I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 68: Chapter 68: Poisoning

Su Ze was keenly aware of the Mutated Giant Crocodile’s power. He and Mr. Ya simply couldn’t hunt it on their own.

Hunting a regular Brahma River Crocodile was relatively easy for the two of them, but hunting this behemoth...

Su Ze suspected that even if his needle strike hit a vital spot on the Mutated Giant Crocodile, it probably wouldn’t be a fatal blow.

The giant crocodile was just too massive. It was covered in scales, each the size of a brick. With such a thick hide and dense flesh, Su Ze’s needle strike had limited power. He feared that even if it broke through the crocodile’s defenses, there wouldn’t be much force left to do real damage.

But Su Ze refused to give up. It was rare to find a target so perfect, such a high-quality source for an extraction.

Su Ze might call Mr. Ya a daredevil, but the truth was, when the potential rewards were high enough, he was even more reckless.

”Mr. Ya.” Su Ze couldn’t come up with a good plan, so he decided to pick Mr. Ya’s brain. ”Do you think there’s any way we could hunt this giant crocodile?” he asked.

Mr. Ya was startled at first, but his eyes quickly filled with excitement. He had gotten a taste of success hunting a Brahma River Crocodile with Su Ze the day before, and now he was hungry for more.

He knew it would be difficult. After a moment of thought, he said, ”Should we find some more help?”

”Who? The crewmen from the boat?” Su Ze shook his head. ’They’re just ordinary Pupa Stage at best. They wouldn’t be much help.’

Mr. Ya said, ”Well, I have plenty of classmates, but none of them are nearby...”

Su Ze waved him off. That was a solution too far away to help them now. Besides, news of the Mutated Giant Crocodile had already spread through Mr. Ya’s livestream. If they didn’t act fast, other hunting parties would soon arrive to steal their kill.

If they hired help from a nearby city, the weak ones would be useless, while the strong ones might just cut them out and take on the crocodile themselves. They were strangers in this area, making it all very difficult to manage.

Mr. Ya grew troubled as well.

’To have the weak overcome the strong, what could they rely on?’

’Artifacts?’

’A surprise attack?’

’Teamwork?’

’What else was there?’

Su Ze followed this line of thinking. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he blurted out a single word: ”Poison!”

Mr. Ya’s eyes lit up when he heard it. He slapped his thigh and exclaimed, ”That’s right! Poison!”

”If we can’t beat it, we’ll poison it to death!”

The only problem was, neither of them had any poison-related skills. They would have to buy the toxins.

”Life Pharmaceutical sells this stuff, but buying Tier 3 biotoxins will probably be tough. We’ll likely only be able to get Tier 2.”

Tier 3 biotoxins were too lethal and were considered controlled substances. Without the right connections, they were almost impossible to buy.

Su Ze nodded, then opened the official Life Pharmaceutical website to check the current stock at nearby stores.

Sure enough, there were no Tier 3 toxins in stock, but there were quite a few types of Tier 2 biotoxins to choose from.

Considering the Mutated Giant Crocodile’s enormous size and the fact that it lived in the Brahma River, its poison resistance was bound to be high. They skipped right past the low-grade toxins and focused only on the most potent ones at Tier 2.

Mr. Ya eyed the prices of the toxins greedily. ”Looks like learning a poison skill would be pretty lucrative. You could make a lot of money just selling poison on the side.”

Not all the biotoxins for sale were extracted from mutated beasts. Many Evolved who had mastered poison skills would also collect and sell the toxins they secreted themselves.

”This Corrosive Poison is great. Not only does it corrode flesh and blood, but it also interferes with healing effects. Let’s get two bottles.”

”Two bottles of this Bloodthirsty Poison, too. It can devour the victim’s blood.”

”What’s this Insect Egg Venom? The venom contains eggs that hatch into small insects inside the target’s body and eat their flesh?”

”That’s vicious! Let’s get several bottles of this one!”

Su Ze and Mr. Ya picked out more than ten different kinds of poison and made a shopping list. Then, they sent Mr. Ya to the nearby Life Pharmaceutical Store to make the purchase.

Why Mr. Ya?

Because he was fast—the perfect man for an errand run.

In less than half an hour, Mr. Ya was back, carefully carrying a large box filled with bottles and jars of powders and liquids.

In total, they had bought over fifty bottles of poison, spending more than seven million.

The two of them had spared no expense. If this didn’t work, they’d be the biggest suckers in the world.

Mr. Ya was panting with exhaustion from the run. Su Ze told him to get some rest and recover to his peak condition before they made their move. He knew this was going to be a battle of attrition.

They rested for half an hour. By then, it was high noon, and the sun was blazing overhead.

”Let’s go.”

Su Ze and Mr. Ya slipped into the water together and crept toward the vicinity of Hundred Crocodile Bay.

As planned, they intended to lure the Mutated Giant Crocodile onto the shore first, then slowly kill it with poison.

Mr. Ya started his livestream again and volunteered, ”I’ll go lure it out.”

The Mutated Giant Crocodile had already submerged again. Mr. Ya slipped into the water, and a moment later, a huge wave erupted from the surface as he shot out, looking rather disheveled.

Right behind him, the giant crocodile burst from the water in pursuit!

Facing the Mutated Giant Crocodile, which was as large as a small hill, was far more shocking than watching it on a livestream.

The Mutated Giant Crocodile chased Mr. Ya onto the shore, and he immediately ran toward Su Ze.

After reaching Su Ze, Mr. Ya used his Earth Escape Technique, instantly teleporting both of them to the side of the Mutated Giant Crocodile’s belly.

Su Ze was ready. He unleashed his strongest attack, a needle strike enhanced with Ant Power, and pierced a bloody hole between the crocodile’s brick-sized scales.

’It broke through...’ Su Ze breathed a sigh of relief. He had been worried it wouldn’t be able to break its defense. If that had happened, they would have had no choice but to give up.

To a creature of the crocodile’s immense size, the wound was probably no more than a mosquito bite, but for Su Ze and Mr. Ya, it was enough.

The moment Su Ze created the hole, Mr. Ya immediately jammed a bottle of poison into it, pouring the pungent liquid directly into the wound.

The Mutated Giant Crocodile’s hide was simply too thick. Applying poison to its surface would likely have no effect, so they had to create an open wound and pour the toxins right in.

”Go!”

With the poison delivered, the two immediately made their escape. A second after they vanished, the giant crocodile’s tail swept through the spot where they had just stood.

Su Ze and Mr. Ya hadn’t fled far. Instead, they appeared on the crocodile’s other side and repeated the same maneuver. This time, Mr. Ya poured the Insect Egg Venom into the wound.

Countless black eggs floated in the purple venom, a sight that would make one’s blood run cold.

After this second dose of poison was administered, they didn’t press their luck, immediately retreating several hundred meters away.

As Su Ze’s physical attributes had improved, the duration of his Ant Power Skill had increased to about three seconds—just long enough for them to apply poison twice.

Without the enhancement from the Ant Power Skill, it would be difficult for Su Ze to pierce the Mutated Giant Crocodile’s thick scales again.

Thus, they established a rhythm: attack and poison twice, then retreat and wait for the Ant Power Skill’s cooldown to reset before beginning the next round.

Thanks to the effects of his Regeneration Skill, Ant Power’s cooldown was drastically reduced to just over twenty seconds. This gave them just enough time to catch their breath and let the poisons in the Mutated Giant Crocodile’s body begin to take effect.

”The poison’s working!”