23: Chapter 23: This is how the "Strange Incense" is used!

"There's danger! Get back to the camp!!"

A surging psychic force, mixed with Qin Lan's anxious shout, rang in Lin Mo's ears.

Lin Mo's half-closed eyes snapped open.

He keenly glanced up into the high sky, but saw nothing.

"Qin Lan?"

Qin Lan's presence had completely vanished.

Immediately after, several hundred meters away, twelve pitch-black figures appeared like ghosts.

They wore tight-fitting combat suits without any insignias, and their faces were covered by crow-feather masks that blocked psychic detection.

Twelve people, in twelve positions, precisely locked the withered tree root where Lin Mo was located dead in the center.

No communication, no nonsense.

"Night Owl Squad?!"

Both sides remained silent, but the distance was gradually closing.

Lin Mo checked his panel.

[Talent: Block (Current Level: 3102): Each time damage is received, any damage taken is reduced by 31,020 points.]

Blocking over thirty thousand points of damage.

He didn't know if this number was enough against a Level 90 professional.

Whether it was enough or not, Lin Mo didn't want to test it.

A wise man avoids danger.

His current means of attack were extremely lacking.

Although his strength was terrifying under the ten-fold amplification of [Advent of the Berserk God], ten times was not enough to challenge a Level 90 professional.

Facing a group of high-agility, high-combat-proficiency First-Transition peak death soldiers, he might not even be able to touch the hem of their clothes.

"I cannot engage them."

Lin Mo reached his final conclusion.

His gaze pierced through the dense swarm of bees, and across a distance of twenty meters, he locked eyes with the leader of the black-clad men, Xiao Yi.

Why was Xiao Yi holding back and not attacking?

"Are they afraid?"

"Afraid of what?"

Lin Mo instantly realized; he was, after all, in the middle of tens of thousands of Magic Needle Bees.

These guys could even kill a Second-Transition professional.

This group of First-Transition peak people naturally didn't dare to get close!

The twelve figures instantly froze in place, like statues.

"He is surrounded by at least tens of thousands of Death-Dealing Magic Needle Bees. How are we supposed to get close to him?"

"I see that."

Xiao Yi's voice was as cold as ice.

Those were Death-Dealing Magic Needle Bees!

The most disgusting basic creature in Shimmering City, with a 150-point true damage effect, plus stackable, limitless poison.

Even for him, a Level 90 Shadow Assassin, if he were to fall into a swarm of this scale, he wouldn't last ten seconds before turning into a puddle of blood.

"What do we do?"

They didn't have much time. If they didn't deal with Lin Mo quickly, the Alliance's reinforcements would arrive.

Suddenly seeing many Magic Needle Bees falling weakly to the ground, Xiao Yi's eyes lit up.

"Don't panic."

Xiao Yi regained his tone of being in control of everything.

"These Magic Needle Bees seem to have been venting on this kid for a long time; their stamina is about to hit its limit."

"Everyone, stay alert. Spread out the formation."

"Wait for the swarm to tire and disperse, then directly break his limbs and take him away!"

"Understood!"

The twelve death soldiers immediately pulled out specially made, silver-shimmering locking nets from their spatial rings.

They were like a flock of patient vultures, quietly waiting for the prey's protective shell to peel away on its own.

One minute.

Five minutes.

As expected, just as Xiao Yi had predicted.

"Buzz—buzz—"

The swarm of Magic Needle Bees surrounding Lin Mo began to sound chaotic and low.

The "clinking and clattering" sound of broken needles gradually became sparse.

Large numbers of Magic Needle Bees swayed their bodies and fell from mid-air.

They weren't killed; rather, due to the prolonged, ultra-high-frequency frenzied firing, their muscles had torn, and their stamina was completely exhausted.

The originally airtight, dark purple insect cocoon began to show large gaps.

Lin Mo's figure was clearly exposed to the black-clad men's view.

"Is that it?"

Lin Mo raised an eyebrow, glanced at the powerless Magic Needle Bees covering the ground, and couldn't help but complain internally.

"Even a donkey on a production team wouldn't dare to slack off like this. Is this all the professional standard you have?"

"Not a shred of service spirit."

The Block level was stuck at 3420, and the leveling speed had slowed down.

This made Lin Mo very unhappy. Extremely unhappy.

"Prepare!"

Several hundred meters away, a flash of light appeared in Xiao Yi's eyes, and the silver locking net in his hand vibrated slightly.

They could cross this distance in less than 5 seconds!

They were just waiting for the swarm to decrease a bit more, and then they would turn into twelve streaks of lightning to instantly capture Lin Mo.

Just at this critical moment.

Lin Mo moved.

He slowly reached into his pants pocket and pulled out a glass bottle.

The black-clad leader saw the bottle through his mask, and his pupils constricted sharply.

"What is that?"

Lin Mo pushed with his thumb, and with a "pop," he flicked off the bottle stopper.

A sweet, nauseatingly fishy scent instantly surged out radially, following the damp airflow of the swamp!

monster attracting incense!

"What is he trying to do?!"

The black-clad leader's heart skipped a beat, and an extremely absurd sense of crisis instantly overwhelmed him.

The next second.

The swarm of Magic Needle Bees that had been teetering and about to retreat to their hive turned into a pack of mad dogs the instant they smelled this sweet scent.

"Buzz————!!!"

A deafening sound of wings beating rang out one after another!

The Magic Needle Bees lying on the ground struggled to fly up as if they had been injected with stimulants.

Their compound eyes instantly turned from dark purple to a crazed blood red!

Overdrawing their life force!

Under the stimulation of the scent, the size of every Magic Needle Bee actually swelled by a small margin.

The poison needles at their tails turned from a dark blue to an inky, purplish-black.

Tens of thousands of berserk Magic Needle Bees formed a massive, blood-red tornado with a diameter of thirty meters around Lin Mo!

Lin Mo was at the eye of the tornado.

He put away the monster attracting incense and showed a satisfied look.

"Not bad, this is the attitude of a worker."

"Pfft pfft pfft pfft pfft pfft—!"

The attack frequency of the berserk Magic Needle Bees had directly doubled!

The poison needles, now a size thicker, bombarded every inch of Lin Mo's skin with a suicidal determination!

[Received 300 points of true damage! Block effective! Damage received is 0!]

[Talent EXP +40,000!]

[Received 15 points of berserk neurotoxin! Block effective! Damage received is 0!]

[Talent EXP +40,000!]

[Talent: Block leveled up! Current Level: 3425!]

[Talent: Block leveled up! Current Level: 3440!]

Watching the golden stream of data leaving trails on his retina, Lin Mo revealed a satisfied smile.

But the black-clad men on the periphery were completely stunned.