Free Web NovelChapter 392: Chapter 290: A Savage Mutant Beast and Malicious Humans
CLICK.
BANG.
Lin Li left his apartment empty-handed and pressed the elevator button. The elevator quickly ascended from the first floor.
A moment later, Lin Li walked out of the building and headed toward his parking spot.
It was nearly eight in the morning, and the weather outside wasn’t hot yet.
In another hour or two, the temperature would rise significantly, reaching its daily peak in the afternoon.
MEOW...
In a nearby greenbelt, two young kittens were wrestling and chasing each other playfully.
These two kittens were full of energy, running dozens of meters in their game of chase.
As he passed by, Lin Li glanced at the two kittens in the greenbelt, one black and one white, and thought, ’These two strays are new faces! They must have come from somewhere else and just arrived in the neighborhood recently...’
VROOOM...
He got into his ride, a silver-white van, and started the engine. Lin Li turned the steering wheel, then drove his van out of the neighborhood, heading for the wilds of the South District Suburbs.
And just after Lin Li drove his van away from the Ping’an Garden District, the door to his next-door neighbor’s apartment opened.
DING-DONG.
When the elevator doors opened, a figure walked out. It was a cute little girl with small pigtails, wearing a little pink dress.
She was humming a nursery rhyme and holding an unopened package of sausages, skipping cheerfully out of the building.
"Little Black, Little White, stop fooling around! Come and get your food." Zhou Tongtong, who had skipped out of the building, came to the edge of the greenbelt and waved to the two wrestling strays in the distance.
She had named them Little Black and Little White based on the color of their fur.
MEOW...
Hearing Zhou Tongtong’s voice, the Little Black Cat and Little White Cat immediately stopped wrestling. They quickly ran to the edge of the greenbelt, ducked out from behind the bushes, and sat down obediently in front of her.
"You two! Can’t you be a little quieter? It’s so hot out, you’ll work up a sweat wrestling like that...
Don’t let me see you two roughhousing in this heat again."
Zhou Tongtong put on a grown-up air, lecturing the Little Black Cat and Little White Cat in a very proper manner as she tore open the sausage package and fed the two strays.
"MEOW..." The Little Black Cat and Little White Cat cried out once, then lowered their heads and began to eat the sausages Zhou Tongtong had given them.
"As long as you understand." Hearing the two strays’ reply, the faint golden Spiritual Light in Zhou Tongtong’s big, round eyes flashed and vanished.
Seeing the two strays being so well-behaved, she felt very gratified, thinking their good behavior was all thanks to her excellent teaching.
Then, she reached out a small hand and stroked the little heads of the two strays, who were busy eating their sausages.
...
The sun shone down everywhere. As far as the eye could see, not a single creature could be spotted in the perilous wilderness. It was as if the word "danger" had no connection whatsoever with the vibrant landscape.
Because of the densely packed tall buildings in the city, the temperature in the wilderness outside the city was a degree or two lower than inside it.
Even so, the waves of heat that washed over you while walking through the wilderness were still enough to make you feel oppressively hot and restless.
If a clear, cool stream were to appear, one would be tempted to immediately strip down and jump in for a cold bath.
Lin Li, wearing a straw hat, sunglasses, and a full camouflage uniform, walked through the rugged terrain of the South District Suburbs.
Compared to the wilderness of the East District, the terrain in the South District Suburbs was extremely uneven. He would walk a few dozen meters forward only to find a low hill.
After climbing the hill and descending, he would walk another hundred meters or so and run into yet another rising slope.
This was the terrain of the South District Suburbs—a series of endless ups and downs that gave the Exotic Beast Hunters who came here to hunt a major headache.
After all, few people enjoyed climbing hills every few minutes; it was just too draining.’-
After driving his van to the edge of the South District, Lin Li changed his clothes, stored the van on his Mysterious Small Island, and left the safe zone to enter the wilderness.
He searched the wilderness for over ten minutes without encountering any Mutant Beasts. He climbed a small hill and stood at the top, scanning his surroundings.
CHIRP, CHIRP, CHIRP...
The chirping of cicadas echoed from the surrounding low-lying woods. The scorching sun beat down from the sky, making him feel so uncomfortable he couldn’t help but want to find a shady spot to hide.
Suddenly, as Lin Li scanned his surroundings for prey, he saw something moving in the tall grass in the distance. He immediately focused his attention on the spot where he saw the movement.
’That’s... a Luhua Chicken Beast!!!’
Having killed over a hundred Luhua Chicken Beasts, Lin Li focused his gaze and instantly recognized the figure that had appeared in the grass dozens of meters away.
"A mosquito may be small, but it’s still meat," Lin Li muttered to himself.
Then, though his hands had been empty, he raised one, and a Spiritual Longsword materialized in his grasp.
Next, he quickly ran down the hill, charging toward the small, clearly adolescent Luhua Chicken Beast.
The previous night, before going to sleep, he had entered the Mysterious Small Island again to check the growth progress of the Magical Little Fruit. The answer he got was 0.2 percent.
Just as Lin Li had predicted, the difficulty of harvesting the Magical Little Fruit would continue to increase.
