When he sensed something approaching, Xu Huo moved Yan Jiayu behind him and raised a wall of Space Ray blades to block the way. The next second, several streams of blood trickled through the air, and a creature half a person tall, shaped like a monkey, gradually emerged from invisibility.
Elsewhere, Unpolished Jade and the others had each killed three similar Mutant Animals. They were all about the same size, and this was only the first wave of attacks. More were coming from underground, moving incredibly fast—not solely through speed, but by using special passages that appeared in the air from time to time.
Even Unpolished Jade couldn't hide her astonishment at the sight. "Mental energy has actually formed special portals here, and they can use these passageways!"
Mutated Plants weren't very intelligent. Even if they could release powerful energy, it was usually indiscriminate, and they had far fewer tricks than Evolvers. Portal passageways were one of the tricks Evolvers could use.
"Were the portal passageways made by the Mutated Plants or by these monkeys?" Yan Ping asked.
"What difference does it make?" Unpolished Jade said. "Whoever made them, we still have to drive these monkeys back today!"
There were simply too many of them. After Xu Huo and the others joined forces to kill the first wave, the monkeys seemed to learn their lesson. They used the portals to dodge, deliberately bypassing Xu Huo and the other two and charging at Yan Ping's group instead.
During the fighting, one of the bounty hunters failed to notice that his mechanical suit had been damaged. In just a few minutes, two people were affected by mental interference, removed their helmets, and had their throats bitten through by the monkeys.
The short-haired woman was so furious she wanted to take the monkeys