Even though he had reached the boundary, Xu Xin was not in a hurry to return.
Of course, he wouldn't foolishly walk out of the three-kiloter boundary, but he was still curious. Why couldn't he go beyond the three-kiloter range? Was it because the treehouse could only protect them within this three-kiloter radius?
On the map, within the three-kiloter range around the treehouse, there were no more beasts except for the red dot at the center of the lake. Was this also thanks to the treehouse? Or was it deliberately caused by that mysterious voice?
At this mont, he had a guess in his heart, but it was immature.
He cast a profound look at the ground outside the boundary, the direction he had co from. He had previously walked unscathed from there, but now he could no longer return.
Previously, the novice protection period was safeguarding him, and now, it was the treehouse protecting him.
Stop thinking too much. Nearly two hours had passed by now, and Xu Xin started heading back, returning to the location of the Black Bear Cave.
Standing at the entrance of the Black Bear Cave, Xu Xin used the compass for the second ti.
With a crisp "ding" sound, the needle of the compass gradually pointed in the opposite direction of the Black Bear Cave, towards the other side of the stream.
It seems the treasure chest is on the other side of the stream, and Xu Xin has to cross the stream to get there.
The stream was easy to cross, after all, it wasn't deep. Even though this part was already downstream and the stream was quite wide, the deepest part of the entire stream was only thirty to forty centiters.
Just as Xu Xin was about to step across the stream, he suddenly stopped.
What if the monster wasn't on the other side of the stream, but right in the stream itself?
If he steps down like this, wouldn't it be courting death? Although forty centiters of water isn't technically deep, it significantly impairs normal movent, greatly slowing down Xu Xin.
"Keke, wake up!" Xu Xin roughly shook Keke's head, who was resting on his shoulder.
"...Ying ying!" Keke was very displeased to be woken up so violently and protested with a whiny tone at Xu Xin.
Xu Xin took Keke off his shoulder, held it in his arms, and let it face the stream: "Feel it, is there anything wrong in this stream?"
After all, last ti Keke found the treasure chest by following a scent, perhaps it's its instinct, but it was undoubtedly very useful.
"Ying?" Keke instinctively tilted its head; it was still in a groggy state after being woken up, yet pulled out to work.
It jumped down from Xu Xin's arms, ca to the water's edge, and scooped the water with its little paw, then turned around and shook its head at Xu Xin: "Ying~"
"No?" Xu Xin frowned, did he overthink it? Both Keke and the map didn't give any warnings about danger, maybe he really was wrong.
Relaxing his furrowed brow, Xu Xin picked Keke up back onto his shoulder, took off his shoes, and prepared to cross the stream.
The stream's flow was fast and incredibly cold; Xu Xin felt a piercing chill as soon as he stepped in. Before he had walked a few steps, his whole foot was almost numbed by the cold.
He couldn't understand why this mountain stream was so cold. Clearly, the temperature was over 30 degrees now.
After taking two steps, Xu Xin stopped.
For so reason, the further he went, the more anxious he felt. It was similar to the crisis instinct he had when the vines were about to burst out from the ground, just not as intense but rather like a feeling that sothing dangerous was getting closer to him.
There's sothing in the water!
There really is sothing in the water!
Xu Xin chose to trust his instincts, took big strides, and ran back. He hadn't reached the deepest part of the stream yet, so retreating back ant he could get to the bank quickly!
As he turned around to run, a sudden splash of water sounded behind him, as if sothing erged from the water!
"Ying!" Keke suddenly shouted on his shoulder, the sound was nothing like its usual cute voice but instead a hoarse and sharp cry, seemingly warning whatever was behind.
Xu Xin slightly turned his head and caught a glimpse of what was behind with his peripheral vision.
As soon as the thing appeared in his sight, Xu Xin's pupils contracted instantly; he was startled and frantically dashed towards the bank.
A crocodile had surfaced in the middle of the stream, a crocodile much larger than usual, whose size reminded Xu Xin of prehistoric creatures from the late Cretaceous Period, one of the largest crocodilian species ever, the Deinosuchus!
No, even Deinosuchus wasn't this large! It was a giant Deinosuchus!
The nearly twenty-ter-long crocodile lay at the bottom of the stream along its flow, rising now, causing the stream's water level to drop significantly.
anwhile, the map Xu Xin had been watching intently did not even show a red dot!
"Damn! This map doesn't show anything, right! What a scam creator function, right!" Xu Xin ran in the front, his soul chased behind. He sprinted to the bank in rely four or five strides.
However, to his slight surprise, the crocodile didn't seem to have intentions to attack him; otherwise, Xu Xin wouldn't have almost escaped.
Crocodiles are extrely fast in water, it could bite him and then do a death roll, reducing him to a pile of minced at.
The crocodile rely watched him, just like the Lake Giant Python, simply watching him quietly.
Just like the Lake Giant Python, it had a monstrous body that seed not to belong to this era.
The only difference was that the Lake Giant Python appeared as a huge, bright red dot on the map, whereas this crocodile suspected of being a Deinosuchus did not.
The last one not showing was the little red panda, Keke, on his shoulder.
He looked at Keke on his shoulder, who was now baring its teeth at the Deinosuchus, seemingly trying to intimidate it. Yet, it was of no use, it was just too adorably cute.
The Deinosuchus in the stream slowly opened its large mouth, and just as Xu Xin's face turned grim, ready to run for his life, he suddenly noticed a flash of bright silver inside its mouth.
A silver treasure chest?
In this crocodile's mouth?!
"...Can't we play properly anymore?"
"Ying?"
The Deinosuchus jerked its head, flinging the silver chest to the bank, landing with a loud "bang".
The chest lay at Xu Xin's feet, while the colossal Deinosuchus closed its mouth, casting a small eye considering its size at Xu Xin before slowly sinking back into the water under his wary yet puzzled gaze.
The clear water turned turbid as the sand and stones at the riverbed were churned up by the Deinosuchus, yet Xu Xin could still see it hadn't left, instead once again lying at the bottom of the stream.
It had been in the stream all along! Perhaps when Xu Xin first passed through here, a Deinosuchus was already resting here!
Since this Deinosuchus is like Keke, a special existence, if Keke wasn't beholden to this world's constraints, perhaps this crocodile wasn't either.
The more he thought about it, the more Xu Xin felt a chill; although this massive Deinosuchus seed not to harbor malice towards him, it was a crocodile nonetheless! Its demonic appearance and sharp teeth were daunting to say the least.
Thankfully, for now, it seed this crocodile bore him no ill will.
Looking at the silver treasure chest at his feet, Xu Xin felt as though he were dreaming, inexplicably obtaining a silver treasure chest.
"...The position of this treasure chest is too eerie!!"
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