182: Chapter 182: End of Fearless State

"Gualing, well done!"

"That was awesome, Gualing! It's a pity we don't have mobile phones, otherwise I would have recorded you challenging the BOSS alone to keep as a memento."

Tang Yao and Xiao Niao happily crowded around him, their tone full of relief and joy.

Hu Gualing finally breathed a sigh of relief; he had finally managed to kill this [Vibrant Mutant White Boar].

However, before Hu Gualing could completely relax, he remembered something and looked at his character status bar.

"Damn, the Fearless status is about to end!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Gualing suddenly seemed like a different person. His face twisted, and he bared his teeth. One second he was hissing while inhaling, and the next he was panting heavily, which made Xiao Niao and Tang Yao both extremely worried: "Are you okay?"

It was because the 60-second duration of Hu Gualing's Fearless status had ended. As soon as the status vanished, pain from all over his body hit him at once. First, from his chest and waist, where he had forcefully endured the attacks of the Mutated White Wild Boar, came the pain of fractured bones and torn muscles. This was immediately followed by a burning sensation in his throat and lungs, as if knives were scraping them—the consequence of severe physical exhaustion. As for the swelling and pain in his fists and the soreness and weakness in his muscles, they seemed less noticeable at this moment.

Hu Gualing hurriedly grabbed a large handful of euphorbia humifusa from his backpack and stuffed it into his mouth. He chewed and swallowed it, then spat out quite a bit of herbal juice onto his hands and first applied it to his chest and waist, the two areas that were most severely injured.

As soon as he applied it, a cool sensation spread from the wounds, easing the pain, and the character status bar began to slowly show green "+1", "+1" numbers.

Hu Gualing immediately felt a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although the health recovery speed of euphorbia humifusa was very slow—it took almost five or six seconds for a green "+1" to pop up, meaning it could only recover about 10 health points per minute—Hu Gualing's 140 health points would take at least ten minutes to fully recover.

However, as his health recovered, the pain in Hu Gualing's body was also gradually lessening. He figured that once his health was fully restored, these injuries should be healed as well.

"Luckily this is inside a game. My injuries, which are almost fatal, only need about ten minutes to heal. If this were in reality, I'd probably be dead before even reaching the hospital." After applying the juice of the euphorbia humifusa to all his wounds, Hu Gualing felt that the pain in his body had lessened quite a bit. While waiting for his health to slowly recover, he used the little strength he had regained to joke.

Tang Yao said with a look of admiration: "Yeah, with injuries all over my body, I'd definitely be wishing I could just die quickly. It has to be you, Gualing, fighting the BOSS to the very end while covered in injuries. Amazing!"

Hu Gualing chuckled after being praised: "Actually, it's nothing amazing. It's mainly because after using the active skill of the fearless fangs, I couldn't feel any pain for sixty seconds. You guys were watching and it looked scary, but I didn't feel a thing at the time. Come to think of it, this is all thanks to Xiao Niao! If he hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten that I still had this thing in my backpack."

Xiao Niao gave a shy smile after being praised: "I didn't really deal much damage; I was just hiding in the back and occasionally reminding you guys. I didn't really contribute anything, which is nothing compared to you two fighting the BOSS at close range. If you keep saying that, I'll start to feel guilty."

It wasn't that Xiao Niao didn't deal any damage at all; he had fired more than ten arrows at the Mutated White Wild Boar throughout the fight. It's just that the damage was all in the single digits, with only the occasional -10 damage. But even so, the total damage probably didn't reach ten percent of the total damage dealt by the three of them, so he couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed.

Hu Gualing, however, laughed dismissively: "How did you not contribute anything? If you hadn't reminded me to attack the green parts on the Mutated White Wild Boar at the end, I would have just been stabbing blindly with the fangs and only dealing two points of damage."

Now that the battle was over, Hu Gualing realized in hindsight why the first time he stabbed the Mutated White Wild Boar with the fearless fangs he was able to deal a damage value as high as 12, yet the second time, using the same posture, he could only deal 2 points of damage, which was almost failing to break through its defense. In fact, the 2 points of damage the second time was the normal damage the fearless fangs dealt to the Mutated White Wild Boar. The reason the first stab dealt such high damage was because he had accidentally stabbed the blue-green part on the Mutated White Wild Boar's lower back.

And this blue-green part was, naturally, the weak point of the Mutated White Wild Boar.

That was why, after being reminded by Xiao Niao, Hu Gualing was able to aim for that color twice in a row and deal over ten points of damage to the Mutated White Wild Boar's health each time.

Hu Gualing asked curiously: "By the way, Xiao Niao, how did you figure out that the green part was the BOSS's weak point? I had always thought those greenish parts were poisonous or something, so I never actively touched them. How did you see that?"

Tang Yao also asked curiously: "Yeah, yeah, I also thought the greenish stuff was disgusting. I didn't know if it was rotting flesh or water weeds. How did you figure it out, Xiao Niao?"