Game Universe: Awakening and Enhancing Everything at the Start

Chapter 38 Metallization, the Treasure of the Giant Beast Plains?

As the saying goes, "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death," Huang Hong didn't actually have a clear direction after stepping onto the Giant Beast Plain, so he set his sights on a stone pillar in his line of sight.

After running for several hours, the stone pillar only seemed to have grown a little bit larger.

Huang Hong's appearance was somewhat strange at this moment. He was wearing a tracksuit on the outside, but the sleeveless shirt that should have been worn underneath was tied on his head, covering his entire head.

There was no way around it; the sandstorms on the Giant Beast Plains were just too intense. If you weren't careful, you'd end up with a mouthful of sand. Without goggles, stones kept getting into your eyes. After just a few minutes of running, Huang Hong was in a terrible state.

That's why he came up with this method.

With the improvement of his basic attributes and the effect of 'Qi', Huang Hong's senses in all aspects have also been greatly enhanced. The shirt he wears is not a special light-blocking blindfold. When you get close, you can see through it and see the outside world. In addition, with the wild perception brought by the [cat ear headdress], the effect of the shirt covering his head is actually not significant.

Just as Huang Hong was hurrying along, he suddenly sensed an abnormal vibration coming from the ground nearby. He quickly took off his shirt, revealing a wary expression.

A few breaths later, Huang Hong's eyes narrowed, and he leaped back a few times to create some distance. Then he saw the ground rise up, and the next moment a huge pangolin emerged from the ground.

This pangolin was two meters tall and five meters long, with thick scales on its back. Its head was not as pointed as Huang Hong had seen in online pictures before; instead, it was flat and long, with a large mouth full of sharp teeth.

The pangolin roared at Huang Hong and then attacked without hesitation, clearly intending to eat him.

Huang Hong donned his steel armor and charged at the pangolin. However, after a few rounds of fighting, he disarmed himself and activated the Cat Ear Headwear, gaining the Cat's Elegance.

After a brief test, Huang Hong basically confirmed that the pangolin's strength was within his capabilities, so he naturally wanted to accumulate more combat experience.

In Anyue City, Huang Hong, in pursuit of efficiency, mostly killed monsters that were relatively easy to deal with, while avoiding those that looked more powerful.

After fighting back and forth for five minutes, Huang Hong was frustrated that while the pangolin couldn't attack him, his attacks also had difficulty breaking through the pangolin's defenses.

Seeing that the pangolin seemed to realize it couldn't catch its prey and was about to retreat, Huang Hong had no choice but to change his strategy, canceling the [Cat Ear Headwear] and replacing the loading item with [Explosive Fist].

Having adapted to the pangolin's fighting style, Huang Hong can easily dodge the pangolin's attacks even without the enhancement of cat-like elegance.

His fists rained down on the pangolin's head and neck, each punch leaving a faint, fiery red mark.

Gradually, as the number of fiery red marks increased, the closely connected fiery red marks began to merge together, gradually becoming deeper in color.

The pangolin grew increasingly uneasy, let out a sudden roar, and abandoned Huang Hong, burrowing back into the cave it had come from.

Huang Hong naturally wouldn't let his prey escape. He unleashed a tiger attack and arrived at the pangolin's side, his palms glowing with blazing tiger claws as he swung them toward the pangolin's neck.

The pangolin, naturally, wouldn't let Huang Hong easily attack its weak points, so it twisted its body and used its heavily armored back to withstand the blow.

But at that moment, Huang Hong whispered a single word: "Explode!"

"Boom!~"

The bright red mark on the pangolin's neck suddenly bulged out, and a burst of flame bypassed its scales and exploded inside its body.

This unexpected attack not only slowed the pangolin's movements but also tore open cracks in the scales on its neck.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Huang Hong's tiger claws fell precisely, severing the pangolin's head along the crack.

As the pangolin collapsed to the ground, Huang Hong relaxed.

After killing the pangolin, Huang Hong gained a significant amount of experience, a full 50 points. Instead of immediately dismantling it, he prepared to cut off a portion to replenish his stamina.

Speaking of which, Huang Hong also had a lot of food and water in his [space capsule], which he had collected during the few hours he spent fighting monsters. If used properly, it would last for about two weeks.

But in the seemingly endless Beast Plains, it's best to conserve resources wherever possible, so obtaining supplies from the monsters here becomes a good option.

Although the Tang sword has been dismantled and recycled by Huang Hong, the sharpness of the tiger claw can achieve the same effect, and with the [Explosive Fist], there is no fear of not being able to start a fire.

Although Huang Hong felt that with his current physique, eating raw meat shouldn't be a problem, it was still a supernatural being, and he didn't know if there would be any troublesome bacteria or parasites, so it was safer to cook it thoroughly.

After resting for a while, Huang Hong began to dismember the pangolin. He naturally didn't know which parts of the pangolin were tasty and which weren't, but no matter what, cutting off a leg shouldn't be a problem... right?

After cutting off a leg, he didn't see any cute little creature wriggling in the flesh, but seeing the pangolin's bones made him pause.

After examining it for a moment, Huang Hong did not hesitate and cut open the flesh of the entire leg, pulling out the leg bone.

The thick bone was heavy and had a metallic feel to it.

After a moment's hesitation, Huang Hong directly pried open the pangolin's carcass and began cutting it into large pieces.

Huang Hong's purpose was simply to examine the pangolin's skeleton, so there was no need to touch its scales; he only needed to hollow out its flesh along the skeleton.

Soon, Huang Hong hollowed out the pangolin's chest area, exposing the spine near its back.

Huang Hong's expression was solemn, because one section of his spine had been completely metallized.

Excluding the absurd possibility that a powerful being deliberately replaced the pangolin's spine with a piece of metal, it means that something or some other factor on the Giant Beast Plains influenced the pangolin, causing its skeleton to become metallic.

Recalling what Brother Ba said, the Paradise World can connect with billions of worlds, so it is said that countless treasures are buried here.

So, could the reason for the metallization of the pangolin's skeleton be the treasure that exists in the Giant Beast Plains?

Looking at the burrow the pangolin had emerged from, Huang Hong's eyes flashed with eager anticipation.

But soon, the light in his eyes went out. The reason was simple: the unknown was too great, and the risks he might encounter were uncontrollable.

Huang Hong felt that if his guess was true, then they should be able to encounter similar metal-like behemoths again, so there was no need to rush.

Surely he couldn't have such incredible luck that the very first monster he encountered upon setting foot on the Beast Plains was that one and only 'unique' one?!

Thinking this way, Huang Hong calmed down, kept the pieces of meat he was going to barbecue, and dismembered the rest.

The additional 50 points will make him feel happy again.