"Worthy of the name Mountain God."
It lay on the ground, like a breathing, Dark Green hill.
What's most intimidating is its size.
It was several times the length of an ordinary Crocodile, and its rough scales were like ancient rocks weathered by time, layer upon layer.
As the Crocodile slowly approached, Zhou Mo and the others subconsciously held their breath, their bodies tensing slightly. The Crocodile seemed to be much more intimidating than the leader of the Funeral Wraith Chief; it was a kind of physical fear based on its size.
No one is unafraid of a mountain climbing towards them.
It's not just scary for kids; even adults would cry if they saw it.
"Truly worthy of being called the Mountain God."
Chen Fan took a deep breath, not avoiding the Crocodile's gaze, and took out a Level-2 Eerie Stone from his pocket and threw it out again. It seemed that the crocodile was a little disgusted with the low-grade Eerie Stone he had fed it.
That would prevent him from being fed indefinitely.
He can't afford to feed the Level-2 Eerie Stone.
The next moment--
The strange, translucent, Ghostly Green Eerie Stone traced an arc through the air before striking the Crocodile's flat head with pinpoint accuracy.
The Crocodile was initially taken aback, as if in disbelief, before reacting. Its eyes revealed anger and sadness, and after a whimper, it turned and quickly crawled into the darkness.
He only heard the Crocodile roar twice.
The first time was when the Crocodile roared fiercely from below the cliff, its loud voice drowning out the sound of the rain and deafening.
The second time was this time.
The sound was extremely faint.
If you don't listen carefully, you might not even hear it, just like a bullied child.
"Etc!"
Chen Fan instinctively tried to stop it, but the Crocodile seemed to understand and actually stopped, turning its head to look at him again. A hint of expectation appeared in its huge pupils as it stared straight at Chen Fan.
"..."
He vaguely guessed the source of the expectation in the Crocodile's eyes, then looked down at the hot food on the table. After hesitating for a moment, he picked up a Chicken Leg from the hot dish and tentatively threw it over the City Wall.
The next moment!
"Boom boom boom..."
The earth shook violently.
He saw the Crocodile charging straight toward the City Wall like a tank, and then suddenly stopping just before it crashed into the City Wall. It first looked up and cautiously stared at Chen Fan for a moment, before carefully and gently using the sharp claws at the tip of its claws to grab the Chicken Leg and put it into its mouth.
The eyelids slowly closed.
He lay there, his eyes revealing a look of amazement and enjoyment.
Immediately afterwards.
He opened his eyes again.
He opened his blood-red mouth, revealing thick, worn teeth like rows of stakes. A glistening line of water dripped from the corner of his mouth, and his eyes once again shone with anticipation. His two lantern-sized eyes looked up at Chen Fan, who stood on the City Wall.
Its tail wagged awkwardly and ingratiatingly.
The ground made a thumping sound as it was slapped.
"..."
Chen Fan remained silent, expressionless. He hadn't expected that this guy would actually not eat the Eerie Stone, but would really eat meat, and it seemed that he preferred hot and flavorful meat to Ice-Cold, Strange Entities corpses.
No wonder it stopped as soon as I called; it smelled something.
He then took a deep breath.
Qi Chong.
"Exist!"
"Set up a stove and start a fire. Roast all the Strange Entities corpses we've collected at the Camp these past few days and let it eat them. Let it have a good meal tonight."
"Receive!"
A Strange Entities corpse, emitting a burnt smell, was thrown from the City Wall.
With its mouth wide open the entire time, the Crocodile moved with an agility completely disproportionate to its size, slightly poking out its head to precisely snatch the piece of meat, tilting its head back to swallow it whole. Then, it let out a satisfied, muffled gurgling sound, opened its mouth again, and looked longingly at the City Wall, waiting for the next piece.
"That's all."
"You ate it all; even the landlord's family has no surplus grain."
Chen Fan spread his hands helplessly and looked at the Crocodile lying outside the city. He sighed softly. The first half of the night had passed, and they hadn't stopped Roast Meat at all. All the Strange Entities corpses they had collected in the Camp over the past few days had been roasted and fed to this guy.
However, this guy's stomach was like a bottomless pit; he could never get enough to eat.
The Crocodile's flat mouth, which had been open the whole time, finally slowly closed. A hint of doubt flashed in its eyes as it looked at Chen Fan standing on the City Wall. Then, as if it had thought of something, it turned around quickly without Camp and disappeared into the darkness.
"It's definitely not Strange Entities."
Standing on the City Wall, Wang Kui watched the Crocodile's disappearing figure and sighed, "Strange Entities wouldn't behave so docilely towards humans, except for the Doppelganger Wraith. But even ordinary wild beasts don't have this size, let alone such a large appetite. It's strange; I wonder what it is."
Chen Fan shook his head and did not offer an opinion.
"But I do know why this Crocodile was so angry about you throwing the Eerie Stone at it, Station Master..." Zhou Mo rubbed his nose and said quietly, "If it can't digest the Eerie Stone, then the Eerie Stone is just excrement to it."
"Equivalent to..."
"Throwing shit at someone might actually make them angry."
"But it wasn't angry; it ran away crying," King Mazi said with a light cough.
"Too timid, not even daring to vent anger, feels like still a child."
"Etc!"
The Crippled Monkey suddenly realized something and looked at Chen Fan: "Young Master, if it can't digest the Eerie Stone, doesn't that mean... there are many unclaimed Eerie Stone on the mountain?"
"That's possible, but it's highly likely that other Strange Entities will pick it up and eat it. It doesn't eat Eerie Stone, but other Strange Entities probably will."
Chen Fan nodded slightly, pondering the matter.
He had only been in this world for a short time.
A Monkey-Head Wraith Chief died outside the Camp area, and his body was still there when dawn broke. The Eerie Stone was not dug up by other Strange Entities. Perhaps... it's because other Strange Entities subconsciously avoid the territory of Strange Entities that exude a powerful aura. Strange Entities should also have a certain sense of territory among themselves.
He stopped thinking about it and looked out of the city, "Go to sleep, everyone. We have to keep working tomorrow. You don't need to keep watch for the second half of the night."
"The City Wall have been upgraded to level 3, so there shouldn't be any problems for now. Everyone can get a good night's sleep tonight."
Just then--
"Boom."
The sound of the Strange Entities falling off the cliff echoed from the bottom of the valley once more.
Immediately afterwards.
The sounds of countless Strange Entities crashing down the cliff, like the crackling of firecrackers, echoed continuously—ten, fifty, a hundred, hundreds...
One after another, the Strange Entities plummeted off the cliff like Dumplings being dropped into a pot.
It was Densification than the previous nights.
Even more violent.
The event lasted for the duration of Incense Stick. The bottom of the cliff was piled high with the corpses of Strange Entities, numbering at least five or six hundred at a glance. Chen Fan, standing on the City Wall, even faintly saw White Light flashing among the corpses—the light of Exotic Treasure!
The crowd stood stiffly on the City Wall, their faces blank, watching this scene unfold.
Until the earth-shaking commotion came from the Canyon Passage, a huge Crocodile rushed out of the darkness, came to its old spot under the City Wall, lay down on the ground, opened its blood-red maw again, and looked expectantly at Chen Fan standing on the City Wall.
Saliva dripped from between his teeth and fell to the ground.
Its tail patted excitedly and ingratiatingly from side to side on the ground.
Splashes of rain mist rose up.