The Emperor is Above

Chapter 98 Who killed this fourth-grade crocodile dragon?
"Chop the three basins of meat on the left into walnut-sized pieces. And go get some buckets of water!"

While Qing Yi was shouting orders to the young men, he was skinning an ordinary crocodile dragon that was more than two meters long with an eighth-grade animal tooth dagger in his hand.

Xizi, Mengzi and Huaimu were squatting nearby, busying themselves. The large chunks of pink and tender alligator meat that had been chopped off were cut into fist-sized pieces by them with wolf-tooth daggers and piled into more than ten wooden barrels and basins.

Under Qing Yi's instructions, the other three pots of alligator meat were cut into smaller pieces. More than a dozen teenagers over ten years old used branches to string the small pieces of meat together and marinated them with salt and seasonings, which looked particularly tempting.

When Qing Yi was skinning the alligator, a group of children ranging from five to nine years old huddled together with fear and curiosity in their eyes. Finally, unable to resist their curiosity, they slowly moved closer.

The brave ones would secretly steal the leather armor of a dead alligator, then let out a scream, but ran back to their friends with a smug look on their faces, receiving compliments and envy from many of them.

"Hey, you bastards, stop making trouble here!"

Chai Yong led the militia to load the remaining twenty or so alligators onto the truck. At this time, he ran over to help and scolded these naughty children rudely.

Qing Yi smiled and waved his hand to stop them: "Uncle Chai, there is no need to scold them and drive them away. We will inevitably have to deal with alligators and beasts near the Great Swamp in the future. Let the little guys exercise their courage now."

"So this is what the village chief is thinking!" Chai Yong looked thoughtful, "Could it be that washing and peeling the alligator meat now is also to eliminate everyone's fear?"

Qing Yi did not answer this question, but just looked at him and smiled without saying anything. His intention was self-evident.

Apparently this method was very effective. The villagers, who were originally terrified by the alligator attack, were now chatting and laughing as they watched the alligator meat being cooked.

There were also Shi Dazhu and Gongsun Wu, each holding a knife or sword and wandering along the river bank.

Alligators are good at moving in water but have difficulty moving on land. Even if there are thousands of alligators in the river, they dare not go ashore, which makes the villagers feel at ease.

Based on their experience from last time, Chai Yong and Daniu acted as cooks and led a group of experienced militiamen to cook or roast food for hundreds of villagers, including women and children.

Qing Yi had his hands full of roasted alligator meat skewers. He distributed the skewers to everyone with a smile, and kept saying, "Eat more, eat more. There are tens of thousands of alligators in this river, enough for us to eat for several years."

Fortunately, the twenty militiamen were experienced and could not wait to take it over, which made the villagers, who were originally afraid to eat, take the skewers.

The group of children not far away were drooling with greed, but they couldn't help but be afraid when they thought about the alligator meat. They all looked at the four-year-old girl and said, "Niuniu, is the alligator meat skewers really delicious?"

"Uh-huh--"

Niuniu nodded vigorously and seriously, biting the skewer with her little mouth, and said with a smile, "Big brother said it's delicious, chicken flavor, and crispy."

Seeing Niuniu and the adults around them eating alligator meat, the children couldn't help themselves any longer and ate it with relish, cheering as they ate:
"tasty--"

“It tastes like chicken!”

After a joyful barbecue dinner of alligator meat, the villagers and women were no longer afraid of the densely packed alligators in the river.

The little guys even drooled at the sight of the alligator, and were discussing enthusiastically: "It would be better to move to Guqiu with the village chief, so that we can eat meat every day in the future."

"I also want to practice hard and become as powerful as Gongsun Wu's master. In the future, if I want to eat alligator meat, I will eat alligator meat. If I want to eat other exotic beasts, I will go hunt them myself."

"Brother, I really admire you!"

Shi Dazhu looked at the migrating team behind him that continued to move towards the solitary hill. Compared with when they were attacked by the crocodile just now, their morale was incredibly high.

Qing Yi, who was holding the little fox, was very proud at this moment, but he was very humble in his words: "After all, they will live around the big swamp all year round in the future. There are many alligators, blue rhinos, and beasts around them, so they cannot be placed in the position of weaklings. From now on, we must cultivate a mentality in them, that is, we are predators, and the tens of thousands of alligators in the river are only worthy of being our dishes--"

"Moo-"

"Whirl, hurl, hurl—"

Qing Yi was interrupted before he could finish his words by the cries of the frightened Northern Wilderness buffalo and the giant-hoofed wild horse. He could vaguely feel a powerful aura of an alien beast emanating from the woods.

"The high ground a few hundred feet ahead is the solitary hill. I didn't expect to encounter such a powerful beast after reaching my destination!"

Qing Yi couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart. He pulled out a wolf tooth rune arrow and shouted to the team behind him, "Stop everything."

Shi Dazhu rode his horse forward with an eight-foot-long sword in his hand, but he couldn't help being startled and took a deep breath.

Starting from a few dozen feet in front, the originally muddy and weed-covered ground slowly rose until the entire hill was covered with sparse trees, and large areas of shrubs and weeds grew among the trees.

Just at the edge of the woods a hundred feet away, a huge crocodile tail appeared.

It is impossible to tell how long it is, but the exposed half of its body alone is about four or five zhang long. I'm afraid the entire crocodile is at least ten zhang long, or about twenty-three meters.

Shi Dazhu looked very embarrassed. He had never expected that there would be such a powerful alligator dragon beast here. He raised his giant sword and whispered a warning:

"Brother, be careful. This huge alligator is at least a fourth-grade exotic beast. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to fight it. It may still be sleeping now. Take Niuniu and leave quickly. I will cover you. Don't take the team, carriages, and property. It's important to save your life."

The fourth-grade exotic beast is so powerful that even if it is motionless at this moment, the aura it exudes is enough to be astonishing.

It was a very difficult choice whether to abandon the team and escape with Niu Niu immediately, or to stay and die together without caring.

Qing Yi weighed the pros and cons in his mind but he couldn't abandon everyone and run for his life. He also felt something was wrong: "Brother Dazhu, don't worry. If this alligator dragon is sleeping, its legs and feet shouldn't be like this.

There were so many of us, and the noise was not small, but we didn't alarm a fourth-grade crocodile dragon, so this crocodile dragon couldn't be a dead one!"

In fact, Qing Yi’s biggest reason for not escaping was that the little fox in his arms did not call the police.

The little fox was sharp and alert, and had discovered hidden dangers many times in advance. But now, facing the fourth-grade crocodile dragon, it had no warning at all. This was obviously abnormal, unless the crocodile dragon was already dead.

"Brother Dazhu, wait here for a while. Little Fox and I will go over and take a look!"

Without waiting for Shi Dazhu to say anything, Qing Yi strode through the sparse woods with the little fox in his arms. When they were more than ten feet away, the crocodile dragon still did not move, and there was a strong smell of blood. It was obvious that this powerful fourth-grade crocodile dragon was indeed dead.

"Ah wu——"

The little fox was so close to a fourth-grade crocodile dragon that its chubby little body couldn't help trembling, but its eyes seemed particularly excited.

It broke free from Qing Yi's arms and jumped directly onto the crocodile's huge body, then ran to the crocodile's head, as if searching for something but couldn't find it, and soon became dejected.

Qing Yi surrounded the crocodile dragon and observed it carefully. Even though the fourth-grade crocodile dragon had been dead for a long time, no wild beasts or exotic animals dared to approach it. The fatal blow was actually caused by a sharp sword.

He touched it gently and found that the blood had not yet dried. It was obvious that the crocodile had been dead for no more than a day. This made him wonder, "Who killed such a powerful fourth-grade crocodile?

(End of this chapter)