The burly man was thrown aside, but the axe remained embedded in the crocodile's head. The intense pain made its head, still concealed beneath the curtain, thrash violently as it let out a furious roar filled with rage.
Huang Tao shouted, "Don't go to its sides, attack it head-on directly."
A large iron shovel smashed down on the crocodile's head from beside them.
"Clang!"
The shovel impact was loud and resonant.
It struck so hard that the crocodile's head imdiately jerked upward.
"Clang!"
The shovel continued its downward swing, this ti hitting the axe handle, causing the crocodile to shake its head repeatedly in pain.
Qin Ziwen stepped forward half a step, raised his rod, and thrust straight forward, stabbing the crocodile's skin. The impact sent numbing vibrations through his arm. "Such tough hide. We need heavy weapons to deal with this."
Bearded Brother sneered viciously, "Damn it, no matter how fierce it is, it's still just a beast. When it hurts enough, it'll run."
The crocodile charged toward the other side, and with a tearing sound, its head finally broke through the small hole in the curtain.
It glanced back at the humans, then twisted its clumsy body and began fleeing toward the river direction.
"Stop it!"
A group of people chased after it. In the grassy area, the crocodile couldn't outrun humans.
From the side, two security guards wielding riot forks approached from left and right, pressing them against the crocodile's head.
The crocodile instinctively opened its massive jaws. Qin Ziwen, who had circled around to the front, seized the opportunity and thrust his clothes-drying rod straight into the crocodile's gaping mouth, essentially giving it a deep throat.
Qin Ziwen didn't even know what he had struck inside, but he grabbed the rod and began twisting and churning it.
The crocodile's claws scraped at the muddy ground as it struggled desperately.
anwhile, axes, iron rods, and wooden clubs rained down like hailstones around it.
The crocodile's strength gradually diminished.
Finally, it stopped struggling altogether.
Qin Ziwen stared intently at the crocodile, waiting to see if it would "drop" any cards.
Three seconds, four seconds...
Even when soone took an axe and nearly severed the crocodile's head from its neck, no changes occurred.
It seed this crocodile still didn't et the criteria for being judged as a powerful life form in the current area.
Over a dozen adult strong n, using curtains to first blind its vision, then taking turns attacking with long weapons, had only managed to kill it on land.
"The crocodile's dead?"
"Incredible!"
The crowd that had been watching from behind gradually approached, with so bold individuals stepping forward to kick the crocodile's corpse with their feet.
Huang Tao produced a tape asure from sowhere and stepped forward to take asurents.
"Five ters and three centiters long!"
"Whoa, that's quite long."
"Oh my, you guys are amazing. You just killed such a huge crocodile just like that."
The young man who had once worked as a crocodile keeper squatted down, unable to contain his amazent. "A five-ter-long crocodile is rare even in nature. Even zoos rarely raise specins of this size."
Because he had experience raising crocodiles, he understood even better how terrifying a crocodile of this size could be in the wild.
Qin Ziwen erged from the surrounding crowd and found the security guard who had been swept away by the crocodile earlier.
He had been dragged by onlookers to sit against the wall in the back. A section of his exposed calf showed an unnatural twist, covered in blood, with white bone fragnts protruding from the wound. It appeared his tibia and fibula were broken.
If he could be rushed to a hospital imdiately, there might still be hope, but here... he was essentially done for.
The security guard's face was drenched in sweat, his eyes tightly closed, with a large pool of blood accumulating beneath him.
A middle-aged man wearing glasses squatted beside the security guard, carefully observed him, then stood up. "Unless he receives surgery imdiately, his chances of survival are very low. He's currently in hemorrhagic shock from arterial blood loss and needs an imdiate blood transfusion. We don't have surgical conditions here either. Does he have any family mbers..."
"Doctor Lin, none of these security guards have their families here."
Doctor Lin shook his head regretfully. "Based on my experience, even if we miraculously save him, the sequelae would be severe, and he has no family to care for him."
An old man nearby comnted, "Even Doctor Lin says there's no hope. Ah, this young man is just unlucky."
An elderly woman wearing a floral print thin shirt shook her head. "Doctor Lin is a senior doctor from the city hospital. If even he can't treat him, then it seems there's really no solution."
"Isn't Doctor Lin a chief physician? Even a chief can't save him?"
Doctor Lin's face turned green. I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.
Give an ergency room and I could try, but without an ergency room, what can I use to save him?
Huang Tao parted the crowd, ca over, squatted down, and gently shook the security guard. "Dou Gu, Dou Gu."
Dou Gu's eyelids fluttered, his lips moved slightly, but ultimately he couldn't respond.
Doctor Lin explained, "Shock isn't the sa as sleeping. It's the collapse of the body's circulatory system, with severe ischemia and hypoxia in the brain and vital organs. It's a physiological coma."
Huang Tao hesitated upon hearing this. "Then he... has no hope?"
Doctor Lin sighed softly and didn't answer.
Bearded Brother ca over, glanced at Dou Gu in shock, hesitated for a mont, then said, "This brother... what a pity. Let's divide the at. In this weather, at won't last long before it spoils."
Huang Tao nodded. "Alright."
Bearded Brother, who had followed behind, extended his hand to Qin Ziwen, his eyes filled with admiration. "You were quite brave back there, buddy, shoving that spear right into the crocodile's mouth. Let's be friends. I'm Zheng Yuan, living in Building 3."
The two shook hands.
"Qin Ziwen, Building 8."
Old Deng ca over from the side, laughing heartily. "Brother Qin, that thrust with your rod was spot on earlier. Thanks to you, we got ourselves a five-ter-long big fish. I've never caught one this big in my entire life."
Qin Ziwen modestly replied, "We all worked together to achieve this. I couldn't have dealt with the crocodile alone."
Soone brought over a bathroom scale and a large iron basin from their ho.
They spent the entire morning dividing the crocodile at.
There were many onlookers, and so tried to use moral coercion to get a share of the spoils.
They were imdiately rebuked by the hot-tempered Zheng Yuan. "Get the hell out of here! Where were you when we were killing the crocodile? Now you co crawling out when it's ti to divide the at. There are plenty of crocodiles in the river—if you want so, go kill one yourself!"
Zheng Yuan had been cutting at while standing up and speaking, directly raising the boning knife in his hand, which frightened the person into quickly retreating back into the crowd.
Huang Tao eased the tension. "Brother Zheng, you're quite skilled at cutting at. What did you do before?"
Zheng Yuan pulled and sliced with his boning knife, cutting off a piece of bright red at. "I was a pig butcher. The at yield from this crocodile is really low, probably only half that of a pig."
In the end, Qin Ziwen received eighty jin of at.
This crocodile yielded a total of six hundred and four jin of at. There were sixteen people who participated in killing the crocodile. Dou Gu had t with misfortune, and since he had crossed over alone with no family, everyone tacitly agreed to omit his share.
Zheng Yuan was responsible for distributing the at. Butchering the crocodile was also physically demanding work—this crocodile weighed one to two tons, and ordinary people couldn't handle such labor.
So the extra four jin were considered Zheng Yuan's "service fee."
Qin Ziwen and Qin Ziwu were two brothers, so together they directly received eighty jin.
The heavy at was packed in bags. The crocodile at overall was pale in color with so light pink marbling.
He received at from the tail area, which from a distance looked like a huge piece of chicken breast with coarser fibers.
After receiving their share of at, not only Qin Ziwen but also Old Deng lost interest in fishing.
Such a large piece of at would be enough to feed a family for quite a long ti.
Old Liu was so envious his eyes turned red. Forty jin! He had only caught a little over two jin of fish after fishing all day yesterday.
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