Chapter 54: Capturing the Earth Armored Beast

"Oh my god, it's so fierce..."

After everything was over, Jiang Xuan came out from behind the boulder, looked at the mess on the ground, and was stunned by the explosive power of the Thunder Fruit.

He suddenly remembered the few thunder tree saplings he had planted next to the tribe.

If it grows up and is attacked in this way, wouldn’t all the other magical plants be killed?

Jiang Xuan shuddered when he thought of this and said, "Transplant them. We must transplant them next spring. They cannot be planted together with other magical plants."

He observed carefully and made sure that there were no more fruits on the Thunder Tree, then he walked over there cautiously.

When he walked under the thunder tree, he found something interesting.

The explosion was so powerful that many nearby trees were damaged, but the main bodies of these thunder trees were not seriously damaged. Only the smaller branches were blown off, while the main trunks and thick branches were intact.

"Isn't this too hard?"

Jiang Xuan poked it with a bone spear and found that the thunder tree was incredibly hard. Even its bark was as hard as iron, and the bone spear could not penetrate it at all.

"Although this thunder tree is dangerous, it can be of great use if you understand its temperament."

The first is the Thunder Fruit. If you pick it when it is about to mature, you can use it as a weapon of mass destruction. You only need to throw it out with a large slingshot to injure a large number of enemies.

The second is the thunder tree, which is as hard as iron and can be used to make various tools or weapons that require hardness.

For example, peeling off its hard skin and making it into armor or a shield are both good options.

Tree trunks can also be made into many useful things after being cut.

These thundering trees definitely don’t know that Jiang Xuan has already made all the arrangements for them in his mind. If they knew, they might be so angry that they would spit out foul language in the tree language.

He would make use of the Thunder Tree later. Jiang Xuan did not forget the reason why he detonated the Thunder Tree.

What he wanted to catch was the ground armor beast under the thunder tree.

"This gray rabbit is so miserable..."

Jiang Xuan picked up the gray rabbit that was blown into several large pieces on the ground. It was a horrible sight.

"Just make do with it."

Jiang Xuan tied the broken gray rabbit together with a bark rope, then found the hole where the ground armor beast had appeared before, tied one end of the rope to the thick branch of the thunder tree, and the gray rabbit was also hung up.

"Chief, why do you want to hang it up?" Nanxing asked curiously.

Jiang Xuan said: "If we don't hang it up, how will the ground armor beast come out? If it doesn't come out, how can we catch it?"

"So that's how it is." Nan Xing nodded in sudden realization.

Jiang Xuan said to Chi Shao again, "Sister, take out your ropes and connect them together. We will put a big noose at the entrance of the cave first, and then hide beside it. When the ground armor beast comes out and enters the noose, we will immediately tighten the rope so that the ground armor beast cannot get into the cave again!"

“That’s a good idea.”

Red Peony Root, Uncaria Rhynchophylla and Nanxing took out their ropes and connected them together so that the length of the rope was enough.

Afterwards, Jiang Xuan tied a noose knot at one end of the rope, making a loop, and placed it on the entrance of the cave, just enough to cover the entrance. Then he pulled the long rope and extended it behind the boulder.

The four of them hid themselves, and the next step was to wait patiently.

Fortunately, the creature they wanted to catch was the Earth Armored Beast. This creature had long been accustomed to the explosions of the Thunder Tree. Although the explosion this time was quite terrifying, it was hiding deep underground and was not frightened.

If it were any other wild animal, it would probably be so scared that it would hide in a cave for several days and not dare to come out.

Time passed quickly. The four of them took turns staring at the earth cave and ate some dried meat to satisfy their hunger.

Over on the Thunder Tree, the gray-haired rabbit hanging on the tree was still dripping blood. This smell was undoubtedly a fatal temptation for the ground beetles that liked to steal prey underground.

This ground armored beast slowly crawled out from the depths of the cave. It was very cautious, and after crawling for a while it listened carefully to the movements around it.

The area where the thunder trees grow has long been dug underground by earth beasts.

It sniffed the smell of blood all the way and found the earth hole closest to the gray-haired rabbit. It stretched out half of its head and carefully looked at the gray-haired rabbit hanging above.

The ground beast's IQ was not high enough, and it couldn't understand why the gray rabbit's body was not on the ground but in the air.

However, the temptation of food is huge. It crawls out little by little, while carefully observing its surroundings. As long as it finds any danger, it will shrink back into the hole.

"Chief, it's out."

Next to the boulder, the Uncaria rhynchophylla who was in charge of watching that side pulled Jiang Xuan, and his voice was lowered to the extreme and was almost inaudible.

Jiang Xuan looked over there cautiously and found that the ground armor beast had indeed revealed its head.

He grabbed the rope with one hand, ready to tighten the lasso and tie up the ground beast at any time.

"Don't be anxious, wait for it to come out a little bit." Chishao reminded Jiang Xuan in his ear.

Jiang Xuan nodded and stared at the ground armor beast.

Under the Thunder Tree, a drop of blood fell on the mouth of the Ground Armored Beast. It licked it with its long tongue, then looked around and at the Thunder Tree, but found no danger.

The ground armor beast crawled out little by little, and gradually, half of its body left the cave, and it stood up, intending to bite down the gray-haired rabbit hanging in the air.

Next to the boulder, Jiang Xuan looked at the Earth Armor Beast. When he found that the noose was large enough to tie around the Earth Armor Beast's waist, he no longer hesitated.

"pull!"

Jiang Xuan suddenly pulled the rope towards himself, and the noose at the farthest end shrank instantly and wrapped around the waist of the ground armor beast. Then, the entire rope became taut.

The ground armor beast was startled and immediately turned around and tried to run back into the cave, but the rope had already tied it up and it couldn't run away at all.

“Blubber…”

The ground armored beast bared its fangs and made threatening sounds from its mouth. It was very ferocious. When it found itself tied up with ropes, it immediately opened its mouth to bite the ropes.

Fortunately, the woven bark rope is very tough and it is impossible to bite it off in one bite. It takes some time.

"Sis, keep pulling, I'll subdue it!"

Jiang Xuan handed the rope to Chishao, then rushed towards the ground armor beast with the bone spear.

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“Be careful!”

Chishao took the rope and pulled it back with all his strength, trying to drag the ground beast away from the area full of caves.

"Let's go help."

Uncaria and Nanxing also ran towards the ground beast. The tribesmen had a passion for hunting and were not afraid of the ferocious prey.

“Bang!”

After Jiang Xuan ran in front of the ground armor beast, he immediately used the bone spear to hit the ground armor beast's mouth to prevent it from continuing to bite the rope.

The reason why they used whipping instead of stabbing was because the ground armor beast was covered with hard scales and it was impossible to stab it.

After being attacked, the ground beast stopped biting the rope and turned to bite Jiang Xuan.

This ground armor beast weighs about 300 pounds and is as ferocious as a big crocodile.

Jiang Xuan did not fight the Earth Armor Beast head-on, but instead kept hitting it with a bone spear, consuming its strength and accumulating its injuries bit by bit.

Gou Teng and Nan Xing also came over, and the three of them surrounded the trapped ground armor beast and started beating it up.

The ground armor beast's sharp claws left deep marks on the ground, and its terrifying bloody mouth kept opening and closing, but it couldn't bite anyone at all.

"Chief, its shell is too hard to break."

After fighting for a long time, Gou Teng found that the ground armor beast was just bleeding at the corner of its mouth and was not seriously injured. He was very anxious.

None of them had any experience in hunting ground armored beasts, and it was too difficult to capture this big creature covered with a hard shell alive.

Jiang Xuan shouted: "Use the rattan net to catch it!"

Because he wanted to capture the prey alive, Jiang Xuan specially looked for many tough vines and weaved a simple vine net when he came.

This rattan net is very rough and the mesh is very large. It is not suitable for catching fish, but it should be effective against big fish like these.

"good!"

Gou Teng immediately untied a large bundle of rattan nets from behind, and then he and Nanxing pulled the nets open and covered the ground armor beast.

Sure enough, after the ground armor beast was covered by the net, it was quickly entangled and its limbs could not move freely.

After the local armored beast rolled a few times, it was entangled tightly in the net and could no longer show its fangs and claws like before.

The four of them took the opportunity to continuously wrap ropes around the ground armor beast, tying it tighter and tighter until it could no longer escape.

They worked for a long time and finally tied up the ground armor beast tightly.

"Finally caught it alive."

Jiang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the Earth Armor Beast that was still struggling on the ground but could no longer break free.

The four of them were all sweating from exhaustion. After resting for a while, they found some vines nearby, made a stretcher-like thing out of sturdy wood, and then tied the ground beast to it.

"Let's go and carry this Earth Armor Beast back first."

Because the ground beetle was quite large and it was getting late, the four of them did not continue looking for other prey, but took turns carrying the ground beetle back to the tribe.

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(End of this chapter)