Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 140: The Boy Who Cried Wolf


"I hear the breathing of a Giant Beast up ahead!" the Shell Lady whispered nervously into his ear.

"Good giant, we can't move forward anymore, let's head this way."

"Retreat, retreat, you'll be eaten!"

Chen Shouyi walked for half an hour, only to find he had circled back to where he started.

Damn!

He glanced at the Shell Lady, who was still cautiously looking around.

He was speechless.

Isn't this too cautious? At this rate, I won't be able to go anywhere.

This time, Chen Shouyi decided to stop listening to her random commands.

When the Shell Lady shouted nervously that there was a Giant Beast ahead, Chen Shouyi continued moving forward boldly. Half a minute later, a creature the size of a puppy scurried out of the bushes in a panic.

As the Shell Lady issued a warning of being eaten, an arrow shot out like lightning and swiftly pierced through the head of a fierce beast.

A fierce wind swirled around him, making his body blur. A colorful snake-like creature lurking opportunistically in the bushes was blown away by the wind before it could even approach.

The wind he controls now has reached level seven, making it impossible for such lightweight creatures to get close to him.

He continued forward, unstoppable, like a god slaying demons, where all the wild beasts either fled or were killed with one strike.

A top-tier Martial Artist in the human world could still hold a middle-low position in an alien world, practically a small boss. As long as he didn't encounter powerful supernatural beings, his basic survival skills were sufficient to ensure safety.

The Shell Lady, initially startled, quickly quieted down and eventually became silent.

After a dozen minutes, the Shell Lady suddenly shouted again, "Oh no, good giant, we can't go any further, there's something very big and bad ahead."

Not again!

Completely immune to her "false alarms," Chen Shouyi didn't take it seriously and continued walking forward.

After walking several hundred meters and just rounding a large tree,

he abruptly stopped, his heart nearly skipping a beat.

A Giant Beast resembling a lizard, six to seven meters long, stood towering and watching him fiercely.

Its body was covered in yellow and green scales, with a grotesque head full of lumps like bumps. Its amber eyes devoid of emotion stared coldly at Chen Shouyi, while its scarlet tongue darted in and out.

At this moment, they were only four or five meters apart. The fearsome head was almost close enough for Chen Shouyi to smell the rancid odor it emanated. The Shell Lady, forgetting about Chen Shouyi, flew up frightfully and darted into a nearby tree hole.

Heart pounding wildly, Chen Shouyi didn't dare move, silently regretting not heeding the Shell Lady's warning.

...

Perhaps having never seen such a humanoid, the Giant Beast cocked its head, watching Chen Shouyi warily with its large amber eyes but made no move.

However, this caution, born out of vigilance, did not last long. After all, to it, humans were too tiny to pose any real threat. It decided to taste this prey it had never encountered before.

Its heavy body began to move slowly, its limbs like four pillars pressing into the soft ground.

As it moved, Chen Shouyi did too. He let go of his suitcase, fixing his gaze on the Giant Beast's eyes, and began backing away slowly.

There was no time for any idle thoughts.

Moreover, compared to the giant he encountered during the Martial Artist combat assessment, this lizard seemed significantly weaker, which calmed Chen Shouyi slightly.

Without showing any sign, he drew an arrow from his quiver.

But as soon as he notched the arrow and started to draw the bow, the Giant Beast moved in an instant, its vicious head darting toward him. Its head was the size of an SUV, and the approaching wind carried an indescribable rancid stench.

On the brink of peril, without thinking, Chen Shouyi dropped the half-drawn War Bow, gripped his sword hilt, and leaped to the left. Mid-air, he drew his sword and, after rolling on the ground, immediately stood up.

Almost simultaneously, a patch of nearby brambles was bitten off by a blood-filled maw, and with a slight tug, the entire patch was uprooted.

The giant lizard chewed a few times and swallowed, its limited intelligence puzzling it since it didn't sense the sweet blood flowing down its throat, only pain and bitterness.

However, Chen Shouyi's actions were uninterrupted. Once standing again, and while the opponent was distracted, he pushed off hard with his feet, charging under its belly.

Its belly's white scales aligned neatly, reflecting a faint multicolored sheen in the refracted light, looking horrifying upon closer inspection.

But Chen Shouyi had no stray thoughts, taking just a few steps to get under its belly.

The giant lizard was five to six meters long, but lying flat on the ground, it wasn't tall. The highest point, its head, was just two to three meters above the ground, and the throat area was less than two meters.

This height was easily reachable for Chen Shouyi.

Gripping his sword with both hands, he sprinted forward, the air parting rapidly on either side.

In his rapid advance, his muscles tensed, and he swung the sword fiercely in the next moment.

A sound like tearing cloth echoed, the feel of the blade was decidedly rough, but with his immense strength, there wasn't any hesitation as it sliced through, leaving a massive bloody gash.

The entire throat of the Giant Beast was nearly half cut open. After landing such a blow, Chen Shouyi didn't pause and, with another step, ran out from under its belly, sprinting dozens of meters away before stopping.

He clutched his Long Sword, panting heavily, his eyes fixed on the giant lizard, which was now in dire straits.

Blood gushed from its wound as though from a high-pressure faucet, and the giant lizard clearly felt something amiss, letting out a series of hissing sounds, which only hastened its death.

Within half a minute, it bled out and finally collapsed with a thud, kicking up a cloud of dust.

He exhaled lightly, feeling that dealing with such large creatures wasn't as difficult as imagined.

Besides its initial lightning-fast attack, its responses and movements were rather clumsy, no different from ordinary humans, much less challenging than the giant from the assessment.

As long as the opportunity was grasped, it was entirely possible to land a fatal strike.

Soon, the Shell Lady, who had been hiding in the tree hole, finally flew over unsteadily, "Good giant, you're so powerful."

Chen Shouyi hummed with slight pride.

Then, he went back to pick up the War Bow and retrieved his suitcase.

"Next time, when you find something this big, let me know. If it's smaller, then don't bother telling me," Chen Shouyi said, pointing at the massive twitching corpse.

"Okay!" the Shell Lady responded, tilting her head thoughtfully before adding, "What about something slightly smaller? Should I tell you?"

"Yes!" Chen Shouyi replied.

"What about a bit smaller than that?"

"Yes!"

"And a bit smaller than that?"

"Yes!"

"So..."

Are you done yet?

Chen Shouyi quickly interrupted:

"If it's smaller than twice my size, then don't mention it."

Chen Shouyi then asked, "By the way, how do you find them?"

"I didn't see them, I heard them," the Shell Lady said proudly. "Their breathing gives them away; loud breathing means big, quiet breathing means small."

"You're really amazing!" Chen Shouyi gave her a thumbs up, genuinely complimenting her.

The Shell Lady beamed with joy, gave him a peck on the cheek, and said, "Good giant, you're also very powerful."

Probably learned it from cartoons.

Unable to resist, Chen Shouyi touched his face and laughed, "I'll reward you when we get back."

"Is it a big gemstone?"

"It's definitely a big gemstone!" Chen Shouyi agreed affably.

"Smooch, smooch, smooch!" The next moment, his face received several more kisses.

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