Helemis had seen Lin Kong making a fire and grilling meat, but in the jungle, the strong are respected. He didn't think the lighter in Lin Kong's hand was of any use. He glanced at the lighter in his hand and said, "You want to lure out the stone beast with this broken thing?"
The sarcasm in his tone could not be hidden.
Lin Kong touched his chin and kindly reminded him, "Remember the last time I was barbecuing, the firewood was too damp and I smoked you out of the cave?"
Helemis: […]
Helemis waved his sleeves heavily, turned his head and looked at the kneeling Zerg, and ordered in a deep voice: [Go, pick up a bunch of dead branches and put them at the entrance of the cave! ]
[yes.]
The insects felt as if they had been pardoned and immediately scattered to pick up the dead branches, which soon formed a small hill. The young and strong insects spread their wings, carried the dead branches and flew into the cave behind the waterfall, filling it up.
Lin Kong handed the lighter to one of the bugs and taught him how to use it: "When you go in, press this button and the fire will come out. Light the branches and leave quickly, otherwise you will get burned."
The insect learned how to use it and hid the lighter in a skin bag to prevent it from getting wet. Then it flew into the cave and disappeared behind the waterfall, leaving a group of insects on the cliff waiting anxiously.
Lin Kong had nothing to do, so he stood behind Helemis and whispered to him, "If you can lure the stone-piercing beast out later, will you still kill these insects?"
Hermes remained silent, staring into the distance without saying a word. Perhaps he himself did not know the answer, or perhaps he knew the answer but did not want to say it.
Lin Kong is a sweet-talker who is good at coaxing people. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Of course it doesn't matter. I'm not familiar with them. Your business is related to me."
Even Helemis looked over.
Helemis's expression relaxed slightly, but before he could open his mouth, Lin Kong asked again, "Aren't you from the same tribe? Why are you killing each other?"
[Cough cough cough cough...]
Helemis didn't expect Lin Kong to ask this. He frowned and said with disdain: [They are just a group of species that failed in the competition. I can crush them to death with just one finger. Do they deserve to be called my kind? ]
Lin Kong discovered that these Zerg living together in groups seemed to be more humane. Heremis and the other servants always kept to themselves and seemed to be hard-hearted.
Helemis: [Yes.]
Lin Kong glanced at Helemis slowly and deliberately asked, "Then I am weaker than them, do you look down on me too?"
Helemis didn't like this metaphor: "You are my prey, they are ants."
Seeing this, Lin Kong did not continue to ask questions. After all, he was thick-skinned, and Helemis' words could not hurt his self-esteem at all. He turned his attention to the cave entrance.
Lin Kong: "What's the difference?"
Lin Kong: “Is there any difference?”
He felt that Lin Kong seemed to be too concerned about this group of low-level Zerg, which made him feel as if his property was being taken away, which made him quite unhappy.
Helemis asked coldly: [Does this matter have anything to do with you? ]
The rest of the tribe rushed forward to help him up, and asked in unison: "How is it? Is the fire lit?"
In Helemis' heart, only the strong can stand on the same position as him. At the very least, they have to be servants of the same strength as Xuepo and Jiayan. His cold and bestial nature makes him have no concept of "love and affection".
The Zerg calmed down for a moment, then knelt down and reported to Helemis: "My Lord, the fire has been lit, and the cave is full of smoke. It shouldn't take long to smoke the stone beast out."
It was enough for him to know that Lin Kong was different.
Because there was a waterfall outside the cave, Lin Kong was worried that the fire wouldn't start, so he specifically told them to burn it inside. After more than half an hour, he saw a figure staggering out from inside. It was the Zerg that had just gone in to light the fire.
The Zerg was obviously choked by the smoke. He fell to the ground when he flew to the edge of the cliff. He covered his mouth and coughed violently, choking and tears streaming down his face.
Even though the Zerg are physically strong, he was smoked to the point of tears streaming down his face while inside just now, and couldn't stay there for even half a second. The chance of smoking the Stone-Drilling Beast out should be quite high.
Helemis stared at the cave entrance for a moment, and seeing no movement inside, the voice was like sharp stones soaked in a cold pond, extremely gloomy:
[If you can't smoke it out, you will die anyway. ]
Upon hearing this, the Zerg turned pale and lowered their heads in silence.
Lin Kong was relatively calm. There were so many dead branches piled up inside to burn, enough to make smoked meat. He didn't believe that the stone beast would not come out.
Time passed by little by little, until the sun was at its highest point in the sky, when there was finally some movement in the cave. Standing far away, Lin Kong saw thick smoke coming out of the cave mouth, followed by the roar of a large beast, the mountain rumbled, countless pieces of rubble fell from the cave mouth, and water splashed everywhere.
[Look! The stone beast is coming out! ]
Someone shouted in surprise, and the insects standing on the shore were all shocked. Lin Kong looked in the direction and saw a black object suddenly crawling out of the cave. It had short and thick limbs, and looked like a crocodile, but its mouth was sharp and long, just like an electric drill.
"Roar-!!!"
The skin on the back of the stone beast was uneven, and it looked like a pile of rocks, forming the most natural camouflage in the dense forest. It was choked by the smoke, but its body was all carbon black. Suddenly, it smelled the breath of the Zerg at the edge of the cliff, and its big yellow lantern-like eyes suddenly flashed a bloodthirsty light.
Lin Kong was originally still thinking about how to hunt, after all, the cliff was some distance away from the waterfall. However, just as this thought came to his mind, he saw the stone beast suddenly use its hind legs to kick hard, turning into a swift black shadow and flying towards this side with a whoosh.
"Fuck!"
Lin Kong's pupils shrank when he saw this, and he quickly pulled Helemis to the side, and the rest of the Zerg also scattered. The stone-piercing beast jumped directly from the cave to the edge of the cliff. When its huge body landed on the ground, there was a loud noise, and the ground was cracked into several cracks.
When he got closer, Lin Kong realized that this guy was incredibly big, with a body size comparable to that of a dinosaur. When he met those yellow eyes, he was almost scared to death by the other's bloodthirsty and ferocious gaze.
"Roar!!!!"
The stone-piercing beast roared angrily again, and out of its beast instinct, it immediately attacked the Zerg closest to it. It swung its tail sharply, directly injuring three Zergs, and rushed forward to bite them.
Upon seeing this, the young and strong insects transformed their claws into sharp claws and pounced on the stone-piercing beast to fight with it. However, the latter's flesh was invulnerable to swords and guns, and they encountered obstacles after piercing half an inch at most. They could only turn to attack the stone-piercing beast's eyes.
The stone beast felt the pain, and its body shook more violently, directly throwing the insects down heavily. Lin Kong, who was standing far away, was almost injured in the arm by the flying stones. He pulled Helemis behind him, and while nervously observing the battle situation, he quickly retreated, and his mind was now full of how to escape.
"What should we do? It seems like they can't defeat the stone beast. Why don't you let them retreat and run away quickly?!"
Lin Kong was panicking. Wild beasts were no joke when it came to eating people. This stone-piercing beast opened its bloody mouth and swallowed two of them without chewing. Helemis didn't say a word from beginning to end. He tilted his head slightly and stared at Lin Kong's figure blocking him for a moment. His eyes moved down and fell on the other's wrist that was holding him. His brows wrinkled a little bit, and it was unknown what he was thinking.
A rabbit standing in front of a tiger is a somewhat ridiculous scene.
But Hermes didn't want to laugh now. He just felt that this feeling was very strange, something he had never experienced before. It was like countless ants were biting his heart, but it was not uncomfortable.
Lin Kong waited for a long time but got no answer. He turned to look at Helemis, only to see that he was staring at him in a daze: "Speak, are you going to run or not?"
Of course it won't run away. Helemis is determined to get this stone-piercing beast, but it is obviously not realistic to expect those low-level Zerg to hunt it.
Helemis came back to his senses and finally looked towards the center of the battlefield. He spread his wings behind him and flew towards the stone beast without any warning. He was so fast that only his afterimage could be seen. He coldly said two words to Lin Kong: [Wait! ]
Helemis's attack was obviously ten times faster than those of the low-level Zerg. He landed heavily on the back of the stone-piercing beast. The nails of his right hand grew rapidly and pierced the eyelids of the giant beast with a "click", blinding its eyes with a fierce dig.
The stone beast let out a painful and twisted scream, and its tail swung back in the air, trying to pull Helemis down. However, Helemis grabbed its barbed tail without even turning his head, and at the same time, his right hand pierced through the stone beast's head. His mental power invaded its brain and began to frantically absorb its vitality.
During this time, the stone beast struggled more and more violently, but it could not withstand the ferocity of Helemis. In the end, its huge body shriveled and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even its struggle gradually weakened.
The beast was so huge that Helemis spent a whole hour just sucking its life force. After an unknown amount of time, a ball of blue life force as big as a crystal ball appeared in his palm. The stone beast turned into a gray mummy that shattered at the touch of a finger.
Helemis looked at the energy in his hand, his scarlet pupils narrowed slightly, and he was obviously very satisfied with this harvest. He stood up straight and jumped off the back of the stone beast. The moment he landed, he heard a fragmented and decaying sound. The other party's body turned into powder in the air, leaving only the remains of a head.
Lin Kong was shocked when he saw this, and quickly ran forward and asked, "How is it? Are you okay?"
Facing Lin Kong's worried gaze, Helemis hid his left hand behind his back without leaving a trace, and uttered two words lightly: [No.]
Lin Kong glanced at the wreckage on the ground and asked hesitantly, "The Stone Piercing Beast is dead. Can you report to the Insect King now?"
Helemis frowned: [What do you mean? ]
Lin Kong pointed at the injured low-level Zergs and said, "We already have food to offer to the Insect King. We don't need to use those bugs as bait. We can just let them go. The Insect King probably won't remember their names."
The latter sentence was guessed by Lin Kong.
He felt that the Insect King was like a good-for-nothing, with no brains but only a mouth. If Helemis was willing to help keep this matter secret, the Insect King would most likely not investigate.
Helemis knew that Lin Kong was just showing off his useless kindness, but he had gained a lot today, so it didn't matter whether he killed the low-level Zerg or not. He spat out two words impatiently: [It's up to you.]
The Zerg standing aside were overjoyed upon hearing this, and they all knelt down to express their gratitude to Lin Kong and Helemis: [Thank you for your mercy and kindness, thank you...]
Helemis didn't like listening to those long-winded words, so he turned around and flew back to the cave with Lin Kong.
Lin Kong was extremely hungry. After returning to the cave, he began to rummage through his suitcase. He sat on the ground and ate a packet of instant noodles. He also ate half of the feather dragon leg that he had saved last time. Only then did his hungry stomach feel a little better.
Helemis sat cross-legged on the stone bed. Seeing Lin Kong's cheeks bulging with food, he couldn't help but look over at him. He thought that this prey was really hard to raise. It needed to eat every day, which was troublesome.
Lin Kong didn't know if he noticed Helemis's gaze, he raised his head and said: "I don't eat much, one meal a day is enough."
Helemis sneered: [When the snow blocks the mountain, you won’t be able to eat a single meal.]
The winter in the dense forest is desolate and cold. Even the insect king will slow down his eating speed and go into a semi-dormant state, because there is no prey to be found at that time. Even a strong man like Helemis cannot hunt it.
Every year, countless weak Zerg die in heavy snow, and Lin Kong will only have a harder time.
Helemis thought about this and felt a little annoyed for some reason. He suddenly said, "Lin Kong, stay alive."
Lin Kong was stunned when he heard this: "What did you say?"
Hermes stared at him with her scarlet eyes and repeated patiently: [If you can survive this winter, I will not kill you.]
Yes, don’t kill.
He planned to let the prey live well, and even had the idea of keeping it as a feeder.
If Lin Kong can survive this year's long and cold winter, he can survive countless years to come. Helemis is used to being alone, but sometimes he feels bored. Just like Dong Ning said, they can't always be immersed in killing, they also have to look up at the mountains and the scorching sun.
Lin Kong didn't expect Helemis to say such words to him. He swallowed the food in his mouth and asked curiously, "Why?"
Helemis closed his eyes and returned to his expressionless look: [No reason.]
Seeing this, Lin Kong simply moved to his side and sat on the floor next to the stone bed. As a result, when he lowered his head, he found that Helemis' left hand was rubbed bloody by the stone beast's tail. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Your left hand is injured, why didn't you tell me?"
Lin Kong was shocked when he saw Helemis's skin and flesh turned inside out. He didn't even dare to touch it. He frowned and said, "Wait a minute. I'll go see if there's any medicine in the medicine box."
After he finished speaking, he was about to stand up, but was pulled back by an invisible mental force.
[Need not.]
Helemis quietly opened his eyes, and a ball of blue life force popped out from his right hand, emitting a faint blue light in the dim cave: [My life force is enough to heal my wounds. ]
Lin Kong's medicines have no effect at all on the Zerg with their special physiques.
Lin Kong: "But isn't this vitality meant for the Insect King? If you use it, how will you explain it to it?"
However, Helemis divided the energy into two parts, one large and one small, right in front of him, flicked the small energy with his finger and said, "Just give this to it."
Lin Kong choked, thinking that Helemis actually took kickbacks: "Is this little energy enough to cure? Why didn't you hide more before, just in case..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw blue light balls suddenly appearing around Helemis one after another. Some were as small as pearls, and some were as big as eggs. They floated in the air like fireflies, so beautiful that it took one's breath away.
Lin Kong's eyes widened in shock, and he looked at Helemis in disbelief: "You... ?!!!"
(End of this chapter)