57: Chapter 57 Roasted Wolf Leg

He took out the fossil marrow from the System space; it was a pure white crystal.

A layer of white mist swirled around the stone's surface, giving it a hazy feel.

After just one look, Su Mu put the fossil marrow back into the System space.

Then, he pulled out his phone.

Su Mu was not a pedantic person. Knowing that a Rank 6 powerhouse might be after him, failing to call for backup would be something only a fool would do.

Since he had taken Yang Wendao as his master, he naturally had to learn how to "snitch" when encountering problems he couldn't solve.

"Beep, beep, beep!"

The call connected!

"Hello! Teacher, it's me..."

Yang Wendao, who was still at Modu Ability University, immediately got up and left his villa after receiving the call.

...

Su Mu didn't care about the minor interlude at all and continued clearing the Qingshui City Ruins.

These were all shiny conversion points.

With Xiao You's help, Su Mu quickly cleared the Vicious Beasts from the entire Qingshui City Ruins.

After killing the last Vicious Beast, Su Mu continued to the next ruined city.

After Su Mu left, a five-person squad arrived at the Qingshui City Ruins. After wandering around the ruins for a long time, the five of them looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Captain, why aren't there any Vicious Beasts in the Qingshui City Ruins? We've been wandering for nearly half an hour. What's going on?"

The man called Captain walked toward a building and found it filled with the corpses of Vicious Beasts.

"Damn! What the hell is this?"

One of the squad members saw this terrifying scene, his pupils dilating and his face full of shock.

The other three members followed him into the building, and upon seeing the corpses of Vicious Beasts everywhere, their eyes also widened, leaving them speechless.

"Could these Vicious Beasts have been killed by an even stronger Vicious Beast?"

One of the members was the first to react.

"Doesn't look like it. Judging by the wounds, they should have been caused by a sharp weapon."

"Does that mean a high-rank ability user is poaching low-rank Vicious Beasts?"

In a place like Qingyuan Base where the highest-ranked Vicious Beasts are only Rank 5, ability users above Rank 5 are not allowed to hunt Vicious Beasts.

Furthermore, ability users are not permitted to hunt large numbers of Vicious Beasts that are two major ranks below their own.

For example, a Rank 4 ability user cannot kill a large number of Rank 2 Vicious Beasts.

If high-rank ability users want to accumulate wealth, killing large numbers of low-rank beasts is a low-risk and fast way to do it.

However, a massive reduction in low-rank Vicious Beasts would inevitably cause problems, so every country strictly forbids high-rank ability users from hunting low-rank Vicious Beasts in large quantities.

Of course, this rule is not absolute; if a beast tide occurs, this rule can be ignored.

You can kill as many as you can.

Moreover, ordinary beast tides are not the most dangerous; there are also insect tides and Rat Tides.

Although those insects and rats are only Rank 1 or unranked Vicious Beasts, they can be terrifying in swarms.

The captain of the five-person squad shook his head.

"Probably not. If a high-rank ability user were poaching low-rank Vicious Beasts, they would likely take all the corpses. Even if their Storage Ring was full, they should have at least removed the valuable Materials from the beasts."

He casually flipped over a Vicious Beast and pointed at its fangs.

"The most valuable and easiest-to-collect teeth are intact. Looking at this, it seems they were killing Vicious Beasts simply for the sake of killing them."

They looked at each other, unable to understand why such a person existed.

However, faint smiles appeared on the faces of the five.

After all, these Vicious Beast corpses could be considered a windfall.

What they didn't expect, however, was that they would frequently encounter Vicious Beast corpses from then on, making this their biggest harvest since forming the team.

...

[Ding! Killed Rank 3 Elementary Vicious Beast, Shadow-Fanged Wolf. conversion points +50.]

After killing another Rank 3 Elementary Vicious Beast, Su Mu looked toward the west.

A streak of rosy clouds began to slowly dye the horizon red.

"Xiao You, how long will it take to get back to the base from our current location?"

"Master, you are currently about 23km away from Qingyuan Base. It is estimated to take one hour to arrive."

Su Mu muttered, "An hour, huh?"

Su Mu opened the System to check his current conversion points.

[conversion points]: 3,541

Hunting Vicious Beasts for a whole day yielded about two thousand conversion points; the efficiency could be said to be astonishing.

Although the sky still looked quite bright, it would be completely dark in half an hour at most.

Su Mu, who believed that Rank 2 Vicious Beasts posed no threat, didn't really want to go back to the base.

It took an hour to go back, and another hour to come back out every morning.

Two hours round-trip was too much of a time-waster. Su Mu decided to stay in the wilderness hunting Vicious Beasts until Sunday afternoon.

If he could maintain his hunting efficiency, he would be able to upgrade the System next week.

At the thought of upgrading the System, Su Mu became excited.

A wild light shot out from his black eyes.

He looked down and removed the Shadow-Fanged Wolf's fangs and claws, packing a leg as well.

He packed the items together and stuffed them into his space ring.

He couldn't help but feel emotional; Rank 3 Vicious Beasts that he had to carefully strategize against a month ago could now be easily dealt with.

Meanwhile, inside the Station Master's office at Qingyuan Base.

A man paced back and forth, sweat already covering his bald head.

"He's still not back?"

"Station Master, the person managing the wilderness exit just sent word—he still hasn't returned."

The man wiped the sweat from his head, pressed his hands together, and bowed toward the ceiling.

"God bless, that young ancestor must come back alive."

This person was none other than the Station Master of Qingyuan Base—Bu Yao.

After killing all the people chasing him, Su Mu gave Yang Wendao a call and gave a brief, albeit exaggerated, account of being hunted.

It was something like:

"Teacher, I was bullied and almost died at their hands. They even threatened to make me kowtow to them.

Do you think I could kowtow? Of course not! I'm your personal Disciple. If I were to kowtow to just anyone outside, wouldn't that be a slap in your face?

What? You're asking for the person's name?

I don't know! I just heard the leader say his uncle is the Station Master of Qingyuan Base and that I can't afford to offend him."

Subsequently, Yang Wendao dropped everything he was doing and rushed straight to Qingyuan Base.

He had a "warm, friendly, and harmonious" heart-to-heart talk with the Station Master of Qingyuan Base for two and a half minutes.

Then, Yang Wendao left Qingyuan Base in a huff, seemingly muttering things like "little brat" as he went.

...

Su Mu used his ability to start a fire and then propped the Shadow-Fanged Wolf's leg over it.

*Sizzle, crackle...*

Both the sound of the roasting meat and the flames in the dark night were exceptionally conspicuous.

But Su Mu was in an excellent mood, salivating as he watched the sizzling, oily roasted wolf leg.

He picked up a B-rank alloy combat knife, made a few cuts on the wolf leg, and then flipped it over.

While butchering the Shadow-Fanged Wolf, Su Mu had a sudden urge for some Vicious Beast barbecue, but he didn't have a knife.

He conveniently took out a B-rank weapon selection pack from the System space.

He took a bite of the wolf leg!

"Delicious!

Next time, I'll put some salt and pepper, cumin, and chili powder in my space ring."