The Card Apprentice Chapter 317

"How would this be?" Bogner was pointing to a ravine up ahead . It was very deep, and the way in was only ten or so meters across . It only needed a little sprucing up to become a rather outstanding point of defense .

A map of the Pascal Region popped out in front of Chen Mu from a fantasy card, and he marked their current position . Xi Ping's gaze also fell onto the map . "There are three small forts in the vicinity . They are about 600 kilometers away, so not too far and not too near . They belong to different powers, which is rather favorable for us . "

Chen Mu pondered a moment and nodded . "We'll station ourselves here to start . "

Seeing that the boss had made his decision, Bogner quickly gave the orders . "Go check out the ravine, Xiaobo . For such an excellent ravine to go unused, I reckon there must be something up inside . "

Xiaobo muttered plaintively, "Why am I always the one to be injured? I'm the electricity, I'm the light…" Although he looked rather reluctant, he flew up and readily executed the order .

Before long, the communications card suddenly transmitted Xiaobo's exclamation . "My god, there are bugs in here . A lot of them!" It could be seen from the image transmitted by the communications card that there were piles of snow-white, small bugs squirming all over the place .

Brenton's expression changed, and he said with a trembling voice, "It's the snow silkworm! No wonder there's no one here . Who would dare to come where there are so many snow silkworms?"

"Snow silkworms?" Chen Mu tilted his head to ask .

"Yes . It's a kind of insect that lives in the icy and snowy regions . They can spit out an energy body that contains cold breath . It doesn't have much power, but it can be trouble in large numbers . There's nothing useful on their bodies, so no one wants to waste energy to hunt them down . " Although Brenton was still young and didn't have much experience, he did have a lot of theoretical knowledge .

He suddenly called out . He closed his eyes for a moment before opening them again, wearing a puzzled expression . "There must be something in the ravine . The concentration of metallic compounds is very high . "

Everyone then remembered Brenton's area of expertise was smelling with perception . Up until then, everyone felt it was a strange kind of perception .

"What special characteristics does the snow silkworm have?" Chen Mu asked seriously . He was rather happy with the ravine . It would be too bad if they were to abandon it so easily .

Brenton furrowed his brow in thought . "They are social in large numbers, and apart from being able to shoot out cold energy bodies, they have no other abilities . "

"Is poison effective?" Chen Mu responded quickly, coming up with that in the first minute . Since he wasn't a pure card artisan, the pattern of his thought wasn't so restricted .

"Poison?" Brenton's expression turned a bit unnatural . That term was a little far off for a card artisan . After thinking about it, he said, "I don't know . You can give it a try . "

Chen Mu nodded . When it came to concocting poison, they didn't lack for that sort of personnel on the team . Wei-ah was the ace among them, though he was better at using all kinds of plants and animals in the jungle to concoct them . Chen Mu could do a little himself, but he was far from Wei-ah's ability .

Still, there was a professional on the team—Sue Lochiro . As a high-level medical card artisan, understanding poisons was a required course and the object of some research . However, when it came to poisons and that kind of thing, except for some girls with rather special temperaments, it wasn't something ordinary girls liked . But Sue Lochiro knew the basics . Although she had an uncomfortable expression, she still gave a slight nod . "I'll give it a try . "

The poison was quickly prepared and put into a special reagent bottle .

Looking at the dense snow silkworms all over the ravine, the rustling sound of their creeping gave people a chill . The snow silkworm was about the length of an adult palm and a little thicker than a thumb . Chen Mu sucked in a breath of air and threw the reagent bottle, which traced a parabola before falling among the snow worms .

There was a light pop as the reagent bottle smashed, and a ball of green mist rose up with a hissing sound .

The snow silkworms were immediately stirred up . In the area enshrouded by the green smoke, they were writhing in pain . The power of that ball of poisonous gas was perfectly evident; within a few short seconds, the snow silkworms enshrouded by the green mist had already turned stiff . A light green layer suffused their originally white bodies .

Wind raged outside the ravine, but there was no wind at all inside .

Watching the green must quickly dissipate, Chen Mu and the rest couldn't help but look overjoyed . That method was effective, after all . There were so many of the snow silkworms filling the huge ravine that it gave everyone the creeps .

But the other card artisans were looking at Chen Mu in fear . Poison was really too far off for a card artisan . They had already gotten used to using the cards they had to solve all sorts of problems . Only Xiaobo hadn't changed his expression . When he was deep in the jungle, he needed to fight with all kinds of wild beasts and was no stranger to those kinds of tricks .

The toxicity of the poisonous smoke Sue Lochiro had concocted, along with its fine diffusion, made Chen Mu consider whether he should make it into a conventional weapon .

Suddenly, there came spewing quite a few light blue spouts of water from among the snow silkworms . The fine energy fluctuations reminded everyone that these things that looked like columns of water were actually energy bodies .

Sure enough, when the light blue columns of water touched the blue smoke, they turned into a ball of light blue mist . By now, all the other snow silkworms were spitting out light blue columns of water . There were too many of them there . In the blink of an eye, the green smoke had been completely enclosed by the light blue mist .

There was a rustling! The green smoke disappeared at a speed too fast for the naked eye . Given Chen Mu's stunning eyesight, he could clearly see that the green smoke had condensed into crystals the size of grains of sand . Those hard, green sand crystals then fell onto the ground like a burst of light rain .

Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat . The light blue energy bodies spewed by those snow silkworms were ice-cold, after all, and they could even freeze the toxic smoke!

Chen Mu's gaze inclined toward Wei-ah, who shook his head . "There's nothing I can do . "

But Chen Mu still wasn't thinking of abandoning such a perfect ravine in that geography . Not wanting to give up, the mass of snow silkworms had to be eradicated . Chen Mu believed if the energy bodies that had been able to freeze the toxic smoke were spewed onto a person, apart from freezing the person, he couldn't even think of what else they might do .

His gaze fell to where the snow silkworms were . That burst of toxic smoke had already wiped out at least a fifth of them . Staring at the incessantly creeping snow silkworms, Chen Mu was making a quick analysis in his head . The light blue energy bodies had a certain danger, but the main trouble was their numbers . As far as the eye could see, they were all over the place, which inevitably gave rise to a desire to kill them all .

The weakness of the snow silkworm was obvious: They weren't fast, and they were a lot less dangerous compared to the rapidly moving swarms of ants in the jungle . After thinking about it, Chen Mu said, "Everyone else should scatter . Those with a range of attacks, come up with me . " After saying that, Chen Mu flew first to above where the snow silkworms were . Xiaobo immediately followed him . Among the other card artisans, only Lu Xiaoru and Hertha came along . The others attacked with only a single body .

Since he was concerned about being hit by the light blue energy bodies, they flew up high, at least 100 meters up . Only then did they discover that all around the ravine stood extraordinarily tall cliffs, and they had only reached a small part of them .

Chen Mu made a simple command . "Begin . "

He then swapped to the folding Yanbo card . It was the right place just then to use that sort of explosive card .

Everyone below saw line after line of disordered, fiery red folding wavy blades falling from the sky into the middle of the ravine and causing a string of explosions! The folding Yanbo card's power left everyone transfixed, and even Chen Mu himself was a little surprised . To tell the truth, he hadn't had a chance to use the folding Yanbo card now in his hands, except for the time he'd tested its power . Now, once he took a shot, Chen Mu found out it was a lot more powerful than he'd imagined . Only then did he understand why Jiao Si had been so caught up with that card .

Chen Mu had no notion to conserve energy . With no scruples at all, he madly smashed the folding wavy blades down; every one of them was a bomb . In a single breath, Chen Mu had emitted all the energy in a four-star power card . Lu Xiaoru immediately flew to Chen Mu's side to hold up his body, so he could swap out the power card .

What was it like when all the energy in a four-star power card was emitted within ten seconds? Everyone saw what happened .

Hong! Hong! Hong! Hong!

Ball after ball of utterly gorgeous, bright red fireballs blossomed in every corner of the ravine . The concentrated sound of the explosions hurt everyone's eardrums, and there was already a sea of red fire within the ravine . The powerful explosions cut off a large chunk of the mountain wall, which crashed down, burying who knew how many snow silkworms .

Ru Qiu was already completely stupefied by the scene! Was that the power of the folding Yanbo card? It was a little different from the president's refined usage . As she saw it, Chen Mu's deployment was completely unreasonable . However, she hadn't thought Chen Mu's wildly unreasonable deployment would play out so vividly!

Bogner's expression shifted . "Get out of the ravine . " The poison that had just been turned into ice crystals had immediately turned back into a gas under the high temperature . Because of the airflow formed by the explosions, it kept being stirred up . The toxic smoke was blown into nearly every corner of the ravine .

Just as everyone had gotten out of the ravine, Chen Mu and those with him returned . They also saw the toxic smoke diffusing under their feet . Everyone looked a little dazed, having been scared by that wave of crazy explosions .

They had gone far away from the exit of the ravine . Now, no one dared to go near it . The residual sound of the explosions in the ravine were reverberating off the walls in a dull but striking manner . The light green flow of gas that came from the entrance told them it wouldn't be a good idea to get any closer just then .

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