Forty-second ectopic branch

  Fortunately, the riverbed was all soft water grass and mud, except for the heart beating rapidly in the chest cavity, Rega's body was not seriously injured.

  He quickly straightened up and swam towards a safer place.

  The speed of the furious lobster in water was hundreds of times faster than Laga, and as soon as Laga turned around, a pair of huge claws came crashing towards him.

  Ryker hastily dodged, the angry pincer of the lobster barely scraping his back as it struck the riverbed beneath him, causing the entire riverbed to shudder and the water to become murky, making it almost impossible for Ryker to keep his eyes open.

  But he still saw the appearance of the angry lobster clearly.

  Too big.

  Xu Lingtian had previously warned him that the angry crayfish were very large, and the little boy fishing on the shore had also warned him. However, "very large" is a relative concept after all. Compared to the little boy, Rega was already considered "very large", let alone freshwater crayfish?

  It wasn't until this moment that he realized how naive his thoughts had been.

  The giant lobster was as tall as a two-story building, with a dark greenish-gray body and an enormous head that took up nearly three-quarters of its entire body. Its two long whisker-like antennae were like steel bars, capable of stirring up whirlpools with the slightest movement. The two filter-plates on either side of its mouth opened and closed, spewing out strings of bubbles. Its blood-red eyes stared fixedly at Lega, filled with fury. Its weapon was a pair of pincers that were almost as large as its head, their bright red color like they had just been pulled from the forge.

  Lei Ga stood in front of it, feeling tiny like an insect. The place on his back where the shell had scraped him was burning with pain, making it hard for him to stand up straight.

  What's even more deadly is that, despite its massive body size, the Angry Crab Lobster isn't clumsy at all. After Leica dodged its first attack, it quickly pulled back its pincer and targeted Leica for another heavy blow.

  Lei Ga concentrated all his aura on his legs, exerting himself to jump up from the riverbed, avoiding the angry pincer lobster's attack once again. He then targeted the joint of the angry pincer lobster's claw and slashed down with his black giant sword.

  A single dodge would only waste physical strength, and the best choice was to defend with an attack. The black giant sword had no edge or blade, but its momentum was great and its power was sinking, Lei Jia thought that even if this slash couldn't cut off a pincer, it could still hurt the Angry Claw Lobster a bit.

  The heavy sword fell onto the hard shell of the angry pincer lobster, producing a dull thud. Rega felt his palm go numb, the heavy sword was shaken to the point where it almost flew out of his hand.

  The furious lobster seemed to be completely painless, it swung its claws and picked up Laga, the other claw swept across Laga's ribs and sent him flying out.

  Lei Ga felt a blackness before his eyes, his throat turned sweet, he tried to maintain the balance of his body, but the huge impact force was impossible to resist with just fourth-stage Dou Qi.

  It's indeed the strength of Sanpin Manjuu!

  But... what's the difference?!

  Lei Ga gritted his teeth and steadied himself, grasping the black giant sword tightly in both hands, with scarlet fighting spirit permeating every inch of muscle on his body.

  "Come again!"

  The previous attack was not wrong, it's just that he didn't expect the shell of the angry lobster to be as hard as a steel fortress wall, and even the supposedly weak joints were difficult to shake.

  We must find another weakness!

  The furious lobster also changed its strategy, opening its two pincers and attacking Leiga from both sides. Once caught by the pincers, there was no possibility of escape, and it would definitely be torn in half.

  Lei Ga swung his black giant sword, barely blocking the two pincers. The enraged dragon lobster changed its angle of attack and increased its frequency.

  Lei Ga concentrated his mind and responded calmly. Every swing of the sword consumed a lot of his physical strength, every block almost made him unable to hold the hilt, and every attack by the angry pincer lobster forced him to retreat - although each time was very difficult, the black giant sword still blocked all the attacks from the angry pincer lobster.

  Every muscle in the body ached, his arms were numb and almost broken, his internal organs felt hollowed out, leaving only his Fourth Stage Qi and unyielding will struggling to hold on.

  Xu Lingtian also gave a bottle of strong recovery medicine, taking the medicine may be the wisest choice, but if you can't find the weakness of the Angry Claw Lobster, even the strongest recovery medicine will only delay time. Moreover, Leiga wanted to keep this bottle of recovery medicine for other things...

  He clenched his teeth, spat out the bloody foam in his mouth, raised the black giant sword with both hands, and a ferocious smile appeared on his clear face: "Come on, is this all you've got?"

  The furious lobster seemed somewhat agitated, its red eyeballs rolling back and forth. It had never encountered an opponent that could withstand the pincers for so long without needing to escape to the surface for air. It stopped attacking, raised its body, and then rhythmically shook its claws, looking as if it were dancing.

  The water churned, and Lei Ga shouted loudly as he quickly swam towards the surface, but the pincers behind him formed a huge whirlpool that pulled him back.

  The furious lobster charged upwards, its hard head colliding with Lega's back, and the powerful force immediately pushed Lega out of the water. The furious lobster raised its claws, waiting for Lega to fall back into the water.

  Lei Ga only felt a strong dizziness, fortunately, he had the protection of his fourth-stage Dou Qi, otherwise, he would have been directly knocked to death by the angry pincer lobster. He was thrown into the air two meters high, and the white waves splashed out with force. He vaguely heard the little boy on the shore shouting "Wow, so cool", and then heavily fell into the river.

  The splash of water at the time of the fall made Leica unable to see the danger in front of him, so he closed his eyes and focused on feeling the movement of the angry lobster in the water.

  The two claws of the furious lobster simultaneously attacked Lega, as if it felt that this time was definitely foolproof, so it used all its strength.

  The pincers brought dynamic water flow, forming a strong wave, and was immediately sensed by Lei Jia. He didn't choose to dodge immediately, but instead calmed down, silently counting three numbers in his heart. When the pincers were about to touch his body, he suddenly dove downwards, barely avoiding the two deadly pincers.

  The pincers snapped shut on nothing, unable to stop their momentum, and crashed into each other with great force.

  The furious lobster was initially stunned, and by the time it reacted, Laga had already grabbed its antennae and jumped onto its head. It hastily used its pincers to clip, but Laga dodged nimbly behind its brain, raised his massive sword, and stabbed forcefully at its blood-red eyeballs.

  Weakness! Broken!

  The furious lobster's painful twisting body stirred up strong whirlpools underwater, and Lei tightly grasped the furious lobster's antennae, not letting himself be shaken off.

  After struggling for five or six minutes, the furious lobster finally exhausted itself and swam away to the deeper part of the water.

  Lei Ga knew that it had already been intimidated, and hastily took out the pink weakening agent from the package, smashing the medicine bottle onto the Angry Claw Lobster's body.

  The medicine immediately held the angry lobster tightly, and the angry lobster struggled for a few moments before its massive body began to shrink bit by bit.

  Lei Ga had just revealed a victorious smile, when he suddenly felt his body involuntarily floating upwards. He tried to take in a mouthful of air, only to discover that what entered his lungs was river water - the underwater breathing medicine's time was up!

  He held his breath and strained to grab the enraged lobster. At this time, the enraged lobster's body had only shrunk by half, although it had been weakened by the medicine and had no strength, and its speed downstream was very slow, but Laga still couldn't let himself dive any deeper.

  His body was warning him in no uncertain terms that if he didn't breathe some air soon, he was a dead man.

  Watching all his efforts go down the drain with the mission's failure, Lelouch's heart was burning with anxiety. Despite his lungs being on the verge of exploding, he still struggled to swim downstream.

  "Let me!"

  A lithe figure plunged into the water, arms sweeping back in a perfect arc, like a swordfish charging towards the slowly sinking angry lobster.

  Lei Ga took a closer look and saw that the person helping him was the little boy fishing on the shore, his heart slightly calmed down, he quickly paddled with both hands and swam towards the water surface.

  As he crawled up onto the shore, drenched from head to toe, the boy's head also emerged from the water.

  He held up one hand high, clutching a lobster with a green shell and red claws.

  Lei Ga let out a long sigh and lay down on his back on the hard cobblestones.

  What a close call... Fortunately, they didn't maliciously chase the boy away at the time.

  The boy climbed up the bank, put the weakened angry lobster into the fish basket, wiped the water droplets from his face, and walked to Le Ga with a smile.

  "Big brother, I'm also very powerful, right?"

  "That's awesome."

  Lei Ga sat up, sincerely praising. If it weren't for this kid's exceptional swimming skills, even if he had the heart to help, he might not have been able to scoop up the angry lobster. "Thank you very much for your help, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to complete this task without you."

  He reached out to take the fish basket, but the boy cunningly shrank back.

  "Now that I've helped you so much, you can't just say a simple thank you, can you?"

  This naughty kid!

  Lei Ga smiled wryly and shook his head. He had long been aware that this boy was very clever, but he had neglected the fact that clever children are not easy to deal with - just like he himself was not an easy person to deal with either.

  He patted himself all over, and except for the medicine that the boy couldn't use, he only had the silver coin that Shepu gave him that he couldn't spend. At the time of the dusk village cemetery, he still had the dried meat that Meena's mother prepared, but in order to enter the cemetery, he had already given the dried meat to the night watchman of the cemetery, and now he really didn't have anything to repay the boy with.

  He awkwardly pursed his lips, "I don't have anything on me right now, but the guy who arranged for me to do this task is pretty wealthy. Why don't you come with me to his place?"

  Xu Lingtian would certainly not refuse a child holding an angry lobster.

  The boy curled his lip, "People who are really rich don't live in Crow Ridge, and I'm not interested in money either."

  Lei Ga Meng suddenly remembered that the boy came here to catch pike, and catching pike was not only a way to make money but also a way to prove one's ability. "Do you want me to help you catch pike?"

  "It's not like you can just catch a pike with a hook." The boy shook his head.

  Lei Ga Na asked in a low voice: "You don't want money, and you don't want the sturgeon either. What do you really want?"

  The boy smiled mysteriously and said, "I want you to help me beat someone up."