Chapter 11: Crushing!

Suddenly, Snowy grew much larger, her claws wrapped in lightning, and with one single swipe, she smashed the head of the Level-2 Iron-eating Black Ant into the ground!

"Gigi!"

"Gigi!"

The other Level-1 Iron-eating Black Ants were flustered and spewed out corrosive acid at Snowy.

"Crackle!"

Snowy's body flashed with a lightning glow, she used Thunder Flash and revealed her Double Claws, making two powerful swipes at the Level-2 Iron-eating Black Ant!

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The two strikes of the Thunder Cat Claw hit squarely on the Level-2 Iron-eating Black Ant's head which had just been raised!

The head of the Iron-eating Black Ant was instantaneously smashed, leaving two large holes!

The corrosive acid spurted out from the holes like a fountain, landing on the bodies of the surrounding Level-1 Iron-eating Black Ants.

The Level-1 Iron-eating Black Ants immediately yelled cacophonously and scattered in all directions!

Chen Fan, who was initially intending to help out, didn't feel urgent anymore.

With one fishing spear, he pinned a Iron-eating Black Ant running towards him on the ground by its neck!

"Kill them!"

While Chen Fan held onto the fishing spear tightly, he directed Snowy.

However, Snowy didn't even need his directions. After killing the Level-2 Iron-eating Black Ant, her Double Claws waved, unleashing the Thundercat Claws furiously.

The remaining three Level-1 Iron-eating Black Ants were killed on the spot.

On the contrary, the Iron-eating Black Ant under Chen Fan's feet, although nailed to the ground by the fishing spear, still struggled fiercely.

With Chen Fan's current strength, he was somewhat unable to control it and it almost broke free!

Seeing this, Snowy Flash over with Thunder, one claw swipe and she directly severed the head of the Iron-eating Black Ant.

"..."

Looking at the mess in front of him, Chen Fan was speechless.

Was the tactic he explained earlier too complicated, and Snowy didn't understand it?

Or did Snowy believe that these tactics were not necessary at all?

However, Snowy's strength was indeed astonishing...

The Level-2 Iron-eating Black Ant didn't even last a round against her!

"Meow!"

Snowy raised her head and meowed at Chen Fan, looking like she was showing off her achievement.

"Yes, yes, you're great!"

Chen Fan couldn't help but laugh: "Next time we still need to coordinate... you can easily kill Level-2, but what if we encounter Level-3 or even stronger ones?"

"Battles require tactics."

"Even if you can crush them, using good tactics may prevent various accidents and risks."

"Hmm hmm!" Snowy blinked and nodded her head.

Chen Fan's face darkened: "You clearly understand my tactics... you deliberately didn't follow them, didn't you?"

"..." Snowy blinked and then rubbed her small head against Chen Fan's leg.

"You think you can get away with it by acting cute?" Chen Fan continued with a straight face: "You rushed straight to the front of that Level-2 Iron-eating Black Ant. What if it reacted quickly and sprayed acid at you or attacked you with its large pincers?"

"I won't do that again next time, don't be angry, okay..." Snowy continued to rub her small head on Chen Fan's foot.

Chen Fan was taken aback...

This was the longest sentence Snowy had communicated to him through thought since they had contracted.

Most of the time, Snowy just made two "hmm" sounds.

The chill on Chen Fan's face melted away instantly, and he bent down and picked Snowy up: "I'm not mad at you, but it was indeed too dangerous the way you did it, especially since you and I have never fought with Iron-eating Black Ants before."

"When it comes to fighting, no matter the strength of the opponent, we need to give our all and not be careless."

"Hmm hmm!" Snowy nuzzles her head against Chen Fan's chest.

"Alright, let me dig out the Crystal Cores first. I've heard that they are quite valuable."

Chen Fan scraped out the Crystal Cores from the heads of the five Iron-eating Black Ants with the fishing spear and knife.

Humans can't eat the flesh of the Iron-eating Black Ants, only Guardian Beasts related to certain attributes can eat them.

The shell of the Iron-eating Black Ant is a good material for refining armor artifacts.

But now it's covered in disgusting corrosive acid and it's a pain to wash it off... It's not a question of how tiring it is, but there are a bunch of fish in the Sinking Star River equipped with machine guns.

Chen Fan put the five Crystal Cores into the Beastmaster's Space.

Then he walked over to the corpse of the Level-2 Iron-eating Black Ant and thrust his fishing spear viciously into the ant's head…

"Crack!"

It felt like thrusting a fishing spear into a pile of chaotic rocks, the shock made his wrist tingle.

The shell of this thing was as hard as steel...

But Snowy's Double Claws of Thunder Cat, directly smashed out two large holes in its head!

The fish in the Sinking Star River, even with their scales, their defense is far inferior to this Iron-eating Black Ant.

The best defense for the fish in the Sinking Star River is actually the river water.

If the Blue Scaled Demonic Fish is in deep water, Snowy's Thunder Cat claws might not be so deadly.

But if they come up to the water surface…

How about getting some Level-3 Blue Scaled Demonic Fish by the riverbank first?

For Snowy to upgrade to Level-3, she needs two Level-3 fish Crystal Cores.

Chen Fan picked up his fishing spear and prepared to head towards the riverbank.

Suddenly…

A wave of noisy voices came from the dense forest on the left.

"It sounds like there's a lot of people over there, I wonder what's going on. Let's go take a look."

Chen Fan, with Snowy at his side and fishing spear in hand, headed in the direction of the noises.

The voices were getting closer.

However, no monster attribute panel appeared in his line of sight.

Just then, there was a rustling from the bushes on his left, and an animal about the size of a hunting dog bolted out.

"What the!"

Chen Fan was shocked, his hand already lifting the fishing spear in preparation to strike.

"Miaow!"

Snowy launched a Thunder Cat Claw, which struck a large hole in the animal's belly and sent it flying.

Then, Snowy leapt from Chen Fan's shoulder and accurately pinned the animal, pressing its head into the ground.

After struggling a few times, the animal was still.

Chen Fan checked out the Attribute Panel...

Black-haired Wild Rabbit, Level 0.

Just an ordinary rabbit, not Awakened.

But this rabbit was quite large, several times the size of the rabbits Chen Fan had seen before.

The animals and plants on Blue Star really were extraordinary...

The ants were larger than cats.

The rabbits were larger than dogs.

Chen Fan gently prodded the black-haired rabbit on the ground with his fishing spear.

Dead as a doornail.

Just then, a large group of people rushed out from behind the bushes.

"Eh? Little brother, it's you!"

In the crowd, a young man with glasses showed a look of surprise.

"What a coincidence?"

Chen Fan also smiled faintly.

After the Awakening guidance at the Guidance Plaza, this bespectacled young man had patted him on the shoulder and comforted him.

Panting heavily, the young man with glasses ran up to Chen Fan, sword in hand: "Young man, why did you come out here by yourself?"

Chen Fan didn't answer his question, but instead asked: "How come you guys came this way too?"

"I checked the Thousand Degrees Map earlier, and it gets more dangerous the further you go in this direction."

"Ah, don't mention it!" The glasses youth chuckled bitterly, "We really had no other choice..."

"Our three teams joined forces and killed several Iron-eating Black Ants, only to find out that their meat was inedible."

"Not only is the meat of the Iron-eating Black Ant inedible, the meat of the Holy Beetles can't be eaten either."

"After we finished our bread and chicken legs this morning, we only had some wild vegetables and fruits for lunch. We're all feeling quite hungry now."

"We discussed it and concluded that we can't go on like this... today was only the first day, even if we make it through today, how will we survive tomorrow?"

"So we looked on the Thousand Degrees Map and found the area to the east of the Black Ant Forest. It's a bit more dangerous, but there are lots of animals..."

"We figured, with three teams working together, there are twelve of us, we shouldn't encounter any dangers."

"After we hunt some game, we plan to return to the safe areas west of the Black Ant Forest before dark."

"But, who would've known, the animals on Blue Star have all evolved... a snake thicker than a tree trunk scared us half to death."

"A few squirrels easily jumping five or six meters high, all we could do was stare."

"Look at this rabbit, we've been chasing it for a long time and we didn't even touch a hair. Eventually, it was your cat that caught it."

"..." Chen Fan couldn't help but laugh.

He really should have predicted this.

These guys, like the glasses youth, were all ordinary people, none of them had Awakened.

Even an ordinary human on Earth wouldn't find it easy to catch a rabbit with a sword.

Let alone on Blue Star?

The rabbit now under his feet was bigger than a dog and ran like the wind.

Forget about the glasses youth, even Chen Fan himself wasn't sure he'd be able to catch it.

Chen Fan smiled, about to hand the rabbit to the glasses youth...

Suddenly, the people who came with the glasses youth started to surround them with unfriendly expressions.

"Hm?"

Seeing these people spreading out, encircling him and Snowy, Chen Fan's mouth curled slightly.

One of the young men, with a scar on his face, said coldly: "Kid, the rabbit under your foot is ours. Hand it over, and then get lost!"

Before Chen Fan could speak...

A youth in a shirt beside Scar-face whispered something into his ear.

"This... isn't it a bit too much? One rabbit should be enough for us." Scar-face looked at the little white cat by Chen Fan's feet hesitantly!

The youth in the shirt replied impatiently: "Brother Feng, we've got so many people, how is one rabbit enough? We still have two days to go!"

Before Scar-face could say anything, the man laughed sinisterly, pointing at Snowy beside Chen Fan, and said: "And your cat!"

"This rabbit is big, but with so many of us, it won't last many meals."

"Give us your cat!"

The crowd around them all waved their swords, laughing eerily.

The look in Chen Fan's eyes turned cold as ice: "What did you say?"