With his enhanced body, sharp nerves, and years of hunting experience in the Mountain, Chen Zao skillfully avoided various dangers along the way.
After more than an hour of traversing mountains and ridges, he encountered a solitary Deep Sea Beast by a stream that could reach knee-deep.
This creature was a typical Strength-Type Low-Level Beast Soldier, resembling an upright walking Giant Sea Turtle with a shark-like pointed head.
It stood just over a meter tall and was about a meter wide.
Its back was covered with a hard, spiky dark brown shell.
The long, narrow head was partially buried in the shell.
Its exposed eyes, which had narrow slits, glinted with an evil and cunning gaze as it scanned the surroundings, seemingly searching for prey to eat.
From about twenty meters away, peering through the gaps in the bushes, Chen Zao resembled a hunting black panther, his eyes slightly narrowed as he waited for the right moment to strike.
This was not Chen Zao's first encounter with Deep Sea Beasts in the apocalypse.
In his hand was a Curved Blade, which had not only slain dozens of Scaled Corpses and mutated animals but had also taken down three low-level Deep Sea Beast soldiers.
The nick on the blade of his Curved Blade was from striking the hard shell of this type of slow-moving yet immensely powerful Beast Soldier.
If it were just a one-on-one situation, Chen Zao was confident he could deliver a fatal blow to the Beast Soldier without getting injured.
However, he did not dare to act recklessly because he could not be certain that this was the only Beast Soldier in the vicinity.
Deep Sea Beasts were not low-intelligence species.
Chen Zao had once fallen into the traps set by the Beast Soldiers while hunting with a Hunting Team in the Rainforest.
During that hunt, the Hunting Team had targeted three isolated Beast Soldiers, rushing in to finish them off. However, they were ambushed by a large group of Beast Soldiers hidden in the water. If it hadn't been for the Squad Leader's formidable strength, leading them to successfully break through, Chen Zao would have met his end in the apocalypse that day.
After that experience, Chen Zao became much more cautious and no longer acted impulsively.
Especially now, as he had just arrived in the apocalypse, the energy slot of the Time-Space Dragon Ring was still empty, and there were three more time periods until the next opening of the portal. He couldn't afford to take unnecessary risks.
He needed to observe a bit longer to see if that Beast Soldier was truly alone.
Blending into the bushes, Chen Zao lay motionless on a tree, staring intently at the hard-shelled Beast Soldier by the stream in the distance.
About ten minutes passed, and the Beast Soldier slowly circled around the stream. Not finding any prey, it reluctantly returned to the water.
Seeing that the Beast Soldier was about to enter the water without any companions to back it up, Chen Zao guessed that this must be a solitary Beast Soldier.
His tiger-like eyes narrowed, and his mind sharpened; he was ready to strike.
Suddenly, a red-feathered arrow shot out from the bushes diagonally across from him with a whoosh.
The blood-red tail feathers tore through the air with a piercing sound.
Chen Zao's body jolted as if electrified, forcing him to press back against the tree trunk.
There were other hunters nearby, and he hadn't sensed them at all!
The three-foot-long arrow pierced through the hard shell of the Beast Soldier from a sharp angle, striking its rear skull.
The sharp, triangular arrowhead emerged from the Beast Soldier's forehead, releasing a burst of dark green, foul-smelling blood.
"Gah—!"
Surprisingly, this arrow did not kill the heavy Beast Soldier.
The Beast Soldier let out a heart-wrenching roar, turning around and wildly swinging its fists toward the direction of the arrow.
"—Swoosh!"
Another deadly arrow came flying in!
It lodged itself into the Beast Soldier's shark-like mouth filled with sharp teeth.
The arrowhead pierced through the Beast Soldier's throat and struck into the hard shell at the back of its head, producing a muffled "bang."
The force was so great that it knocked the Beast Soldier backward, causing it to crash onto the ground.
"—Swoosh!"
Just as the Beast Soldier was falling backward, a third arrow shot in!
It plunged directly into the Beast Soldier's vulnerable chest.
The deep brown soft shell with black spots on its chest was completely shattered by the impact.
The Beast Soldier twitched on the ground for a few moments before quickly dying.
The rainforest returned to its usual rustling sounds.
Until this moment, Chen Zao still had not found the location of his opponent.
He could only see the direction from which the arrow had been shot, but how far the opponent was hiding remained unclear to Chen Zao, as his line of sight was blocked by the bushes in the rainforest.
He did not dare to change his position to look, fearing that the opponent would detect his presence.
Remaining motionless on the tree, Chen Zao felt a level of tension much more intense than before.
After the archer killed the Beast Soldier, several minutes passed without any sign of them coming out to collect their spoils, seemingly wary of falling into the Beast Soldier's trap.
As long as the opponent did not come out, Chen Zao dared not move. He was afraid that even a slight motion would make him a target.
After being cautious for nearly a minute, there was finally movement in the bushes across from him.
A young girl, slightly over one and a half meters tall and dressed in tight-fitting maroon camouflage gear, emerged from behind the bushes holding a Bioelectric Crossbow that was almost as large as her upper body.
Chen Zao lowered his body and carefully peered through the gaps in the broad leaves, recognizing her familiar cute face!
Seeing her round and prominent figure accentuated by the tight camouflage outfit, Chen Zao suddenly remembered; this was Ren Qijie—Ren Xiao, whom he had seen at Luohan Slope!
This new generation of people born and raised in the apocalypse had suffered from genetic damage and malnutrition, resulting in generally shorter statures.
In this world, an ordinary man reaching 1.7 meters was considered tall, while the average height for adult males was around 1.6 meters.
Women are generally shorter, with a height of just over 1.5 meters being typical for girls in the apocalypse, like Ren Xiao.
However, Ren Xiao's two ample breasts are extremely rare in this world.
Due to malnutrition, both men and women in the apocalypse tend to be very thin, with many poor individuals appearing emaciated.
Only those who have consumed Beast Oil and enhanced their genes have bodies that appear normal or even show significant growth, as if they have been working out at the gym.
But no matter how much they train, Apocalyptic People still tend to be on the thinner side, as nutrition is lacking.
Chen Zao has not seen whether men's genitals have also shrunk and become thinner, but women's breasts have definitely regressed.
The vast majority of women in the apocalypse are flat-chested, which is evident even through their clothing.
Poor women here do not wear bras; their clothing is flat across the chest, resembling that of men.
Some female warriors who have consumed Beast Oil have had their bodies catalyzed, resulting in breast growth, but at most they reach an A-cup or B-cup.
A remarkable figure like Ren Xiao, who can achieve E or even F-cup sizes, is extremely rare in this world.
Chen Zao remembers Ren Xiao well—not to be laughed at—precisely because her breasts made a deep impression on him.
Of course, he also remembers that when Ren Xiao encountered him at the food exchange station and saw his tall stature, she wanted to recruit him into the Ren Family Army.
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