Chapter 147- Lucky Encounter

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"That's!" Theo exclaimed as he observed the giant beetle, it seemed the scout had also realized it as well, Liu Guanyi thought.

As they were observing the beetle closely and still deciding what to do, the ground around them moved again as a massive green-colored figure rushed toward them out of the darkness from the way the beetle was coming.

Already sensing the creature long ago, Liu Guanyi stepped forward without hesitation and threw his shinsu-powered fist toward the figure, emitting a powerful shinsu blast that halted its charge and threw it back away.

With the creature pushed back, they could finally see what the creature really looked like.

It was a giant mass glob of fat and flesh that stretched long more than twenty feet. Its skin was darkish-green like vomit that was left on the ground for long. The skin also looked very flabby as it wrapped the mass glob of flesh.

Its face was hard to notice as it had no facial features other than its wide gaping mouth which was filled with many rows of sharp and dangerous teeth that could seem tear apart and devour anything that went into it.

As the creature lifted its front body up to "look" at the one interrupting its hunt, the worm-like creature showcased its massive body as it towered them, displaying its terrifying jaws as its saliva trickled down to the ground out of its mouth, causing an audible hissing sound as the ground was visibly corroded.

Looking at the creature, it was very apt to be associated with the words "vile, terrifying, and abominable."

"Sir, it seems that we have found it!" Theo exclaimed quite loudly as he was both surprised and excited to finally find what they were looking for so hard.

"I know." Liu Guanyi nodded calmly.

Fate really worked mysteriously and strangely.

They had been looking for so hard without any result, yet, it suddenly appeared and approached them completely on its own out of their expectation.

Well, that was good for Liu Guanyi so he wouldn't complain at all. Now, he didn't have to spend more time and effort to try to find the death worms again. What he had to do was simple, to capture it without killing it!

The giant and ugly worm seemed to be able to feel his intention as it bulged out its mouth as if the worm collected its saliva, making it even bigger, and spurted the content in its mouth, ejecting a fast, green projectile toward Liu Guanyi.

"Be careful!" Theo shouted as he saw the worm's action.

Liu Guanyi simply stretched one of his hands forward, as suddenly, more than ten swirling waves of shinsu were created in an instant. All of them gently moved and merged into one, becoming a single swirling blue mass of current as it shot forward, meeting the green projectile midair.

Shinsu Control Style: Spinning Water Lance!

The blue sharp spear pushed forward, colliding against the green acid as loud hissing noise was created upon the impact. However, the blue shinsu vastly overwhelmed the acid as it pierced through it and went toward the worm, crashing into its thick flesh as it grunted and writhed in pain.

Although the death worm seemed in pain, there was only a shallow wound on its body as Liu Guanyi didn't want to lethally injure it.

With this opening, Liu Guanyi immediately moved in front of the worm. His hands moved on its head and jaw as they easily pierced through the layer of slippery and fatty skin and into the flesh, grabbing it tightly and pulling the giant creature over his back as Liu Guanyi rotated his body, slamming the worm on the floor of the tunnel!

Baaaaanggg!

The floor shook strongly as the enormous weight of the worm dropped on the ground, caving it in due to the sheer immense force. As to the one who received the direct impact, the worm could only lay down its obese body motionlessly on the ground.

Even though there was no noticeable damage other than its reddening skin, the death worm seemed to have lost all of its energy as a twitch was the best it could muster from its great size.

Looking at what happened, Theo couldn't contain the shock on his face. He had expected Liu Guanyi to be this strong from his previous performance but he didn't expect that he was this powerful.

Theo had felt it the moment when Liu Guanyi executed his throw. It was incredibly smooth, from how he grabbed the worm, his footwork to rotate his body, and finally, the throw itself.

From those independent movements, there was no slight delay at all as if it was his body had remembered it as if it was a completely natural process, like breathing.

However, even if his technique was perfect, Liu Guanyi would still need to have sufficient strength to throw such a heavy and big creature, which meant that he had very powerful strength that complemented his amazing combat techniques.

As the scout had somewhat anticipated, if Liu Guanyi could be very skillful using scouts' and wave controllers' abilities, it was normal that he would be even more remarkable in his main position, fisherman!

Liu Guanyi took out his reel inventory as he tied the worm with it and cut the string off after he made sure that the knot was strong enough. Then, he grabbed the string and casually dragged the giant worm as he began to move as if it was nothing.

"Let's go, what are you staring at? Our business is done here so do your job and lead the way." Liu Guanyi said to the absent-minded-looking scout to get him on his feet.

"R-right away, sir!" Theo broke off his thoughts and quickly moved in the front to guide their way.

They walked with a moderate pace in silence as both of them seemed to be occupied with their own thoughts. Their journey to return to the surface seemed very uneventful as they had managed to reach the inner parts without running into a group of Shinheuh at all.

"Finally, sir, we have exited the deeper parts so it's should be relatively safe." Theo said with relief.

"Indeed, unfortunately that's not for you." Said Liu Guanyi as suddenly move behind the scout with his fingers straightened.

However, before he could stab his hand at the scout, Liu Guanyi eyes' widened as he quickly jumped back as the ground below them suddenly broke apart and opened wide!