Chapter 288 - 170: Extraordinary Beehive! Taming the Fierce Poisonous Bee! Suddenly Understanding the Bloodthirsty Vine King

Chapter 288: Chapter 170: Extraordinary Beehive! Taming the Fierce Poisonous Bee! Suddenly Understanding the Bloodthirsty Vine King

The rainy season usually lasts for about a month.

With such a long duration, it likely wouldn’t even be over by the next transmigration.

Even knowing it would only last ten days, it would still severely interfere with their current hunting.

For the next few days, they would be almost entirely confined to the area around the school, unable to head into the jungle to search for resources.

After all, the jungle animals would be hiding in their dens, avoiding the outdoors. Even if they went out, there would be nothing to gain.

But for the three days leading up to the rainy season, some animals would still be out foraging... This at least gave them some time to prepare.

The three-day precursor to the rainy season would probably just be light rain, and most animals would still choose to wander and forage outside.

He could use these few days to find as many more resources as possible. Otherwise, once the real rainy season arrived, venturing out for supplies would become a luxury.

Thinking this, Chen Chong resolved to focus all his energy on stockpiling resources over the next few days.

Things like domesticating the Fierce Poisonous Bees, finding wild mountain goats, and various other food sources that could be reared or stockpiled...

If the first two pieces of intelligence were just appetizers, the third was what made Chen Chong freeze.

Seeing it, Chen Chong finally understood why the previous daily settlement had mentioned that he had "helped the Stone Claw Eagle escape" as part of his rewards.

’So that’s why! Its offshoots were wiped out on a massive scale, and the Bloodthirsty Vine King suffered a backlash!’

After a long pause, Chen Chong chuckled.

He had originally thought that killing the Parasites wouldn’t have any effect on the Bloodthirsty Vine King’s main body, but now it seemed the exact opposite was true.

Killing one or two Parasites might have a negligible effect on the Bloodthirsty Vine King.

But when the numbers reached a certain point, the cumulative damage could not be underestimated.

Evidently, that was exactly what had happened to the Bloodthirsty Vine King.

He recalled the Parasites he’d slain in the plaza, plus the ones under the faculty apartment building. The total had to be at least a hundred.

The deaths of so many Parasites had dealt significant damage to the Bloodthirsty Vine King.

But Chen Chong knew the real reason the Stone Claw Eagle had broken free was the ruckus he’d caused deep in the abyss.

Even though he hadn’t gained much from that trip, it had shattered the long-standing balance between the Bloodthirsty Vine King and the Stone Claw Eagle.

He recalled his escape from underground, when he’d worried that the heavily injured Stone Claw Eagle—its wing pierced—would be parasitized and devoured by the Bloodthirsty Vine King.

Now it seemed that worry had been completely unnecessary...

Although he didn’t know how the injured Stone Claw Eagle had escaped the Bloodthirsty Vine King’s clutches or where it had fled, as long as the Vine King’s plan for it had failed, it was a net positive for him.

After all, if it had actually managed to devour the Stone Claw Eagle and advance to an S-Class Extraordinary Creature, he would be the one in trouble...

Amidst his relief, Chen Chong also felt a strange sort of empathy for the Bloodthirsty Vine King.

Not even counting the Parasites he’d wiped out at the school, there was the Unihorn Catfish, the Blood-tooth Python, and now the Stone Claw Eagle.

He had foiled the Bloodthirsty Vine King’s plans three times.

If he had interfered just one time less, it probably would have amassed enough power to successfully advance to S-Class.

At this thought, Chen Chong suddenly understood why the Bloodthirsty Vine King hated him so much—why it went berserk and tried to crush him whenever it found him.

If he were the Bloodthirsty Vine King, he’d probably do the same thing.

He might even have a more extreme reaction...

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