Chapter 55 (1/2)

“But you guys did not do bad this time, it was a stroke of luck but fortunately we managed to catch this guy. Otherwise, it would have been really dangerous to just let it hide in ambush near us.” Bai Yi said.

“Bai Yi, are we going to keep this lizard for food?” Woolf said.

Bai Yi looked over the flesh of the spiked lizard and saw that it was bright red. However, he adjusted his angle so that it would be against the Sun and saw the fluids containing a tinge of purplish light. Meat could of course be consumed, and the nutritional value would be very high as well. However, this meat couldn’t possibly be prepared through normal means, if they didn’t want to be poisoned to death.

“No, there’s poison in this. If it were before then perhaps I would have the interest to try and prepare and neutralise the poison, but we don’t have that time now.” Bai Yi said as he used his broadsword to flip the lizard over. He then split open its tummy, then cut off a few organs and roughly a meter-long stretch of meat.

“Didn’t you say that it’s inedible?”

“This thing can’t be eaten, but I want to try and see how can I prepare and neutralise the poison in this meat. Nobody knows what we will encounter in the future. Who knows, maybe this can stave off hunger when we have no food left. Remember well, don’t take the wrong food in the future!” Bai Yi said to everyone.

“En.” Everyone nodded, and Bai Yi placed the poisoned meat inside a metal container.

Bai Yi returned to Momo’s side and found that Momo was still trembling, but she still brought out her short sword and grabbed it tightly in her hands. Due to an excessively tight grip, her small hands had already turned white. Seeing Bai Yi walk over, Momo immediately raised her head and look at him, her eyes containing fear and grievance.

Bai Yi squatted down and gently caressed Momo’s little tense face, revealing a small smile.

Under Bai Yi’s consolement, Momo’s tense body gradually relaxed and her unfocused eyes gradually came back into focus. She then immediately jumped into Bai Yi’s arms and wailed loudly. Momo almost stabbed Bai Yi with her indiscriminate sword, and after Bai Yi carefully grabbed hold of her sword, he patted her on her back.

“En, cry as much as you want.”

Bai Yi had always been emphasizing during this period that New Zealand became extremely dangerous, so everyone had to be prepared to face danger at any time. What was important to know was that, when facing the danger, the only one who could protect you at the very last moment was only yourself. This was the first time Momo had faced such a fierce monster directly. The fact that she could still remember his words and draw her sword was already very good. One must know that Momo was still only four years old.

“Bai Yi…!” Woolf and Martin wanted to explain themselves, but Bai Yi just shook his head at them.

Bai Yi wasn’t angry. You could even say that he was slightly happy, since Momo had to take that step eventually. Although it was quite dangerous this time, at least nothing bad happened in the end. When Momo calmed down, Bai Yi brought Momo back to Sharpei’s side. Now Sharpei was already a meter tall standing up straight, looking extremely sinister.

Bai Yi saw that Sharpei’s right paw had some bloodstains. It wasn’t his own, but from when the spiked lizard just appeared from the water and Sharpei clawed its nose.

The genes that Sharpei fused with now were 1. Slug, 2. Ant and 3. Hummingbird. These were the genes that Bai Yi had decided for Sharpei, and now Sharpei probably fused with its fourth type of genes. It was just that they didn’t know what the monster’s original genes were. Hopefully it wasn’t too lousy.

Bai Yi patted Sharpei on its head, the muscles that burst out from underneath its split skin were rather rough to the touch, but they also felt very tough.

As the group walked back towards their campsite, Sharpei followed behind Bai Yi and his huge body gave off a terrifying pressure.

Though there was a small accident, everyone put it aside very quickly. It was just a monster, what was the big deal? It wasn’t like they had never encountered one before. Very quickly, Woolf’s long-awaited beef hotpot was prepared, and everyone ate in a circle ravenously. In times like this, there was nothing more important than filling your stomach.

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Very quickly, they finished their meal and left this place in their cars. More than two hours later, another two cars reached this place and stopped here.

“Team leader, there’s a small farm here. The sky is almost dark. Are we going to rest here for the night?” A voice came from the car.

“We’ll rest here then, remember to be careful.” Another voice sounded, and six people got out of the cars. Of course, the six people were just ‘human-like’, there were probably very few people who still maintained their original human form now. Excluding the dead, 90% of those who were still alive had probably already fused with genes from other animals.

“Team leader, there seems to be people who were here before… Team leader, team leader! There’s a monster here, so much meat!” Suddenly, the person who was sent out to scout the situation shouted in joy and ran over to the spiked lizard’s corpse.

“Wait!” The person who was being called team leader immediately stopped the guy nervously.

“What’s wrong, team leader?” Luckily, the trust in leader was still not bad, the initially excited guy immediately stopped after hearing his voice.