Chapter 352: Carboniferous Period 24
"Don’t tell me we’re going to hunt for this ’secret weapon’ now,"
Upon hearing this, Perry Yates gave Sage Bishop an appreciative look.
It was the same principle as always: once a danger was known to exist, it was best to eliminate it as quickly as possible.
"If that’s the case, why don’t you just go after the Executors directly?" Sage Bishop said, sounding as if she’d given up all hope.
"It’s not time yet," Perry Yates said, glancing up at the sky.
The recent fire had severely hampered her ability to absorb sunlight, and the weather these past two days hadn’t been great either; the sun was constantly hidden behind dark clouds.
Sage Bishop’s eyes widened upon hearing Perry Yates’s reply. "You really are planning to go after the Executors, aren’t you?"
"What else would I do? Didn’t you already tell me the Executors’ weakness?"
Perry Yates was a little confused. ’Since Sage Bishop already told me the Executors’ weakness, doesn’t that mean she wants me to get rid of them?’
Sage Bishop blinked, momentarily stunned. "But..."
’Forget it. As long as I don’t get dragged into it, it’s fine.’
’It seems it’s time to find an exit strategy for myself.’
Although she had previously said she was entrusting her safety to Perry Yates, as a veteran player, she knew better than to put all her eggs in one basket. She needed an escape route, just in case.
Perry Yates paid no mind to Sage Bishop’s little schemes. As long as she wasn’t planning on backstabbing or betraying her, Perry couldn’t be bothered with the rest.
"But besides knowing that it’s the Executor’s secret weapon, we don’t know anything else! And the intel my information tool provides is random every day."
"They say it’s random, but it’s not actually without a pattern. If you look closely, you’ll find that the intel actually revolves around you."
"Even so, the other two pieces of intel have nothing to do with the so-called secret weapon. We’re still left without any extra clues," Sage Bishop said.
"Who says we don’t?"
Hearing Perry Yates say this, Sage Bishop was stunned. "What?! You have a clue? What is it?"
Perry Yates pressed her index finger to her lips, making a "shushing" gesture. "Be quiet."
Sage Bishop immediately fell silent. The area plunged into a quiet stillness, broken only by the occasional RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE of leaves in the gentle breeze.
Just then, Sage Bishop seemed to notice something, her gaze snapping toward the ground.
She heard it. There was a noise from under the ground—something was approaching them from below.
She looked up to warn Perry Yates, only to see her gaze also fixed on the ground, her expression placid and untroubled, as if she had expected this all along.
The next second, the ground began to shake violently as countless white roots burst forth from the soil.
Seeing this, Sage Bishop assumed the white roots were the Executor’s secret weapon. She looked at Perry Yates, who was still standing her ground, then gritted her teeth and forcefully suppressed the urge to flee by herself.
’After all, she’d seen what Perry Yates was capable of. At a time like this, staying by her side was much safer than trying to escape alone.’
As it turned out, her gamble paid off.
The white roots that had suddenly appeared didn’t attack them. Instead, they formed a perfectly safe Domain around them.
Only then did Sage Bishop realize that these were plant roots—meaning they were part of Perry Yates’s ability.
’So powerful... When did she...?’
Sage Bishop’s expression grew heavy as she looked at Perry Yates. ’This woman is even more terrifying than I imagined. I’ll have to report what I’ve learned about her to Lady Reina Quinn when I get back.’
If Perry Yates had the Mind Reading Technique and could hear Sage Bishop’s thoughts, she would have patted her on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Oh, White, your Lady Reina Quinn has already met me. Besides, I’m not that powerful. It’s just that I made my preparations in advance, and that thing happened to come from underground."
She wasn’t sure if this was the Executor’s secret weapon, but judging by the situation, this thing clearly meant them no harm, because...
Perry Yates led Sage Bishop to a relatively safe spot.
Down below, the battle between the Abyssal Roots and the unidentified creature had churned up the ground, making it look like a freshly tilled vegetable patch.
After ten-some minutes, the underground creature seemed to have finally exhausted its strength. Following a violent tremor, a gargantuan creature was slowly dragged out of the earth.
The creature dragged from the ground was over ten meters in diameter and a hundred meters long, its entire body hairless and pink.
"What is this thing? A snake?"
Sage Bishop asked with a frown, watching the creature as it continued to struggle on the ground.
Perry Yates shook her head, rejecting her theory. "Snakes have scales. This thing is completely smooth, so it’s obviously not a snake. It’s probably an earthworm."
Sage Bishop was about to ask how an earthworm could possibly be so large, but then she reconsidered. All the bugs in this game were unusually massive, so a giant earthworm actually seemed plausible.
"I’ve heard that earthworms have incredible Life Force, that they can survive even if you cut them in two. I wonder if that’s true."
"It’s not," Perry Yates said, crossing her arms as she gazed down at the earthworm, contemplating how to dispose of it.
"How do you know?"
"In my nature studies class back in school, the teacher had us try it firsthand, so I remember it clearly. I went through all the trouble of cutting an earthworm in half, and then it died almost immediately."
"That shouldn’t be possible. Even if an earthworm can’t survive being cut in half, it shouldn’t die that fast."
"Maybe that’s because I cut it lengthwise."
Sage Bishop: "..."
In any case, to prevent this giant earthworm from splitting into two, then four, and so on for all eternity, Perry Yates decided she would also cut it lengthwise, then burn it.
Just as Perry Yates finished dealing with the giant earthworm, a massive tree collapsed with a deafening CRASH. It was immediately followed by a viscous, sticky sound that was enough to give anyone goosebumps.
Following the sound, they saw a giant snail rapidly approaching. It toppled every tree in its path, leaving behind a trail of clear, foul-smelling slime.
"Wait, there’s something wrong with that snail’s eyes," Sage Bishop said.
A normal snail’s eyestalks are thin, but this one’s were not only large and thick, but also multicolored. They bobbed up and down constantly, looking like bizarre, throbbing rave lights, which was incredibly strange.
"It’s a trematode parasite. The snail’s been infected," Perry Yates said.
She shot the giant snail a disgusted look. ’Just as I thought. Whether in a documentary or in real life, these trematode parasites are just as disgusting.’