Chapter 282: Chapter 14: Straight to the Stomach
The crocodile’s tail is stiff and can only swing left and right, not up and down.
Su Xiao certainly wouldn’t miss such an opportunity. Holding the knife in his right hand, he kept slashing, and with his left hand, he even took out the Broken Elf, pressing it against the giant crocodile’s back armor and shooting chaotically, each shot leaving a bloody hole, feeling incredibly satisfying.
Just as Su Xiao was attacking with all his might, he suddenly felt his vision go dark. A huge force came from below, numbing his entire body due to the counter-impact, as if he was soaring through the clouds.
Su Xiao flew through the air, gliding more than ten meters before descending in a Sand Landing Goose Style, skidding several meters on the ground before stopping.
Su Xiao raised his head, his vision doubled, and the bones of his entire body felt like they might fall apart at any moment, with waves of soreness and numbness spreading throughout his body.
The giant crocodile used some unknown method to fling him away, and this threw Su Xiao half to death.
’Combat Tip Seventy-eight: Crocodiles are not to be ridden, especially those of colossal size.’
With this in mind, Su Xiao got up from the ground, retrieved a potion that quickly restored 18% of Life Value, and drank it, causing the intense pain to subside somewhat.
Su Xiao was in bad shape, and so was the giant crocodile, with a dozen crisscrossing wounds on its back, flesh rolling, and the scale armor on its torso stained red.
Having been suddenly thrown, Su Xiao was experiencing a concussion. His head had hit the ground first, and blood was already running down his cheek.
Drip, drip.
The bright red blood dripped onto the scorched earth, and a mountain breeze blew past. Neither Su Xiao nor the giant crocodile moved, both adjusting their states.
The double vision gradually disappeared, and Su Xiao felt a large bump gradually rising on his head, with an increasing tendency to enlarge.
Lightly touching the bump on his head, Su Xiao gritted his teeth in pain, and his vision blacked out.
This giant crocodile was stronger than imagined, and he absolutely couldn’t let his guard down, lest he meet his end here today.
Taking out the Eye of Havna (Green), Su Xiao scanned the giant crocodile’s information.
[Comparing both parties’ Intelligence Attributes..., comparison complete. Our side’s intelligence is 2.33 times that of the enemy, acquiring 100% of the enemy’s data.]
The information is as follows:
Name: Mutant Crocodile (Boss-level creature)
Life Value: 65%
Mana Value: 0/120
Power: 37
Agility: 26
Stamina: 39
Intelligence: 12
Charm: 3
Skill 1: Ancient Creature (Passive): Increases Life Value by 3000 points.
Skill 2: Hunting (Passive): When the mutant crocodile enters hunting state, there is a 90% chance to block intelligence perception effects below 40 points.
Skill 3: Whip Tail (Active), the mutant crocodile swings its tail to strike, causing Power × 5 damage to the enemy (Due to tail damage, this skill’s power decreases by 40%).
Skill 4: Death Rotation (Active), the mutant crocodile bites its prey, then spins its body wildly, dealing Power × 2 damage per second, with a 30% chance of performing a bite check. If the bite check passes, the mutant crocodile will bite the prey apart.
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Su Xiao gradually approached the giant crocodile; its overall capability was almost on par with a War Beast, though of different size, the crocodile was more troublesome.
If Su Xiao had a choice, he would definitely choose to deal with the War Beast rather than this crocodile.
Being a Ruler isn’t easy, the War Beast had over two hundred Contractors dealing with it, but this crocodile, Su Xiao had to face alone.
Su Xiao had no complaints about this; high risk, high reward—it’s only fair.
The benefits of the Contractors killing the War Beast were plentiful, but they had to be split among more than two hundred people, and even the leaders couldn’t take too much.
However, if Su Xiao killed this Mutant Crocodile, all the benefits would be his alone; the two can’t be compared.
Su Xiao and the crocodile confronted each other for about a minute; he spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, and the suffocating feeling in his chest vanished.
The crocodile had also almost recovered, and both simultaneously advanced towards the other.
Today, only one side could leave this basin alive.
Ten meters, five meters, as the distance closed, Su Xiao burst forward.
In two steps, he was in front of the crocodile, its huge blood-reeking mouth coming at him.
At this moment, Su Xiao came to an abrupt stop, barely halting in front of the crocodile, that gaping maw right before him.
With a flick of his palm, a small white ’chewing gum’ the size of a thumb appeared in his left hand.
Su Xiao casually tossed it, the crocodile’s large mouth needing no aim, it was thrown right into its throat.
After doing all this, Su Xiao dodged the crocodile’s bite and quickly retreated, the crocodile’s mouth wide open, seemingly surprised why Su Xiao wasn’t continuing the fight.
"IQ is indeed a weakness, explode!"
Boom!
A muffled sound came from within the crocodile’s chest and abdomen, its belly suddenly swelling, blood gushing from its mouth and nose.
The crocodile stood dazed in place, a torrent of black blood oozing from its mouth, with visible fragments of internal organs.
With a thud, the crocodile collapsed to the ground, its upper and lower jaws aligned diagonally, looking somewhat comical.
Su Xiao didn’t rashly advance, without a kill notification, he wouldn’t make such a rookie mistake.
Taking out the Broken Elf, Su Xiao aimed several shots at the crocodile’s head.
Although his Spear Ability was mediocre, with a distance of five meters and a still target, missing would be quite unreasonable.
Several blood sprays erupted from the crocodile’s head, the crocodile lay motionless on the ground, its vertical pupils starting to lose focus.
Firing six shots continuously, the crocodile still wasn’t dead.
Su Xiao still didn’t approach, pulling out the last Alchemy Bomb and threw it.
Just as the Alchemy Bomb was flung into the air, the crocodile’s unfocused pupils suddenly sharpened, its misaligned jaws lining up again—this crocodile was playing dead.
Boom.
The explosion echoed through the basin, and a few mutant beasts attracted by the scent of blood fled far away, fearing the explosion caused by the nuclear strike.
A large area of flames enveloped the crocodile, the impact of the explosion spreading outward.
Su Xiao blocked his face with his left hand, his gaze fixed intently on the firelight in front of him.
Whoosh~.
The sound of rushing wind approached, a large, scorched body charging out of the flames—it was the Mutant Crocodile.
At this moment, its lower jaw was blown away, one eye was blinded from the blast, with numerous parts of its body exposing bone.
Even so, the crocodile was still not dead, with 39 points of Stamina, it was no mere decoration.
The crocodile lunged head-on, prompting Su Xiao to retreat in the face of this impending death struggle.
He was about to leap back when a sharp pain shot through his calf, reviving previous injuries.
As the acute pain faded, it was too late for Su Xiao to retreat, the crocodile had already pounced in front of him, aiming a bite at his head.
This was the crocodile’s habitual action, but it seemed to forget that its lower jaw had been blown off, forever losing its biting ability.
Su Xiao coldly chuckled, the unexpected incident startling him greatly.
His left hand, wrapped in red metal armguard, reached out, grabbing the crocodile’s upper jaw, while Dragon Slash followed closely behind.
Poof, the knife pierced from the throat down, reaching to the stomach!
The crocodile’s body convulsed, and even after taking such a blow, it didn’t die, it seemed those 3000 Life Value was more than just for show.