Ascension journey - 579

Among the sparse woods on the edge of the vast grassland, female African elephants a few meters tall are leading a family of mostly female elephants with more than twenty heads on the elephant road.

This very conspicuous road among the vegetation, which has been trampled by the largest species on the land for a long time, is unusually flat and solid, making it easy for the giants weighing tons to walk.

They are qualified to be leisurely-their huge size and terrifying weight allow them to smash any hunter who dares to attack them, whether it is a liger or a crocodile, it takes extraordinary courage to attack a giant elephant.

On this earth continent, unless it is hungry and dizzy, otherwise no natural creature will take the initiative to challenge these seemingly meek herbivores.

Except…the human beings who use their wisdom to create tools and weapons to arm themselves, so as to leap to the top of the food chain.

In the front of the road where the elephants were walking, four men with shotguns and dusty walked out of the off-road vehicle. While observing the elephants in the distance with binoculars, they approached the elephant road in the forest.

In the half-open trunk of the off-road vehicle that was guarded by one person, you could see white ivory, large and small, with a hint of blood.

Familiarly inspected the status of the guns and knives, several men worked together to remove the trap device from the car, just in case, and set it near the elephant road. Then they squatted a little further away with the cover of plants. Talked in a low voice–

“It’s so small… What these female elephants grow up eating, they can’t grow their teeth…”

“This is not bad. Some time ago, I even saw an entire elephant herd without teeth.”

“No way?”

“Why don’t you usually read some books? I know a little about this. I remember this is called natural selection? Hey, or artificial selection—

“Anyway, the elephant herds with long teeth were all preemptively polished. The remaining elephant herds have short or toothless genes, and their offspring are naturally more likely to be toothless.”

“So, no elephants will be produced in the future? Hiss—the price of ivory has not been soaring? I should keep more good products.”

“How long does the ghost know? Maybe the elephant herd was killed before then… But what will we do in the future? It’s useless to think too much, now it’s enough to have the money.”

“Also…shhh, they are coming soon.”

Perhaps it was because the poachers were too active on this land. The female elephant who led the herd was vaguely aware of something. She brought a group of elephants to a halt, wandering around and neighing a little uncomfortably.

“Cut, can you smell it when the car is parked so far? It’s getting harder and harder…”

The leading middle-aged hunter made a gesture, and then he adjusted the position of the shotgun behind him, and led a few others through the woods.

Pulling away the messy branches and stepping on the stacked leaves, the poachers slowly approached the elephant herd around an arc.

Experienced humans have already summed up many effective hunting rules. They tacitly delineated the main goal and used their own movements to drive the elephants to move.

The vitality of an elephant weighing several tons is very terrifying, and it can still struggle for a long time when its body is hit by a bullet.

Even if the weapons in their hands are full of power, they still need to get close to a very close range and hit the elephant’s weaker denomination from the front to ensure that the attack can directly destroy its brain.

This is quite a test of skill and courage. If you miss a little, the elephant that has not been killed once will madly charge the enemy in front of you to crush it.

It might be better to be hit by a car than to be hit by an elephant.

But the skilled poachers did not give the elephant a chance to fight back.

After some entanglement, the middle-aged poacher walked around in front of the leader maternal elephant who was alone. Speed raised the double-barreled shotgun.

“Boom—”

In the smoke filled with gunpowder, a huge creature several meters high fell to the ground.

Finished a kill cleanly, the middle-aged man blew the muzzle, and then he opened the barrel slowly and replaced the shotgun with new bullets.

——The gun is really a good thing. Even a giant creature weighing tens or hundreds of times its weight can be easily solved with a finger… This is powerful, the power of human beings to surpass nature.

Looking at the huge creature whose legs, feet and body were still twitching slightly in front, the middle-aged man shook his head, and was about to rush in the direction of the elephant’s wailing on the other side.

But just as the middle-aged man wanted to turn his gaze away, a blood-red color fell from the sky accompanied by a howling gust of wind, exploding a fleshy cave in the tough skin of the giant elephant’s flanks.

“What is that… the red eagle?” The middle-aged man with the red afterimage in his eyes froze in his footsteps. He stared at the huge blood hole on the elephant with an inexplicable sense of fear. It gradually spread from the bottom of his heart-

The sound of torn flesh and broken bones spread from the elephant’s corpse. There seemed to be a monster in the blood hole, swallowing the surrounding food.

The corpse of several tons of giant elephants is shrinking and shrivelling at a speed visible to the naked eye…As several blood-red tentacles traversing through the flesh tore tore the wounds of the elephant’s face from the gunshot and exposed to the air, the middle-aged poachers finally Recovered.

“Monster…” The man muttering silently did not have the courage to fight the unknown creature in front of him with a weapon in his hand. He forcibly controlled his body that was trembling with fear and tried to slowly back away with the slightest movement. .

However, in the forest with layers of fallen leaves and branches, it is very difficult to move without making a sound.

As the sound of the man stepping on the branches and leaves spread, the elephant corpse, which seemed to have only a layer of skin, stopped wriggling.

In the next instant, a black and red worm-like creature less than the size of a man’s slap rushed out of the elephant’s wound, and rushed towards the poacher with extremely swift motion.

“Fak!”

At the moment of lightning and flint, the middle-aged man broke his limit in the face of a huge life threat. He burst out of all potential and flicked the muzzle in his hand, and pulled the trigger at the monster that rushed to his feet.

The bullet erupted from the muzzle accurately hit the high-speed moving shadow, and the powerful metal bullet smashed the weird shadow into two on the spot.

However, the front half of the strange insect still rushed to the man’s foot under inertia, and saw its volley swinging its sickle-like limbs, and after an instant touch of the ground, the sharp teeth and sharp limbs were deeply inserted into the man’s foot. wrist.

The severe pain struck in an instant, but disappeared in an instant. The middle-aged man in a panic grabbed the barrel of his hot hand and hit his foot with the handle of the gun, trying to get rid of the unknown creature’s attack.

But soon, in vain, he saw the weird scene on his feet-the remnant of the weird worm was fusing into his feet in a supernatural way.

A terrible numbness spread from his right foot, which had no wounds or abnormalities, and half of his body stiffened under the influence of unknown toxins. The man fell to the ground. Then he saw the second half of the previously interrupted monster. The body was twisted and transformed into a complete individual with a small circle just beside his face, now curled up with arthropods.

But the next moment, the monster stopped its actions.

In the fear of freezing his soul, the middle-aged man saw the elephant’s carcass before, a human-like but absolutely inhuman existence, slowly standing up from the elephant’s remaining flesh.

The trembling that originated from life instinct desperately reminded the middle-aged man-now appearing in front of him is a terrifying monster at the upper level of the food chain.

In the desperate sight of the man, the hideous monster crawled back like an obedient pet, jumped quickly onto the man’s outstretched palm, and slowly merged into his palm after being looked at by him for a while.

A young Asian man with streamlined muscles walked slowly in front of the collapsing middle-aged poacher. Between his walks, a layer of black “clothing” similar to leather was woven on his body.

The young man squatted down. He looked at the man with fear in his eyes, and said a fairly standard international lingua franca: “Now, in which century and several years?”