Chapter 424 A Mutant Appears! The Yellow-Browed Emperor Monster Penguin (1/2)

Watching the penguins flee, Flamy muttered, ”If Gao Peng hadn't asked me to show mercy, I would have burned you all to a crisp.”

When the Yellow-Browed Monster Penguins finally left the place, Gao Peng noticed that there was a dark form beneath where the penguins were standing. It glinted with a curious light beneath the sunlight.

Walking over, Gao Peng realized that there was what appeared to be a grounded ship beneath the ice. A portion of the ship was frozen in the glacier, while the rest of it was sticking out of the ice.

The ship had a blue-white flag, in the middle of which a picture of a brown bear was plastered. Gao Peng recognized it immediately: this was the flag of the Arctic region.

This was one of the Arctic region's battleships. Gao Peng could see the ship's cannon barrels, radar, and other apparatus one would normally find on board a battleship. However, most of these had been destroyed and frozen solid by the Arctic cold.

Noticing that some of the Yellow-Browed Monster Penguins had dove into a cave that was carved into the face of an ice cliff, Gao Peng decided to check it out. Hearing his footsteps, the Yellow-Browed Monster Penguins that had gone underground began panicking. They stumbled over each other, trying to put even more distance between themselves and Gao Peng by burrowing deeper into the cave.

Gao Peng narrowed his eyes as he observed the interior of the cave. It looked like a laboratory that had long been abandoned there for some inexplicable reason.

Coordination was a rare thing among monsters, let along these penguins. Gao Peng was now able to put two and two together after seeing the grounded battleship and the abandoned laboratory.

These penguins must have been captured to be experimented on as guinea pigs, then something must have gone wrong during their experiments. A monster attack seemed like the most likely reason behind the laboratory's current abandoned state. Whatever the reason might have been, the penguins had managed to escape from captivity. As few monsters could live in a place as harsh as the North Pole, these penguins were able to proliferate like rabbits without meeting any competition...

This must be how these penguins came to be here in the North Pole! thought Gao Peng.

Even though the laboratory had been left in disrepair, there were no signs of human corpses. They must have been taken away when the laboratory's discontinuation was announced...

However, Gao Peng's brows furrowed at the thought of the stranded battleship. An absence of human corpses didn't necessarily mean that everyone had managed to escape whatever catastrophe befell the laboratory. There was also the possibility that they had been left to digest in a monster's belly ever since.

Deciding to leave these seemingly harmless Yellow-Browed Monster Penguins be, Gao Peng exited the cave.

In the distance, some of the Yellow-Browed Penguins who had managed to leave Gao Peng far behind were now standing atop a snowy hill, warily observing his every move. From time to time, they would turn around to squawk at something behind them.

The Yellow-Browed Monster Penguin standing at the peak of the hill lowered its head and let out a shrill squawk! It slid down the snowy hill like a lackey leading the way for its head honcho.

A massive figure slowly rose up behind the hill… Said creature's yellow eyebrows drooped down from both its eyelids like waterfalls, effectively covering most of its eyes.

The huge figure slowly clambered up the hill, causing it to shake violently. The latter wobbled precariously, as if on the verge of crumbling down. A towering shadow fell upon Gao Peng as the figure stood on the peak of the hill.

[Monster Name]: Yellow-Browed Emperor Monster Penguin (Mutant)

[Monster Grade]: Perfect

[Monster Grade]: Level 45

[Monster Attribute]: Ice

[Monster Ability]: Elemental Ice Mastery Level 3, Improved Strength Level 3

[Monster Traits]: Frozen Crown (A formation brought about as a result of the crystallization of a rare royal blood type on top of the penguin's head.

Passive Effect 1: Elemental Ice Mastery +1

Active Effect 2: Expends the energy contained within the Frozen Crown to erect a frozen hellscape around itself.)