Awaken SSS-level talents at the beginning of Beast Control - Chapter 101
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“Just wait, maybe there will be results soon.”
Zeng Zhenghao knew that Jiang Feng was anxious. In fact, he was also anxious. After all, they met Qi Hao, which added some uncertainty to their next actions.
But having said that, Zeng Zhenghao thought that it was too inefficient to search for Magic Purple Grass along the lake, so he decided to stay temporarily to observe the situation even though he knew that there was a high probability that there was no Magic Purple Grass around.
Jiang Feng followed Zeng Zhenghao’s gaze and found that Zeng Zhenghao was paying attention to the group of short-horned deer.
“Brother Zeng, are you planning to use these animals as bait?”
Jiang Feng probably guessed what Zeng Zhenghao was thinking.
Zeng Zhenghao nodded and said: “Yes, after all, the phantom beasts are the masters of the misty forest. These animals may have been targeted by the phantom beasts hiding in the dark.”
Wang Yuanhang asked: “Captain, if these animals are really attacked by phantom beasts next, what should we do?”
After hearing the conversation between Jiang Feng and Zeng Zhenghao, Wang Yuanhang probably guessed what they meant.
However, in the presence of Zeng Zhenghao, Wang Yuanhang’s execution ability is generally greater than his decision-making ability.
Zeng Zhenghao said: “Then let’s see if there is a chance to follow it and find where it lives. If we happen to find Magic Purple Grass, we can set off and return to the base city.”
After hearing what Zeng Zhenghao said, Wang Yuanhang said helplessly: “Captain, are you too optimistic when you say that?”
“You are too nervous, it’s okay to relax a little.”
Zeng Zhenghao saw that Wang Yuanhang was nervous, so he made such a joke on him.
In any case, Zeng Zhenghao has known Wang Yuanhang for such a long time. He knows Wang Yuanhang’s micro-expressions and movements very well. He can see that Wang Yuanhang’s spirit has never relaxed since he met Qi Hao and others.
Obviously, Wang Yuanhang was so nervous because he was worried that Qi Hao would be resentful and interfere with their search for Magic Purple Grass.
Although it stands to reason that Qi Hao is unlikely to do this, Wang Yuanhang believes that this is based on the premise that Qi Hao has not completed the task. If Qi Hao kills a red-striped lizard beast, then he will really leave immediately here?
Wang Yuanhang doesn’t think so, because he has a strong sense of crisis, so he won’t think too much of strangers, especially a “celebrity” like Qi Hao.
“Captain, you still can’t trust my psychological quality? And I’m not nervous, I’m cautious.”
Wang Yuanhang explained with a smile.
Although Zeng Zhenghao saw through his inner thoughts, for the sake of the overall situation, he certainly couldn’t say it directly. What if it created pressure on Jiang Feng and Li Xiaoyue?
Zeng Zhenghao nodded seriously: “Yes, be cautious.”
Jiang Feng and Li Xiaoyue smiled at each other in tacit understanding, and they could also feel Wang Yuanhang’s eagerness to find Magic Purple Grass.
Although Jiang Feng and Li Xiaoyue, as the beast masters who took over this task, definitely hope to complete the task as soon as possible and return to the base city as soon as possible, they are not urging Zeng Zhenghao to speed up the progress, so Wang Yuanhang does not have to worry about pressure from them.
As for Qi Hao, if it really doesn’t work, Jiang Feng has one last trick to reveal his identity.
As long as Qi Hao is not determined to be Jiang Feng’s enemy, then he will most likely be very polite to Jiang Feng.
Not long after, Jiang Feng and others noticed that there was a sudden slight fluctuation in the water surface not far from the group of short-horned deer.
If Jiang Feng and others hadn’t had ordinary eyesight, they might have missed this situation.
In fact, it was Wang Yuanhang who first discovered this situation. Although he said that he should adjust his mentality, judging from the current situation, he knew that he had to concentrate and beware of attacks that might occur at any time.
Zeng Zhenghao told the others to be calm and wait for the phantom beast hiding in the water to attack.
Affected by the alien energy, the ferocious carnivores on the Blue Star either mutated and became phantom beasts, or were attacked by phantom beasts from another space and gradually disappeared into the wilderness.
The ordinary animals that people can see in the wild now are basically not very aggressive. After all, the phantom beasts from different dimensions must follow the laws of nature, and it is impossible to slaughter all the original animals of Blue Star.
Animals like short-horned deer are very vigilant, but the few short-horned deer drinking water by the lake did not notice the approaching danger at all.
The phantom beast hiding in the water quickly locked onto a smaller young short-horned deer. It rushed out of the water, first biting the young short-horned deer’s neck, and then dragged the young short-horned deer into the water.
This is an ordinary-level spiny crocodile that is still in its juvenile stage. Because it has just learned to hunt independently, it is not as patient as an adult spiny crocodile. This is why it gave the juvenile a short time before launching an attack. The horned deer has little time to react.
But how can the reaction speed of ordinary animals be compared with that of fantasy beasts?
For a young short-horned deer, such a small amount of time is not enough for it to escape.
When the young short-horned deer were dragged into the water, most short-horned deer fled into the woods. Only a few short-horned deer looked around the lake, seemingly trying to determine whether the young short-horned deer were still alive.
If it were on land, the young short-horned deer might still have a chance to survive, but in the water, it could only become food for the crocodile.
Wang Yuanhang said: “It turns out to be just a spiny crocodile.”
He has seen this kind of predatory scene many times, and he will not intervene unless necessary.
The weak eat the strong, this is the basic law of the animal world.
This phenomenon became even more obvious when the phantom beasts appeared and changed the original hierarchy of the animal world.
Zeng Zhenghao said: “To be precise, it is a young spiny-armored crocodile.”
Wang Yuanhang nodded slightly: “Yes, its size is much smaller than the spiny crocodile we saw before.”
Li Xiaoyue said: “The spiny-armored crocodile that appeared in the water pool before was at the elite level. This spiny-armored crocodile should only be at the ordinary level, and I think its hunting skills are not very proficient.”
Perhaps most elite beast masters do not have the ability to fight head-on with ordinary level phantom beasts, but elite beast masters generally have good eyesight. At least it is not difficult for them to dodge attacks from ordinary level phantom beasts.
Jiang Feng said nothing, because there was nothing special about this predatory scene, so he just waited silently to see how things would develop next.
Of course, what Li Xiaoyue said was right. Jiang Feng had already used his Insight Skill to see it just now. This was indeed an ordinary-level spiny-armored crocodile.
For Blue Nightmare, all it needs to do is release its breath to stop the crocodile from making unnecessary movements.
When the remaining short-horned deer also ran into the woods, Wang Yuanhang turned to Zeng Zhenghao and asked: “Captain, do we want to follow them?”
Zeng Zhenghao asked: “Who are you following?”
Wang Yuanhang thought for a while.
Keep up with those short-horned deer? This shouldn’t be necessary.
If even a group of short-horned deer can possess magic purple grass, there are only two possibilities. One is that there are too many magic purple grasses in this area and there is no shortage of things, so there is no need to fight for them; Phantom beasts are indifferent to the world.
Wang Yuanhang didn’t know how high the first possibility was, but he knew that the second possibility was very low.
Phantom beasts of the same race still fight, but phantom beasts of different races cannot always coexist harmoniously.
Wang Yuanhang said: “Captain, I think we should follow this crocodile. Since it successfully caught the prey, it should take the body of the short-horned deer back. In this way, we can follow the clues and find the crocodile group. The living area around this lake.”
Hearing what Wang Yuanhang said, Zeng Zhenghao nodded slightly: “Your analysis is very good, I will do as you say.”
“ah?”
Wang Yuanhang didn’t expect that Zeng Zhenghao would agree so readily, because he just made a casual analysis.
Zeng Zhenghao smiled: “What’s wrong? Don’t you have confidence in your own judgment?”
Although Wang Yuanhang has a free and easy personality, Zeng Zhenghao has never doubted his ability.
Wang Yuanhang shook his head and said, “No, I just think this matter should be decided by you, captain.”
Zeng Zhenghao said seriously: “Yes, I have made a decision, and I will do as you say.”
“All right.”
Wang Yuanhang did not dwell on this matter. Since Zeng Zhenghao trusted him so much, he could just perform well next.
Before setting off, Zeng Zhenghao said to the others: “Everyone, please be more vigilant. Since a crocodile appears here, we are very likely to encounter other phantom beasts on the road.”
Jiang Feng nodded slightly.
Zeng Zhenghao was right. Let’s not talk about whether there are powerful phantom beasts hidden in the center of the lake. The seemingly safe lakeside may actually be hiding phantom beasts.
Next, Jiang Feng and others walked out of the woods, kept a safe distance from the crocodile in the water, and followed them.
Because this young crocodile had the carcass of a young short-horned deer in its mouth, it was not difficult for Jiang Feng and others to discover its whereabouts.
After following for a while, Jiang Feng and others came to a shoal, and they saw many spiny-armored crocodiles in the distance.
When the young crocodile dragged the carcass of the young short-horned deer ashore, Jiang Feng and others hid behind a pile of rocks in order to prevent it from being discovered.
Perhaps considering that this shoal is shady and can keep cool enough in the hot summer, and there are many rocks on the shoal, these spiny-armored crocodiles made their home here.
Such an environment is just convenient for Jiang Feng and others to hide.
Seeing the young crocodile coming ashore, two larger crocodiles crawled towards it.
Next, the three crocodiles began to conduct “encrypted communication.”
Wang Yuanhang said: “It seems that this is a family.”
There may be many young crocodiles, but there must be only one pair of parents.
Zeng Zhenghao observed the surrounding environment and found that not only were there many spiny-armored crocodiles on the distant shore, but there were also many spiny-armored crocodiles wandering in the water.
There is no doubt that this is the living area of the crocodile.
This can easily explain why Jiang Feng and others did not encounter other phantom beasts along the way.
The crocodiles of one group occupy a very large territory. Unless there is a war between phantom beasts from another group, no phantom beasts will easily set foot here.
Anyway, this lake is very large and can provide living space for many phantom beasts. As long as there is enough food, they will fight for territory without any trouble.
Zeng Zhenghao said happily: “Fortunately, we did not enter this area rashly.”
Since this is the living area of crocodiles, he believes that there must be many elite crocodiles among them.
Even though they didn’t put in much effort when dealing with the elite crocodile, they bullied the smaller ones, which made the elite crocodile unable to fight back.
If their contracted beasts were allowed to rush over now and deal with the spiny-armored crocodiles in front of them, perhaps in a short period of time, their contracted beasts could take advantage and even kill many spiny-armored crocodiles.
However, this situation will not last long. When all the spiny crocodiles in this area are attracted, if they do not retreat quickly, once they are surrounded, they will most likely die without a burial place.
“Captain, do you think the crocodile we killed before could have escaped from here?”
Wang Yuanhang made such a guess, and he subconsciously glanced at Jiang Feng’s space ring.
The body of the elite-level crocodile is now lying in Jiang Feng’s space ring.
Zeng Zhenghao said: “Whether it ran out from here or not, since the crocodile is interested in the magic purple grass, as long as there is magic violet grass here, there is a high probability that it will be guarded by the highest-level crocodile.”
Wang Yuanhang asked: “Captain, there are so many crocodiles here, how do we determine who is the leader?”
There were dozens of crocodiles he saw, not including those that didn’t show up.
Jiang Feng said: “Brother Wang, actually we don’t need to find the leader of this group of crocodiles. We just need to go to a high place to confirm whether there is magic purple grass in this area.”
After hearing what Jiang Feng said, Wang Yuanhang quickly reacted: “You are right, as long as we confirm that there is Magic Purple Grass here, then no matter where the leader of this group of crocodiles is, we must find a way to get Magic Purple Grass Grass.”
Although it is definitely not a wise move to take a risk against a group of crocodiles, Magic Purple Grass is rare. In order to help Jiang Feng and Li Xiaoyue complete their mission, Wang Yuanhang believes that it is worth taking a risk.
Besides, they don’t have to kill all the crocodiles to get the magic purple grass, they can also outwit them.
Zeng Zhenghao noticed that Wang Yuanhang looked at Li Xiaoyue. He knew that Wang Yuanhang was embarrassed to speak, so he said to Li Xiaoyue: “Xiaoyue, it seems that I will trouble you again next time.”
“It doesn’t matter, this is what I should do.”
Li Xiaoyue nodded. In fact, she also noticed Wang Yuanhang’s gaze just now.
As soon as Zeng Zhenghao opened his mouth, Li Xiaoyue understood what he meant.
Next, Li Xiaoyue summoned the iron-feathered bird and told it to fly as high as possible without attracting the attention of the group of spiny-armored crocodiles, and to confirm whether there was magic purple grass growing in this area.
If the iron-feathered bird lowers its flying height, it can definitely be observed more carefully, but that will easily expose it to the sight of many spiny-armored crocodiles.
So whether it was for the safety of the iron-feathered bird or to prevent the crocodile from finding someone hiding here, Li Xiaoyue could not let the iron-feathered bird do this.