Chapter 174 - Whose Luck is Better

Without needing Zhang Che to remind them, Zheng Hongru and the others knew what they should do.

This was obviously a mini-boss. No matter if Zhang Che could deal with it, they couldn’t regardless. Naturally they should hide far as far away as possible, to prevent any interference with his upcoming battle.

Weng weng weng … The buzzing sounds drew closer and closer. Zhang Che finally saw the Bee King’s appearance.

It’s body was over a meter long, as thick as a human’s thigh, covered in black and yellow stripes. Its tail had a poisonous stinger around a foot in length. The tip of the stinger was glowing blue, like a fine sapphire.

It need not be said that if he were stung by that, it would surely be an incredibly bitter experience.

=======

[ Stinger Bee King]

Level: Two Star (Level 19)

Quality: Silver

Characteristics: Potent Toxin, Able to Shoot its Stinger as a Long Range Attack

Weakness: Fire Elemental Attacks, Lacking in Physical Defense

Innate Attribute: Body Restoration. After Shooting its Stinger to Kill its Prey, It Can Retract it into its Abdomen and Restore its Stinger Extremely Quickly, As if Regenerating

Potential: D Rank

=======

“Hmm? This thing’s innate attribute is interesting! This thing is able to shoot its stinger multiple times then?”

Zhang Che was a little shocked when he saw the Stinger Bee King’s attributes. He had never seen a similar attribute before. It went to show the vastness of the beast world, filled with all kinds of things.

A pity, however, no matter how peculiar this fellow’s attributes were, it would be useless if it couldn’t penetrate his defense.

Wearing his crocodile armor, Zhang Che drew a green arc with the Mutated Puffersword, swinging it towards the Stinger Bee King, like a humanoid monster hunting for food.

The Stinger Bee King seemed to have a better brain than the ordinary Stinger Bees. As the blade drew close to it, it beat its wings violently, buzzing away and dodging the attack, knowing that it wasn’t something it could take on easily.

“Eh? You actually dodged it!” Zhang Che exclaimed softly, but there wasn’t the slightest pause in his actions. The Mutated Puffersword was like a poisonous snake, following wherever its prey went, chasing after the Stinger Bee King’s vital spots.

The greenhorns ran some distance away and sat down on the rocks at the edge of the valley, enjoying the battle between Zhang Che and the Stinger Bee King.

The ordinary Stinger Bees from earlier only cared about attacking, and didn’t dodge at all, so Zhang Che’s speed and reaction time wasn’t really on display. Now that he was chasing after the Stinger Bee King, who kept dodging his attacks, the few of them immediately noticed the difference.

“Hey, do you guys feel that Brother Che’s speed and reaction time seems to be much faster than us?”

“Aren’t you just stating the obvious? The bow and arrows on Brother Che’s shoulder weighed over fifty kilograms, and he carried them like they were nothing. Is that something ordinary people can do?” Li Da said calmly, not showing any surprise.

Zheng Hongru felt it necessary to further elaborate to this guy whose brain was filled with women. “That’s different. I have seen others with great strength, too, but even their speed and reflexes aren’t that different from others, unlike Brother Che, who is like a monster!”

“You said it yourself! Brother Che is a monster!” Li Da shrugged at Zheng Hongru.

Zheng Hongru thought, -…Okay, you make a lot of sense. I have nothing to say.-

“Hahaha…” Xiao Yi couldn’t resist chuckling at seeing the two debating. Even the introverted Sun Zhi was about to give in, his skinny dark face stifled into a piece of cured meat.

Right at this moment, Zhang Che suddenly swung his sword at great speed and accurately cut the Stinger Bee King at the waist, effortlessly splitting this silver-quality exotic beast into two.

At the same time, the Stinger Bee King sensed the danger and shot out its poisonous stinger, and accurately struck Zhang Che’s face. However, it was easily deflected by the Swamp Crocodile King armor, not hurting even a strand of his hair.

“Hey, you guys, come over quickly!”

Upon hearing this call, Zheng Hongru and the others realized that the powerful exotic beast was dealt with by Zhang Che while they were distracted, to their amazement.

When they ran back to Zhang Che’s side, they saw the top half of the Stinger Bee King’s body wriggling about on the ground, obviously still very vigorous. It probably wouldn’t die any time soon.

The separated abdomen of the Stinger Bee King, however, was already quickly turning into light.

While Zheng Hongru and the others were observing the Stinger Bee King struggling on the ground in awe, Zhang Che suddenly deactivated the face portion of the Swamp Crocodile King armor and turned to look at them, asking, “Which of your faces is whiter?”

-Whose face is whiter?-

-Do you have to ask? Of course it’s this pale little Zheng Hongru’s face that is the whitest!-

Thus, Li Da and the other two raised their arms and pointed at Zheng Hongru in unison.

Zhang Che was speechless. -Could it be that this world isn’t big on African tribal chiefs and royal Europeans? How unfun…-

Zhang Che could only sigh inwardly and explained, “I’m saying, which of you is luckier when hunting exotic beasts, often obtaining beast cards?”

The confused Zheng Hongru finally spoke out, “Probably, I’m this kind. There’s once when I killed three one-star black iron-quality exotic beasts and they dropped two beast cards. My luck isn’t bad, right?”

Li Da slapped down hard on Zheng Hongru’s shoulder, “Damn, brother! You call this not bad? This is simply having a lucky star shining on you!”

Xiao Yi and Sun Zhi nodded profusely at the side, indicating that they had never heard of such a high drop rate.

Zheng Hongru looked at Zhang Che. The latter directly pointed at the Stinger Bee King on the ground, whose movements were becoming less and less pronounced, and said, “Hurry, kill this thing!”

“Brother Che, why aren’t you doing it yourself?” Zheng Hongru hesitated. “What if it didn’t drop a beast card for me? Isn’t that…”

“Stop talking and do it!” Zhang Che thought to himself, – If I could guarantee a beast card drop, why would I ask you to come over? My African tribe chief attribute is a little too stubborn, and will act up from time to time. I don’t dare to!-

Of course, if it was during normal times, Zhang Che wouldn’t care whether a mere two-star silver-quality exotic beast would drop a beast card.

The problem was, wasn’t he carrying four greenhorns in a competition? Of course it’d be extremely great if more beast cards dropped!

Zheng Hongru no longer hesitated. Since Brother Che had said the word, he’d just do it!

He stepped forward with a long stride and fished out the high-grade alloy dagger he brought with him. He stepped on the Stinger Bee King’s body, keeping it in place, and slashed down at where its chest and head connected.

A soft sound rang out. He was unable to penetrate its defense…

The Stinger Bee King was a two-star silver-quality exotic beast after all. Even though defense wasn’t its forte, it wasn’t something a blade made with ordinary materials could hurt.

“Dummy, use your subdued beast to do it!” Zhang Che scolded. Zheng Hongru came back to himself and summoned his three two-star bronze-quality subdued beasts with a wave of his hand. He ordered them to attack together, immediately ravaging the Stinger Bee King’s remaining half of a body into something unrecognizable.

In the next moment, the mechanical sound of notification rang in Zheng Hongru’s mind. His expression stiffened for a moment, before he yelled out in surprise, “Brother Che, Brother Che, I really got a beast card!”

Actually, he didn’t have to say that, because Zhang Che and the others could clearly see the Stinger Bee King being beaten to death by Zheng Hongru’s subdued beasts. It quickly turned into a mass of light and soon collapsed into itself, forming a silvery beast card, laying on the grass silently.

———————–

Translator’s Note:

A person’s face being said as white/dark is referring to his/her luck, and very white face (like a European) or dark (African tribe chief) means that person is very lucky or very unlucky, similar to someone having a bright day or going through dark times. No racism is intended.