Chapter 114 - Normal 3-Star Creature Scarlet Pheasant
Three hundred meters in front of Wei Xiao Bei, there were two Mercenaries who were covering for each other while shooting at the Yong that was hovering above them. Seeing the Yong getting ready to dive down again, the two of them scampered like rats.
However, the direction they were escaping to was a bad choice. They were running towards a crevice in the middle of the fiery red mountain range.
The crevice was more than 10 meters wide, but in Wei Xiao Bei"s eyes, the crevice had faint signs of danger.
It was as if there was danger hidden inside the crevice!
As a Guo Shu expert who had stepped on the realm of negative jing, his perception towards danger was much sharper than before.
The two mercenaries were most likely elites of the mercenary group, otherwise, they would not have survived in the face of the Yong for this long.
By the looks of it, as long as the two mercenaries escaped towards the crevice, then they would have a bigger probability of living!
After all, the crevice was only a bit more than 10 meters wide. For the Yong, whose wingspan exceeded 18 meters, the place restricted its ability to fly. Even if it wanted to chase after the nimble Mercenaries running on the ground, it would not be able to catch them at all.
However, the next scene gave Wei Xiao Bei gooseb.u.mps.
When the two Mercenaries were about to reach the crevice, they suddenly turned around and ran, as if they saw something terrifying.
However, before the Mercenaries ran even ten steps, flames sprayed out from the inside the cave, chasing after one of the Mercenaries.
The Mercenary, in shock, hastily threw himself to the side, but it was already too late. The flames pounced onto him in an instant. Soon, the flame suddenly increased in intensity. It was as if the mercenary had been doused in gasoline and was ignited by a fire, swallowing him completely.
However, this was not the end. In the next instant, the flame separated from the Mercenary and turned into the shape of a snake. It moved more than 20 meters, landing on the other Mercenary.
With a low explosion, the last Mercenary was set ablaze.
The Yong that saw the scene seemed to be frightened. It cut off the momentum in its dive and flapped its wide wings. It tried to move its body higher in the air with all its might, attempting to escape.
However, the flame did not have any plans of letting the Yong go. In half a breaths time, it moved from the Mercenary"s body and soared to the skies, shooting towards the Yong.
The flame was very fast. Even if the Yong used all of its strength, it was not able to escape the flame"s pursuit.
In a flash, the flame had caught up to the Yong, with only a few meters between them.
At this time, the Yong let out a shriek and immediately let out a yellow colored sand cloud from its body, spreading it everywhere.
With a loud boom, the flame and the Yong knocked against each other and bounced back from the force.
The sand cloud that had spread in the air appeared to be alive. It twisted around the flame, binding it. No matter how the flame moved, the sand cloud was like a cage trapping it within.
Following the formation of the sand cloud cage, the flame began to slow down. It was only then that Wei Xiao Bei was able to see its true form.
Is that a Fire Bird?
No, it"s a pheasant. The chest iss deep scarlet, its crown golden, its back yellow, its head green, and its tail was bright scarlet. Its appearance is extremely gorgeous.
However, half of the body of the pheasant was covered in blazing flames, preventing the sand cloud from completely binding it.
In contrast, the Yong was in a worse state. Although it had released the sand cloud and trapped the pheasant, its body had already been ignited by the flames. The flames combusted on the wings and moved inwards.
Without a doubt, the Yong simply did not dare continue fighting against it. The Yong turned around and flew into the distance, escaping for its life.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei had already buried himself in the sand. Opening his status panel, he took a look at the pheasant"s name.
Normal 3-Star Creature, Scarlet Pheasant!
The Scarlet Pheasant was also a creature described in the Cla.s.sic of Mountains and Seas. It was described as such "in one of China"s mountains where many fowls live, there lived the Scarlet Pheasants with the ability to control fire".
The Mist Draconic Horse was a lot stronger than the Scarlet Pheasant just from the fact that it was a 3-Star Terror Creature.
However, in Wei Xiao Bei"s eyes, the threat of the Scarlet Pheasant was not smaller than the Mist Draconic Horse.
This might be caused by the misconception created by the huge difference in strength.
If the Mist Draconic Horse was an elephant and the Scarlet Pheasant was a human, then Wei Xiao Bei was an ant who would die if any of them stepped on him.
However, this did not mean a human had the same strength as an elephant.
Wei Xiao Bei looked at his status panel. Until now, his creature rank on the status panel was still a 1-Star!
Wei Xiao Bei had a small hunch as to how to increase this star level. It most likely had something to do with his status panel, but he did not exactly know how to increase it.
No matter what was said, the gap between a 1-Star and a 3-Star was too big. It was so big that Wei Xiao Bei could not calculate it, or resist against 3-Star creatures.
As a result, Wei Xiao Bei immediately dug a hole to hide himself; otherwise, if the Scarlet Pheasant saw him, he would have been burned to ashes in a matter of seconds.
The Scarlet Pheasant"s flying speed would probably be faster even if he were to increase his agility to 20 points.
Luckily, the thing he was worried about did not happen.
After a while, the Scarlet Pheasant smashed the sand cloud cage to pieces. It drilled out and circled the skies a few times, as if searching for the Yong"s whereabouts. Perhaps because it was not willing to go far from the crevice, it once again became a ball of flames and disappeared back inside of it.
Wei Xiao Bei, during all of this, stayed buried in the ground. After a few minutes and seeing that there was no movement in the crevice, Wei Xiao Bei leapt out and moved towards the direction the Yong escaped to.
The Yong was not an idiot. If Wei Xiao Bei only relied on the direction where the Yong escaped, he would have lost it.
However, the escaping Yong left traces for Wei Xiao Bei to follow.
The ashes from the burnt feathers was in stark contrast compared to the yellow sand.
Moreover, after the Yong escaped a certain distance, it moved in a straight line towards the side of the mountain range. This made it a little easier for Wei Xiao Bei to find it.
While chasing after the Yong, Wei Xiao Bei had also picked up a few good things.
He had picked up a Barrett M82 anti-material rifle with a bit of ammunition, a bazooka with a warhead, drinking water, high energy nutrition bar, and other junk that happened to be there.
He had found these things beside the corpses of the Mercenaries.
The Yong loved to eat meat, but it had no interest towards these cold, hard objects that could someday become a threat to him.
This, however, gave Wei Xiao Bei a small advantage.