Fire Poison

Perhaps to confirm Su Ran’s words, the tremors on the ground gradually intensified.

This was a sign that the Earth Fire Lizard pack was approaching.

“How did you know?”

Liang Bo had been slowly accepting the painkillers from Guo Zixiang, planning to rest for a while after taking them before leaving.

Then, hearing Su Ran’s words and feeling the current tremors, they no longer doubted her.

Before the painkillers could even take effect, Liang Bo was already holding his arm, poised and ready to run.

As for Guo Zixiang, if Liang Bo hadn’t been holding him steady, he might not have even been able to stand up.

“The life signs of more than thirty Earth Fire Lizards just vanished from the leader’s perception in an instant. Don’t you think it would come over to check?”

If she put herself in its shoes, Su Ran felt that if she were the Earth Fire Lizard leader, she would definitely come over to investigate and see what had happened to her kin.

“Then what do we do now?”

“What are you standing around for? Let’s go! It’ll be too late if we wait for the Earth Fire leader to arrive!”

Feeling the approaching tremors, Su Ran picked a direction and dashed off.

She didn’t understand why these two were still asking her what to do.

Of course, it was time to run!

Not long after the three of them left, a lizard head covered in fine, black scales poked out from the forest.

The head alone was the size of a locomotive, and countless Earth Fire Lizards followed behind it.

If viewed from above, one would see a black river formed by the convergence of Earth Fire Lizards.

Its crimson eyes stared at its kin, which had been pierced by the ice cones, and the Earth Fire leader let out a snort.

In an instant, the flesh and blood of its dead kin faded away, turning into pure blood energy that entered the Earth Fire leader’s wide-open mouth.

At the same time, the magic essence aura on the Earth Fire leader’s body also became stronger.

The surrounding Earth Fire Lizards, seeing this scene from their leader, even though they didn’t have much intelligence, their instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm made them suddenly start to tremble, wanting to frantically escape from their so-called leader.

But the instinct flowing in their blood made it impossible for them to resist the call from their bloodline after the leader’s advancement.

The Earth Fire leader looked at the footprints scattered in the clearing and let out a low roar.

A group of Earth Fire Lizards came forward in response, then uniformly chased in the direction Su Ran and the others had left.

As for itself, it closed its eyes, coiled its body, and entered a state of meditation.

It still needed some time for the blood and flesh it had just absorbed to fully merge with it.

Not long after Su Ran and the others had left the clearing, the tremors on the ground suddenly stopped.

Liang Bo, who had been running desperately, fell to the ground with a thud.

Seeing Liang Bo in this state, Guo Zixiang stopped to catch his breath and, fighting his exhaustion, turned him over.

Noticing the commotion behind her, Su Ran also stopped and turned back.

“What happened?”

Su Ran was the first to ask Guo Zixiang, who was beside Liang Bo.

He was behind Liang Bo and had the clearest view of the situation.

“I don’t know. He just collapsed without any warning,” Guo Zixiang himself was puzzled.

Su Ran walked closer to Liang Bo to observe him carefully.

She saw that his jaw was clenched and his forehead was sweating.

As she got closer, she could feel the scorching heat emanating from his skin.

Upon seeing Liang Bo’s symptoms, two words immediately popped into Su Ran’s mind.

Fire poison!

Liang Bo had fought with the Earth Fire leader before meeting them.

If the Sequence Three Earth Fire Lizard leader possessed fire poison, it wasn’t impossible for it to have entered Liang Bo’s body through his wound.

‘Damn it, of all times!’

Now that Liang Bo had collapsed, they would have to carry him, making their escape much more difficult than before.

This also meant that the two of them couldn’t use a rapid escape to avoid the pack of magical beasts.

Guo Zixiang asked, “Is there any way to wake him up?”

They were still some distance from the habitat’s entrance, and they might encounter a pack of magical beasts at any time.

At a critical moment, one less person meant one less fighting force.

Even if he couldn’t fight, regaining consciousness would make it easier for them to move and leave.

“I can only try to see if I can alleviate it.”

As Su Ran spoke, several ice crystals emitting a cold aura appeared around Liang Bo’s body.

Touching the cool ice, the brow of the unconscious Liang Bo gradually relaxed, but it was still far from the effect they wanted.

Su Ran’s expression darkened, and she could only take out her phone and edit a message to send to Isa.

[Help me prepare a bottle of fire poison antidote.]

Worried that a universal antidote might be too difficult for Isa, Su Ran specifically told Isa its purpose this time.

“It’s no use. The ecology here is still preserved from the outside world. As soon as you enter the habitat, your phone won’t have a signal.”

Thinking that Su Ran had lost her mind and was trying to call for help on her phone, Guo Zixiang could only remind her.

[As you wish, my Lady Su Ran.]

After receiving Isa’s reply, Su Ran was relieved.

At least Liang Bo’s life was saved.

Even if there wasn’t time to send him back to the entrance, Su Ran had the antidote that only Isa could make.

“What did you say?”

She had heard Guo Zixiang speaking just now but hadn’t been paying close attention to what he was saying.

She could only ask him again.

“It’s nothing. Let’s hurry up and find a way to get him back to the entrance.”

To avoid embarrassing Su Ran, Guo Zixiang tactfully didn’t say any more, but instead changed the subject to how to carry Liang Bo away.

“I’m afraid it’s not ‘nothing’.”

Su Ran’s expression was serious as she focused her attention on the path they had come from.

From her line of sight, she could already see several black masses appearing in the distance.

The four-legged Earth Fire Lizards were no slower than Su Ran and the others, but when they had stopped to deal with Liang Bo’s fire poison, the lizards had taken the opportunity to catch up.

“You take him and leave first. I’ll cover the rear!”

With that, Su Ran took a few steps forward.

Guo Zixiang also understood that this was not the time to be a hero.

After a heavy nod, he carried the unconscious Liang Bo and slowly walked down the mountain path.

“These big lizards really think highly of me.”

Sensing the intensity of the magic essence emanating from the pursuers, Su Ran already knew that this batch of Earth Fire Lizards was basically around Sequence Two, with only a few individuals at the limit of Sequence One.

It seemed the other party wasn’t entirely brainless.

After seeing her easily kill so many Earth Fire Lizards, the quality of the pursuers had also been raised.

Of course, this didn’t mean Su Ran was completely helpless.

An ice crystal long spear appeared in her hand.

Even without a system-assisted spell, Su Ran had a way to deal with this group of pursuers.

The translucent spear shaft flowed with the light of ice.

This time, Su Ran used her own icicles as bullets, aiming the spear at the pursuers.