CHAPTER 86: CHAPTER 55: DESERT CROCODILE

Yan Luo sat sideways on the motorcycle saddle, one foot on the ground, one hanging by the side of the bike, watching the giant antlion and the camouflaged stone crab fight ferociously.

Below his position, there was a rock. In the Blood Lake area, this was a safe spot, preventing attacks from passing demons from underground.

Yan Luo activated the recording function of his goggles. Last time, although he recorded the video of the stone-armored bear killing a vicious wolf, that video alone was not enough to support the research of the Lingquan University scholar team.

To this day, even though the scholar team posted a bounty on the Hunter’s Guild, similar video recordings remained scarce.

Yan Luo initially intervened in the fight between the giant antlion and the camouflaged stone crab but later on, he merely watched, ensuring that his presence did not affect the combat weight of this demon skirmish.

Both demons are simple-minded types that linger at the bottom of the dangerous list. If not for their unique hunting styles, they might not even make it onto the danger list.

Yan Luo had previously discovered the presence of the camouflaged stone crab and the giant antlion and was somewhat impressed that despite being less than fifty meters apart, they failed to notice each other or engage in mutual hunting.

Rustling sounds...

A reddish-brown lizard ran out from the sand nearby, onto the rock where Yan Luo was, and upon seeing a colossal figure ahead, just as it was about to flee, Yan Luo crouched down and grabbed it.

The lizard threatened Yan Luo with fire-spitting, but Yan Luo opened his mask, completely ignoring the flames, popped it into his mouth, and even chewed a few times.

After these actions, Yan Luo revved up the motorcycle, fetched a few landmines, and loaded them into the bike’s rapid mine-laying device, setting a unified detonation time, and turned the bike toward the direction of the giant antlion and the camouflaged stone crab.

At this moment, the two intensely fighting creatures finally sensed danger, but they were entangled, making it difficult to separate.

The ground slightly vibrated, sand and pebbles bouncing, then suddenly, the sand beneath the giant antlion and the camouflaged stone crab surged and exploded.

A giant mouth broke through the sand, opened abruptly, and closed securely after swallowing the two demons.

A sand sea giant crocodile, a crocodilian demon that swims in the sand, its usual attack method is emerging from below to snap large jaws around prey, using powerful jaw strength along with bony plates and sharp teeth to crush the prey bit by bit.

This demon has a very unbalanced body structure, with a head-to-body ratio of up to 7:4, with short limbs and tail, making surface movement difficult.

Yan Luo did not act immediately; he continued recording with his goggles, watching as the giant antlion and the camouflaged stone crab were gradually crushed in the sand sea giant crocodile’s jaws.

"Captured some great content."

With a chuckle, Yan Luo revved the motorcycle, charging straight towards the sand sea giant crocodile.

The sand sea giant crocodile appearing before Yan Luo was twelve meters long, a standard size for a deadly-grade sand sea giant crocodile.

Having consumed its prey, upon hearing the sound of Yan Luo driving over, the sand sea giant crocodile couldn’t even turn its head, quickly using its stubby claws to dig into the sand below, using its tail as a drill to burrow further underground.

However, Yan Luo needed its burrowing action into the sand.

Due to its oversized head, each time the sand sea giant crocodile re-enters the sand, it’s tail-first then head, creating a slope against the ground.

Yan Luo lifted the bike’s front, riding up the coarse back of the sand sea giant crocodile, pressing the release button, dropping landmines along the path of the motorcycle, adhering to its back.

When the motorcycle leaped off the giant crocodile’s snout, the crocodile abruptly stopped retreating, springing to snap at the bike and Yan Luo in one gulp.

Yet in that instant, the landmines Yan Luo placed on its back exploded.

It was like a heavy hammer that slammed the sand sea giant crocodile down from mid-air to the ground.

The explosion’s shockwave surged from behind, propelling the motorcycle forward, escaping the crocodile’s attack range.

Having failed to consume Yan Luo, the sand sea giant crocodile continued to drill into the sand.

As a deadly-grade demon with thick skin, the sand sea giant crocodile, despite the explosions on its back, remained capable of moving, only sustaining a few scratches on its back.

This was no surprise to Yan Luo; he never thought it would be easy to kill a deadly-grade sand sea giant crocodile.

Aside from weaker demons like the shadow wolf, most deadly-grade demons aren’t easily slain.

Yan Luo turned the handlebars, skidding the bike sideways, and threw a mark at the sand sea giant crocodile.

The claw-like device latched securely on the crocodile’s back, ensuring it wouldn’t be thrown off even if the beast submerged beneath the sand.

The sand sea giant crocodile emerged quickly from the sand, retreating back into it just as fast.

Yan Luo activated the tracker, observing the mark’s location, calculating the crocodile was already five meters below the surface.

"It’s fast..."

The sand sea giant crocodile only has one attack method; its superpower lets it swim through sand, just as smooth as a regular crocodile entering water.

After re-submerging into the sand, it remained motionless underground.

The sand sea giant crocodile cannot detect movements above ground except by vibrations unless Yan Luo moved, in which case, it would stay below for quite some time.

After all, it had just consumed two dangerous-level demons and needed time to digest.

Yan Luo knew what the demon was thinking, immediately revved the motorcycle, speeding forward.

The moment Yan Luo launched the bike, the sand sea giant crocodile moved as well.

Judging from the mark’s location, Yan Luo deduced the crocodile was tailing him, continually closing the gap, attempting to burst from the sand to swallow him whole.

"Heh." Yan Luo chuckled twice, suddenly twisting the handlebars, causing the motorcycle to start Brownian motion.

Perceiving the change in vibration frequency above, the sand sea giant crocodile paused after a chase, quietly sensing the moving object above its head.

After a moment, the crocodile seemingly discerned the motorcycle’s pattern, mustered its strength, protruding its massive jaws from the sand surface, preparing to bite.

"Idiot."

A high-explosive grenade was suddenly thrown nearby, landing inside the sand sea giant crocodile’s mouth.

Standing on a rock, Yan Luo remotely controlled the motorcycle to lead the crocodile on a merry chase, then cranked the bike to top speed, instantly evading the bite range.

The sand sea giant crocodile bit at the air!

Immediately following, the high-explosive grenade detonated within the crocodile’s mouth, the expanding shockwave prying the just-closed jaws apart, nearly tearing the crocodile’s jaw muscles.

Despite the jaw muscles being intact, only cramps, the crocodile’s tongue and teeth were harmed.

The tongue was half-blasted, and three-fifths of the teeth broke.

"Roar!!!"

The sand sea giant crocodile writhed and howled in pain on the ground.

The motorcycle, circling around, returned to pick up Yan Luo, charging again toward the sand sea giant crocodile.

This time, Yan Luo targeted the crocodile’s eyes.

Having lived underground for so long, the sand sea giant crocodile’s eyes had degenerated, yet they remain connected to several nerves.

Yan Luo retrieved a long-barreled shotgun, riding circles around the crocodile to prevent it from crushing him with its thrashing.

After three or four laps, Yan Luo seized an opportunity, pulled the trigger, sending a bullet into the crocodile’s left eye.

This was excruciating, causing the crocodile to leap in pain.

Yan Luo stored the shotgun, drew a preheated thermo-axe, stepping on the bike saddle, leaping off the motorcycle, and like a strong mountain cleaving, aimed at the crocodile’s spine.

"Die!!!"

The thermo-axe split the thick scales, melting the muscles in front, driven by Yan Luo’s immense strength, chopping into the crocodile’s spine, severing its connection of head and body.

Yan Luo did not immediately kill the crocodile. Standing on its back, he sliced open the thick skin with the thermo-axe, observing the steaming flesh, opened his mask, and lunged forward with his mouth wide open.

——Time to replenish!