Human Genius? Sorry, I’m a Deviant-Chapter 246: When the Snipe and the Clam Fight

"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Several dark red beams shot out from the eye-tipped tentacles on its back.
Su Zhan narrowly avoided them by a hair's breadth.
He channeled all his strength into fleeing and dodging, completely incapable of counterattacking.
Fighting while running.
Or rather, getting beaten while fleeing for his life!
Using the jagged strange rocks and withered trees around him as cover, Su Zhan desperately sprinted in one direction.
The Multi-Eyed Hound Beast pursued relentlessly.
Everywhere it passed was left in complete disarray!
Su Zhan's heart sank to the pit of his stomach. Being targeted by a high-risk level Mist Creature in this extremely low-visibility environment made his chances of escape incredibly slim.
A bizarre figure appeared in the thick fog ahead.
The thing looked like a withered ancient tree, but it was alive.
Its trunk was composed of dark brown vines resembling dried blood vessels.
The surface was covered with raised patterns resembling agonized human faces.
Dozens of branches ending in sharp bone spikes.
Slowly danced in the air, searching for prey.
Its roots were a mass of writhing fleshy tubers, slowly moving across the ground.
Its energy fluctuations had also reached high-risk first stage!
Face Tree Demon!
Su Zhan inwardly groaned with despair.
Danger ahead and pursuit behind.
He instinctively tried to change direction.
"Roar!"
The Multi-Eyed Hound Beast let out a furious roar, and one of the eye tentacles on its back suddenly shot out a beam.
Originally aimed at Su Zhan, but because of Su Zhan's evasion, it struck one of the Face Tree Demon's branches instead.
"Sizzle—!"
The branch was scorched black, emitting wisps of green smoke.
"Squeak—!"
The Face Tree Demon's countless dancing branches went berserk.
All its hatred focused on the Multi-Eyed Hound Beast.
The next second, two branches shot out.
Stabbing directly into the Multi-Eyed Hound Beast's exposed muscle tissue.
The Multi-Eyed Hound Beast refused to be outdone, swinging its sharp claws to tear at those annoying branches, while the eye tentacles on its back continuously shot beams, scorching the Face Tree Demon's trunk.
"Boom!"
"Bang!"
"Rip!"
The two high-risk level Mist Creatures instantly engaged in fierce combat.
They were evenly matched, both at high-risk first stage.
One was violently ferocious, while the other was eerily tenacious.
Fighting inextricably together.
The surrounding ground and vegetation were ravaged by the aftermath of their battle.
Su Zhan stared dumbfounded at this sudden internal conflict.
Scrambling to hide behind a massive piece of cover.
This cover resembled fossilized ribs of some creature.
Su Zhan gasped for breath in huge gulps.
Salvation in desperate straits!
Su Zhan cautiously peeked out from behind the bone fossil, watching the two monsters fighting with earth-shattering intensity.
This time, his luck seemed to have finally improved a bit.
Su Zhan wanted to immediately leave this dangerous place, the farther the better.
Reason told him that leaving immediately, while the two monsters were occupied fighting each other, was the safest choice.
Staying here any longer meant taking enormous risks with every passing second.
Their battle was so loud, who knew what more terrifying things it might attract.
But...
When snipe and clam fight, the fisherman profits!
Su Zhan possessed the ability to absorb Life Essence from Mist Creature corpses.
It was the only shortcut to rapid strength improvement.
Although the prerequisite for absorption was that the target either had to be killed by his own hand, or he had to participate in the battle and inflict some damage. Moreover, the deeper his involvement, the more Life Essence he could ultimately absorb.
These two before him were high-risk level Mist Creatures.
For someone like him currently only at medium-risk fifth stage, they were absolutely nourishing treasures.
Even if he just rushed in to deliver the final blow when they were both weakened, or merely inflicted some damage when they were near death, then absorbed just a little Life Essence... that would absolutely be a heavenly opportunity!
The risks were enormous, but the potential rewards were equally huge and irresistible.
Leave? Safe, but gain nothing.
Stay? Risky, but possibly become stronger, gaining a slim chance of survival here.
"Damn it... I'll risk it!"
Su Zhan made his decision internally.
Carefully adjusting his posture, he better concealed his body in the bone fossil's shadow, revealing only his eyes, staring intently at the battle ahead.
Simultaneously, he heightened his perception to the limit, more vigilantly monitoring the movements in the surrounding thick fog.
Afraid of becoming the "cicada" in the eyes of another "oriole."
He kept watching like this, not knowing how much time had passed.
The battle between the Multi-Eyed Hound Beast and the Face Tree Demon had reached a white-hot stage.
The Multi-Eyed Hound Beast's exposed muscle tissue was covered with deep, bone-revealing tearing wounds, slashed open by the Face Tree Demon's pale bone spike arms, dark red blood continuously flowing out.
Even one of the eye tentacles on its back had been broken off, the severed end constantly writhing, attempting regeneration, but hindered by residual gloomy resentment energy, progressing extremely slowly.
The Face Tree Demon wasn't faring any better.
Its trunk made of dried vines had been torn open by sharp claws in several large gashes, constantly oozing foul-smelling sap.
Several branches had been brutally torn off, or melted by corrosive beams, scattered on the ground.
The severed branches still twitched slightly.
Mist Creatures' recovery abilities were indeed formidable.
Their wounds were all writhing at a visible rate.
Just as Su Zhan had hoped.
They both had abilities to hinder this recovery.
This caused their injuries to continuously accumulate, with recovery speed far unable to keep up with the rate of injury.
The battle turned into a war of attrition, seeing who would collapse first.
They roared and collided with frenzied intensity.
Every attack seemed determined to tear the other to shreds.
Such intense battle commotion inevitably attracted more and more spectators.
In the surrounding thick fog, increasingly more indistinct figures began to appear.
Many low-level Mist Creatures...
Attracted by the potential "leftovers" from their higher-level counterparts, they gathered from all directions.
These low-level Mist Creatures clearly had low intelligence and held instinctive fear toward the two high-risk level presences in the arena.
They only dared to circle from afar, lingering at the edges of the thick mist, emitting low whimpers, forming an encirclement.
Temporarily not daring to intervene in the death struggle between higher-level existences.
When those two high-risk creatures truly fell, these spectating low-level beings would frantically scramble to feed.
Su Zhan's heart rose to his throat;
the situation was more complicated than he had anticipated.
When snipe and clam fight.
But the fishermen waiting to feast around them weren't just him alone!