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Chapter 17

After understanding this principle, he took out the corpse of the Thunder Deer, pondered for a moment, cut off a front leg, and threw it a hundred meters away.

The two Iron-armored Tigers saw him stop, first retreated a bit, but when they saw the Thunder Deer, they couldn’t help but get eager to pounce. As soon as the deer leg flew out, both tigers kicked off the ground and dashed after it, and soon the sound of crunching and chewing could be heard.

At this moment, the woman also caught up, speaking smugly, “It’s obvious you don’t know anything. Your family must be really trusting to let you out on your own.”

“Do you need to say that? I was just testing them!” Andrew Brooks was not one to lose face, and immediately retorted.

Throwing out such a big deer leg made him feel a bit of pain— even if it was just a front leg, it could have sold for four or five spirit coins, which was no small sum. “A leg like that could feed me for two days.”

However, at the same time, his feelings were complicated. What the woman said earlier actually made sense. If the stag hadn’t been held back by the fawn and refused to leave, he really wouldn’t have been able to catch it— the iron pot could defend against lightning, but it couldn’t make him any faster.

“Sell me the deer’s liver, I’ll pay ten spirit coins,” the woman said.

Her face wasn’t exactly unattractive, just a bit masculine, but her figure was thin, with a bit of curve at the hips, and two small bumps on her chest that were barely bigger than mosquito bites— at a glance, it was easy to overlook her gender.

But Andrew Brooks didn’t know how to appreciate women anyway. He just frowned curiously, “The liver… what’s it for?”

“That… you don’t need to know,” the woman refused to tell him.

In fact, she and her brother had come to the riverside to catch a Golden Thread Snakefish. Although this fish was only a level-four wild beast, it had a trace of ancient flood dragon blood in its body, making it perfect for breaking through to the next realm.

But for this reason, the Golden Thread Snakefish, though only a level-four wild beast, was extremely rare. After the siblings discovered one here, they didn’t tell anyone.

The Golden Thread Snakefish, with its flood dragon bloodline, especially loved food with lightning attributes. The two of them caught the fawn to use as bait to lure the fish— that’s right, the Thunder Deer fawn was just bait.

However, the flesh and blood of an adult Thunder Deer would be even more appealing to the Golden Thread Snakefish, but they simply couldn’t catch one— if they tried, it would just run away. Catching a fawn was much more practical.

But when they saw Andrew Brooks kill an adult stag, they couldn’t stay calm. They didn’t dare to snatch it— afraid of retaliation from that middle-aged man— but the blood energy of an adult stag was much stronger, making it even better for luring the Golden Thread Snakefish.

And the stag’s blood energy was mainly in the antlers and the liver— the liver stores blood, and the spleen governs blood.

They didn’t expect to buy the antlers, but getting the liver was already pretty good.

Andrew Brooks didn’t know any of this. He thought about it— selling the liver for ten spirit coins wasn’t a bad deal. Maybe the other party had some special use for it, but most people didn’t know, and its use was quite limited.

He was about to ask another question, “You seem able to resist lightning-type immortal arts?”

“I have a family heirloom lightning-proof inner armor,” the woman answered proudly, looking as if her ancestors had once been wealthy. But the next moment, she frowned and sighed softly, “It was my brother who made me wear it. Otherwise, he’s much stronger than me.”

Such deep sibling affection. Andrew Brooks asked a couple more questions and felt that the siblings had it pretty tough, so he tossed over the Thunder Deer’s liver, took the ten spirit coins, and turned to leave.

As for the two Iron-armored Tigers, when they saw another liver on the ground, they couldn’t help but take a couple of tentative steps forward, looking extremely eager.

But the strength of these siblings was far beyond what the tigers could covet. With just a slight release of their aura, the two Iron-armored Tigers turned and left— one of them was a level-five roaming immortal, and the other was as high as level six.

“Consider yourselves sensible,” the level-five sister snorted coldly.

Two against two, neither side was sure of victory, but the Golden Thread Snakefish was crucial for her brother’s advancement to level seven— and level seven meant high-level roaming immortal. If they really couldn’t scare the tigers off, the siblings would have to fight hard.

Fortunately, the Iron-armored Tigers had gotten a deer leg, so they didn’t have to go all the way.

“They really are greedy,” the level-six brother snorted, but the next moment, he frowned. “Strange, how did that level-two kid manage to drive those two away?”

At first, he thought the tigers were just timid, but now it seemed that the two Iron-armored Tigers didn’t even care much about the siblings, which made him very curious.

“He even dares to hang a The Harris Family storage pouch on his waist,” the sister shook her head, also puzzled. “Brother, what do you think his background is? He doesn’t even have a storage pouch, but he’s not afraid to offend The Harris Family.”

“How do you know he doesn’t have a storage pouch? Maybe he’s hiding it in his clothes,” the brother shook his head and turned to walk toward the riverbank. “Alright, let’s stop talking about him. Set up the formation and get ready to catch the fish…”

Andrew Brooks really had hidden the storage pouch in his clothes, but it was the one he had stolen.

On the way back, he caught another Fire-spitting Rabbit. As he approached Bluestone City, he tucked the storage pouch into his clothes— since it was stolen goods, he couldn’t use it with peace of mind.