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Chapter 52 Killing the Mutant Mantis King

Li Hao's team slowly advanced through the wilderness.

A mutated mantis, taller than a person, leaped out of the bushes, its sharp, sickle-like forelegs gleaming coldly in the sunlight.

"Surround it."

At Li Hao's command, everyone scattered and surrounded the mutated mantis.

Slowly approach.

He plans to experiment with biofields.

Currently, the bio-force field cannot be emitted too far, only within a range of about five meters.

As he approached, within a five-meter radius, he suddenly released his bio-force field.

The mutated mantis, which had been quiet, was suddenly startled, as if it had encountered a natural enemy, and turned to run away.

Li Hao gripped the giant horn of the mutated snake, which was over a meter long, and threw it forcefully at the mutated mantis.

"puff"

The impact hit the mutated mantis's head, and the powerful force sent the mantis's entire body flying.

It crashed heavily to the ground.

One-hit kill.

"sharp!"

"That's incredibly accurate!"

"So strong!"

Everyone exclaimed in surprise and praised it.

Li Hao approached the mutated mantis, pulled out the axe from his waist, chopped off the mantis's head, and took out an evolution stone.

Evolution stones are milky white.

"This is just a regular large mutant mantis; the mantis king is still inside," Zhao Meng said to Li Hao.

The group moved forward again.

Large praying mantises would occasionally jump out.

"This is the third one." Zhang Jingfeng wiped the sweat from his forehead and watched Li Hao take the white evolution stone out of the mantis's head.

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Niu Dazhuang gripped his ironwood spear tightly and grinned, "These guys look scary, but they're nothing special. Once Brother Hao makes a move, they're all down."

"Don't be careless." Li Hao put the evolution stone into his bag. "Ordinary mutated mantises are easy to deal with, but the Mantis King is different. Zhao Meng said it is more than two meters tall and extremely fast."

As soon as he finished speaking, the grass in front of him shook violently.

"They're here!"

Zhao Meng shouted.

A dark green shadow darted out like lightning, its exact shape almost impossible to discern.

With a loud clang, a deep crack appeared in the metal shield in front of Niu Dazhuang, and he was thrown back three steps.

Only then did everyone see clearly.

It was a giant praying mantis, about two and a half meters tall, with a dark green body like jade, scarlet compound eyes, and a black horn nearly twenty centimeters long on its forehead.

Its sickle-shaped forelimbs have serrated edges that reflect a metallic sheen in the sunlight.

"Watch out! Its scythe can easily cleave through metal shields!" Niu Dazhuang looked down at his metal shield and exclaimed in alarm.

Even he had to chop the axe several times to leave such a deep mark on the metal shield, but this mutated mantis king did it so quickly.

That's absolutely terrifying.

He had no doubt that if that attack had hit him, his bones would have been shattered.

As expected of the Mantis King, it is incredibly strong.

The Mantis King launched another attack, its speed so fast that it left only a blur.

Zhao Meng roared, his arms crackling with electricity, and threw a punch.

The lightning struck the mantis king's body, but only left a charred mark on its carapace.

"Retreat!" Zhao Meng's expression tightened, and he retreated at lightning speed.

"Scatter! Surround it!" Li Hao shouted.

The team members quickly dispersed, forming an encirclement. But the Mantis King was simply too fast; each pounce sent someone flying.

Zhang Jingfeng's spear pierced its body, breaking it in two; Niu Dazhuang's axe only sent up a few sparks.

"This can't go on!" Liu Xueqin sprinkled a packet of powder that would cause unconsciousness, but the Mantis King just shook its head and was almost unaffected.

Li Hao narrowed his eyes, holding the giant snake's horn in his hand.

Even without polishing, the nearly one-meter-long black horn was exceptionally sharp at the tip, becoming his new throwing weapon.

He took a deep breath, his muscles tensed, and his bio-field rippled slightly.

The Mantis King seemed to sense something. Its scarlet compound eyes turned towards Li Hao, and it let out a sharp screech. Instead of attacking the others, it charged directly at Li Hao!

The distance between the two sides quickly closed.

Thirty meters.

Twenty meters.

ten meters.

Just as the Mantis King leaped up, its scythe-like forelegs raised high, Li Hao moved.

He pulled his right arm back like a fully drawn bow, channeling all his strength through his spine to his arm, and the giant snake's horn flew out of his hand!

"call out--"

The sound of something cutting through the air was sharp and piercing.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

The dark green giant shadow and the black horns intersected in the air.

"Pfft!"

Precise hit!

The sharp horn pierced directly into the mantis king's eyeball, penetrated its hard carapace, and emerged from the back of its head.

The powerful impact sent the Mantis King flying backward, crashing heavily into a large tree ten meters away.

"Hiss..." The Mantis King twitched a few times, then became completely still.

The scene was completely silent.

A few seconds later, a deafening cheer erupted.

"That's incredible!"

"One hit kills! Brother Hao is awesome!"

"My God, that's the invincible Mantis King!"

The team members gathered around, their eyes filled with awe as they looked at Li Hao.

Zhao Meng walked up to the mantis king that was nailed to the tree, reached out and touched its hard shell, then looked at the sharp horn piercing its head, his expression complicated.

Li Hao calmly pulled out the sharp corner and began the dissection.

The Mantis King's evolution stone is a size larger than that of a regular Mantis, and has a faint milky white luster with a few faint blue lines visible within.

"A near-level 2 mutated creature," Li Hao judged in his mind. He put away the evolution stone. "Let's go, next target—a hornet's nest."

.........

The tree where the hornet's nest was located was over 60 meters tall, and its thick trunk required seven people to encircle it.

The honeycomb, hanging fifty meters above the ground among the branches, was over ten meters in diameter and covered with fist-sized mutant wasps, buzzing incessantly.

"What are we going to do?" Niu Dazhuang looked up, swallowed hard, and said, "Climb up and light a fire? What if I get stung..."

"Teacher Xu taught us to use smoke," Zhang Jingfeng suggested. "Let's chop some damp firewood, light a fire underneath, and the smoke will rise..."

"Let me try first," Li Hao suddenly said.

Everyone looked at him with suspicion.

Under everyone's stunned gaze, Li Hao slowly lifted his feet off the ground.

One inch, two inches, one foot...

His body began to rise, as if lifted by an invisible force, and floated steadily toward the treetop.

"This...how is this possible!" Zhao Meng's eyes widened, his mouth half-open.

"Flying...flying!" Niu Dazhuang stammered.

"Brother Hao can fly!!" Zhang Jinfeng shouted excitedly.

Liu Xueqin covered her mouth, and the butterfly wings inside her clothes trembled slightly behind her back, a natural reaction when she was emotionally agitated.

Li Hao rose to the same height as the honeycomb, about five meters away. He stopped approaching and slowly released his bio-force field.

Invisible ripples spread out.

The wasps on the surface of the hive suddenly became agitated, as if they had encountered a natural enemy. They frantically flapped their wings, trying to escape, but the suppressive bio-force field slowed their movements. One by one, the wasps fell from the sky as if drunk, and were already unconscious when they hit the ground.

"Quick! Kill them!" Zhao Meng was the first to react, swinging his machete at the fallen wasps.

The team members swarmed forward and finished off the unconscious wasps. In just a few minutes, hundreds of mutated wasps were eliminated.

Li Hao floated down and landed steadily on the ground.

"Brother Hao! When will you be able to fly?!" Niu Dazhuang was the first to rush up, his face full of excitement.

"This is incredible! Humans can really evolve the ability to fly!" Zhang Jinfeng circled around Li Hao as if he were looking at some rare treasure.

Zhao Meng walked up to Li Hao, his expression complex: "Is this your newly evolved ability?"

Li Hao's lips curled slightly: "More or less."

He didn't want to explain too much; he himself was still exploring the mysteries of the biofield.