"Roar..."
A deep roar came from the fissure at the center. It was not as booming as the giant ape's howl, but it carried a bone-piercing chill that made everyone's scalp crawl.
Immediately afterward, a powerful pressure suddenly descended, as if an invisible mountain had been placed on everyone's shoulders.
Someone fell to his knees on the spot, bracing himself with both hands and gasping for breath. He did not even have the strength to raise his head.
Under everyone's terrified gazes, a colossal creature, pitch-black from head to tail, slowly crawled out of the central fissure.
Its body was dozens of meters long and covered in thick scales. The scales were hexagonal, with sharp barbs along their edges, gleaming with a cold, hard luster under the faint light.
Its head was larger than a minivan, with seven or eight crimson eyes crowded across it, all fixed fiercely on the people below.
Most terrifying of all was the underside of its body, where countless legs crawled densely over one another. Each leg resembled a small hook forged from black iron, and its steps easily scratched shallow marks into the ground.
The moment they saw this mutated beast, the adventure team's hearts turned cold, as though icy water had been poured over them from head to toe.
Some people's teeth began to chatter. Some instinctively retreated. Others cried out in unison.
"It's a Thousand-legged Scorpion! How could it be here?"
"Hasn't it always been harassing the town to the east? How did it end up hiding underground here?"
When Lin Li, watching from afar, saw the Thousand-legged Scorpion appear, surprise crossed his face, and the intelligence he had obtained earlier instantly surfaced in his mind.
That had happened several days ago. While resting in a small town, he had finished eating