Xu Xin didn't stay at the lake for long.
Some of the wild animals by the lake were scared away by the crocodiles in the lake. He circled the lake and found that there were no new high-level materials here, so he continued to concentrate on hunting.
Now the cooperation between Xu Xin and Yin Wang has reached perfection. With the help of the map prompts and Coco's instructions, the positions of the wild beasts are revealed. Those small animals hiding motionlessly in the grass make it easier for Xu Xin, who has a headache with moving targets, to hit them.
His efficiency is unmatched by any other survivor.
Soon, before dark, Xu Xin had hunted eighteen wild rabbits, seven wild cats, two wild boars, and several other animals.
He did not provoke the wolf pack for the time being, and mainly took the Silver King to hunt the wolves. He always felt that it would rebel, and it was not an easy task to face a large number of wolves head-on.
Holding a black blood-blade knife, Xu Xin separated the tusks of the wild boar from its body.
The wild boar's tusks were as tough as tofu under the altar knife, and Xu Xin didn't even have to use any force to separate them.
Then his eyes lit up.
Pig Tusk Sacrifice (Blue): One of the high-level sacrifices used to offer to the "Gods".
High-level sacrifice!
But what made him feel a little regretful was that among the two tusks of this wild boar, only one was a blue-grade sacrifice.
This was the third wild boar Xu Xin had hunted. The previous two also yielded four tusk sacrifices, but they were all green grade.
After dissecting the pig's body and putting it into the backpack, Xu Xin looked up at the sky. At this time, the sunset glow had already appeared in the west, indicating that it would soon be dark.
"Go and offer these sacrifices first."
Riding a wolf to the altar, the Silver King still didn't dare to go in. Xu Xin asked it to wait outside the altar, and Coco jumped onto his shoulders.
“Click.”
The moment he stepped onto the altar, Xu Xin heard the slight sound again. This time he heard it more clearly. The sound came from below the ground.
"Is there some mechanism under the altar?" Xu Xin narrowed his eyes.
Walking to the altar, Xu Xin first took out a rabbit ear offering and placed it on the altar.
A chill even colder than when he placed the rabbit meat before emanated from the altar. This time, Xu Xin did not step back. Instead, he stared at the changes on the altar, while paying attention to the stone pillar with a rabbit statue on one side.
The patterns around the altar began to move.
Under Xu Xin's gaze, the blood-red patterns did not slowly crawl towards the sacrifice as before, but instead shone brightly and quickly spread to the center of the altar, enveloping the entire sacrifice.
The blood bag deflated within a few seconds, and as Xu Xin watched, the blood-red color at the bottom of the stone pillar with the rabbit statue quickly spread upwards, and the originally ordinary pattern was stained with blood-red.
Just one sacrifice caused the entire stone pillar to be stained with blood red for more than 20 centimeters.
The patterns on the stone altar slowly retreated to the side of the altar and dimmed.
Xu Xin hunted 18 wild rabbits, giving him a total of 36 rabbit ear offerings. He thought for a moment and then placed the remaining 35 on top.
The cold wind blew hard, and the blood-red color spread. Soon, all the offerings disappeared, and the stone pillar with the rabbit statue had been completely dyed red. Even most of the rabbit statue on the stone pillar was dyed red.
The blood-red patterns densely cover the rabbit statue, which looks very strange and yet strangely beautiful.
The stone pillars radiated a strong heat. After the coldness of the altar faded away, the heat from the stone pillars came over him, making Xu Xin feel like he was in a sauna.
The patterns on the stone pillars reminded him of the vines in the underground world, vines whose every vine was covered with blood-like patterns.
His eyelids twitched, and Xu Xin had a bad guess in his mind.
"Could it be..." He was a little unsure of his guess.
Seeing that there was still a small part of the statue that had not been dyed red, Xu Xin gritted his teeth, took out all the rabbit meat in his backpack, and placed it on the altar.
The blood-red spread once again, this time very slowly. Xu Xin retreated away from the central altar and the stone pillar with the strange rabbit carved on it, his eyes fixed on the last part that had not yet been stained by the blood-red pattern.
On the statue, blood-red patterns slowly spread upwards, and eventually, the entire body of the rabbit statue was covered with patterns.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Coco suddenly became agitated. It pointed its little paws at the rabbit statue on the stone pillar and kept pulling at Xu Xin's clothes.
"Is there danger?" Xu Xin asked, staring at the rabbit statue.
"Hmm!" Coco nodded vigorously on his shoulder.
"Damn it! I hope I'm right!" Xu Xin stepped back, directly outside the altar, to the side of the Silver King, looking at the statue nervously.
A few seconds, dozens of seconds, a minute... Xu Xin held a crossbow in his hand and did not dare to act rashly.
Except for the stone pillar that constantly radiated heat, the inside of the altar was very quiet.
Just when Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief and thought that nothing would happen, something strange happened.
The blood-red patterns on the entire stone pillar of the rabbit statue suddenly shone brightly. Xu Xin heard the sound of the stone cracking. The blood-red light radiated from the inside of the statue along the patterns, illuminating the entire altar blood-red.
"Fuck, it's just as I expected!" Xu Xin cursed inwardly.
He felt something was wrong when he saw the bloody pattern on the statue. He felt that when the pattern completely covered the statue, it would turn into a monster.
This red pattern must be closely related to the monsters in the underground world. It might be some mysterious power, or some special virus or bacteria that caused the ordinary monsters to mutate.
Xu Xin immediately took out his blue-level armor from his backpack and put it on. In order to increase the success rate of hunting, he had been wearing leather armor.
The cracks on the statue grew larger and larger, and the blood-red light emitted from inside the statue became more and more dazzling.
Suddenly Xu Xin's watch vibrated. He glanced at it and saw that it was a message from Ji Chaoyang.
"Xu Xin, don't offer sacrifices to the altar, or the stone sculptures will come alive."
What a coincidence.
Ji Chaoyang is really an enthusiastic boss, but unfortunately...
Xu Xin smiled bitterly, stared at the slowly crumbling statue, and typed into his watch: "It's too late. It's already alive."
Fragments of the statue fell from the stone pillar, revealing a streak of red and white hair. Finally, with a loud "bang", the rabbit statue was completely shattered, and a large rabbit the size of a piglet, almost exactly the same as the statue, stood on the stone pillar.
To be honest, after seeing the size of the rabbit, Xu Xin's slightly panicked mood calmed down a little.
Although this blood-marked rabbit is indeed much larger than an ordinary rabbit, it is about the size of a black bear or wild boar, or even a little smaller. Xu Xin feels that he can still deal with it.
On the map, the brightness of the red dot of the blood-marked rabbit is only slightly brighter than that of the black bear and wild boar, but not as bright as that of the brown bear and tiger.
The blood-marked rabbit turned its gaze to Xu Xin. A strange light flashed in its red rabbit eyes. Its mouth moved slightly, making a harsh and unpleasant grinding sound.
It’s better to strike first!
Xu Xin raised his hand and shot the ordinary crossbow arrows that had already been loaded on the crossbow!
Just when the crossbow arrow was about to hit the rabbit, the rabbit suddenly kicked the pillar under its feet and suddenly jumped into the air! The speed was so fast that it was like a missile launched from the spot.
The crossbow passed through the blood-marked rabbit's original position, flew into the jungle and disappeared.
"This..." Xu Xin's pupils shrank, and he quickly took out a poisonous crossbow arrow from his quiver and strung it.
Just as he finished stringing the bow, a rabbit leaped into the air and fell from the sky.
"Bang!"
After a loud bang, the rabbit landed just a few meters in front of Xu Xin. Its upright body was about one and a half meters tall. Its red eyes stared at Xu Xin coldly, and its mouth made a sharp "sizzling" sound of grinding its teeth. Its two sword-like ears stood upright, as if they would chop down at any time!
The moment the rabbit fell, Xu Xin aimed at the rabbit's head and pulled the trigger of the crossbow!