashing out countless pieces of fire.

Someone in Jian Qing's team had been burned by the flames, and the team was protecting the wounded and retreating.

Judging from its size and flame intensity, this fire demon is over level 28.

The flames on the body of a fire demon of such a high level are thousands of degrees hot, and organic creatures cannot get within three meters of it.

If you stay within three meters of it for three seconds, you will be burned by the high temperature.

Not only that, the fireball shot by the Fire Demon is as powerful as a high-explosive incendiary bomb. Anyone touched by the exploding flames will suffer severe burns.

If you encounter this terrifying abyss monster in the sixth month after the abyss descends, you may be wiped out.

Jian Qing has been controlling the strong wind to resist the fireball attack.

Every time the fireball fired by the Fire Demon was blown off course by the tornado, the team was not hit directly by the fireball.

Otherwise, if hit by the fireball, at least half of the people would die.

Lu Heng rushed forward and used a move [Thunder Sky Prison] to seal off the Flame Demon.

However, the Flame Demon is of fire attribute and has a high resistance to lightning. Lightning bombardment cannot cause effective damage to it and can only trap it temporarily.

Chen Zihang, Wu Weibing and others immediately stepped forward to help the wounded in Jian Qing's team retreat.

With the support, Jian Qing’s pressure was reduced a lot.

"What's going on?" Lu Heng asked hurriedly.

"We encountered it when we were exploring the sandstone hill ahead. People were injured as soon as we met them. Our car was also blown up by the fireball, so we could only send flares to ask for help." Jian Qing quickly recounted what happened.

"Are there any cracks in the sandstone hills?" Lu Heng asked hurriedly.

"I don't know yet. I didn't have time to investigate before I was attacked by this thing." Jian Qing answered while thinking about countermeasures.

Some of her team members were already injured, and the most reasonable decision now was to withdraw from the Gobi Desert immediately and treat the wounded.

We can consider what to do next.

"Let's retreat first. After we rest, we'll deal with this thing." Jian Qing proposed this decision.

"After you came here, is this the only fire demon you encountered?" Lu Heng asked hurriedly.

"Yes, no other abyss creatures were found." Jian Qing nodded.

"Then we must get rid of this thing as soon as possible and destroy the rift point, otherwise other abyss creatures will gather here."

Abyss creatures are not unintelligent beasts. Once humans want to destroy the rift point, the abyss creatures in the fog will immediately gather to guard the rift point.

Along the way, I encountered several abyss creatures.

Apart from anything else, if a few more Abyss Aliens came, plus this Fire Demon, the two teams combined would not be able to withstand it, not to mention that there were already casualties in Jian Qing's team.

If you don't know this information, the best strategy is indeed to withdraw from the Gobi Desert, rest and recuperate, and then proceed slowly.

However, the longer the time drags on, the more abyss creatures gather.

Therefore, if you want to deal with the fire demon in front of you, you must act now, otherwise there will be no chance if it is too late.

After hearing Lu Heng's explanation, Jian Qing thought for a while and chose to believe it.

She looked back and saw that the wounded in the team had been evacuated to a safe distance, so she asked, "What are you going to do?"

While the two were discussing, the Flame Demon had already broken free from the lightning cage and attacked Lu Heng, who was closest to him.

As the Balrog burns with raging flames, the flames will evaporate the mist.

Therefore, the fog around the Fire Demon will be much thinner, and visibility can reach more than 20 meters.

When Lu Heng saw the fireball shot by the Flame Demon, he immediately dodged to the left and took quick countermeasures.

On the way here, the team passed a pool of water, which was the upstream source of the stream.

The most direct and effective strategy to deal with fire is water.

Lu Heng pointed in the direction behind him and said, "There is a pool of water over there. Lead the Flame Demon there first."

Jian Qing understood what it meant as soon as she heard it.

When they came over, they also passed by that pool of water.

After entering the fog, the two teams explored separately.

The dividing line is the stream in the middle of the valley.

The upper source of the stream is the pond, which is named Qinglongtan on the map.

The stream goes upstream and ends at Qinglongtan.

Therefore, going further north from Qinglongtan, there is no stream in the Gobi area, which is the end point of the two teams' exploration.

The tracked vehicle of Lu Heng's team broke down after encountering a fungal mat.

So for the next few days, we walked, so the pace was slower.

Jian Qing's team drove all the way to the Gobi area, so they arrived first and were attacked by the fire demon.

Now, Lu Heng suggested to lead the Flame Demon to the Qinglong Pond. Jian Qing agreed immediately and rode the strong wind to rush towards the Qinglong Pond.

The fire demon chased for a kilometer without catching up and was ready to give up.

When Jian Qing saw this, she turned around, raised her assault rifle, and fired a burst of bullets at the beast.

The fire demon became angry again and continued to chase, all the way to Qinglongtan.

Just like the name, this pool of water is blue and bottomless.

Although the Fire Demon was lured to the Qinglong Pond, it was impossible for the Fire Demon to actively dive into the water.

If it were someone else, there might not be any way, but for Feng Hou Jian Qing, she only needed to use a little wind power to solve the problem.

Lu Heng made this decision because he knew Jian Qing's abilities.

Without any reminder, Jian Qing rushed to the front of Qinglongtan and jumped directly into it. She fell towards the water, but did not sink. Instead, she controlled the wind and hovered above the water.

She shouted to the sky, the energy in her body surged, and a tornado appeared around her.

The tornado rolled up the lake water, forming a huge water column with a diameter of three meters, which rose into the sky like a water dragon.

The water dragon rushed thirty meters into the air, then turned downward and rushed towards the fire demon.

Puff! Chichichi…

The water dragon and the fire demon collided, and there was a hissing sound that extinguished the flames.

The flames on the fire demon's body were extinguished by half, revealing a charred entity like coal.

However, after the water dragon is used up, the extinguished flames on the Fire Demon's body will slowly burn again.

Jian Qing continued to increase the intensity of source energy output, rolled up a larger water dragon, and continued to attack.

After three water dragons went down, most of the flames on the Fire Demon's body were extinguished, and it turned into a huge dark red monster.

Members from the two teams arrived, and Guard Wu unloaded the machine gun from the back of the mechanical tiger, placed it on the ground and started firing.

Dense artillery shells hit the dark red body of the Fire Demon, shattering it into pieces of coal-like fragments and making fist-sized craters on the Fire Demon's body.

The 20mm machine gun hit the Flame Demon's body, but only created a crater the size of a fist.

The body of this fire demon is as strong as steel.

20mm may not seem large, only as wide as a thumb, but the power of the machine gun is very great.

If it were a human being, after being hit by a 20mm bullet, the body would be instantly shredded into pieces of flesh and blood by the kinetic energy, and it would be impossible to put it back together.

Such a fierce sweep could only create a crater the size of a fist on the Flame Demon.

To a ten-meter-tall fire demon, a bullet hole the size of a fist is no different from a tickle.

……

Jian Qing continued to control the water dragon to attack the fire demon, preventing its flames from regenerating.

After the flames went out, the heat radiating from the Fire Demon dropped rapidly.

If the flame is burning fiercely, if you get within three meters of it, you will have to endure the scorching heat of several thousand degrees.

Therefore, when encountering a fire demon, melee psychics have no way to deal with it and cannot even get close to it.

Now, the flames on the Balrog have gone out, the temperature has dropped, and we can finally get closer.

Lu Heng seized the opportunity, leaped forward high, and used the Zhenyue style to unleash the source skill [Rift Slash].

The three-meter-long sword slashed down, splitting the fire demon's body in half.

The fire demon's coal-mine-like charred body split in the middle to the chest, and suddenly a ball of blazing flames burst out.

Bang!
The violent explosion covered an area of ​​twenty meters.

This is the explosion of the Fire Demon's lava core, a self-destruction skill with terrifying power.

With this lava core explosion skill, even a powerful melee psychic who really blows up the fire demon will be killed by this self-destruction skill.

Fortunately, Lu Heng knew this skill from the beginning, so at the moment the lava core exploded, he activated [Shadow Walk], instantly disappeared into the shadows, and avoided the explosion.

Bang!
The violent explosion shook the ground like an earthquake.

Jian Qing was still controlling the water dragon to prepare for an attack when she suddenly saw Lu Heng take action. Then the Flame Demon self-exploded. Everything happened too suddenly.

The explosion covered an area of ​​twenty meters in radius. The flames engulfed everything, and even a deep pit was blown out on the ground.

And Lu Heng was also engulfed by the explosion.

When Jian Qing saw this scene, she showed a panic expression on her face and shouted in a shrill voice: "Lu Heng!"

Not only her, but also Su Muyu, Lin Zeyu, Chen Zihang and others who came to support saw this horrific explosion.

Su Muyu knew Lu Heng's abilities very well and knew that Lu Heng had the skills to avoid the explosion, but she was still very worried. She immediately controlled the reconnaissance eagle to rush into the aftermath of the explosion to confirm Lu Heng's safety.

next moment.

A shadow wrapped in shadow energy jumped out from the aftermath of the explosion, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

But the battle is not over yet.

After the Flame Demon self-destructed, its body split into three parts.

In the flames of the explosion, the three bodies began to burn again and turned into three fire demons.

However, after splitting into three, its size became much smaller, only four meters tall.

Even so, it is not easy to deal with.

This is the terrifying thing about the Fire Demon. Even if you are able to kill it, it will split into smaller Fire Demons after self-destruction.

Seeing three fire demons split apart, Lu Heng distinguished based on his experience that among these three fire demons, two were level 22 and one that was slightly larger was level 23.

Since this was the first time Jian Qing and Lu Heng worked together, she was stunned when she saw Lu Heng coming out of the explosion.

Lu Heng shouted loudly: "Continue! Water dragon attack!"

Jian Qing came back to her senses and quickly controlled the tornado, continuing to roll up the pool water to attack the split fire demon.

After splitting into three level 22 and 23 fire demons, it is not as difficult to deal with as before.

The two teams began to attack together.

After the water dragon extinguished the flames, the fire attack of the fire demon was greatly reduced.

The mechanical tiger unloaded its machine guns and supplies, let out a metallic roar, used its B-level skill [City Breaking Charge], and rushed towards one of the fire demons.

With the help of skills, the mechanical tiger charged straight ahead like a mad iron bull and crashed into the fire demon.

Bang!
The violent impact directly shattered the body of the fire demon.

This level 22 Fire Demon self-exploded again and shattered into three level 17 small Fire Demons.

The mechanical tiger was also affected by the explosion of the lava core, causing its liquid metal shell to deform and its entire head to be blown off.

However, the mechanical tiger struggled for a few times on the ground, and its liquid metal shell recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and continued to pounce on another fire demon.

The psychics who saw the mechanical tiger fighting for the first time all showed surprised expressions when they saw this scene.

The combat power of this mechanical tiger is far stronger than they expected.

Moreover, this reckless fighting style is something that humans cannot imitate.

Even if someone has learned the skill [Break the City], they would not dare to ram their head into the Flame Demon.

Humans don't dare, but the mechanical tiger does. As long as the mechanical core is not damaged, it doesn't matter what shape the outer liquid metal is blown into.

However, smashing a level 22 Fire Demon is the limit.

If it was a level 28 fire demon, a fireball would hit it and the metal shell of the mechanical tiger would be burned into molten iron.

After the Fire Demon split for the second time, it became a small Fire Demon of level 17. It no longer posed a threat to the psychic warriors of both teams and could be cleaned up with just a few skills.

The battle lasted for half an hour until the Fire Demon was broken into Level 1 Fire Spirits and cleared away. Only then did the battle end completely.

Every time a fire demon is defeated, the participating warriors can absorb the demonic energy.

Lu Heng first killed the level 28 fire demon and directly gained 800 points of demonic energy.

The subsequent fire demon split into hundreds of smaller fire demons, which released tremendous demonic energy.

The energy absorbed by Lu Heng formed an energy tide in his body, breaking through the level limit again.

[Energy level increased to level 26, all attributes +3, agility attribute additional +0.9]

升级之后，五维属性提升到了：力量58、敏捷74、体质58、精神59、感知58。

Su Muyu also reached level 25, with both his spirit and perception reaching 60 points.

(End of this chapter)