I Start with a Mysterious Island-Chapter 83: Beaten to the Punch

WHOOSH...

The gray Bear Beast, already too weak to resist, let out a piercing shriek as it watched the semi-circular Cyan Wind Blade shoot toward it. Then, there was only silence.

A few minutes later, Lin Li looked at the gray Bear Beast, its head mangled by the Wind Blade. He pulled his Spiritual Longsword from the ground where he’d stuck it and walked over to the Bear Beast’s corpse.

Letting out a long breath, Lin Li muttered to himself, "The representative from the Exotic Beast Hunter Guild was right. Even with intel, you can never be one hundred percent sure.

The announcement for the Mutant Beast cleanup operation said that according to intel, all the Mutant Beasts in these hills were Tier One.

But when we actually came into the hills to hunt the Mutant Beasts, we still ran into Tier Two-level ones."

This fierce battle was Lin Li’s first time fighting a Mutant Beast of the same level since breaking through to the Second Rank Initial Stage. It gave him a firsthand taste of how much more difficult and dangerous a Second Rank Initial Stage Mutant Beast was compared to a Tier One Mutant Beast.

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WHOOSH...

RUSTLE... RUSTLE... RUSTLE...

A gentle breeze blew, causing the surrounding flowers, grass, and trees to sway lightly, making rustling sounds.

Lin Li looked at the gray Bear Beast before him, which had been mangled by his Superpower. While happy about his victory, he couldn’t help but feel a little troubled.

The gray Bear Beast he had killed, a creature at the Second Rank Initial Stage, was covered not only in scorched black marks from fire, but also in mangled, bloody wounds.

’If I put myself in their shoes, a merchant who buys Exotic Beast Meat would never accept an ingredient in this condition.’

’Forget it. I won’t sell this gray Bear Beast. I’ll just send it to the Mysterious Small Island as fertilizer for the Magical Little Tree,’ Lin Li mused for a moment before making his decision.

Just as he was about to bend down, place his hand on the gray Bear Beast’s corpse, and send it to the Mysterious Small Island, he suddenly perceived several Spiritual Energy Waves coming from the tall grass in the distance.

"Hm?"

RUSTLE... RUSTLE... RUSTLE...

A dozen or so Exotic Beast Hunters in camouflage, holding various Spiritual Weapons, emerged from the tall grass.

Lin Li recognized four figures among the dozen-plus Exotic Beast Hunters. It was Chen Gangshan and his three teammates, all at Tier One Peak strength.

As for the other Exotic Beast Hunters he didn’t recognize, they were the backup Chen Gangshan’s three teammates had gone to find.

A few minutes earlier, Chen Gangshan’s three teammates had been running for their lives out of the hills.

They ran with all their might, knowing that every single second of delay could mean death for Chen Gangshan, who was facing off against the gray Bear Beast.

And the three Exotic Beast Hunters were quite lucky. Before they even reached the outskirts of the hills, they ran into two squads of Exotic Beast Hunters heading deeper inside.

The three quickly explained the situation, and after hearing them out, the members of the two Exotic Beast Hunter squads immediately agreed to help rescue Chen Gangshan.

But when they arrived on the scene, they found Chen Gangshan standing there alone. The gray Bear Beast was nowhere to be seen.

After the gray Bear Beast had left, Chen Gangshan had been preparing to retreat out of the hills to find his three teammates who had gone for help. He hadn’t expected them to return with backup before he’d even set off.

Afterward, Chen Gangshan explained to his teammates and the Exotic Beast Hunters who had come to help that the gray Bear Beast had left.

After his explanation, the group discussed it and decided to pursue the gray Bear Beast.

Although Chen Gangshan and his three teammates had used up a lot of their stamina and Spiritual Energy, they now had the help of the two other Exotic Beast Hunter squads.

With a dozen or so people, dealing with the gray Bear Beast would be quite easy.

And so, with Chen Gangshan leading the way, the group set off in the direction the gray Bear Beast had gone.

And now, after following the gray Bear Beast’s tracks through the dense grass, the group emerged only to find their target already dead, and in a truly miserable state.

A little farther away, they also saw the bodies of a black Bear Beast and two rabbit Mutant Beasts.

These four dead Mutant Beasts had clearly been killed by the young fellow hunter holding the bloodstained Spiritual Longsword.

"Someone beat us to it. What a shame," one of the Exotic Beast Hunters said regretfully upon seeing the dead gray Bear Beast, then looked at Lin Li with great envy.

After all, the massive gray Bear Beast was quite heavy; selling it would fetch a huge sum of money.

While the other hunters who’d come to help looked at Lin Li with some envy, Chen Gangshan and his three teammates watched him with a hint of confusion.

They had run into this young fellow hunter before. At the time, he had been alone and claimed his teammates were off hunting other prey.

But now, meeting him again, he was still alone, which made a thought pop into their minds.

’This fellow hunter probably doesn’t have a team. He’s a lone wolf!’

The moment the thought appeared, they felt it was unlikely. But thinking it over, they realized that in this situation, the chances of him having a team were very small; he had to be a lone wolf.

Because the man before them had four kills. Leaving aside the two rabbit Mutant Beasts, there were the two Bear Beasts.

If he had teammates, they would be here helping him process these two massive kills, not leaving him to handle it all by himself.

The thought that this young fellow hunter was a lone wolf—one who had single-handedly taken down two Second Rank Initial Stage Mutant Beasts—caused Chen Gangshan and his three teammates to look at Lin Li with expressions of pure shock as they thought to themselves.

’This young hunter actually managed to kill the same two powerful Mutant Beasts that pushed us to the brink all by himself. His strength is truly terrifying!’

While Chen Gangshan’s group stared at Lin Li, each lost in their own thoughts, Lin Li himself was starting to get anxious.

’How long are these people going to stare? Hurry up and leave! With you all watching me like this, I can’t send this mangled gray Bear Beast to the Mysterious Small Island.

If it’s been dead for more than an hour, that picky Magical Little Tree on the Mysterious Small Island won’t want it anymore.’

"Friend, need a hand?" Chen Gangshan, wanting to befriend this powerful fellow hunter who could single-handedly kill two Second Rank Initial Stage Mutant Beasts, called out to Lin Li with a smile. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

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