CH 2

Sunlight poured in through the gaps of the interlaced treetop, then sprinkled dazzlingly to the ground below. The huge trees towered into the clouds, with its tangled vine roots looked a little bit unsightly.

The animals in the forest usually came out at night to find food, so in the afternoon like this the forest was very quiet, with only some rustling sound of the leaves that were brushed by the wind.

The sun swayed with the movement of the leaves, and within the shadows, there was an existence that was out of place with the forest environment.

It was an attractive and beautiful boy, who was lying on a giant tree branch, with sleepy looking eyes, his thick eyelashes quivered slightly, and a faint smile hung at the corner of his mouth, as if he had dreamed of something happy.

"Ao wuu!!!"

Suddenly there was a terrifying tiger roar that made the eardrums trembled and startled the forest birds to fly away from their branches, this situation raised a cacophony through the forest momentarily.

The giant tree where the boy was resting collapsed, followed by a muffled sound from some kind of physical collision.　　

Just awakened by the tiger roar, the boy couldn't react that fast to jump into another tree branch. He could only hurry to use his spiritual power as a buffer, to avoid having an ugly free fall.

Even so, the posture of the golden snail, aka the boy when he landed was still not that elegant.

He slowly got up from the ground, and when he looked up, he was startled by the two beasts in front of him.

There was a huge white tiger lying down on the side of the tree. The white tiger was trying to lift his body with his sturdy limbs, as if he was about to get up. His head tilted at a strange angle in the direction of the golden snail.

A few steps away, was a black giant python with its head raised and its long tongue was trembling slightly in the air. The dark green vertical pupils stared at him coldly.

These two were probably startled by the golden snail that suddenly fell from the tree, caused a moment of stagnation in their movements.

The golden snail used his brain capacity a hundred times faster than usual, quickly analyzed the scene in front of him, and came to a conclusion.

--These two beasts were fighting, and here he was just a hapless pond of fish that had been hit by them*.

*Innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire

Being stared at by the two pairs of eyes, the golden snail was a little embarrassed. He raised his hand and greeted the two dryly, "Oh, sorry for bothering you, please continue."

After speaking, he lowered his head and picked two fruits with the most intact skin and delicious color among the fruits that were knocked down to his side. Only then did he slowly stand up and walked towards a fallen tree not far away.

The appearance of being unhurried, as if behind him were not two ferocious beasts fighting each other, but two dating lovers.

Raymond looked at the young man's back in surprise, and the huge snake head turned slightly to the direction he walked.

The boy was almost naked, with only a rough grass skirt woven from vines around his waist. The snow-white feet contrasted sharply with the thick dead leaves on the ground.

How could there be a subbeastman here??

Several possibilities flashed across Raymond's head, but he had no time to think about it for now. He only heard a roar, when the white tiger jumped from the ground, kicked his hind limbs, and leaped towards him.

He washed the fruit with the water, put it in his mouth and took a bite, the sweet juice filled his mouth, as he squinted his eyes with enjoyment.

The golden snail was actually a snail spirit, cultivated for thousands of years, and finally passed his heavenly tribulation a few days ago.

Though, he wouldn't say that his heavenly tribulation was really successful, because he was struck by a thunder to such a place where birds didn't even shit.

Oh no, "birds didn't shit" was just a metaphor. In fact, there were so many birds here.

What made the golden snail depressed was, he didn't know what went wrong. He only knew that he couldn't turn back into a snail after the catastrophe, and could only maintain his human form.

Actually, It was not that impossible to keep living in a human form. Wasn't he cultivated so hard just to become a human?

But the problem was, he did not know where the thunder had struck him to. It was a late spring when he underwent his heavenly tribulation and the weather was still very cold, but it was very hot here, he only wanted to sleep when it was hot.

He usually would retract into his shell whenever he wanted to sleep, but his shell was gone now, so it was very inconvenient to sleep.

As for the dangers in the forest, the golden snails wouldn't think about it at all. Lived in the wilderness, this level of crisis was prevalent and it had no effect on his safety anyway.

In the world of spirit cultivation, although the snails only had low-level spells and weak offensive ones, they still had inherent advantages, as their defensive skills were first-class.

Even if the golden snail couldn't turn back into a snail for the time being, and didn't have the protection of a hard shell, he still had thousands years of cultivation, so it wasn't hard for him to make a defensive barrier.　

The golden snail took another bite of the fruit, while watching the two beasts fought ten feet away from him.

The black giant python flicked its tail fiercely, then slammed it towards the big white tiger who had risen from the ground again.

The snake's tail contained tremendous power. The moment it was slammed to the ground, the golden snail seemed to see the trajectory cut through the air.

The golden snail swallowed a bite of the fresh fruit, looked at the big black python with excitement, and slowly raised his hands to applaud.

He had lived for thousands of years, so he had seen countless pythons hunted and killed other beasts. The attack methods of the pythons were usually twisting their bodies around their preys, he had never seen a python that pulled its tail and dragged its opponent.

The big white tiger was dragged seven or eight meters away by the snake's tail, then fell heavily to the ground.

The white tiger was probably had little energy left, so its movement to get up was a bit slow. Taking advantage of this gap, the big black python slithered like a lightning, then opened its bloody mouth, bit the giant tiger's neck with one bite, while its tail quickly coiled around it.

The big white tiger's snowy white fur oozed bright red blood and the pain caused by the wound seemed to greatly torment it, made the big white tiger shook his head frantically, with paws scratching in the air, trying to get rid of the snake's deadly bite and entanglement.

Every time the tiger moved, the python twisted its body tighter, and the big white tiger who couldn't get away, finally tilted its head to bite the python's body.

The two giant beasts, one black and the other white, competed against each other in the dull silence, until a "gurgling" sound was heard from the giant tiger's throat. After a while, the giant tiger's body gradually twisted and deformed, bleeding from its seven orifices, and died.

The golden snail who watched from the side, thought that these beasts fight was truly amazing.

He gnawed off a bit of pulp from the fruit, then threw the core casually. He licked the juice on his lips, while showing a satisfied expression.

He had been in this forest for several days and for a golden snail who had lived in a modern society for decades, then suddenly couldn't access the Internet, watch TV, or even sleep well anymore. It was simply a devastation for the boy's life... No, the snail's life.

So, to be able to watch a beast fought on the spot, Jin Suo felt much more comfortable, he clapped his hands and stood up, he was ready to continue on his way.

He should get out of this forest first and searched for the human settlements as soon as possible, then tried to contact his master. Otherwise, his unreliable master would definitely not take the initiative to contact him, that stingy old man was afraid that he would ask to live with him if he became a human being.

Jin Suo Suo pursed his lips. In fact, he had long thought about his livelihood problems when he became a human being. He just wanted to open an online shop, then he could sell snail liquid masks, snail liquid moisturizer, snail liquid detox gel, snail liquid repair cream...

Anyway, his snail form's slime was a good beauty product. Just a few drops of it in a skin care product, and it would be sought after by the majority of the female population.

Maybe, he would be successful and got even stronger in the future, starting his own company and being the boss, it could be considered a good thing in the human society.

"Hiss!"

The golden snail raised his foot and saw that there was a small cut, made by a sharp thorn that scratched his sole.

There was a downfall on becoming a human being though. They were so easy to get hurt, different from snails that won't get hurt even if they walked on a sharp blade.

The golden snail took a little liquid from his shell and applied it to the small opening of the wound, which healed it at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although he couldn't turn back into a snail now, his shell was still there, just not on his back, but invisible inside his stomach.

The golden snail was too lazy to find large leaf to wrap his feet. The weather here was sultry and hot, if he wrapped a few layers of airtight leaves on his feet, he would become really uncomfortable. Anyway, his liquid would heal the wound in the blink of an eye.

What Jin Suo didn't know was that just two minutes after he left, the big white tiger behind him who had been strangled by the big black python and died, slowly turned into a man in a black uniform with twisted skeleton and vacant eyes, it made a very gruesome scenery.

Raymond raised his head, the dark green vertical pupil glanced at the dead tree, then found that the subbeastman was no longer there. He rested for a while, then slowly loosened his tail and used the tip to lift the thing on the chest of the corpse.

Sure enough, there was a strange totem, exactly the same as the one he found from the three beastmen he had killed in the past two days.

Raymond swept the surrounding thick leaves with his tail and buried the corpse.

Seven days ago, when he was chasing the zerg queen, his energy suddenly ran out, the muscles and veins of his whole body were broken, then his energy core shattered. Later, he fell on this hidden star, completely became a waste who could no longer use his abilities.

Fortunately, his animal form was a python with no limbs, so he could temporarily use it to protect himself.

Glancing at the dead man who was completely buried by the leaves. Raymond thought that he should be a fourth-tire beastman. The strength was not that great, it was about the same as an ordinary soldier. If it was a few days ago, with his eighth-tier strength, he only needed to use the level suppression to easily defeat his opponent.

But now his energy core was shattered, even the remaining trace of energy could not be mobilized. The so-called eighth rank no longer had any use. He could only utilize his beast instinct and rich combat experience to narrowly win in every fight.

Raymond then slithered slowly towards the small river not far away. He wanted to catch the fish and shrimps there to regain his strength.

There were too many wounds on his body right now. The weather here was also extremely hot, so the wounds had been ulcerated on a large scale.

If this continued, it was estimated that he would have died of infection first, before being killed by those people.

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The golden snail was sitting on a rock by the small river, with his two feet immersed in the water to soak in the cold.

A few small fish were swimming around him, tried to position their mouth to bite the skin on his feet. The golden snail moved a small aquatic plant with his spiritual power to approach those small fish quietly, then quickly entangled them.

The little fish struggled in horror. Jin Suo didn't make the aquatic plants entangle them too tightly, so after struggling a few times, the little fish slipped from the aquatic plants and swam away desperately.

The golden snail laughed, showing two small pointed tiger teeth at the corner of his mouth.

All the fish were already scared off by him, so there was nothing to play with anymore. Jin Suo simply decided to go down into the river.

Although the weather here was very hot, the river water was quite cool. The golden snail slowly walked a few steps into the deep river, made the whole person soaked into the water.

Raw word count: 3220

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T/N:

I only translated this casually, so it is different with the translation of "Crossing to the Primitive" (No grammar checking). It's more like a stress reliever for me, because the plot of this book is lighter. Also, if you can already guess it, IEWFP is similar to "A Guide to Raising Your Natural Enemy", but I thought that Jin Suo here is wittier than Shu - Shu, I love them all though. Anyway, maybe I'll update this book, like once or twice a week.