Evil Spirit: Filth Cricket

"Level 4 supplies were worth a lot, even if they were metal materials."

Cao Fengqi felt a surge of anticipation.

Yesterday's level 4 supplies had yielded an Arcane Musket and an Abyssal Blood Flower. What would it be this time?

He slowly approached, and as he went deeper, the vague outlines of walls still standing appeared one after another.

The ground was uneven with scattered rocks and the ruins of buildings.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!"

Just as Cao Fengqi jumped from one rock to another, a piercing cry suddenly rang out.

A Calamity Rat leaped out from below and bit straight at his leg.

"Shit."

The script's warning came at once, but the Calamity Rat was far too close to Cao Fengqi for him to dodge.

Fortunately, the improvement to his constitution had made him much stronger.

"Bang!" "Hiss!"

He kicked the Calamity Rat in the body, but its teeth also sank into his thigh, nearly tearing off a chunk of flesh.

The pain instantly brought cold sweat to Cao Fengqi's brow.

"You beast, I'll fucking kill you."

He immediately swung his saber at it.

"Squeak, squeak!"

Sensing how sharp the Three Spirits Saber was, the Calamity Rat burrowed straight into the rocks, leaving Cao Fengqi unable to find it.

"Damn it."

Seeing this, Cao Fengqi's expression darkened. He hurriedly jumped onto a patch of open ground to guard against another sneak attack.

He glanced around, then looked down at his bleeding wound. With no other choice, he took out the Living Spirit Liquid he had kept inside his clothes and applied it.

The Living Spirit Liquid quickly healed the wound, and he breathed a small sigh of relief.

"I still have to be careful. The script cheat isn't all-powerful."

Cao Fengqi spoke gravely.

The script could warn him the moment a target attacked him.

It could warn him in advance about poisonous miasma and things like traps.

But if an evil spirit or evil beast did not attack, there would be no warning, even if it was only a meter away from him.

I have to be extremely vigilant in this complicated terrain.

Having learned from his mistake, Cao Fengqi tried to avoid stepping on rocks with gaps between them, in case evil beasts or evil spirits were hiding underneath to ambush him.

Even if he had to go around them, he could not take the risk.

[Scan of the one-kilometer radius complete. Newly found: 8 level 1 supplies, 2 level 2 supplies, 5 level 3 supplies.]

Before Cao Fengqi reached the level 4 supplies, he had discovered another five level 3 supplies.

"There are lots of treasures in this abandoned town."

His heart warmed with excitement. He took a deep breath and advanced carefully.

It took him more than ten minutes to cover the next seven or eight hundred meters, but fortunately, he suffered no sneak attacks.

Cao Fengqi looked at the half-collapsed house ahead and slowly walked over.

A skeleton lay in front of the house, clutching a bow and ten arrows in its hand.

Cao Fengqi's gaze fell on the bow, which shimmered with a faint blue light, and his face lit up with delight.

[Evil-Breaking Bow: level 4 quality]

[Effect: The evil-breaking power of gui water flows through the bow. When imbued into arrows, it can unleash considerable damage.]

[Evil-Piercing Arrow: level 3 quality]

[Effect: Possesses incomparably sharp penetrating power. Can be reused as long as it remains undamaged.]

"A level 4 bow with level 3 arrows. Its power definitely won't be any weaker than the Arcane Musket."

Cao Fengqi happily picked them up.

A bow was a good thing. He immediately nocked an arrow and drew it, giving it a simple test.

"Uh..."

To his dismay, he found he could not draw the bow fully.

"A level 4 quality bow is already very powerful. My constitution isn't high enough."

He frowned, feeling a little helpless.

Although he could not draw it to its full extent, he could still use it, but its power would be greatly reduced.

Cao Fengqi immediately put it away and looked toward the other level 4 supply. Finding it inside the skeleton's leather pouch, he promptly pulled it out.

[Swift Speed Potion: level 4 quality]

[Effect: After consumption, greatly increases the user's speed for one minute. The user's body becomes weakened after the effect wears off.]

"It's a potion. Too bad it doesn't increase constitution."

"It's a consumable, too, but this Swift Speed Potion is good for saving my life."

Cao Fengqi immediately put it away and returned to the shelter with a thought, setting the Evil-Breaking Bow, the black iron staff, and the like to one side.

His father, who had not slept a wink the previous night, lay snoring on one side of the bed, unaware that Cao Fengqi had woken up.

"The shelter is still too small. I need to expand it so that I at least have a room of my own."

Cao Fengqi did not want to share a bed with his father.

With that thought, he entered the Lost Land again.

Back in the abandoned town, Cao Fengqi headed toward a level 3 supply location.

"Oh, a big piece of level 3 metal. At least fifteen jin. Nice."

Cao Fengqi, who was thinking about expanding the shelter, showed no sign of disdain at the sight of the level 3 metal.

Smiling, he put it away and headed toward the next level 3 resource location.

As Cao Fengqi walked, he suddenly felt a chilling sensation and instinctively looked to his right.

The next second, the hairs all over his body stood on end.

A bizarre creature as black as ink was staring eerily at him from more than fifty meters away.

Its three twisted hind legs pressed against the ground, and its two forelimbs were black claws with barbs. It had no complete head, and at its center, two frigid eyes glowing with ghostly fire studied him without emotion.

"It's an evil spirit, a Filth Cricket."

Cao Fengqi's expression changed drastically. A Filth Cricket was a level stronger than a Shadow Specter.

Shadow Specters had no physical form, but Filth Crickets had already condensed physical bodies.

They came in many shapes, like all sorts of grotesque, twisted insects.

The Evil Concealment Armor I'm wearing must have made it curious whether I'm one of its kind.

Nervous, Cao Fengqi passed the Three Spirits Saber to his left hand and drew the Arcane Musket.

"Whoosh!"

The Filth Cricket seemed to realize that he was not one of its kind. It leaped ten meters in a single bound, charging toward him.

At that very instant, the script's warning also came.

That meant the Filth Cricket was about to attack him.

"You're courting death!"

Cao Fengqi's gaze sharpened, and he pointed the Arcane Musket in his hand.

In his haste, and with the Filth Cricket moving at such a terrifying speed, he could not aim for a moment!

"Bang!"

Fortunately, the script came with a red-dot aiming aid. As the Filth Cricket charged toward him, he acquired his target and fired.

The flaming bullet struck the Filth Cricket precisely in the belly, blasting a small hole in it.

The Filth Cricket did not die. Its body faltered slightly, but its cold, terrifying eyes remained fixed on him as it charged.

Its speed, however, had clearly dropped considerably.

A Filth Cricket's weak points are its eyes, which glow with ghostly fire. It can only be killed by destroying its eyes. Otherwise, it won't die.

That information flashed through Cao Fengqi's mind. Facing a life-or-death crisis, he took a deep breath to calm himself.

He gripped the Arcane Musket with both hands.

Steady, aim!

"Bang!"

One shot to the right eye.

"Bang!"

One shot to the left eye.

The ghostly fire in the Filth Cricket's eyes faded, and its body crashed heavily to the ground, completely dead.

Cao Fengqi looked at the Filth Cricket, which was only ten meters away, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead!

Without the Arcane Musket or the script's assistance, if either one had been missing, he would have died.

The Filth Cricket was so terrifying that even his deceased elder brother would have been no match for it.

Cao Fengqi came to the Filth Cricket's corpse and immediately used the Gathering Technique.

[Soul] * 1