I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

Chapter 79: Chapter 76 Cunning Originating from the "Demon" (Added for Alliance Hierarch "Little Dinosaur Likes Fish"!)

Lu Yuan clenched his fist, finally making up his mind to fight.

He estimated with the naked eye that the distance between the two sides was about 7 kilometers. To throw the long spear that far with just physical strength was essentially impossible.

Even if he stood on a hillside and threw it from a high place down, it was still too far.

"Unless I enter the miasma to throw it, there might be a chance of launching a successful attack... But entering that layer of miasma is too dangerous," he said.

This greyish miasma wasn't black in the physical sense but rather a kind of fear on the spiritual level, representing the loss of life force.

It was the "domain" described in Meida Civilization papers, something only high-level Extraordinary Life could produce.

"Or should I manually make a crossbow cannon?" Lu Yuan's eyes brightened.

The most important material for a crossbow cannon was the highly elastic bowstring, and he just so happened to have that—2 tendons from the spine of a Fire Lizard.

That long tendon required tremendous strength to pull back, yes, even with Lu Yuan's current strength, he could only pull it about halfway.

But to use it to make a bow and arrows would be less effective than throwing his long spear himself.

Therefore, that tendon had always been idle.

"After making the crossbow cannon, I'll shoot a Fuel Crystal from the Fire Lizard over there and set those damned bones on fire."

Lu Yuan took out physics knowledge he hadn't used in ten years to calculate the trajectory of the crossbow cannon.

"No, no, even if a high-quality crossbow cannon is made, it's still not feasible," he murmured.

Just using common sense, he knew that such a projectile weapon, relying solely on its trajectory, was nearly impossible to hit a target several kilometers away, not even with a sniper rifle.

Even a cannon, relying solely on its trajectory, would need to fire several shells just to hit a target precisely once.

The best strategy was still to engage in close combat.

But hand-to-hand combat was really dangerous, and it wasn't certain that he could win.

Lu Yuan racked his brain and sweated profusely but still couldn't find a very good solution.

Deep down, he still hoped to rescue the mother bear, no matter what, as it was a wild animal he had an "encounter" with, the mother to those two little fat cubs...

"If you don't have the strength of a Savior, don't ask for too much..." Lu Yuan reminded himself.

It was then that Old Wolf beside him suddenly became restless and let out a few low growls.

Its fur stood up one by one, obviously something terrifying had happened, and it was forcibly suppressing its own emotions.

"What's going on now?" he asked.

Old Wolf led Lu Yuan to the west for a while, then anxiously stopped.

Standing atop the cliff, Lu Yuan gazed into the distance.

Something even more bizarre occurred; he actually saw a pack of wolves entering Fire Lizard Valley straight from another route!

There were a total of three female wolves and a dozen or so plump, chubby little wolves.

"Isn't that... isn't that our wolf pack?!" Lu Yuan's face stiffened, his voice trembling slightly.

They now stood on the cliff, unable to intervene, watching helplessly as the pack of wolves walked into the miasma.

His heartbeat quickened suddenly. If the capture of the mother bear made him somewhat annoyed, the capture of these wolves stirred a palpable rage in his mind, an unbearable anger!

"Howl!" Old Wolf, too, recognized these were its mate and children, baring its sharp teeth and incessantly digging the ground with its hind legs.

Lu Yuan now could almost be sure that the damned Donkey-headed Monster had become intelligent.

The situation suddenly became critical!

"What does it want with these wolves… What use are they? They're not even Extraordinary Creatures!" he pondered.

Even stranger, he didn't see any real beings driving the wolf pack.

It was as if the wolves had walked in on their own.

Old Wolf's mate and children had been captured in one fell swoop, and it was on the edge of the cliff, ready to jump, but the drop of over a hundred meters would mean instant death. It wasn't stupid to that extent.

It's animal instincts were filled with fear.

This old Pangu Grey Wolf, brimming with the will to live, trembled in terror—the adversary was too formidable, an existence it could never defeat.

Yet its wolf nature was urging it to fight, preferring to die in battle rather than cowering here like a spineless fool!

So it bared its teeth and couldn't help but lift its head, eager to let out the howl of a wild wolf, to awaken the pack.

Lu Yuan, who still retained some reason, immediately covered the animal's mouth, consoling it, "I understand, your wife and children are essentially its hostages."

"Its ultimate goal is to hunt me down."

"Your wife and children, they won't die so easily. They're worthless if they're dead."

He threw out a few pomegranates, and Old Wolf, considering the food, temporarily stopped being agitated.

No matter how clever Old Wolf was, it was still an animal, and its attention could be diverted.

What was even more terrifying was actually Lu Yuan's state.

As panic spread, he surprisingly became more lucid.

"The goal is to hunt me down," he realized.

Under normal circumstances, when he found the wolf pack missing, he would definitely search everywhere, exhaustively.

He would keep searching until he reached near Fire Lizard Valley and found the kidnapped pack, likely storming in, raging and fighting to the death.

Because the wolf pack was his companion in life and death.

Having at least some company for now, once left completely alone, Lu Yuan truly wouldn't withstand the relentless loneliness.

Just then, distant howls of fright came, "Howl!" "Howl!"

Over a dozen wolves arrived near the carcass of the Fire Lizard, huddled together, howling continuously. They were shaking uncontrollably, practically paralyzed on the spot, not even daring to flee, just crazily howling there.

Meanwhile, the donkey-headed monster, paying no mind to the others, kept busily assembling bones.

The Fire Lizard was a high-level Extraordinary Creature, its bones several times stronger than those of bears and wolves, which is why the value of bears and wolves wasn't really high.

Witnessing this scene, Lu Yuan searched while becoming even more certain.

"The papers of the Meida Civilization described that Mind creatures are not much interested in ordinary animals. Because the spiritual energy of ordinary animals is too little, too little."

"So, its hunting target must be me, deliberately making them howl to lure me over..."

This conjecture made Lu Yuan shiver all over involuntarily.

It was damn terrifying...

The adversaries he had fought before were just a bunch of unintelligent beasts.

Now, all of a sudden, there emerged an intelligent one – and it even knows how to take hostages!

To call it a ghost wouldn't be an exaggeration.

"If it's this cunning, it must have hunted a number of civilizations... It wants to hunt me, good, very good."

In that instant, Lu Yuan indeed started to get nervous, an indescribable panic flooding his body like the Yangtze River rushing through his veins.

He was alone against the unknown, with no one to consult.

Even his Extraordinary Spark was trembling, it was merely a Level Two Spark after all. What could it do in the face of a civilizational-level Hunter?

Lu Yuan angrily picked up a stone and harshly knocked it against his thigh. The intense pain rose like a sudden dam in the air, blocking the relentless tide of panic.

"Just a creature delivering a milestone, what am I afraid of!"

The limitations of fate may well be eternal, but the challenge of the unyielding cannot be absent even for a moment.

Now, it was time to challenge fate.

Lu Yuan clenched his fist, listened to his heartbeat, laughed, and patted the dog head of his old comrade: "Old thing, I know you're angry, anxious."

"But I need to go back first to prepare for the fight."

"Rushing in now would be falling into the opponent's trap."

"Your wife and children, I will definitely help you rescue them!"

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Lu Yuan started on his journey back, with Old Wolf trotting behind him step by step.

If we're talking about giving up, Old Wolf's "crappy" Attribute was actually more than a hundred times that of Lu Yuan's.

After all, there were plenty of animals in the Primitive Forest; it could just go woo a few she-wolves and have a bunch of kids. In a year's time, it'd be a mighty fine fellow again!

A wolf's gestation period is short, just three months.

Its forgetfulness was also swift; give it something tasty, and it would soon cast aside its current troubles.

However, Lu Yuan would not give up easily.

He was a human with emotions; he couldn't just give up like that.

He quickly returned home and checked the surroundings.

Indeed, in some shadowy corner, he smelled something decaying.

The smell was relatively strong, apparently fresh.

"Can that creature control minds? Otherwise, those wolves wouldn't have run into the valley by themselves."

"Its main body is clearly in the valley; how did it manage this? Use a clone, or some other ability? Parasites?" Lu Yuan crouched down and examined closely, failing to find any footprints or hair from abnormal creatures.

Just in terms of brute force, he very likely was no match for it.

He would have to rely on some intelligence.

But the adversary also had intelligence; it wouldn't be so easy to fall into a trap.

"Since it hasn't actively sought me out, this means it's not completely confident of victory."

"It has locked eyes with me before, only knowing I possess an Extraordinary Spark."

"But it doesn't know my other abilities, nor does it know about the Superior Level weapons I possess..."

"Meanwhile, I also don't know its abilities; I only know it might manipulate minds and release that grey miasma... In such a situation, if it wants to lure me into its territory to have a home-ground advantage, I'm obviously at a disadvantage."

The information is still too little.

The key to battle lies in probing the adversary's Divine Skills while hiding one's Divine Skills.

Lu Yuan inhaled and exhaled non-stop, but couldn't completely calm down; his mind was filled with chaotic thoughts.

With sufficient cultivation resources and access to the materials provided by the Meida Civilization, by following proper procedures, he could cultivate a Level Three Extraordinary Spark.

By then, he would have enough confidence to launch an expedition, to search for more treasures!

What awaited him at Sky City, over 17,000 kilometers away?

Perhaps there was an even greater civilization there, maybe even living intelligent life!

Who has said that civilizations must go extinct, even the "Gods" haven't said that all civilizations from the Eighth Epoch had died out, have they?

He would definitely be able to reach a higher level of cultivation at Sky City, and perhaps even complete a few civilization milestones?

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