Chapter 122: Admiration
Translator: Letty Editor: DarkGem
"Die under my stomp!" the creature yelled.
There were two bloody holes on its shoulder. Though the blood made it seem like the injuries were severe, they weren’t fatal. The foot on Chang’s chest slowly pressed him into the ground like a mountain squashing every bit of strength out of him. He couldn’t move just lay under the creature’s control.
The gap between their physical strengths was extrely wide.
What’s more, Chang was disard completely; if he were to force a hand-to-hand fight, he doubted that he could hurt it even a bit.
That’s why he was certain that this was his last day alive.
"I said, die under my stomp!"
The creature stretched its leg further. Chang’s chest was at the edge of collapsing and his face distorted from tornt.
"Ah!"
The last breath was forced out of his lungs. His chest bone crackled as if a firework blooming.
"It hurts, right?"
The creature tilted its head, making a lopsided smile.
"Cut... the crap," Chang squeezed out the words through his lips.
"Wait... I changed my mind. Killing you on the spot is boring, I’ll torture you to death." The creature drew back its leg and picked all the weapons for itself. "Without these weapons, you’re just a bug to ."
The creature tidied up the weapons, then it curiously opened Chang’s backpack.
"What is in there?"
It stirred the backpack.
"So food and water, as well as dications."
Chang slowly sat up from the ground, rubbing his chest bone.
"Food? Is it delicious?"
The creature looked back at Chang, its eyes shining.
"Nothing special, so hardtacks." The innocence of the creature intrigued Chang. He couldn’t help but ask, "How old are you?"
"I just had my first birthday a few months ago." The creature continued on browsing through the backpack until its fingers gripped a piece of hardtack. It clumsily opened the packaging, then pushed the food towards Chang. "You take a bite first. Daddy told that humans are all insidious. I need you to test if you’ve poisoned it."
"Okay..."
Chang bit the hardtack from its hand while thinking about so other things.
Judging from its age, he assud that the creature was in its early childhood and has lived in the jungle for almost its whole life. Though it was extrely intelligent, it still lacked social experience and seed to be curious about everything. A beam of hope ignited when he realized that the creature might be less brutal due to having high intelligence.
"Hey, what’s your na?" Chang asked searchingly while the creature was busy gnawing at the hardtack.
"Liu Xin, Liu ans flow, and Xin ans heart. My dad nad ," the creature slurred. "This is dry, I like fish better."
"Do you have fish for your daily al?"
Chang’s eyes lingered on the webbed feet while he intentionally continued the conversation.
"We do." Liu Xin dragged Chang up by his collar upon finishing enjoying the hardtack. "Don’t try to dig things out from . You hurt today really bad. I’ll take revenge on you but I haven’t thought of a way yet so I’m thinking of handing you to daddy."
"Is there room for negotiation between us?" Chang quickly asked, going into a slight panic when he heard that Liu Xin planned to transfer him to his father. He was almost sure that the chance of escaping from that experienced creature may be non-existent. The mature one must have an abundance of social interactions, and it had even avoided Qing Shui multiple tis.
Taking into consideration that Liu Xin was still an amateur and lacked experience when interacting with humans, he was innocent enough to be tricked. But if Chang was to be brought back to its habitat, he would definitely be caged sohow. Thinking of this, he urged Liu Xin, "Hey buddy, we are both intelligent species, we could just have a talk about this. Though I hurt you but those wounds don’t seem fatal. Besides, you hurt as well, it’s fair ga, you know?"
"It doesn’t count this way." Liu Xin shook his patterned head. "If I were to use human language to describe you, you are my captive. You aren’t allowed for negotiate at all."
"If you let go, I’ll bring you yummy food," Chang suggested, making a last struggle.
"Although I’m still a kid, you won’t fool like that." Liu Xin chuckled. His wet and cold fingers gripped Chang’s collar again and he started walking into the jungle. "I don’t care about what you say, I’ll let daddy make the judgnt."
Liu Xin steadily walking on. He bypassed the poisonous region and soon made it to the Yellow River shore. From what Chang observed, Liu Xin was more than three tis faster than he was and its endurance was exceptional as his pace was kept constant. Even though he was running fast, his wound didn’t lacerate and bleed again. He was simply superior to any of the humans Chang knew.
On this short trip, Chang struggled, joked, teased, and hoodwinked, but none of it worked. Liu Xin only chuckled at his attempts and said nothing about them.
A natural habitat for mutated amphibian creatures was where the flow of the Yellow River was the slowest.
There was a place beside the river where competition was the fiercest for that place was the most prosperous. Liu Xin’s kind was apparently the most noble out of all the species near the river.
So of the creatures were drinking, so of them were resting. None violated others’ territory recklessly. It was clear that this place had achieved an equilibrium in power.
Perhaps Chang was the first person to discover these monsters that lived underwater.
In this special habitat, there were pythons coated in thickened and colored scales; frogs that that had their moist and green skin but were now walking with straightened legs; fish which had grown into the appearance of salamanders; as well as species that looked exactly like water plants... This was a heaven that celebrated differences and uniqueness but was dangerous at the sa ti.
The different species were either resting or lurking for prey. So were drinking at the waterside but their strained back leg muscles betrayed their nervousness. Liu Xin and his family had to be the top predator as all the other animals spread out to form a circle as fast as a drop of ink dripping into water when he approached.
Liu Xin threw Chang on the beach at the river shore, then shouted at a gigantic sand hole. "Papa, papa, I captured a human, but he is strange, he is capable of a lot of things..."
In seconds, from that three ter wide sand hole, a head sprouted out. The head was a perfect sphere shape, its skin the sa as Liu Xin’s and the pattern laid over like a well crafted artifact. What ca after the head was the body. Its structure was also similar to Liu Xin’s but this creature was more muscular. His height was about five ters and his physique stretched out more. Instead of being pale, his skin had a tallic reflection, and his stout tail fell on the ground when he moved out from the sand hole.
Chang felt a pressure coming from the creature that made him feel as if his heart was about to stop beating. The feeling was much more intense compared to when he had t Zhuo.
"Human?"
The amphibians who were resting on the beach all fled like frightened rabbits. They fought on who’ll escape first to the Yellow River and soon the turbulent waves swallowed them. The creature’s appearance cleared the lively habitat in a few seconds.
"Gak...."
Chang swallowed unintentionally when he saw this gigantic creature.
"Your sll is familiar..." The titanic creature moved slowly to Chang. He seed confused after staring at Chang for a mont. Then, he lowered his nose to the top of Chang’s head, twitching. "You were in the research institute, "the creature said, still sniffing, "am I correct?"
"I did," Chang answered with a nod. "I used to live around there."
"Oh... I think I know who you are. Four years ago, you ca with Qing Shui to the poison zone and sohow killed that other scientist." The creature seed delighted when he talked about this. "I rember you guys were talking a lot, so you’re probably a friend of his."
"Yes." Chang nodded, he didn’t deny the fact.
The reason why Chang was temporarily submitting to him was that he could only survive if he was valuable to the creature, since the creature was an intelligent species.
"That’s great! Mr. Qing Shui Li is soone that I admire."
The creature helped Chang up upon hearing his answer which overwheld him by how unexpected this favor was, yet he felt strangely uncomfortable.
The greatest absurdity was the fact that the creature was huge in size without high degree of similarity to human yet was able to speak human language and make human gestures. This surreal experience dizzied Chang and he felt as if he was teleported to an alien planet.
"Do you find strange?" The creature was smart, he read Chang’s thought just by looking at him. "But you don’t need to be afraid, we Amphibia are a friendly species."
"Amphibia?"
Chang was perplexed.
"That how I nad myself as a species. I’m the first of our kind, and naming is quite important." The gigantic creature’s pale face seed kind. "I mutated from a frog, but I also evolved so features from other species, so Amphibia sounds like a nice na for summarizing what I am."
The creature spoke with his back bent but felt that he was impolite sohow. He then swept his tail away and sat down. But even sitting, he was still much taller than Chang.
"I see..." Chang didn’t feel that the creature would do any harm to him and loosened up a bit.
"So, you were there four years ago?"
"I was, I was there all the ti," the amphibia said. "Initially I was attracted by a strange sonar wave, but then the Yessie ca.
"Back then, I was still naive about humans and the world as I had just gained intelligence about that ti." The Amphibia’s mouth curved upwards when he recalled past events. "I even attempted to communicate with the Yessie, but it responded to nothing. And soon, human scouts ca..."
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