Chapter 72 The Terrifying Monkey King!

Facing the oncoming monkeys.

Yu Ke couldn't stay on the airship and pretend to be dead, betting that they would chase the Shadow Moon Leopard relentlessly and then let him go.

God knows if there are other irrational deformed beasts in the monkey group. Sitting and waiting to die has never been his style.

While the roar of the monkey group is still some distance away.

Yu Ke quickly moved the airship to the nearest giant tree, picked up dead branches and leaves from the river along the way, covered his backpack, and took out a bottle of spray specially made by the Forestry Bureau for covering up odors, and sprayed himself and the airship.

Although I don't know how effective it is, it's better than nothing.

After completing the preparations, Yu Ke climbed up the giant tree nearby with the sharp tooth bow and arrow and the Leviathan Axe, and used the branches to jump and transfer, and retreated to the hot spring forest area discovered earlier at the fastest speed.

The trees in that area still retain a lot of branches and leaves, which is undoubtedly a good place to hide.

Without the burden of backpacks and other miscellaneous items, Yu Ke quickly found a suitable hiding spot, located in the tree canopy above the hot spring.

The dense branches and leaves provided excellent cover, and the rising heat generated by the hot spring could also cover up the smell to a certain extent.

But

Where did the smell of meat come from?

Yu Ke squatted among the branches and sniffed his nose. After running here, he always felt that there was a smell of cooking meat nearby.

After thinking about it, his eyes turned to the hot spring that was still bubbling under his feet.

Before Yu Ke could observe carefully, the roar from a distance attracted his attention.

The angry monkeys had already chased close.

He hurriedly raised the telescope and soon captured those figures among the giant trees nearly 100 meters high.

Their body shape is generally similar to that of adult men, but their limbs are longer and stronger. When they move high in the giant trees, their bodies appear to be particularly light and fast.

Some of them would grab vines and swing to move, or they would step on branches and walk like tightrope. Some of them were even more courageous, using all four limbs, running or jumping, running through the treetops at high altitudes where they could be smashed into pulp if they were not careful, as if they were walking on flat ground.

There were about thirty monkeys in the group, roaring and interspersed in the forest, shaking branches everywhere to create momentum, as if they wanted to use this method to intimidate the Shadow Moon Leopard and force it to come out of its hiding place.

Obviously, this group of monkeys also knew the ferocity of the Shadow Moon Leopard, and they could not bear the lethality of the latter's surprise attack in the dark.

As time passed, the distance between the two sides narrowed.

Yu Ke observed more details. He noticed that the fur of these monkeys seemed to be a little special. At first glance, it looked grayish white, but when running at high altitudes, it was obvious that the inner layer was faintly visible with dark blue fur.

I think this should be their reliance on excellent water ability.

When the monkeys came close, Yu Ke tried not to make any noise. He didn't want to be hunted.

The camouflage of the airship was very successful. At least no monkeys had destroyed it yet. Their attention was on finding the Shadow Moon Leopard, and they were not very interested in the strange-looking dead things.

As long as the Shadow Moon Leopard left this place, the monkeys should not stay for too long.

However, what happened next made Yu Ke realize that his idea was probably wrong.

The monkeys kept making noises around, but after a long time they failed to force the Shadow Moon Leopard to appear.

According to Yu Ke's speculation, they should choose to leave and go to other forest areas. Unexpectedly, the monkeys who wandered around for a long time did not leave, but began to gather towards Yu Ke.

This made Yu Ke nervous. Could it be that his hiding place was discovered?

Holding the sharp-toothed longbow and holding two arrows in his right hand, Yu Ke stared at the apes that were swinging over from seven or eight meters away, holding vines.

If possible, he wanted to avoid conflict with the monkeys.

But if the situation is really irreversible, he will never be soft-hearted.

Just as Yu Ke was drawing his bow and arrow, with murderous intent rising in his heart, he saw the monkey that was originally heading towards him suddenly shout a few times, then turn around and leap from the tree branches, grabbing the vines in mid-air and descending quickly.

What is it doing?

Following the monkey's movements, Yu Ke watched it squat down to the roots of the giant tree exposed above the hot spring pool, put its claws into the pool water and stirred it for a while, and actually found a vine, and then pulled it up with all its strength.

After a while, it pulled out the hind legs of a beast from the hot spring pool, used its hands and feet to peel off the fur on the legs, pulled off a large piece of meat cooked by the hot spring bottom and stuffed it into its mouth, grinning and eating happily.

Its action soon triggered a chain reaction. The other monkeys stopped wandering around and came down from the trees one after another. They surrounded the hot spring, fished out the meat tied with vines, or simply jumped in to take a bath to relieve their fatigue.

Yu Ke suddenly realized where the meat smell he had just smelled came from.

It turned out that the hot spring was used as a natural soup pot and bath by the monkeys to cook food and take a bath, which could not only eliminate fatigue but also fill their stomachs. The monkeys who were squatting on the trees carrying wild birds and python corpses and tying food with vines were the best proof.

The previous behavior of making a fuss now seems to have the intention of driving away the Shadow Moon Leopard and protecting this hot spring.

Yu Ke was confused.

He wanted to hide here to avoid the monkeys, but he didn't know that this place was the bathing center where they had dinner and group building.

Now his situation was similar to that of the towel and slippers manager who was ignored in the bathing center. As long as he didn't move, no one would care. If he really stood up, he would immediately attract attention.

However, hiding here was not without gain. He could clearly see the status of the monkeys from his current position.

Yu Ke found that the monkeys used hot springs in a very regular way. They obviously knew which area of ​​hot springs was hot enough for cooking and preserving food, and which area of ​​hot springs could be used for bathing without scalding themselves.

Especially the largest hot spring in the southeast direction. Judging from the various decorations and bones on the surrounding giant trees, it is very likely to be the exclusive territory of the king of the monkeys. No ape dared to approach.

This made Yu Ke alert.

It is not ordinary to be able to occupy the entire hot spring forest in the depths of Jinghu Forest!

Unfortunately, the hot spring in front of us, which should have been a blessed land, could not escape the fate of being infected.

Yes, Yu Ke had just tested the water quality nearby not long ago. Pandora's infection had spread here, and the monkey group was inevitably affected.

Shadow Moon Leopard tried to clear the infection by hunting the deformed beasts, but this method was only a temporary solution.

Just from what Yu Ke saw now, there were at least five monkeys in the monkey group whose backs and necks had mutated, and gorgeous flowers gradually broke out of their flesh and blood, eroding their bodies.

The monkeys seemed to have also noticed the danger of this mutation. The infected monkeys were often accompanied by their own kind who kept combing their hair, plucking the flowers on their bodies, and then washing them with boiling hot spring water in an attempt to disinfect them.

However, this process was obviously extremely painful. The infected monkeys kept struggling and even began to hurt their own kind.

Their rationality is gradually collapsing due to Pandora's infection, and then they are completely controlled by the latter. Once their counterattack hurts their own kind, it will immediately lead to a larger scale of infection.

At that time, the entire monkey group will be in demise

Yu Ke is powerless to do anything about this. He can only find Pandora as soon as possible. Killing it may stop the infection.

The problem is that he can't leave now. He has to find a way to attract the attention of the monkey group.

Just when Yu Ke was having a headache about this, the sudden agitation of the monkey group gave him a great opportunity. The monkey who was cleaning the flowers for his companions in the north of the hot spring suddenly jumped up and let out a sharp roar.

Then a black shadow suddenly fell from the tree canopy, and his claws easily smashed the infected monkey's head. Taking advantage of the monkey group's frightened emptiness, he stepped on the roots of the giant tree and evacuated to a distance.

Shadow Moon Leopard!

This guy didn't leave just like Yu Ke.

It was just that Yu Ke didn't leave because he wanted to avoid conflict and continue to look for Pandora, while it was lurking in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to eliminate the infected monkeys.

Frankly speaking, Shadow Moon Leopard did a good thing, at least the speed of infection of the monkey group would be slowed down.

However, in the eyes of normal monkeys, Shadow Moon Leopard was attacking their companions, and the ensuing fury swept the entire monkey group. The monkeys who had just calmed down suddenly clamored and attacked Shadow Moon Leopard.

This was undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to evacuate.

Yu Ke did not hesitate, ran out of the canopy where he was hiding, and went straight to the location where the airship was hidden before.

Roar!!!

As soon as he took a step here, Yu Ke heard a roar from behind.

Yu Ke subconsciously looked back and saw that Shadow Moon Leopard had actually circled back and appeared in the hot spring he had discovered before, which no monkey dared to approach and had many decorations and bones.

The moment their eyes met, Yu Ke clearly felt that the Shadow Moon Leopard was staring at him.

The monkeys are about to surround him, why don't you run?

After communicating with the Shocked Horned Deer King, Yu Ke knew that such extraordinary creatures generally have high intelligence.

The Shadow Moon Leopard's behavior of going back and forth must be to convey some special information to him.

What do you want to tell me?

Yu Ke frowned. Logically, he should leave immediately, but his intuition told him that he might gain more by staying here.

Noticing that Yu Ke stopped, the Shadow Moon Leopard turned around suddenly, stepped on the roots of the giant tree with its two front legs, leaned forward, and roared towards the hot spring in front of it.

This was the roar from the overlord of the outer edge of the Mirror Lake Forest, full of power.

Even the monkeys stopped, as if they were a little scared and dared not approach.

But in the next second, a thick column of water suddenly gushed out of the hot spring, forcing the Shadow Moon Leopard to retreat, crushing the branches and roots of the giant trees along the way.

Yu Ke half-closed his eyes, and felt the hair on his back stand on end.

I saw a thick arm covered with dark blue bristles stretching out from the hot spring, grabbing the trunk of a nearby giant tree, and the five fingers easily buckled into the trunk like kneading dough. The hot spring bulged a huge mass of water, and a ferocious face emerged from it.

A huge head poked out from the gap between the giant trees, with a shrunken nose and a sunken forehead, two narrow and long ears on the left and right, a thunder god mouth, and white fangs protruding from the lips, as fierce as an evil ghost, with dark green hair all over the face, and water flowing down between the mouth and nose.

Only the deep sunken eye sockets.

At this moment, it was full of different colors, turning left and right, as if looking for something to disturb its rest.

Needless to say, this is the king of the monkey group!

What's more terrifying is that as more and more of its body left the hot spring, Yu Ke could already see that the abdomen and shoulders of the majestic body about three meters tall were covered with flowers.

The flowers on the abdomen had been torn into pieces, and there was barely any further abnormality, but two twisted tumors had grown at the junction of its shoulders and neck, covered with fascia, and something could be vaguely seen wriggling inside!

Until this moment, Yu Ke finally understood why Shadow Moon Leopard came back. He deliberately exposed himself by the river before, probably to keep him, so that he would take the initiative to hide here and see this scene.

The Monkey King's transformation has reached the end, and it may become a distorted beast like the human-faced owl at any time.

Shadow Moon Leopard wants Yu Ke to help eliminate this extremely terrifying beast together!