NOVPUB37: Chapter 37: Marsh Fright
37 -37: Marsh Fright
While all the mosquitoes were circling around him, Su Ran compared the attributes of the Toxic Corpse Mosquito BOSS and the regular Toxic Corpse Mosquitoes.
[Toxic Corpse Mosquito] (BOSS) Level 15
Qi Blood: 2135/3000
Attack: 75-80
Defense: 70
Agility: 8
Active Skill: Poison Sting – Chance to poison target during an attack, decreasing Qi Blood by 5% per second for 10 seconds.
Passive Skills: Leadership – All Toxic Corpse Mosquitoes within a three-meter radius receive a +15% attack boost.
Note: The Toxic Corpse Mosquito is a king among its kind, and it is not alone.
[Toxic Corpse Mosquito] Level 15
Qi Blood: 250
Attack: 50-55
Defense: 32
Agility: 8
Active Skill: Poison Sting – Chance to poison target during an attack, decreasing Qi Blood by 1% per second for 3 seconds.
Note: Toxic Corpse Mosquitoes live in swarms. 𝓃ℴ𝓋𝓹𝓊𝓫.𝒸𝓸𝓂
You know what happens if you provoke a whole swarm.
Su Ran watched them fly around the swamp but none of them dared to go into the water.
He snickered, “As expected, you can blame your mother for making your weakness too obvious!” Seizing the opportunity, he quietly extended his bone claw, shot at the Mosquito BOSS, and quickly retracted back into the swamp.
As soon as the Toxic Corpse Mosquitoes saw a target, they rushed towards the damned bone claw.
In the moment when the bone claw retracted, a dozen mosquitoes came too strongly and fell into the swamp.
They struggled to beat their wings but the more they did, the deeper they sank until they vanished.
The swamp returned to silence again.
Good news!
The two white flames in Su Ran’s eye sockets grew larger, and although he didn’t get the experience points from the small creatures because of his cunning, he still reduced their numbers.
Hahaha!
The Toxic Corpse Mosquito BOSS noticed the loss of a dozen soldiers.
It fluttered its pair of wings faster, the “buzzing” sound getting louder, resonating with the mosquito soldiers around it.
They all focused on the place where the bone claw had retracted to.
Su Ran snickered again, abruptly extended his bone claw without attacking, and immediately retracted.
In that gap, he lured three more Toxic Corpse Mosquitoes into the swamp, eliminating them.
Suddenly.
“-10” “-10” “-10″…
While Su Ran was pleased with himself, a series of alerts about decreasing health made him pause.
What’s going on?
Su Ran hurriedly checked the system prompt.
“Ding!
Due to the player skeleton’s lack of oxygen, continuous health decrease BUFF added.
Health decreases by -10 every second.”
What the hell!
Skeletons don’t need to breathe, do they?
Who has ever seen a skeleton with lungs?!
Su Ran was in a predicament.
Low health was his fatal weakness.
He could only hold on for 20 seconds before crumbling under this health reduction mode.
If he popped his skull out, he could imagine the gruesome scene where a swarm of mosquitoes would disperse his skeleton into the swamp in an instant.
What to do?
Either way, he was going to die!
But there’s still a lot of good stuff in his pelvic bone~~
Well, either way he’s dead, Su Ran thought despondently.
He suddenly poked his skeletal skull out.
Breathing some fresh air would indeed be better than suffocating in the swamp!
Just as his skull emerged from the swamp, all of the Toxic Corpse Mosquitoes rushed towards the damned ambusher like a swarm of hornets, wishing they could tear him to shreds to appease their hatred!
Su Ran, who had just emerged from the swamp, was shocked to see all the surrounding mosquitoes shooting at him like bombers.
The scene was too shocking, too spectacular!
Okay, Su Ran made a final effort, desperately trying to retract into the swamp.
But he knew in his heart that he wouldn’t make it in time!
But life always has its unpredictable moments.
Just as Su Ran’s despair had barely surfaced, it was immediately overshadowed by a tremendous surprise.
Suddenly.
At the instant when the skeleton’s head was about to encounter a catastrophe, dozens of fire tongues unexpectedly erupted from the swamp pool, lifting clusters of swamp mud, charging directly at the swarm of corpse-poison mosquitoes in the sky.
Good gosh!
What’s going on here?
Su Ran felt his own tiny heart tremble, despite the fact that a skeleton doesn’t have a heart.
Flap, flap, flap!
The swamp seemed as if it was a boiling hot pot, dozens of corpse-poison mosquitoes were attacked instantly, plop, plop, plop, they were pulled into the swamp like dumplings.
Gulp, gulp, after the corpse-poison mosquitoes thrashed about for a while, they sank, and silence returned to the swamp.
Su Ran was so scared that his hair stood on end, and he didn’t dare to move a muscle where he hid in the swamp.
Because he knew that it’s highly possible that in the next moment, hundreds of fire tongues would roll towards his bone frame.
Su Ran fearfully cast glances to the left and right, only to see pairs of blood-red eyes flickering on and off in the murky water, which was particularly glaring.
What sort of species is this?!
How come I didn’t notice before?
The burning tongues of fire, the fiery red eyes…
Su Ran swallowed hard.
Huh?
Wait, the monsters have been surrounding him for so long without attacking him?
What’s that about?
Su Ran suddenly thought of a possibility.
Immediately after, the little skeleton once again brought his skull above the surface of the water.
This time he was prepared, and tossed a burning piece of paper directly towards the golden mosquito above him.
“Boom!”
Good shot!
It hit the target!
Su Ran saved his best moves, and continued to dive back into the swamp.
Seeing their king repeatedly provoked and even injured, the mosquitoes’ wing flapping frequency sped up, and they charged downwards once again.
The speed of their dash seemed bullet-like as it whistled towards the spot where Su Ran had submerged.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
Dozens of fire tongues once again shot up into the sky, sweeping up the corpse-poison mosquitoes that attacked suicidally and dragged them into the filthy swamp.
Su Ran felt increasingly certain about his idea inside his head, and, taking advantage of fewer and fewer mosquitoes in the sky, struck while the iron was hot, deciding to stick out his skull again.
“Good grief!”
Hardly one second after Su Ran came out, he saw a terrifying scene unfold.
“Poison stinger!”
All that was left was hundreds of mosquitoes, each raising their bottoms and showing a cold glint on the poison stingers at their tails.
The moment the little skeleton showed his head, all the poison stingers shot out at once!
Dense poison stingers, so many that they looked like cow hair in the air, with air swirling around them, were all shooting towards the scoundrel little skeleton’s hideout.
You’ve got to be kidding me!
All of the corpse-poison mosquitoes are using skills?!
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”
The large number of sounds from the poison stingers cutting through the air caused Su Ran to feel terribly alarmed.
If all these stingers were to hit the skeleton, would he shatter to pieces on the spot?
Su Ran desperately dived deeper, wishing he could go all the way to the bottom of the swamp.
Luckily these poison stingers were lightweight, and their speed reduced greatly once they entered the swamp.
They lost their momentum without even touching the skeleton’s skull, and disappeared.
However, at this moment, Su Ran was surprised to find that the swamp beside him was boiling, and monsters were catapulting from the swamp one after another.
In the sky, all these monsters opened their huge mouths, their long fire tongues heading straight for the swarm of mosquitoes in the sky.
Su Ran cautiously poked his skull out again to see what these monsters looked like.
These monsters were incredibly all crimson toads that were aflame with intense fire.
[Swamp Fire Toad], a level 20 monster!
In the sky, the most eye-catching one was still the huge boss Swamp Fire Toad.
His body was ablaze with golden flames, golden pupils the size of copper bells, and a huge golden fire tongue attacking the golden corpse-poison mosquito in the sky.
Natural enemies!
Su Ran suddenly recalled a phrase his teacher had said at school, frogs are beneficial creatures…
