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Although the Tiger Roar Hunting Team has several Awakened members, they still need to be very careful when hunting giant mutated marine creatures, and the hunting frequency is not very high.

Although Dong Qi helped him decompose the corpse of the giant mutated marine creature, the reward he offered was not high.

However, this work is safe and stable. Dong Qi hunts down the giant mutated marine creatures based on the speed at which they decompose them.

Except for the first two days when two giant mutated marine creatures were hunted each day, only one giant mutated marine creature was hunted each day thereafter.

Even so, after deducting the payment to the Tiger Roar Squad, Dong Qi's warehouse contained nearly 10,000 tons of giant mutated marine creatures, as well as the carcass of a complete giant mutated marine creature that he had deliberately left behind.

While Dong Qi was using ten days to accumulate the flesh and blood of the giant mutated marine creature, he was unaware that the coastal area guarded by the imperial court might be the area where the official hunting teams had been active.

This resulted in a high mortality rate for the giant mutated marine creatures in that area; almost all the mutated marine creatures that landed in that area did not survive for more than two days.

It's unclear how those giant mutated marine creatures communicate, but in areas where giant mutated marine creatures have already been active, new giant mutated marine creatures are unlikely to land.

In areas where the original giant mutated marine creatures died, new giant mutated marine creatures would emerge from the deep sea within just a few hours to fill the vacant areas.

As the giant mutated marine creatures stationed in that coastal area by the authorities continue to die, the individual combat power of the newly emerging giant mutated marine creatures is also gradually increasing.

Compared to the giant mutated marine creatures in other uninhabited areas, although their bodies have undergone some changes due to staying on land for a long time, their initial form is that of a harmless fish.

The area guarded by the imperial hunting team has recently seen the emergence of giant mutated marine creatures. These creatures have gradually evolved from fish, which could only fight with their enormous size, to crustaceans (such as lobsters and crabs) with offensive weapons.

What surprised the imperial court even more was that, as the giant mutated marine creatures with crustacean-like appearances continued to die, the next giant mutated marine creatures to appear had the appearance of figures often seen in marine disaster movies.

Every time the giant mutated sea creature swung its thick tentacles, it inflicted severe damage on the hunting team.

If it weren't for the official deployment of troops to provide support at any time on the periphery, and compared to hunting teams composed entirely of members using cold weapons...

The support team on the perimeter was equipped with extremely powerful long-range heavy firepower, which meant that even if the team did not approach the hunting party to provide support, it could still use its heavy firepower to deliver a fatal blow to the target from a distance.

What no one expected was that even though that squad had very strong long-range firepower.

But when faced with long-range heavy firepower, the giant mutated marine creature that looked like an octopus was surprisingly clever and simply raised its thick tentacles to defend itself.

That giant mutated marine creature not only had an appearance that closely resembled an octopus, but it also possessed the ability to detach its tail to survive, similar to an octopus.

The thick tentacles that it used as a shield were barely able to withstand one round of attacks from the saturation of long-range firepower, and were left as broken as a tattered sack.

The giant mutated sea creature, however, seemed unharmed. Upon discovering that the tentacle it had used as a shield was now useless, it simply discarded it, deliberately severing and abandoning the tentacle.

However, even though the support team destroyed one of its tentacles, it didn't seem to have much of an impact on it, as it was just losing one tentacle.

However, the support team arranged by the imperial court here was well-prepared with ample firepower. Even though a round of attacks did not cause it much damage, the support team was not discouraged.

Meanwhile, as the first round of firepower was about to end, hunting teams that were hunting giant mutated marine creatures in other areas approached to provide support after hearing the noise from the heavy firepower.

By the time the support team used heavy firepower to launch a second long-range attack on the giant mutated sea creature, most of the official hunting teams scattered in other areas had already approached this location.

With the third heavy long-range attack, the giant mutated marine creature, which had already lost three tentacles, finally seemed to feel fear. Even though it was still using its tentacles to resist the heavy attack, its body moved silently towards the coastline without anyone noticing.

This giant mutated marine creature unexpectedly tried to escape, despite previous attempts by both official hunting teams organized by the imperial court and private hunting squads.

Even though they were severely injured, the giant mutated marine creatures they faced still fought against humans without any regard for their own safety.

Even when facing death, those giant mutated marine creatures seemed to be born without fear and would not back down at all.

While this emotion can be a great advantage in combat, it also means that these giant mutated marine creatures do not have true individual consciousness.

After all, only creatures that truly develop intelligence can experience fear and, when faced with death in battle, will retreat and flee.

Although those giant mutated marine creatures were fearless in battle, once the hunting team figured out their fighting patterns, they would generally avoid serious injuries or casualties when facing such giant mutated marine creatures in the future.

However, when facing giant mutated marine creatures with intelligence, even if you figure out their fighting patterns, even if they only have simple intelligence, many unknown changes will occur when fighting them.

Therefore, upon seeing the giant mutated marine creature retreat and flee, the hunting team decided to stop it at all costs.

After all, this is the first time such a giant, mutated marine creature with an octopus-like appearance has been seen.

However, the commander in charge of this battle did not, as in movies and TV shows, recklessly order the capture of him alive, but instead directly devised a battle plan to kill him.

However, in order to obtain more valuable spoils for research, the operational plan this time was to preserve the complete body of the giant mutated marine creature as much as possible while ensuring the safety of the combat personnel.

When the fourth long-range firepower strike ended, half of the eight tentacles that the giant mutated marine creature originally possessed were rendered useless in order to withstand the long-range firepower strike.

After losing half of its tentacles, the giant mutated sea creature finally couldn't bear the fear in its heart and used its remaining four limbs and tentacles to quickly escape towards the sea.

However, at this moment, the commander had already issued a battle plan to all the hunting team members who were nearby.

As the giant mutated marine creature fled towards the sea, little did it know that several hunting teams had already arrived to intercept it in the direction it was fleeing.

Don't be fooled by the fact that those hunting team members only had cold weapons and didn't carry any firearms.

However, members who join the official hunting team and engage in hunting giant mutated marine creatures for a long time, even without awakening or gaining superpowers, have their physical abilities greatly enhanced after consuming the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures for an extended period.

Simply put, in terms of physical fitness alone, even the weakest member is now physically stronger than the former elite soldiers.

After all, even the strongest soldier king could only barely raise the upper limit of human physical fitness at most.

However, even ordinary people, without undergoing rigorous training, can easily surpass the limits of human physical fitness simply by consuming giant mutated marine creatures over a long period of time.

Simply put, if you consume the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures over a long period of time, your body will slowly mutate during the process of consuming the flesh and blood, gradually evolving your originally ordinary body into something inhuman.

As time goes on, just like in science fiction novels, the bodies of most humans will be strengthened by consuming the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures over a long period of time.

However, the original genes of humans will gradually become contaminated and mutated due to long-term consumption of the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures.

In the future, humans may also be divided into two types: pure-blooded humans and mixed-blooded humans.

But no matter what happens in the future, we are facing a survival crisis now. We can't worry about future changes. The most important thing now is to acquire the power to ensure our survival.

Therefore, the vast majority of the front-line combat troops on the imperial side basically consumed the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures over a long period of time to continuously enhance their physical fitness.

On the contrary, those teams that did not often participate in front-line combat but only used long-range firepower for logistical support maintained their previous diet and never ate the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures.

Furthermore, the imperial court issued a strict order: anyone who wanted to enhance their physical fitness by consuming the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures could apply to be transferred out of the logistics support team.

However, if anyone conceals their situation and refuses to report it, they will be immediately transferred once discovered, or at the very least, removed from the combat sequence.

Therefore, the members who are still able to stay in the official hunting team have reached an inhuman level of physical fitness due to their long-term consumption of the flesh and blood of giant mutated marine creatures. Although they cannot yet be compared with the physique of awakened beings, their individual combat strength is far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

It is precisely because of this that they were able to hunt down those giant mutated marine creatures with only two or three awakened individuals, relying solely on a team of twenty or thirty people and their melee weapons, and during the hunt, they rarely suffered serious injuries or death.

Even though the cold weapons they wield are special products forged with extremely high craftsmanship, it's like a child holding a gun. Without the corresponding skills, even if they hold a sharp weapon, they can't pose much of a threat.

Although they had no prior experience fighting giant mutated marine creatures of similar species, the members of the joint hunting team, which consisted of members from multiple hunting groups, did not panic as the giant mutated marine creature gradually approached them.

Because most of the members were professional soldiers, even though the unit was hastily assembled, once a commander was appointed, the team, while not perfectly coordinated, would not become chaotic in battle due to the temporary combination of multiple teams.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring melee personnel, the heavy firepower was stopped after the fifth tentacle of the giant mutated marine creature was severed.

The hunting team members did not relax when they saw the giant mutated marine creature with only three tentacles left.

Although they had never fought against this giant mutated marine creature before, they still followed their hunting tactics, which had become so practiced that they seemed instinctive, with the awakened member of the group taking the lead.

Because the hunting party faces giant, mutated marine creatures every day.

Therefore, the awakened ones who join the hunting team all have high-consumption abilities that can damage or restrict giant objects.

The command center's order was to preserve the giant mutated marine creature's body intact, while ensuring their own safety.

Since they don't want to be captured alive, the upcoming battle can be a little easier for them.

Despite the fact that they hunt one or two giant mutated marine creatures every week, they should be used to fighting these behemoths.

But in reality, every member of the hunting team was well aware that every battle was a brush with death.

When fighting those giant mutated marine creatures, if you are even slightly careless, you will almost certainly suffer minor injuries. If you are lucky, you may only suffer serious injuries that can be recovered from. If you are even slightly unlucky, you will not only be crippled, but you will also die on the spot.

So if the command center's current operational order is to kill, that would be fine.

However, if the order to engage in combat is to capture the enemy alive, the hunting party members will still fight them.

But as the saying goes in the workplace, whether or not you accept a task assigned by your boss is a matter of attitude, while whether or not you can complete the task perfectly is a matter of ability.

A bad attitude is a personal problem for subordinates, but if a leader assigns tasks that exceed the subordinate's capabilities, the leader who assigns the task also needs to bear part of the responsibility for the task's failure.

In other words, if the order is given to capture that giant mutated marine creature alive, the hunting team members will still fight it, but the probability of successfully intercepting and capturing it alive is extremely low.

Fortunately, the order was to hunt, so when the long-range heavy firepower stopped and the giant mutated marine creature approached, all the awakened members of the interception team were mobilized.

Faced with the already crippled giant mutated marine creature, the interception team did not proceed as they usually did when hunting such creatures, slowly probing before attacking. Instead, they prepared to go all out and try to kill it with a single blow.

As the awakened one used their superpower, the giant mutated sea creature that was fleeing towards the coastline suddenly stopped.

Then, two or three huge earth spikes, like bamboo shoots, suddenly burst out of the ground, trying to pierce the body of the giant mutated marine creature like a string of candied hawthorns.

But the giant mutated marine creature suddenly broke free of its restraints, and then, the moment the earth spikes burst from the ground, it did not immediately flee the area where the earth spikes appeared.

Instead, it used its flexible body to avoid the damage caused by the spikes in a way that no one expected.

No one would have expected that the moment the earth spikes appeared, the giant mutated marine creature would recklessly use one of its tentacles.

It protects against the piercing damage caused by the sharp tips of the soil spikes.

On the other side, with the help of the tentacle pierced by the earth spike, the entire body, like yarn, directly wrapped around and adhered to the earth spike.

The giant mutated marine creature's body completely and firmly enveloped the first earth spike that appeared, and it contracted its body as if it had no bones.

After the other earth spikes appeared, the distance between them did not cause any damage to the giant mutated marine creature that was coiled on the original earth spike.

However, before the attack of those earth spikes could finish, a long spear gleaming with a cold light shot out from the direction of the Awakened One.

And as the spear flew through the air, its size rapidly expanded like an inflating balloon.

When the spear approached the body of the giant mutated marine creature coiled on the earth spikes, the spear was already much larger than the creature's tentacles.

Before the giant mutated marine creature could react, the massive spear had already pierced through its body, and even penetrated the earth spikes that enveloped it.

At this moment, the giant mutated marine creature, like bacon on a bamboo skewer, had its entire body pierced through by the spear.

The battle was not over, and the Awakened Ones' attacks did not stop.

With that long spear, the giant mutated marine creature was completely pinned to the earth spike.

The other soil spikes collapsed and returned to the earth as quickly as melting ice, but the soil spike wrapped by the giant mutated marine creature did not melt like the others.

Instead, it resembled the wolf-tooth spear used by Qi Jiguang's army, with countless irregular branches growing rapidly on the surface of the earth spikes, much like a large tree.

At this moment, because his body was firmly wrapped around the earth spike and was pierced by the spear, he was pinned to the earth spike and could not leave.

So when the earth spikes underwent a change, the giant mutated marine creature, even though it had sensed the danger beforehand, could only helplessly endure the attack because it was unable to move.