Published: February 12, 2025
CHAPTER TEXT:
"Let's stop here for today. Old Phantom really has clumsy hands. I had something to attend to this morning and went out for a while. I returned around ten and started writing. I took breaks for lunch and dinner, wasting at most an hour. Now, after nearly twelve hours, I've written almost nine thousand words. It's just miserable... I hope everyone understands. At the end of the month, I’ll release another chapter, definitely five updates, no, six! Thanks to the book friends who subscribed, thank you."
Nine lives wandered among the bodies of the spirit fire heavy rhinoceroses, occasionally searching for useful items.
"All the magic crystals have been dug out, the horns have been removed, and the fire-imbued pills have been taken from within their bodies."
A life wrapped entirely in a white robe stopped to speak. If one looked closely, they would find it floating above the ground, its hood standing tall, yet the inside was a dark void, nothing could be seen.
"Twelve were skinned, one half-skinned, the rest of the skins are still here."
The speaking life was not much different from a human, except for its long arms and bent waist, its fingertips almost grazing the ground.
"There's nothing valuable left." The third life spoke, resembling the one with the bent waist and long arms.
"These skins are pretty good."
A little girl with horned braids, standing about one meter three tall, said in a childish voice.
If one didn't look at her bulging goldfish eyes, she could easily be considered cute.
Holding a long-handled cleaver at least two meters long, it looked extraordinarily bizarre compared to her frame.
"Probably able to exchange... around fifteen points, that's decent."
While speaking, a human tore open a spirit fire heavy rhinoceros corpse with his hands, shoving raw meat into his mouth, blood dripping down to his chin and body.
The man in golden armor and the woman in purple battle armor frowned at the scene.
"Hofu Kafu, can you not do that? Humanity has long surpassed the era of eating raw flesh and blood; are you reverting to a primitive state?" The woman in purple battle armor had a very bad attitude.
"Hey, better than you bringing back a dead..."
"If you don’t want to die, shut up!"
Someone walked over from behind and slapped Hofu Kafu on the head, knocking the meat out of his mouth.
But Hofu Kafu didn’t dodge, instead, he chuckled, showing no signs of explaining or apologizing, but obediently shut his mouth.
"Take care of your brother, Wade." The man in golden armor glanced at this person before turning to the disgusting life with sparse hair and a nose full of holes.
Wade shrugged, remaining silent.
"Kumar, how’s it going?"
The man in golden armor squatted down in front of Kumar, who was sitting on the ground.
"Checking." Kumar replied, his head lowered while holding a handful of dirt.
The man in golden armor looked at the woman in purple battle armor, who nodded in agreement.
"I'll add five more points to you."
Kumar successfully blackmailed, and a grin appeared on his monster-like face, "Then I’ll do it right away."
He swallowed the dirt, and after a moment, a blurred image reappeared, showing the scene where Ye Zhongming finally killed the ninth-level spirit fire heavy rhinoceros.
Seeing him stuff his weapon into the body of the ninth-level life, several people whistled.
They were excited, but completely unafraid.
"Hawkins, we’ve changed our minds. These two killed so many spirit fire heavy rhinoceroses; they must have a lot of points. To help you, we didn’t do any work, so we only have a little bit of scattered points. We’re at the bottom of the leaderboard, and the last one eliminated will die in three days. You owe us compensation. How about we kill them and split the points?"
The little girl with the horned braids paused her long-handled cleaver on the ground, looking at Hawkins and Amus.
Although the others didn’t speak up in agreement, they all looked at the couple, clearly indicating their support for this proposal.