187: Chapter 187 Dark Green Juice

Although the increase in damage after Tang Yao switched to attacking the weak points of the Mutated White Wild Boar wasn't as terrifying as the multiplier Hu Gualing achieved, the damage dealt was still quite considerable. Even Tang Yao herself was stunned for a moment, her movements pausing before she forcefully pulled her sword out from the Mutated White Wild Boar's weak point.

As the tip of the longsword was withdrawn, a stream of deep green juice flowed out from the wound in the Mutated White Wild Boar's greenish skin. It looked incredibly disgusting, like rotting flesh oozing pus, causing both Hu Gualing and Tang Yao to frown involuntarily.

However, no matter how disgusting it was, they still had to attack.

Furthermore, in order to deal higher damage, Hu Gualing didn't look for other greenish parts on the Mutated White Wild Boar to attack; instead, he swung his fists directly at the spot pierced by Tang Yao's sword.

-25, -24.

His right and left fists connected in succession. The two damage numbers seemed to be slightly higher; although not by much, it was better than nothing.

Hu Gualing glanced at his fists, which had been stained green from forcefully striking the wound where the Mutated White Wild Boar's green fluid was oozing out. He didn't pay it much mind; whether it was the Mutated White Wild Boar's pus or something else, as long as it didn't affect the battle, it was fine.

Maintaining this battle rhythm, Hu Gualing watched the Mutated White Wild Boar's HP decrease rapidly under their combined attacks. He felt more relaxed, at least no longer finding it as hard to accept as when he first saw the Mutated White Wild Boar restore to full health. 'It seems this boss isn't much, even if it resurrects at full state. Knowing its weak point, no matter how many times it resurrects, it can be handled. Perhaps this is what they call, [Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated]?'

"Five hundred and two! Four hundred and sixty-five! ——"

Just as Hu Gualing was thinking this, he suddenly heard Xiao Niao, who was broadcasting the Mutated White Wild Boar's current HP in real-time, stop abruptly. Xiao Niao frowned, looked at him with an incredulous expression, and asked nervously: "Gualing, why are you losing HP!?"

"Huh? Losing HP?" Hu Gualing's first thought was disbelief. He hadn't been hit once in the battle against the resurrected Mutated White Wild Boar, so how could his HP be dropping?

Skeptically, he glanced at his HP bar in the status window and noticed green numbers popping up. Hu Gualing didn't think much of it, just feeling a bit impressed that the medicinal effect of the euphorbia humifusa was so long-lasting. Although the healing speed was a bit slow, it had been continuously restoring his health for so long during the battle; it was truly impressive.

Thinking this, Hu Gualing's peripheral vision suddenly noticed that the length of his HP bar looked a bit wrong.

'Why is the HP bar so much shorter? Only thirty-something HP left?!'

Hu Gualing clearly remembered that his HP had already recovered to fifty or sixty points just a moment ago. He hadn't been attacked by the Mutated White Wild Boar since then, and the euphorbia humifusa juice applied to his body was still taking effect, so his HP should have been increasing. How could it have dropped by more than half instead?

Hu Gualing's heart tightened. He looked closely at his HP bar and realized that while the green numbers popping up were indeed the +1 HP from the euphorbia humifusa, besides this +1, there were also -1 green numbers appearing. Furthermore, the -1s were appearing much faster than the +1s; for every +1 that appeared on the HP bar, two or three -1s would jump out. Calculated this way, the healing speed couldn't even keep up with half of the HP depletion speed. No wonder he only had thirty-something HP left before he noticed!

The reason these -1s were appearing was due to an abnormal status that had appeared under his status bar: [Poisoned]: You are poisoned, continuously losing HP!

With a sinking feeling, Hu Gualing looked at his fists. His fists, wearing the steel knuckle duster, had been stained with quite a bit of green after striking the wound from which the Mutated White Wild Boar's deep green juice was flowing. Since he wasn't as fastidious as Tang Yao, he hadn't cared as long as it didn't affect the battle. Who would have thought that upon looking now, he would see his fists bubbling with a greenish liquid! "Watch out, this pig is poisonous!" Hu Gualing immediately warned Tang Yao.

Fortunately, Tang Yao was attacking with a longsword. The venom-like substance flowing from the Mutated White Wild Boar's body might be corrosive, but it couldn't corrode the refined steel longsword, so it had no effect on her for the time being.

However, Tang Yao also noticed that Hu Gualing was in a poisoned state, and his HP was dropping rapidly. She couldn't help but worry: "What will you do now? We don't have anything to cure poison!"

Hu Gualing shook his hands to flick off some of the 'venom' stained on his fists, but he found that the poisoned state persisted, and the rate of HP loss didn't slow down at all. His HP was already at a critical thirty points; if he were accidentally hit by the Mutated White Wild Boar once, he would die. Moreover, even if he wasn't hit by the Mutated White Wild Boar, the poisoned state didn't look like it would disappear in the short term, and he would soon be killed by the continuous Bleeding.

Hu Gualing's expression changed, seemingly having made a decision. "You step back a bit first. Wait until I die once and resurrect before you come back over." Hu Gualing said to Tang Yao while kiting the Mutated White Wild Boar.

"Oh, oh, okay!" Tang Yao thought this was a game, and when encountering things she didn't understand, listening to a game veteran was always right, so she immediately sheathed her sword and retreated to a distance.

After she left the Mutated White Wild Boar's attack range, Hu Gualing sighed helplessly. He couldn't understand why this Mutated White Wild Boar, which clearly had a 'vibrant' prefix, could resurrect—that was barely understandable—but how could the green liquid flowing from its wound cause poisoning? He had luckily survived when he only had five HP left earlier, and he thought that since he had survived a disaster, there must be a blessing, hoping to get some good loot from the Mutated White Wild Boar. As it turned out, no loot dropped, and now he had to die once.

Hu Gualing sighed. Adhering to the idea of not wasting any output, even though he had decided to die this time, he didn't just sit and wait for death. Instead, he continued to dodge the Mutated White Wild Boar's attacks and, taking advantage of the moments when the Mutated White Wild Boar was in a stiff state, punched its weak point. After depleting some of the Mutated White Wild Boar's HP, Hu Gualing's own HP finally bottomed out and was emptied under the poisoned and Bleeding state.

"Gualing!" Xiao Niao and Tang Yao cried out in worry as they watched Hu Gualing's HP empty and his body fall.

But before his body had completely fallen, and even before the white light representing death had fully flashed, Hu Gualing suddenly stood back up, and his HP 'whooshed' back to full.

It was because Hu Gualing was worried that after he died, the boss would quickly lose aggro and switch targets to attack Tang Yao and Xiao Niao. So, as soon as the Resurrection option appeared in his vision, he 'slapped' the confirm button. Since he had already had a few Resurrection experiences, with his skilled operations, he came back to life in just a few blinks of an eye after dying.

It was just that he was a bit puzzled in his heart: 'When I resurrected just now, it seemed to say it would consume two revival coins?'