Free Web NovelChapter 395: Chapter 291: As Long as I’m Fast Enough, the Magical Little Tree Won’t Get to Eat
Lin Li felt remarkably relaxed. After killing the frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast, he looked down at his now-silent prey and muttered to himself.
"My fellow Hunters who post online say you have to be extra careful with these strange Mutant Beasts. They say they’re much tougher to deal with than the ordinary kind.
But why does it feel so much easier to hunt than I imagined?
It’s got no brains, just charges blindly. This type is the easiest to deal with."
The reason Lin Li felt these strange Mutant Beasts were easier to kill than ordinary ones—unlike his fellow Hunters, who found them incredibly difficult—was simply because he was far stronger than them. Otherwise, he would never have felt that way.
For example, if other Exotic Beast Hunters were to face the charge of a frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast, they wouldn’t be able to dodge its ferocious onslaught as nimbly as Lin Li did every single time.
And if they were hit even once by the frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast, they would almost certainly be done for.
SWISH SWISH SWISH...
Lin Li swung his arm, flicking his Spiritual Longsword to shake off the red and white matter clinging to it.
After shaking the filth from his blade, he looked gleefully at the very dead frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast and thought,
’Now I just have to wait two to three hours, and I’ll be able to harvest those red mushrooms. I hear they’re delicious.’
’Most mushrooms prefer the shade. If I just leave this frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast’s corpse out here to bake under the hot sun, won’t that affect the growth of those red mushrooms...?’ Lin Li had been about to find a shady spot nearby to wait for his harvest when the problem occurred to him.
To ensure he could successfully harvest the red mushrooms, he decided to move the frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast’s carcass into the shade of some nearby trees.
But now another problem arose: the massive carcass of the frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast weighed about two tons.
Even though his strength had increased significantly after breaking through to Second Order High Rank, moving a two-ton behemoth was clearly beyond his abilities.
Lin Li stared at the carcass, frowning in thought for a few seconds. Suddenly, an idea sparked in his mind.
’I can store the carcass on the Mysterious Small Island, then quickly run over to the shade.
As long as I’m fast enough, I can pull it back out before the Magical Little Tree reacts. That way, it won’t affect my mushroom harvest...’
A smile spread across Lin Li’s face as he thought of this clever trick. He gave himself a mental pat on the back for his ingenuity and immediately put his plan into action.
He walked over to the carcass, bent down, and touched the pair of curved, sharp horns on its head.
With a mere thought, the carcass Lin Li was touching vanished in an instant.
The instant the carcass disappeared, Lin Li shot off like an arrow, sprinting toward the shady trees nearby...
On the Mysterious Small Island, wreathed in a vast white mist, the massive, multi-ton carcass of a Mutant Beast appeared out of thin air.
In the center of the island stood the Magical Little Tree, which appeared quite ordinary. But as soon as the carcass materialized, a faint golden Spiritual Light began to glow from its canopy.
Just as the Magical Little Tree was about to "devour" the flesh and blood of the Mutant Beast, the carcass vanished as suddenly as it had appeared.
Magical Little Tree: "..."
If the Magical Little Tree were sentient, it would have been furious. After all, to have a meal snatched from right under your nose would infuriate any intelligent being.
But alas, it was not sentient and therefore felt no anger.
The food was gone, so it just had to keep waiting. Unless a certain someone decided he no longer wanted any Magical Little Fruits, the Magical Little Tree would eventually get its magnificent feast.
Lin Li looked at the perfectly intact carcass of the frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast he had just retrieved from the Mysterious Small Island and chuckled to himself.
"Heh heh... as long as I’m quick enough, this method really works."
Afterward, Lin Li produced a chair from the Mysterious Small Island. He sat down, leaned back against the large tree, and watched the carcass, waiting for the red mushrooms to sprout.
Based on what Liu Jialin had told him and the information from a few posts by other Hunters, he knew it took two to three hours for the red mushrooms to grow on the corpse of one of these strange Mutant Beasts after it died.
Thankfully, Lin Li had killed the beast in the morning, so he had plenty of time to wait.
If he’d been unlucky and only managed to kill it in the evening, that would have been a problem. Waiting two or three hours would mean it’d be dark by the time he was done.
Even with his Second Order High Rank strength, he had no desire to linger in the dangerous wilderness after nightfall.
Leaning back in his chair against the large tree, Lin Li stared at the carcass of the frenzied yellow ox Mutant Beast, which had been dead less than five minutes. "Hurry up and grow!" he muttered.
...
Outside, the sun was scorching. The temperature had already hit forty degrees Celsius, and the ground was even hotter.
Video bloggers were taking their iron woks outside, letting them bake on the pavement for an hour before pouring in a bit of peanut oil and cracking an egg.
SIZZLE...
The egg immediately began to hiss as it hit the pan. On camera, it cooked through in just a few moments.
"’Did you all see that? It’s so hot outside in Rongcheng you can literally fry an egg. Guess my family will be saving a lot on our gas bill this month...’ the vlogger joked as the video ended."
Shortly after he uploaded the video of frying an egg in the sun, it racked up hundreds of thousands of views, and the number just kept climbing.
Meanwhile, the comment section was flooded with messages from other Rongcheng residents.
"The weather in Rongcheng is so hot even the guys who fake getting hit by cars have too much professional integrity to do it. The reason is they’d get third-degree burns."
"The water coming out of my cold tap is hot. For a second, I thought I’d turned the wrong handle."
"How do you describe the temperature in Rongcheng right now? Imagine stepping outside and being surrounded by a circle of hair dryers blasting you in the face. On high. Nonstop..."
"Even the tap water I use to wash vegetables is hot. I’m worried they’ll be cooked by the time I’m done washing them."
"Rongcheng is so hot, all the money in my bank account evaporated... *cries*"
In a living room filled with cool, conditioned air, Su Yue was sprawled on a soft leather sofa, dressed in a light, silk slip.
As she read the comments from all sorts of people under the egg-frying video, a wide smile spread across her pretty face.
"These comments are hilarious... But it really is crazy hot outside. I hope it cools down before school starts in a few days."
Just as Su Yue was about to scroll to the next video, she got a call. The caller ID showed the name "Mr. Li."
This Mr. Li was one of Su Chen’s trusted subordinates and had been his driver for several years.
"Mr. Li," Su Yue answered the phone.
"Miss, the boss called me last night. He told me to bring you a Spiritual Artifact today.
I’m almost at the gate of your complex. If you give me your apartment number, I can bring it right to your door."
"Mr. Li, just wait for me at the gate. You don’t have to bring it all the way up. I’ll come down and get it."
"Alright, I’ll wait for you at the gate then."
"Okay, and... um... Mr. Li? Could you park across the street from the entrance, not right in front of it..."
"Alright."
After hanging up, Su Yue immediately scrambled up from the sofa and padded back to her bedroom in her slippers.
A few moments later, Su Yue emerged, having changed into a white T-shirt and jean shorts. She’d tied her long hair, which had been loose around her shoulders, back with a pink ribbon, then grabbed her phone and keys and headed out the door.
"It really is boiling out here! No wonder that video of frying an egg outside went so viral."
Su Yue took the elevator downstairs. The moment she stepped out of the building’s lobby, she was assaulted by a blast of hot air.
At that moment, she viscerally understood that the hilarious comments she’d just read on the egg-frying video were no exaggeration at all.
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