The Dream Stick Insect suddenly felt a chill along its abdomen . A centipede was viciously crawling to and fro under its belly .

While searching everywhere it could for the white spot, Da Zi suddenly froze . An insect limb flashed right in front of its eyes, narrowly missing its head, and pierced through the soil in front of him, making a loud shaaa sound .

Da Zi almost jumped out of its skin, looking fearfully at the limb in front of its face . It had shot out of nowhere!

Da Zi looked at it carefully, and then cautiously took two steps back . The Dream Stick Insect was now stabbing the ground with its limbs in a frenzy . Da Zi needed to be careful with its own position, or it could very well be impaled .

Da Zi twisted its body and made its way through the stick insect's limbs like a slippery, agile fish . Its two pitch-black eyeb.a.l.l.s rolled around in its sockets, trying to find the small white spot .

Where is it? Where is it?

Da Zi was searching for it madly . Its vision was not great to begin with, and the high speed at which the Dream Stick Insect was moving made its body look even blurrier . It was making Da Zi dizzy .

At the same time, Dumby was also in a difficult situation . Because its body had one of the Dream Stick Insect's limbs going through it, Dumby was stuck less than a foot from the Dream Stick Insect's head .

It wasn't possible for Dumby to retreat and shake off that limb, but Dumby wouldn't dare retreat anyway . Doing so would only make it easier for the Dream Stick Insect to attack .

Clang——

One of the insect's spear-like limbs came thrusting from right above Dumby's head, striking Dumby's shoulder with a loud, metallic sound .

Dumby's shoulder drooped slightly, and there was a chip in the area that had been struck .

Da Zi, who was right under the Dream Stick Insect, froze in its tracks . The waving antennae on its head suddenly stopped and its eyes were transfixed on a certain spot on the Dream Stick Insect's abdomen .

Found it! Finally found it!

But in the next moment, Da Zi realized something truly awkward . It could not reach the spot .

Although Da Zi had many legs, they were all short legs . Also, who had ever heard of a jumping centipede? Being able to jump just a foot into the air was the result of Da Zi's full effort . But it had to try .

Da Zi jumped with all its might, going up a foot into the air, and then landed with a flop on the ground .

The Dream Stick Insect was stomping madly on the ground, and as Da Zi landed, one of its limbs pierced Da Zi .

The surface of Da Zi's purple carapace exploded with the shrill, screeching sound of clas.h.i.+ng metal . Sparks flew out, and the part that was. .h.i.t was caved in with the pattern of a swirl .

Puchi!

Da Zi rolled up and screamed in agony . It was as though it had been nailed to the ground .

Gao Peng's chest suddenly tightened up . No matter how many familiars he had, his bond with Da Zi, who had followed him right from the start, was the deepest and the hardest to let go of . Da Zi had been his first familiar, after all .

Seeing that it had managed to step on the little centipede, the Dream Stick Insect held it down with its limb . A savage expression flashed across its eyes, carrying along with it the hint of unimaginable cruelty .

The Dream Stick Insect raised another limb, aiming straight at Da Zi's squirming head .

Dumby's soul flames burst into a frenzy in its eye sockets . An indescribable feeling of anger exploded from its heart .

In these few months of interacting with Da Zi, Stripey, and Silly, Dumby had come to see them as close friends . Even though Da Zi often got jealous of Dumby, even though Stripey was really timid, even though Silly was truly silly… Dumby truly saw them as friends .

Dumby opened its mouth wide, its sharp canines flas.h.i.+ng with a cold glint, and chomped down on the Dream Stick Insect's head with all its might!

The Dream Stick Insect's limb had only descended halfway before it stopped in mid-air and jerked up again in pain and fright .

Sssss!

Dumby had bitten right into one of its eyes, crus.h.i.+ng it completely, and fluids were dripping everywhere .

The pain was impossible to describe .

The Dream Stick Insect could no longer afford to be concerned by the little centipede beneath it . Jerking in pain, the Dream Stick Insect finally managed to fling Dumby away with its skewered limb .

Green fluids were spurting out of the broken eyeball .

"Da Zi, come back," Gao Peng ordered .

But Da Zi acted as though it didn't hear and kept staring at the white spot on the center of the Dream Stick Insect's abdomen .

Gao Peng could feel Da Zi's strong yearning for vengeance, and this feeling was directed straight at the Dream Stick Insect that had just hurt it .

The Dream Stick Insect, having a broken eyeball with blood flowing everywhere, looked to be in a pitiful state, but in reality, other than its eye, it had not sustained any major injuries . Its combat ability was still at a very high level .

But on Gao Peng's side, both Stripey and Da Zi had sustained major injuries .

Da Zi suddenly opened its mouth wide, and its surface erupted with purple arcs of electricity . The arcs condensed into threads, and then converged into a purple thunderbolt, shooting outward!

Bang!

The air exploded with a crackling sound as the arcs of electricity flew dozens of feet into the air, like a purple, snake-shaped sword stabbing upward .

Gao Peng's eyes widened . He stared transfixed at the thunderbolt, holding his breath .

The thunderbolt struck true . At such a short distance, with such a sudden attack, the Dream Stick Insect had no time to evade .

The moment its brain registered the sound of thunder exploding, it also felt a sharp pain spreading from its abdomen .

The thunderbolt had struck a mere foot from the small white spot, charring the Dream Stick Insect's abdomen and turning it pitch black, just like a tree struck by lightning .

The Dream Stick Insect immediately leapt backward and turned its head around, glaring at Da Zi with its remaining eye .

Tension filled the air of the forest .

Da Zi displayed no signs of weakness . It glared back fiercely at the Dream Stick Insect, arching its body like a large bow, ready to strike .

Life and death are trivial . When it comes down to it, one must fight!

Dumby circled around from the side . Dumby bent its body low, hunching over like an ape . Its hands dug into the soil beneath it, and its Blood Thread Heart beat strongly in its chest cavity .

… . .

"If I'm not wrong, those two familiars are both Commander tier," said a member of the Special Ops Unit in surprise .

"To be able to own two Commander tier familiars at this stage is quite rare . "

"But hoping to defeat that Dream Stick Insect with those two Commander tier familiars is still too difficult," the captain said, shaking his head .

"Captain, White Rose has almost reached the target location . She is asking if she should kill the Dream Stick Insect right away or standby and observe the situation . "

The captain frowned . Based on the initial instructions, they were not allowed to interfere . But now that a partic.i.p.ant had died, the higher-ups were getting nervous .

He let out a long sigh .

"Tell White Rose that she is to immediately finish off the Dream Stick Insect . "