Chapter 119 The Terrifying "River Delicacies"
Chapter 119 The Terrifying "River Delicacies"
Thin streams of bloody water pierced the scales of the black fish monster, emerging with shattered organs in tow.
Seeing this, Ishida grinned without any surprise. He conjured a clay spear in his hand, pierced the monster's gills, and lifted it up.
Ishida weighed them in his hands; each black fish monster weighed at least twenty pounds.
"Brother Yuan, what flavor do you want to eat?"
"One clear soup, one barbecue."
Zhang Xiaoyuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's eat these two flavors first. Anyway, we'll have more river delicacies delivered later."
Putting aside these two pieces of experience, Zhang Xiaoyuan continued to observe the river surface. Sure enough, only five minutes later, two more monsters emerged from the water.
It was a catfish and a lobster, both cautiously surveying their surroundings.
The scent of their own kind wafting in the air made them tense up. Looking towards the shore, they saw their companions being sliced up.
"Brother Yuan, the water's boiling, we can start the hot pot now, but the grilled fish will have to wait a bit longer."
Ishida called out, took out several pairs of chopsticks, and distributed them to the construction team and Qin Fen and the other ability users.
"Hey? Can we eat this too?" the construction team asked, their eyes drawn to the large iron pot bubbling with boiling water and emitting a fragrant aroma.
"Of course, we can't possibly eat it all ourselves."
Ishida grinned, and as he sprinkled the last of the seasonings into the pot, the aroma immediately filled the air.
"smell good!"
Someone exclaimed in surprise, instinctively put down their tools, and moved towards the pot.
"Well, since this young man has said so, we won't stand on ceremony."
The construction team members spoke, holding chopsticks as they quickly walked forward.
After all this time and effort, I'm exhausted and hungry.
Then two more soft splashes came from the water, and Zhang Xiaoyuan caught both the catfish monster and the lobster monster.
The two monsters saw the fish slices in the pot and struggled desperately, only to be slapped to death by Zhang Xiaoyuan.
"These two are fine, either one is fine."
Zhang Xiaoyuan handed the river fish to Shitian and continued hunting the monsters in the river.
With Zhang Xiaoyuan there to look after things, and with the help of Shi Tian's culinary skills and fresh river delicacies, the engineering team's emergency repair work went very smoothly.
Especially towards the end, they were surprised to find that the food was gone—no, the monsters weren't coming anymore.
"what happened?"
After putting the last steel plate on, they had some free time and were certain that the monster was truly gone.
"Have we eaten all the monsters?"
One of the construction workers was taken aback, looked at the pile of river fish bones on the ground, and said sullenly.
"How could that be? If we could really eat them all, the magical beasts on this planet would have been wiped out long ago," someone retorted.
Meanwhile, far away along this river, in a body of water near Mount Fenghua, a group of magical beasts were gathered together, bubbling incessantly from their mouths, looking extremely terrified.
"Hiss! (Quiet down!)"
A black, venomous snake-like monster roared.
"Bo bo! (None of our brothers and sisters who went to sabotage the bridge have returned, we're not going!)"
"Wow! (Go by yourself, it's too dangerous there. Some flounder brothers saw a pile of fish bones there from afar. Our brothers and sisters have all been eaten by humans! It's so cruel!)"
"Pop pop! (Where is the King? Why doesn't the King swim out and avenge us?!)"
"Roar! (Quiet down, everyone! The King is currently in seclusion. It won't be long before he emerges and slaughters all humans who persecute their kind!)"
……
The vehicles that were previously stuck at the bridge, which had just been repaired, had disappeared.
After waiting for a while, Zhang Xiaoyuan found that no more magical beasts had appeared, so she prepared to head to the foot of Fenghua Mountain.
"Pack your things, we're getting ready to leave," Zhang Xiaoyuan reminded Shi Tian.
"okay."
Ishida quickly packed up the kitchen utensils and got into the car.
Zhang Xiaoyuan pursed her lips, sighing inwardly, "What a satisfying meal!"
Besides eating very well, his level also increased by one, reaching level 41.
"Brother Yuan, it's getting dark. After we reach the foot of Fenghua Mountain, should we rest for the night and look for monsters tomorrow?"
Qin Fen said that when night falls, unless one has vision-related skills, one's vision is obstructed at night, making it easy to be ambushed by monsters hiding in the dark.
"fine."
Zhang Xiaoyuan shook his head. If the monster dared to come, he would give it a surprise.
While asleep, his strength would increase again, so he really wasn't afraid of being ambushed by magical beasts.
Seeing this, Qin Fen said no more and prepared to drink some strong tea to refresh himself when he got sleepy.
Zhang Xiaoyuan is powerful and unafraid of monster attacks, but that doesn't mean he can withstand a monster sneak attack.
call out!
After crossing the bridge, Zhang Xiaoyuan and her group hadn't gone far when a whooshing sound suddenly rang out from the side, heading straight for Qin Fen, who was sitting in the driver's seat.
Qin Fen was startled, and cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead. He instinctively wanted to let go of the monster with both hands, but then he heard a loud "bang".
"Don't worry about it, just focus on driving."
Zhang Xiaoyuan withdrew her fist, carefully put the dull beast core into her backpack.
"Heh, a level 5 magical beast dares to launch a sneak attack? What audacity!"
In the passenger seat, Ishida pursed his lips, then smiled and looked at Zhang Xiaoyuan.
"As expected of Brother Yuan, your observation skills are amazing. Even the monster's sneak attack was ineffective. Xiao Fen, you still have a lot to learn."
Qin Fen: "..."
The headlights of the military vehicles were so bright that they illuminated the area in front of them almost as if it were daytime.
Although the monsters prefer to be active at night and don't like sunlight, they seemed to feel provoked, and quite a few of them appeared and rushed out as the car moved forward.
This made Qin Fen very nervous, because if he failed to block even one of the magical beasts, he would be in danger.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaoyuan was very strong and didn't miss a single magical beast.
Even Ishida, sitting in the passenger seat, pierced through quite a few magical beasts with his earthen spear, and Qin Fen watched as Ishida's aura grew stronger.
'Leveling up so easily, I'm so envious, I want to be like that too,' Qin Fen thought to himself.
As if knowing Qin Fen's thoughts, Ishida patted Qin Fen on the shoulder and comforted him:
"Don't worry, once we reach our destination, you'll have a chance to fight monsters."
Ishida happily put away the beast bone cleaver. Along their route, dozens of magical beasts lay dead. The beast bone cleaver had been nourished by the blood of the magical beasts, and it had even leveled up. He was very happy at this moment.
Qin Fen nodded, a hint of anticipation in his heart. With a powerful figure like Zhang Xiaoyuan behind him, he wouldn't have to worry about being outmatched by the magical beasts and being killed by them. The magical beasts would only be his prey, and this would be his opportunity to level up and become stronger.
After walking a little further, the mountains ahead were no longer dark and gradually became brighter.
As they moved forward, the path ahead became as bright as day.
"Stop whoever comes!"
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