"Third Brother, I'm coming to help you!"
As Wang Wu staggered back from the impact, Zhu Wuhua finally reacted. Howling, it charged forward too, but its bold words were utterly out of proportion to its strength. It had barely rushed up when it was bounced right back the next second—with double the force thrown in for good measure.
With a clang, it was flung more than ten meters away, coughing up a mouthful of old blood, weak as a chick.
Good lord, it looked like its strength capped out at around 20 points, and its Base Defense was worse than Wang Wu's.
It had been directly battered into serious injury, paralyzed and stripped of its fighting ability.
Only then did Wang Wu finally get a clear look at the monster that had silently emerged from underground. It looked like a huge oval beetle.
Or like a thousand-legged worm wearing an iron pot on its head. It stood around two meters tall and two meters across, with countless tentacles wriggling around it. It did not look like much, but that outer shell was fucking hard.
Could this be a Plant Zombie?
"Lianhua, fall back first. You can't fight a Plant Zombie like this!"
Niu Aihua, who had been crunching grass in the distance all this time, turned her head as well. She mooed twice, then her four hooves thundered forward. Like a heavy tank, she slammed headfirst into the slow-moving Plant Zombie.
Bang!
This time, the commotion was even greater, like a muffled thunderclap. It was followed by a crashing sound, then a sharp crack, as though something had snapped. But it definitely was not any part of Niu Aihua that had broken—it was the Plant Zombie.
The shell that Wang Wu could not even budge, like a stone wall, was