Chapter 107 - 94: Secret Card, Next Traversal Location
"Boss!"
After climbing ashore, Wang Biao didn’t waste a second, immediately rushing toward the corpse of the Unihorn Catfish.
Xu Jun was exhausted. After crawling out of the water, he gasped for breath and coughed violently.
He was just an ordinary guy; he didn’t have that kind of superhuman constitution.
He’d been running at a dead sprint for over ten minutes. His heart and lungs were pushed to their breaking point, and his limbs were numb, as if he’d been electrocuted, to the point he could barely feel them.
He rested for a long while before Jia Wen helped him up, and he continued to stagger forward.
The three of them had run the fastest, leaving the large crowd far behind...
They circled around the Unihorn Catfish’s massive body to its head. The depths of its half-open, giant maw were pitch-black, and they couldn’t see a thing inside.
"Boss, Boss?"
"Brother Chong?"
Wang Biao and Xu Jun called out anxiously for a long time. Just as they gritted their teeth, about to dive in, a voice came from the side.
"Stop shouting. I’m fine."
Huh?
The group paused, stunned. They went around to the other side and saw that Chen Chong had gotten out at some point. He was now sitting on the ground, leaning against the Giant Catfish to rest.
Next to him, the Tiger Striped Dog was wagging its tail furiously, constantly licking the foul-smelling slime and blood from his face.
"Brother Chong, you’re okay! That’s great!"
Xu Jun lunged toward him.
Seeing that Chen Chong was unharmed, Wang Biao let out a sigh of relief. His panic finally subsided...
"Alright, alright, don’t touch me. Let me sit by myself for a bit. My whole body hurts."
Pushing Xu Jun away, Chen Chong felt like his body was about to fall apart.
The Unihorn Catfish had thrashed about in the river, writhing in agony and ramming its body against the banks. Stuck inside its mouth, Chen Chong had been subjected to every single impact.
If his body hadn’t been enhanced, for an ordinary person in his place, it wouldn’t have been a question of being thrown out. Their brains would have been scrambled and their bones shaken to pieces.
Even with a physique like Chen Chong’s, he could barely take it.
Before, he had been running on a massive adrenaline rush. Now that it had stopped, his whole body ached, his strength was almost gone, and even walking was a struggle.
If the Tiger Striped Dog hadn’t arrived in time, grabbed his collar with its teeth, and dragged him out, he would have been stuck in there for a while longer.
"You silly thing. Didn’t I tell you to stay on the shore?"
Stroking the Tiger Striped Dog’s injured hind leg, a look of heartache flashed in Chen Chong’s eyes.
No doubt it had been injured when the Unihorn Catfish slapped it in the water.
Fortunately, after a quick check, it seemed no bones were broken. It was just a sprain.
’I’ll take it back to Shen Xinrou to get some medicine. It should recover after a few days of rest...’
After the Tiger Striped Dog mutated, its physical strength had also greatly increased. Otherwise, a single slap from the Unihorn Catfish wouldn’t have just been a sprain for an ordinary hunting dog.
It would have either died on the spot or suffered incurable internal bleeding.
"Brother Chong, hunting this Unihorn Catfish was a huge risk. We almost lost you in the process! You have no idea, I was scared to death back there."
After the excitement faded, Xu Jun recalled the earlier scene, a look of lingering fear on his face.
Chen Chong smiled. "How can there be no risk when hunting a behemoth like this? If killing it were as easy as killing a Moose, would it still be an Extraordinary Creature?"
"But it really was dangerous," Xu Jun said, still shaken.
Chen Chong didn’t say anything more. He just slowly pulled out a stack of Cards from behind his back...
"It was dangerous, sure, but the rewards are huge."
...
"Brother Chen Chong, are you okay?"
"Brother Chong, how did you end up in the Giant Catfish’s mouth? Brother Jun and I were totally dumbfounded when we saw it."
"Brother, did you kill this Giant Catfish, or did it die on its own?"
Zhang Meng, Huang Mao, Zhong Fang, and the rest of the Fishing Club all rushed over.
They looked at Chen Chong, who was resting on the ground, expressing their concern and confusion...
Chen Chong didn’t hide anything and explained everything he had done inside the Unihorn Catfish’s mouth.
After hearing his story, everyone present was stunned, looking at him as if he were a god. Each person’s expression was more shocked and dumbfounded than the last.
"Holy shit! Brother, are you saying the Giant Catfish didn’t swallow you? You jumped in on your own?"
"Stabbing its brain from the inside with a sword... I can’t even wrap my head around hearing it, let alone doing it. That’s fucking badass!"
"Yeah, totally badass! I wouldn’t even dare to dream of something like that!"
"You’re the real man here! If you called me a sissy, I wouldn’t even dare to talk back."
"What are you talking about? If Brother Chen Chong called you a sissy, not only would you not dare to talk back, you’d have to go and put on a skirt..."
Seeing that Chen Chong was fine, Xu Jun reverted to his usual cheeky, grinning self.
"Brother Chong is Brother Chong, so badass I’m speechless. We say we killed this Unihorn Catfish together, but it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say you soloed it. Killing an Extraordinary Creature all by yourself... that’s just insane!"
Chen Chong gave a helpless smile. "If everyone hadn’t worked together to break its horn, it wouldn’t have been so easy for me to kill it afterward."
Zhong Fang stepped forward. "That’s not how it is. You were the one who led the charge to cut off its horn. We barely helped, we just pulled on the rope for a bit in the river. When it comes to killing this Giant Catfish, you, Brother Chen Chong, deserve at least eighty percent of the credit!"
As soon as he said this, everyone else voiced their agreement.
It wasn’t that they were deliberately flattering Chen Chong.
To be honest, most of the people from the Fishing Club didn’t even know him. At first, they were confused about why the entire club had to listen to this guy.
But then they saw what Chen Chong did with their own eyes...
He commanded everyone to lure the Unihorn Catfish, successfully drew it deep into the tributary, fed it the Vermilion Fruit, and when it was immobilized, he was the first to jump into the river, leading the way to climb onto its head and chop off its horn...