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After turning onto a street filled with abandoned vehicles.

Cheng Zhuo suddenly understood.

Arrived!

He was overjoyed and quickly bent down, squatting behind a rusty car, his eyes sweeping across the entire square.

"Good luck."

The square was very quiet; he must have been the first to arrive.

Cheng Zhuo's gaze quickly locked onto a spot about thirty meters ahead, where a one-horned porcupine was drooping its head, gnawing on the carcass of an unknown animal.

A faint green light emanated from between his eyebrows.

That's the identifier of the source kernel!

The information states that an adult one-horned porcupine is about two meters long.

The numbers seemed alright at first glance, but seeing them in person made Cheng Zhuo feel a little apprehensive.

That's absolutely amazing!

That's not a pig at all, it looks like a smaller elephant!

Or... should we wait for Anno and the others?

As Cheng Zhuo hesitated, the large porcupine seemed to sense something and suddenly raised its head!

Its amber eyes instantly filled with vigilance, and its nose twitched incessantly.

"Oh no!" Cheng Zhuo thought to himself, realizing something was wrong.

Clearly, this one-horned porcupine had no intention of giving Cheng Zhuo time to wait for its companion. It roared to the sky and charged straight toward Cheng Zhuo like an out-of-control armored vehicle.

Despite their seemingly large and clumsy appearance, porcupines can charge at an astonishing speed.

Thirty meters was covered in the blink of an eye.

The unicorn porcupine is almost the strongest in terms of physical strength among the nascent alien beasts, around level 10.0.

However, just like humans, the combat strength of a beast cannot be assessed solely by its physical strength.

Judging from the momentum of this porcupine's charge,

Even if there were a tank in front of Cheng Zhuo, it would probably be blown to pieces.

There wasn't time to think it through.

Cheng Zhuo leaped to the side and back, barely avoiding the porcupine's charge accompanied by gusts of wind.

"Bang—!"

A deafening explosion rang out.

The abandoned car he was hiding in was instantly sent flying more than ten meters away, crashing heavily into the building behind it, sending metal debris flying everywhere.

The porcupine crashed into the air, becoming increasingly agitated.

When it turned around, rusty iron plates still clung to its horn, and puffs of white vapor billowed from its nostrils.

With a roar, it pawed at the ground again and charged forward once more.

Cheng Zhuo recalled that online guides for beginners suggested "flying a kite" to deal with the unicorn porcupine.

This thing doesn't have much of a brain and will quickly exhaust itself.

However, after Cheng Zhuo led the porcupine around the square several times, the porcupine's speed not only did not decrease but increased, its roars became more frantic, and its attacks became more and more fierce.

"Is this never going to end?!"

Cheng Zhuo dragged his spear, glanced back at the flustered and pale-faced fool, cursed under his breath, and decided to give up on referring to the strategy guide.

He gripped his rifle tightly, spotted an overturned truck not far away, and accelerated past it.

Seeing the porcupine closing in from behind again, Cheng Zhuo suddenly pushed off the ground!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!!"

Several loud bangs echoed beneath my feet!

He strode onto the roof of the car and leaped high into the air—

In mid-air, the tip of the gun drew a dazzling golden arc, precisely piercing the porcupine's eye!

"Sizzle—"

The spear pierced through the hilt, its tip emerging from the porcupine's neck, drawing out a stream of scalding black blood.

The crisp sound of a sharp object piercing flesh is quite pleasant!

But the next moment!

The immense force of the impact traveled along the spear, causing his hand to slip and the spear shaft to slam heavily against his shoulder.

Cheng Zhuo felt a sharp pain like his bones were cracking, and his whole body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into the front of a car with a "bang", leaving a human-shaped dent in the dented hood.

After a sharp, stabbing sensation, my shoulder quickly went numb.

For a fleeting moment, Cheng Zhuo could barely feel the existence of the right half of his body.

"Ho-ho-ho-"

The porcupine, with its tusks sticking out, was panting heavily, its eyes bloodshot, as if it still wanted to charge at Cheng Zhuo.

However, Cheng Zhuo's spear was no ordinary iron. The spear shaft was stuck inside its body, and the source power output from the source card was frantically eroding its life force.

After a few staggering gasps,

Its massive body finally crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"hiss--"

Cheng Zhuo struggled to get up from the car.

"Damn it!"

He rubbed his right shoulder, which was gradually regaining sensation, wincing in pain.

"Which bastard came up with this guide? Didn't they say the porcupine was only slightly stronger than the rat mantis? This is called slightly stronger?"

Cheng Zhu cursed under his breath, but didn't stop walking, staggering to the porcupine carcass.

He pulled out his spear, wiped away the blood, and drew a short dagger from his waist, forcefully stabbing it into the porcupine's brow at the glowing core.

"Got it!"

Looking at the source core covered in sticky blood plasma in his palm, a hint of excitement flashed in Cheng Zhuo's eyes.

This is the porcupine core, which hunters jokingly call a "blind box"!

It contains breathing meditation cards of varying grades, and it is said that someone has even obtained an epic-grade card!

To encounter such luck with a nascent, unranked alien beast is truly a stroke of incredible luck.

"call--"

With a long sigh of relief, Cheng Zhuo sat down on the spot, holding the source core.

Finally, I was able to activate the breathing technique and test the potion's abilities in the "Dragon Form" state.

Recalling the majestic appearance of Guanguan when it transformed last night, a sense of anticipation rose in his heart—that porcupine, Guanguan should be able to deal with it easily after transforming, right?

"Hey, Class Monitor Cheng is pretty lucky, he actually managed to find the carcass of a Lord-level porcupine."

Suddenly, a voice filled with mockery and greed rang out, "This source core looks pretty good~"

Cheng Zhuo felt a chill and quickly turned his head to look.

The person who came was Zhao Shichang, followed by two team members, who swaggered over.

The two men stared intently at the source core in his hand, which glowed with a faint green light, like hungry wolves.

The visitor seems to have ill intentions...

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【Unicorn Porcupine: An unranked alien beast that specializes in producing low-level Breathing Meditation Card Blind Cores. Along with the Octopus Rat and Hydralisk, it is known as the "Three Treasures of Blind Cores"】

—Excerpt from the Mythical Beasts section of "Records of the Ruins"