Landing 500 Years Early, I Became a God by Digging for Treasures 77

Chapter 77: An Intelligent Opponent (Extra chapter for盟主“三南秃顶”!)

Lu Yuan licked his dry lips, suppressing the nervousness in his heart: “This place is only 3 kilometers from my camp…”

“It’s a good thing it didn’t ambush me at night. I was working on equipment back then…Damn that thing…”

Lu Yuan felt a shiver of fear, and walked on.

Under a corn tree, two cubs were rolling around.

Seeing Lu Yuan, they trotted over, hugged his legs for comfort, their bright eyes almost welling up with tears.

“Hungry?” Lu Yuan squatted down and started petting the cubs.

These chubby bears had soft fur, feeling like plush toys.

He noticed the cubs were also filled with tension and anxiety.

The smaller yellow-haired cub collapsed on the ground, whimpering.

Even with Lu Yuan’s comfort, it trembled uncontrollably with fear.

“Where’s your mother?” Lu Yuan asked, a bad feeling rising in his heart, “Could she have…run away?”

The mother bear had a history of abandoning her cubs and running away; her moral character was absolutely deplorable!

The two cubs couldn’t speak, only trembling with fear, too afraid to return to their den.

With no other choice, Lu Yuan fed them some pomegranates.

Tempted by the rare-grade delicacy, the two cubs finally stopped shaking and devoured the fruit without a care in the world.

Old Wolf：……

“Watch them, don’t eat the cubs,” Lu Yuan waved, instructing the Old Wolf.

“I’m going to check their house.”

The Old Wolf proudly raised its head, jumping onto a large rock.

For a qualified sheepdog, the most important thing is not fighting ability, but focus and the ability to understand commands!

In this respect, the Old Wolf was quite qualified.

“Woof, woof!”

Wait…why are you stealing pomegranates?

Don’t be so pathetic, my friend…

Seeing the Old Wolf’s flippant attitude and bullying the cubs, Lu Yuan shook his head helplessly.

He cautiously entered the Pangu bear’s den. The mother bear was indeed not there. After searching around, he found no signs of a fight, nor any bloodstains.

Just as Lu Yuan was about to leave, he smelled a faint stench again.

Suddenly, Lu Yuan’s eyes widened, and he became alert!

“The Donkey-head monster’s smell again?”

“Did it attack the mother bear?”

Lu Yuan and the mother bear had a history of skirmishes. To say they had a deep bond would be an exaggeration.

The mother bear was wild and untamed, always wary of him, roaring at him whenever she saw him.

After long-term taming proved fruitless, Lu Yuan was a little annoyed and certainly wouldn’t try to get close to the mother bear.

Think about it, even a cute orange cat that bites its owner whenever it sees them wouldn’t be liked!

He, on the other hand, got along quite well with the two cubs. After all, the cubs were less wary, round and chubby, running towards Lu Yuan whenever they saw him.

“Mother bear…”

Life on the Pangu Continent was cruel; even Lu Yuan himself was barely making a living.

But human compassion still made him feel some pity. After leaving the den, he patted the cubs: “What are you two going to do without your mom… How about you follow me?”

There were many such things in nature.

Stronger creatures hunting weaker ones was perfectly normal.

Clearly, the Donkey-head monster was already in motion, leaving Lu Yuan little time to decide.

Back at the camp, after temporarily settling the two homeless cubs and watching them drift off to sleep, Lu Yuan cautiously headed towards the Fire Lizard Valley.

As he approached the area, Lu Yuan clearly felt his Transcendent Fire Seed throbbing intensely, as if it had encountered a natural enemy.

This was an innate instinct from his Transcendent Fire Seed.

And the Old Wolf beside him clearly started to get nervous.

If Lu Yuan weren’t there, it would have already scurried away…

Deep breath, deep breath.

This strange psychological state was different from when he faced the boss, the Man-eating Flower.

The Man-eating Flower was indeed strong, so strong that Lu Yuan had no chance of challenging it.

But as long as you didn’t provoke it, it wouldn’t provoke you.

The Man-eating Flower’s strength was predictable and within comprehension.

But that rotten Donkey-head monster could only be described as eerie.

Thinking about that thing, coupled with the descriptions in the Midea Civilization’s reports, Lu Yuan’s pores contracted, his adrenaline surged, and his hairs stood on end.

He had no idea how strong the opponent was.

“What am I afraid of? Whatever it is, as long as it lives on the Pangu Continent, I’ll have to face it sooner or later.”

Lu Yuan chuckled self-deprecatingly, even preparing for his worldview to be overturned. Anything from Cthulhu to demons and ghosts, he could accept.

“Come on, let me see what you really are!” Lu Yuan suppressed his aura, preparing himself mentally.

“Even if it’s a ghost, early recognition is a good thing.”

Can’t beat it?

Well, there’s nothing you can do…Lu Yuan was actually quite open about death.

If he could live, he hoped to live well, until he returned to his human homeland.

If he died in battle after doing his best, it wouldn’t be unacceptable…

After all, the power of one person is too limited. To think that one can fight against heaven and earth is too naive.

Half an hour later, he arrived at the place where he had previously marked the area with branches. He sniffed twice, smelling a rotten stench.

“That greyish-black miasma has indeed spread further than the past two days.”

The weeds inside the black miasma were even more withered.

The toxicity of this miasma wasn’t very strong; it wouldn’t kill someone instantly.

Lu Yuan climbed a slope, gently lay down in the grass, and took out a salvaged telescope from his pocket, using his peripheral vision to secretly observe the opponent.

Glass, in fact, has a lifespan similar to stone; buried in the ground, it basically doesn’t age.

It was the metal surface of the telescope that had rusted and aged.

Therefore, Lu Yuan took out the two lenses, one convex and one concave, and used wood as the casing to make a simple telescope.

Ever since he gained the “Craftsman’s Talent,” his craftsmanship had improved significantly; simple handiwork was no longer a challenge for him.

The Donkey-head monster was still standing near the Fire Lizard’s remains.

About 5 meters away from the Donkey-head monster was the mother bear.

The mother bear was huge; even sitting there, she was taller than the Donkey-head monster.

She had a look of intense terror, her mouth open, trying to roar but unable to.

Unparalleled fear had paralyzed the bear, eliminating even the desire to attack.

【A female Pangu Grey Bear, seemingly alive, but in a cowering state due to intense fear.】

【Its life force is slowly draining.】

“The mother bear is still alive…” Lu Yuan suppressed his racing heart, lightly tapping the ground.

For the time being, he didn’t have any particularly good ideas.

Charging into the miasma and fighting this monster one-on-one wasn’t wise.

“Unless the opponent charges out and falls into my pre-set trap, I’ll have a chance of winning. But what is it doing squatting by the Fire Lizard’s remains?”

He squinted and watched for a long time.

It seemed to be…eating bones?

No, no, not eating them, but forcefully stuffing the bones into its body!

The process was very slow, because most of the Fire Lizard’s bones were too large, like pillars!

And the Donkey-head monster was only human-sized, about 2 meters tall.

It had to carefully select and carefully grind down these bones before it could force them into its body.

The scene of inserting bones into decaying flesh was somewhat sickening. Foul-smelling, yellowish corpse water constantly splashed out from its body.

The mother bear was paralyzed with fear.

The Donkey-head monster, however, remained unfazed, slowly inserting the bones.

Lu Yuan’s scalp tingled, and thoughts flooded his mind: “What is it doing? Body snatching? Skeleton clan? Undead? Reshaping its body, returning from the dead?”

Although he had some psychological expectations, seeing this scene firsthand was still hard to describe.

His Transcendent Fire Seed continuously transmitted a vague thought: Kill it!

Kill it quickly!

Once it repaired its body, he would no longer be a match for it!

Lu Yuan scratched his hair, calming his racing heart and regaining some composure.

“There are also bones on the mother bear; maybe they’re backup parts for its body repair…It didn’t kill the mother bear; maybe it doesn’t find it suitable?”

Cold sweat trickled down his back as his brain worked at high speed.

In an instant, various thoughts flooded his mind.

“No, no, no, it has a better backup, that is…me?”

“I’m a level-two Transcendent being, one level higher than the mother bear.”

“My physique is similar to its, my bones are obviously more suitable, yet it didn’t hunt me…Why didn’t it come for me?”

“The only possibility is that I have the power to kill it?”

“I have a Transcendent Fire Seed, but the mother bear doesn’t.”

“Before restoring its life force, the Donkey-head monster doesn’t have a sure win.”

“If we analyze this situation…” Lu Yuan’s pupils dilated, thinking of an even more terrifying possibility, “It might…be intelligent!”

Scientists from the Midea Civilization had speculated that some strange, idealistic creatures might possess extremely cunning intelligence.

This was a key point of great debate within the Midea Civilization.

Monsters were already difficult to fight, but with intelligence, their terror level increased exponentially!

The difference in intelligence between intelligent life and animals lies in the fact that intelligent beings can plan for the long term, while animals only see the present.

Now, this Donkey-head monster could resist temptation; if that’s not intelligence, what is it?

This terrifying conclusion made Lu Yuan’s scalp tingle and his pores contract.

Deep down, he raised the Donkey-head monster’s risk level several notches.

Although it might be his own imagination, it’s always better to overestimate the enemy.

“I have to kill it, I must kill it as soon as possible!”

“It already knows about my existence, if I let it recover, I’ll die!”

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(PS: Extra chapter for盟主“三南秃顶”!)

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