Sequence Beyond: My Wife is a Mysterious Boss

Meng Tu walked over carrying a box containing the heart of the Swamp Devourer.

"Sir, here are your things." He handed over the box.

"Thanks," Lin Bai said casually as he took the box.

"Is there anything else?"

"You...you want that bait, is it for..." Mengtu's gaze unconsciously drifted into the depths of the swamp, "...for that hydra?"

Aside from that terrifying being, he couldn't think of anything else in this swamp that would warrant such attention from this mysterious powerhouse.

Lin Bai glanced at him, neither admitting nor denying it.

Meng Tu's heart skipped a beat. He took out another somewhat worn animal hide map from his bosom and presented it with both hands.

"Your Excellency, this is a map of the Rotten Swamp that we have drawn."

"Although not complete, it marks some of the habitats of high-level magical beasts that we have already discovered."

"Perhaps... it can be of some help to you."

Lin Bai glanced at the map and took it from him.

The top is marked with several red crosses using different colored dyes.

Judging from their appearance, this group has been active in this swamp quite a bit.

"Thanks," Lin Bai said, a rare occurrence for him.

This map certainly saved him a lot of time searching for prey.

Meng Tu was flattered and waved his hands repeatedly.

"I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it."

He dared not linger any longer, bowed again, then hurriedly turned and left with his men without looking back.

Soon, Lin Bai was the only one left at the edge of the swamp.

He unfolded the animal hide map and examined it carefully.

They quickly identified their target.

"Six-winged venomous scorpion, sixth rank, gregarious."

Lin Bai put away the map, stood up, and clapped his hands.

"Time to get to work."

A shadow flashed beneath his feet, instantly enveloping his figure and merging him into the shadows on the ground, disappearing from the spot.

......

Half a day later.

Lin Bai stopped in his tracks in a vast stone forest shrouded in gray mist.

He checked the location against the map Mengtu had given him.

This is the nest of the six-winged scorpion.

He put away the map and did not approach rashly.

The dark body silently separated from his shadow, becoming like a real shadow, and slid along the ground into the depths of the stone forest.

Lin Bai found a clean rock to sit on, closed his eyes, and shared the other's vision through the connection with his secret body.

Below the stone forest is a huge, hollowed-out cave.

Inside the cave, countless giant black scorpions, each taller than a person, were densely packed together.

Their carapaces are hard, and the venomous stingers at their tails gleam with an eerie green light.

According to the secret body's perception, these scorpions are generally at the fifth level in strength.

Deeper inside the cave, there was an even stronger aura, likely belonging to the Scorpion King, who had reached the sixth rank.

The dark body remained undisturbed by any of the scorpions.

Like an invisible wind, it moved through the shadows of the cave and quickly figured out the layout of the entire nest.

Do it.

Lin Bai issued the command in his mind.

The next moment, all the shadows in the cave seemed to come alive.

The silent darkness becomes the deadliest weapon.

Sharp stingers emerged from the shadows beneath the scorpions' feet, piercing their relatively vulnerable abdomens with pinpoint accuracy.

The patrolling scorpion didn't even have time to utter a hiss before its body suddenly stiffened, and its life force was instantly extinguished.

The whole process was eerily quiet.

There were no screams, no struggles.

Like a silent film.

The scorpion king deep in the cave seemed to sense something was wrong, letting out an uneasy hiss and waking up from its slumber.

What awaited it was a short sword formed from pure darkness.

The short sword emerged silently from the shadow behind it and precisely pierced the joint of its carapace.

One blow kills.

......

Ten minutes later.

The dark figure emerged from the cave and returned to Lin Bai's shadow.

Lin Bai opened his eyes, stood up, and walked into the scorpion's nest.

A faint fishy smell permeated the air.

He bypassed the corpses of poisonous scorpions and went straight to the Scorpion King. He skillfully broke open its breastplate and took out its still slightly beating heart.

Next comes the long harvest season.

Two hours later, Lin Bai left the Stone Forest, dragging a huge package filled with the hearts of magical beasts.

He found a relatively secluded cave.

They poured out all the hearts of the Swamp Devourer and hundreds of Six-Winged Poison Scorpions, piling them into a small mountain.

Then, following Mengtu's instructions, he prepared three kinds of herbs unique to the swamp.

The bone-rotting flower, blood-red grass, and bewitching saliva were added in a fixed ratio.

For a moment, an indescribable, strange smell filled the cave.

It was bloody, putrid, and had a strange, sweet taste.

"Honey, this stuff smells worse than the most stinky monster in the abyss."

In her mind, Su Wan's voice carried a hint of disdain.

"As long as it works."

Lin Bai didn't care.

He looked at the increasingly violently writhing mass of flesh and blood in the pit and nodded in satisfaction.

Everything is ready.

......

We returned to the edge of the rotting swamp once again.

This time, Lin Bai didn't linger. He directly activated his Dark Body and led him deep into the swamp.

He arrived at the area where the energy was most abundant, which he had previously detected with his mental power.

This is the heart of the entire swamp.

The black mud pit was bottomless, and even the bubbles were much larger than elsewhere.

Lin Bai took out the meticulously crafted super bait from his spatial ring.

The moment that mass of flesh was exposed to the air, it emitted a nauseating yet deadly odor.

Without hesitation, Lin Bai threw it into the mud.

The enormous mass of flesh sank silently into the black mud without causing a ripple.

One minute.

Two minutes.

The surroundings were deathly silent; nothing had happened.

Lin Bai wasn't in a hurry; he simply stood quietly and waited.

He has confidence in his work.

About five more minutes passed.

The ground beneath his feet suddenly trembled slightly.

Immediately afterwards, a series of huge bubbles began to rise from the mud in front of him.

coming.

Lin Bai focused his mind.

"boom!"

A loud bang.

The calm swamp suddenly exploded.

A thick, black column of water shot into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a ferocious head covered in bluish-black scales suddenly emerged from the bottom of the mud pit.

The head was the size of a carriage, with a pair of lantern-like, blood-red vertical pupils staring intently at the spot where the bait had sunk.

This is just the first one.

"Splash—"

"Splash—"

The surface of the muddy water churned violently as if it had been boiled.

The second, the third, the fourth...

One after another, ferocious heads, some spewing flames, some crackling with lightning, and some radiating icy cold, emerged from the depths of the mud.

......