12: Bloodthirsty butcher!

In the silent wilderness, a massive black and yellow figure leaped over a small stream without making much noise.

The figure continued to run forward with a clear destination, soon disappearing into the mountains and forests.

The fleeting figure was Xia Fan.

After leaving the Dali Mountains, he had been traveling frantically, specifically choosing remote and uninhabited areas, thus avoiding human attention.

Xia Fan estimated the time he would need to spend.

At his current speed, in just one day and one night, he had completely left the Jianghai City region.

Three days later, in a remote mountain wilderness, Xia Fan's figure reappeared.

At this moment, he had stopped, his gaze sharply fixed ahead, thinking to himself, "One more day, and I should almost reach Great Wilderness Mountain."

After three consecutive days of frantic travel, Xia Fan felt a hint of fatigue, so he decided to stop and rest for a while.

He stood still, his two ears quietly listening to the sounds around him.

The next second, Xia Fan pounced, and a goat, mutated and significantly larger due to bathing in the blood rain, died under his jaws.

He did not specifically search for fierce beasts with innate abilities; he merely caught this goat to satisfy his hunger.

During his meal, he did not forget to remain vigilant of his surroundings.

Even though he was now powerful and ordinary fierce beasts could not threaten him, Xia Fan did not relax in the slightest.

It had been about a week since the blood rain mutation, and although it wasn't long, many changes could still occur; moreover, he only remembered some major events but was not very clear about the specific details.

This week was enough for some fierce beasts with excellent bloodlines, or those who had consumed some rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures, to become stronger; they should absolutely not be underestimated.

Especially since some fierce beasts awakened extremely bizarre abilities, a slight carelessness could result in being injured by their abilities.

Xia Fan did not want to capsize in a ditch due to such details.

He devoured the goat's flesh and blood, and soon even its bones were gone, leaving only scattered fur to prove its existence.

After eating his fill, Xia Fan comfortably lay down and began to rest.

Now a fierce beast, his digestive ability was very strong, and it wouldn't take long for him to fully absorb the goat's flesh and blood, yet he would no longer feel full, his body's state restored.

Da da da —

But a few minutes later, a series of dense gunshots came from not far away, making him instantly stand up, his sharp tiger eyes vigilantly scanning his surroundings, searching for the source of the sound.

Listening to the sound, the place where the gunshots erupted was still some distance away.

But he hesitated for a moment and decided to slowly approach to investigate.

No matter what happened, it was always best to first understand the situation, otherwise, it would be easy to be caught off guard.

A moment later, he walked out of the wilderness, standing on a gentle slope, gazing into the distance.

As far as the eye could see, there was a small town, with three prominent characters at the entrance — Crocodile Town, and above it, a lifelike crocodile statue.

Xia Fan looked on, and the town was already in chaos, with many giant crocodiles rampaging within; the longest of these crocodiles had already reached ten meters in length!

Among the crocodile group, there was also a human armed team, firing frantically and resisting the crocodile's attacks.

However, this armed team was not as strong as the team that was ordered to enter the Dali Mountains to capture fierce beasts, and they were now almost at their wit's end.

"This guy is the Bloodthirsty Butcher!"

Xia Fan stared at the ten-meter-long giant crocodile for a while and instantly recalled some things.

The reason this town was named Crocodile Town was that it was a breeding town specializing in raising crocodiles; every day, a large number of crocodiles, after being slaughtered, were transported across the country, either becoming food on people's tables or turning into accessories like leather shoes and bags, earning a fortune.

Therefore, after tasting the benefits, Crocodile Town had been continuously expanding its breeding scale.

But unexpectedly, a blood rain brought disaster to this small town.

Due to the sudden blood rain, a large number of crocodiles in the breeding farm evolved.

Among them, the strongest was a crocodile named "Bloodthirsty Butcher."

Xia Fan still remembered that this guy had an excellent bloodline and, after the blood rain, awakened two innate abilities: "Bloodthirsty Technique" and "Rage Berserk Technique"!

The Bloodthirsty Technique was somewhat similar to his Devouring ability, except the former used the consumption of blood to aid its own growth, with a sense of extracting its essence.

As for the Rage Berserk Technique, it would condense a layer of rage shield around its body, and the defense of this shield was extremely terrifying.

Moreover, during the activation of this ability, the angrier it was, the stronger its defense became!

Although both of these were only A-grade innate abilities, Xia Fan remembered that in his previous life, the Bloodthirsty Butcher, relying on these two abilities, displayed strength no less than that of an ordinary King-level fierce beast!

This was an extremely troublesome and powerful fellow!

Xia Fan knew that before the blood rain mutation, crocodiles already had a layer of skin like armor, with only their abdomen being the softest part, but they generally did not easily expose their abdominal weakness.

And the Bloodthirsty Butcher, as a top-tier crocodile fierce beast, further bolstered by the Rage Berserk Technique, could be said to have an impregnable defense.

He remembered even more clearly that the Bloodthirsty Butcher had once, in a fit of rage, successively massacred more than a dozen human towns, causing those towns to always be shrouded in terrifying blood qi, which was extremely horrifying.

Through this act, the Bloodthirsty Butcher had established a notorious reputation in the human world, and his title came from this!

Facing such a fierce beast, Xia Fan did not rashly step forward to fight it.

Besides, he was already a fierce beast, completely a different species from humans; not adding insult to injury was already good, he had no obligation to save people!

He quietly stood on the gentle slope, gazing at the battlefield between humans and fierce beasts, silently.

In Crocodile Town, the slaughter by the Bloodthirsty Butcher and the other crocodiles continued; the human armed force was almost out of ammunition, and even the gunshots became sparse.

And the number of humans killed by the crocodiles was also increasing.

Especially around the Bloodthirsty Butcher, the human corpses were piled almost layer upon layer; these corpses had all become shriveled and pale, without a trace of blood.

"This is a war without suspense."

Xia Fan had already foreseen the fate of this group of humans, but he was thinking about something else.

"My Devouring ability, in the end, is like swallowing dates whole, and its greatest function is to devour the abilities of other fierce beasts for my own use, yet it still has flaws."

"If I could devour the Bloodthirsty Butcher's abilities and combine them..."

With this thought, Xia Fan hesitated for a moment, then finally slowly approached Crocodile Town...