Chapter 139: Release Control, Carrying the Mountain (II)

"It should be around here." Amid howling wind on the mountain slope, Chen Chu slightly lowered his head, and tapped his finger on his wristband.

Suddenly, a blue light shot out, forming a virtual projection about twenty centimeters long and wide on his wrist, displaying the mountain range where Chen Chu was located.

In the projection, there was a yellow circle representing the activity range of the two level 3 mutated beasts, while a white dot represented Chen Chu's location to the right of the circle.

One of the dangers of hunting mutated beasts was that they weren't stationary. Just when one thought that they were the hunter, their supposed prey could be hidden right behind them, ready to attack...

Roar!

A roar sounded thunderously behind Chen Chu, accompanied by a fierce wind. A giant white tiger, eight meters in length, four meters in height, and with a tail extending over ten meters, leaped out.

The tiger's limbs were thicker than pillars, and its claws were several dozen centimeters long when extended, exuding a sense of oppression.

The moment the tiger pounced, however, the earth beneath Chen Chu's feet exploded as he vanished instantly from the spot, reappearing right above the tiger's head as if he had teleported.

Roar!

A faint, almost imperceptible roar echoed through the air. His fist, covered in black true power and battle armor, descended with a white shockwave that caused the air to explode.

Boom!

A black and white shockwave exploded around the tiger's head, followed by a piercing and miserable scream. The tiger's fur was normally impervious to ordinary sniper rifle bullets, but it exploded under Chen Chu's fist. Its skull collapsed, and blood mixed with white fluid gushed out.

The massive corpse slammed onto the ground, rolling several times from inertia before finally coming to a halt.

Chen Chu's expression had remained calm as he delivered that single punch, showing no signs of disturbance. For him now, ordinary level 3 mutated beasts didn't even warrant drawing his saber; he could simply obliterate them with unmatched, overbearing force with just one punch.

Roar! Roar!

Hundreds of meters away, another mutated tiger, larger than the first, emitted a piercing roar. Its blood-red eyes locked onto Chen Chu with a crazed, murderous intent. Just when Chen Chu thought the tiger would pounce to seek revenge, however, it instead turned its head and prepared to charge into the depths of the forest.

These mutated beasts had some semblance of intelligence. After witnessing Chen Chu single-handedly kill its companion with one punch, it knew it was no match and chose to retreat.

It was only able to just turn around when its head suddenly exploded with a thunderous blast, leaving a bloody hole the size of a washbasin. The massive body collapsed with a heavy thud onto the ground.

On a hillside a kilometer away, Luo Fei stood up. A faint wisp of smoke rose from the barrel of her sniper rifle after that single shot.

Seeing this, Chen Chu smiled and gave her a thumbs-up gesture, acknowledging her excellent marksmanship.

Soon, he emerged from the forest dragging the two corpses and stacked them together. Watching the girl swoop down, Chen Chu pointed in another direction. "You go deal with the white-feathered golden eagle. I'll handle the Single-horned Lizard."

Luo Fei, carrying her long rifle, nodded. "No problem. We'll meet back here afterward."

Until a few moments ago, this area had been the territory of the mutated white tigers. While they were both now dead, their usual aura still lingered, which would prevent other mutated beasts from moving in for a short while.

Chen Chu and Luo Fei darted into the forest, one to the left and one to the right, disappearing from sight in the blink of an eye.

Swoosh!

Deep in the mountains, more than sixty kilometers away, a mutated golden eagle with a wingspan of nine meters circled high in the sky. Its massive body stirred up gales with every beat of its wings.

This was a newly evolved level 3 white-feathered golden eagle. As a flying creature, it posed an even greater danger to the outside world.

After this mutated beast had been spotted some time ago, it had immediately been placed on the hunting list. Fortunately, Luo Fei's weapon happened to have some advantages against it.

Whoosh!

The golden eagle folded its wings, and its massive body dove down like a fighter jet, reaching a speed so fast that it left afterimages.

Boom!

Perched on a tree branch, a three-meter-tall white ape hadn't even had time to react before the golden eagle grabbed its body and ripped it apart. Then, with a flap of its wings, it soared into the sky...

Boom!

Just as the eagle had soared a hundred meters, its chest suddenly exploded with a shower of flesh and blood. It let out a sharp, agonized scream as its massive body plummeted with billowing flames and black smoke.

At a cliffside fifteen hundred meters away, Luo Fei, crouching on the ground, removed the incendiary bomb's spent casing, holstered her sniper rifle, and began to climb and jump down the rugged mountainside.

Soon, she arrived in the forest below and found the eagle with two large holes pierced through its chest and most of its feathers burnt, its claws still gripping the white ape's corpse.

After the eagle had been shot through the chest with an armor piercing round and didn't immediately die, she had chosen to fire an incendiary round immediately after to keep it from flying too far away.

Fortunately, birds had relatively light bodies. Even though this eagle was four meters long and possessed a nine meter wingspan, it only weighed about a ton. With Luo Fei's burst of true power enhancement, she could still drag it and run.

An hour and a half later, Luo Fei emerged panting from the forest and returned to the designated meeting place.

There, Chen Chu was waiting for her, sitting on the corpse of a single-horned giant lizard that was nine meters long and resembled an ancient dinosaur.

Watching Luo Fei dragging the huge golden eagle corpse over, Chen Chu grinned and said, "So, were there any incidents on the way?"

"No," Luo Fei replied. "The eagle's territory was close to the tigers', and they'd killed almost all of the other mutated beasts in the area."

As she spoke, Luo Fei looked at the three massive mutated beast corpses in front of her, feeling a sudden surge of pressure.

Hunting these level 3 mutated beasts was the easy part; it was bringing the corpses back that was going to be troublesome, especially for her. Dragging the relatively light bird-type mutated beast for twenty kilometers on mountain trails had already worn her out.

Chen Chu seemed to know what Luo Fei was thinking, and he stood up with a smile. "Let's go. Leave these mutated beasts to me. We've had a good harvest today, a good start."

After killing four level 3 mutated beasts so easily, and gaining more than 70 contribution points, even Chen Chu felt a bit excited. It was still early, so he could hurry back and take on another mission to earn a bit more.

With that, Chen Chu laid out several thick vines that he had prepared, then proceeded to lay the two seven-ton tiger corpses on top of them, followed by the three-ton Single-horned Lizard and the one-ton golden eagle.

Stacked together, the bodies were over five meters high. He wrapped the vines around them roughly ten times, tightly binding them together until they looked like a packaged commodity.

He then took a deep breath, grabbed onto the goods with both arms, and unleashed his true power. With a low shout, he lifted the massive eighteen-ton cargo and shouldered it, then started to run.

With each step, the ground would tremble loudly, leaving deep footprints, and Chen Chu himself was like a moving small mountain, rumbling back to their truck on the outskirts.

A month had passed since his return, and at this point, his strength attribute had exceeded six hundred. As the enhancement increased further towards the later stages, his basic arm strength had reached around twelve tons.

With such terrifying foundational strength, along with the fivefold amplification of the Dragon Elephant True Power, his strength could instantly surge to sixty or seventy tons. While trying to maintain that maximum amplification consumed too much true power to be sustained for long, a simple double amplification was much more feasible.

That was the terrifying advantage of having a formidable basic attribute. While other classmates in the Third Heavenly Realm had a basic arm strength of over one thousand or two thousand kilograms, Chen Chu's regular strength was already over ten thousand kilograms, which was quite exaggerated and formidable.

From a high altitude perspective, it looked like an ant was moving an object ten times its size across the ground, creating a somewhat comical yet awe-inspiring sight.

Luo Fei, meanwhile, was astonished, at first only able to watch the small mountain charge into the forest.

𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

She knew that Chen Chu had a strong basic strength, but she didn't expect it to be this exaggerated. She had thought Chen Chu would drag the beasts out one at a time after killing them. With those three quick trips back and forth, and her dragging the golden eagle, the two of them would have been able to transport the carcasses out of the mountain in half a day.

But she didn't expect Chen Chu's basic strength to be so great, far exceeding that of a Third Heavenly Realm—no, even the maximum arm strength of a Fourth Realm cultivator was only around four thousand kilograms.

No wonder his combat power is so exaggerated...

After a moment, Luo Fei shook off her shock and quickly caught up.