Pretending To Be A Boss-Chapter 617 - 40: The Restlessness of the Endless Turtle

After Bai Mansheng arrived and had rested for half a day, Tang Xian led a fox, a snake, and a person to continue their journey.

According to the record given by Ju Mang, the location where Lei Xiao was captured by the evolution zone was in the northwest direction of the entire continent.

That was a place seldom trodden by humankind, and after some thought, Tang Xian speculated that if the ruins of Eden weren't extremely low, they were very likely located on the western side of the continent.

Of course, he didn't expect to just stumble upon the ruins of Eden.

He simply thought that to hunt for Lei Xiao, one must have the correct direction in mind.

The faster a creature, the wider its range of activity, and especially for something like Lei Xiao, which boasted the fastest speed in the mining area. Tang Xian couldn't hunt Lei Xiao as he once did the hellhounds, because they were too mysterious. He didn't even know where their nest was, just a vague idea of the direction.

Tang Xian anticipated that the search would be time-consuming, and he didn't find it bothersome. The only thing he hoped for was not to have wasted his efforts in killing Lei Xiao. As long as he could obtain one of its abilities, the trip would be meaningful.

Speed would allow him to dodge some damage that couldn't be mitigated with resistances, and that was why Tang Xian first planned to hunt Lei Xiao.

The following days, Tang Xian's activities turned quite monotonous.

Although they were still far from the northwest direction, Tang Xian did not stop searching along the way so that they could eat fresh food.

It had been a long time since he last observed his surroundings with such care.

But now, everything seemed to have reverted to the beginning. He would often observe around a tree for a long time, dig up some soil, to look for certain details.

Even though his sense of smell had enhanced to the level of radar, Tang Xian didn't rely solely on it. He would occasionally pick up some long-forgotten techniques.

However, this process didn't last long—about on the third day, he stopped reviewing.

Bai Mansheng was the reason.

Bai Mansheng wasn't like Dong Ran. Dong Ran would question Tang Xian's various strange actions, but Bai Mansheng felt indifferent to them.

"Aren't you curious about how I've been capturing food these days?" Tang Xian thought to himself that it really wasn't fun without an audience.

Bai Mansheng said,

"There's nothing to be curious about. It's something I could easily do anyway."

Snakes also have a unique temperature sensing ability towards their prey.

Bai Mansheng didn't find Tang Xian using his experiences to hunt cool at all. Instead, she found it quite amusing.

Tang Xian felt that her disdainful looks were full of contempt.

"Your sense of smell is second only to Gluttony. If you don't properly train your olfactory senses but instead focus on using your old methods, isn't that a waste of time?"

Tang Xian laughed, recognizing the truth in that statement.

Therefore, in the following days of travel, Tang Xian's process of capturing various beasts sped up significantly.

His sense of smell was too powerful. Aside from Gluttony, whose sense of smell could cover half of the continent, there really was no creature that could compare to Tang Xian.

Constantly hunting along the way, Tang Xian discovered that he was really unlucky to the extreme.

Because he had already eaten at least twenty different creatures but hadn't acquired a single ability.

This matter was very mysterious. It was like when he killed the Great Tengu and the Plague Source, he could actually sense that he would gain some abilities.

But most of the time, he sensed nothing.

"Could it have something to do with the intensity of the battle?"

Tang Xian thought so but soon shook his head in self-mockery.

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When a person has bad luck, they think about learning some metaphysics.

For instance, washing hands, face, purifying clothing before drawing cards, and choosing a specific moment to do it.

Tang Xian now had such a mindset. Was it because his killing gesture was incorrect?

He began to recall the details of the battles where he had taken abilities but discovered there were no such details.

However, these battles to acquire abilities... they indeed weren't won effortlessly.

Even in the hunting festival, when he killed the bald-headed S-004, it took a lot of effort.

Sometimes the mining area can be quite small. On the fifth day, Tang Xian and Bai Mansheng's group had already arrived at March Marsh to the west of the forest sea.

There, Tang Xian encountered a flock of Sword Feather Ducks.

These were the creatures he had encountered on his previous trip to the Holy Land. Moreover, it was the same group.

Sword Feather Ducks are gregarious animals with very tender meat, though plucking their sword feathers can be somewhat troublesome.

These creatures weren't particularly powerful, but they could sense hostility and had a very special telepathic ability.

Tang Xian hadn't even approached the riverside, hadn't gotten close to the flock of Sword Feather Ducks, when suddenly one of them turned its head, its gaze filled with a mix of innocence and anger as it bellowed,

"Why are you getting so close, duck."

"Quack, it's that human from last time who wanted to eat us, run, duck."

"Why are you roaring so loudly, duck? What if he hears us, huh!"

Several leaders of the Sword Feather Ducks frowned, looking outwardly calm but inwardly panicking. Within seconds, they started to scurry across the water at breakneck speed.

Tang Xiaojiu said,

"Tang Xian, do you want to eat these little ducks?"

"Yes. Ducks feed mainly on aquatic animals; thus, their meat is sweet and cold in nature. It benefits the lungs, stomach, and kidneys, nourishing, supporting the stomach, enhancing the kidneys, and helping to eliminate phthisis and reduce edema. Moreover, there are many ways to prepare them; whether stewed into a soup until tender or roasted, they're delicious."

"But they're so cute."

"The last one you called cute, a little lamb, has now become something that makes you drool in your dreams."

Tang Xiaojiu stopped talking.