My neighborhood has time-traveled.

Chapter 20 Slaying the Giant Centipede and the Giant Monster Bird

On the other side, Li Wen sat on the ground, laughing and chatting with the person opposite him.

They chatted and laughed.

Li Hao walked over and gently patted Li Wen's shoulder. "Wake up."

Li Wen trembled, and his eyes slowly regained their clarity.

He glanced around, a look of horror flashing in his eyes.

"Bro! I think I just had a dream. I dreamt that I went back to Earth and went on a date with a beautiful woman."

Li Hao glanced at the powder still floating in the air, pointed to the butterfly on the ground, and said, "That's not a dream, it's an illusion. It must be the powder from this butterfly that has a hallucinogenic effect."

Li Wen carefully looked around, especially at the areas where backlighting and shadow intersected, where some dust particles that were almost invisible to the naked eye were floating about.

"Hallucinations, that's a good thing," he muttered.

Despite saying that, he dared not approach.

Li Hao held his breath, cut open the butterfly's head with a knife, took out a small pebble, and threw it into his mouth. The heat spread instantly. He then took out a separate bag and carefully threw the butterfly's corpse into it.

"Wake up, wake up." Li Wen had already helped a girl up from the ground, let her lean against him, and gently patted her face.

Wow! That's huge!

Looking down from this angle, Li Wen saw a patch of white skin on the other person's chest.

Do not look at what is improper.

Fearing he would be discovered, he quickly looked away.

Li Hao also helped up another girl, and upon closer inspection, he exclaimed, "Huh?"

It's the daughter of the woman with glasses; I saw them arguing this morning.

I never expected to faint here.

Zhang Xiaonan slowly opened her eyes.

"Are you alright?" Li Hao asked.

"Thank you, I'm fine. How did I faint?" Zhang Xiaonan slowly stood up.

She glanced at Li Hao and Li Wen, her eyes showing a look of recollection, and she recognized them as well.

Xiaonan's best friend rubbed her forehead, looking confused. "Xiaonan, why did we all faint? Do you remember what just happened?"

"I don't remember either," Zhang Xiaonan shook her head.

Li Hao explained, "It's that colorful butterfly. You must have been knocked unconscious by that butterfly."

Butterfly?

Zhang Xiaonan and her best friend looked at each other in bewilderment.

Some of them could hardly believe that their coma was caused by a beautiful butterfly.

Li Wen said to the girls, "That butterfly is really powerful; it can cause hallucinations. Did you also see something unusual back then?"

Upon hearing Li Wen's words, fragments of memories gradually surfaced in Zhang Xiaonan's mind.

Her best friend blushed and became a little embarrassed.

They all seemed to have remembered something.

"Thank you," Zhang Xiaonan and her best friend said to the two.

Without Li Hao and Li Wen, it would have been extremely dangerous for them to remain lying in the wilderness.

"I'll treat you to some wild fruit."

Her best friend picked up the bag from the ground, took out kiwis, and smiled as she shared them with the two of them.

While Li Hao was still hesitating, Li Wen had already taken it with a smile and put it in his mouth.

"My name is Su Tiantian, and this is my best friend, Zhang Xiaonan. What are your names?" The best friend handed Li Wen a kiwi.

While eating, Li Wen answered, "My name is Li Wen, and my brother's name is Li Hao."

Su Tiantian glanced at the bags in their hands and said, "You guys are amazing! You've filled a whole bag to the brim."

Li Hao glanced at Zhang Xiaonan beside him. She smiled at him but didn't say anything, appearing quiet and a little awkward.

"I'm gone."

Li Hao said something to Li Wen and then turned to leave.

Li Wen waved to Su Tiantian.

Su Tiantian smiled and waved.

The two continued walking back.

Stepping on the low grass.

They walked along, cutting down shrubs one by one.

"Wait," Li Hao called out, stopping in his tracks.

Li Wen looked on expectantly, "Brother, have you found another target?"

"Yes, there's a big shipment." Li Hao stared at a clump of grass ahead.

A long centipede was lying in the grass, gnawing on the head of a grasshopper.

The centipede is two meters long, as thick as an arm, and its red carapace is shiny.

At this moment, in the face of infrared thermal imaging, the centipede appears as a long, red, luminous object.

"Brother, what is it?"

"It's a centipede."

Centipede!

Li Wen looked pleasantly surprised.

"It's a two-meter-long centipede, be careful."

"Don't let it get away. Go over there and stop it. Remember, whatever you do, don't get bitten," Li Hao reminded him.

If you get bitten by such a large centipede, its venom must be quite potent.

"Okay."

Li Wen carried a bag in one hand and a Damascus knife in the other, slowly walking around to the other side.

Li Hao did not approach rashly. He first bent down and picked up a stone from the ground, then slowly approached step by step.

The centipede sensed something approaching, but remained motionless, choosing to remain hidden in the grass.

The stone was thrown in.

The centipede suddenly crawled out, moving very fast, and meandered through the grass.

"Let's do it!"

Li Hao shouted, threw down the bag, grabbed his Damascus knife, and blocked the centipede's path, slashing down with the knife.

"puff."

The centipede was chopped in two by Li Hao with a single stroke.

It was broken in two from the middle.

Blue blood splattered out.

The body, broken in two, was still crawling.

Its tail darted towards Li Wen.

Its head crawled toward Li Hao's legs, its sharp fangs bared, about to bite Li Hao's thigh.

Li Hao reacted swiftly, taking a step back and slashing the centipede across the forehead with his blade.

"puff."

The centipede's forehead was cut in half.

Even with its head shattered, the centipede's remaining body continued to writhe and crawl, its movements becoming even more intense.

Like a fish that has been caught and brought ashore, its tail is shaking violently from side to side.

"Brother, this centipede is disgusting."

Li Wen used his Damascus knife to lift half of the centipede's body from the ground.

Blue blood kept dripping down.

After half of his body hit the ground, he continued to crawl, but Li Wen used the tip of his knife to pin him to the ground. Even so, his broken body was still swaying violently from side to side.

Li Hao stepped on another section of the centipede's remains and used his knife to dig out a small pebble from its head.

It is also about the size of a little finger.

"Wow, it's huge, like a snake." Li Wen stepped on the centipede's body and gently chopped at its shell with his knife, making a clanging sound. "Brother, this centipede's shell is really hard. Luckily you're strong, otherwise we really wouldn't be able to cut it open."

He felt that the centipede's shell was made of iron.

Li Hao threw the small stone into his mouth, bit it open, and swallowed it.

The intense heat spread rapidly.

I feel completely comfortable.

A smile appeared on his lips.

He glanced at the centipede that was being stepped on; it was still writhing stubbornly, its legs even wrapping around his legs.

He said to Li Wen, "This centipede is dead but not stiff; put it in the bag first."

"Okay." Li Wen nodded.

The two men used a knife to lift the centipede's mangled body and threw it into a bag.

Once inside the bag, the headless centipede burrowed into the insect carcass, buried itself in the corpse, and lay dormant, no longer moving.

The two of them, each carrying a large bag of insects, continued walking back.

On the way back, they ran into Wang Hao and his group.

The group helped each other along, walking very slowly, and their faces all looked unwell.

"What's wrong with you guys?" Li Haowen asked.

"Sigh, don't say anymore." A man sighed.

Wang Hao explained to Li Hao, "We found a huge wild yam and had already dug it up halfway, but we didn't expect to find a huge centipede hidden in the soil."

A person next to him immediately chimed in, exaggerating, "You have no idea how big that centipede was, it was over two meters long!" He then spread his arms wide and gestured to indicate its size.

Another man chimed in, "Yeah, and we couldn't even break its shell with shovels and machetes."

"Before we knew it, all of us got bitten. Look," he stretched out his thigh and lifted his trouser leg, revealing two black holes in his thigh, with the surrounding skin also turning blackish-purple. "I won't die anytime soon, but it hurts like hell."

Wang Hao also showed the back of his hand, "Look, I got bitten too."

Li Hao glanced at it and saw that there were also two holes on the back of his hand, which were also blackish-purple, but the area they covered was not large.

"Oh, a centipede? We just encountered a centipede too, is this the one you're talking about?"

Li Wen untied the bag, reached inside, quickly grabbed the half-centipede, and threw it on the ground.

The centipede, which had been still, suddenly began to writhe and crawl after landing, heading towards a man nearby.

"Oh my god."

The group of people, who were supporting each other, were so frightened that they ran away immediately, their faces filled with fear.

Wang Hao also kept his distance from the centipede. He walked up to Li Hao, nodded in surprise, and said, "It's this one, but why is it only half there?"

Li Hao pointed to his bag and said with a smile, "The other half is still in this bag."

"Hahahaha." Seeing their reaction, Li Wen laughed, picked up the centipede from the ground, and threw it back into the bag. "It's headless now, what are you afraid of?"

Several grown men, looking embarrassed, surrounded them again.

Wang Hao praised, "Amazing! You managed to cut such a huge centipede in two."

One of them asked, "How did you manage to do that? We tried to cut this centipede several times, but we just couldn't do anything with it."

Li Hao smiled and said, "Just use a little more force."

Apply more force?

Everyone is puzzled.

They were putting in a lot of effort back then.

Li Wen added from the side, "Aim at the centipede's head," he brandished his Damascus steel knife, "and cut it in half, it's that simple."

.........

Inside the residential community.

One by one, the residents mixed cement and carried bricks back and forth.

Several passageways have already been bricked up.

After relieving themselves, the two men leaned against the wall, leisurely smoking. "We've saved up several hundred thousand yuan. We were originally planning to get married."

Another man complained, "My gold, stock, and fund investments have all surged, and I still have over a million yuan left to spend."

Gold prices have been rising recently, which has made him very happy.

I never thought I'd be destined to never spend money.

"Forget it, gold prices will eventually fall."

"What a load of rubbish, gold is the only hard currency."

Led by adults, the children chased each other, laughing and playing.

Just then, a large bird swooped down from the sky and pinned a man who was laying bricks to the ground, its sharp claws piercing his chest and head.

A gust of wind swept across the ground, scattering the dust.

The large bird stood on the ground, more than three meters tall, with a body the size of a large truck.

It has a spiral horn on its forehead and its claws are covered with a layer of golden, metallic scales.

"Ah!" the man under the claws screamed.

Blood flowed from the wound, and after struggling a few times, it stopped moving.

"Strange bird!"

"What a huge, strange bird!"

"Kill it!"

Someone hurled an axe at the large bird, but the axe struck its feathers without even breaking them, and the bird fell to the ground.

Another person smashed a machete into the strange bird's claw, producing a clanging sound of metal striking metal.

The strange bird casually glanced around, and the men it stared at stiffened, their faces showing fear.

"Run!"

Someone shouted something, and the men working on the construction site scattered in a flash.

"Go back quickly." The women hurriedly led their children upstairs, entered their homes, and closed the doors tightly.

The ground, which had been filled with laughter and chatter, suddenly became deserted and quiet.

Fear spread throughout the neighborhood.

The strange bird raised its head, slowly surveyed the neighborhood, grabbed the corpse, flapped its wings, and flew towards the distant mountains.