Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Because now is a time when things can't be delayed any longer.

Zhao Hao saw Marilena unconsciously sharpening her claws on the wooden door frame, looking just like a mischievous cat.

He also saw Oliver talking to his left hand in the bathroom as if it had come to life and become an individual.

Little Ruan stared with her two tiny green beady eyes: Is this grain reserve talking to me?

Zhao Hao: No, he's clearly starting to go crazy.

This situation was already very bad. Zhao Hao even suspected that there might be a problem with himself, but he was unaware of his own flaws. The process of demonization proceeded so smoothly and naturally.

We can't delay any longer. Oliver won't be able to hold on for more than three days. Then it's Marina's turn, and finally Zhao Hao's.

We still don't know how the mayor will leave, or how long it will take. So we must act quickly!

……

Ten kilometers northeast of Heart Demon Town, hills begin to appear. Although it is not the kind of gray and lifeless land, it is not much better. There are bare rocky hills everywhere, with cracks and depressions appearing from time to time.

The black, angular, and uneven rocks resembled incompletely burned coal slag, which sintered together in heaps to form this large hilly area.

Even the monsters from the town rarely come to this area, because it is more barren and dangerous than the gray wasteland and the twisted forest.

However, Zhao Hao and his two companions had no choice but to come, because the ferocious dragon beast they were looking for was hidden in a cave in these hills.

That's right, that damned monstrous dragon must be some kind of giant reptile that likes to live in burrows.

Many monsters in the town say that this powerful monster, the Rathalos, is a treasure trove. However, in the past two years, many monsters came to hunt it, only to have it delivered to their doorstep. In recent years, no one has bothered with it anymore.

Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit, let alone when hunting a powerful and unpredictable monster.

Zhao Hao finally summoned the Orange King.

After his psionic energy was depleted, Orange suddenly appeared, still in the same posture as in the surface world, lying on his side with one hand supporting his head, and the other hand holding a fried chicken leg!

"Well, I'm struggling to survive here, and you're living such a carefree life!" Zhao Hao grabbed Ju Zuo by the back of the neck and lifted the several-dozen-pound Ju Zuo up.

Orange shoved the chicken leg into her mouth and mumbled, "I tried really hard to help you~ They all thought you were dead, but because I'm here, it proves you're not dead yet."

"Then I should thank you!"

"Don't mention it, it's what I should do."

At this moment, Orange saw Marina standing to the side and immediately flew into a rage, "Zhao Hao, you actually have a cat outside! How could you do this to me?"

This move, this move is a complete reversal of fortune!

In the next instant, Mariana's claws, more than an inch long, were already gripping Orange's forehead.

Orange: "Haha, beautiful, you've misunderstood. What I meant was that Zhao Hao is now in your hands..."

Zhao Hao ignored the stupid cat and took out a book he had prepared in advance from his spatial ring. After looking around, he chose "The Insect World".

Zhao Hao tore off more than a dozen pages from the book, then shredded them into small pieces and threw them out, consuming spiritual energy to transform them into a large swarm of paper wasps and paper beetles.

"Search, search every crevice here..."

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Chapter 149 You Need a Platform

Hundreds of paper wasps and paper beetles scattered, flying and darting about everywhere.

After about ten minutes, Zhao Hao suddenly perked up, "I've got it!"

But the other two people and the cat no longer believed him. Just now, he had already "had" several times, but they were all harmless little monsters.

For example, a rat as thick as an arm, a two-headed venomous snake, a two-tailed scorpion, or a large earthworm.

These little monsters were all rather weak, but killing Zhao Hao, a mass-produced insect scout with virtually no combat ability, was a piece of cake. This resulted in an extremely high false alarm rate, somewhat like the boy who cried wolf.

Zhao Hao said, "This time it's different. There are no other monsters in the area we found this time, and the place is special. We should have found the real culprit. Quiet down, let me take a closer look."

He closed his eyes and observed everything around him through the perspective of the paper wasp: large underground caves, dry and spacious, with many scratches on the rocks and huge claw marks on the ground.

As it flew further in, a psionic reaction gradually appeared, which even the paper wasp's dulled senses could detect, and there was a sound similar to a bellows.

After flying for a while longer, Zhao Hao finally saw the main character, the Ferocious Dragon Beast.

Since it is called a ferocious dragon, it must be a dragon-shaped monster that looks extremely ferocious and terrifying.

Its entire body was covered in bluish-black spiky armor, with barbs and hooks all over its joints. Its face was extremely ferocious, and its four claws were like huge, sharp hooks, as if each one could lift a pig.

The monstrous dragon was over five meters long by itself, and ten meters by its tail. It was lying on the ground sleeping, and its panting breaths blew away the loose soil, creating a small crater.

It looks like a small, wingless dragon.

The Paper Wasp's psionic energy was somewhat disrupted. The Rathalos's breath was scorching hot, and the air was too hot, affecting the operation of mass-producing Paper Wasps.

But it doesn't matter, as long as we found it, that's enough.

Zhao Hao thought for a moment and decided that since it was a disposable item, he might as well give it a try.

He carefully maneuvered the paper wasp over and landed on the thick, hard hide. Good heavens, it was like a suit of armor, with hardly any gaps.

He tried to probe with the paper wasp's only weapon, its stinger, but when he suddenly stabbed it, he broke the stinger off!

As if sensing something, the ferocious dragon beast flipped over, its hard armor rubbing against each other to crush the paper wasp to death.

"Holy crap!" Zhao Hao opened his eyes. "This is fucking hard!"

He controlled a nearby paper wasp to test it out. The paper wasp's stinger could pierce the wood, though not deeply. But it couldn't break through the monster's defenses at all.

He thought about it for a moment and figured that this level of defense was probably equivalent to 40 armor.

Even if an ordinary person were to stab them repeatedly with a dagger, it would be difficult to break through their defenses, and a small-caliber handgun would basically not be able to cause any damage.

His own bone teeth have incredibly strong armor-piercing abilities, so they should be somewhat useful. The problem is that the Rathalos is so huge, how many of his bone teeth would he need to use to have any effect? ​​Should he just grind them down?!

Marina's high-frequency psionic vibration dagger should be effective, but as mentioned before, the damage is limited, and since she's a melee fighter, the risk is far too high.

The monstrous beast only needs to roll on the ground to inflict widespread crushing damage, which is basically impossible to dodge.

And that huge mouth, that scorching breath, those sharp claws, and that long tail. It's practically a melee killer!

This is going to be difficult!

Zhao Hao told Marilena and Oliver about the situation of the monstrous beast.

This thing is a very typical monster from outside the Demon Town, and it should have been a monster to begin with, so it didn't have any serious demonic mutation.

It was able to roam freely in the northeast of Heart Demon Town for several years without any monster daring to provoke it, which truly deserved its reputation.

"Do we still have time to discuss this further?" Marina asked, then stuck out her tongue, which had tiny barbs, and licked her paw.

Zhao Hao, Orange, and Oliver looked at her with strange eyes, but she herself didn't think there was anything wrong with licking her paws.

Oliver shook his head, stretched out his left hand in a duck-like gesture, and asked, "Do you think we still have time?" He shook his left hand, which resembled a head.

Zhao Hao and Ju Zuo exchanged a glance. The issue now wasn't whether they had time or not, but whether two of their own would become demonized while they were fighting!

Zhao Hao sighed softly, but quickly realized something was wrong and adjusted his mindset to avoid following in his footsteps.

Irritability, fear, anxiety... all kinds of negative emotions are undesirable, as they will accelerate the process of becoming demonic.

"Let's give it a try first, and prepare to retreat."

……

"Damn it! Run! I can't keep going!"

Zhao Hao shouted as he ran, not forgetting to turn back and use a barrier to trap the ferocious dragon beast.

However, the ferocious dragon was incredibly strong and rammed its head directly into the barrier, causing the barrier to tremble violently with a loud boom.

Then the monster became enraged and unleashed a scorching orange-red breath, turning the entire barrier into a sea of ​​fire.

Zhao Hao felt his spiritual energy being completely depleted in an instant, like water being released from a dam, and the barrier couldn't hold on any longer. He might as well just explode!

Unfortunately, that monster was truly tough and thick-skinned, and the presence of psionic energy on its skin further increased its psionic resistance.

The barrier shattered like countless sharp blades tearing it apart, leaving only some deep scratches on the surface of the monstrous beast, without even drawing blood.

Instead, the monstrous dragon itself breathed fire within the barrier, burning itself until it was covered in smoke.

This monster doesn't have any particularly strange abilities, but precisely because its abilities are all so ordinary, it has focused entirely on defense.

Its armor is so thick that it's hard to break through with physical attacks, and it's practically impossible to get close in melee combat. A single swipe of its tail can smash a boulder the size of a reclining ox into eight pieces. Its four sharp claws can carve words into rock walls!

Even with extremely high psionic resistance, Zhao Hao tried several minor spells, but none of them worked. Even his damage amplification was severely weakened.

Moreover, the bone teeth weren't as useful as I thought. They were met with strong resistance. Although they could break through the defenses, they could only leave small holes about the thickness of two fingers. For this rampaging behemoth, they were practically insignificant.

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"

Fortunately, I had been testing the waters beforehand and had already prepared an escape route.

While Zhao Hao stalled for a moment, Marina disappeared. Oliver, aided by Little Soft's sticky touch, also vanished behind the mountain wall.

Zhao Hao quickly took out a piece of paper folded into the shape of wings, used his spiritual energy to activate it, and then tossed it behind his back, using the paper wings to soar into the sky.

These paper wings have a decent flight speed, but they're difficult to control and are vulnerable to too many things. They're bad for getting too hot, bad for getting wet, and break easily. They're fine for running away, but not so good for fighting.

But now Zhao Hao is a ghost, as light as a swallow, flying incredibly fast!

The three quickly reunited in the distance. The ferocious dragon beast was truly short-tempered, chasing them for four or five miles. In the end, Zhao Hao used a paper effigy to lure it into a nearby forest, letting it wreak havoc on the monsters there, thus allowing them to escape.

This direct confrontation won't work; it's too dangerous.

Zhao Hao felt that if he took out the Dragon-Slaying Saber, he might have a chance to slay the dragon. The problem was that the risk was too great.

He could kill the monstrous dragon himself, but it would be very easy for the monstrous dragon to kill him, or even easier.

He knew he had no choice but to cut off the neck; he feared he wouldn't be able to withstand any attack from the monstrous beast.

"We can't fight head-on; we need to use a clever approach. Let's put our intelligence to use... I've got it!"

In ancient times, hunting large carnivores involved either a large group of people with various tools, weapons, and hunting dogs, or setting traps.

Setting a trap is practically unthinkable for a behemoth that's over ten meters tall, but if we think about it a bit further, why not poison it!

Using bait and poison is also a good method! The strongest fortresses are always breached from within.

Zhao Hao had a great idea...

They went back to Heart Demon Town, but quickly returned.