Chapter 132

He Lingchuan had never understood why the giant crocodile didn't just drown Wu Shaoyi by holding him underwater. It turned out Wu's spear was constantly propping it open, and it couldn't stand it either.

This giant crocodile had roamed the four seas; what hadn't it eaten? Who knew it would encounter something that stuck in its teeth here? Judging by its state, it was also extremely irritable.

"Can't you just let go and jump out?"

"No, it wants to smash me to death! I've tried twice already." Wu Shaoyi said, "This thing has intelligence!"

Most importantly, his injuries were too severe, and he couldn't run fast at all.

Although its big mouth was jammed, the crocodile demon's locomotive-like physique would knock anyone unconscious, whether on land or in water.

Was the crocodile's mouth the safest place? He Lingchuan imagined the rows of fangs below and smiled bitterly.

"Then how can I help?"

"Think of a way, think fast!" With someone appearing out of thin air above his head, Wu Shaoyi wouldn't let this heaven-sent opportunity slip, "I will definitely repay you!"

How could he save him? He Lingchuan was in a bind.

Stab the giant crocodile to death with the broken blade? Don't joke; he'd probably be thrown out before he even scratched the giant crocodile's skin.

Find a stalactite to replace the spear? Impossible; the crocodile wouldn't obediently let him do that.

Seventeen or eighteen ideas flashed through his mind, and He Lingchuan rejected them one by one.

Wu Shaoyi below was still desperately urging him.

He Lingchuan was annoyed by his urging and simply shouted, "Hey, you crocodile demon... God, can you understand human speech?"

Just now, he had clearly heard Wu Shaoyi call this thing the "Crocodile God."

This crocodile was ridiculously large and must have cultivated into a demon, but no one would call it a god for no reason.

Wu Shaoyi should know its origin.

Besides, Uncle Hao's harrier demon could understand human speech and speak human language; perhaps this crocodile demon, whose cultivation seemed even deeper, could too? Try it; trying it couldn't hurt.

So he added another shout: "How about I help you get rid of that toothpick stuck in your teeth?"

Compared to the giant crocodile's size, Wu Shaoyi, this burly man, was just a small piece of meat that couldn't fill the abyss of its giant mouth; calling the spear a toothpick was no problem for the giant crocodile.

Just as he asked this, the water surface suddenly stopped churning, with only one or two slight splashes.

It was pitch black below, and He Lingchuan couldn't see anything, so he could only ask Wu Shaoyi: "What's its reaction?"

"It nodded." Wu Shaoyi's voice sounded quite dejected, "It can understand!"

Right, this was the Crocodile God that had once received incense offerings; why had he fought it to the death from the beginning, assuming it didn't understand human speech? Why get to the point of mutual destruction when the trouble could be resolved through negotiation? Thinking of this, Wu Shaoyi wanted to slap himself twice.

At a life-or-death moment, had his brain rusted? He Lingchuan let out a long sigh of relief; once he could communicate with such a monster, wouldn't the difficulty of saving someone drop straight down?

He really was a little genius.

Next, he had to try to negotiate terms: "Crocodile God, shall we make a deal? I'll remove the toothpick for you, and you let the two of us go and help us reach the shore, how about that?"

The next second, a cold voice echoed from the bottom of both their hearts: "Can."

When demons with cultivation communicate with humans, they mostly use telepathy because their vocal cords aren't suitable.

Was this big crocodile so straightforward? He Lingchuan was taken aback instead: "Do you keep your word?"

"The Flood Dragon clan never lies!" the giant crocodile said, "I swear by my own ancestral bloodline!"

He Lingchuan had heard that demons generally don't lie, except for a few species.

He thought for a moment, took a candle from his storage space, lit it, and tossed it to Wu Shaoyi.

Wu Shaoyi caught it with great difficulty.

If the crocodile demon had been thrashing, such a simple action would have been impossible to complete.

He Lingchuan instructed it: "Leave the water first!"

The giant crocodile swam forward slowly, and soon its big head was out of the water.

With the help of the candle's light, the two finally discovered that this cave was very large, half in the water and half above the lake surface.

There seemed to be something deep in the cave, but that wasn't the priority right now; He Lingchuan took a hurried glance and didn't pay it much mind.

Crawling onto the rocky beach by the water, the crocodile demon rested its giant skull on the stone surface and stopped moving.

"Out."

Wu Shaoyi struggled to break free but couldn't climb up.

The intense confrontation with the giant crocodile earlier had exhausted all his strength, and once he relaxed, he couldn't even lift his hands.

He tried twice more, unable to even stand.

The giant crocodile tilted its head and shook him out of its mouth, throwing him onto the rocky beach.

"Pull the spear out!"

Wu Shaoyi couldn't even stand; how could he have the strength to pull the spear for it? He had to ask He Lingchuan for help: "Kid, come down and help!"

He Lingchuan thought to himself that he was safe up here.

He really didn't want to go down, but both Wu Shaoyi and the giant crocodile were urging him.

They were both sick of each other.

Wu Shaoyi had two neat rows of large blood holes on his body, bleeding every second, which couldn't be faked. Thinking of how he had wrestled with the giant crocodile for several hours with such severe injuries, He Lingchuan believed he was at the end of his rope.

If he hadn't met He Lingchuan, Wu Shaoyi would be dead, and the spear would still be stuck straight in the giant crocodile's mouth.

So Young Master He sighed deeply, held his nose, and jumped down.

*Splash*, he entered the water.

Then he did a freestyle swim to the rocky beach.

He first moved Wu Shaoyi deep into the cave, fed him a small pill, and then walked back to the water's edge.

The giant crocodile was waiting for him there with its mouth wide open, tears streaming from the corners of its eyes.

Each of its teeth was longer than the broken blade in his hand, and that bloody maw could easily accommodate three adults.

Standing beside it, the feeling was really not very pleasant.

He Lingchuan tried to poke his head into its mouth and found that Wu Shaoyi's spear was positioned perfectly; the spear tip was deeply embedded in the beast's upper jaw, while the shaft was jammed deep in a cavity in its lower jaw.

Yes, this crocodile had a cavity down to the root, and a quite deep one at that.

That was why the spear could jam it to the point of agony.

No wonder it agreed to He Lingchuan's terms without hesitation.

Wasn't it just eating one less person? A toothache was truly fatal.

However, walking into such a bloody maw to pull teeth for a monster still required a lot of courage. He Lingchuan rubbed his hands, lifted his foot gently, and stepped on its lower jaw.

This crocodile demon probably saw his apprehension and even comforted him: "Don't worry, I never eat dentists." Crocodile clans often lived with birds; those small birds pecked at the rotting meat between their teeth, helping them maintain oral hygiene.

"..." Looking at the row of sharp fangs hanging directly above his forehead, He Lingchuan indicated he was not comforted. This guy had terrible bad breath; if he stood there any longer, he was afraid he'd be fumigated into unconsciousness.

He didn't know how Wu Shaoyi had endured it.

"Open your mouth wider." He Lingchuan told it honestly, "The upper jaw needs to be a bit deeper; bear with it."

He held the spear and poked it upward again.

(End of chapter)