Several Gourmet Hunters who had just entered the Gourmet World from the border between the Gourmet World and the Human World had terrible luck. They had tried to steal Bat Snake eggs, but ended up startling the snakes and enraging a Capture Level 3 Bat Snake. They were now fleeing desperately through the forest.
Bat Snakes were Great Serpents with a pair of bat wings. Not only were they enormous, but they could also glide to a certain extent, making them incredibly fast.
As a Capture Level 3 rare ingredient, Bat Snake meat was not particularly desirable. Their bodies were mostly empty and contained little meat, and they were quite dangerous, so ordinary Gourmet Hunters were generally unwilling to provoke such creatures.
However, bat eggs truly were among the finest delicacies in the Human World. A single egg could easily sell for several million yen.
The man leading the Gourmet Hunters racing through the forest was holding an egg as large as a soccer ball in his arms.
Meanwhile, his two companions fled for their lives while occasionally turning around to fire their guns at the enormous Bat Snake, hoping to slow it down.
Yet, in the face of the machine-gun barrage, the Bat Snake, which possessed both snake and bat genes, easily deflected the incoming bullets with its scales. It hissed as it relentlessly pursued the humanoid crawlers before it.
Was the Bat Snake so persistent because these hateful thieves had stolen its eggs?
No. When Bat Snakes were starving, they would sometimes even swallow the eggs they had laid themselves.
The only reason it pursued them so relentlessly was that, to it, human humanoid crawlers were also a rare delicacy.
"We can't keep this up. At this speed, it'll catch us soon! How about we give the egg