Long-horned ground moles inhabited the cave.
Chen Yu and Hei Dou appeared in a corner, looking out at a patch of dirt.
Holding a shovel, Chen Yu began to dig.
[Dirt +1]
[Dirt +1]
...
Hei Dou stared at him blankly.
“Boss, what are you doing? So chummy, digging a hole as soon as we arrive? Is this some kind of combat camouflage, meant to confuse the long-horned ground moles into thinking we’re their own kind?”
Long-horned ground moles, as their name suggests.
Were moles with a sharp horn on their heads, skilled at digging.
In cave spaces inhabited by long-horned ground moles, the ground always had many holes, dug by them day and night.
“Get lost.”
Chen Yu, digging up dirt, shot him a glare.
Chen Yu was simply picking up some dirt resources here, which would be useful for upgrading the camp.
Camouflage?
Hei Dou really had some imagination.
Did he think long-horned ground moles were idiots?
No matter how they disguised themselves, they couldn’t possibly produce such a large rat.
Could they have achieved sentience?
Chen Yu stomped on the shovel again, digging up a large amount of dirt.
Bang!
Unexpectedly, his footstep caused the area to collapse.
Trouble.
He must have hit a long-horned ground mole’s underground tunnel.
“Squeak!!!”
A sharp cry erupted.
Several moles in the entire cave space poked their heads out from their holes.
Their eyes glowed red.
There were quite a few of them.
Looking around, there were five.
In the cave spaces Chen Yu had entered before, forest wolves and scale cows only had one mole each. He hadn’t expected so many to appear here.
Chen Yu, standing in the corner, nudged Hei Dou’s butt with his leg.
“Go, brave youth!”
Hei Dou didn’t move for a long time. Chen Yu glanced at his legs.
They were actually trembling!
“No way, are you scared?” Chen Yu asked, surprised.
“I… I…”
Hei Dou lifted his head, cleared his throat as if, and licked his paw.
“I… scared? A few little moles thinking they can act tough in front of Hei-ye. Wait a moment, Big Brother, your second brother will be right back.”
Hei Dou puffed out his chest, took two steps forward.
Then he turned back.
He tugged at Chen Yu’s pant leg with his paw.
“Big Brother…”
“What are you doing?” Chen Yu looked down at him. Hei Dou swallowed, “Let’s go together, brothers united, we can break through anything!”
“Are you really scared?”
Chen Yu thought Hei Dou was putting on a show.
He was actually a coward.
“I… I…”
Hei Dou coughed lightly, but ultimately didn’t shout out his boastful words.
“A little bit.”
“Hey, you were the one who said it just now.” Chen Yu said speechlessly, “Who was it that said even if you tied the earth lizards and long-horned ground moles together, you’d let them have one leg?”
“Yeah, they needed to be tied together, but they weren’t tied, were they?” Hei Dou mumbled.
Chen Yu: (▼へ▼メ)
Hei Dou: ヾ(o･w･)ﾉ
Damn black cat.
Playing word games with him.
Tied up?
If Hei Dou had actually tied them up, Chen Yu would have let them have both legs.
And now he had the nerve to act cute?
“I can’t fight, you’ll have to deal with it yourself.” Chen Yu sat down directly. “Didn’t you insist on coming? Now you’re scared to fight, have you chickened out?”
“Who chickened out?”
Hei Dou immediately got agitated, his eyes wide.
“I didn’t chicken out, then go fight.” Chen Yu said.
Hei Dou looked at Chen Yu for a long time, sensing that he genuinely didn’t want to help, and nodded vigorously.
“Fine, then just watch, I’ll show you today what a combat-type spirit pet is!” Hei Dou took two steps forward, and instantly his fur bristled like a hedgehog.
Swish!
A dark shadow shot out.
Chen Yu, holding the shovel, was momentarily stunned. He truly hadn’t expected Hei Dou to actually dare to rush out.
He had come to this cave prepared for battle.
With his current strength and physical defense, dealing with a few long-horned ground moles should have been easy. He hadn’t expected Hei Dou to be so heroic.
It seemed he cared a lot about his reputation.
Chen Yu also wanted to see Hei Dou’s combat power, so he took out a string of black dates and became a silent spectator.
If Hei Dou was in danger, he would intervene.
Hei Dou, darting through the cave, was incredibly agile.
He leaped left and right, his figure tracing a Z in the cave space.
Chen Yu was taken aback.
This…
Could this be the legendary Z-shaped dodgem?
Hei Dou weaved through the long-horned ground moles, his nimble movements making a fool of them.
Seizing an opening when the long-horned ground moles showed a weakness.
“Meow!”
Hei Dou let out a roar, his claws raking across the moles’ necks.
[Nether Soul +1]
Whoa.
A one-hit kill?
Chen Yu, receiving the notification, was slightly startled and raised his estimation of Hei Dou’s combat power.
Before long, Hei Dou repeated his actions.
[Nether Soul +1]
[Nether Soul +1]
[Nether Soul +1]
[Nether Soul +1]
...
With four more Nether Souls obtained, there were no more moles in the cave space.
“Not bad.”
Seeing the battle end, Chen Yu walked over.
Hei Dou snorted dismissively.
“This much? I wasn’t even serious yet.”
“Tsk tsk tsk, who was it that was trembling with fear just now?” Chen Yu scoffed. Hei Dou paused for a moment and said seriously, “I was activating my combat engine!”
“Combat engine?”
Chen Yu almost burst out laughing. He tilted his head and looked at Hei Dou.
“Are you a disciple of King? Then you should have the Emperor Engine. Did your master hold back on you? It looks like your engine has evolved, with the motor installed in your limbs?”
“What do you know?”
Hei Dou raised his paw and stepped on the mole corpses, looking extremely arrogant.
“Just now, I only used about half an ounce of my strength. How about it?! See, this is a combat-type spirit pet. You actually wanted me to catch fish, are you not very good at…”
A chilling aura swept over him. Hei Dou immediately changed his tune and clapped his paws.
“I love catching fish.”
“As long as you like it, don’t say I’m abusing you.” Chen Yu muttered with a fake smile, and Hei Dou said fawningly, “How can this be called abuse? Your little brother is willing!”
“Really?”
“Absolutely true!”
Hei Dou stood up, his little paws thumping on his chest.
“Then what did you mean by ‘not very good at’ just now?” Chen Yu whispered. Hei Dou fell silent for a moment before suddenly looking up, “Understanding and utilizing people. I meant understanding and utilizing people. What do you mean by not good at… Big Brother, you must have misheard. I coughed, I said, ‘Is it not good at understanding and utilizing people.’”
Seeing this, Chen Yu chuckled.
This Hei Dou.
It would be an injustice if he didn’t win an Oscar.
Then, he looked down at the mole corpses at his feet.
“Aren’t these supposed to be long-horned ground moles? Why don’t these moles have horns?” Chen Yu was confused. He looked at the other moles around.
None of them had horns!
Chen Yu shone his wristband.
[Mole Corpse]
Huh?
Mole!
Not long-horned ground moles.
“These aren’t long-horned ground moles.” Chen Yu pointed at the mole corpses on the ground, “Hei Dou, take a good look, are these long-horned ground moles?”
“No.”
Hei Dou shook his head, then shrugged nonchalantly.
“They probably haven’t grown their horns yet. Why bother with so much, they’re already dead.”
That’s true.
Chen Yu didn’t think much of it.
He began to dissect them.
Choosing the perfect-grade dissection tools, the moles weren’t particularly large. Based on the rule of 1 unit of meat being 500g, and considering the amount of meat produced by beasts of similar size from previous dissections.
It should yield about 1 unit.
Fortunately, critical hits were possible.
[Cave Reminder: 300g Mole Meat +1]
[Cave Reminder: Intact Mole Hide +1]
[Ding: Gluttony Triggered, Food Greed Critical Hit 7x]
[Greed Crit: 300g Mole Meat +7]
...
Hiss!
So stingy again.
300g of raw meat was one thing, but the critical hit multiplier was so low.
There was also a fur.
He wondered what it could be used for?
It should have a good effect if used as bedding.
He dissected the other moles.
This trip wasn’t entirely without gain. Mole meat +42, intact mole hides +5. This meat, when made into exquisite roast meat, could be exchanged for 42 elemental crystal fragments.
It wasn’t too bad.
“Boss, aren’t my combat skills impressive?” Hei Dou wagged his little tail proudly.
“Not bad.” Chen Yu nodded slightly. “You said you are a combat-type spirit pet, and there are also resource-type spirit pets. What’s the specific difference?”
“Resource-type ones are for acquiring resources.”
Hei Dou lazily wagged his tail and said.
“Like you asking me to catch fish, those are things that resource-type spirit pets should do. I, Hei Dou, am a combat-type spirit pet, and even a leader among them, excelling at combat!”
Swish swish swish!
Hei Dou raised his claws and made a few slashing motions, showing off his sharp claws.
“Resource-type spirit pets can’t compare to us combat-type spirit pets. I’m not exaggerating, as a combat-type spirit pet, killing these beasts is like killing chickens.”
“Really?”
Chen Yu feigned surprise and praised him.
“Really? Please take back your ‘really’!” Hei Dou said defiantly, “Your ‘really’ is an insult to us combat-type spirit pets. Let me put it this way, what I did just now wasn’t even a warm-up. Don’t mention the 5 here, even if there were 500, I would…”
Rumble.
A violent tremor suddenly came from the ground beneath Chen Yu and Hei Dou.
Immediately, many trenches appeared around them, and moles with two large buck teeth emerged like pulling radishes, thudding their way out.
Roughly estimated, there were at least twenty.
The moles’ big eyes glared fiercely at Chen Yu and Hei Dou, the intruders.
Chen Yu’s heart tightened.
Did they stumble into a mole nest?
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