Apocalypse Foodie System: Watch Her Cook!-Chapter 155 - 150: Red Fire Scorpion!

Tang Yiyi noticed that since that strange smell spread out, Li Zheng and the others were obviously more cautious, Li Zheng even gestured for them to retreat.

As she retreated, she kept a watchful eye on the surroundings. At the same time, Zhao Feng was retreating rapidly along the route defined by Li Zheng, while continuously pressing the spray bottle in his hand.

Wu Tian was lying on the ground sideways, with his ear to the sand, listening to the noises coming from underground. After listening for a while, he suddenly rolled over and jumped up, gesturing to the others while whispering, "Be careful, the things in the hole are coming out!"

As soon as he said this, Zhao Feng immediately capped the spray bottle in his hand and casually fixed it to his waist. Li Zheng’s weapon was a slender metal whip, each segment like a twisted triangular spike with a sharp edge. At this moment, he tightly gripped the whip in his hand, ready to strike. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Zhou Yang was holding a net gun, with the muzzle always aimed at the direction of the hole, his finger gently resting on the trigger, ready to pull it at any time!

Tang Yiyi seemed calm standing aside, but in reality, she kept a somewhat distant position from the others. Although she agreed to help, deep down, she hadn’t completely trusted these people.

With Wu Tian’s reminder, soon there was a rustling noise not far away. Almost instinctively, everyone looked over, only to see a flash of red shadow among the dry, low shrubs.

Right after, everyone’s expressions changed. The effect of the lure was obviously very good, but it was too good! This time, five Red Fire Scorpions came out all at once, and they were all First Level!

First Level Red Fire Scorpions are not as large as Second Level ones, their bodies flat, and without counting the curved tail, they are about a foot long. The poisonous sting rises high, covered on the outside with a layer of fiery red carapace, stunningly beautiful yet exceptionally hard, ordinary alloy knives are not easy to cut through.

Zhao Feng couldn’t help but take a breath, looking at Li Zheng in guilt: "Seems like I... I sprayed too much."

Li Zheng frowned and said to Zhou Yang: "Zhou Yang, put the net gun away first, don’t waste it!"

Zhou Yang nodded, hooked the net gun on his upper left arm, and then suddenly turned to run towards the car, bending over to pull out a long alloy stick from beneath the car, and quickly ran back.

Tang Yiyi’s heart had been in suspense since he dashed towards the car, fearing that once he opened the car door, he would find Pudding gone and get suspicious, until Zhou Yang extracted the stick from under the car and returned, only then she secretly sighed in relief.

Pudding saw her actually frightened, and couldn’t help but sneer, "You are too cautious, host, the hamster’s body is so small, with him in such a hurry, even if he opens the car door, where would he notice whether I’m there or not."

Tang Yiyi only thought of this before it spoke, realizing Pudding was mocking her, quickly telling it to shut up.

Pudding exclaimed suddenly, "Ah! Host, watch out! The Red Fire Scorpion is coming!"

Tang Yiyi had already seen it, tightened the grip on the hilt in her hand, watching as a Red Fire Scorpion charged at her aggressively, she swung her long knife, chopping towards the scorpion’s raised tail!

Scorpions like to raise their tails, and their movements are extremely agile, a light flick can sting the opponent. However, this makes the raised tail an obvious target, if not for its hard shell, it would be an easy cut!

Tang Yiyi’s long knife struck down, the blade hit the tail harshly, emitting a sound of stone against metal, sparks even splattered! If it were a short knife, Tang Yiyi might have been burned by the flying sparks by now, but she used the long knife, those flying sparks couldn’t reach her at all!

The Red Fire Scorpion emitted a sharp cry from its mouth, seemingly pained by the cut, then more viciously charged at Tang Yiyi, she lightly dodged, flicked her wrist, and the long knife in her hand suddenly stabbed out at a tricky angle, directly piercing into the gap in the scorpion’s shell on its back, stabbing deep into the scorpion’s body!

"Squeak!" This time the Red Fire Scorpion emitted an even sharper cry, evidently greatly pained, the highly raised tail sting frantically stabbing towards Tang Yiyi’s direction, but unfortunately the distance wasn’t enough to reach her!

She tightly gripped the knife hilt in her hand, pinning the Red Fire Scorpion to the ground, the tip of the knife restlessly poked around in its belly. This Red Fire Scorpion struggled desperately for a while, its movements gradually slowing, finally ceasing altogether.

Just as Tang Yiyi squinted her eyes, she heard Pudding reminding, "Be careful! Mutant creatures are very cunning, many will play dead, then deliver a fatal strike when the enemy approaches to confirm they’re dead, don’t let your guard down!"

Tang Yiyi understood, nodded slightly, then noticed that the Fire Element Energy on the Red Fire Scorpion was fluctuating somewhat. Sure enough, soon she saw the Red Fire Scorpion spit out a basketball-sized flame from its mouth. As soon as the flame appeared, Tang Yiyi sensed something was wrong!

This flame was very unstable, seeming ready to explode at any moment!

She instantly tensed up, recalling Li Zheng’s previous words - try to control the flame spat by the Red Fire Scorpion!

Here, she was the only Fire Ability User, naturally she was the only one to attempt control. Although this flame appeared to be just a basketball-sized mass, if it exploded, things would not be good!

Then not only she, but the others would also be affected!

Tang Yiyi thought of this, controlled the hilt with one hand, then raised her left hand, fingers instantly spread open, carefully sensing the Fire Element Energy in that flame. After the Red Fire Scorpion spat out the flame, it completely expired, unable to contest her control over the flame anyway, so after her attempt, she easily controlled the basketball-sized flame, just as it was about to explode, she directly extinguished it!

Not far away, Li Zheng saw her prowess and immediately said, "Miss Tang! Come quickly to help!"

Tang Yiyi casually stored the dead Red Fire Scorpion into the System Backpack, turned to look, and saw the other four Red Fire Scorpions were already injured, some completely motionless, while Li Zheng and the others seemed fine, yet the four of them were very tense, obviously afraid of something.

At this moment, Pudding’s voice suddenly rang in Tang Yiyi’s mind, "I know! They must be afraid of the Red Fire Scorpions’ dying counterattack with fire spray!"

Tang Yiyi thought of the flame that nearly exploded just now and instantly understood. She glanced, Zhao Feng was a Speed Ability User, avoiding exploding sparks was not an issue, Wu Tian was an Earth Element, could condense earth walls for defense in danger, Li Zheng was an Ice Element, could similarly use Ice Shield for defense.

The only one they needed to worry about was the Strength Enhancer, Zhou Yang! (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)