The Big Cat was truly powerless at the moment. Even though the Big Cat's agility and strength attributes could crush its opponents, its current condition was too poor.
After desperately breaking free from the vines, it managed to swipe a beetle away with one claw, but it couldn't continue to fight. The remaining beetles relentlessly slammed into it.
This round directly shaved off 360 blood volume from the Big Cat, and even one of the beetles hit its head, causing it to feel dizzy.
By the time it came to its senses, its body was already covered in beetles.
If it had been in its prime, it naturally wouldn't be afraid of these bites that were like itching, as its thick fur could completely block them. Then, it could slowly crush them one by one.
But now it was different!
Now its body was full of wounds! Every beetle could directly gnaw at its blood flesh!
There was even a beetle that had crawled into its body through the wounds on its chest and abdomen, causing chaos!
The pain all over made it howl in agony, its eyes turning blood red, staring at the small, weak creature in front of it, which was clearly the insect core, the Two-legged Beast!
Only by killing this Two-legged Beast!
*Could it live!*
Clinging to the last shred of hope, the Big Cat ignored the beetles clinging to its body and the pain of its muscles tearing, leaping straight at Bai Yi!
"Not good!"
Bai Yi exclaimed, but the two "bodyguards" beside her were not just for show.
The two stone hoes smashed down swiftly, precisely striking the Big Cat's head and knocking it to the ground.
The two attacks, due to the impact on the ground and the fatal hit, caused four times the damage, further reducing the Big Cat's blood volume by 104 points.
Plus, the damage from the beetles' gnawing left the Big Cat with only 473 blood volumes!
The knocked-off beetles hurriedly followed up, once again pouncing on the Big Cat and gnawing at its wounds.
Taking advantage of the Big Cat's dizziness from the blow, the two bodyguards seized the opportunity, dropping their hoes like they were loosening the soil in the fields.
Bai Yi even imagined the sound of eighty eighty echoing in her head.
Moreover, due to the head hit, besides the double damage from the critical strike, it also caused a stunning effect. The damage starting at 20 points made the Big Cat's blood volume drop rapidly.
Although the Big Cat seemed to have no resistance left, Bai Yi still didn't dare to step forward, hiding behind a large tree ten meters away from the Big Cat.
She watched the Big Cat's health bar on the panel, thinking.
*She didn't believe that the Big Cat was that simple, even with its remaining blood volume,* *could it really be taken down by her few green beetles and two strong peasant women?* Bai Yi didn't buy it.
Sure enough, as soon as the Big Cat sensed that Bai Yi wasn't going to approach, it couldn't hold back from struggling when its health dropped below two hundred.
With a swipe, it knocked away the stone hoes of the two peasant women and charged towards Bai Yi.
In its mind, it felt like a voice told it,
*As long as it killed the seemingly powerless Two-legged Beast in front of it, it would be safe!*
"Meow!"
A gust of wind began to swirl around the Big Cat, shaking off all the beetles on its body, and it dashed forward with a desperate resolve.
"Indeed, there's still a berserk state!"
This time, however, Bai Yi had been prepared for this all along.
Between her and the Big Cat, there was a dense thicket entwined with vines!
That was her previously chosen hiding spot!
The superpower activated again, draining the last magic power Bai Yi had, causing the thicket and vines to suddenly expand.
Even if the Big Cat wanted to go around it, its injuries no longer allowed for such maneuvers.
Once it crashed into the thicket, its fate was sealed.
The stone hoes dug into the Big Cat's body, pulling it apart, and the knocked-off beetles rushed back to it with renewed vigor.
Bai Yi's Rune Sword ultimately didn't taste blood.
[A perfect victory, you gained 290 experience points, and you received Iron Treasure Box *1]
[You have leveled up from lv.7 to lv.8 (120/400), gained 1 free attribute point, and 1 skill point]
[Your agility attribute increased from 16 to 17]
...
Although everything was within Bai Yi's plan, it was impossible not to feel nervous.
If it hadn't been for Bai Yi's decision to leave herself with a bit of magic power as a backup.
If it hadn't been for the bushes engineered by her twice-deployed superpowers stepping in to control the critical situation.
She would have certainly been injured this time!
She looked toward the Big Cat's corpse nearby, replaying everything that had happened in her mind.
This was undoubtedly that Big Cat she encountered today; the size and appearance matched. Today, before leaving, it was fighting with that crocodile, so it didn't win the fight?
Then it relied on its speed to escape into the forest because she had claimed the territory, causing the surrounding mutant creatures to be forcibly fixed in their territories, trapping the game here?
Bai Yi felt her speculation was close to the truth and suddenly felt disdain for the Big Cat.
"Couldn't even beat a crocodile at full strength, and it got cleaned up by me in its wounded state. How pathetic!"
However, Bai Yi didn't know that this Fierce Toothed Cat's failure today also had something to do with her.
If it weren't for her interruption, causing it to miss the first move, given its strength, it could have easily escaped intact.
At least it wouldn't have been as battered as it was when Bai Yi encountered it, with a broken leg and a nearly fatal wound in its most vulnerable chest and abdomen.
"This time's harvest wasn't bad, it seems like only the corpses of the wild monsters spawned by the game disappear automatically; the mutant creatures that existed originally won't."
Bai Yi gently patted the still warm Big Cat corpse, then considered another issue.
"How am I going to transport this thing back?"
Staring at the Big Cat's corpse, with beetles moving in and out of its body, Bai Yi fell deep into thought.
...
By evening, the sun had set in the west, dyeing the sky red, the forest dim. Only then did Bai Yi finally crawl out from the bushes and return to her territory.
There was a reason Bai Yi returned so late. After locking eyes with the Big Cat's corpse for a long time, she finally remembered she could temporarily use the trading column to store it on the panel and take the entire corpse with her.
When she set out, she had been searching for wild monsters but hadn't found any; only now did Bai Yi realize,
*This forest was truly a maze!*
If she couldn't communicate with the plants and sense the existence of her territory, Bai Yi might have gotten herself lost in there!
Upon returning to the territory, Bai Yi waved her hand to signal the beetles to patrol nearby, letting the two weary bodyguards take a rest.
The two peasant women who stayed in the camp worked efficiently, removing the weeds in the territory and piling them into a mound.
Near the small wooden house, a campfire was lit, with two sturdy branches fixed beside it to serve as seats.
Bai Yi didn't care about the dirt on them, she sat down, and back within her territory, Bai Yi could finally relax without worrying about lurking dangers.
She opened the panel and laid out her full gains from this venture.
As many as 16 wooden treasure boxes, 5 white loaves of bread, 4 bottles of water, and the blueprint of the Four-legged Dragon Beast nest from opening the Fake Dragon box, a first-tier Rune Sword, and a Thin Dragon Blood Crystal.
"Let's open a few treasure boxes first!"
Bai Yi lined up the boxes neatly and touched them one by one.
With a flash of white light, a prompt appeared on the panel.
[You opened Wooden Treasure Box *16, and you received Water *80, White Bread *60, Canned Lunch Meat *5, Vegetables *15]
[You opened Iron Treasure Box *1, and you received Cat Nest Blueprint (1st Rank/Purple) *1, Entangled Furball (1st Rank/Gray) *1, Superpower Crystal (1st Rank/Blue) *1]
[Cat Nest (1~? Rank/Purple): A special building with a chance to attract a wild feline creature. Can be tamed by raising friendliness. Construction costs: 1~? Rank Crystal Core, Cat Mint *1, Wood *20~???, Fur/Cloth *20~???]
[Entangled Furball (1st Rank/Gray): A hairball from a cat's belly. How can a cat be without a hairball?]
[Superpower Crystal (1st Rank/Blue): A crystal formed by the condensation of abnormal energy/magic power, can enhance superpower strength, talent skill points +1, magic power/superpower value limit +10]
"Come on, man, how is it that the wooden box is all food, but what's up with the Iron Treasure Box?
Why is it all junk?
The Cat Nest is fine, at least it's a purple building with a promising future, but what is this hairball thing?"
Bai Yi felt a few hashtag symbols popping up on her forehead and suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Hiss... Could it be because the Big Cat had low blood?
Does this game have a low blood boss treasure box dilution setting?"
Suppressing a bit of disappointment, Bai Yi gulped down the Superpower Crystal, left the bread needed for dinner, and stored all the other items in the Free Market for the time being.
[You used the Superpower Crystal (1st Rank/Blue) and received talent skill points *1, magic power limit increased from 210 to 220]
[You acquired a talent skill point, capable of enhancing the current talent skill level]
Bai Yi looked at her four skills and, after a moment of thought, allocated her skill point to Accelerated Growth.
*Firstly, it could expedite her forthcoming agricultural venture,* *and also was her only combat ability.*
[Accelerated Growth lv.1→lv.2: Consumes 10→9 magic power points to grant a plant (1st Tier) one day's growth progress, with a slightly increased range.]
Right at this moment, a new announcement popped up on the panel:
...
Four-legged Dragon Beast: A product of forbidden experiments, a new species bred by infusing the blood of a real giant dragon into a wild wolf, possessing greater strength while maintaining the original wild wolf's reproductive speed, tamed by Aslan as standard mounts in the army...