Chapter 140: New Movement Method?
It had been a long time since Lin Wu had the chance to eat beasts directly and even though he had eaten some of the food at the Lu clan, it was barely enough as a snack for him. Lin Wu opened his mouth wider than the thickness of his body and swallowed the beast corpses whole.
He also ended up eating some soil and stones with it, but that wasn’t really a concern for him.
~Crunch~Crunch~Crunch~
His spike like teeth protruded inside his mouth as they minced the corpses. A minute later, Lin Wu was finally done and felt good.
~Ding~
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SPIRIT QI OBTAINED: 2446 Units [Drops]
QI STORAGE: 15043 units [liquid spirit qi]
VITAL ENERGY OBTAINED: 1265 Units [Wisps]
VITAL ENERGY STORAGE: 14963 units
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“Damn! I’ve really been making a loss there with Shirong there, huh?” Lin Wu said seeing the amount he got from these beasts.
“Perhaps I should figure out a way so that I can sneak out more.” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
‘Well, then where are the two beasts?’ Lin Wu thought to himself as he brought out the map window.
He could see that the two beasts had moved much farther than where they were before and they had left a trail of destruction on the way.
“System, how much distance is this?” Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The host is approximately 102 kilometers away from the targets.
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“Hmm, alright. Shouldn’t take me that long to reach there.” Lin Wu muttered to himself before lowering himself and entering the ground.
With the navigation running in background and giving him directions, Lin Wu could fully focus on digging. While digging he was even figuring out different methods, he could use to increase his speed furtherer. At first, he was just digging how it was instinctively known by his body.
But he reckoned that there much to be more efficient methods to dig. He had dug for about thirty minutes by now and had covered about twenty kilometers of a distance. He finally came up on an idea and tried to apply it.
“Let’s see… move the eyes to the front, streamline the body. And, create some groves…” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
The joints of his segments smoothed out a bit as his body became more streamlined. Then spiral grooves started to appear on his body bit by bit. It took him more effort than he thought to make them uniform. After about ten attempts, he had finally made them to look like the grooves on a screw.
“Time to try it out now…” Lin Wu said as he took a deep breath.
Then… he started to rotate his body.
~Rumble~
The ground trembled a bit as his body sped up. Soon it had become fast enough that he started moving ahead. The grooves along his body created traction, and the rotation caused him to move forward, just like a screw would when you turned it.
Though after about a minute, his head started to get dizzy.
“Aw damn… I can’t keep on spinning like this or I’ll vomit… though I don’t even know if that’s possible.” Lin Wu said to himself as he stopped.
As his body was spinning, his eyes would spin with it too, making him much more dizzy.
“What else can I do… if I want to not get dizzy I need to make it so that my eyes stay in the same position…” Lin Wu thought out loud.
He then began a new attempt, this time controlling his eyes to stay in place as he moved ahead. He failed this time too though, as his eyes would still involuntarily move along with his body. Lin Wu didn’t give up though, he kept on trying until he was finally able to match the speed of rotation of his body and the counter rotation of his eyes.
Eventually after another thirty minutes he had achieved the equilibrium speed and no longer felt dizzy.
“System, how far is the target now?” Lin Wu questioned.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The host is bout 42 kilometers away from the target.
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Just using the new method of movement had more than doubled Lin Wu’s speed, even though he had taken a few breaks along the way as well.
“Looks like the two beasts are moving further and further as well… but why are they fighting though? Territory? Or just a normal conflict?” Lin Wu wondered.
Now fully focusing on the task of digging, Lin Wu started to spin even faster as he moved at a greater speed than before. Then within twenty minutes Lin Wu was at the location of the two beasts. In fact, he was already able to feel the vibrations in the ground due to their fights.
Lin Wu didn’t know how big the beasts were before coming here, but now that he scanned them with his spirit sense he found that they were actually smaller than him. One of the beasts looked like an oversized beetle that was the size of a small car while the other beast was a large mole.
The beetle was bigger than the mole in size though, and even had a long horn with multiple small spikes on it. Blood could be seen on the horn, but cracks were also visible on the carapace of the beetle’s body. As for the large mole beast, it was missing a few of its teeth and a long gash could be seen on its back, evidently caused by the horn of the beetle beast.
The two beasts were far too involved in the battle to pay attention to Lin Wu. They did not even react when his sprite sense scanned over them as they were drowning in blood lust. This was rather surprising to Lin Wu as he wondered if this is what being a beast was like. Fighting mindlessly until one of them came out on the top.
“Well, then… time to make my presence known,” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He got into the perfect positing before bursting out of the ground with great momentum.
“KREEEEEEEE!!!”
