Chapter 212: The Attacking Water-Spitting Crocodile, Terrifying Bite, Severed Tail!

A small stream of water flashed by, reflecting a touch of moonlight for a brief moment before drawing a silver-gray straight line in the air, heading straight for the fleeing young Bandit Zanglian.

Although there wasn't much truth in Lao Bari's words, he was right about one thing: the Water-Spitting Crocodile indeed had poor vision at night and found it difficult to see anything with those massive eyes. It relied more on its nose for sniffing and its four paws to sense vibrations in the surroundings to determine the direction of its fleeing prey.

Therefore, although this strike was sudden and swift, it did not hit Zanglian, who was fleeing while carrying the Monster.

Due to the angle, the burst of water sprayed by the Water-Spitting Crocodile flew diagonally upward for over a hundred meters before scattering like rain onto the empty Shanglu, bringing a little bit of "rainfall" to this region that hadn't seen rain for months.

"What's going on? Why is it coming for me?"

Zanglian looked bewildered, but the commotion of the massive Water-Spitting Crocodile charging behind him made him give up thinking and start following his previous plan, clutching a pebble in his hand as he ran toward the overnight Yingdi by the road.

Because it was an uphill climb from the river to the side of the Shanglu, the Water-Spitting Crocodile's massive size made it difficult to climb, which gave Zanglian a sliver of a chance to survive.

He turned and threw a Stone hard at the rumbling, charging Monster, successfully provoking the Monster even further; the next moment, it returned the favor with a fierce stream of water sprayed from its slightly opened mouth.

This time, the water stream was larger than before, like a silver-gray ray; one end sprayed from the Water-Spitting Crocodile's mouth, while the other cut straight through the air, slicing every shrub and flower along the way in two.

Even hard stones by the river could be dented by several centimeters by it, so these fragile flowers, plants, and trees were no match for it.

However, this strike was dodged by Zanglian as he dropped to the ground—though it couldn't exactly be called dodging, because according to his plan, he was supposed to drop down and hide once he reached the outside of this group's Yingdi.

The outermost perimeter of the Yingdi was surrounded by a circle of carriages; after the Water-Spitting Crocodile's intense water stream cut horizontally across the carriages, it immediately produced an extremely loud impact sound and the roar of vibrating carriage bodies.

Needless to say, the entire Yingdi was "woken up" at once.

Quite different from the panic the Bandits had anticipated, after discovering that the attack was coming from the south side facing the river, many people in the Yingdi climbed up from their bedding on the ground, picked up Torches specifically placed by the campfire, lit them, and ran toward the north side of the Yingdi.

As for the night-watch Warrior and the Dwarf, they immediately grabbed their ready-made weapons, shouted excitedly, and ran together toward the south side of the Yingdi.

But the next moment, they came retreating while howling, shouting loudly: "What a huge crocodile!"

"What a huge Monster!"

"It has scales, a huge body, and a tail! It's a Dragon! A Ground Dragon is attacking!"

But as they shouted, they began to argue; after all, many people had never seen a crocodile in their lives, so it was normal for them to mistake such a Monster for a Ground Dragon from legends when seeing it at night.

However, some people did recognize what a crocodile was, so after everyone shouted and argued for a bit, they unified their story and shouted loudly that a huge crocodile Monster was attacking!

"Monster attack? That's great!"

Jier lifted the tent curtain and walked out with a smile on his face, his left hand pressing on the Hunting Sword and his right hand carrying the Yueshui Skull Two-Handed Axe. He was not wearing armor, having only temporarily put on leather boots and leather trousers, and walked out wearing a rough Linen Cloth short shirt (similar to a T-shirt) on his upper body.

Jier signaled to the two guards at the door, letting them go inside to fetch his armor and equipment, while he himself took a big leap first, jumping toward the south side of the Yingdi, which occupied a considerable area.

Stepping on the carriages that separated the different groups of teams in the middle, Jier arrived at the direction of the Monster's attack in the first instance.

While still in the air, he threw the slightly glowing Yueshui Skull toward the place with the most movement, letting his axe confront the Monster first.

With his hands free, Jier landed on a carriage at the edge of the Yingdi, then took out a stone Short Staff and fired several white light orbs in succession, letting these orbs stick to the protruding stones on the edges of the surrounding carriages, emitting bright white light to the surroundings and completely illuminating a large area on the south side of the Yingdi.

At this moment, Jier saw the attacking Water-Spitting Crocodile and saw the Monster's massive size; his first thought was not fear of the Monster's strength, but rather how much Monster meat he would have to eat after defeating this huge Monster?

They say crocodiles taste like chicken; with such a huge crocodile, could he finish it all?

After missing its first strike, the Water-Spitting Crocodile continued to charge toward the place where Zanglian was hiding, following the scent of its natural enemy. However, the clamor of the large group of people attracted its attention; those Humans rushed out holding Torches, and upon seeing it, both sides were startled.

The Water-Spitting Crocodile stopped its four huge crawling paws, and the vertical pupils in its eyes contracted and narrowed under the stimulation of the bright light; the predator's instinct made it size up these suddenly appearing Humans.

It wasn't that it feared Humans, but years of predatory life had taught it that Humans were different from other prey in the mountains, forests, and rivers. They not only moved in groups but also possessed rare long-range attack capabilities (throwing spears and bows and arrows), and possessed harder claws and teeth than its own (metal weapons). Single or small numbers of Humans were easy to deal with and easy to eat; often, once it got close, most of these Humans would stand there in a daze without any resistance.

Only a small number of Humans with shiny, hard scales would bring them some extra hunting trouble.

The night-watch Warriors in the Yingdi were also startled when they discovered it was such a huge Monster, and knowing they were no match, they immediately retreated and evacuated.

And just as the Water-Spitting Crocodile was preparing to continue searching for the scent of that natural enemy, the blue axe fell from the sky, which had darkened once again. It seemed the enemy's strength made it lose interest; after strangely drawing a circle horizontally in the air, it actually chose to slash diagonally from the air at the joint of the Monster's right hind leg.

The Water-Spitting Crocodile was keeping an eye on this strange thing! It puffed up the last bit of river water in its mouth's water sac and fired a short shot at the flying strange thing, knocking it away.

It thought it was fine; after all, they knew exactly how powerful the Water-Spitting Crocodile's water-spraying attack was. But it never expected that a seemingly ordinary defensive move would suddenly annoy this proud weapon.

On the blue axe face of the axe, several monsters were howling; the most excited among them was a water-ghost-like monster portrait, which seemed unable to accept that the Water-Spitting Crocodile had sprayed water to knock away the axe they were on.

Thus, before the knocked-away Yueshui Skull even landed, the entire axe glowed brightly with blue light, stopped abruptly in the air, and then began to spin in place, spinning faster and faster, faster and faster.

At this moment, the several glowing orbs Jier had fired stuck to nearby objects, emitting bright white light, which immediately illuminated the situation clearly.

Jier had intended to coordinate with the charging axe, but once the scene became bright, he immediately saw a guy wearing dirty clothes lying in an inconspicuous pit nearby. None of his subordinates or the entire caravan wore such sloppy clothes, so Jier immediately ruled out that this person was from the caravan; therefore, there was only one answer.

And the fact that the Water-Spitting Crocodile headed straight for the location of that person after knocking away the axe also confirmed Jier's thoughts from the side.

"Good fellow, it seems this person is one of those Bandits, but he's really daring enough to actually use his life to lure a Monster to attack and offend their caravan! Tough! But this person can't die now!"

Thinking of this, Jier jumped toward the person's location, Bang!

Jier blocked the front of the Water-Spitting Crocodile, Clang—

The Hunting Sword was unsheathed, and intense white light surged continuously on the blade, ready to launch an attack at any time.

The Water-Spitting Crocodile was startled by the Human who suddenly jumped over and subconsciously opened its mouth to bite.

Facing the blood-red maw that could open up to three meters wide—there was truly a large amount of fresh blood inside this crocodile's mouth—Jier dared not block it head-on; he lowered his head and crouched, using even greater speed to dodge the bite, which had a rather large range.

With his right foot stomping hard on the ground after dodging, Jier raised his hand and thrust his sword straight at the crocodile Monster's head.

But as expected of the hunting instinct accumulated in its bloodline over countless years, the Water-Spitting Crocodile closed its left eye, tilted its head suddenly, and actually used the hard and smooth bone plates and scales on the top of its head to deflect Jier's strike.

The next moment, it opened its big mouth again and bit horizontally toward Jier.

The Monster's instinctive predatory movement was simply too fast; Jier miscalculated the Monster's attack speed and was bitten directly, but he turned his body sideways, stepped with both feet on the hard and blood-stained lower jaw of the crocodile's mouth, and used both hands to support and press hard against the upper jaw, exerting force with his whole body to hold the crocodile Monster's mouth shut.

"Good fellow, good fellow!" Jier was not afraid at all; he had several ways to escape, so at this moment, he was actually pleasantly surprised and began to praise the Monster's attack, as if his current situation was not critical at all.

This series of exchanges took less than a single breath, leaving the sloppy Bandit lying on the ground stunned when he looked up and saw it.

Part of it was that ordinary people would lose control of their limbs due to instinctive fear when facing a huge crocodile Monster, and the other part was feeling horrified that Jier, this guy who had suddenly popped up, could actually tease and praise the Monster's methods at such a critical moment!

Subsequently, this Water-Spitting Crocodile intended to shake its head twice to make the Human guy in its mouth lose his balance, and then tear him into pieces with its mouth and teeth. But its plan hadn't even begun when the Yueshui Skull, which had been charging for several seconds in the air behind it, had finished charging; the rapidly spinning axe had simply become a blue wheel of light, and before it could be said, it suddenly rushed toward the hindquarters of the crocodile Monster.

This time it wasn't slashing at one of the crocodile Monster's legs, but aiming at the Monster's massive, fat, and sturdy thick tail, spinning and hacking down directly.

Swish—Clack-clack.

The thick bone plates and scales on the tail of the Water-Spitting Crocodile collided with the sharp blade of the blue axe, immediately producing intense impact and cutting sounds. The entire row of upward-facing bone plates on the Water-Spitting Crocodile's back from head to tail was exceptionally sturdy; even the charged Yueshui Skull had to spin and hack continuously to cut through this layer of bone plates, and then the internal bones and muscles were no match for it. The Monster's blood and scattered muscles splashed out from the breach of the attack, just like wood shavings flying when Sawmill-ing, splashing a large area around with the Monster's fine flesh and blood.

The Water-Spitting Crocodile felt the pain; although its ancient body structure made it not feel so much pain, from the moment it hatched from its shell until now, this was the most painful injury it had ever encountered.

Completely unable to care about the Human in its mouth, it turned around suddenly, opening its mouth in an attempt to bite the blue thing that had hurt it.

However, its clumsy body and flat physical structure made it unable to even see its own tail, let alone turn its head to reach the tail's position with its mouth.

The huge Monster crocodile kept spinning in place, like a big dog chasing its own tail for amusement. This scene made Jier, who had just fallen out of the Monster's mouth, laugh, and then, seizing the moment, he went up and grabbed the tail tip of the Monster, which was twitching incessantly, into his arms.

This Monster crocodile's tail was nearly five meters long and weighed almost a ton or two!

Jier only realized this after getting his hands on it; if it were anyone else performing the same action as him, they would only be struck in the chest by the Monster's huge, heavy tail, their chest shattered and their body sent flying, or they would be swept into two pieces directly by the bony plates protruding from the tail.

Jier hugged the huge tail, trying to plant his feet firmly on the ground, but he was still dragged sideways across the ground by the immense force.

But he did not resist this force at first; instead, he moved along with it, then found an opportunity to forcefully drive his feet into the soft ground by the riverbank one after another, and pulled hard in the opposite direction of the Monster crocodile's rotation.

With a crack, the crocodile tail, which had been mostly severed by the Yue Shui head, was completely torn off by Jier in one go; the fresh, severed muscles were even twitching and writhing in mid-air, like leeches, scattering from the forcibly torn area and falling to the ground.

Bang!

Jier threw the Monster crocodile's tail, which was still writhing forcefully after being torn off, to the side, held his sword in his left hand, and caught the axe flying back with his right hand.

Glancing at it, he discovered that the Monsters on the axe face had expressions of pleasure and satisfaction, as if severing the tail of the Monster crocodile that had offended them pleased them greatly.

And opposite him, even though the Water-Spraying Crocodile could still smell the strong scent of its natural enemy nearby in its nose, it could not care about such a small matter at all; the fact that its entire tail had been severed by this Human made it immediately stop spinning and face this Human directly.

As a Monster, the severed limbs of a Water-Spraying Crocodile can grow back, but this was still an extremely significant loss, because growing back a sturdy, beautiful tail would require it to expend quite a lot of time and a great deal of food to accomplish.

And during this period, without its tail, it would be very troublesome whether it was going into the water or hunting.

Therefore, this hatred, accompanied by intense pain, made it desperately launch an attack at the smiling Human in front of it!

"Fast movements!"

Having had the experience of being bitten in the mouth by this guy last time, Jier specifically heightened his body's reaction and attention this time, and when the Monster began its biting motion in less than a tenth of a second, he took a step back, crouching down first.

Click!

A bite with immense force, but it bit into empty air!

But the Water-Spraying Crocodile crawled forward rapidly with its four limbs, and in coordination with the fast forward crawling motion, its huge, sharp-toothed mouth snapped at Jier one strike after another.

But if it couldn't bite him, it just couldn't; Jier's backward dodging movements did not stop, causing all the bites of the forward-lunging Water-Spraying Crocodile to miss.

"Take this!"

Jier raised his left hand, and intense white light directly enveloped the Water-Spraying Crocodile's pair of cold, terrifying brownish-yellow vertical pupils; the Blinding Divine Power from the Sun God made this Monster suddenly feel as if it were looking up directly at the scorching sun during the day.

No, at this moment, everything before its eyes was a vast whiteness, far more severe than the consequences of it looking directly at the scorching sun itself.

But Jier overestimated the importance of vision to this Monster when hunting and attacking. The Monster's continuous biting did not stop at all, and it forced Jier, who was constantly retreating, all the way south to the edge of the river.

And while far from the Yingdi, Jier also shouted to his subordinates watching from the carriage at the edge of the Yingdi: "Don't just stand there, drag that Monster's tail back! Also, there is an outsider lying in the field nearby! Don't let him run away, catch him!"

?? It's so hot today! Forty degrees every day, I really can't stand it.