Zhou Chen didn't know that the ant monster behind him was afraid of water, but he could only gamble like this, otherwise he would be swallowed up by the ant monster swarm.
The facts quickly proved that he was right. When he stroked his hands and legs to surface, the red ant-like monsters stopped at the edge of the pool and did not attack him.
Just as Zhou Chen was secretly rejoicing, there was a sharp pain in his leg.
"Damn it! Something is biting my leg!"
Zhou Chen immediately began to shake his leg desperately, and then he felt that a small thing seemed to be dropped from his leg.
[Passive Predator Trigger: You have plundered the cave red ant's passive skill "Juli I", do you want to merge it? 】
"Fusion!"
Zhou Chen guessed that the cave red ant was poisoned to death by the corpse poison on his body, which allowed him to plunder the passive skills.
After the fusion was completed, Zhou Chen felt that his physical strength had grown a little bit, and it was easier to paddle in the water.
"This passive technique is very practical... but why don't they retreat... Do you want me to soak in this pool until the end?"
Looking at the cave red ants on the ground at the edge of the pool, Zhou Chen was rather helpless.
These monsters obviously didn't dare to go into the water, couldn't hunt themselves, and didn't retreat. Could it be that they were waiting for him to take the initiative to go ashore to eat?
"Maybe I should learn that the newt monster dived into the water in the first place?"
With a flash of thought in his mind, Zhou Chen held his breath and plunged into the pool, and began to disappear in his diving suit.
The water in the pool was still clear, but Zhou Chen didn't have a diving goggles. It was a bit uncomfortable to open his eyes to see things.
However, he insisted on keeping his eyes open.
Because he knew what was in the water, even if he deliberately stayed in the area near the shore, there was no guarantee that he would not be targeted by any monsters in the water.
"Really convinced... escaped from the ant colony and fell into a monster pool..."
After diving to a certain depth, Zhou Chen stayed still at the bottom of the water, so that his oxygen consumption was slower and he could stay up for more time.
The time of holding his breath was extremely difficult. After dozens of seconds, when Zhou Chen felt that he should float up and take a look, he found two long strips of black shadows swimming towards him in the distance in the water.
"I'm really worried about what comes from...or double..."
Seeing the monsters coming, Zhou Chen swam to the surface decisively, and the oxygen in his lungs couldn't hold up at all when fighting underwater.
When he just swam to the shore with relatively shallow water and took a good breath with his head out of the water, the two monsters under the water also arrived not far from him.
Zhou Chen was not in the slightest panic at this time. He quickly took out the iron rod that he had put in before escaping from the backpack space, buried the iron rod in the water, and planned to use it to give the two monsters a little bit of color.
The two big salamander-like fang monsters in the water saw Zhou Chen taking out their weapons. They hesitated to attack, but they all rushed towards Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen's iron rod buried underwater also launched an attack at the same time.
Bang! The water surged, Zhou Chen's iron rod smashed into the air, and a monster in the water retreated mischievously when it approached him.
As soon as it retreated, another monster that had circled Zhou Chen's back suddenly rushed forward, opened its big mouth and bit at Zhou Chen's neck.
At this time, Zhou Chen turned around and stabbed, using his own iron rod to make a movement similar to a carbine, and directly stuffed the iron rod into the mouth of the newt monster rushing over.
You know, his long spear passive skills have this skill.
After the attacking monster used an iron rod to penetrate its mouth, the monster immediately began to struggle violently, then turned black and stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its body sank.
Zhou Chen quickly pulled the iron rod out of his mouth, allowing it to sink to the bottom.
[Passive Predator Trigger: You have plundered the cave salamander's passive skill "Underwater Breathing I". Do you want to merge it? 】
"Fusion!"
When Zhou Chen made a choice, the second cave salamander had already attacked again. Zhou Chen shot one of them in the water, but this time the opponent still behaved very cunningly, did not let him hit, and wandered around him. Soon after the circle, he left and swam to the depths of the pool.
"This thing has a higher IQ than other monsters... I'm afraid it's not going to call for help..."
Zhou Chen felt that the situation was a little bad.
He turned his head and looked at the shore of the water pool again, and found that the cave red ants were still full there and did not leave.
"Do you expect to eat me when you have nothing to eat?"
Zhou Chen felt a little helpless in his heart. He wanted to go ashore now, but things on the shore were more likely to be fiercer than in the water.
With a flash of thought in his mind, he put the iron rod into the backpack space and dived into the water.
As soon as the whole person dived into the water, he felt different from the past, and found that the suffocation of lack of oxygen was mostly reduced, and it seemed that he could supplement oxygen in the water.
"It should be the effect of underwater breathing I... Although it did not allow me to breathe directly in the water as in the air, now I can stay underwater for a long time..."
The effect of the passive technique of underwater breathing was immediate. Zhou Chen dived into the bottom of the water and felt a lot more at ease. He quickly found the salamander monster corpse at the bottom of the corpse pool, took out the whip from the backpack space, fastened it to it, and pulled it. Swim with it to the shore.
Zhou Chen didn't dare to go ashore directly, because there were many ant monsters on the shore. He stood in the water and threw the body of the newt monster directly on it.
This is not difficult for him, who has a higher physique and has acquired a huge passive skill.
The original red ants on the shore of the pool immediately swarmed after the salamander monster's corpse was thrown up, and quickly gathered to the salamander monster's corpse.
Soon Zhou Chen heard a subtle and complicated biting sound. Those red ants crawled over the body of the newt monster, biting through its skin quickly and digging into the interior.
Red ants gathered more and more on the salamander's corpse, and it quickly turned into a big red ball. They penetrated more, but drilled very little. Something seems to have happened.
At this time, Zhou Chen looked into the depths of the water pool while observing the state of the red ants, watching for possible enemies.
After a while, he found that the red ants on the shore were getting more and more wrong. They gathered at the corpses of the newt monsters that were basically bones. They turned black and moved slowly. Some of them were weak. Roll to the ground.
"The corpse poison remaining on the corpse has a good effect...Although it failed to directly kill all the red ants, it also greatly weakened their state..."
Zhou Chen was overjoyed when he saw this, and this situation allowed him to try to go ashore and escape.
He glanced at the depths of the pool again, and found that there seemed to be a lot of dark shadows wandering over there, Zhou Chen no longer hesitated, and rushed directly to the shore and fled to the depths of the cave passage.
This time, the red ants are not too few to catch up with him. They are now in a cluster, in a poor state, and they are no longer the frightening group monsters they used to be.