Chapter 43
The appearance of the water elemental beast was a bit unexpected.
At first, Jiang Yunu didn't realize that monsters would spawn in the lake.
She logged into the game and saw the familiar forest outdoor scene, surrounded by dense grass. The pangolin-like earth elemental beasts were like radishes that grew automatically in the ground. After she shoveled one away, another one came and kept coming to her, allowing her to swipe the spatula to scoop out their green crystal cores one by one.
Unconsciously, Jiang Yunu moved closer to the edge of the lush grass during the battle.
Until she shoveled out the crystal core of the third earth elemental beast and followed the battle to the edge of the grass, Jiang Yunu raised her hand to catch the crystal core falling from the air. When she turned around, she found that the open space outside the grass was next to a lake.
The surface of the lake is quite calm, like a mirror placed flat on the ground.
Jiang Yunu had just been fighting continuously, and the sound of the "pangolin" stomping on the ground and roaring was enough to cover up the surrounding white noise.
When she tried to take two steps towards the lake shore, getting closer to the blue mirror-like lake, she heard a slight sound of water.
"Is the map expanded?"
Jiang Yunu looked at the lake and talked to himself.
The blue lake was still calm.
The game system gave her very little rest time. She killed three earth elemental beasts in a row, but the map stopped spawning monsters for only five minutes at most.
Before Jiang Yunu had walked half a circle along the lake to explore the newly unlocked scene, her ears caught new movements in the grass behind her.
The fourth earth elemental beast is coming!
Jiang Yunu turned around without hesitation, and the spatula was already in place before she turned her whole body towards the direction of the sound. Just by listening, she had predicted the direction of the opponent's attack, and the metal shaft of the spatula was horizontal in the corresponding direction.
"when!"
The earth elemental beast's scaly snout hit the metal rod, making a clanging sound.
Jiang Yunu took advantage of the situation and pressed the long handle of the spatula against the long snout of the earth elemental beast. She struggled with the opponent for a moment, making it impossible for the opponent to open its mouth, which was not far away from her.
This was certainly unbearable for the earth elemental beast. With its snout suppressed, it lowered its head to gather strength, then suddenly raised its head with all its might, trying to pick up both the obstructing object pressing on its mouth and the Jiang Yu Crossbow at the same time.
Jiang Yunu was indeed "kicked away".
But she did it on purpose.
As Pangolin gathered strength and raised its head, Jiang Yunu relieved some of the force. She grasped the long handle of the spatula with both hands, bent her knees slightly, and pressed down slightly with the handle the moment the elemental beast raised its head. She pushed her feet into the soft soil on the lakeshore.
It’s like doing an alternative “vault” with the help of elemental beasts.
Jiang Yunu rose up under the reaction force, jumped into the air, turned in the air, and easily rode on the back of the elemental beast again.
Once Jiang Yunu climbed onto the back of the elemental beast with the crystal core on its forehead, there was no chance of escape.
The elemental beast struggled in vain for a while, leaving a series of messy footprints on the land near the lake.
Jiang Yunu sat steadily on its back. With a flick of his wrist, the spatula was moved to the correct position and aimed at the weak point of the scales around the crystal core.
With a quick and fierce blow, the green crystal core broke away from the elemental beast's body.
The fourth "pangolin" shook twice on the spot, suddenly lost its voice, lost its ability to move, and collapsed by the lake.
Jiang Yunu got off the elemental beast's back before his "mount" fell to the ground.
The earth elemental beast's fall made quite a noise, and it was so close to the lake that it caused a few ripples on the originally mirror-like blue surface of the lake.
Jiang Yunu expected that the system would not let her enter the rest phase immediately after killing a monster. She kept an eye on the grass area, waiting for the next elemental beast to refresh.
The sound of water waves behind me suddenly became louder.
There were only a few ripples on the surface of the lake, but due to the movement on the shore, small ripples moved away from the shore and extended towards the center of the lake.
Logically speaking, these tiny ripples should not reach the center of the lake and should disappear halfway.
But when Jiang Yunu was not paying attention, the small waves actually spread all the way to the center of the lake. Then, something in the center of the lake created a larger wave, which moved from the center of the lake towards the shore.
Jiang Yunu heard the sound of water and turned back to find that the ripples on the lake had spread from the center of the lake back to the shore.
She stared at the area where bubbles appeared on the surface of the water.
Beneath the blue lake surface, a shadow appeared, visible to the naked eye as it stood on the shore.
Two eyes appeared above the water.
Jiang Yunu only looked into the pair of lightbulb-like eyes for a moment, and she immediately realized that this was also an elemental beast.
Obviously different from the "pangolin", this elemental beast that floated out of the lake has an appearance similar to that of a crocodile.
Jiang Yunu did not see the crystal core on the forehead of the "crocodile". She slowly retreated on the shore and did not take action immediately. Instead, she waited for the elemental beast that appeared from the lake to leave the water and crawl out of the water with a layer of wet mud on its abdomen.
When the other party crawled ashore, Jiang Yunu finally saw the other party's full appearance.
This is a water elemental beast, with a blue crystal core embedded in the middle of its back.
While Jiang Yunu was staring at the "crocodile" in front of him, he was simultaneously using his hearing to explore the bushes behind him.
The grass behind is quiet.
It seems that the game system is still following the "one monster at a time" principle for the time being, and no one will suddenly crawl out of the lake and then another one will emerge from the bushes behind.
Jiang Yunu muttered, "Is this considered a different kind of protection for novices?"
She hadn't yet considered whether, for a new player who had only logged into the game for two days and had played for less than four hours, the continuous refreshing of eight elemental beasts within four hours could be considered "newbie protection" for her.
Jiang Yunu didn't think too much about it, she would just fight if there were any monsters.
The newly appeared water elemental beast was a little unfamiliar, and it was the first time that Jiang Yunu dealt with an elemental beast other than the "pangolin".
But when the real battle started, she quickly discovered that the "crocodile" had a different shape and the crystal core was embedded in a different position, but the body tissue around the crystal core should be equally fragile.
Jiang Yunu just tried it out. When the "crocodile" tried to bite her quickly, she flexibly moved to the side and smashed the other's back with a spatula, hitting the area around the crystal core.
The "crocodile" bit into nothing with its big mouth, then opened its mouth again. The crawling body hit by the spatula bounced back hard, and bit the air with its open mouth.
——This is a sign that the other person is in pain.
Jiang Yunu understood: It seems that this person's weak point is also around the crystal core.
However, the crystal core grew on its back, and the crocodile-shaped water elemental beast had a very low "chassis", making it inconvenient for Jiang Yunu to jump onto its back to suppress it. It was also very likely that the moment she jumped onto the back of the other party, she would be rolled into the water by the "crocodile".
So how do we remove this crystal core?
Jiang Yunu and the water elemental beast fought for a while, and she realized that the other party had a vague intention of taking her into the water.
Once brought into the water, the "crocodile"'s offensive capabilities will surely double.
Jiang Yunu had absolutely no intention of letting the enemy return to their home battlefield. She defended the battle area on the lakeshore. Instead, after continuing to maneuver for a while, she suddenly remembered a popular science video she had seen online in her previous world.
Crocodiles' neural perception is mainly concentrated near their noses.
Jiang Yunu seemed to be lost in thought.
It is known that the skin tissue near the crystal core is the weak area of the "crocodile".
Is it possible that, since this elemental beast has the form of a crocodile, it still retains its biological traditions in some aspects, and its nose is also a weak area?
Jiang Yunu dared to think and act. If she made a mistake in judgment, it would be nothing more than a head-on "knife fight" between her spatula and the crocodile's mouth.
Jiang Yunu moved flexibly again and went to the other side when the "crocodile" tried to open its mouth to bite her.
Seeing the opportunity when the opponent's mouth was wide open but not yet closed, Jiang Yunu raised his arm high with the flat side of the spatula facing down and slapped it down hard!
The spatula hit the "crocodile"'s nose hard!
The water elemental beast froze in place for a second, then its long body rolled over in the soft mud on the lakeshore, curling up to the left and right.
Jiang Yunu immediately knew that the attack was effective.
This pain was probably almost the same as being hit near the crystal core. Jiang Yunu took advantage of the water elemental beast being in pain and not wanting to fight back, and just rolled on the ground. She moved extremely swiftly, jumped onto the opponent's narrow and long snout, and pressed the "crocodile"'s mouth into the ground.
During this time, Jiang Yunu also hit the water elemental beast's nose with a shovel.
She could feel the "crocodile" waving its limbs as she pressed on it, trying to pull her into the water immediately.
This blow just makes the opponent lose his initiative again.
Sometimes battles are all about timing, and not a single minute or second can be wasted.
Jiang Yunu pressed down the "crocodile's" mouth and temporarily reduced its mobility with two heavy blows. She aimed at the blue crystal on its back.
His sight caught the movement trajectory of the blue crystal as the elemental beast rolled and struggled. The dynamic images in his field of vision entered his brain, and his brain seemed to be born with some kind of combat calculation program.
Jiang Yunu only took one look and immediately knew her attack angle and timing.
"Chi."
It was the sound of the hard, thin edge of the spatula biting into the weak spot around the crystal core.
Jiang Yunu held the long handle and continued to move downward. The blue crystal core was pried open by her, like a "blue potato" with a unique and strange color.
She took this "blue potato" out of the "soil" that was pulsating and hot.
The water elemental beast lost its crystal core and immediately stopped its movements, becoming as silent as the earth elemental beasts just now.
Jiang Yunu had just gotten her first blue crystal core. She looked at it against the light and felt that the color of the green crystal core was like the vibrant grass, while the color of the blue crystal core was like the blue lake in front of her.
In the blink of an eye, ripples appeared on the lake again.
The waves in the center of the lake rippled to the shore, and a dark shadow appeared in the lake swimming towards the shore.
——The second water elemental beast came ashore.
Jiang Yunu was not surprised that the system refreshed another "crocodile" for her. She repeated the previous operation, first leading the water elemental beast away from the water completely, then reducing the opponent's mobility by heavy blows, and when the opportunity arose, she knelt down and pressed down on the opponent's narrow and long snout, pressing the opponent's long mouth firmly into the ground, and then went to the opponent's back to take out the crystal core.
In one weekend, the total gaming time is no more than four hours.
As a novice player, Jiang Yunu has a total of 8 green crystal cores and 2 blue crystal cores in his backpack.
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