"Rustle, rustle!" Under the emergency lights, a mass like a black carpet came crawling toward him—scorpions with crimson tail hooks raised, packed densely together.
Each scorpion was the size of a palm. Their posture as they crawled over, along with their sheer numbers, made Zhou Ke's scalp tingle.
He was a Houtian Layer Ten Martial Artist, that was true, but even he was startled by such a vast number of scorpions. Their crawling speed made his skin crawl even more.
He immediately took out another emergency Glow Stick and hurled it behind the scorpion horde with all his strength.
He wanted to see just how many scorpions there were and whether more lay behind them.
But as the Glow Stick flew far enough, he discovered that the area ahead was not a cave at all, but an enormous open space. Perhaps this was the hollow interior of a mountain, with a Big Pit below. Though he could not tell how deep it was, the light gradually vanished after the Glow Stick fell into it, proving that the pit ahead was extremely deep.
But none of that was what concerned him now. He needed to deal with the scorpion swarm in front of him first. One look at those crimson tail hooks told him they were not easy to handle. Earlier, he had stepped on one, yet it had not been injured by his stomp. The moment he lifted his foot, it recovered completely.
Therefore, he naturally had to be careful around these scorpions.
Watching the scorpion swarm draw close, he flashed backward. He could not stay here. If these scorpions had any unusual traits, he might end up suffering an unexpected defeat.
After darting back, he quickly returned along the path he had come from. He needed to tell his