Chapter 165 - 117: Frost Giant Dragon Core
Under Rose’s guidance, the group started digging a hole in the ground.
The ground here had been suffused with the energy from the Frost Giant Dragon’s body, making it incredibly hard. However, it was still a far cry from the dragon’s body itself.
With everyone working together, they dug a small hole, which then curved upward to connect to the underside of the dragon’s body, forming a U-shaped tunnel.
Sure enough, they found an opening on the underside of the dragon’s body.
"This doesn’t look like a wound!!!"
Staring at the fleshy opening, the group found it very strange. Moreover, the hole was too small; the bigger members of the team couldn’t fit through.
"Who cares what it is? We’re lucky we can get in at all!"
"Let me test its defenses!" Dong Lin, still brooding over the fact that he couldn’t even break the defenses of a corpse, took out his great cleaver and swung at the fleshy opening with all his might.
"SQUELCH~"
A small gash was cut into the fleshy wall, and some ice-blue liquid trickled out.
Dong Lin’s eyes lit up. He got on the ground and started drinking it. For some reason, the liquid was incredibly tempting to him, but no one else on the team felt the same way. Perhaps it was because Dong Lin was the only one who had mutated and become a hero under the dragon’s influence.
Just as he was drinking the liquid—which was like solidified Ice Energy—the gash on the fleshy wall slowly healed itself.
"Holy shit! No wonder we couldn’t find any wounds. It’s a corpse, but it can still heal itself?!!!"
Seeing this, the group finally understood why they couldn’t find any wounds on the corpse.
"What do we do now?"
"Do we start carving up the Frost Giant Dragon’s body from here, or do we go inside and take a look?" Yuan Xiaobo asked, taking out a cleaver and making a gesturing motion.
"Don’t cut it!!!" Dong Lin, who was still on the ground drinking the Energy Liquid, quickly stopped him. "That would be such a waste! This stuff is precious. My level even started to rise after I drank some."
"If we don’t cut it, how are we supposed to get this big guy back to our territory?"
"Just don’t cut it!!" Dong Lin whined. "Think about it. The moment you cut the dragon’s corpse, the Ice Energy liquid will leak out..."
"I think it’s more like Dragon Blood!" Lin Kong interjected.
"Right, Dragon Blood will leak out, and all those mutated creatures will come running once they catch the scent."
"So what if they come? They can’t even get past Rose’s death qi," Mirus said.
"We don’t need to be afraid of the ordinary mutated creatures, that’s true. But don’t forget, there’s one here that isn’t ordinary. The one that evolved into a High-Level Sub-dragon. Our team isn’t confident we can beat it right now," Dong Lin said, having a rare moment of insight.
The others agreed with him.
Most importantly, if the mutated creatures found this place and started devouring the dragon’s corpse from this opening, their sheer numbers would ensure the Frost Giant Dragon’s body was picked clean in no time. Putting aside what that sub-dragon might become, more sub-dragons would inevitably emerge from the horde. And with their vast numbers, it would be a certainty that a few legendary-grade hero sub-dragons would appear as well.
When that happened, the world would be doomed.
"How about this? You guys go inside the dragon’s body and take a look. You might be able to find its Energy Core. If we can take the core, the rest of the corpse won’t be as useful," Dong Lin suggested, his mind working at peak efficiency.
The group discussed it and decided to have Yuan Xiaobo enter through the opening with an Energy Detector to search for the Energy Core inside the corpse.
"Leave it to me!"
Brimming with confidence, Yuan Xiaobo set off.
Dong Lin remained at the entrance, scraping the wall of the opening to drink the Dragon Blood.
The rest of them entered excavation mode, using their Spiritual Energy to dig a temporary shelter underground.
...
Two days passed. The temporary underground camp was complete. Rose had withdrawn her death qi and set it up near the camp’s entrance to prevent any mutated creatures from getting in.
During this time, the sub-dragon came to the dragon’s corpse every day. It would strike the body to squeeze out Dragon Blood, which it would then drink. It did this three or four times before returning to digest its meal.
At first, everyone was worried that Yuan Xiaobo might be harmed inside the dragon’s body, but they were relieved after communicating with him via a simple radio. Yuan Xiaobo hadn’t felt any of the impacts. Instead, it was the irregular energy fluctuations inside the dragon each day that made him extremely uncomfortable.
However, it was precisely these fluctuations that helped him better pinpoint the Energy Core’s location.
"The captain’s been in there for two days and still hasn’t found the Energy Core!"
"I don’t know. We lost contact with him this morning. Luckily, the Life Detector is still picking up a moving life signal inside the corpse, which means the captain should be fine. He probably just broke the radio by accident."
"When did that happen? How come I didn’t know?"
"Weren’t you busy having an upset stomach from secretly drinking Dragon Blood? It happened then."
"Alright! Alright! I get it." Lin Kong, sweating bullets, cut Niu Armor off, signaling for him to stop talking.
...
Another day passed. Lin Kong lay sprawled at the camp’s exit, bored, watching the surrounding mutated creatures fight over the Dragon Blood.
"Go, Number 3! Number 10 stole your food yesterday, go get ’em back today!!"
He was so bored that he’d even started numbering the mutated creatures, cheering for the ones he liked when they fought each other.
"Lin Kong! Hurry, the captain’s out."
Niu Armor’s shout came from within the camp. Lin Kong’s spirits lifted, and he quickly ran back inside.