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Chapter 2 Even the Crowned Dragon Can Defy Fate!
The power of Gu Long is beyond words.
The lava dragon that was roaming the ocean only had to get up to cause towering waves. Six ships were hit by the boiling waves and began to rock violently. The air was also filled with the pungent smell of sulfur.
Screams erupted from the boat where Chen Yan was, and Hua Miao was also in a panic, packing her belongings in preparation for jumping ship.
However, Chen Yan remained as steady as a rock on the gondola in the room.
"What's the rush? We're not the main characters, we won't get to enjoy the fun of climbing the Lava Dragon."
As he said, as the Lava Dragon disappeared from the New World, the raging sea quickly calmed down. Although the ship was torn in several places by the volcanoes that the Lava Dragon was covered in when it got up, it still managed to get them safely to the Star Base.
Except for one unlucky young lady who got hit on the foot by a box that fell from a height.
Chen Yan moved the supplies from the ship to the base's supply warehouse, and then followed Naomi, who claimed to be the head of the supply team who used to work in the black market, to learn about the work he was responsible for.
Simply put, Chen Yan's main job as a logistics and supply personnel is to assist her and several other administrators of the investigation material management office in managing and distributing the group's supplies, and to distribute some special supplies to the hunters as rewards for some missions.
Unlike the high-risk, high-reward recommendation and combat teams, their supply squad is a typical low-risk, low-reward unit, with an average salary only about 10% higher than that of the Old World.
It's the kind of place where you can occasionally go to the head chef's place for a fancy meal and order a cheap drink. If you work hard for ten or twenty years, you can earn enough to buy a small apartment on a bustling street in the Old World.
After several busy days, the hundreds of new employees were finally settled in, and Chen Yan quickly adapted to his work.
After finishing his work for the day, Chen Yan greeted the class monitor and, together with Hua Miao, ventured into the Ancient Tree Forest.
When he finally reached the edge of the Ancient Tree Forest and looked at this completely unfamiliar environment, he couldn't help but feel excited.
He carefully selected the tallest rock, stood on it, cleared his throat, and prepared to utter some long-prepared, grand pronouncements. Although currently only Flower Cat was his audience, he believed that in the near future...
The dense grass not far away suddenly rustled. Chen Yan swallowed the boast he hadn't finished saying, and he and the cat took out their issued iron katana, ready for battle.
This is the safe zone marked on the base map; there shouldn't be any powerful monsters appearing here...
Sure enough, an adult crocodile was seen stepping on the grass, chewing on blades of grass as it wobbled towards them.
When it saw Chen Yan and Hua Miao, who were on high alert, it froze in place. Perhaps it hadn't expected a two-legged creature and a two-legged cat to suddenly appear here.
Just as the scene was getting a little tense, a young Corydorasaurus suddenly emerged from under its mother. Perhaps because it had just hatched, its four legs were still struggling to keep up. Its underdeveloped body stumbled and fell to the ground, rolling towards Chen Yan.
Chen Yan caught it without hesitation. The tiny Crested Teuth wasn't afraid at all and climbed up his body. However, the little Crested Teuth, which was about the length of his arm, blinked its dark eyes and nestled in Chen Yan's arms, staring blankly at him.
As the man and the dragon stared at each other, a small white ball of light suddenly appeared in Chen Yan's mind.
[Aroculus issues a mission request: Aroculus also wants to defy fate!]
It shouldn't have been born, but its eldest brother was ridden away by a hunter, its second brother was ridden away by a hunter, its third brother was ridden away by a hunter... Now it's its turn, but it doesn't want to be ridden away by a hunter; it wants to ride the hunter away!
[Commission Fee: Sense of smell for crown-like dragons]
Chen Yan took a deep breath, lifted the juvenile rostrum high, and, under the incredulous gazes of Hua Miao and the adult rostrum, placed it firmly and accurately on his neck. He carefully held its two short legs with his left and right hands and started to run and jump in place.
"Does this count as being ridden?"
The Crownosaurus successfully accomplished a great feat that is unprecedented in its family tree and may never be accomplished by any other Crownosaurus.
It rode the hunter.
[Task completed.]
[Crow's Sense of Smell]: Your sense of smell has been greatly enhanced, allowing you to accurately smell the tender green grass and delicious mushrooms in the humid air of the Ancient Forest, and perhaps even detect the stench emanating from your predators.
The white light in his mind shattered, and specks of white light poured into his body. Chen Yan felt a coolness on his nose and couldn't help but sneeze a few times. When he breathed again, he could smell a strange scent that he couldn't smell before.
But before he could smell it properly, he felt a warm current surge up the back of his neck, and at the same time, a strong smell entered his nostrils.
His nose told him that the juvenile crown-dragon on his back must have urinated, or perhaps defecated.
The young crowned dinosaur, jolted a few times, came to its senses. Now it knew fear and began to instinctively let out a slightly mournful howl towards its mother.
The adult crowned dinosaur, which had been standing there in a daze, immediately roared. Its thighs tensed and its forelimbs pawed the ground. It didn't give Chen Yan a chance to explain and charged forward to kill Chen Yan, the two-legged beast that had tried to steal its only cub.
Faced with the menacing crested dinosaur charging towards him, Chen Yan would not back down. Although he was indeed an ordinary hunter with mediocre combat record, he was not so bad as to be unable to defeat even a crested dinosaur.
Until he saw the second, third, fourth... a full seven or eight adult crowned dinosaurs with red eyes and nostrils snorting angrily at him.
"Get out of here!"
Chen Yan deftly sheathed his knife, placed the baby crowned dinosaur on the ground, and turned to run away.
According to an unknown historical record, the hunter's win rate against the Corydoras is around 98%, and he doesn't want to become the next hunter whose win rate is lowered again by the Corydoras flying away.
A chaotic scene unfolded in the jungle as Chen Yan and Hua Miao frantically scrambled over obstacle after obstacle. For some reason, the large family of crested dragons seemed to have become addicted to chasing them, relentlessly pursuing them as if they wouldn't give up until they brought the hunters' win rate against the crested dragons to 97%.
If it weren't for the complex terrain of the ancient forest, and their tendency to hide and dodge in those nooks and crannies, they would have been trampled and crushed long ago.
Finally, after crawling through a dense patch of vines, they managed to shake off the crowned dragon herd completely.
Chen Yan was panting heavily, while Hua Miao collapsed to the ground, limp as cat mud.
"Hey! Chen Yan, have you gone mad?"
The cat, which was forced to complete what should have been a week or half a month's worth of exercise, was naturally puzzled. Just as it was glaring at Chen Yan, waiting for him to refute its excuse, it suddenly saw Chen Yan's nose twitch, take a deep breath, and his eyes follow his nose, finally fixing his gaze on a plain-looking patch of grass at the bottom of the slope.
"Come out, I can smell the stench on you!"