Dudian was slightly taken aback.
At this moment, something sharp suddenly protruded from the slippery rock wall. It was like scales that suddenly unfurled from beneath the rock, revealing two rows of sharp teeth that lunged at Dudian.
This time, Dudian saw clearly that it was actually a monster whose epidermal cuticle was like rock. Seeing it pounce, he quickly raised his hand and punched the part above its sharp teeth, which Dudian considered to be its head.
With a bang, his left hand felt nothing when it hit, but the force of the rebound affected his left shoulder blade, making him suck in a breath of cold air in pain. At the same time, he quickly retreated.
The creature winced in pain, let out a scream, and pounced on Dudian even more furiously.
Dudian quickly grasped the short knife in his hand and stabbed at it.
The short knife stabbed into its scale armor but caused no damage at all. Although the short knife had only been used for less than a week, it was already severely worn and couldn't even cut through the skin of an ordinary person.
The creature swayed its head and pounced on Dudian's arm. His attacking left hand was immediately bitten, but he felt no pain.
Dudian was anxious and quickly raised his right hand to pound at it.
The creature was like a small crocodile, with short claws, a flat body, and extremely hard scale armor all over its body. Dudian had been pierced by steel nails, and he couldn't exert any strength in his right hand. He could only watch as its sharp teeth bit deeper and deeper into his left arm.
Dudian quickly groped around its head with his fingers and suddenly found a relatively soft cuticle seam. He immediately dug into it.
This seam seemed to be its weakness. It immediately released Dudian's arm and shrank back.
Seeing this, Dudian quickly reached out and grabbed its short claws, pressed his right hand against its mouth, and at the same time, threw himself down, using the weight of his body to prevent it from opening its mouth.
The creature was pressed underneath Dudian and struggled desperately, but it didn't have much strength and couldn't push Dudian away.
Dudian found the soft armor seam he had touched before and tore at it with all his strength with his left hand.
The creature struggled violently in pain, but his left hand had no feeling, allowing him to exert all of his strength. Before it could struggle too much, he suddenly tore open the soft armor seam, and a spray of blood gushed out from inside.
The creature's struggling movements suddenly froze, then it struggled slowly, and finally gradually stopped moving.
Dudian let out a sigh of relief and felt that his back was covered in cold sweat. He slowly crawled up and looked down. The creature was about 1.5 meters long, with rock-colored scale armor all over its body. The raised particles were extremely similar to rocks, and its body temperature was also extremely cold. It was a cold-blooded monster.
"This appearance... it's a bit like a Stone Armor Beast?" Dudian took a few looks and suddenly thought of the demonic beast atlas he had read, and immediately remembered.
The Stone Armor Beast, like the Black Weaver hunted by Glary, had the ability to burrow into the ground. Moreover, in terms of burrowing, the Stone Armor Beast was even three times better than the Black Weaver. This was a monster that lived completely underground and could even inhabit and live in the soil, unlike the Black Weaver, which, although it could burrow, lived on the ground.
"Among some of the demonic beasts outside the Wall, the Stone Armor Beast is one of the few that can enter the Wall. However, the hunting level of the Stone Armor Beast is relatively low, only level six. Its frontal combat ability is similar to that of an ordinary zombie. The reason it is rated as level six is still due to its troublesome burrowing ability. This life-saving skill is unique, and even large demonic beasts with hunting levels of twenty or thirty are difficult to kill it."
After Dudian knew the identity of this creature, he also understood why he was able to kill it just now. He secretly rejoiced in his heart. Fortunately, he had accidentally damaged its vital part, the breathing opening.
Sitting on the body of the Stone Armor Beast to rest for a while, Dudian looked at the tattered short knife in his hand. Suddenly, he thought of its claws and his eyes lit up. He immediately grabbed its short claws and saw that the nails on the claws were like several sharp bones, extremely hard, thin, and curved, and were extremely suitable for digging the soil.
He was overjoyed and immediately had an idea.
Two days later.
Dudian came to the underground passage again. The body of the Stone Armor Beast already showed some signs of decay. Dudian held the side knife he had brought out from the workshop this time, cut off its four claws, and at the same time, peeled off the scales on its head. Then he dug a pit below and buried its body in it to prevent the smell of decay from filling the entire passage.
After doing this, Dudian held the claws of the Stone Armor Beast and began to dig the soil.
"No wonder it's a demonic beast born with the ability to burrow into the ground." Dudian was extremely delighted when he felt the speed of digging the soil. The efficiency was more than ten times faster than before.
After digging for only a few days, Dudian encountered another Stone Armor Beast. Its size was one size smaller than the previous one. After a fierce battle, he killed it.
"It's the Black Snow Season now. These Stone Armor Beasts have run to the rock layers at the bottom of the lake to take shelter and keep warm. I wonder how many more I will encounter." Dudian was a bit troubled. The claws of the Stone Armor Beast were extremely durable. The claws of the previous one were enough for him to dig out a passage. Therefore, other Stone Armor Beasts were nothing but obstacles and troubles to him. Moreover, where there is a group, there must be a king. If he encountered the King of Stone Armor Beasts, he estimated that he would become its dinner.
Now that he had the claws of the Stone Armor Beast in his hand, Dudian wasn't in a hurry. It was already the end of the season. He patiently waited for more than a month, and finally, the Black Snow Season passed.
During this month of recuperation, his body also recovered a lot. Soon after the Black Snow Season passed and the air warmed up, he continued his great cause of digging the soil.
In the blink of an eye, two months passed.
Two young prison guards dragged a cart to deliver food. They casually threw the bread on the cart into each prison cell. Seeing the people in these prison cells pick up and eat the bread with great care, they felt a perverted sense of pleasure in their hearts.
When they came to a prison cell at the end of the corridor, the prison guard picked up the last piece of bread and threw it into this cell. However, he found that there were still two pieces of bread on the ground in this cell, which he had thrown down the night before. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and sneered, "It's fine if you starve to death for not eating."
He had seen such a situation more than once. As early as a year ago, when he came to deliver food, he would see from time to time that the bread was thrown on the ground but not picked up and eaten. At first, he thought something had happened inside. As soon as he opened the prison cell, he saw the madman imprisoned inside pounce out, yelling at him and even punching him.
Later, as this happened more often, he gradually got used to it. Anyway, after a day or two, when the madman was extremely hungry, he would naturally come to pick up the bread and eat it.
He turned the cart around and left the prison while chatting and laughing with his companion.
The next day, at noon.
This prison guard was in a good mood. He was going to play a game today, just like before, using bread as a reward to watch a performance.
After the performance ended, this prison guard pushed the cart, picked up the last two pieces of bread left on it, and threw them into this cell. However, he saw that the three pieces of bread he had thrown in total, from the previous noon and evening, were still on the ground.