32 I’m a Creep

At this moment, the red-skinned monster that chased him was no longer recognizable as human. It landed on the ground with four claws and moved like a beast at a quick speed.

But Li Siwen was still continuously looking back. At the same time, he jotted down the running posture and various details of this red-skinned monster in his mind.

Just when the red-skinned monster finally got within 20 meters of him, he jumped forward. A river valley appeared with the stream in its middle.

But this was not the section that the logging team often walked through. It was more to the southeast, and the stream was deeper and wider.

Li Siwen strode across the stream with big steps and stepped onto the south bank. The monster that was slowly turning into something weird followed him. To his disappointment, the monster was not afraid of water and jumped directly over the stream.

At this time, the distance between the two was only five meters.

"Roar!"

With a low roar, a red shadow flashed past. The monster suddenly sped up, jumped over three meters high, and charged fiercely at Li Siwen's back.

At this moment, Li Siwen suddenly turned around like a prophet. Taking advantage of the moment that the monster was in the air and had nowhere to use as a support, he held the hoe in both hands and hit the monster with all his strength!

The power of 14 Strength exploded instantly.

"Crack!"

Because of the force, the wooden handle of the hoe broke and the monster's body flung backwards, falling into the one-foot-deep stream!

He heard a sizzling sound. The monster's body was not afraid of water, but blue smoke came out of the flame-like eyes when they were splashed by the water from the stream.

The monster roared in extreme pain immediately.

At the same time, Li Siwen did not hesitate. He held the broken wooden handle of the hoe and leaped down from the river bank. He borrowed power with the first step, sped up with the second, and leaped with the third. Like a raging gust of wind, he directed all the power and inertia of his entire body to the wooden handle in his right hand. Like a javelin, it pierced the monster's left eye.

Having gotten a direct hit, he immediately let go, landed, rolled, and went ashore. He did this all in one breath, opening a safe distance of over ten meters from the monster.

However, the monster's body twitched violently in the stream of water, then stopped moving. In the blink of an eye, layers of ashes peeled off from the surface of the monster's corpse and were washed away by the stream water like red hot iron being quenched.

In less than half a minute, there was only a red crystal the size of an apricot kernel left.

Li Siwen watched from beside the stream. After a long time, he used the broken handle of the hoe to fish out the red crystal from the stream. He also caught a shrimp, two grasshoppers, and a pot-bellied cricket. He put them one after another on the crystal to make sure there was no danger before picking it up with his hand.

It was heavy, at least about three catties.

It felt warm to the touch, as if it were alive. He could even feel a faint heartbeat.

However, after ten seconds, the red crystal gradually dimmed and turned into an ordinary pebble.

"Wait!"

Li Siwen suddenly thought of something. He opened the Attribute Bar and looked at it. As expected, the blue orb that did not light previously because of conditions unmet had now lighted up. If he concentrated, there appeared on it the same mark—

(14/15).

This was really an unexpected surprise!

So, should he try to extract a bit?

If he didn't try, how would he know what the blue orb collected?

Thinking of this, Li Siwen quickly decided and extracted a little with one swipe. Then he looked at the Attribute Bar. A line of flickering text had appeared.

Withdrawing Heavenly Workmanship Point +1, Time remaining: 10 seconds.

Heavenly, heavenly what?

What workmanship?

It confused Li Siwen!

He hurriedly focused his attention on other attributes. As a result, except for the ability to repair the Attribute Bar, this Heavenly Workmanship Point could not be used on any of the other Attributes. Seeing that the ten-second countdown was about to end, he was so anxious that he was breaking out in a cold sweat. This was so much more exciting than a grand opening!

When there was only one second left in the countdown, Li Siwen suddenly saw the half of the hoe in his hand, so he threw caution to the wind.

A second later, he sat down, feeling even more tired than after he had killed the monster earlier. He was also feeling a heartache. Why was there such a thing as a Heavenly Workmanship Point?

"En?"

He saw the hoe shine out of the corner of his eye. He quickly picked it up and took a closer look. It was no longer black like the wrought iron before, but had a tinge of a bluish-gray luster. When he struck it with a finger, the echo rang clear.

"My, this is—is this steel?"

Li Siwen was shocked. Then he decided in only three seconds and returned to the scene of the tragedy more than two hundred meters back. He took Zhao Da's chipped steel knife, the almost-split axe and all the water gourds on the farmers. He glanced back at the smoky territory once, then left resolutely.

Yes, it was time for him to fly solo. This territory could have made it if the boorish Feudal Lord was not always thinking of relying on sacrifices in exchange for resources and strength. There was so much food and so much energy that he could have used to develop the territory.

Great, it had now been completely permeated by the power of that statue and destroyed by the backlash.

Today's Zhao Da, whether or not he had his own consciousness, could no longer be called a human being.

It had happened to Zhao Da. In that case, Song Hu, Sun Tieshi, Zhang Ye, Qin Fen, and even the boorish Feudal Lord who had also integrated with fire amulet, even if they were still safe now, there was no guarantee that they would not become monsters in the future.

"And even if I were to be a humanoid creep, I wouldn't team up with monsters!"

"It's a pity about these fifty acres of demonized wheat."

Li Siwen sighed and returned to the river valley again.

After all, the incident happened suddenly. It took only two or three minutes from the time Zhao Da mutated to the time he was killed, so the territory would not find out so soon. The logging team would arrive at the scene more than ten minutes later if Song Hu did not also mutate.

So he calmly dealt with some traces, then jumped into the stream and walked in it. Five hundred steps downstream, there was an old tree. He climbed onto the tree with a heave and hid among the branches and leaves. In the afterglow of the setting sun, he looked back at the farmer's hut where the tragedy had happened while recovering Stamina.

After all, it was going to be dark soon, and running around without Stamina was akin to looking for death.

Of course, Li Siwen would not forget his confidence in daring to fly solo, the magical Heavenly Workmanship Points.

After extracting one point of Heavenly Workmanship from the blue orb, he gave priority to adding it to the cracked iron axe. As expected, nothing happened. After all, a hoe and an axe were two different things.

Li Siwen immediately extracted three points of Heavenly Workmanship. So far, this rusty axe made of pig iron and was full of gaps had become brighter. Not only was it made of quality stainless steel now, it also weighed more.

However, it was just too costly.

"Then, this knife—"

Li Siwen took out the steel knife, which had two large chips. It was supposed to be a steel knife, but compared to the stainless steel axe, the difference was like comparing Xishi [1. Chinese beauty from ancient times] and a tank.

"An axe is enough. What do I want a long knife for?"

Li Si wondered aloud, mainly because he was loath to waste the Heavenly Workmanship points. They would come in very handy at the critical moment.

As for fighting?

He had his Spirit Vision talent, an axe that could continuously cut down trees to obtain Vitality Points, and he could continuously add to his Attributes. He didn't think there were any beasts that he couldn't handle with an axe.

If he couldn't deal with them with an axe, the long knife wouldn't help either. He might as well surrender earlier, and he might still be able to keep an intact corpse.

Nevertheless, Li Siwen broke some branches to wrap the unsheathed long knife, then tied it up with a cloth strip and carried it on his back.

In this way, with a hoe in his left hand and an axe in his right hand, he was now a creep. He would never look back!