Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 298 - 131: Low-Temperature Monster (Part 2)

Chapter 298: Chapter 131: Low-Temperature Monster (Part 2)

"This kind of image is very beneficial for us, and we should maintain it well."

"Indeed."

Lei Jie nodded in agreement and continued:

"Since we have to go to Ande anyway, this can be considered a new source of information for us."

"But I do find it a bit strange... It’s understandable for Shen Yue, but we’re in the north, and yet there’s a situation where two monsters are allied?

"How exactly is the Beast Tide formed? Could it be that the communication between monsters isn’t affected by distance?"

"I don’t know either."

Chen Jian shook his head and said:

"It might not necessarily be a monster alliance; it could just be that they appeared simultaneously by coincidence."

"In any case, let’s find out where they are first."

"Two monsters aren’t too difficult for us."

"Didn’t we just pull in a 152 howitzer? It’s just a few rounds of artillery."

"If we’re lucky, we can fire directly in Plain Town and take them out."

"I hope so."

Lei Jie’s tone was calm, but there was some concern in his heart.

If this is also a precursor to the Beast Tide, the frequency of such precursors appearing is really a bit too dense.

From north to south, in just a few days, it has happened twice.

So, in places they can’t see, how many more are there?

.....

At the same time, in the hostel lobby in Plain Town.

A man claiming to be a merchant of the Mechanical God Sect, named Jin Zan, was surrounded by a crowd, and in front of him was a shabby table, covered with a rough piece of white paper.

The chaotic, noisy, and clamorous sounds filled the entire hostel, and Jin Zan raised the brush in his hand, shouting loudly:

"Quiet! Quiet!"

"We must quickly sort out all the information and hand it over to them, or once those two monsters enter Ande City, our cargo is all gone!"

"No more interruptions, one at a time!"

"Listen to me, answer what I ask!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd immediately quieted down.

He took a deep breath and began asking:

"Li Mo, you speak first!"

"Your team was the closest to those two monsters, what did you see?"

"Me?"

The man named Li Mo hesitated for a moment, then quickly replied:

"I don’t know!"

"I was closest to the monsters, but because I was too close, I didn’t see anything!"

"Those two monsters almost stepped over my head!"

"I only know they’re huge, have four legs, and the abdomen... it seems I couldn’t see the abdomen at all."

"Yes, they moved very fast; I don’t know if they noticed me, but they didn’t attack me."

"They were heading in the direction of Ande, the opposite direction of where I was going."

"I didn’t dare to look back much; I ran all the way to Plain Town and found you."

"Other than that... I don’t know."

"Useless!"

Jin Zan cursed and then continued asking another person:

"Wang Jian, what about you? You were the farthest away, what did you see?"

"Two monsters."

The man he pointed out frowned in thought as if recalling what he saw.

After a moment, he answered steadily:

"The two monsters were actually far apart, probably one in front of the other."

"But it definitely wasn’t one chasing the other; they just happened to follow the same route."

"It was too far; I didn’t see clearly."

"But I remember, one of the monsters... was very thin."

"Very thin??"

Jin Zan said in astonishment:

"What kind of description is that? Are you saying it’s very flat, or very thin?"

"Just very thin."

Wang Jian staunchly replied:

"From afar, it looked like a sheet of membrane... like a giant butterfly, but it can’t fly."

"The other one... had no distinctive features, but what it exhaled was very white."

"I feel like it seemed very cold...."

Very cold?

Now that’s useful information.

Actually, he himself only saw the ’breathing’ monster.

He thought it was just normal breath.

But after Wang Jian’s description, he suddenly realized this might be an unusual trait.

Jin Zan wrote down this description on the paper, then added a few more lines, comparing the traits he saw with what Wang Jian reported, finally forming a definitive piece of intelligence.

Setting down the brush, Jin Zan continued questioning the people around him.

And as he compiled the descriptions from all the witnesses, the content on the paper grew.

When the white paper was eventually filled, he exhaled deeply and said:

"I should have prepared this earlier----it wasted another twenty minutes!"

"Alright, I need to quickly get this to those Huaxia Army people."

"The Holy Hall won’t make it in time; we can only count on them..."

"Are they really reliable?"

Someone in the crowd suddenly asked, and Jin Zan stood up, sneering:

"Reliable?"

"That’s a bit of a silly question."

"Don’t you know? There used to be some misunderstandings between the Holy Hall and the Huaxia Army, but now, the misunderstandings are resolved."

"Do you know why? Because they helped the Holy Hall defeat Huadu’s enemies."

"Their strength is no less than that of the Holy Hall, and in some aspects, even greater."

"Even if you’ve never heard their stories, didn’t you see those monster corpses all along the way from the south?"

Upon hearing this, the questioner fell silent.

After a moment, he coughed, a bit awkwardly saying:

"I indeed saw it... but it seems that doesn’t mean much..."

"The Holy Blood Temple and Mechanical God Sect are also hunting monsters, but now, they’re powerless, while those Huaxia Army..."

"You don’t understand."

Jin Zan impatiently waved his hand, then said:

"Those powerful monsters were taken down by them effortlessly."

"They came to the north just to avenge Huadu, and on the road to revenge, they casually killed over a dozen monsters above level four."

"Now do you understand why I want to find them?"

"Alright, don’t waste my time."

"Move aside! I need to go see those esteemed people now!"

....

Minutes later, Chen Jian received the intelligence sent by Jin Zan.

Words densely packed the white paper, Chen Jian scanned the contents briefly, frowning:

"Huge size, emitting thick white breath, four-legged but can’t see the abdomen, like a reptile...."

"Very thin biological membrane, with at least ten-meter-long tendrils...."

"What’s this? A giant lizard and a giant butterfly?"

"Looks like it."

Lei Jie said while staring at the aerial reconnaissance footage from the drone:

"It seems like it’s been a while since we’ve encountered these strange-looking monsters. From Jinling all the way here, the monsters we’ve run into were relatively normal."

"Just large in size, but with no distinct features."

"But these two... they don’t look ordinary at all."

"Could they be two monsters above level three?"

"If they are indeed two monsters above level three, then things aren’t that simple."

Putting down the paper, Chen Jian asked:

"Fu Xi, any findings from the aerial reconnaissance?"

"No monster traces detected for now,"

Fu Xi’s response left Chen Jian a bit disappointed, but before he could speak, Fu Xi continued:

"However, from the aerial thermal imaging, I’ve noticed a large number of anomalous low-temperature areas in the surrounding region."

"Anomalous low temperatures?!"

Chen Jian looked up in surprise, and in the view of the smart goggles, Fu Xi had already marked all the low-temperature areas.

"The temperature in these areas is slightly lower than the surrounding environment, but it isn’t due to topographical influences."

"For instance, near the mountain I’ve marked, the temperature in the foothill basin is lower than at the summit."

"It seems like a large amount of cold gas is accumulating at the foothill, but the source... is unknown."

An unknown source of cold gas.

Chen Jian looked again at the information compiled by Jin Zan.

White breath.

Is this..... vapor condensation due to low temperature?

No way, can that monster generate cold?

What an airconditioner monster?

Is there such a thing in nature?

Chen Jian realized that Lei Jie’s judgment might very well be correct.

This could very likely be a monster at level three or above.

Being able to alter the environment.....

Is it level two, or level one?!