I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 69 "Feeding".

The "creepy blood patterns" on the city wall look like doodles by a mischievous child.

Some patterns can be vaguely discerned, but at a glance, it appears extremely chaotic.

It is dark red in color.

It looks as if a craftsman carved it with a slanted knife dipped in red clay.

The cave was gradually taking shape, and they could finally get a good night's sleep.

"I'm coming!"

Zhou Mo, carrying a plate and beaming with a smile, strode toward the city wall. The lame monkey and his companions also carried their plates as they climbed the wall.

The food was not plentiful.

Qi Chong cooked a few hot dishes and then heated up the dry bread.

But compared to the dry rations we ate a few days ago, this is already quite good.

As eternal night descended, dense darkness enveloped the entire wasteland. The light emanating from the level 5 ghostly fire within the cave covered the entire deep pit of the canyon, providing a haven of peace amidst the chaos.

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Chen Fan sat on the city wall, gazing at the light outside. He picked up a piece of hot food with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth, then took a bite of the warm, soft pancake in his hand. He listened to Zhou Mo and the others behind him chatting and drinking, and chuckled softly without saying a word.

Even the most capable person.

Life is mostly made up of the mundane and uneventful, but a few highlight moments make up people's resumes.

And now.

It was a highlight moment for him.

The "Earth Dragon Migration" was almost a success. He ate his first hot meal in his new camp and held a housewarming banquet without any guests.

Zhou Mo and the others were drinking. He didn't like drinking, but he enjoyed watching others drink.

He was enjoying the moment.

He felt...
This housewarming party can be seen as a reward for his hard work these past few days.

He painstakingly built a camp that could shelter everyone in the desolate, rainy-season wasteland where no one survived. That's impressive, isn't it?

At least that's what he thinks.

it's dark.

But tonight, the canyon pits were completely covered by eerie fire, making the view much clearer, less frightening and more reassuring.

at this time--

"Oh!"

A dark figure plummeted from the cliff into the deep pit of the canyon.

The harmonious and happy atmosphere of clinking glasses was instantly broken, and everyone subconsciously turned their heads to look at the source of the sound.

And this sound was like a switch.

More shadowy figures crashed down the cliff into the deep canyon pit like dumplings falling from a pile. Tonight, the eerie fire covered the entire canyon pit, allowing them to see more clearly what was happening. One after another, the corpses of the strange creatures slammed to the ground from the darkness.

There were at least twenty or thirty bodies.

like a statue.

The dead can no longer die.

"That crocodile is back again?"

Zhou Mo muttered, "It's only just gotten dark, and they're already so eager to start eating?"

They learned from the stationmaster that a huge crocodile had been coming to the deep pit in the canyon to hunt for food every night for the past few nights.

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Chen Fan watched this scene calmly, his expression unwavering. He had grown accustomed to his interactions with the crocodile over the past few days. Moreover, with his city wall now at level 3, he truly didn't believe the crocodile could even breach it.

He looked at the stacks of copper pipes placed in the natural fire zone.

They've been clearing caves here for the past two days.

No fieldwork was conducted.

These copper pipes were not laid as planned, but the daily quota could not be wasted, so they were all made and piled up in the natural fire zone outside the cave, to be laid after the cave was opened.

In the past, the crocodile would appear in about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

As expected. After an incense stick had burned.

There was movement at the boundary between the camp and the darkness.

A huge crocodile's forepaw cautiously emerged from the darkness, patting back and forth on the ground within the camp area illuminated by eerie fire, as if wondering why it was so bright tonight when it was dark here last night.

After testing the waters for a while...

He had just crawled into the camp area.

The lantern-sized eyes stared intently at Chen Fan, who was standing on the city wall.

The man and the crocodile were locked in a standoff once again.

Tens of breaths later.

The crocodile began to move, cautiously crawling on all fours, slowly making its way towards the corpse of the strange creature that had fallen off the cliff.

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Chen Fan's tightly pursed lips trembled slightly as he tried his best to suppress his laughter, lest the other person think he was making fun of him. Having lived two lives, this was the first time he had seen a crocodile crawling sideways like a crab, and the scene looked truly comical.

Perhaps she sensed Chen Fan's smile.

The crocodile suddenly stopped what it was doing, staring intently at Chen Fan, and they were locked in a standoff again. After several dozen breaths, it began to move again, finally moving to the side of the monster's corpse.

One eye was fixed on Chen Fan.

Its other eye quickly rotated to lock onto the location of the monster corpses, and it swallowed the monster corpses one by one without chewing, swallowing them whole like a python.

After the crocodile had almost finished swallowing the monster's corpse.

Chen Fan took out a strange stone from his pocket and threw it forcefully towards the outside of the city. It rolled on the ground more than 20 meters away. He felt that this crocodile was quite intelligent, unlike a strange creature, and it didn't seem to have any malicious intent. Perhaps they could live in peace.

But this sudden movement clearly startled the crocodile.

He didn't even swallow the remaining two corpses, then turned and ran quickly towards the canyon passage.

The earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

“So fast”

Standing to the side, Zhou Mo stood up and looked at the crocodile's disappearing figure, saying in a daze, "I didn't expect such a big thing to run so fast. Um, stationmaster, you threw the strange stone at it?"

"Feed them."

"Um, does this crocodile feed on strange rocks?"

"Ninety percent chance."

Chen Fan shook his head, not caring about the crocodile's escape. This guy was too timid. He would probably get used to it after feeding it a few more times. He then explained to Zhou Mo, "Qianhou, one of the four leaders of the Ghost King, was carrying five boxes."

"Inside there are many strange materials and two large boxes of strange stones."

"This shows that the strange stone is also important to the strange creatures. The reason why the strange creatures flee frantically during the rainy season may also be because those intelligent strange creatures hunt extensively during the rainy season."

"It eats the corpses of monsters, but what it wants is not the monster's flesh, but the strange stone inside the monster."

"Makes sense."

Zhou Mo nodded in sudden realization.

at this time--

The crocodile, which had already fled into the night, cautiously crawled back to the camp area after realizing there was no other movement. It lay down at the edge of the camp and stared intently at Chen Fan with its lantern-like eyes.

A hint of doubt flickered in his pupils.

Then he turned his head to look at the few lonely, eerie corpses below the cliff.

After hesitating for a moment.

He quickly climbed down the cliff and swallowed the remaining two monster corpses. Then, he carefully crawled towards the city wall, keeping a cautious eye on Chen Fan as he crawled, with a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

Soon.

It then crawled to the strange stone that Chen Fan had thrown out.

The enormous nose sniffed the small, strange stone, then looked up at Chen Fan again, this time with a stronger sense of doubt in its eyes, even mixed with a hint of anger.

At this moment, the crocodile was only about 20 meters away from the city wall.

This was the first time everyone had observed the crocodile so closely.

(End of this chapter)