Free Web NovelChapter 734: Chapter 512: Meat-Stealing Plan (Part 2)
"Look at how useless you are."
Li Long let go of his claws and backed up a few steps.
Yep, this busted metal-sheet dragon was indeed the Ah Yajun dragon he’d worked so hard to track down.
Crack-crack-crack...
Maybe because its mission was complete, the stone dragon suddenly couldn’t hold itself together anymore and literally shattered on the spot.
But Li Long had expected that. With just one look, that pile of rubble started auto-assembling again.
In the blink of an eye, a brand-new stone dragon stood back up.
Stone Dragon: ...
If it could make sounds, the stone dragon was probably already cussing up a storm.
What kind of capitalist dragon is this, not even letting his little underlings rest?
"Y-y-you, how’d you get this big now?"
Ah Yajun Dragon stared at Li Long in front of him, utterly shocked.
They were both still technically small-class dragons, but Li Long was a lot taller than him now.
"Just evolution. For me it’s a piece of cake."
Li Long squeezed his little claws, looking all smug.
"Drink fast. Once you’re done we move to a safe place."
Before Ah Yajun Dragon could say anything, he hurried him along.
So Ah Yajun Dragon started slurping like crazy, but unfortunately what he drank leaked out just as much. The efficiency was painfully slow.
His mouth slurped noisily, and his belly leaked noisily.
"Why am I still so thirsty after drinking for so long?"
"Is there something wrong with this water?"
The key point was he even stupidly questioned it.
"I think the problem’s in your brain."
Li Long watched, his brows knitting tighter and tighter.
In the end he simply kicked him straight into the lake. Drinking while soaking in the water—at least it wouldn’t leak out anywhere else.
Turned out this actually suited Ah Yajun Dragon perfectly.
Because the lake water could pour directly in through the cracks in his leaky belly, absorption speed shot way up.
Once Ah Yajun Dragon had finally drunk his fill, Li Long led him to a secluded spot to settle down.
At the same time, he recounted his experiences and what he’d seen here.
"So we’re not the only players here?"
When he heard about the dark green dragon, Ah Yajun Dragon looked a little surprised.
"Then theoretically, once you feed a mid-sized dragon once, it won’t eat you again, right?"
He then started dissecting the whole mid-sized dragon incident.
In Ah Yajun Dragon’s eyes, this felt a bit like paying protection money.
If they fed every mid-sized dragon in the valley once, wouldn’t that basically mean they could move around unimpeded?
"It should be that you feed it with your body until it evolves once, then it won’t eat you anymore."
"I’m afraid you don’t have that many lives to pay it off."
Li Long gave his own take on it.
After being eaten twice by the dark green dragon, he figured the energy you could get from the same kind of meat was limited.
If you evolved using that meat, the next time you ate it you probably couldn’t gain any more energy from it.
It was like non-repeatable XP packs and the XP bar—something like that.
But what would happen if you needed multiple kinds of meat to gather enough energy to evolve? That he didn’t know; he’d have to test it himself someday.
"So what’s your plan now?"
After listening to Li Long’s story, Ah Yajun Dragon started getting a bit excited.
In this dragon world, two unfamiliar dragons would find it very hard to build trust.
Only a relationship like theirs allowed for complete mutual trust.
That was a huge sense of security.
Just imagine—when everyone else is a lone wolf, the two of them team up. Wouldn’t they be unstoppable?
"Plan? Of course I have one."
"Do you trust me?"
Li Long asked him this.
"Of course I do!"
Ah Yajun Dragon patted his chest with his little claws.
"Good, then come with me."
Li Long nodded, then led him through twists and turns to a small mound of dirt.
Beneath this mound lay the first dark green dragon.
Dark Green Dragon: ToT
"Wow, you really are good to me!"
Ah Yajun Dragon was so touched he almost wanted to cry.
Because he was afraid that T. rex would chase him again, he hadn’t even dared to go back and eat the remains of that stegosaurus after leaving the cave.
He’d had a rough journey all the way here, and was still LV1.
"Go on, eat."
Li Long just motioned for him to hurry up and eat so he could evolve faster.
"Uwaaa! I evolved! Hahaha!"
After he finished off the dark green dragon, Ah Yajun Dragon’s body began to glow.
Seeing him like that, Li Long’s eyes were full of satisfaction.
"Where are we going next?"
After evolving, Ah Yajun Dragon looked itching for action.
He was fully ready to go on a rampage.
He’d been hunted by those large and mid-sized dragons for so long that he needed to kill a few small dragons to vent his frustration.
"How about I take you somewhere nice?"
That’s what Li Long said.
"Sure, no problem!"
Ah Yajun Dragon agreed happily.
"Good, then turn around."
Li Long nodded.
"Got it."
"WROOAR!!!"
Ah Yajun Dragon, dead.
Fifteen minutes later, Li Long’s jaws were aching.
This iron shell was really a pain to chew.
[Ding dong!]
[You have leveled up to LV5]
The pleasant chime rang at just the right time.
Thankfully he’d stuffed this guy full beforehand, otherwise with just that previous LV1, it probably wouldn’t have been enough to let him evolve and level up.
Four ability options appeared in front of him.
[Steel Body]: Greatly increases resistance to damage
[Skeletal Bones]: Reduces eating efficiency
[Strong Heart]: Immune to Fear
[Durable Sharp Teeth]: Increases eating speed
Looked like the ability Ah Yajun Dragon had picked from the dark green dragon was [Durable Sharp Teeth], which boosted eating speed.
Makes sense—given how he spilled half of whatever he ate, being able to eat faster really did make things less frustrating.
But what Li Long wanted from him wasn’t the dark green dragon’s ability.
It was [Strong Heart], that special ability which made him immune to Fear.
Normally, that skill was basically useless.
But when facing Fear, this skill was god-tier.
The reason he wanted it was because he planned to rely on this skill plus his stealth ability to sneak into the pachycephalosaurus’ place and steal meat.
Once he got stronger, there’d be no problem covering Ah Yajun Dragon again.
By then, Ah Yajun Dragon would definitely be grateful for this meal where he’d been gnawed on.
This primitive Dinosaur World didn’t have much in the way of moral taboos.
Besides, this was Li Long eating Ah Yajun Dragon, not Li Pu eating Ah Yajun.
If Li Long himself died, he’d also hope Ah Yajun Dragon would eat him; after all, you don’t let good meat go to outsiders.
So he understood that if Ah Yajun Dragon met an unfortunate end, he’d definitely make the same choice.
What he was doing now was just changing "unfortunate accident" into "mandatory accident," that’s all.
"All right, time to look for a chance to steal some meat."
Li Long was very pleased.
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Meanwhile, near the valley respawn point.
The dark green dragon was crouched in a bush, quietly waiting for prey to arrive.
After getting killed twice in a row by that damn white-robed dragon, it was now down to its last life.
If this last life didn’t get it a successful evolution, it would have no choice but to accept failure and go pull from the lowest-tier card pool.
But at LV1 it was too weak, making it hard to successfully hunt.
The transparent dragon corpse it had painstakingly found earlier—now it didn’t dare eat it, afraid the white-robed dragon would ambush it again.
So the dark green dragon could only camp here, waiting for prey to show up.
Newly respawned little dragons often thought the area around the respawn point was safe and relaxed their guard.
All it had to do was wait for some respawned little dragon to pass by, then deliver a fatal blow.
"I trusted you, you bastard, and slogged all the way here to join you."
"And it turns out you just wanted my flesh. Tch!"
Just then, a grumbling voice was approaching.
(He’s here!)
Hearing that voice getting closer and closer, the dark green dragon’s eyes lit up slightly.
Hiding in the shadows, it matched the rhythm of the footsteps and carefully counted the beats.
At the moment the other’s figure appeared, it lunged out.
"Raaah!"
Bang!
The moment its jaws bit down, the dark green dragon froze on the spot.
What the hell was this? He’d bitten into a tough one!
Why did it feel like he’d just chomped a chunk of iron!
"Who dares sneak attack me? Hand over your life!!!"
"Waaaargh!!"
Obviously, not only did that move fail to land a lethal blow, it also pissed the other side off.
And so, the dark green dragon died for the 10th time.
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