328: Cold snap

Behind the cabin.

The water here had also risen to thigh height.

As the group of scholars and Professors waded into the water, the piranhas with their dorsal fins exposed immediately surrounded them.

“Boom!”

There was an explosion in the water.

A giant piranha, as tall as a Human, suddenly erupted from the muddy rainwater at the same time!

Its ferocious teeth gleamed with a chilling coldness in the lightning.

Its target was directly at the Professors in the distance!

“Three-star evolved creature!” Seeing this super piranha, many evolutionaries’ pupils contracted.

In the next breath.

Before everyone could even see clearly, a giant axe, like a heavy hammer, directly smashed onto the head of this giant piranha!

“Bang!” Half of the piranha's body was smashed by the giant axe and fell into the water.

Shaking off the Rotten meat from the axe, Xu Feng frowned and looked at these stunned people: “Stop them!”

The not-so-small voice made the others immediately regain their senses.

Seeing these evolutionaries somewhat hastily using their methods to deal with the piranhas in the water, Xu Feng sighed inwardly.

If he wasn’t here, according to the System's storyline, these people should all die.

The pouring rain had not stopped.

More than fifty evolutionaries, who could be said to be the strongest group of Humans today, were indeed a force that could not be ignored.

Apart from the initial three-star piranha, the other piranhas were at most one-star stage.

Although there was some trouble, it was not a big deal.

However, as the piranha corpses floated in the water one by one, the strong smell of blood obviously attracted more piranhas!

Looking at the countless piranhas densely surging in the distant water, the evolutionaries instantly felt great pressure.

Xu Feng and Li Xiu's gazes also focused on a giant piranha with a huge dorsal fin in the distance within a few breaths.

From the aura emanating from this piranha, Xu Feng could instantly understand that this was a four-star evolved creature!

It was also the upper limit stage of the piranha species, as described by the System!

Apart from the elite Clones of the two fungal creatures and the fungal creature itself before, he had never seen any other four-star level creatures!

In a sense, a four-star level being had the ability to destroy a City!

Amidst the thunder and lightning, the countless piranhas surging from the water in the forest ahead directly made the more than fifty evolutionaries lose their fighting spirit.

“They’ve almost all evacuated, we can go.”

Understanding that there was no need to confront them head-on, Xu Feng made the wisest decision.

The evolutionaries nodded one after another.

After confirming the direction the Professors and Drs. had left in, the more than fifty evolutionaries quickly turned around.

A distance of several hundred meters took no more than a minute.

When the surrounding accumulated water was only knee-deep, many evolutionaries subconsciously looked behind them.

Visible to the naked eye.

The plane wreckage in the path of the piranhas was directly torn apart by their sharp teeth.

“Where is this? How can there be so many piranhas?!” One evolutionary was clearly still in shock.

“Let’s go, let’s meet up with them as soon as possible.” Xu Feng interrupted the unnecessary thoughts of the people around him.

“Rumble~”

Amidst the deafening thunder, the evolutionaries were all moving quickly.

Soon they reached a damp, flat area.

Looking into the distance, through the clusters of not-so-small bushes, they could already see the figures of the Professors.

When the two sides met again, and counted the number of people, finding that not a single one was missing, Xu Feng also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they left in a hurry, thankfully no one died.

The Professors on this side had even set up a simple canopy to shelter from the rain, and there was a bonfire burning in the open space, the firelight reflecting on everyone's still-shocked faces.

“So many piranhas can only exist in the Amazon River, the gy River, and the bl River, and these places are all in South America! The Amazon Rainforest is in this continent, with changeable climate and continuous heavy rain. This environment and those piranhas undoubtedly tell us that we are very likely in the Amazon Rainforest now!”

In the crowd, a geography Professor leaned close to the fire, his voice very unsettled.

This analysis immediately caused a stir among the people around him.

One evolutionary, with Wrath mixed with a bit of fear, directly lifted the pilot: “You brought us here? This is Hell!”

“I don’t know! I can’t guarantee the direction without navigation!” The pilot seemed anxious.

“Then the deviation is too far!” A female Professor found it hard to accept: “Coming to this place, our survival rate is not even as high as in nuclear radiation!”

“Alright.” Xu Feng stopped the meaningless quarrel of the crowd: “Let’s rest first, we’ll travel tomorrow.”

He looked at Tek next to him: “Go collect some more firewood that can burn.”

As his words fell, the damp open space also quieted down considerably, but everyone's mood was clearly low.

A few pieces of firewood were added to the bonfire, and with a little warmth, everyone's drowsiness also set in.

Li Xiu yawned, perhaps because he had just fought with the piranhas, now he only felt his eyelids heavy.

He looked at the others.

Except for Xu Feng, they were all asleep.

“Crackling~”

The branches in the bonfire crackled.

Xu Feng looked around, everyone was asleep, so he became the night watchman.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh~”

The rain was still pouring, but it was noticeably smaller.

Withdrawing his gaze from the System panel, Xu Feng looked at the others around him.

It was just a casual glance, but as he turned his head, Xu Feng's movement paused.

His gaze shifted.

Xu Feng suddenly noticed Tek next to him, his life peak had dropped from 590 to 490 at some point!

This hundred points of life was the difference between a two-star and a three-star!

How could his life value decrease?

Xu Feng was certain that not long ago, Tek was a true three-star evolutionary!

But now he had decreased under some inexplicable circumstances.

Moreover, this decrease in life peak value was not only happening to Tek.

Xu Feng looked at the hundred people in this open space.

Among them, at least twenty people had their life peak values decreasing, as if being drained by something!

Even, there were two people whose life peak values… were zero, they were dead!

“Get up!” Xu Feng immediately pushed the person next to him awake.

He woke up the people around him one by one.

“Hiss!” Tek, who had just woken up, didn't know what was going on, when he suddenly felt an indescribable swelling pain in his abdomen.

In the shadow not reached by the firelight, Tek touched his abdomen.

What he felt was a slippery sensation.

He remembered that this was the part that had been bitten by the piranha before.

He lifted his clothes.

Illuminated by the firelight, after Tek saw the situation on his abdomen, his previously still groggy brain suddenly woke up!

Visible to the naked eye.

On the wound on his abdomen, there was actually a large patch of worms wriggling!

The slippery sensation just now was from his hand touching these worms!

“Ah!”

Among the people who woke up around him, many also discovered the abnormality on their bodies.

It was all at the location of the wound, where those worms were wriggling in the flesh and blood!

Seeing these worms, Xu Feng felt that he had been careless.

Where was this? The Amazon!

To some extent, the parasites, venomous spiders, venomous Snakes, and other things here were its most terrifying aspect!

Not only the evolutionaries, but some Professors also had these worms on them, but it was far less terrifying than on the evolutionaries.

In the crowd, there were medical Professors and biology Drs..

The biology Dr., who had reacted, immediately stepped forward to examine the morphology of the parasite.

“These are fruit fly eggs, they should have been laid on the way here.”

“They turned into worms in less than three hours?” Tek found it hard to bear, but he didn't dare to irritate the worms at the wound.

The biology Dr. explained: “In this era, it’s not uncommon for worm eggs to grow to this extent in three hours.”

“The Human body is the best incubator for these things. Theoretically, these worms are not poisonous and can be pulled out directly.”

“Let me do it, what if these worms have already bitten onto a nerve inside their bodies.” The medical Professor picked up the scalpel he carried with him.

Quenched and sterilized.

Those who had not been infected with fruit fly eggs only heard the sound of flesh and blood being cut open by the Doctor!

“These worms also have a paralyzing effect. If Xu Feng hadn’t woken you up, you definitely wouldn’t have woken up tomorrow.”

“Two have already not woken up.” Someone indicated the two emaciated evolutionary corpses.

All in all, it was fortunate that they were discovered in time.

Otherwise, just in this silent way, more than half of the evolutionaries would have died!

More than two hours later.

When the worms on the last person were dug out, another shadow fell over everyone's hearts.

Looking at the already glowing sky, everyone knew that there was no time left for them to rest.

“We need to leave as soon as possible. At most by tomorrow, the impact of the nuclear explosion will reach here.” The words of Norton, the nuclear weapons expert, put even greater pressure on everyone.

“The impact of the nuclear explosion? What impact will it have when it spreads here?” A purifier gritted his teeth and bandaged his wound.

Norton: “Cold current.”

“It really doesn’t give people any chance to relax.” Xu Feng stood up: “Let’s try to reach the football country before nightfall, find a plane that can be flown, and leave immediately.”