Chapter 238 Are You Human?
The speed of the lightning generated by these Kuiniu is extremely fast. Although it cannot be compared with natural lightning, it still reaches hundreds of meters per second. It shoots out from the white mist and turns into lightning whips that lash towards Chen Jue.
If he was on the ground, Chen Jue could use his extraordinary reaction ability to enter a high-speed reaction similar to bullet time, and rely on the strength of his legs to avoid these slow lightning attacks.
But now he is flying in the air and his body is restricted, so he cannot dodge for the moment!
In the blink of an eye, Chen Jue instinctively opened his mouth and the sonic killing move of [Tiger Roaring in the Mountains] turned into a circle of sound waves that spewed out downwards, dispersing the fog below while changing the trajectory of some of the lightning, and incidentally causing a reaction force that pushed him up faster.
At this moment, Chen Jue waved his arms violently, flapped his wings upward, and accelerated to escape from the range of the lightning strikes.
However, a few of those long lightning whips still flew up and hit Chen Jue's legs, flowing along the metal outer shell of his aerospace combat suit to his entire body.
Fortunately, this aerospace combat suit has a double-layer structure. Lightning protection was taken into consideration when it was first designed. Although the outer layer is a soft metal braid that is easy to conduct electricity, the inner layer is doped with insulating materials.
This lightning attack only made Chen Jue feel a slight heat outside his body, especially his legs, which felt as hot as if burned by fire, but it did not cause him to fall into paralysis from the electric shock.
After being struck by the first wave of lightning , Chen Jue flapped his wings several times, raising his position to more than a thousand meters, while the Kuiniu below roared towards the sky.
Chen Jue sensed a feeling of mania, uneasiness and anger from them, as if they were born with an extreme resistance to outsiders.
"No wonder this swamp is so dead silent. With such a group of grumpy guys here, which creature dares to come in casually?"
"I guess it's only the stubborn and stupid little parrot who can do that!"
Chen Jue looked down at those Kuiniu monsters that were more than ten meters long and as big as heavy trucks. He cursed a few words in his heart and flew forward hurriedly to get out of the attack range of those Kuiniu monsters.
As for counterattack, Chen Jue had no intention of doing so for the time being. Firstly, his hands were tied to the wooden wings and he could not free them to fire a javelin in response. Secondly, the little parrot was flying too fast and was almost disappearing from Chen Jue's sight. If he delayed any further, Chen Jue was afraid that this alien beast disciple, who had just been taught by him not long ago, would be in danger.
However, after observing the attack methods of those lightning ricochets, Chen Jue's understanding of [Supernormal Level] was further enriched.
"Since those Kuiniu and electric eels can generate high-voltage electric current to radiate and attack externally, after the weak electricity in the human body is strengthened to a certain level, it should be able to achieve a similar electric shock effect!" Chen Jue's mind turned.
It was mentioned in boxing classics that when one’s martial arts skills are mastered to a high level, one can use “electricity” to hit people.
The "electricity" here does not refer to real electricity, but an exaggerated description. It is meant to describe the situation where the hidden force needle pierces the acupuncture points or tendons of the human body, making people feel like they are being electrocuted and their whole body becomes paralyzed.
Once Chen Jue can research the [extraordinary] method of human power generation from the power generation principles of Kuiniu and electric eels, then the ability to generate "electricity" to hit people may one day really evolve from an exaggerated fiction in boxing classics into reality!
Moreover, Chen Jue has already mastered a similar martial art [Dragon-Slaying Sword Technique]. The way to stimulate sword energy in it is to use the electric current in the human body to stimulate the Qi to leave the body to form sword energy.
It is equivalent to knowing the theorem of the problem "power generation attack" and getting the formula. It only takes time to apply it to solve the problem.
However, now is not the time to think deeply about these questions, because as Chen Jue chased the parrot deeper into the foggy swamp, the tension and anticipation in his heart became stronger and stronger.
After passing by those strange beasts like Kuiniu that only existed in myths and legends, Chen Jue became extremely excited and curious about what he would encounter next.
"The Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou, and Xuannv made eighty Kui cowhide drums for the emperor... These stories are not groundless. The strange beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas have appeared one by one. This strange planet is very likely to have some connection with the Earth in ancient times..." Chen Jue guessed.
Following the trail of the little parrot, we went deeper for more than a hundred kilometers, and from time to time we could hear the roars of animals like cows, frogs, and thunder below.
In addition to the blue electric light, Chen Jue would occasionally find purple-red lightning flashing in the white fog, and the figures hidden behind the purple-red lightning were even larger than the Kuiniu that Chen Jue had seen at the edge of the swamp before!
Chen Jue resisted the urge to descend to find out what was going on, and guessed that it should be a Kuiniu with a higher life level and a stronger physique, just like the difference between those ordinary fat relics and the leader of the fat relics.
The gap is not just in physique, but also in the temperature of the flames they emit.
"If an ordinary person were to face such a terrifying beast, he would probably have to use a heavy tank to fight it." Chen Jue thought absurdly in his mind.
At this moment, Chen Jue found that the thick fog in front of him suddenly became thicker, and the humidity in the air rose sharply, almost turning into rain.
As for the little parrot, it had long disappeared in the thick fog, and only its chirping and tapping sounds could be vaguely heard.
The feeling of being in a vast expanse of white made Chen Jue very uncomfortable, just like an ordinary person entering into pitch darkness. His senses were reduced, and he felt panic and fear of the unknown.
When Chen Jue flapped his wings vigorously and accelerated forward for several kilometers, he broke through the thick clouds with a puff, and the scenery in front of him suddenly became clear!
The swamp that was originally faintly visible under the thick fog has now disappeared, replaced by a huge bright basin.
The basin is tens of kilometers wide and is surrounded by a circle of white cloud walls that stretch into the sky. The dim sunlight from above makes the basin look bright red.
On the surface of the basin, in addition to the lush green shrubs and various exotic flowers and plants, a giant tree about 300 meters high stands proudly in the center of the basin.
This giant tree was very different from the immortal tree Chen Jue had seen before. It was completely withered and dark brown in color, with no leaves on its branches. A large group of exotic beasts and birds were flying around the tree, and the cries of birds of various tones were intertwined.
Under the tree, there is a green river about ten meters wide, which circles the tree and finally crosses the entire basin.
Seeing such a paradise-like scene, Chen Jue was immersed in some kind of indescribable spiritual healing. His eyes were fixed on the little parrot, watching it fly into the group of exotic beasts and birds.
Among the flocks of birds flying in the sky, Chen Jue saw the parrot leader that had been defeated and escaped by Fei Yi. It cried loudly and swooped down to the little parrot, rubbing and pecking the parrot's feathers intimately. Chen Jue felt like an outsider who was sending a child home, witnessing this drama of strange beasts recognizing their relatives with his own eyes.
What Chen Jue didn't expect was that after seeing the parrot leader, the little parrot did not show any eagerness to return home. Instead, it turned around and cried to Chen Jue: "Da Da!"
Chen Jue felt that his care and raising that day had not been in vain, and flapped his wooden wings as he moved closer.
However, when the circling birds saw Chen Jue, this strange creature, they all made shrill cries at him.
In addition to the parrot leader, there were more than a dozen giant birds over seven or eight meters in size, which sent out mental magnetic field fluctuations of intimidation and warning to him.
Upon seeing this, Chen Jue quickly steadied his body and stopped flying forward. Instead, he also sent out friendly mental fluctuations towards the flock of birds, signaling them not to get too excited in order to avoid accidental conflicts.
But at this moment, a louder cry came from the nest on the top , drowning out the sound of the group of birds.
At that moment, thousands of birds and strange beasts stopped singing and began to circle around the dead tree in the center. Even the parrot leader and other [super-level] strange beasts joined in, as if they were congratulating their king for awakening.
Chen Jue concentrated and held his breath, observing the movements coming from the huge nest.
It was a giant bird with a wingspan of more than 30 meters. It looked like a rooster, with colorful feathers, somewhat similar to the peacock that Chen Jue knew. It wore a wreath on its head. Just by standing up and leaning out of the nest, Chen Jue's pupils shrank and he was suddenly shocked: "Birds pay homage to the phoenix! This, this, this... this is a phoenix!"
Chen Jue felt his scalp tingling, especially after seeing the exaggerated size of this legendary beast, it was as if his brain had crashed.
Those Kuiniu that we saw in the swamp before were nothing compared to this phoenix bird, whose size is comparable to that of a civilian airliner!
After the phoenix poked its head out of the nest, its eyes, like glass gems, looked curiously at the little parrot that was chirping around it, then looked at the strange-looking Chen Jue in the distance. A strange light flashed in its eyes, and an extremely pleasant-sounding cry came out of its mouth.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Jue saw a five-colored rainbow light suddenly emitted from the feathers on its forehead. The rainbow light shot out across hundreds of meters and shone on Chen Jue, entering into some kind of wonderful frequency resonance with the spiritual magnetic field emitted from his body.
Affected by the rainbow light, Chen Jue soon heard a gentle female voice echoing in his ears. Chen Jue could not understand the words spoken by the voice at first, but soon, the rich and indissoluble spiritual magnetic field in the rainbow light formed a communication circuit with the part of Chen Jue's cerebral cortex responsible for the language center, and projected a sentence in Chen Jue's mind: "Little guy, are you a human?"
