Chapter 5: Crocodile
The sky suddenly turned gloomy, and a light rain began to fall.
Tu You: “A Chu, do you feel like something is tracking us?”
Sang Chu nodded: “Mm, it started when we passed the reed marsh earlier.”
The person and the rabbit spoke in hushed tones.
Before the rain, she could still hear faint sounds, which she definitely wouldn’t have heard before her Supernatural Ability Awakening.
Now, with the light rain, the air was damp, and the ground was a bit muddy, the faint sounds disappeared.
But she was sure that thing was still following behind.
‘Ah—’
With a startled cry, Sang Chu stumbled, falling towards the ground.
Just then, a crocodile that had been lurking pounced out from behind her, its jaws wide open, revealing sharp teeth, aiming for Sang Chu’s neck.
But in the next second, as if Sang Chu had been prepared,
she spun around in mid-air, her Wind Blade flying straight out, and with a push of her foot, her back pressed against the ground as she rapidly flew away.
The enraged crocodile let out a roar,
other crocodiles lurking around emerged one after another,
these crocodiles were actually hunting in packs!
Their size was normal, but their teeth and tails were exceptionally strong.
Sang Chu infused her entire body with Wind Energy, making herself as light as a piece of paper, flying at high speed close to the ground,
fleeing in a panic amidst the crocodiles’ pincer attack.
‘Clang—’
The Wind Blade was actually bitten and shattered by a crocodile!
Sang Chu’s eyes widened as she looked at the crocodile rapidly crawling towards her,
she quickly took out the bamboo from the monster frog’s body from her Storage Box and threw it at it.
It carelessly opened its large mouth, its sharp teeth splitting the bamboo in two, and even began to chew it!
Sang Chu: “Youyou, what level is this crocodile?”
Tu You checked the Optical Computer and found that this crocodile was only Level 2, but its Bounty Amount was as high as 800,000!
“A Chu, although this crocodile is only Level 2, its bounty is high, we can take it down!”
“I think they’re trying to take me down!!!”
She was speechless, didn’t they see that her Supernatural Abilities and weapons like bamboo were useless!
Sang Chu concentrated her efforts, feeling the changes in the wind’s flow,
making herself the center of the wind, constructing a wind wall.
The crocodile’s tail was as hard as iron, and it swung fiercely at Sang Chu.
“Bang—”
The tail collided with the wind wall that Sang Chu had constructed using the surrounding strong winds.
She barely managed to block the blow.
At this moment, two more crocodiles arrived, their tails wildly lashing at the wind wall.
The ambushing crocodile took the opportunity to whip its tail fiercely, scattering the wind wall, and lunged at Sang Chu with its jaws wide open.
Sang Chu unleashed her Wind Blades relentlessly.
But there were too many crocodiles, and flying at low speed close to the ground was already consuming a lot of her Supernatural Ability, and now she was constantly condensing Wind Blades.
The wind wall built with external wind was useless, so Sang Chu had to focus more of her Supernatural Ability on dodging.
‘Boom—’
A loud noise entered her ears,
was this an explosion within her body?
No, that’s not right, it was that invisible high wall!
Sang Chu found that after the wall began to shatter, she unleashed Wind Blades even more frantically.
Her Wind Energy was running low, and Sang Chu’s body, which was close to the ground, instantly collapsed, splashing up a spray of mud.
The prey fell, and the group of crocodiles lunged at her,
Five, four, three, two, one
Just as they were about to reach her,
Sang Chu tightly gripped the soil, secretly calculating the time,
Now!
‘Earth Collapse!’
‘Rock Shield!’
‘Thorn Burst!’
With a series of roars, Sang Chu consecutively activated three Earth Element Supernatural Abilities that she and Lu Min Feng had researched.
The crocodiles, unable to dodge, were impaled by the protruding rock spikes from the ground, their bodies pierced, and blood flowed everywhere.
Sang Chu hid in the impenetrable earth, panting heavily.
Tu You, disgusted by the dark place, tugged on Sang Chu’s hair: “A Chu, can we go out now?”
Sang Chu reached out and touched the hard rock wall above: “I don’t know if these rock spikes are useful.”
“Then I’ll go out and take a look, let me out!”
Knowing it disliked the dark, Sang Chu nodded: “Then be careful.”
She opened a small gap from the side to let Tu You out, and soon its surprised cry came: “It’s okay, A Chu, it’s okay, they’re all dead!”
All dead?
Sang Chu was covered in cold sweat. She had been fighting with her back against the wall just now, and she didn’t know if it would work, nor was she sure if she had awakened Earth Element Supernatural Abilities; it was just a very faint feeling.
‘Retreat!’
The rock shield above slowly opened, and Sang Chu gasped for air. Indeed, there were crocodile corpses all around, their bodies pierced by rock spikes.
Fortunately, she had a backup plan, but now her Supernatural Ability was truly depleted.
“Youyou, help me collect them, I, I can’t move right now.”
Sang Chu, who had collapsed on the ground, couldn’t even lift a finger. Tu You quickly jumped over, opened the Storage Box, and collected all the dozen or so crocodiles.
“Shall we get on the Hovercar and rest for a bit?”
“Mm, help me get the recovery Medicine, and then we’ll go back to that Bamboo Forest to set up camp.”
“Okay~”
Tu You retrieved the Hovercar from Sang Chu’s Optical Computer, and after finding the recovery Medicine and feeding it to her, Sang Chu could barely stand up.
Back in the car, using the auto-pilot, she lay down on the bed to rest.
“Youyou, how many prey do we have in total now?”
“Let me see~”
It squatted on a Stool, holding the Storage Box, and opened the Hovering Image to look at the contents.
“One Monster Transformation Frog, fifteen crocodiles, three mutated long-tailed fish, two Goldfish, five mutated rats, and dense swarms of mosquitoes, flies, and bees. All sorts of things, wait a moment, I’ll upload it for a professional to calculate.”
It directly connected to the Guild’s Mall using Sang Chu’s Mercenary Certificate, and soon the prices were out.
Looking at the prices on it, Tu You’s eyes widened: “Wow, it’s already over thirteen million!”
“A Chu, you’re amazing! You can already buy me!”
Seeing it so happy, Sang Chu chuckled and said, “How much do I still owe?”
Tu You: “You don’t owe anything anymore. After you buy me, you can repay Hua Xi, and you’ll have over two million left.”
“So many things for less than a million?”
“There are discounts. When you buy things at the Mercenary Guild, it’s half the price of outside. Otherwise, why would there be so many Mercenaries? You’ve seen how dangerous the Wilderness is, Mercenaries earn their money with their lives, and everyone gives them convenience.”
Tu You looked at the items in the Storage Box with great affection.
Sang Chu: “Then how do I buy you?”
“Your Mental Power is too weak right now, and we haven’t bonded yet, so you can’t use the Time-Space Mall. After you sell all these Monsters, just transfer the money to me.”
“Okay, I’ll sleep for a while first, and I’ll continue hunting Monsters after I recover.”
“You still want to hunt! You have money now, you can rest properly!”
Sang Chu shook her head. She wanted to kill as many Monsters as possible to exchange for money. There were only a little over ten days left, and no time to waste on other things.
