[Outside the Explorer Assessment Cave]
Bang!
The Grayline Lizard's massive body crashed heavily to the ground, and the dust it kicked up made Chen Kong cough violently.
He slumped onto the ground, the wound on his arm still seeping blood. The star energy within him flickered like a candle flame in the wind, bright one moment and dim the next.
At this point, he barely had the strength left to clench his fist.
After all, in order to suppress the backlash of The Visionary within him, he had nearly exhausted all of his star energy. Forget facing the unknown Calamity-class Raccoon Administrator.
Even if another ordinary Star Beast came along, he might not be able to hold on.
Fortunately, after all this time, there was very little left before the assessment ended.
As long as he held out a little longer, he would pass the assessment smoothly.
"Big brother, are you okay?"
Seeing that the danger had passed, the little girl whose eyes had mutated from the Fallen Zone's radiation timidly edged closer.
Her tiny hand gently touched Chen Kong's arm, her milky-white pupils filled with concern.
"That big lizard won't get back up, right?"
At that, Chen Kong first glanced at the Grayline Lizard's corpse, then turned to the little girl. Enduring the tearing pain within his body, he forced out a smile and patted her head. "Don't worry. It won't get back up."
But just as Chen Kong finished speaking, a familiar jingle suddenly drifted in from outside the cave.
The children in the cave did not understand what that bell meant, but Chen Kong knew perfectly well.
It was the Golden Bell around the Raccoon Administrator's neck. Its arrival meant that the Raccoon Administrator, the "pursuer," had come nearby.
As the distinctive bell outside the cave, laden