Everyone's on a time-travel adventure! I'm raising city beasts in a post-apocalyptic world

Lin Feng's smile froze instantly, and without thinking, he immediately jumped to the side.

A crack appeared to spread from where they had been standing, with soil churning out to both sides.

Then--

A huge mouth emerged from the ground.

It was a beetle-like creature about half the length of a human, entirely black, with a glossy sheen on its carapace. Its head seemed to have no eyes, only a pair of huge, sickle-shaped mandibles that opened and closed constantly, making a clicking sound.

This terrifying weapon looks like it's going to be tough to deal with; it can crush even steel bars, let alone people.

Xiao Xuan reacted faster than Lin Feng and immediately stood in front of Lin Feng.

"Click!"

With a crisp sound, like metal clashing, the tortoise shell remained completely still.

Seeing that its prized sickle-like mandibles were no match for the tortoise shell in front of it, the beetle seemed to be enraged. It twisted its body desperately, its six legs dragging deep furrows in the ground, trying to overturn Xiao Xuan.

But they seemed to have underestimated Xiao Xuan's weight; Xiao Xuan stood firmly on the ground like a rock.

Lin Feng tightened his grip on the wooden stick, staring at the beetle's exposed abdomen, which was not covered by a carapace, but only by a relatively soft membranous tissue.

"Xiao Xuan, hold on!"

Lin Feng hurled the wooden stick in his hand like a javelin, accurately hitting the beetle's exposed abdomen.

"Pfft..."

As the saying goes, great strength can produce miracles. The wooden stick pierced through the thin membrane and penetrated deep into its body, spurting out green fluid.

The beetle let out a sharp screech, its body convulsing violently. It turned its head, aimed at Lin Feng, and its scythe-shaped mandibles opened and closed wildly as it charged at Lin Feng, seemingly trying to cut him in two at the waist.

Lin Feng instinctively dodged to the side. His 16 points of agility allowed him to easily dodge the beetle's attack. The beetle swooped past Lin Feng's clothes, its giant mandibles missing their target.

Xiao Xuan once again blocked Lin Feng's path, suddenly opened its mouth, and bit down on one of the beetle's forelegs.

"Snap!"

The joints made a cracking sound.

After the beetle was in pain, it twisted its body frantically, but Xiao Xuan held it firmly in its jaws, giving it no chance to escape. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Feng picked up a large rock from the side, rushed to the side of the beetle, and smashed it hard into its abdomen, which had already been pierced by the stick.

One after another.

The green liquid splashed all over Lin Feng, and the beetle struggled weaker and weaker until its body stopped convulsing.

[Defeat one mutated stag beetle and gain 0.5 evolution points]

Hearing the kill notification, Lin Feng gasped for breath and plopped down on the ground. He looked at the dead mutated stag beetle and then at Xiao Xuan beside him, who was also splattered with green liquid.

Lin Feng let out a heavy sigh of relief. He was so grateful to Xiao Xuan for saving him; it was just too dangerous. One wrong step and he would have lost his life. He was still a little scared just thinking about it.

However, he smiled when he saw the 0.5 evolution points.

The stronger the monster, the more evolution points it gives. This means that as long as you keep killing, your beasts will keep evolving and getting stronger until they can live peacefully in this world.

Lin Feng will no longer have to be at the mercy of anyone, nor will he be abandoned by anyone.

Although Lin Feng didn't resent Wang Lie and the others, the incident had happened to him, and he knew he hadn't done anything wrong, but he still felt uneasy.

Thinking of the women who abandoned him the moment he lost power, and the people who fawned over him, Lin Feng felt a chill in his heart. Although he didn't suffer any loss and had indeed enjoyed himself for several days.

But what's done is done. At most, it lowered Lin Feng's moral standards by another level, making him realize the most important thing: a man must have strength.

Lin Feng bent down and picked up the half-human-sized mutated stag beetle carcass. This was meat, and he couldn't waste it.

"Let's go, Xiao Xuan."

Lin Feng patted its hard shell.

The mutated stag beetle's carcass was quite heavy, weighing at least fifty or sixty pounds, but given Lin Feng's current attributes, dragging it was easy.

Xiao Xuan followed Lin Feng at a steady pace, his four strong legs carrying him at a pace that was by no means slow.

As Lin Feng descended the mountain, he encountered many other people heading back as well.

These people walked in twos and threes, carrying bags made of clothes and cloth, which were bulging with wild vegetables. Some of their bags were so big that two people had to carry them.

It was clear that they all had smiles on their faces. For them, being able to dig up enough wild vegetables meant they wouldn't go hungry for the next few days.

In this apocalyptic world, this is indeed something to be happy about.

"Hey, I'm really lucky today, I dug up a whole bagful!"

"Me too, the wild vegetables on this hill are growing really well. I wish the convoy could stay for a couple more days."

"Dream on, the gray fog won't wait for you."

"Um...that's true, but at least we won't have to worry for two or three days."

These people walked along chatting and laughing, and as they passed each other, their eyes inadvertently swept over Lin Feng.

Then, the smile on his face froze.

Everyone slowed down, and some even stopped walking.

Their gazes first fell on the huge mutated stag beetle carcass that Lin Feng was dragging in his hand. Their pupils contracted sharply. The pair of sickle-shaped mandibles gleamed with a cold luster in the light, clearly weapons capable of easily breaking human bones.

Then, their gaze shifted to the large net bag hanging on the side of Lin Feng's backpack.

The net was densely packed with mutated locusts. The dark green locusts were huddled together, with some of their hind legs sticking out and their barbs clearly visible.

So many?

There must be dozens, or even hundreds!

These people didn't know exactly how many Lin Feng had killed, but they could see that the net was full, weighing at least thirty or forty pounds.

The air was still for a few seconds.

Some people subconsciously swallowed, not just because they wanted to eat, but also because they were shocked.

"Isn't this... that awakened one who was kicked out of the core members by the leader?"

"Yeah, wasn't it said that he had no fighting ability?"

No combat ability?

How could someone without combat abilities carry back such a large net bag of mutated locusts? How could someone without combat abilities drag back a mutated beetle that is half the length of a human?

Look at the giant mandibles of that mutated beetle, look at the thickness of its carapace, and look at its six thick legs with those long barbs. This thing is not to be trifled with.

Suddenly, these people felt that the wild vegetables they were carrying no longer tasted good.

"Is this the power of an Awakened One?" someone murmured, their voice filled with deep envy and a hint of bitterness. "Even an Awakened One without combat abilities, even one kicked out of the core team, is this strong..."

"We spent the whole day digging for wild vegetables, but it's not even worth as much as one of their fingers."

"Stop talking, this is fate. Let's go, we still need to pack up when we get back, the convoy is about to depart."

The crowd dispersed, but everyone who passed by Lin Feng couldn't help but glance at him a few more times, their eyes filled with envy, awe, and longing...

Lin Feng ignored these stares and continued dragging the mutated stag beetle toward the convoy.

A patrol team appeared ahead.