Chapter 84: Cracklew Crab! A Dangerous Species Appears


    Chu Guang never expected that the second case of nonbat attrition that appeared in shelter No. 404 would arise... because of the crabs in theke?


    “Cracklew Crab.”


    Looking to the shore of theke, a big craby on the yer''s head, feasting. Chu Guang recognized the identity of this thing in just a second.


    This was probably a mutant of a certainke crab. As for its specific species, no one knew, but it didn''t matter. After all, a crab that grew to a height of one meter was not suitable to be rted to normal crabs in the past.


    Mud and algae always hung all over its body, making it look like a mass of mud from a distance. The high bulging arc-shaped carapace was its natural armor,yered with arge amount of calcium and magnesium minerals, chitin, keratinized fiber, and other biopolymers, which could effectively disperse and buffer kic energy damage. Damage dealt by normal weapons was no different than tickling to it.


    And those two huge ws were even more powerful. It was said that they could cut the tree in half easily... But why would this thing appear here?


    Is there a Cracklew Crab nest at the bottom of theke or somewhere on the other side of theke?


    Chu Guang''s brows tightened.


    "What is a Cracklew Crab?" Ample Time, who was following him, was confused and quickly asked.


    “Mutant.”


    There was no time to exin.


    The Cracklew Crab had already gnawed off half of the yer''s head, and the part below the neck of the hapless little yer would be gnawed away if he didn''t do anything.


    Chu Guang adjusted the KV-1 exoskeleton from "cruise mode" to "maneuver mode"—which increased the output power of the knee and elbow joints, walked towards the crab with a heavy step, and pulled out his hammer from his back calmly.


    The shell of the Cracklew Crab was very wide, causing it to have almost no view of anything behind it.


    Although they had a keen sense of hearing at close range, as long as one walked directly toward them, they would not be able to urately distinguish one''s location.


    If there was no ident, in 2 seconds, Chu Guang would be able to take out that thing with his hammer!


    However, just when Chu Guang had walked out of the forest two steps, still twenty or thirty meters away from the crab, Brother Mosquito suddenly carried a wooden tube and got out of the bush nearby.


    "Big crab? Where is it?? Holy shit! So big! Administrator, it''s too dangerous to get closer to it, please don''t go over! Let me deal with it!"


    After saying that, Brother Mosquito excitedly lit the fuse behind the wooden tube and carried it on his shoulders, aiming the tube at the crab.


    "Fuck!"


    "It''s Mosquito!"


    "Run!"


    The yers who were rubbernecking on the side were all startled by his action, and as if they had seen a gue god, all of them fled in the next second.


    Without waiting for Chu Guang to stop, the wooden tube burst out with a tongue of fire, shooting a forearm-long firecracker out of the tube, and swishing toward the Cracklew Crab.


    The Cracklew Crab probably heard the movement, but before it could turn its head back, the forearm-long firecracker fell into the muddy ground behind its ass.


    Obviously.


    This RPG''s uracy is very bad.


    But it doesn''t matter anymore.


    With a "boom", a pir of mud four or five meters tall rose from the ground. The explosion shook the crab''s carapace twice, and the billowing smoke swallowed its huge body directly.


    Nearly one kilogram of gunpowder exploded instantly. If a human stood so close, even if they weren''t scraped to death by shrapnel, their internal organs would be shattered.


    However, the Cracklew Crab was not human after all.


    The shock wave of the explosion could not prate its carapace at all, let alone shatter its inherently few internal organs.


    Then a shrill and hoarse howl sounded.


    The Cracklew Crab, engulfed in heavy smoke, rushed out painfully and quickly locked onto the nearby Chu Guang, brandishing itsrge ws and ramming over to him.


    But because its leg was "broken" by the st, its speed was only a little faster than that of human walking.


    Nearby yers hurriedly raised their guns and opened fire, but the Cracklew Crab, which had been shot a few times, was unaffected.


    "Ceasefire!"


    Chu Guang raised his right fist and signaled the yers to stop wasting bullets, then he grabbed the hammer in his hand and walked forward with a sigh.


    "That dumb yer, he really knows how to create trouble for me."


    ……


    In front of the Nitrogen-powered hammer, theme Cracklew Crab was no different from the marauder who ran out of ammunition.


    Chu Guang didn''t waste time with it at all. He switched the hammer to B mode and swung it. In an instant, the hammer directly shattered half of its face.


    Then the battle was over.


    A dozen yers who came out of the base with him were basically not helpful. Aside from wasting a few bullets, they didn’t cause any damage to the crab.


    "Damn, so strong……"


    "Boss Dawn is awesome!"


    "I finally know why that marauder''s head was missing..."


    The surrounding yers were whispering excitedly.


    Mosquito, who was carrying the wooden tube, still had a stunned expression even after the battle was over. It took a long time before he finally came back to his senses.


    "Are you fucking serious... Even my RPG did not kill it?"


    "Did you use HE round? You should use the AP round next time." Night Ten patted Mosquito''s shoulder with a joking smile, "But then again, brother, your tech is pretty rad."


    Mosquito argued with a red face.


    "It must be the plot... the plot kills! The plot is not over, so no matter how powerful my RPG was, it would not be able to kill it! That’s one kilogram of gunpowder, if its HP is not locked by the plot, it would definitely be dead!"


    "Hahahaha, it''s possible! Why didn’t I think of that…"


    “……”


    Ample Time sighed. He didn''tugh at Mosquito with Night Ten. He just patted the big brother on the shoulder, gave him an encouraging look, and then went up to help the administrator pack the spoils.


    Such arge Cracklew Crab weighed three hundred kilograms at least.


    [Midnight_pubg] swung his axe and hacked the back of the crustacean, but the attack only left a muddy mark on the back of the crab’s dirty shell.


    "Fuck? Is this shell made of iron?" Shaking his aching hands, his eyes widened in shock. He even began to doubt the power of his axe for the first time.


    "It should be good to use this to make armor," [The_Escaping_Mole] squatted beside him, and filed the ws of the big crab with his hatchet. "The ws are so hard, is this thing really caused by a radiation mutation?"


    "Who knows."


    Looking at the group of yers curiously examining around the Cracklew Crab, Chu Guang put away the hammer.


    "Find a cart and carry it back."


    "Okay!"


    "Okay, Administrator!"


    Looking at the yers who were starting to work, Chu Guang went on to find two yers who had nothing to do and asked them to move the headless corpse on the ground back to the shelter.


    Fortunately, they arrived in a timely manner. The yer only lost his head and his clothes were basically intact. The previously exploded shrapnel and burning wood tar was basically blocked by the shell of the Cracklew Crab.


    Chu Guang was not worried that the yers would die, but rather worried that they would ruin the clothes.


    yers woulde back after they died. But there were only two sets of blue coats for each yer. If both got damaged, he really didn’t know where to get more of them that would fit yers.


    ……


    On the way back, the snow fell heavier, beginning to pile up on the treetops and grass. If it continued to snow, there would probably be ayer of snow tomorrow.


    Chu Guang preliminarily spected that the temperature drop caused the range of activities of these Cracklew Crabs to change, but it was not known from which direction they migrated.


    He only hoped that they would not make a home in front of his base.


    In order to prevent simr things from happening again, Chu Guang issued an order to mark the area as dangerous.


    Before finding out the source of these Cracklew Crabs, it was forbidden to approach this area.


    At the same time, he also ordered two perception-type yers, one to head northeast and one southwest, to investigate along the shore of theke and report any abnormalities immediately.


    The big crab that was one meter high when it was just lying on its stomach was carried on the cart by two strength-type yers.


    Singing a messy triumph song along the way, these yers who followed the Administrator carried the trophy back to the outpost.


    That high-profile parade attracted the attention of many people.


    "Holy shit, such a big crab?"


    "What''s going on?!"


    Curious, the yer who didn’t know what was going on stepped forward to stop one yer and asked.


    "Brother, where did you catch such a big crab?"


    "From theke."


    "What the hell?! How?!"


    "Hey, hey, it’s easy. Just level up your fishing skill."


    It was not just the nearby yers who were watching, but Yu Hu who happened toe to trade from Bett Street.


    Next to him stood another man. Each of them held one side of a wooden stick on one shoulder, with a strong mutant wild boar tied to the stick. They stood in front of the west gate and looked at the crab,pletely shocked.


    Chu Guang soon noticed him, and after walking towards him, spoke with a smile.


    "Come to exchange goods?"


    Yu Hu opened his mouth, his eyes having just moved away from the big crab before being stuck to the big hammer behind Chu Guang.


    The man next to him reacted first, nodded nervously, and said frankly.


    "I want to change some salt. I heard that we can exchange salt here."


    Yu Hu finally recovered and hurriedly introduced the man to Chu Guang.


    "This is my cousin, his surname is Li, and his name is Li Niu."


    "It''s snowy outside,e in with me."


    Under the guidance of Chu Guang, the two of them were unimpeded at the outpost. However, someone would always look at them curiously.