Chapter 286 - 280: Dilemma
Gao Yuan wasn’t afraid of anything except for the kind of bugs created and deployed by the Serpent People.
Bullets could deal with zombies, shells could take on Armored Beasts, but when it came to these omnipresent bugs, which came in an overwhelming swarm, weapons other than flamethrowers were basically ineffective.
Electric mosquito rackets and insecticides were indeed very useful when dealing with individual or small numbers of bugs, but against a sky-darkening swarm, it was hopeless. The simplest analogy is a locust plague; just by thinking about those swarming locusts blotting out the sky, one would understand why these methods were futile.
Gao Yuan ran fast. He looked back and saw no bugs following him, so he paused for a while, about two minutes later, he once again saw the massive swarm of bugs fluttering in the sky.
Having little understanding of insects, Gao Yuan didn’t know how fast these bugs could fly. However, when compared to the familiar characters and flies, these bugs were a lot faster, even faster than the bees he knew of, at least twice as fast.
Anyone who had ever poked at a wasp’s nest would know that when wasps or bees fly out to attack a person, there’s simply no escaping them.
Mosquitos also actively attack humans but merely cause bites all over the body at worst, possibly transmitting diseases. These bugs deployed by the Serpent People, however, were a different story; they were deadly, and quickly so.
All small insects have one trait in common: they cannot fly long distances and certainly not very quickly.
Gao Yuan observed the bugs chasing him, a dense swarm, unable to keep up with his speed. But in just a short time, he had run four or five hundred meters. In theory, he should have been out of the bugs’ visual range by then, yet these bugs still accurately followed him.
Could it be that these bugs were tracking by scent? This possibility was quite high, but in that case, unless he could run very far away, shaking off the pursuit of these bugs wouldn’t be easy.