Jiang Mian had only just eaten her fill earlier that day, and she still hadn't digested much of it, so naturally, she couldn't eat too much all at once.
So the best choice was to "stock up on food."
And now that she had a Third-tier core, her clone's strength would increase too.
But most of the creatures coming ashore here were First- and Second-tier, making them of little use to her.
If she wanted to hunt Third-tier creatures, she would still have to go underwater.
Around the warning line, plenty of Awakened had already gathered.
Shouts, the tearing of flesh, weapons firing, Calamities roaring... all the sounds blended together in a particularly deafening cacophony.
The scene was chaotic, but the defensive line was holding firm.
Most of those at the front were officials in Sea Defense uniforms. The people behind them wore a motley assortment of clothes and were all civilians.
There were probably "unregistered people" like her among them.
It was fine to fish in troubled waters, but if she got injured like those three had, the smell of blood would make the creatures even more frenzied. She would have no choice but to leave.
It shouldn't be hard to blend in. They weren't checking IDs right now.
Jiang Mian felt around the pocket of her clothes. These cores were all money; it would be a problem if she dropped them in a fight, so...
She controlled her clone, lifted the hem of its clothes, and shoved them straight into its belly.
The lower half of its body was covered by clothes anyway, and this section of its skin pouch was actually more convenient for storing things.
Only after all twelve cores had gone "down the hatch" did Jiang Mian continue forward.
At night, the Core Circle seemed