Chapter 376 Man-Eating Tiger
With Zhenhong as a fixed fortress, I don't have to worry about those two researchers at all. As long as the monsters here don't suddenly turn around and attack Zhen Hong and the two researchers, Zhen Hong can definitely stop them.
Since I have no worries, I can safely and boldly remove obstacles. But, to be honest, there are not many obstacles left that can be cleared. The reason why the Russian players over there were able to persist for so long was entirely because they had a complete defense circle. The melee personnel on the outer circle blocked the attacks of powerful monsters, and the mage-type personnel in the inner circle treated the damage to those outside while providing Fire support, such a defensive circle is of course solid. But the problem is that my previous deliberate troubles destroyed this defensive circle. Now these Russian players have become a group of scattered players, and most of the remaining players are warriors. The mages have been killed in previous battles. about there.
Looking at the remaining Russian players, when I was considering which one to deal with first, I suddenly discovered an unexpected situation.
After I destroyed the defense circle of Russian players before, a monster that looked like a giant tiger rushed into the crowd of Russian players, and this monster finally ate the mage who attacked me, and... After that, the monster basically killed all the members of the mage group around him. In other words, this monster has actually wiped out most of the Russian mages.
Originally, it was normal for a monster that broke into a group of mages to gain something. After all, mages are like artillery. When they are far away, they are the masters. They can definitely explode you and run away with your head in your arms. But once you are close, you will basically be left with nothing. He was tortured to death. Therefore, it was normal for the monster to kill many mages after successfully breaking into the group of mages. But what I didn't expect was that this monster was different from ordinary monsters after killing the mages. He did not attack other people around him, but lowered his head and began to eat the corpses on the ground.
After all, "Zero" is a game. Although the warcraft or monsters and other combat creatures here will occasionally eat some other monsters and even players in front of the players, generally this kind of thing is just a deterrent. Or a means of attack. The monsters in the game actually do not hunt players because they need to eat. Therefore, even if they kill players in battle, they will not start eating immediately like those ferocious beasts that kill prey in reality. Instead, they will put down the dead target and continue to attack other targets until they are within sight. Until there is no goal left. Moreover, even if all the surrounding players are killed, these monsters will not turn around and go back to eat the corpses. There is no such setting in the game.
Normally players see monsters eating corpses. That is probably a situation that only occurs in some special mission scenarios, and similar situations rarely occur in the leveling area. Even if there is really a monster eating people in the leveling area. That's because this monster uses bites as a means of attack, and after tearing off a piece of meat, the monster will probably swallow the meat just because it would be troublesome to spit it out, and does not really want to eat the meat.
Having said all this, I actually want everyone to know that monsters don’t actually need to eat. The monsters in the game are set up to be killed by the player, or to kill the player. Even though "Zero" uses a "breeding system" instead of the too fake method of directly refreshing monsters to replenish the monsters in the leveling area, it is still just a monster. With this stat adjustment, the monsters actually don’t need to eat at all.
It's because normal monsters don't eat the bodies of players or NPCs. So the tiger-shaped monster in front of me seems extremely strange. Although it started eating after killing a large group of mages around it, it was not that there were no targets around. However, this guy gave up and continued to attack, and instead feasted on the corpses on the ground. This phenomenon is very strange, and it is obviously not something that normal monsters can do.
I was staring at the monster here, and suddenly I found that the monster had a new change. I saw this guy eating, and suddenly a large piece of skin grew on his back. Then the hair on this piece of skin fell off quickly, and the raised part below became higher and higher, and quickly turned black. In less than five seconds, a large black shiny carapace appeared on the shoulder blade of this tiger-like thing, which looked like it was wearing a pair of shoulder armor.
I looked at this guy who suddenly grew a carapace in surprise, and then looked at the corpse it was chewing on in confusion. Then it suddenly dawned on me.
The tiger-like creature had been eating the corpses of mage players before, but just now, he actually successfully gnawed on a warrior, and this guy's teeth were obviously very good, because he didn't bite the warrior's armor at all. It was peeled off and swallowed with the armor.
The tiger-like thing just swallowed one of the warrior's shoulders first, and then he grew a shoulder armor. Then the tiger-shaped monster bit off the guy's head again. Sure enough, the next second, carapace began to grow on his head, and then as the tiger monster continued to devour different parts of the corpse, carapace grew on his body in sequence. A whole set of armor came out. Now this tiger looks like a combat creature wearing a set of heavy armor, and its appearance has changed dramatically.
Although this guy grew armor after eating a warrior, I think his change must be more than that, because I have seen this guy swallow a mage's staff before. If the armor on the warrior was eaten because it was difficult to take off, then the staff was not originally worn on the body, but this tiger-shaped monster specifically swallowed this thing. Something is not normal. If he couldn't get something from this wand, I don't believe he would like to chew on the magic wand.
Although I have some speculations in my mind, I don't know what changes this thing has made because it can't be seen at all from the outside. However, there are so many monsters here, and there are all kinds of strange things, so I temporarily gave up the plan of continuing to study this thing. If this thing can survive to the end, it means that it is strong enough, and it will not be too late to study it by then. If it dies early, it means that it is nothing more than that, and it is not worth wasting my energy.
Originally, my idea was pretty good, but unfortunately for some unknown reason, I had just gotten close to those Russian players, and of course I had gotten close to this monster. As a result, he actually gave up on the half-gnawed corpse and suddenly turned his gaze. Moved to my body. The moment I saw the guy's eyes, I knew something was wrong. This thing obviously regarded me as a target. Do you think I look better? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)