That Black Marsh Crocodile, upon seeing Fang Senyan climb the tree, refused to give up. It frantically lashed the tree trunk with its massive tail, seemingly determined to break the tree. Its behavior played right into Fang Senyan's and his team's plans. This giant tree in the primeval forest was at least three to five arm spans in circumference. Even with the monstrous strength of this lust-crazed, or rather, bloodlust-crazed beast, it would take at least twenty to thirty minutes of continuous thrashing. By then, it would be exhausted, heavily wounded, and bleeding profusely, making death inevitable.

However, the crocodile wasn't completely brain-dead. After futilely lashing the tree a few times, it seemed to calm down, realizing the futility of its efforts. The adrenaline rush subsided, and the pain in its body became more apparent. It turned around and began lumbering towards the swamp. But by this time, the Rock, who had successfully recovered, had gathered a group of his subordinates and silently blocked its path!

What followed was pretty much a foregone conclusion. With Fang Senyan's addition, the Rock could now fight intermittently, gaining an extra ten or so seconds of respite.

Don't underestimate this little bit of time. It's like a person who can only hold their breath underwater for ten minutes. If they can surface for a few seconds every one or two minutes to catch their breath, they could last all day.

The two took turns attacking, and no matter how formidable this fifth-tier legendary creature was, it could only let out a miserable shriek before finally dying on its way to the swamp.

Fang Senyan and the Rock exchanged glances, both letting out a long breath. They laughed heartily before collapsing on the ground from exhaustion. The five hired natives behind the Rock began cheering loudly and rushed towards the slain Death Swamp Giant Crocodile, smearing its blood on their bodies before joining hands, singing and dancing.

Seeing this scene, Fang Senyan couldn't help but sigh, "It's a pity. These guys didn't help much, and the quality of the loot is definitely going to decrease."

The Rock replied, "It won't."

A smile crept onto his face as he said, "They were conquered by my courage and are now willing to be my slaves. So they're like your Dingyuan ship; their attacks are equivalent to my attacks. The quality of the loot is guaranteed to be one hundred percent."

Fang Senyan asked in surprise, "They're your slaves?"

The Rock couldn't help but feel proud as he said, "That's right. However, the contract I signed with them isn't as good as the one you have with the gold mine. It's a slave agreement. They can enjoy a certain percentage of my attribute bonus, but they can't give back to me. Also, I have to wait until I return to the space for certification and registration before I can revive them. So we have to try to avoid them dying in future battles."

Fang Senyan nodded, "Of course."

At this time, both of them received a notification: "You have killed a fifth-tier legendary creature: Death Swamp Giant Crocodile."

"You have each received 3000 general points."

"You can each draw one of the following rewards as an additional bonus."

"a: 10 points of merit. "b: Obtain the key dropped by it. (This option must be selected by both of you together.)"

"c: Obtain 3 potential points."

"d: Residents living in the giant swamp naturally possess a certain degree of resistance. There is a high probability that the effects and duration of ordinary diseases on you will be weakened by 10%, and the duration of advanced diseases will also be weakened until you leave this world. This effect can be linearly stacked with any similar effects."

Fang Senyan and the Rock exchanged glances and chose option d without any discussion.

They were both skilled in close combat and were most troubled by diseases! If they could successfully weaken diseases, even if only in this world, it would truly be a godsend.

When he asked the Rock about what happened, he learned that the Black Brothers had also been scattered that night. When he escaped, he had successfully attracted a Black Marsh Crocodile, otherwise, the Rock wouldn't have been able to drag the Black Marsh Crocodile along, fighting and retreating in a one-on-one battle.

However, the hired natives suffered heavy casualties. They used their corpses to successfully attract the firepower of the crocodiles and the Dubaians, so even if there were any survivors besides the ones in front of them, there wouldn't be many left.

But it wasn't all bad news. The natives who were able to survive in such a fierce battle had all grown, and their strength had obviously improved significantly. In particular, Fang Senyan and the Rock discovered that after the Rock's five servants killed the Death Swamp Giant Crocodile, their names, which were originally very earthy, such as Thick-leaved Berry, had now changed to include "Warrior" after their names. Their attack power didn't seem to have increased much, but their health had increased significantly, and their survivability had been comprehensively enhanced.

At this time, Fang Senyan found Mbenga, who was familiar with the terrain, and asked him about the surrounding terrain. He found that if Mogansha successfully escaped, then he should already be on the route he had taken before. But he still hadn't returned, and the only explanation was that he had either been caught or had escaped into the depths of the swamp.

Fortunately, for the time being, the escape prop: the unmodified amniotic fluid tank was still intact in the team space, which was enough to show that Mogansha had not encountered any fatal danger. Moreover, Mogansha originally lived in Africa in the real world, so returning here was like Fang Senyan coming to the sea; it was his home field. If the Black Brothers risked using a preliminary awakened colonial hunter, then it should be safe and sound.

After some discussion, Fang Senyan and the Rock still sorted out their current thoughts and summarized some experiences and future plans.

Obviously, their group was currently only in the hidden world.

They were wandering around the outer edge of the swamp. If they wanted to go deep into the swamp, they had to collect the mysterious stone slabs scattered among several Dubaian tribes in the giant swamp.

Currently, the enemies on the periphery of the hidden world were only Dubaian barbarians and Death Swamp Giant Crocodiles! Both types of enemies were very tricky and would appear in groups and were very resistant to attacks.

Dubaian barbarians possessed a very powerful ability to defend against ranged attacks, so enemies were forced to engage them in close combat. Once in close combat, unless they were not injured, they would often be infected and weakened by various diseases... Fang Senyan deduced that, perhaps, as his group explored deeper into the hidden world, they would likely discover a creature with very powerful ranged attacks. These creatures were likely to often have bloody conflicts with Dubaian barbarians. This was what had forged the Dubaian barbarians' magical ranged protection ability.

Death Swamp Giant Crocodiles were fifth-tier legendary creatures and were also good at moving in groups. Their attacks did not come with diseases, but fighting them in the swamp made it easy to get injured and then infected with diseases. Moreover, as it stood, although the Rock's strength had greatly increased, if he wanted to hunt and kill Death Swamp Giant Crocodiles in the absence of the Black Brothers, he could only lure two at most. Any more than that would easily lead to accidents.

Based on the current situation, the most troublesome thing, and also the one they had anticipated, was still the endless stream of terrifying diseases. So far, Fang Senyan and his group had only encountered those primary weakening diseases, which had already made them feel extremely uncomfortable. More importantly, they could anticipate that if they planned to delve into the depths of the giant swamp to explore its secrets, then they would likely face even more powerful rapid diseases that directly affected life, such as sepsis, tetanus,... which were all terrifying diseases that could kill people in the short term.

Therefore, Fang Senyan and the Rock decided without much effort to first try to hunt and kill Death Swamp Giant Crocodiles and directly increase their disease resistance, striving to achieve immunity to ordinary diseases and stack as much resistance to advanced diseases as possible.

In this way, they could also train the Black Brothers' servants and allow them to quickly grow up so that they could be useful.

At this time, Fang Senyan suddenly wondered if he could go back to the previous port, Koom Port, to recruit some manpower. But unfortunately, once he left the giant swamp area by five kilometers, he would be ruthlessly prompted by the Nightmare Space: "You have obtained an important plot item: the strange black stone slab."

"The plot has changed, and the difficulty has increased."

"The return method has been changed, and the restriction that you must return to Koom Port to return to the Nightmare Space has been canceled."

"Are you sure you want to leave the hidden world: Resident Evil Origins?"

Fang Senyan certainly didn't dare to be sure and could only obediently shrink back. However, although this attempt failed, he still had some clues about hunting crocodiles. Undoubtedly, it was absolutely unwise to fight them in the swamp; they had to eliminate this advantage.

Mbenga also told Fang Senyan that these Black Marsh Crocodiles were very greedy and ferocious. If they couldn't find enough food, they would even kill each other.

Targeting this habit of theirs, Fang Senyan thought for a while and decided to first use food as bait, using discarded prey everywhere to artificially separate these greedy gluttonous beasts. Then, he would take advantage of the time when these guys were eating to kill them separately. Usually, a group of Black Marsh Crocodiles would not exceed five, so there was still some hope if that was the case.

Now, most of the jungle creatures knew that the Dubaian Giant Swamp was a land of death, so there were very few creatures that dared to approach its edge. However, Fang Senyan could still operate within five kilometers of the giant swamp. In this way, he still captured two giant gorillas and a python, which were naturally killed and thrown into the team space. (To be continued.!)