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Chapter 8 Divide the Meat
The burly man was thrown into the air, but the axe got stuck on the crocodile's head. The intense pain caused the crocodile's head, which was hidden under the curtains, to shake violently, while it let out a furious roar.

Huang Tao shouted, "Don't go to its side, attack it head-on!"

A large iron shovel smashed into the crocodile's head.

"when!"

That shovel made a loud noise.

The crocodile's head immediately jerked upwards after being hit.

"when!"

The shovel swung down again, this time hitting the axe handle, causing the crocodile to shake its head in pain.

Qin Ziwen took half a step forward, raised the pole and thrust it straight into the crocodile's skin, the impact making his arm go numb: "Such a tough skin, we'll have to use a heavy weapon."

The bearded man grinned maliciously: "Damn it, no matter how fierce he is, he's still just an animal. He'll run away when he's in pain."

The crocodile rammed to the other side, and with a hiss, its head finally emerged from the small hole in the curtain.

It glanced back at the humans, then wriggled its clumsy body and fled towards the river.

"Grab it!"

A group of people chased after them, but in the grass, the crocodiles were no match for the humans.

Two security guards, each holding a riot fork, were positioned on either side of the crocodile's head.

The crocodile instinctively opened its massive jaws, and Qin Ziwen, who had circled around to the front, seized the opportunity. He pushed the clothesline pole into the crocodile's gaping maw and gave it a deep throat.

Qin Ziwen didn't know what he had bumped into, so he grabbed the clothes rod and spun it around.

The crocodile claws dug and struggled desperately in the mud.

Axes, iron bars, and wooden sticks rained down from the side.

The crocodile's strength is getting weaker and weaker.

Finally, it stopped struggling.

Qin Ziwen stared at the crocodile, wanting to see if it would "drop" a card.

Three seconds, four seconds.
Nothing changed even after someone took an axe and nearly chopped the crocodile's head off its neck.

It seems this crocodile still doesn't meet the current standards for judging powerful life in the area.

It took more than a dozen strong adult men, who first blocked its vision with curtains, to take turns attacking it on land with long weapons before finally killing it.

"The crocodile is dead?"

"Great!"

The crowd that had been watching gradually came over, and some of them mustered up their courage and kicked the crocodile carcass.

Huang Tao took out a measuring tape from somewhere and stepped forward to take measurements.

"It's 5.03 meters long!"

"Wow, that's pretty long."

"Wow, you guys are amazing. You killed such a big crocodile just like that."

The young man, who used to be a crocodile keeper, squatted down and couldn't help but exclaim, "A five-meter-long crocodile is rare in the wild, and even zoos rarely keep crocodiles of this size."

Because he had raised crocodiles before, he knew all too well how terrifying a crocodile of this size could be in the wild.

Qin Ziwen emerged from the crowd and found the security guard who had just been swept away by the crocodile.

He was dragged to the back by the onlookers and sat against the wall. A part of his exposed lower leg was unnaturally twisted, and his leg was covered in blood. White bone fragments were sticking out of the wound, presumably his tibia and fibula were broken.

If he could be taken to the hospital immediately, there might be a chance of saving him, but here he's basically beyond saving.

The security guard's face was covered in sweat, his eyes were closed, and a large pool of blood had accumulated beneath him.

The middle-aged man wearing glasses, who was squatting next to the security guard, carefully observed him before standing up. "Unless he has surgery immediately, his chances of survival are very low. He is currently in aortic hemorrhagic shock and needs a blood transfusion immediately. There are no surgical facilities here. Does he have any family?" "Dr. Lin, none of these security guards have families here."

Dr. Lin shook his head regretfully, "Based on my experience, even if they are lucky enough to be saved, the aftereffects will be very serious, and they will have no family to take care of them."

An old man nearby said, "Dr. Lin said there's no hope. Sigh, this young man is just unlucky."

The old woman in the floral shirt shook her head: "Dr. Lin is a top doctor at the city hospital. If even he can't cure it, then it seems there's no other way."

"Isn't Dr. Lin a chief physician? If even the chief physician couldn't save him?"

Dr. Lin's face turned green. "I'm a doctor, not a god."

Give me an emergency room and I might try; without an emergency room, how am I supposed to save someone?

Huang Tao parted the crowd, walked over, squatted down, and gently shook the security guard, "Dou Gu, Dou Gu."

Dou Gu's eyelids trembled, and his lips moved, but he ultimately failed to respond.

Dr. Lin said, "Shock is not falling asleep; it is the collapse of the body's circulatory system, with severe ischemia and hypoxia in the brain and vital organs. It is a physiological coma."

Huang Tao hesitated upon hearing this, "Then... he's beyond saving?"

Dr. Lin sighed softly and did not answer.

The bearded man walked over, glanced at the unconscious Dou Gu, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's a pity about this brother. Let's divide the meat. In this weather, meat won't keep well and it will spoil if there's too much."

Huang Tao nodded, "Okay."

The bearded man following behind extended his hand to Qin Ziwen, his eyes full of admiration. "You were pretty brave just now, buddy. You shoved the spear right into the crocodile's mouth. Let's be friends. My name is Zheng Yuan, and I live in Building 3."

The two shook hands.

"Qin Ziwen, Building 8."

Old Deng came over from the side and laughed heartily: "Brother Qin, that cast was spot on! Thanks to you, I caught a five-meter-long fish. I've never caught such a big one in my life."

Qin Ziwen humbly replied, "It was only through everyone's cooperation that we managed to do it; I couldn't have dealt with the crocodile by myself."

Someone brought a weighing scale and a large iron basin from their home.

I spent the whole morning cutting up the meat for the crocodile.

There were many onlookers, and some even tried to use moral blackmail to try and get a share of the pie.

He was immediately retorted by the hot-tempered Zheng Yuan, "Get the hell out of here! I didn't see you when we were killing the crocodiles, but you come out with a smirk when it's time to divide the meat. There are so many crocodiles in the river, go kill one yourself if you want to eat!"

Zheng Yuan was cutting meat when he stood up and raised his boning knife, startling the man so much that he quickly retreated back into the crowd.

Huang Tao eased the tension: "Brother Zheng, you're quite skilled at cutting meat. What did you do before?"

With a swift pull and a slice of the boning knife in his hand, Zheng Yuan cut off a strip of bright red meat: "You pig butcher, the yield of meat from this crocodile is really low, probably only half that of a pig."

In the end, Qin Ziwen received eighty catties of meat.

The crocodile yielded a total of 604 jin of meat. There were 16 people who killed the crocodile, but Dou Gu had an accident and came here alone. The others tacitly omitted his share.

Zheng Yuan was in charge of dividing the meat. Slaughtering a crocodile was also physically demanding. This crocodile weighed one or two tons, and most people couldn't do this kind of physical work.

Therefore, the extra four jin can be considered Zheng Yuan's "labor fee".

Qin Ziwen and Qin Ziwu are brothers, and together they received eighty jin (40 kg).

The heavy meat was packed in a bag; the crocodile meat was mostly white with some light pink markings.

He was given the meat from the tail, which looked from a distance like a huge, coarser piece of chicken breast.

After receiving their share of the meat, not only Qin Ziwen, but also Lao Deng lost their interest in fishing.

This piece of meat is so big, it'll be enough for the whole family to eat for a long time.

Old Liu was so envious his eyes turned red. Forty pounds! He only caught a little over two pounds of fish yesterday after fishing all day.

(End of this chapter)