As the mountains shook, torrents of mud and shattered rock rolled down from the peaks.
Ancient trees crashed to the ground amid loud explosions. Within the raging mudflow, the earth split apart, and a long, sharp leg slowly extended directly into view.
Then came a second, a third, a fourth...
Amid shrill screeches, dust filled the air, and a colossal silhouette emerged before the convoy.
It resembled a bizarre stick insect, only magnified tens of thousands of times, to the point that a single leg was several hundred meters long. Its entire body was covered in carapace, its head crowned with wildly thrashing tentacles. Its legs slammed into the ground, gouging deep trenches.
As though enraged, it madly attacked every living thing in sight.
"A disaster beast?"
Ji Jue leaned out of the car window, binoculars in hand as he observed the colossal creature in the distance. What a pity Xiao Jiu was not here, or he could have shared her vision.
But aside from sharing her vision, she was not much use for the time being.
As Mercury's well-behaved little girl, she really did not look like she had much combat power. She could not even snatch the controller away from Little Cow and Horse. To keep something in the caverns from swallowing her in one gulp, Ji Jue had not dared bring her outside. He had left her in the Workshop to supervise Ye Chun's studies and make sure she worked hard on her thesis.
As he adjusted the binoculars' focus, the gigantic figure in the distance gradually became clearer. But the binoculars were almost unnecessary now—the enraged disaster beast was already charging straight at them amid the flailing of its countless legs!
A gale rushed toward them, carrying a faint stench.
Its wriggling tentacles, like mouthparts, shot