Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 256: Chapter 256: The Encounter with the Sweat-Blood Flame Horse

The monsters in the middle of the desert are mostly of the Enhanced Gene Primary Level and Intermediate Level. Yang Xiao is already at the Enhanced Gene Primary Level, so he can deal with the common monsters using the Golden Eagle Bow or the Longquan Spear. When facing monsters of the Enhanced Gene Intermediate Level, he uses the Soul Skill Black Hole Swallowing, or Sweeping Void, or One Finger Splitting Earth.

One Finger Splitting Earth can almost be used consecutively. Sweeping Void can only be used once every half hour. Black Hole Swallowing consumes a lot of Qi, and Yang Xiao feels that using Black Hole Swallowing three times in a row makes his body feel hollowed out and weak, so he can’t continuously use this Soul Skill without limit.

After half a day of fighting, Yang Xiao gradually formed a new fighting strategy. He uses the Golden Eagle Bow when monsters are far away, switches to the Longquan Spear when the monsters approach, and if that doesn’t work, he resorts to Soul Skills like One Finger Splitting Earth, Black Hole Swallowing, or even the most powerful Sweeping Void.

After going through this combination of skills, even monsters that have just evolved to the Enhanced Gene Advanced Level are no match for Yang Xiao.

By noon, Yang Xiao had hunted about a dozen monsters. Hunting monsters alone was indeed inefficient, but now he could freely unleash his skills without worrying about the safety of Huang Wen and others.

Yang Xiao came to an oasis in the desert, where there was a small river and several small puddles around it.

”It seems that the desert environment has completely changed. Perhaps it won’t be long before the whole desert becomes an oasis. The invasion of the alien civilization is not entirely useless, huh.”

Talking to himself, Yang Xiao found a place to sit and then took out a sandworm from his Space Ring.

This sandworm had evolved to the Enhanced Gene Intermediate Stage, and its skin had a layer of pale gold.

Yang Xiao took out his sword, cut a piece of the meat, and started chewing. His body still needed to eat daily to maintain normal strength; otherwise, he would feel hungry.

According to the Genetic Store map he checked before leaving, he was not far from the next Genetic Store stronghold. He planned to use the Transmission Array when he reached the stronghold to return to Nanmu City and put the monster carcasses from his Space Ring into the Black Bottle for refining.

It was indeed inconvenient not to carry the Black Bottle with him, but for safety reasons, he had to bear with it for now.

After resting for a moment, Yang Xiao suddenly heard a familiar sound of horse hooves from afar. Looking towards the source of the sound, he saw a Flame Horse, as red as fire, running towards him.

”Hey, isn’t that the Flame Horse owned by Liu Yiyi from the Dongli College of Magic City?”

Since Liu Yiyi left last time, the whereabouts of the Flame Horse had been unknown, and Huang Wen and others deeply missed the horse, even wanting to claim it for themselves.

Then, Yang Xiao heard a long cry of a Giant Eagle from the sky ”Ah—”. He looked up and saw a small black dot following the Flame Horse from above. As the Flame Horse got closer, the Giant Eagle in the sky became clearer and clearer.

”Isn’t that the Giant Eagle that Gong Yu saved in the desert?”

The horse and eagle maintained a certain distance, slowly approaching the grassland where Yang Xiao was.

In front of Yang Xiao lay the carcass of a sandworm, nearly forty meters long. The Giant Eagle in the sky saw it and suddenly got excited, flying towards Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao hurriedly got up to greet them.

The Giant Eagle became even more excited upon seeing Yang Xiao, as it had become quite familiar with him since Gong Yu brought the Giant Eagle along with Yang Xiao and others. The Giant Eagle had often received food from Yang Xiao. Whenever he threw food to Huang Wen’s Giant Eagles, he would also give some to Gong Yu’s Giant Eagle.

”Ah—”

The Giant Eagle let out a joyful cry and approached Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao reached out to stroke the Giant Eagle’s wings. The Giant Eagle didn’t refuse, but its gaze was clearly fixed on the sandworm carcass on the ground.

Yang Xiao chuckled, knowing the Giant Eagle wanted to eat. He picked up the Longsword in his hand and immediately chopped off a 2-meter-long segment of sandworm carcass and tossed it to the Giant Eagle.

”Eat up!”

”Err—”

With a shriek, the Giant Eagle gently flapped its wings, its gigantic claws stepping on the sandworm carcass on the ground, starting to tear and gnaw at it frenziedly.

When the Giant Eagle was feasting, the Flame Horse stood a short distance away, casting a wary glance at Yang Xiao and then setting aside its gaze upon the sandworm carcass under the Giant Eagle’s feet, displaying intense envy in its eyes.

”Holy crap, have horses turned into carnivores now?”

Yang Xiao had a thought and, gripping the sword, he chopped off another piece of sandworm carcass and tossed it to the Flame Horse.

The Flame Horse snorted indignantly, galloped a few meters away, then turned to face Yang Xiao.

”Don’t you want to eat meat? Go on then, eat it. Don’t worry, I won’t kill you.”

It seemed as though the Flame Horse understood Yang Xiao’s words, looking at him with some hesitation.

At this moment, the Giant Eagle, busily devouring the sandworm flesh, lifted its head and called out twice to the Flame Horse, apparently communicating something, after which the horse gave a low hum and then bowed its head to blow a jet of flame at the sandworm flesh.

Yang Xiao was instantly baffled. What in the world was the Flame Horse doing? Could it actually be craving a barbecue?

The Flame Horse kept spouting flames, occasionally kicking the sandworm flesh to flip it over, and soon enough, the scent of roasted meat began wafting through the air.

The Flame Horse stopped exhaling flames and began to tear into the grilled sandworm meat with relish.

In Yang Xiao’s heart, a million alpacas stampeded, all saying that horses and dogs are the most human-like; yet this Flame Horse, when it came to eating, it almost came close to matching humans. If it kept evolving, would it become a spirit?

The Giant Eagle had a great appetite; after finishing a piece of sandworm meat, it kept looking at Yang Xiao with incessant squawking, apparently having been hungry for a number of days.

Finding food around here wasn’t an easy task for the Giant Eagle, and it seemed it had probably been starving for a while.

Yang Xiao cut another generous slice of the sandworm carcass and threw it to the Giant Eagle, who let out a delighted shriek and started tearing at the meat.

On the other side, the Flame Horse had also finished eating and was looking greedily at Yang Xiao.

Without a word, Yang Xiao cut and tossed another piece of the sandworm to the Flame Horse.

And so, both the eagle and the horse devoured Yang Xiao’s entire sandworm.

The Giant Eagle was already familiar with Yang Xiao, and after eating its fill, it became even more affectionate towards him, not rejecting any of Yang Xiao’s actions and virtually treating him as a friend.

The Flame Horse initially was somewhat resistant to Yang Xiao; when Yang Xiao approached, it would stop eating and look at him.

”Easy, don’t be afraid. I won’t hurt you. Let’s be friends, okay? Your former friend, Liu Yiyi, has gone back and won’t come here anymore.”

The Flame Horse seemed to miss Liu Yiyi, and upon hearing Yang Xiao mention her, it proudly neighed, as if expressing a sense of longing.