The City of Terror

 For Wei Xiao Bei, as long as he has his great spear, he wouldn’t fear to face a normal 3-Star Creature, let alone the Two-Star Terror Creature, Dang Kang.

The spear thrust out three times. The Dang Kang’s body stopped as three large holes appeared, shooting out fountains of blood.

In an instant, the blood that came out exceeded half of the total blood running through its body, immediately causing the sturdy Dang Kang to collapse.

Wei Xiao Bei’s thrusts had landed on its brain, spine, and abdomen. Even if the Dang Kang had not died from blood loss, striking these three spots would without a doubt result in the same end. A swift death.

 260 evolution points obtained.

Looking at the obtained evolution points, Wei Xiao Bei could not help but frown.

The returns from the Dang Kang were low, especially considering that previously Dang Kangs gave him 300 evolution points.

Wei Xiao Bei did not think that the Dang Kangs were the same as the Lickers, who became weaker and gave fewer evolution points due to the movie’s removal.

He could see that the Dang Kangs were still alive and kicking. After fighting them, he could tell that they had not grown weaker, yet the evolution points he received had decreased by 40 points.

Even if he did not use [Precise Calculation], Wei Xiao Bei could speculate the reason for this decrease.

He guessed that it functioned similarly to role-playing games. Once a person had become stronger, the experience gained from killing monsters would decrease.

Naturally, this might also not be the correct answer.

No matter what though, this decrease in evolution points had slowed down Wei Xiao Bei’s leveling significantly.

Shaking his head, Wei Xiao Bei threw this worry to the back of his mind. He dragged the Dang Kang to the lake, exiting the Dang Kangs line of sight.

Wei Xiao Bei did not want to attract the other Dang Kangs or even stronger monsters while he was dismantling the one he had just killed.

Letting the blood, removing the skin, cutting the flesh, and picking the bones, this was the entire process required to dismantle a Dang Kang. Wei Xiao Bei used a T-Rex tooth turned dagger during the procedure.

If another person saw him, they would be stunned.

Although Wei Xiao Bei’s dismantling method had not reached the level of an expert butcher dismantling beef, it was still a sight to see. With every descent of the dagger, meat slices landed on the stone plate beside him.

Most metal tools corroded in the Dust World, and it was a problem that he couldn’t possibly solve. Therefore, he instead used an alternative material.

A hard stone could be turned into stone bowls, stone plates, or stone pans with some effort. Although it was lower in quality compared to what was industrially produced in modern times, it was still just as useful.

The finest part of the Dang Kang was a small piece of meat on its spine. Although the piece was small compared to its entire body, it was still weighed around 50-60 kilograms.

Wei Xiao Bei placed the piece into his Small Holding Bag, not wanting to touch a kind of meat as high-quality as this just yet.

Though after cleaning the meat in the river, it had attracted a bit of trouble.

Plate-sized reddish black tortoises appeared from the lake in the thousands. Their beaks were like an eagle’s, their backs appearing to have a vortex patterned design, and their tails were as long as a viper’s.

The tortoises followed the scent of blood as they raised their heads and looked toward him.

Wei Xiao Bei felt as though he was suffering from a headache upon seeing them. Without even using [Status Appraisal], he could tell the history of these tortoises.

These things were called Xuan Tortoises. They were one of the monsters recorded in the Classic of Mountain and Sea.

Wei Xiao Bei did not dare provoke them, and surprisingly his reasoning was not purely due to their numbers. Soon, a hill-sized head appeared among the group.

The Xuan Tortoise that appeared had a large body. Although it was not as big as the Ba-Serpent, it was still around 70-80 meters. The shell that slowly appeared was like a moving island.

Wei Xiao Bei judged that it was at least a 3-Star Terror Creature, though there was also a possibility that it was a 4-Star Creature. Just from the way it moved, how the water under it was bubbling, and how its head was covered by mist, it was easy to tell that it was not a good idea to provoke it.

Luckily, none of them held any hostility toward Wei Xiao Bei. On the other hand, they held certain expectations regarding the scent of blood that flowed past Wei Xiao Bei’s foot.

Wei Xiao Bei might as well just throw the offals into the water, which would cause the tortoises to fight over it.

Unfortunately, the offals were not enough to satisfy the tortoises. They let out strange snapping noises to urge Wei Xiao Bei on.

Not having any choice, Wei Xiao Bei threw the skeleton that still held a lot of meat, a pig head, some ground meat, and a large portion of meat slices into the river.

The giant Xuan Tortoise did not show any modesty as it swallowed the entire skeleton whole. In just a few bites, its sharp teeth had completely crushed the skeleton, swallowing it whole.

The rest of the tortoises fought over the ground meat and the pig head.

In truth, according to their numbers and the giant tortoise’s size, this should not be enough for them to eat till full.

However, the giant tortoise appeared to be fully satisfied. It nodded its head at Wei Xiao Bei and sunk back into the water and disappeared. Shortly afterward, the small tortoises also sunk back into the river.

The meat he provided appeared to be enough of a banquet for the tortoises.

When they left, Wei Xiao Bei could only let out a light smile because he saw a new line in his battlelog.

Battlelog:

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You encountered a large group of migrating Xuan Tortoises.

…

The group of Xuan Tortoise appealed for food from the host.

…

You have established a slightly friendly relationship with the Xuan Tortoises.

……

There was no doubt that this was a good thing, but Wei Xiao Bei quickly threw this thought to the back of his mind.

His reasoning was very simple. These Xuan Tortoises were only guests that were passing by, and going to a location completely unbeknownst to him. Moreover, with only a slightly friendly relationship, it was likely impossible to convince them to help him fight. At most, they would probably not attack him.

Yet, in the future, Wei Xiao Bei did not expect that this slightly friendly relationship would actually help him a lot.

Right now, he was only thinking that if he had given them more meat, their relationship might not become any better as they were only monsters.

Soon, Wei Xiao Bei lit a fire and began to cook by the riverside.

Because he only had some meat and a few condiments, the only thing he could cook was barbecue.

The remaining meat he had left excluding the meat inside the Small Holding Bag only weighed around ten kilograms. As a result, he was able to finish cooking the meat quickly.

After raising his [Cooking] skill to perfection and using 2-Star Terror Creature as an ingredient, the barbecue that he had cooked increased in quality.

For every one hundred pieces of barbecue that he cooked, there were around five that were of rare quality.

Name: Wild Boar Barbecue (Rare Quality)

Description: This item was created by the host’s cooking skill. The main ingredient is Dang Kang meat.

Effect 1: Fragrance increase by 80%

Effect 2: Taste increase by 80%

Effect 3: Small mental strength recovery

Effect 4: Small stamina recovery

Effect 5: Muscle attribute temporarily increased by 5 points.

Effect 6: This item can be brought out of the Dust World.

 ….

Compared to the previously barbecued meat, the effect of the rare quality meat was a lot greater.

The fragrance and taste did not matter much, but the mental strength and stamina recovery only appeared in certain high-quality dishes. The most important effects though were the fifth and sixth effect, which made its value increase a lot.

It could actually increase the muscle attribute by 5 points temporarily!

Wei Xiao Bei ate one of the rare quality dishes. When the meat touched his taste bud, he felt his world open wide as a pleasurable sensation immediately surged into his body.

It could be said that having perfection in [Cooking] would immediately make any food taste delicious.

Wei Xiao Bei seemed to be captivated by the taste.

After chewing a few times, the tender meat had been ground, leading to him immediately swallowing it.

In a short amount of time, he could feel his muscles bulge slightly and his entire body filled with power.

After this test, he reached a conclusion on the meat’s effect.

For Wei Xiao Bei, the meat could roughly increase his muscle attribute by two points, though for a normal person the increase probably slightly exceeded five points.

The time limit for the increase was roughly ten minutes for him. If it was Huang Kuna and Zhu Xin Yi, it should roughly last for half an hour.

This was already not bad.

Moreover, it could be brought out of the Dust World! This had further increased its worth.

Thinking about this, Wei Xiao Bei took out the Dang Kang’s spinal meat and took his time to barbecue them.

The quality of the spinal meat had allowed Wei Xiao Bei to create a lot more rare quality dishes compared to other meats.

More than fifty kilograms of spinal meat had given him more than sixty pieces of rare quality barbecue.

There was no doubt that Wei Xiao Bei could quickly meet the requirement of 500 rare quality dishes to increase his [Cooking] skill.

A single Dang Kang should allow him to create at least 200 rare quality barbecue dishes!

Thinking about this, Wei Xiao Bei looked at the wandering Dang Kangs with greedy eyes.

However, he did not go to them for now and turned around.

Before he was able to reach the Monster Tree forest, he saw Huang Kun and Zhu Xin Yi running over to him with the rest of the tamed monsters, with none missing.