Dragon's Origin

Chapter 158: There's Always Someone with Ideas (Part 2)

The first iron rule of following Wang Sheng into the Thousand Absolutes Land is that you must never do what Wang Sheng tells you not to do.

This rule has saved the lives of several people more than once. Those who didn't listen are already lying in bed at home, recuperating. Although they didn't die, they were just lucky.

So when Wang Sheng said not to stay on the ground, everyone followed Wang Sheng into the river without hesitation, learning from Wang Sheng and diving underwater.

Others didn't have Wang Sheng's exquisite goggles, but they had substitutes made of high-grade crystal. Even underwater, everyone could open their eyes and see a lot.

For example, as soon as they jumped into the water, they saw several leeches twisting their bodies and sticking to them. Perhaps there were other aquatic animals, but at this moment, they couldn't care about them at all. Everyone saw Wang Sheng's sign language: stay underwater and don't move.

The leeches could only stick to the outside of their clothes for the time being. At this time, everyone realized how exquisite the clothes, pants, and boots that Wang Sheng had made to protect the whole body were. Even the head was protected by special gear.

Wang Sheng's original linen hat, after being modified by the experts of Baoqing Yu Tang(宝庆馀堂: Baoqing Yu Tang - a shop name), was changed into a veil woven from several layers of silk spit out by some kind of monster. It could protect the head, face, and neck, greatly increasing the protection without affecting vision and hearing too much. Professional people are just different.

Everyone obediently stayed underwater, no matter how the things in the water drilled around them without being able to get in, no one moved, holding a small tube in their mouths and just watching the surface of the water. Because the things in the water were simply not worth mentioning compared to the things that suddenly appeared on the shore.

Just two minutes after they jumped into the water, when the water waves had just calmed down and there was no trace of anyone jumping into the water, a burst of animal cries came from the trees.

A group of people rushed out from the direction Wang Sheng's team had just passed. There were more than a dozen people, each fully armed and wearing the same equipment as Wang Sheng and his team. There was no need to ask, they must have bought it from Baoqing Yu Tang(宝庆馀堂: Baoqing Yu Tang - a shop name) and Yu Bao Zhai(御宝斋: Yu Bao Zhai - a shop name).

But at this moment, they didn't look like an exploration team at all, but as if something was chasing them from behind, running forward frantically, not caring about their feet, just running non-stop.

Then the people underwater saw that in the canopy of the dense forest, suddenly hundreds of shadows were jumping on it, making a burst of sounds that sounded very lively but were enough to make the people below feel terrified.

Ghost-faced monkeys! A person underwater saw clearly and almost exclaimed, but finally realized that he was underwater and didn't open his mouth to gulp a mouthful of water.

This is a five-star monster, which means that most adult ghost-faced monkeys are at the fifth level of the spiritual realm. Occasionally, some powerful ones will reach the sixth or even seventh level, and naturally some weaker little monkeys may be lower, but they will never be too low.

They live in groups, are easily angered, and once someone provokes them, the entire group will swarm up. The current situation is like this. The dozen or so people who were running desperately didn't even know how they rushed into the ghost-faced monkey group. They were clearly following the secret mark all the way! How could this happen?

But now no one is giving them an explanation, and even if there was an explanation, they couldn't bother to listen. One person ran a little slower and was rushed down from a tree by a strong male monkey, who grabbed his hair and dragged him up the tree.

Not far above Wang Sheng and his team, everyone watched with their own eyes as the guy who was dragged up the tree was torn into more than a dozen pieces in a moment. More than a dozen ghost-faced monkeys each grabbed a piece, and regardless of how bloody it was, they just gnawed on it, eating with relish.

The remaining ghost-faced monkeys were still frantically chasing and killing the others below. Not only would they rush down from the trees from time to time, but they would also throw things down from the trees. Several people were stunned by things the size of coconuts, and then dismembered by several ghost-faced monkeys.

In this situation, the people underwater could only watch helplessly, without any way to help. With more than a hundred fifth-level ghost-faced monkeys, even if they rushed out, they would only be courting death, not to mention that except for one or two of them, others might not be so kind as to jump out to sacrifice themselves to save others.

After eating their fill, the dozen or so ghost-faced monkeys stayed in place for a while. This made the people underwater feel terrified. If they were discovered by the ghost-faced monkeys, wouldn't they end up like those who were chased?

Fortunately, those ghost-faced monkeys didn't stay for long. After watching for a while and seeing no movement, they jumped onto the trees, shouting and chasing after the large group.

Wang Sheng and others didn't jump out immediately, but stayed underwater for another ten minutes, breathing through the tube in their mouths. In short, they couldn't let any part of their body be exposed above the water.

Finally, Wang Sheng took the lead and drilled out of the water, and everyone hurried to jump out. There was no other reason than the pressure underwater was too great, and so many leeches were constantly drilling around them, that scene could scare people to death.

The first thing after going ashore, including Wang Sheng, was to help their companions check for leeches on their bodies. All those attached to their bodies were burned off with fire starters, and Wang Sheng even decisively took off his clothes to see if there were any on his body. Although the special military uniform could protect him, who knew if there would be one or two that slipped through the net.

Wang Sheng remembered clearly that a seventh-level expert who followed him into the Thousand Absolutes Land died in the mouths of leeches when he hid in the water while being chased by killer bees. He couldn't make that kind of mistake.

Several beauties were a little embarrassed, but they endured their discomfort and hid to the side to take off their clothes and check each other. Wang Sheng was acting too cautiously, and they had also seen those leeches with their own eyes, so they had to guard against them.

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One of the ten people had a bad complexion all along. He recognized almost half of those fleeing for their lives. They were clearly people from his own sect who had entered the Thousand Absolutes Land following the secret marks he had left behind. But he had clearly left the secret marks on the march, and he hadn't encountered any ghost-faced monkeys along the way. How could they suddenly be chased?

Everyone knew who those people were, but since it didn't involve their own families, their mood wasn't as heavy as this person's. However, although others weren't so uncomfortable, they were also wary.

Clearly, their group hadn't encountered any powerful monsters, but those following behind them encountered a large group of ghost-faced monkeys? Could it be that Wang Sheng was leading everyone to turn around not to go in circles, but to avoid some ferocious monsters?

If that was the case, then Wang Sheng was even more terrifying. No one knew where monsters would appear, but Wang Sheng could avoid them in advance. What did that mean? Those who chased him didn't die unjustly.

Fortunately, their own high-level officials didn't send anyone to track them from behind, otherwise the result would definitely be the same as those guys.