Chapter 177: Chapter 177

"Quick, get out of here, this place is unfit for humans."

The red light attacks are too powerful and too frequent, like poking a hornet’s nest. Even a second-tier expert above level 10 would find it difficult to get through such attacks, let alone me.

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As Du You made his swift escape, he looked back to see a huge figure. He could not make out what it was, but this figure emerged from the water, howling at the sky, filling Du You with dread.

A few minutes later, Du You, accompanied by Xiaozi, left the pool area and returned to the slope. Looking out into the distance, he could still see trails of red light shooting into the sky and believed he could make out some shadowy figures.

"Perhaps, those red lights aren’t pure energy but contain something else.", Du You said quietly.

Xiaozi gently approached Du You and nestled against his back as if to comfort him.

Patting Xiaozi on the head, Du You nonchalantly said, "Don’t worry, I’m not that weak. I’m just thinking since the red light isn’t an energy attack, its attack range is limited."

Looking at the red light in the distance, Du You realized that indeed, the red light could only rise to a certain height before it scattered, and couldn’t rise indefinitely. Du You did not believe that these leeches would understand how to hide their strength or conserve energy. This uniform height was probably the attack range of the leeches or their attack height limit.

The height was estimated to be about 500 meters, meaning they would be safe from the attack if they were over 500 meters high. Still, he would have to consider the situation behind it.

"Xiaozi, do you think there is anything in the valley, are there leeches there?"

Xiaozi shook her head whilst gesturing, and Du You slowly understood. There was indeed a stream in the valley, but there were no Bloodthirsty Leeches. It seemed that something in the valley deterred the leeches.

It could also be that only this pool was a suitable habitat for the Bloodthirsty Leeches, nowhere else. After all, they had not seen any Bloodthirsty Leeches in the places where the water from the pool flowed.

If that’s the case, the valley should be safe, right?

With this thought in mind, Du You made up his mind, saying, "Xiaozi, fly me over there, let’s go into the valley. I refuse to believe that I don’t stand a chance in this mission."

Xiaozi nodded vigorously, whatever her master said was the final word, she would never contradict him.

Du You got up and climbed onto Xiaozi’s back. As Xiaozi continued to evolve, her physical strength and flying abilities steadily increased, even though her size was fixed at three meters tall.

With a powerful flap of her wings, Xiaozi easily took off with Du You on her back.

Soon, Xiaozi soared past 500 meters. For safety, Du You had her fly to 700 meters before heading towards the valley. The steep mountains on both sides were too high. Xiaozi currently lacked the capability to fly through from any other direction. Moreover, there seemed to be too many flying beasts on the mountaintops.

There were only a few here, probably because of the Leech King.

"Be careful. I saw a rather large creature over there, we don’t want to get hit by it."

Du You recalled the massive figure he had seen when he was escaping. Even though he didn’t know what it was, what if it were a stronger kind of leech? Its attack range would be even farther, right?

Xiaozi let out a cry and flew towards the valley.

Due to their high speed, Du You quickly arrived near the pool. At this point, the leeches had gone mad, as if they had been fed some form of stimulant. They crazily attacked the surroundings despite having no target. The pool was full of leeches and leech larvae jumping about.

Du You finally saw the gigantic figure. It was something that bore a certain resemblance to a dinosaur, but he couldn’t see it clearly from this distance. However, its size suggested that it was definitely above level 10. But at this moment, this creature was swaying drunkenly, as if it were intoxicated.

Its behavior was almost identical to that of the Leech King. Its skin had many breaks, and it looked like a bag of bones. A bag of bones... Du You suddenly remembered the Dried Corpse.

"Could it be that this creature also stumbled into this place and was parasitized by the Bloodthirsty Leeches in the pool, and that’s why it’s in this state?", Du You seemed to understand.

If such a large beast was here, not to mention him, even a group of second-tier professionals might not be able to get through, instead, they might be puppeteered by this creature.

These thoughts rushed through Du You’s mind in an instant. He had already left the pool behind. It was just a pool after all and Xiaozi’s flying speed was still quite fast.

"Do not land, fly further. I don’t want to deal with these creatures."

Du You nervously glanced back. It was a good thing that he had been extra cautious this time. If they had directly approached the pool initially, they wouldn’t even have had the chance to escape now. These creatures might look clumsy, but they were unbeatable near the pool.

No wonder this task was so unique, as expected, the mission process was fraught with danger.

What a pity, during the mission, he could not gain any benefits. Otherwise, killing so many leeches would at least complete a hidden mission, right?

With Xiaozi carrying Du You, they passed the pool and finally entered the area of the Grand Canyon behind it.

What Du You had not expected was that this flight had poked another hornet’s nest.

Midflight, a buzzing sound suddenly arose behind him. When Du You looked back, he was taken aback. "Damn it, what is it this time? Hurry, speed up, we can’t be caught."

At some point, the view behind them had become a swarm of fist-sized insects flying towards them, forming a cloud of insects. Their tiger-striped patterns and large mouthparts indicated their danger.

These creatures were similar to hornets, but they were far more aggressive and dangerous. Maybe the lack of flying beasts in the area was due to these insects.