fictionpage Chapter 84 [Why is this BOSS fighting itself?]
Chapter 84 [Why is this BOSS fighting itself?]
The tribal hunter led the four to the edge of the swamp and stopped.
He pointed to the forest ahead, which was shrouded in a grayish-green miasma, and mumbled a few words indistinctly.
Then, as if a ghost was chasing them, they ran away without looking back.
"Kahn is right, this place is really eerie."
Wang Xuan surveyed the muddy swamp before him.
The air smelled of damp mud mixed with the stench of rotting plants.
It doesn't smell bad, but it's strange and gives me the creeps.
The four of them officially stepped into this area.
The swamp was dark, with the deformed trees blocking out most of the sunlight.
They had only taken a few steps inside when they noticed something was wrong.
"Look over there."
Wang Xuan raised his hand and pointed.
Not far away, on a piece of dead wood, a large leaf that should have fallen long ago was hanging in mid-air.
It neither floated nor fell; it seemed as if an unseen force had nailed it to that spot.
"this……"
Wang Xuan was speechless for a moment.
"Is there something wrong with gravity?"
"It's not just gravity."
Dr. Aijia crouched down, adjusted her glasses, and looked at a six-legged lizard crawling past her feet.
When the lizard crawls, the moment one of its hind legs steps down, it silently sinks into the ground. The next step it lifts up, then emerges from the air again, landing steadily.
The whole process was very smooth, as if it was born to walk this way.
It's as if it randomly tears through space when it walks.
"The physical constants here have been disturbed." Aija's eyes gleamed with excitement. "With a power we can't understand."
"This is unscientific, it's practically magic!"
To them, this so-called dangerous place was like a laboratory filled with strange things.
Just then, a loud bubbling sound came from the pool not far ahead.
"Splash!"
The water surface was cleaved open by a powerful force.
A large creature emerged from the murky muddy water.
It was a multi-headed snake, but it looked like it was in great pain, its whole body twisted.
Five ferocious snake heads grew side by side on its neck.
The snake's head in the middle was covered in dark red scales and was emitting hot air; the two on the left, one was covered in ice crystals and the other was crackling with electricity; the two on the right, one was dripping with black venom and the other had only two green will-o'-the-wisps burning in its eye sockets.
The five snake heads look conflicting and as if they were forcibly sewn together, making them appear very discordant.
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A blood-red BOSS nameplate floated above the hydra's head.
Hydra, the Aberrant Variety of the Rotten Swamp
Its ten eyes, of varying sizes, stared at the four people on the shore, their gazes both chaotic and frantic.
"It's the BOSS!"
Chen Kai was not surprised but delighted, and shouted out.
"Scatter! Prepare to fight!"
He immediately held the stone spear horizontally in front of his chest.
Wang Xuan and Ai Jia's expressions tightened, and they retreated to the sides to find cover.
Li Yao's palms were sweating nervously, but she still followed her companion's example and hid behind a big tree.
"roar!"
The fiery snake head in the middle of the aberration was the first to launch an attack.
It opened its huge mouth, aimed at Chen Kai who was closest to it, and a torrent of dragon breath was about to be spewed out.
Just as the heat reached its peak, the frost snake head next to it suddenly turned its head.
It exhaled a large breath of icy cold air towards the head of the fiery snake.
"laugh!"
The scorching flames were struck head-on by the biting frost.
The two clashed violently, exploding into a thick cloud of white steam that was so dense that nothing could be seen.
The attack that the fiery snake head had prepared was interrupted by the head next to it.
It paused for a moment, then let out a painful and angry roar.
All four of them were stunned.
"What's going on? Is the boss attacking its own people?"
Wang Xuan peeked out from behind the tree, his face full of confusion.
The scene became utterly absurd.
The roar of the fiery serpent head seemed to have angered the other heads.
The lightning snake's head jerked up, and a thick chain of lightning shot into the sky.
In a flash of light, the lightning bolt took a strange turn in the air and struck the head of the venomous snake with pinpoint accuracy.
"Sizzle!"
The venomous snake's head convulsed, its dark green venom splattering everywhere and corroding its own body.
"It doesn't seem to have a unified attack logic."
Chen Kai frowned as he made his judgment.
"It's more like he's going crazy."
This isn't fighting; it's self-harm.
"wrong."
Dr. Aijia, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke, her tone very serious, "Its behavior isn't random; it follows a pattern!"
She pointed to the wisp of steam that was slowly dissipating.
"Look! Just now, when the Flame Serpent Head was charging up, the heat it emitted caused the ice crystals on the Frost Serpent Head to begin to melt."
"Then, the Frost Serpent Head immediately flew into a rage and turned to attack the Flame Serpent Head!"
Aijia's voice carried a hint of excitement at discovering the truth.
"This isn't internal strife, it's a chain of hatred! Its weakness lies within; we must guide them to kill each other!"
She looked at everyone and shouted out the key to breaking the deadlock.
"Its mechanics are puzzle-solving; fire beats ice!"
One sentence was enough to enlighten everyone.
Wang Xuan's eyes lit up.
"I get it! This isn't about fighting monsters, it's about solving a puzzle!"
"Then who will be the key?"
Chen Kai asked calmly.
To get the Flame Serpent Head to attack the Frost Serpent Head, someone must stand in the direction of the Frost Serpent Head and provoke it to breathe fire.
This means that person has to withstand a deadly attack.
"I'll do it."
Chen Kai did not hesitate.
He gripped the stone spear tightly and spoke in a deep voice to the other three.
"You cover me, tell me how to get there."
"Go around to your left and align yourself with the Frost Serpent Head!"
Aija immediately gave precise instructions.
Chen Kai made a move.
He suddenly darted out from behind the cover and moved at high speed along the route Ai Jia had planned.
"roar!"
The flaming serpent's hatred was immediately drawn to Chen Kai, and its massive head turned towards him, opening its maw once more.
The scorching dragon breath, like a flood, sprayed towards Chen Kai's back.
The intense heat distorted the air, and the ground was scorched black.
Chen Kai ran as fast as he could, and he could feel a burning pain in his back.
"Now, roll to the right!"
Ai Jia's voice rang out again.
Chen Kai suddenly rolled to the right and fell to the ground in a sorry state.
The dragon's breath grazed past his body and slammed straight into the head of the frost snake on the other side.
"roar!!"
The frost snake's head, directly roasted by the high-temperature flames, let out a deafening roar.
The icy blue crystals on its body instantly turned bright red, entering a state of overheating and frenzy.
It suddenly turned its head, its huge mouth biting down hard on the neck of the fire snake's head, tearing at it frantically.
The first mechanism has been triggered!
"Well done!"
Wang Xuan shouted excitedly.
At this moment, the lightning snake head, which had been accidentally injured by its companion, also recovered.
It thrashed its neck wildly, and countless lightning bolts shot out randomly in all directions.
"Next! Lightning!" Ai Jia shouted. "Wang Xuan! Any ideas?"
"have!"
Wang Xuan emerged from behind the tree, looking excited, as if he had found a game guide.
"In games, even lightning is afraid of one thing: conduction and short circuits!"
"It will attack the venomous snake's head on its own, but that's random! We need to create the conditions artificially!"
He pointed to a puddle not far from the head of the lightning snake.
"That venomous snake head is right by the pool! If we draw lightning into the water, we can short-circuit and paralyze it!"
"I'll do it!"
Chen Kai leaped up from the ground and charged out again.
This time, his target was the pool of water flashing with electric arcs.
With the experience from the first time, he moved more boldly and accurately.
He weaved through the erratic chains of lightning, repeatedly directing the arcs of electricity toward the water behind him.
"boom!"
The thickest bolt of lightning, finally lured by him, struck the murky pool.
"Sizzle sizzle—!"
A terrifying electric current was instantly conducted along the water flow.
The snake's head, which was dripping with venom, suddenly stiffened as if struck by a high-voltage electric shock, and its body began to convulse violently.
The venom dripping from its mouth was thus intermittent, causing the entire snake's head to become paralyzed.
The second mechanism, cracked!
Now only the last one remains, and it's also the strangest ghostly snake head.
It has no physical form and floats in the air; all previous physical attacks and elemental splashes are ineffective against it.
It burned quietly, emanating a chilling aura of death.
"What are ghosts afraid of?" Chen Kai asked, panting heavily.
"I'm afraid of life force!" Wang Xuan's answer this time was absolutely certain.
"The ghosts in stories are all afraid of living things! Not holy light or fire, but living life itself!"
His gaze swept past the crowd and landed on the thin girl who had been hiding in the back.
Everyone fell silent, and then, without prior arrangement, they all looked at Li Yao.
I looked at the ID above her head.
【newborn】.
Li Yao's face turned pale instantly.
"Me...me?"
She stared at the ghostly snake head floating in the air, at the will-o'-the-wisps burning in its empty eye sockets, and her legs trembled uncontrollably.
"Li Yao," Chen Kai said in a pleading tone.
We need you.
Li Yao's mind went completely blank.
Fear, like icy seawater, overwhelmed her thoughts.
But then, she suddenly felt her heartbeat.
One blow after another, very powerful.
She could feel each of her smooth breaths.
She recalled the days when she lay in a hospital bed, needing a machine to even breathe.
I remembered my own deep-seated desire to "survive".
I survived.
Not only did it survive, it can also run, jump, and breathe the earthy air.
I'm the winner!
You counterfeiter, you should be afraid of me!
Li Yao raised her head, and her eyes, which had been filled with fear, ignited with an unprecedented light.
She stopped hiding.
Step by step, she walked out of the shade of the big tree and into the sunlight.
She did nothing but straighten her chest and face the ghostly snake head.
Embrace this hard-won new life with your whole being.
An unbelievable scene unfolded.
When Li Yao's figure was exposed to the Ghost Serpent's head's vision, the serpent's head, which had been burning quietly, seemed to have seen its natural enemy.
The will-o'-the-wisps in its eye sockets flickered violently, and its entire illusory body actually retreated half an inch!
It was scared!
Li Yao's existence, and her pure obsession with "survival," was the most poisonous drug to it.
The ghostly snake head let out a silent shriek. It could no longer remain neutral and began to frantically use its ghostly fire to burn the paralyzed venomous snake head beside it, as if it wanted to use another kind of death to dispel the "life" that terrified it!
The last mechanism was triggered.
The five heads of the Hydra have completely descended into a frenzied infighting.
Fire burns ice, ice freezes electricity, electricity paralyzes poison, poison corrodes ghosts, and will-o'-the-wisp burns everything.
The conflict of energy within it reached an irreversible point.
"Bang!"
A muffled thud came from the core of the aberration.
Its enormous body did not bleed; instead, countless fine cracks appeared from the inside out.
The light on its five snake heads dimmed simultaneously.
For the first time, a hint of relief appeared in those ten chaotic and frenzied eyes.
Finally, its enormous body shattered like glass, turning into countless points of light that scattered in the wind.
The battle is over.
This is not a plot-driven death.
This was a victory won by four people through sheer intelligence and courage.
Where the Hydra had vanished, a fist-sized crystal, its interior shimmering with a chaotic, dark light, floated quietly in mid-air.
Wang Xuan walked up and carefully took the crystal in his hand.
The next second, a blurry, distorted warning, yet full of dangerous allure, popped up on everyone's system interface.
[Warning: You have obtained the wrong source material—the Seed of Chaos.]
[Description: It does not belong to this world, and follows a set of laws that contradict reality. Understand it, and you will gain immense power; abuse it, and you will be swallowed by chaos.]
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