"Be careful, here it comes," Jin Ziyuan shouted, and Gu Youyou looked up to see a monkey with blue and white fur and a terrifying grin showing its sharp fangs appear in her sight.
Gu Youyou had never seen such a monkey in her life.
What kind of creature is this? Could it be a unique species from Fusang Island?
Or as she had guessed, had this island been struck by a meteorite, causing the monkeys on the mountain to undergo some sort of radiation mutation?
Searcy tugged at the rope tied around Gu Youyou’s waist and asked, "This seems different."
Gu Youyou replied, "Yes, it might be a mutant."
"A mutant? What will happen?"
"I don’t know, look..."
Before she could finish, the white monkey had already charged towards them at a speed that exceeded their imagination.
This was not the ordinary squeaking or chirping noise of small monkeys, but the roar of a large primate.
Yet it was clearly small in size.
The white monkey instantly approached Jin Ziyuan at the front, who swiftly cleaved it with his sword, spraying blood all around and falling down beside Gu Youyou.
Luckily they had someone skilled with them; otherwise, being targeted by this beast on the cliff would not have been fun.
This monkey, aside from its strange appearance, was incredibly fast.
Jin Ziyuan sheathed his sword and retied the rope around his waist, then said to them, "Hurry up, we’re almost there."
Gu Youyou nodded slightly and looked down at Searcy.
Searcy, still somewhat in shock, stared at the few drops of blood that had landed on her, lost in thought.
"What’s wrong?" Gu Youyou noticed something was off.
Searcy said, "The blood is cold, very cold."
Gu Youyou hadn’t been splashed with blood, and hearing this, she was slightly startled.
Shouldn’t freshly spilt blood be warm? Monkeys aren’t cold-blooded animals.
As she pondered, a rumbling noise came from afar, many sounds.
Jin Ziyuan, with a solemn expression, loudly said to them, "Not good, there are many."
The three paled as they saw many monkeys charging towards them.
A few larger ones directly pounced at Jin Ziyuan.
Jin Ziyuan, wielding his sword, managed to fend off each attack, preventing any monkey from getting close.
Monkey corpses fell from above, and Gu Youyou dodged left and right to avoid them, some fresh red blood splashing onto her, causing her to stiffen up.
It was cold, truly very cold.
What kind of mutation was this?
The monkeys seemed to realize that they were no match for Jin Ziyuan and quickly stopped attacking him. Instead, they began to pick fruit from the trees and pry stones from crevices, hurling them at them.
Gu Youyou felt overwhelmed, understanding the chaotic challenge of dozens of monkeys hurling objects at you, especially while hanging from a cliff.
Luckily they had not yet untied the rope tied to the tree; otherwise, dodging left and right in such a situation would have certainly led to a deadly fall.
Even so, many stones and fruits hit them, causing them to grimace in pain.
Searcy shouted from behind, "I’m going to poison those Little Beasts to death, when we get down the mountain I’ll set fire to it..."
Gu Youyou countered, "You’d better just keep dodging, you’ll need to make it down the mountain alive first. These beasts have lived on the cliff all their lives, we’re at a big disadvantage fighting them."