Chapter 246 – Crystal Crab (1/2)

Liu Lan might seem like she was pampered since childhood, but her cooking was extraordinary. Made from everyday common ingredients, breakfast didn't vary but the dishes were creative and greatly aroused Fatty’s appetite.

Smiling as she watched Fatty finish his meal, Liu Lan forcefully dragged him out for exercise before Fatty was allowed to be online.

“Well, well, our happy man is here.” Cheng Xiong laughed heartily.

“Tch, you jealous?” Fatty raised his brow.

“After you logged off, we went to scout around for a bit. There are no traps, but the tunnels are tangled and complicated. It’s very easy to get lost in here,” Xiao Jian informed.

“Of course, it’s a maze after all.” Fatty nodded in understanding. “Let’s explore together when Lan’er gets on.”

“I’m here.” Logging into the game, Liu Lan walked to Fatty.

“Let’s go.” Xiao Jian walked at the very front with Han Shen right behind him. Cheng Xiong the Violent Sacrificer was the very center, while Fatty and Liu Lan were last.

One hour later.

“Ugh, this shit is making me dizzy.” Cheng Xiong sat on the ground, hugging his head and refusing to move no matter what. “You guys go figure it out. Come back and call me when you find the way.”

The sound of something crawling suddenly echoed from the distance. Alert by this sound, Cheng Xiong hurriedly stood up.

At the corner of a turn, a monster the size of a basin appeared before their eyes. This monster’s body was crystal clear as if burnished from the best of glass. Standing straight on six legs, the monster brandish its two big pincers and shrieked at the party.

Appraisal.

Fatty quickly received the monster’s details.

Crystal Crab

Level: 55

Attack: 105 – 120

Defense: 120

HP: 6000

Notes: A strange monster living in Crystal Maze. Feeding on crystals since birth, it has mutated into the crystalline version of itself.

Fatty shared its information in the party chat. Everyone gasped in admiration.

“So you become what you eat? If one grows up in a dung pit, will they look like dung?” Xiao Jian wondered.

“You can try and tell us when you have the answer.” Fatty swept him a glance.

Whew whew! Waving its pincers, the Crystal Crab fearlessly charged at them.

Clank! Xiao Jian parried with his sword. He hacked and repeatedly forced the monster back, dealing small cracks on the pincers.

Bam! An attack hit the crab’s shell and shattered it, then pierced in deeply. This skill of Cheng Xiong took more than half of the monster’s health.

“Bro, this Meteor Icicle skill isn’t so bad, don’t you think?” Cheng Xiong asked with a smug smile.

“Mmm.” Fatty raised his chin, indicating him to look.

Cheng Xiong glanced over and instantly jumped back with a shocked scream. Upfront, a dense patch of several hundred Crystal Crabs were racing over with brandished claws.

“Baldy, pounce on them one at a time. Look how beautiful they are,” Xiao Jian instigated.

“I’ll tank.” Liu Lan got on her Fire Cloud Panther and stood at the very front with her shield up.

The tunnel was four to five meters wide and so Liu Lan alone was able to keep all of the monsters out.

“Baldy, why aren’t you healing?!” Fatty yelped.

“What’s with the anxiety? She hasn’t lost any health yet!” Cheng Xiong rolled his eyes.

“Master is worried about his wife, alright? Of course he’d be nervous.” Han Shen laughed loudly.

Liu Lan blushed as a sweet sensation rose up in her heart.

With Liu Lan tanking and Cheng Xiong buffing, their safety was guaranteed, only that the killing speed was a bit unbearable. After all, they were too few in numbers and severely lacked AoE attacks.

“Wheat, pounce! Inky, you can’t be lazy either.”

Everybody released their pets. Chaos ensued everywhere on the ground and in the air.

The Crystal Crabs’ damage was so-so, and their attack method couldn’t be simpler. They only relied on the pincers and occasionally spat out some bubbles that shattered the things they touched and dealt a certain damage. After a while, the party annihilated this cast of crabs.

“Do they have ovaries? I love crab ovaries!” Baldy Cheng Xiong ignored the drops and flipped through the corpses.

“Don’t waste your time. They grew up eating crystals. If there are any ovaries, it’d be crystal ovaries. Can you eat that?” Xiao Jian said.

“Who knows, that might just be edible.” Fatty grabbed a Crystal Crab and knocked open the hard shell, revealing a huge lump of ovaries within.

“Auntie, I’m hungry!” Putting on a pitiful face, Han Shen appealed to Liu Lan.

Being addressed as ‘auntie’ by Han Shen, Liu Lan flushed red and shot Fatty a glare.

“Ahh, I’m hungry too. My Vigor is all gone, no wonder my attack was dropping so fast,” Cheng Xiong wailed.

“Feed on your dried trail rations if you’re hungry.” Fatty glared at the two whiny kids.

“I’m out.” Han Shen pretended to search his inventory. “I ate them as I cracked the mechanism earlier, or else I would have starved to death.”

“I didn’t learn Cooking, so you can only have this.” Still blushing, Liu Lan took out a packaged food made by one of her guild’s lifestyle players and handed it to Han Shen.

“Woah, me too!” Cheng Xiong leaped over, wanting to rob it from him.

“There’s one for everyone.” Liu Lan took out a few more packages and distributed them to Cheng Xiong, Xiao Jian, and Fatty.

“I’m fine.” Fatty waved his arms and returned to focus on the crab corpses.

“That’s great. Auntie1

, Master decided to lose weight recently. I’ll eat this in his stead,” Han Shen gurgled as he chewed the food and received another package.

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