Chapter 99 - A Head Sticking Out of the Cliff (2/2)
Zhang Che sat down stably on a branch, extending his hand to pick a fist-sized fruit and brought it to his mouth, taking a bite of it. The sweet taste of the fruit juice, with a slight acidic taste, immediately filled his mouth, leaving him sighing in satisfaction.
“Xilvlv!” A long neigh rang out from below, scaring Zhang Che. He had thought that some exotic beast was attacking them, but when he looked down, he realized that Hanxue was looking up from the foot of the cliff, his gaze filled with anticipation.
“I mean, didn’t I just praise you not long ago? I didn’t think you were a glutton as well!”
Zhang Che was speechless. He could only pick another fresh yellow fruit and drop it down.
As the fruit quickly fell towards the ground, Hanxue reared up on his hind legs and opened his mouth wide, catching the fruit. He chewed on it a few times before swallowing it, together with the seed. After that, his gaze at Zhang Che grew even more intense.
-What kind of pets did I take in…-
Zhang Che drooped his head silently. He could only keep plucking the fruits around him and drop them towards Hanxue’s open mouth. It was fine if he missed; the horse would adjust himself accordingly and catch them with ease.
“Zhizhi!” The Gluttony Monkey suddenly let out a sharp cry.
Zhang Che turned his head to look at the monkey helplessly. “You little frisky monkey is even jealous now! It’s not like you’re-”
Zhang Che suddenly stopped mid-sentence. He saw the incredulous look on the Gluttony Monkey’s ugly face, and heard the ‘shasha’ sounds coming from the cliff wall behind him.
-Didn’t the Purple Jade Condor just scout things out and make sure that there weren’t any exotic beasts nearby?-
Zhang Che felt his scalp going numb, a layer of goosebumps rising out of the skin on his back. He quickly turned around to look, and saw the head of a huge tortoise sticking out of the cliff, leaving a bunch of tiny rocks falling down.
He wasn’t unable to accept this absurd reality all of a sudden. How could a head be sticking out of a cliff?
It looked like the opposite cliff’s surface had turned watery. Where the huge tortoise head was sticking out of the cliff, there were even ripples around it.
-What the heck is this!?-
The huge tortoise head, about a foot in diameter, extended out fully on its round neck almost instantly. Its grey and white eyes were wide open, staring blankly at Zhang Che standing on the tree.
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[Rock Tortoise]
Level: Four Star (Level 39)
Quality: Gold
Characteristics: The Defensive Strength of Its Shell Far Outclasses That of Steel, Its Skin is as Tough as Boulders
Weakness: Slow Movement Speed, Extremely Weak Internal Defenses
Innate Attribute: Rock Assimilation. Able to Traverse Freely Within Bodies of Rocks, Has a Pocket of Space of Within Its Body Usually Filled with Rocks, Shoots Them as Projectiles When Enraged to Overpower Its Enemies
Skill: Rock Bullet Gatling, Able to Spit All The Rocks Stored Within Its Body in One Go, Bringing a Strong and Sustained Destructive Force. Cooldown Time: 20 Minutes
Potential: D Rank
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