Chapter 123 - Frightening 378 Volts
Naturally, the beetles that were moving towards Wei Xiao Bei were only a drop in the ocean compared to the tide of beetles.
Most of the Sacred Beetle Descendants were climbing up the mountain range. Wherever they pa.s.sed, the rare red plants were gnawed clean, and even some of the soil had disappeared.
They were like army ants. Anything thing that blocked their way, be it animals or plants, were turned into their food.
Even the temperature that had now exceeded 200 degree Celsius did not stop their advancement. This was the most frightening thing about them.
After dodging the huge tide, the few thousands that were chasing after Wei Xiao Bei did not scare him at all. He pulled the Sacred Beetle Descendants 200 meters away from the tide, and then thrust his spear at them, killing one in the process.
The Sacred Beetle Descendant"s carapace"s were hard yet flexible, but when the sharp spear head came down on them, even they could not escape the fate of dying.
Whoos.h.!.+
The great spear swept across the sand, killing 7 beetles in the process. With another sweep, Wei Xiao Bei killed the beetles that were just about to flap their wings to ambush him.
From this moment, the beetles seemed to have gained enlightenment. When they were 5 meters from Wei Xiao Bei, they would flap their wings and jump.
Every second or two, more than 20 beetles were jumping towards Wei Xiao Bei at a time, causing his previously skillful movements to be unable to catch up. In an instant, more than 10 beetles landed on Wei Xiao Bei"s body and were about to bite him.
Release electricity!
Just as the beetles were opening their jaws and about to bite him, Wei Xiao Bei released his electricity. Wei Xiao Bei waited for the moment the beetles touched his body, and only then didthe effects of electricity become stronger!
With a flash of electric light, the Sacred Beetle Descendants were shocked to the ground, but in just a few moments, they shook their bodies and once again pounced on him again.
Without a doubt, 101 volts and 62 milliamperes were only enough to numb the beetles for a while and could not kill them.
After all, beetles had a different body structure compared to humans. As a result, something that could cause great harm to humans might not necessarily cause great harm to the beetles. In simpler terms, c.o.c.kroaches and Sacred Beetles were both dirt eaters. Moreover, if a c.o.c.kroach"s head was chopped off, it could still live for 9 days and die only because of lack of nutrition.
From this, it could be seen that the Sacred Beetles had a strong vitality. The only reason Wei Xiao Bei was able to kill the few Sacred Beetles previously was because of the strong impact from the spearhead, causing the beetle to be completely crushed.
As a result, Wei Xiao Bei no longer dared to let the beetles surround him. He turned around and retreated a hundred meters and looked at his status panel.
At this time, Wei Xiao Bei had 380 evolution points.
Wei Xiao Bei planned to place his evolution points into agility. However, after facing wave after wave of 20-30 Sacred Beetles, he realised the effect of increasing his agility would not be that big.
After hesitating for a bit, he concentrated on the release electricity skill"s voltage.
His evolution points quickly decreased, while the voltage increased until 291 volts.
Kill!
Wei Xiao Bei wielded his spear and counter attacked. The previous battle seemed to have excited and even trained the Sacred Beetles" ability to fly. When they were now less than 20 meters apart, the Sacred Beetles would soar up in the air and glide towards Wei Xiao Bei.
Wei Xiao Bei was not an idiot and would not get caught off guard as easily a second time. He thrust his spear at them. Although he was able to kill the beetles like this, its efficiency was too low.
Facing simultaneous attacks of more than ten beetles, even if he could thrust it out ten times, it would not be able to kill all of them. As a result, he changed his strategy.
He bent his spear and then released it. The spear head shot out into an arc in midair. In an instant, it swatted 5 of the incoming beetles away. Afterwards, he swung the great spear, sending the majority of the incoming beetles to the ground.
The last remaining beetle landed on his shoulder. When it was just about to bite him, electricity surged into its body, making it fall to the ground.
What surprised Wei Xiao Bei was that 291 volts of electricity was still not enough to kill it at all, so he had no choice but to stomp on it to kill it.
Seeing that the beetles that he had swatted down before begin to fly up again, Wei Xiao Bei frowned. His Bajiquan was already at the state of perfection, so just shaking his spear and swinging it would be enought kill normal insects, but it was still not enough against the Sacred Beetles.
If his negative jing was a level higher, killing these beetles would not have been as big of a problem.
Whoos.h.!.+ Whoos.h.!.+
With two thrusts, he killed two of the incoming beetles that were in midair.
However, more flying beetles forced Wei Xiao Bei to retreat more than 10 meters.
Bang bang. His great spear once again shot out and shook back and forth, sending most of the beetles to ground. Although the attacks were not enough to kill the beetles, cracks were slowly appearing on their sh.e.l.ls, some seriously injured ones were even leaking out yellow fluid.
However, this was still not enough to kill these beetles, at the very least it would take ten more times to kill them.
This time, Wei Xiao Bei deliberately let a few of them charge over and attacked them with electricity when they came close. The same as before happened, and the Sacred Beetles only just fell on the ground. This time however, there were some things that were different, such as the few injuries that had appeared on Wei Xiao Bei"s body.
The beetles that had been shot down by electricity could not escape Wei Xiao Bei"s foot and became corpses on the sand.
With every attack, he killed ten Sacred Beetle Descendants. It was equivalent to killing a single Giant Black Scorpion. From any angle, the efficiency of killing the beetles was lower than killing a Giant Black Scorpion.
However, the amount of Sacred Beetles was enormous. If Wei Xiao Bei could kill all these beetles, then the amount of evolution points that he could obtain would be in the 10,000s.
After this point, Wei Xiao Bei thought about the bazooka that he obtained previously. IF he used that and fired it here, hundreds of Sacred Beetles would be eliminated in an instant.
Naturally, it would have been a lot better if he had a flamethrower. Although the beetles could endure the heat, he did not believe that they could endure the flames from a flamethrower. After all, the temperatures that a flamethrower could reach was at the point of being able to melt a tank.
No matter what was said, this was only his imagination running wild.
Eliminating this group of Sacred Beetles was surely not an easy task.
After fighting with these beetles for more than 10 minutes, Wei Xiao Bei had tried many ways to kill them, but he had not yet killed a hundred of them.
Most of the time was taken up by Wei Xiao Bei escaping their encirclement. If the beetles were to surround him, it would not take 20 seconds before his body would be fully covered of them. Even if he could release electricity, there was no guarantee of safety.
In the past ten minutes, Wei Xiao Bei"s mind was in a high level of alertness and panic. As a result, most of his stamina had been drained.
At this time, although he still had a bit more energy, he decided to escape.
It was important to leave a bit of energy to do other things. If he staked everything and failed, then he would no longer have any chances.
In truth, his decision was not wrong. When Wei Xiao Bei had escaped for 100 meters, he suddenly noticed one thing. A Sacred Beetles were already in front of him. This meant that a small group might have taken a detour around him. If he still stayed and fought with the previous group, he would truly be surrounded.
Since he discovered the beetles" plot, Wei Xiao Bei did not have anymore thoughts of fighting them and dodged the incoming beetles.
Just from the beetles" plan, it was easy to tell that they had a certain level of intelligence.
Following Wei Xiao Bei"s escape, the beetles did not follow him anymore and merged back with the main group.
In this period of time, Wei Xiao Bei still took the risk to follow behind them and killed them from time to time.
However, this kind of provocation did not stop the beetle"s movements at all. They noticed that they could not chase after Wei Xiao Bei with their current speed. It seemed that they had given up on Wei Xiao Bei, which was different from what an army ants would have done.
If it was an army ants, in reality, as long as there was food in front of them, they would risk their lives to cross rivers and flames.
Naturally, if the Sacred Beetles did not have their ability to judge, they would have probably disappeared from the desert already.
Wei Xiao Bei followed behind the beetles from afar. At the same time, he focused on his status panel to look at his evolution points.
After the paying the price of a few injuries, his evolution points had reached 565 points.
This amount was not a lot, but was not small either.
Facing an army like the Sacred Beetles, Wei Xiao Bei did not have plans to save his evolution points.
After thinking for a bit, he decided to put 100 points each into all agility sub-attributes, increasing everything by 1 point, which also increased agility by 1 point, making it a total of 16 points.
In reality, 15 points was barely enough to respond to the Sacred Beetles" head on attacks.
For better or worse, Wei Xiao Bei was able to dodge one or two beetles, so they were not that much of a threat.
However, this did not mean that Wei Xiao Bei could sleep peacefully with this.
Even if he could escape while surrounded by them, he would at the very least, be heavily injured.
On the other hand, the close relations.h.i.+p between all the agility sub-attributes was extremely important. Not one should be less. As a result, Wei Xiao Bei would increase them all at the same time.
As for the remaining 165 points, Wei Xiao Bei placed them all into voltage.
After allocating his points, only 1 evolution point remained.
His release electricity was now able to release 378 volts of electricity. This was close to the 380 volts in industry specific usages.
This voltage was different from the 220 volts of electricity that was found in common households.
Wei Xiao Bei had previously seen a worker accidentally hitting a 380 voltage power switch barehanded. The person"s head instantly shot up due to the electric current, and his brains were fried by the high voltage.
The might of 380 volts was simply incomparable to 220 volts.
Releasing electricity was very useful. Although it was difficult to break the air when the voltage was under 1000 volts, touching a beetle was enough to make them fall, ensuring Wei Xiao Bei"s safety.
Wei Xiao Bei had already tested this. He had lured out one of the beetles and allowed it to jump onto his body, and then shocked it with electricity.
Although the beetle"s carapace was hard, once it bit into Wei Xiao Bei"s skin and got drenched in his blood, its electrical resistance would decrease. In the end, the voltage was able to pa.s.s through. The 378 volts were able to instantly move through the beetle and kill it.
Taking advantage of the fact that the beetle army was climbing up the mountain range, Wei XIao Bei tested every possible method to lure the Sacred Beetles and use the great spear or his electricity to kill them. As a result, his evolution points were slowly increasing.
His actions were similar to walking on a tightrope, but because his agility had reached 16 points, it gave him enough confidence to deal with the beetles" counterattack.
In other words, even if a beetle recklessly charged towards him, Wei Xiao Bei would be able to rely on his agility to escape.
It must be known that 16 points in any sub-attribute in agility was enough to make a normal person wide-eyed if it were shown to them.
16 points in hand-eye coordination would allow a person to see anything larger than 10 centimeters in a 500 meter radius. Moreover, it would allow a person to hit a fly with a single piece of stone.
16 points in flexibility and reflex combined together would allow a person to dodge attacks from being surrounded by more than 10 pikes. Moreover, it could increase a person"s speed to be able to run 12 meters per second!
This would have already surpa.s.sed the world record by a huge amount. If he went to the Olympic Games, earning the gold medal in a hundred meter would be too easy.
Moreover, as long as he had enough patience, he could run a marathon. And as long as he maintained 60% of this speed, he could run 5 kilometers in just 11 minutes! Or even faster!
16 points in balance allowed him to walk a 1000 meter tightrope without relying on anything else.
With the combination of these sub-attributes, as long as he was not surrounded, Wei Xiao Bei would be able to easily escape from the tide of beetles. Moreover, even if he was surrounded, Wei Xiao Bei was still able to last for a longer amount of time compared to other people.
No matter what was said, Wei Xiao Bei was gaining a huge bargain from poking behind the tide of beetles.