Armadillo wasn't really hungry, but he was worried that the two of them would fight after they got out. If both of them got injured, it would be fine. After all, the two of them had strong regenerative abilities. The most important thing was that they couldn't expose themselves. They hadn't figured out who the person who sent the message was, and if there were any traps, so they couldn't be too reckless.
The sky gradually brightened. On the hillside, the whole mountain looked gray. Some of the plants that grew on it had a depressing hue. There were also some white plants, but not many of them.
Next to the gray forest, Rubu was tearing a clawed beast apart. It didn't have to do this, but Rubu was in a bad mood, so this prey that he just caught became his target to vent his anger.
From the hillside, a few black dots could be seen moving on the ground in the distance, and these black dots were decreasing rapidly. Those black dots were the common black clawed beasts on this planet, and the reason why they were decreasing was simple. A cat was eating them to fill its stomach.
The gray cat and the gray land didn't look conspicuous at all. It was like a natural camouflage, so it didn't stand out from afar.
Ordinary people wouldn't be able to see what was happening without the help of tools, but Ruble and Armadillo weren't humans. Their vision was very good, and even without tools, they could see everything clearly without missing a single detail.
It was a small cat, but when the black clawed beasts pounced on it, its mouth suddenly widened and swallowed the black clawed beasts. Then, the second one, the third one …
These clawed beasts were also intelligent. They knew that this inconspicuous animal was not easy to deal with, so they started to run away. Huimao chased after them, and with its speed, only a few clawed beasts could escape.
"No wonder Darr cried when he was bitten by that cat. If that cat really ate as much as it wanted, Darr's little crocodile would easily become its meal. But how big is that cat's stomach? "Armadillo slowly crawled over and looked at Huimao and said to Rubu.
Armadillo could tell from Huimao's movements that Huimao was quite strong. Not to mention its speed, just its hunting speed was something that Armadillo could not achieve. He didn't even need to bite the cat and directly swallowed it. He wasn't like Bonar, the big snake. Besides, this cat was swallowed whole. If it were to be compared to the group of beasts in AF1, it would definitely be ranked among them.
Rubu gnawed on the bones of the Sharp-clawed Beast and said impatiently, "Who knows? Aren't you afraid of bursting from eating so fast? "
As soon as Rubu finished speaking, Huimao stopped chasing the clawed beasts. The remaining clawed beasts took this opportunity to escape.
"What happened to it?" Armadillo saw that Huimao had suddenly stopped moving and was squatting in the distance, doing something unknown. Only his ears twitched from time to time, and his hooked tail wagged quite a bit, as if he had discovered something new.
When Rubu heard Armadillo's words, he stopped chewing and looked at Huimao.
Huimao maintained his squatting position for a while, then he opened his mouth and spat out a black Sharp-clawed Beast that he had just swallowed.
Armadillo and Rubu were speechless.
Disgusting!
Not long after the black claw beasts were swallowed, they went in alive. By the time they were spat out, a layer of them had been digested. Even the claws of the claw beasts had been dissolved, becoming shorter and softer. They were not as sharp as before. The Sharp-clawed Beast that was half-digested looked like a waste product. It was no longer as ferocious and murderous as before.
"Does that cat have the habit of chewing itself?" Armadillo asked.
Rubu turned its head away, "Disgusting! Felines are indeed eccentric animals. " It knew there were a few "big cats" in AF1 that liked to play with their prey until they were crippled before eating them. In comparison, the cat in front of it was even crazier. It was chewing itself!
Because of Huimao's disgusting behavior, Rubu lost its appetite. It lifted its paw and kicked the remaining Sharp-clawed Beast into the woods. There were some small animals waiting to collect the leftovers.
The remaining Sharp-clawed Beast was quickly surrounded by some small rodents that broke out from the ground. Not long after, not even its bones were left.
"Hey, something is wrong with that cat. Is it food poisoning?!" Armadillo wagged his tail and poked Rubu, who was lying on the ground with its eyes closed.
Rubu immediately became energetic when he heard the word "food poisoning". He had just eaten half of the Sharp-clawed Beast, so it should not be poisonous. It could even smell poisonous meat. Of course, there might be some special circumstances.
A lizard and a wolf stared at Huimao. Huimao was jumping around the half-digested Sharp-clawed Beast.
After jumping for a while, Huimao stretched out its paw. Its short paw grew longer, and it started to cut open the stomach of the Sharp-clawed Beast.
Armadillo and Rubu were speechless. Why didn't they know that cats had such a weird habit?
It was understandable if Huimao wanted to eat the internal organs, but the problem was that it was really dissecting the cat! Can you imagine a cat that was excited to find food spitting out the food it swallowed and dissecting it? What a scam!
In fact, Rubu and Armadillo couldn't feel Huimao's current mood. Huimao was very excited at the moment, because it keenly discovered something fun. It hadn't played with this thing for a long time, and Silin also hadn't played with it for a long time.
When it was digesting the Sharp-clawed Beast, Huimao discovered that there was another kind of animal living in the Sharp-clawed Beast's body. If it was right, it was the parasite that Silin mentioned!
Every time he found a new parasite with great potential, Silin would always make something to "play with." Compared to those big guys, Huimao preferred to play with these small things.
It used its claws to cut open the half-digested skin of the Sharp-clawed Beast, and then cut open its stomach. There was a worm in the stomach that looked like a small scorpion, and it was only the size of an adult's thumb. It clung tightly to the wall of the Sharp-clawed Beast's stomach, and the stomach wall of the Sharp-clawed Beast was much thinner.
The worms attached to the Sharp-clawed Beast's stomach wall would steal the energy of the food, and a part of the food that the Sharp-clawed Beast swallowed would be digested by these worms.
When the Sharp-clawed Beast's stomach was cut open, the worms realized that they were in danger and wanted to escape. They used their claws to tear open the already thinned stomach wall and tried to escape.
However, their speed was still not as fast as Huimao. Huimao stretched out its claws and pulled the worms back, then ran and pulled them back.
On the hillside, Ruble and Amadiro were stunned by what they saw.
"What is that thing?" Rubu asked.
"I don't know. It seems to be from the Sharp-clawed Beast's stomach. Rubu, did you eat the Sharp-clawed Beast's stomach?" Armadillo asked worriedly. Before it knew what was going on, it wasn't sure if the worms would affect them or not. Armadillo shivered when he thought of the worms in their stomach, and the scales on his body stood up.
"No, I was disgusted by that thing before I had the chance to eat it." Rubu was glad that it didn't continue to chew on the Sharp-clawed Beast, otherwise it might have eaten the whole thing.
Rubu and Armadillo didn't pay attention to this when they ate before, but after witnessing Wheeze's actions today, they were probably going to be traumatized for a long time to come. They had to make sure that there were no strange insects in their meat before they ate!
"Huh?" Armadillo raised its tail and swung Rubu, who was trying to check its stomach, and pointed in a direction with its chin.
Rubu looked in the direction that Armadillo pointed. About three hundred meters away from where Huimao was, there was a human teenager hiding behind a few big rocks. Judging from the teenager's attire, he should be a hunter from the city. He had a gun and a crossbow in his hand, and he was carefully hiding behind the rocks, staring at Huimao's direction. He looked very nervous, but he tried to stay calm.
All in all, he was a pretty good hunter.
"Should we remind the cat?" Armadillo asked.
"Remind it what?" Rubu didn't care.
"Remind it not to eat people randomly."
Rubu was speechless. This was indeed a problem.
… …
As usual, Dan Tu joined the hunting team in the morning to hunt Croc Beasts. However, he saw an injured Croc Beast on the way, and he didn't want to give it up. After all, a Croc Beast could be exchanged for more resources, and it was much better than those small Croc Beasts. Moreover, this Croc Beast was injured.
Dan Tu thought this was a good opportunity, so he informed the team leader. The team leader gave him thirty minutes, and if he couldn't come back within thirty minutes, they would not wait for him. A lone hunter would most likely be eaten by the Croc Beasts, no matter how strong the hunter was. After all, the area outside the city was the Croc Beasts' territory.
When the communicator was switched on, the magnetic field would be very strong, and the Croc Beasts were very sensitive to magnetic fields. Therefore, all the hunters who came out to hunt would turn off their communicators, or they would be attacked by the Croc Beasts that followed the scent of blood.
Dan Tu had learned a lot of skills from the experienced Croc Beasts since he was a child. He joined the hunting team when he was ten, and now he could be considered an experienced hunter. He knew how to hide and track.
Dan Tu carefully chased after the injured Croc Beast, thinking about the best time to make his move. He couldn't afford to run into other Croc Beasts, or it would be difficult for Dan Tu alone.
Finally, Dan Tu found an opportunity. However, just as he was about to make his move, the injured Croc Beast suddenly screamed and ran in another direction anxiously.
Was he exposed?
Dan Tu was about to continue chasing, but he suddenly sensed something coming, so he hid again. Not long after, two Croc Beasts ran past them, as if something terrifying was chasing them. This should be the reason why the injured Croc Beast was so anxious.
Dan Tu looked in the direction the two Kroc Beasts had come from. Just what was it that could make the two Kroc Beasts so afraid? What did the Croc Beasts see? The Croc Beasts had always claimed to be the overlords of this grey land.
The injured Croc Beast would not be able to catch up with them in such a short time, and there were only fifteen minutes left. Go back?
Dan Tu was reluctant. His mind was filled with questions. In the end, driven by curiosity, Dan Tu carefully sneaked in the direction the Croc Beast came from. Not long after, he saw a flat ground at the foot of a mountain. There was a cat squatting on the ground. There were no cats on this planet. He had only seen them in books, magazines, and on TV in the city. Those who hadn't read magazines or TV would not know that there was such an animal called a cat.
Why was there a cat here?
But what surprised Dan Tu even more was that, according to the book, a cat's attack power wasn't strong, but this small cat was standing in front of an unknown thing. Dan Tu studied it carefully for a long time before he realized that it was a Croc Beast. If it weren't for his understanding of the Croc Beast, he wouldn't have been able to recognize the Croc Beast that had been severely corroded.
How did the Croc Beast become like this? Why was the cat squatting beside it in a daze?
However, what happened next shocked Dan Tu. The cat's claws could instantly grow so long that it easily cut open the Croc Beast's skin and dissected it.
When he saw the insects, Dan Tu's face turned pale, just like the first time he killed a Croc Beast.
Fear, Dan Tu was now quite afraid. He regretted coming here out of curiosity. Wasn't this just courting death?!
Everything on TV and in books was f * cking fake! How could a cat be a weak animal?! Would a weak animal dissect a Croc Beast so easily?!
He was now absolutely sure that the Croc Beasts were afraid of this cat. This cat was not even as long as his forearm.
He tried to calm his racing heart and think of a plan. He couldn't turn on the communicator. If he did, he would be discovered. He couldn't call for help, and no one would come to save him. It was best to retreat quietly.
As soon as he turned his head, a voice came from beside him.
"Yo, kid, where do you think you're going?"
Dan Tu was startled. He reflexively prepared to shoot, but before he could do so, his vision went black and he lost consciousness.
Huimao sniffed Dan Tu's body and looked at the gun and crossbow on Dan Tu with disgust. It was as Silin had said, this place was really poor and backward. However, the young man's physique was quite good. He could be used to test the insects.
There were only three insects left in the Claw Beast's stomach. Originally, he wanted to knock them out, but he didn't control his strength well and killed a few of them. A few of them were severely injured, and he didn't know if they could recover. However, it didn't matter if they couldn't recover. He could just catch a few more to see. Although not all Claw Beasts had these insects in their bodies, he would find them eventually.
The gray cat didn't have anything to store the three fainted insects and the severely crippled insects. It just so happened that it found a hard leather bag on Dan Tu's body. It was a bag made from the skin of a claw beast that had been processed, so it should be able to store the insects temporarily.
Armadillo and Ruble were walking over. They didn't want to let the cat eat people, and they wanted to bring the man back for interrogation. However, when they got close, they bumped into the bag that Huimao threw at them.
"Hey, you two, come and help me with this!" Huimao pointed at the bag that contained the insects and said.
Armadillo and Ruble avoided the bag as if it was the plague.
"You can take your own things! We can just drag this man back, "Ruble said.
"No, this is my experiment!"
After that, Wheeze ignored Armadillo and Rubu and tied the bag to Dan Tu's body. Then, it used the rope it found from Dan Tu's body to reinforce the bag a couple of times before dragging Dan Tu back to the spaceplane by the collar. It wasn't exactly dragging Dan Tu all the way back to the spaceplane, but Wheeze wasn't dragging him all the way back to the spaceplane.
Armadillo and Ruble looked at each other, shook their heads, and followed closely. They didn't know what the cat would do when it returned. Experiment? What experiment? Put the insects into that man's body? Disgusting!
On the aircraft, Nikki had already hacked into the city's network to get some basic information.
The city's network was not well-developed, and it could be said to be simple and crude. All the appliances looked like antiques to them. Silin and the others were analyzing the information they had gathered, but they couldn't find the 'rat' that Huimao mentioned. Where was the mysterious man hiding in this city?
Just as they were discussing whether they should grab a local and interrogate them, the display showed the scene of the gray cat dragging a person into the spaceplane.
Bai Ye and the others looked at Silin at the same time. Silin shrugged. "I didn't order him to do that."
Sediya gave Silin a thumbs up. "You've trained your pet well!"
Silin curled his lips. There was no way that the cat dragging the man into the aircraft was the reason that they thought it was. As expected, after understanding the situation, they were very interested in the insects that Huimao mentioned. But they couldn't look at it here, so they went to the quarantine room.
After putting down the partition, Bai Ye and the others didn't enter the quarantine room under Armadillo and Ruble's persuasion. Instead, they stood on the other side of the partition and looked at the scene inside.
Silin had worked with Huimao many times. He first used a device to simulate the environment of a stomach. The three parasites that had recovered and the ones that were severely injured by Huimao were very excited when they entered the environment. They attached themselves to the edge of the wall and stabilized their bodies. The edge of the wall where they attached themselves became much thinner, and they began to absorb the nutrients in the internal environment. The severely injured parasites gradually recovered, and their severed limbs began to grow back.
"How is it? Not bad, right?! "Huimao said proudly.
"Not bad." Silin locked the parasites in a small box that simulated the environment of a stomach. "But it's not very practical right now. We're going up against robots, and robots don't have stomachs."
Huimao's ears twitched, and he wasn't too happy about it.
"But you did a good job this time. You deserve to be praised!" Silin rubbed Huimao's head.
That's more like it. Huimao narrowed his eyes, thinking about when he should catch a few more Claw Beasts to see if there were any other insects. It was boring to stay here anyway.
After studying the insects, everyone shifted their attention to the person that Huimao dragged back. He looked like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, but judging from his physique, outfit, and the equipment he carried, this boy was also a tough character.
When Dan Tu woke up, the first thing he felt when he opened his eyes was an unfamiliar environment. It wasn't the Gray Land, nor was it any city. It was so strange that it felt like he had come to another world.
The next moment, Dan Tu's attention was focused on Huimao, who was squatting on the shoulder of a stranger. It was this cat that caused him to end up like this!
Dan Tu didn't panic when he saw the strangers, unlike when he saw Huimao. After all, he felt safer facing a human than a beast that he couldn't understand at all. Moreover, Dan Tu didn't sense any ill will from these strangers. Of course, it could just be a façade.
Huimao squatted on Silin's shoulder and licked its paw. This action alone made the boy, who had just woken up, tremble and shrink back.
Silin flicked Huimao's ear. "What did you do to him?" The boy was scared out of his wits.
Sediya looked at Huimao, then at Armadillo and Ruble, and sighed. These two ferocious-looking fellows couldn't even compare to a little kitten.
Seeing that the boy was full of wariness, Nikki went straight into action. After all, a little girl who looked like she was only seven or eight years old was easier to get close to.
"Don't be afraid. As long as you don't move, we won't hurt you. We just want to ask you some questions," Nikki said.
Dan Tu didn't say anything as he stared at the little girl in front of him who gave off a strange vibe.
Nikki asked a few more questions, but Dan Tu still didn't say anything. His entire body was on high alert.
Chi Lafang pointed at his mouth. "Language barrier?"
Nikki slapped her forehead. How could she have forgotten!
The people here didn't speak the Empire's common tongue. The native language was too small, and the Empire didn't have any records of it. However, when Huimao and the others went out to hunt, Nikki had already gathered enough information about the language from various cities on the planet. After setting up the translation machine, she directly translated the language into Dan Tu's.
So, after Nikki turned on the machine, she asked the same question again.
Finally, Dan Tu spoke, his voice a little hoarse. "What do you want to ask?"
Silin handed him a glass of fruit juice. "Fruit juice. It's not poisonous."
Dan Tu hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Huimao on Silin's shoulder. Seeing that the dog was lazily licking its paw and wasn't paying attention to them, he carefully took the glass of fruit juice from Silin, took a small sip, paused, and then poured the entire contents into his mouth. After finishing, he licked the glass, as if he hadn't had enough.
Silin handed him another glass. This time, Dan Tu didn't hesitate and drank it in large gulps.
Dan Tu had never tasted something like this before. It was delicious, much better than the most expensive drink in the city! He wanted to bring this back for Grandpa An to drink. Grandpa An was so old that he probably hadn't tasted this much fruit juice. However, he couldn't even protect himself right now. He didn't even know if he could go back and see Grandpa An again.
Dan Tu didn't lower his guard much after drinking the fruit juice, but his voice was no longer hoarse. He seemed to have calmed down as well.
This was a good sign.
After calming down, Dan Tu answered all of Nikki's basic questions. He told Silin and the others his name, as well as the black clawed beast that Huimao had eaten was called a Kroc Beast. In the local language, it meant "sharp claws".
However, the Kroc Beast was a general term for all kinds of black beasts with sharp claws. Very few of them were of a single species, and most of them were born in clusters. However, there were a few special breeds among the Kroc Beasts. One of them was called Galas, a fierce beast that was several times larger than ordinary Kroc Beasts. Its attack power was much stronger, but they were relatively few in number.
Nikki asked Dan Tu if he had any way to bring them into the city. Dan Tu shook his head. "Apart from the guards and hunting squads, no one else is allowed to enter or leave the city without the permission of the City Lord."
"City Lord? What rank is that? "Nikki asked.
Although they had learned some information through the city's communication network, it was still limited. The network here was too backward, and people rarely communicated with each other through the network. This was the system of social relations in a special technological environment.
"The City Lord is the highest ranking official in our city." Dan Tu paused for a moment before asking, "You're not from this planet, are you?"
Nikki didn't deny it. The answer was obvious, so there was no need to deny it. "Yes, we're from this planet."
"Then it's even more impossible for us to let you into the city. We're very repulsed by aliens, especially the City Lord. There was once an alien who entered our planet due to a malfunctioning spaceship and never returned. Although that didn't happen in our city, I've heard people say that something similar happened in our city before. "
"Are you threatening us?" Nikki sneered.
"No, just a reminder." Dan Tu lowered his head and didn't say anything else. No one could tell what he was thinking.
At this moment, Huimao spoke up. "I think this kid isn't telling the truth. Why don't we try using that bug?"
Rubu and Armadillo, who were standing behind them, thought at the same time: Cats really are evil creatures!
Hearing Huimao's words, Dan Tu suddenly raised his head. A flash of fear flashed across his eyes, and he reached for his gun and hunting knife out of habit. Only when he touched empty air did he remember that everything on him had been confiscated. Fight? Although he wasn't tied up, Dan Tu knew that he was no match for them. Not to mention that he had this cat with him.
Silin flicked Huimao. "Don't scare a kid."
Huimao snorted twice. It was just a scare, it was too boring.
Nikki asked a few more questions, but she didn't get the answers she wanted. It was impossible to let Dan Tu go, so they could only lock him up here for now. If there was any new information, they could ask him for reference.
They arranged a small room for Dan Tu. Although the room looked simple to Silin and the others, it was an unimaginable luxury for Dan Tu. There was also juice and other food that he hadn't eaten yet. Although he didn't have to worry about food, Dan Tu's nerves were challenged. If this continued for a few days, he would probably have a nervous breakdown. That was because the cat would come here every now and then. It didn't say anything and just crouched there, licking its paws. Whenever Dan Tu saw the cat's paws, he would think of the Croc's belly being cut open.
Huimao, on the other hand, was delighted. There were actually people who were afraid of cats!
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