Chapter 90: Crisis

“Your pet can heal itself?” Golden Phoenix turned her head to look at Chen Mo.

Was this even fair? This BOSS pet was already overpowered, and now it could heal itself too?

“Don’t look at me, I don’t know either.” Chen Mo chuckled.

Damn, it was a good thing he still hadn’t found a way to expel the Flower Demon Battle Spirit! It seemed that being possessed by the Flower Demon Battle Spirit wasn’t a bad thing after all. The only downside was that the Battle Spirit resisted him and didn’t follow his commands, causing Big Fatty to execute orders with a two-second delay. But this wasn’t impossible to change. When Selena returned, he would ask her how to communicate with the Flower Demon Battle Spirit. As long as he could make the Flower Demon Battle Spirit obey obediently, Big Fatty’s combat power would instantly rise by a large margin!

After fighting these giant monsters, Chen Mo discovered that Big Fatty’s power wasn’t too overpowered after all. Facing players and monsters around level seventeen or eighteen, Big Fatty’s effectiveness would probably be greatly reduced. But with the Flower Demon Battle Spirit, Big Fatty could at least still serve as a meat shield.

“Who would believe you!” Golden Phoenix knew this guy definitely had many more secrets, but she didn’t pry further like a gossip. She finally just pouted like a girl.

Since Golden Phoenix didn’t ask, June Rain and Little Demon, who weren’t that close with Chen Mo, felt even more uncomfortable bringing it up.

Eve continued to lure monsters. Knowing Big Fatty now had a way to recover Health Points, Chen Mo felt a bit more relaxed. However, he still wouldn’t let Big Fatty take too much damage. He didn’t know how long the cooldown time for the Flower Demon Battle Spirit’s healing skill was. With nearly thirty giant monsters left, he needed to manage resources carefully.

System Notification: You obtained 1 portion of “Ape Blood”!

When they killed the fifth Giant Ape, Chen Mo suddenly received a system prompt.

Chen Mo’s eyes lit up!

It wasn’t his Gathering Skill!

He had only learned the Gathering Skill a little over a day ago; he was still far from reaching the Primary level and couldn’t gather blood yet. This blood was the result of his Mutant Plunder talent activating.

Hahaha, it wasn’t a waste learning the Plunder talent back then! He could actually directly obtain monster blood from monsters! So, in the future, if he wanted to get a specific monster’s blood, he could just go level up by killing that type of monster!

However, things probably weren’t that simple.

Chen Mo calmed down.

This time he managed to get Ape Blood partly because the Mutant Plunder skill was indeed awesome, but also because the Giant Ape monsters had a pretty high drop rate.

They had killed a total of five Giant Apes but had already gotten four equipment drops. Although they were just two white and two blue items, compared to other monsters, this drop rate was already insane.

However, combined with the Light of Hope skill from the Seed of Hope, the chance of obtaining rare monster blood would undoubtedly be greatly increased. When a rare monster was about to die, he could use Light of Hope to increase his Luck Value, triggering the Plunder skill once. Then, while the Luck Value was still high, he could use the Gathering Skill on the monster’s corpse once!

After these two attempts, if he still couldn’t get the rare monster’s blood, then he was just too unlucky and had to accept fate.

“What’s so funny?” Golden Phoenix saw Chen Mo suddenly show a faint smile and couldn’t hold back anymore.

Although she hadn’t known him for long, she generally understood that this guy wouldn’t laugh like that unless he gained some benefit. There were three beautiful female players here. If it were any other male player, they’d probably have all sorts of thoughts by now. But along the way, Golden Phoenix found it absurd; this guy didn’t treat the three of them as women at all, acting almost like a block of wood.

If Chen Mo were like other male players, trying various ways to please her, she definitely wouldn’t pay him much attention. But Chen Mo treated all three of them equally as ordinary players, which made Golden Phoenix feel a bit displeased.

Sigh, she was just being contrary.

Golden Phoenix always thought she was quite different from ordinary beautiful women. But now it seemed she wasn’t much different from those women; she still craved admiration and attention. She just hadn’t realized it before because she hadn’t encountered this situation, but now she knew.

“Nothing.” Chen Mo just chuckled, looking like “I’m just not telling you.” He wasn’t that familiar with Golden Phoenix, so he wouldn’t reveal that he possessed the Plunder talent.

Golden Phoenix gritted her teeth in frustration; it was the first time she had the urge to hit someone. This guy was clearly telling her: I got something good, but I don’t want to tell you.

After killing several giant monsters, the four of them found their rhythm. Their monster-killing speed increased, and the damage Big Fatty took decreased a lot. June Rain occasionally healed Big Fatty a bit. When killing one giant monster, the Health Points Big Fatty lost could now be controlled to around 5%, at most not exceeding 7%.

About thirty minutes passed in total. The four had killed eleven giant monsters. Big Fatty’s Health Points dropped to around 50% again. Chen Mo didn’t know if the Flower Demon Battle Spirit would continue to heal Big Fatty. However, there were only about twenty giant monsters left ahead. Even if it took more time, they could clear them all.

But Chen Mo’s wishful thinking was a bit premature.

On the giant wooden tray imprisoning Eliya, Eve’s petite and agile figure appeared again.

The number of monsters on the tray had decreased by nearly half, with about twenty remaining. Eve could now get very close to Eliya.

“I must rescue Eliya!”

Looking at Eliya trapped in the iron cage, a determined glint flashed in Eve’s eyes.

There were still many monsters around. Eve quietly approached a Giant Ape. The Giant Ape noticed Eve, let out a furious roar, and charged wildly towards her. Eve turned and ran, moving very quickly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!…

The Giant Ape’s heavy footsteps echoed on the giant wooden tray. Not long after it gave chase, an angry white-haired old man rushed out from the wooden house in the center of the tray.

“Useless, idiotic things! Getting lured away and not even knowing how to run back! Wasted all those precious potions I used to mutate you! You two, go after her! No matter what, catch that little girl and bring her back today!”

The white-haired old man pointed at two silver Giant Apes and roared through gritted teeth.

The two silver apes let out angry roars and boomed as they chased in the direction Eve fled.

“Eve…” Inside the iron cage, Eliya was startled awake. Looking towards the direction of the two silver apes, an anxious expression appeared on her face.

…

“They’re coming!” Feeling the footsteps under their feet, Chen Mo and the others entered combat mode.

Eve swiftly rushed back behind the four. Chen Mo had already sent Big Fatty charging forward to prepare for battle.

The Giant Ape’s Health Points quickly dropped by a small portion, but Chen Mo’s expression suddenly changed!

“More monsters are coming! One… no, two!” Chen Mo urgently warned. From the vibrations coming through the wood beneath their feet, it felt like two giant monsters were rapidly approaching.

Not long after Chen Mo spoke, two huge noises were heard. Two silver figures burst through the fog!

“Dammit, they’re stronger monsters!”

Chen Mo had noticed the silver Giant Apes earlier. He never expected to face two silver apes at once!

Fortunately, Big Fatty was blocking the front, so the silver apes couldn’t charge through. But Big Fatty’s situation was also very bad. Having to face the attacks of two giant monsters simultaneously, even if they killed one giant monster, there would still be another left. Before the battle ended, Big Fatty would have to endure the full-force attacks of three giant monsters. During this process, Chen Mo couldn’t draw aggro and share the damage Big Fatty received like before.

Previously, just fighting one white Giant Ape head-on, Big Fatty’s Health Points had decreased by nearly 30%. Now, facing three giant monsters, two of which were the more powerful silver Giant Apes, Big Fatty would probably die before the battle even ended.

But in the next instant, Chen Mo realized this situation wasn’t even the worst.

Less than two seconds after the two silver giant apes appeared, not far behind them, a player team also emerged from the white mist!

“Attack!” This player team saw Chen Mo’s group being attacked by three giant apes. Their eyes lit up, they raised their hands, and were about to launch an attack on Chen Mo and the others!

“Shit!” Chen Mo knew things were going badly.

“Wind Speed Evasion!”

“Roar of the Slime King!”

After buffing himself, Golden Phoenix, and the other two, he swiftly moved and charged towards that team!