"Hiss!"
One sucking sound after another came from underground.
But the sound was more like the hollow hissing noise you get after finishing a drink and trying to suck up what's left, only air going "hiss! hiss!"
After the Heaven Devouring Monster had been sucking for quite a while, the hardened ground still did not move at all.
At this moment, Ethan could finally be sure. The Heaven Devouring Monster was done for.
[Three-Legged Heaven Devouring Beast: Firmly trapped beneath the ground and unable to move. Now is the perfect time to dig out the treasures inside its body.]
[PS: However, you still need to be careful of the suction coming from inside its body. After all, the Three-Legged Heaven Devouring Beast doesn't only use its mouth to devour things.]
Seeing the prompt coming from underground, Ethan finally confirmed that the slip-up beast had at last been caught.
But even if it had been caught, Ethan had no intention of letting it go.
After all, it had swallowed so much of Ethan's money earlier.
He had to get it back.
Crack! Crack!
"Dig~ Dig~"
Ethan took out a goblin pickaxe and dug down along the edge of the vortex.
He dug all the way to the back of the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast, exposing its rows of ribs, as well as the dazzling golden light within them.
Looking closely, only then did Ethan realize that this three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast did not actually lack internal organs.
Rather, its internal organs were more like they were made of transparent, glowing matter. Streams of energy like glowing veins and organs formed of light were constantly operating inside its body.
This was exactly why the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast could still function even though only a skeleton remained.
As Ethan dug open the rocks on the beast's back, the light inside its ribs began to boil again, like endlessly seething molten steel.
Any stones that fell onto its back were swallowed up by the light spilling out from between its bones.
Only after all the stones behind the beast had been devoured did the light inside its body gradually stabilize again.
"This…"
Looking at the scene before him, Ethan had no idea how to deal with this turtle-in-a-latrine pit.
'This damn thing can swallow anything, even attacks aren't spared!'
'This is basically a black hole, isn't it?'
'How am I supposed to play against this?'
"Eh?"
Just then, Ethan noticed that where the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast had just swallowed a large chunk of stone, the light inside seemed to bulge slightly.
It was like indigestion.
'Could it be…'
That the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast's big mouth was the real place that could devour everything, while its other parts could also swallow certain things, but their digestive ability wasn't as strong as when things entered through the mouth?
It was like digestion by the stomach versus digestion by the intestines.
Although both were part of the digestive system, their digestive capabilities were worlds apart.
"Hmm, let's confirm it!"
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)✧
Ethan rubbed his chin and decided to use the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast as a test subject.
First test!
"Burning kerosene!"
Ethan directly took out a bottle of kerosene and evenly poured it over the beast's back. Before the light inside it could start boiling again, he immediately blasted it with a Grand Fireball.
The Grand Fireball hit the kerosene, and in an instant it spread like wildfire, igniting the entire back of the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast.
Puff~ Puff~
Puff~ Puff~ Puff~
The golden light inside the beast immediately seemed to boil.
All kinds of golden light kept puffing outward, and that light was like magma. It not only swallowed the kerosene, it even swallowed the flames themselves.
In the blink of an eye, the fire on the beast's back was completely extinguished.
"Kerosene plus fire, failed?"
Ethan scratched his head and reopened his backpack, looking for new materials.
Very quickly, he found something…
[Glass Shards: Broken glass windows, traces of life left behind by old humanity. Although already shattered beyond repair, once remelted, they can be restored like new.]
'Nice stuff.'
Ethan took out one batch of glass shards, probably a dozen or so pieces of broken glass.
"Salt on the wound!"
.:.ヽ(.◕‿◕.)ノ゜.:.
After sprinkling one batch of glass shards, Ethan felt the amount still seemed a bit small.
So he took out nearly a hundred more batches and, like salting meat, evenly scattered a whole lot over the back of the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast.
You had to make sure the flavor was strong and the quantity large, so it could really soak in.
"All set!"
The three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast seemed to sense something on its back, and the golden light inside its body began boiling again.
Then those light tentacles extended out of its body once more, curling the glass shards up one by one and swallowing them.
Crack!
Crack! Crack!
After all the glass shards were swallowed, Ethan heard the sound of glass fragments rubbing against each other inside the beast's body.
And its light-formed stomach or internal organs had begun to sprout spikes, like severe indigestion.
It even looked a bit like a durian wrapped in a glowing rubber bag.
Crack~
Crack!
Although the Heaven Devouring Beast's stomach seemed to have indigestion, these glass shards still didn't kill it. They only made it slightly uncomfortable.
If it was uncomfortable, Ethan was comfortable.
But, it seemed he still needed to keep going.
"How about trying this?"
Ethan suddenly thought of a top-tier seasoning.
Something that would make men fall silent when they ate it, make women cry when they ate it, and make Corpse-Eating Fruits wither when they ate it, Magma Chili.
"Let's take one and test the waters!"
Ethan casually made a pair of beast-hide gloves, then crushed the magma chili and sprinkled it over the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast.
The reason for specially making gloves was because back when he tortured the Corpse-Eating Fruit directly, he had thought his skin was thick enough.
The result, his hands burned painfully for several hours.
That experience taught Ethan a lesson. You absolutely had to wear gloves when handling chili, otherwise you'd end up with burning hands that couldn't pick flowers.
"I sprinkle! I sprinkle! Sprinkle! Sprinkle!"
After Ethan sprinkled some decorative red chili over the surface of the beast, the golden light inside its body quickly surged out to the surface and wrapped up a piece of crushed magma chili, swallowing it into its body.
But what amazed Ethan was... after the golden light swallowed the magma chili fragments, the light inside the beast immediately began to boil violently, like water brought to a rolling boil, bubbling madly.
Big bubbles, small bubbles nonstop, even rapidly overflowing.
The effect was like dropping Mentos into a bottle of cola.
Pffft!
Pffft! Pffft!
The three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast finally suffered true indigestion. The golden light inside it churned wildly, then sprayed out countless items.
[Gold +1]
[Glass Shards +2]
[Beast Bone Fossil +1]
[Computer Wreckage +1]
[Car Wreckage +1]
[Bronze Treasure Chest +1]
Ethan frantically collected the items spewed out by the three-legged Heaven Devouring Beast. Aside from the usual materials, he even saw several extremely special wreckage items.
'Computer wreckage and car wreckage?'
'What the hell is this?'
'Could it be… that someone come to this place, and both the person and their car were swallowed by this three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster?'
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