"The poison fog area… this damn place is really poisonous."
Ethan cursed under his breath.
But fortunately, after he blew up the Great Fireball spell, the monster that had flashed past in the poison fog seemed to have disappeared for the moment.
Ethan quickly followed the prompts and soon found the scarecrow.
No wonder it had been crying for help.
At this moment, the scarecrow had fallen into a large pit, and inside the pit there were actually many…
'Cockroaches?'
'Damn!'
Each cockroach was over a meter long, and all six of its limbs were human hands. They were crawling all over the scarecrow, while two long antennae kept swaying in front of its face.
It looked like they were trying to devour the scarecrow's eyeballs.
["Ethan, are you nearby? Hurry and save me!"]
["So disgusting, these things!"]
["They're trying to eat my eyes. Hurry up, I feel like they're already digging at my eyelids. This is terrifying…"]
[Cockroach Immortal: A type of insect-man. It has a cockroach shell on its back, can fly, and its mouthparts are highly poisonous. It likes to feed on carrion. Humans or animals that accidentally enter the poison fog area, even high-level monsters, will become their source of food.]
[PS: This creature grows in a poison fog environment. Usually, very few things can threaten their safety, so all of their abilities are quite average.]
"Got it! I'm coming to save you now."
After quickly replying to the scarecrow, Ethan pulled out the Dragon-Slaying Saber from his tail ring and jumped straight into the insect pit.
According to Lodran's classification, these bugs were only slightly stronger than the Ice Gall.
So… They were no match for Ethan at all.
Cutting through these Cockroach Immortals with the Dragon-Slaying Saber was like slicing cucumbers, one swing, one kill. In the blink of an eye, Ethan had already cleared out all the Cockroach Immortals in the cave before him.
["Ahhh!"]
Feeling someone step on it, the scarecrow immediately started shrieking again.
Ethan glanced at it and said, "Alright, stop screaming. Get up. I've already cleared all the Cockroach Immortals. It's fine now."
["Ethan!"]
The scarecrow cried out in surprise, then quickly opened its eyes.
It immediately sprang up from the ground, and the Sun Worm, after sensing there was no danger, slowly flew out from the scarecrow's straw-stuffed belly.
The light from the Sun Worm instantly illuminated the entire insect cave.
Only now… did Ethan finally get a clear look at how disgusting these Cockroach Immortals were.
Many of them had been split in two by him. The upper half was the front side, while the lower half showed the cockroach shell.
And when those upper halves flipped over, Ethan could finally see clearly… what kind of bizarre bodies these insect-men actually had.
He saw that on the flipped-over head of the Cockroach Immortal, there was actually a human face.
But that face was extremely ugly. The features were all squished together, and the nose had no wings, making it look as if the entire face had been flattened onto the head.
Their mouths had no lips, only two rows of jagged sharp teeth.
The strangest part was their eyes.
These Cockroach Immortals had no whites in their eyes, only black. And on top of their heads, they had two long antennae.
And where cockroach legs should have been, there were human hands.
Even now, not completely dead, those hands were still twitching from time to time.
The palms kept opening and closing, as if trying to grab something!
"Too disgusting!"
Ethan kicked the upper half of a Cockroach Immortal, flipping it back over.
Only then, when he saw the back of its head… did he truly feel his stomach churn.
Because he realized, the face on the underside wasn't its real face at all. It was just something mimicking a human. Its real eyes were actually on the back of its head, a pair of huge compound eyes that could even reflect Ethan's figure.
Unable to stand it anymore, Ethan stabbed straight through the Cockroach Immortal's eyes.
Pfft!
White pus from the Cockroach Immortal's eyes sprayed out.
Ethan quickly dodged to the side, but some scattered droplets still splashed onto him. Then he saw that his clothes actually began to emit wisps of black smoke.
"Hiss!"
As holes were corroded into his clothes, Ethan heard several system notifications in a row.
[Poison Resistance +1]
[Poison Resistance +0.8]
[Poison Resistance +0.6]
"Poison resistance actually increased by 1 point?"
'What is going on?'
'Didn't I max out the poison resistance?'
'Could it go beyond full?'
Ethan quickly opened his status panel to check.
[Poison Resistance: 10/10 (EXP: 3.5/10)]
There really was an extra experience value.
Ethan suddenly grew curious about what lay beyond max poison resistance. But the moment he thought about having to come into contact with that disgusting Cockroach Immortal pus again, he immediately dropped the idea.
Better to head further inside and take a look first.
The main priority was finding the diamond treasure chest.
That was his ultimate goal for coming to this damned place today. After all, he had been here for so long and had never seen a diamond chest before.
Just what kind of thing was it? He was genuinely curious.
[Discovered Cockroach Immortal corpse. Collect?]
[Collect!]
[Cockroach Immortal Arm +6]
[Cockroach Immortal Arm +6]
[Cockroach Immortal Arm +6]
[Cockroach Immortal Arm…]
[Earth Attribute Beast Core +1]
After collecting more than a dozen Cockroach Immortal arms, Ethan finally got one Earth Attribute Beast Core.
'That's it?'
Ethan was dumbfounded on the spot.
'These Cockroach Immortals are way too trash, aren't they? Out of over twenty corpses, only one beast core?'
'Sure enough, low-level monsters are low-level. The drop rate for beast cores is even worse than the Ice Gall.'
'And what are these Cockroach Immortal arms even for?'
Ethan glanced at the arms in his inventory. They looked exactly like human arms, with lifelike palms and five fingers, and even fingernails.
The strangest part was that some of the nails even had red nail polish on them.
'What could this thing even be used for?'
Curious, Ethan finally took out one arm to examine it.
The Cockroach Immortal's arm felt almost no different from a human arm. It was soft to the touch, full of flesh, and had quite a high muscle density. The only difference was probably the temperature.
A human arm carried body heat, around thirty-something degrees, but this Cockroach Immortal arm… felt like the arm of a corpse, cold to the touch.
[Cockroach Immortal Arm: Texture similar to goblin meat, slightly toxic, highly nutritious. Can be used to feed dragon-type pets and can increase the pet's poison resistance!]
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