I am the Clone of a Death Row Inmate

Chapter 131: Chapter 128: Harvest 2

’Besides... if Mr. Ya is somehow captured by the man with the buzz cut, I can still use these three students as hostages—as bargaining chips.’

With that in mind, Su Ze decided to spare Tao Qian’s life.

At that moment, the remaining two—the girl in the short skirt and her companion—began to flee frantically. After seeing Tao Qian beaten to a pulp, what little fighting spirit the two Pupa Stage students had was completely gone.

But they didn’t have an Earth Escape Skill. Trapped with nowhere to run, there was only a short tunnel, and they hit a dead end in just a few steps.

Su Ze couldn’t be bothered to waste words on them. He unleashed his Gravity Chain, yanking them toward him from a distance. He slapped each of them once, knocking them both unconscious.

”Where’s the Treasure Hunting Mouse?” Su Ze suddenly recalled. The group had captured one of the rare anomalous beasts, and he had been planning to take it back and raise it.

But after searching all around, he only found a broken metal chain. The Treasure Hunting Mouse was long gone.

’Looks like the two students dropped the chain when they were fleeing in a panic, letting the Treasure Hunting Mouse escape. Those things are experts at burrowing, after all.’

’Forget it,’ Su Ze thought. ’I’ve heard their treasure-hunting ability is hit-or-miss anyway, and they’re notoriously hard to raise. People say they have a hundred different ways of dying.’ He shook his head and gave up the search.

He then started looting the bodies—or, well, not quite bodies yet. ’These people are from Lin Hua Country and attend some fancy Noble Academy,’ he thought. ’They should have plenty of good stuff on them.’

He patted them all down and actually found two Wondrous Objects. ’Filthy rich, indeed!’

He found a Tier 2 Wondrous Object on Tao Qian, a sharp, palm-length claw.

The other Wondrous Object was found on the short-skirted girl. It was a leaf, surprisingly a Tier 3 Wondrous Object, clearly from a Spiritual Plant.

The girl had hidden this leaf-shaped Wondrous Object very well; if Su Ze hadn’t been so meticulous, he might have missed it.

Su Ze didn’t know the effects of the two Wondrous Objects, but he didn’t dare test them rashly. Using some Wondrous Objects required paying a price, like being plunged into a weakened state or having one’s evolutionary power completely drained.

The risk was especially high when using a Wondrous Object of a higher tier than oneself.

’Mr. Ya isn’t back yet, and the situation is still uncertain,’ Su Ze thought. ’I need to stay in peak condition. It’s safer to take these two Wondrous Objects back and study them later.’

After stashing the two Wondrous Objects away, Su Ze’s gaze fell on the backpack the short-skirted girl was wearing.

The bag contained all the spoils the three of them had collected since arriving in the Blood Earth Forest.

Su Ze rummaged through it, finding various Tier 1 and Tier 2 extracts and materials from different anomalous beasts. ’The three of them probably didn’t care much about the value of this stuff,’ he mused. ’They were likely carrying it all as a record of their accomplishments, proof of their kills.’

Besides these, Su Ze also found several bottles in the bag filled with a crystal-clear, unknown liquid. Before he even opened the caps, Su Ze could smell a sweet, rich fragrance.

’Is this... Evolution Honey Water from Honey Pot Ants?’

’So it was them! They were the ones who screwed over Mr. Fang!’

’Or maybe it wasn’t just them. Other students from Lin Hua Noble Academy might have been involved too.’

Su Ze strongly condemned their actions... and confiscated all the loot.

After dealing with the three Lin Hua Noble Academy students and plundering all their loot, Su Ze suddenly realized a serious problem... he had no way out of here either!

He didn’t have an Earth Escape Skill. If he wanted to leave, his only option was to dig. ’Digging my way up from eight hundred meters underground is no small task,’ he thought.

’Alternatively, I can just wait here for Mr. Ya to come back.’

’Of course, I could also wake Tao Qian up and make him lead me out, but he’d almost certainly try to escape the first chance he gets.’

’Since Mr. Ya told me not to worry, he should be fine. I’ll just wait here peacefully for his return.’ After a moment of thought, Su Ze decided to trust in Mr. Ya’s survival skills, believing he would make it back safely.

Since he had nothing better to do, Su Ze resumed digging into the black soil with his Needle Strike skill. He had already dug a hole over thirty centimeters deep, and with a little more time, he would reach the wooden earring.

Su Ze hadn’t been digging for long when he suddenly saw Mr. Ya burst out of the ground.

Su Ze let out a sigh of relief. ”Mr. Ya, you’re finally back! What about that old geezer?”

Mr. Ya’s face was a little pale, but his expression was full of excitement. He said proudly, ”I dragged him off to feed the spiders!”

He, Yargha, had lived for over thirty years, and he’d finally defeated an evolver of the same tier all by himself... with the help of a swarm of spiders. It felt damn good!

”Spiders?” Su Ze immediately thought of the swarm of Burrow Spiders they had seen earlier.

That swarm of Burrow Spiders was huge, with several Tier 3 individuals and countless Tier 1 and Tier 2 ones.

Grinning from ear to ear, Mr. Ya began to recount his glorious battle...

He had forcibly dragged the buzz-cut middle-aged man away with him. Naturally, the man was unwilling and attacked him continuously during the escape. They hadn’t gotten far before the man’s attacks forcefully interrupted the Earth Escape Skill.

But Mr. Ya wasn’t afraid of taking a beating. He used his recently acquired S-rank defensive skill, ”Double-Sided Turtle Shell,” to protect himself, tanking the attacks while forcibly dragging the buzz-cut man to the Burrow Spiders’ lair.

The ”Double-Sided Turtle Shell” skill came from the Tier 3 S-rank anomalous beast, the ”Steel Armor Double-Faced Turtle.” Mr. Ya had demonstrated this skill to Su Ze before. When activated, the user’s ribs grow out of their body and transform into a double-sided shell covering their front and back. It was hard and thick, and allowed the user to retract their limbs and head into the shell, providing a defense with no blind spots.

It was precisely by relying on this skill, combined with his Earth Escape Skill, that Mr. Ya was able to charge straight into the Burrow Spiders’ web with the buzz-cut man in tow. He then used the ”Tail Cutting for Survival” skill to break free from the web, watching as the buzz-cut man was poisoned to death by a swarm of Burrow Spiders, wrapped up like a mummy, and added to their food reserves.