Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 48 - Subduing Chen Dalong (Part 2)_1
Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Subduing Chen Dalong (Part 2)_1
Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Subduing Chen Dalong (Part 2)_1
“Fuck!”
Upon seeing the mutated wild boar charging at him, Chen Dalong turned and fled.
Of course, he knew very well that with his speed, it would be very difficult to escape the pursuit of the mutated wild boar, so he didn’t foolishly run along the highway but headed straight for the forest.
He dove into the thickest part of the woods.
The size of this mutated wild boar could now rival that of a minivan, and such a behemoth would find it extremely inconvenient to navigate through the dense forest.
Let’s not even mention the wild grass and shrubberies—some trees stood so close together that the boar couldn’t just barge through but had to break them down.
In doing so, its speed would inevitably slow down.
Therefore, after chasing after Chen Dalong for a while and realizing it couldn’t catch up, the mutated wild boar changed its target when it saw other people.
Watching the mutated wild boar gradually disappear, Chen Dalong sat down on the ground with a thud, panting heavily.
He was so close to losing his life here.
Moreover, this mutated wild boar was much more ferocious than the mutated buffalo he had encountered the day before; it wouldn’t stop until it had crushed someone to death.
Even playing dead on the ground was useless—one person had tried just that, but the mutated wild boar started “whipping the corpse”, stomping the person into a bloody pulp with a single foot.
“Shit, if I knew it was this dangerous, I wouldn’t have come,” cursed Chen Dalong once again.
Although everyone was injured yesterday, no one died.
That gave Chen Dalong the false impression that mutated beings weren’t all that dangerous.
But just a moment ago, he had watched helplessly as four of his men died before his very eyes.
And it was foreseeable that the number of deaths would likely increase; he didn’t even know if he could make it back alive, which made him shudder with fear.
Thinking this, Chen Dalong quickly got up. He didn’t know when the mutated wild boar might return, so it was best to leave quickly.
However, he had only taken a few steps when he saw an ant trail ahead of him, with a group of ants transporting food.
Under normal circumstances, this would be a common sight, not just outdoors, but also in the city.
But when these ants were the size of ping-pong balls, that was anything but normal.
What made Chen Dalong’s scalp tingle was that this group of mutated ants, from a distance of more than ten meters, could detect his presence and directly sent over a hundred mutated ants sprinting towards him.
Clearly, they regarded him as food.
What’s more tragic was that he probably couldn’t beat this swarm of mutated ants and would be torn apart and eaten.
Without any other choice, Chen Dalong turned and ran.
Then, during the ensuing minutes of flight,
he encountered a vividly colored mutated centipede the length of chopsticks, a mutated praying mantis standing half a meter tall, and mutated bees the size of fists.
These creatures made Chen Dalong’s skin crawl and presented grave dangers.
Especially the mutated praying mantis; its sharp forelimbs slashed through the air, cutting open his camouflage pants and leaving a ghastly wound on his thigh.
If he hadn’t fired his gun to scare it off, he doubted whether he could have beaten the mutated praying mantis.
“Damn it! What’s going on? Why are there so many mutated insects here?” Chen Dalong cursed as he bandaged his wound.
The number of mutated insects here was at least twice that of Sunset Valley, which had led him to a wrong assessment of the dangers of the wilderness.
By now, Chen Dalong had realized that if he continued like this, it would be very difficult to make it back to Yang City.
“Continuing like this won’t do, I must find other people. No, even if I did find people, the dozen kilometers back would likely result in serious casualties.”
“We must get the bus upright and drive back; that’s the safest way.” Chen Dalong gritted his teeth, took a different direction, and prepared to return to the site of the overturned bus.
But he was well aware that executing this plan would be anything but easy.
After all, by himself, he had no way to right the overturned bus–he would need to find others to figure it out together.
“I hope that there are still others nearby.” Chen Dalong prayed silently.
Still, he didn’t know whether it was just his extraordinarily bad luck today.
He finally made it back to the vicinity of the bus.
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The first thing Chen Dalong saw was not other people but a Mutated Wild Boar gnawing on a corpse.
What’s more, the Mutated Wild Boar had already spotted him.
“Fuck!” he couldn’t remember how many times he had sworn today; he felt his luck was truly abysmal.
Without a moment’s hesitation, Chen Dalong turned around and fled, diving back into the dense forest, just as before.
But this time, the Mutated Wild Boar seemed to have singled him out, relentlessly pursuing him.
At first, Chen Dalong was extremely panicked, but he quickly realized that perhaps the Mutated Wild Boar wasn’t as fast as before–otherwise, he would probably have been caught by now.
When he turned his head in confusion to look, he noticed the Mutated Wild Boar was covered in blood.
Most of that blood was the result of killing, smeared over its body, but quite a bit was also flowing from its own wounds.
Having been hit by so many bullets, especially those that were armor-piercing rounds, how could the Mutated Wild Boar be unscathed? It was severely injured, and even its speed had been affected.
Seeing this, Chen Dalong’s eyes brightened. He raised the shotgun in his hands and fired two blasts behind him.
The previously reckless Mutated Wild Boar, which had charged without care, was now wary of being reckless and began to dodge upon hearing the gunshots.
However, with its massive size, it was truly hard to evade the shots, and it was hit instantly.
“Aoow!”
The Mutated Wild Boar let out an angry howl and quickly began to chase again.
“Fuck! Why won’t it die.” Chen Dalong looked back and fired two more shots.
In the ensuing chase, less than a minute passed before 10 more bullet holes appeared on the Mutated Wild Boar, its injuries worsened, and its running speed slowed even more.
But there was no smile on Chen Dalong’s face; instead, there was only desperation.
Because he had no more ammunition left in his gun.
Now all he could do was run frantically, to see if he would collapse from exhaustion first, or if the Mutated Wild Boar would give in.
…
Ye Feng, possessing a sparrow, witnessed the entire scene unraveling before his eyes, the turn of events unsurprisingly shocking him.
Moreover, as he watched Chen Dalong nearing Sunset Valley, a somewhat crazy idea surfaced in his mind.
“I might try to capture Chen Dalong, making him my subordinate.” Ye Feng muttered to himself quietly.
According to the system’s notes, his Capture Ability could be used on any living creature, which naturally included humans.
Of course, humans are intelligent creatures, so the success rate of capture might be quite low, but that didn’t matter.
If capturing once didn’t work, then he would try twice, three times, until he succeeded.
