I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

It was at this moment that Yuhaka began to take action.

"Croak—croak—croak—"

Yuhaka imitated the sound of a female frog seeking mating. Upon hearing Yuhaka's imitation, the frog was slightly taken aback, realizing that it seemed the breeding season had not yet arrived. However, for this adult male frog, the issue of whether the breeding season had arrived or not was irrelevant.

Attracted by Yuhaka's call, the bullfrog naturally left the waters near it and slowly walked towards Yuhaka. It was slow, but there was no other way, as the bullfrog's obese body made it slow to move on land. Its attack method was to use its obese body to ram into its enemies. Although it had large, curved teeth at the corners of its mouth, those two teeth were not weapons used for attack.

Seeing that the dazed-looking frog had taken the bait, Yuhaka continued to imitate the mother frog's calls while luring the frog to the target location.

...half an hour later...

"Quack! Quack!"

"OWO hum~"

Yuhaka looked delighted as he watched the giant frog fall into the pitfall trap. The Meru cats living in the Misty Swamp nearby were all quite surprised to see their newly recognized leader so easily lure a giant frog into the trap.

For the Merlu cats who have lived in the Misty Swamp for many years, the Gan Frog is a creature they are very familiar with. Gan Frogs generally do not stray too far from the water. Only during the breeding season will male Gan Frogs come to the territory of female Gan Frogs to seek mating.

If they encounter other dangerous monsters, the frogs will either jump into the water and run away quickly, or spit orange slime at the monster and run away. The monster that is spat on by the orange slime will be attracted to other monsters by the sweet smell of the orange slime and fight with them.

"As expected of Boss Youyou, meow! Just a few meows and she can lure the frog into the trap, meow!"

"Yeah, meow! I didn't really believe it at first, but it turns out that Boss Youyou is really that amazing!"

Hearing the praise from the surrounding Merlins, Ehaka immediately put his hands on his hips with a "I'm so awesome" expression, and his big tail on his little butt kept wagging. But as awesome as he was, he still had to get down to business. Ehaka picked up a broken metal greatsword and started hacking at Ganwa's head.

After the sound of blood and flesh splattering ended, Yuhaka wiped the blood off his face and turned to look at the Merlins standing nearby. The Merlins living in the Misty Swamp were terrified when they saw Yuhaka like this. Fortunately, the Merlins were only startled by Yuhaka and soon helped Yuhaka deal with the carcass of the Gan Frog.

Meanwhile, Zelus, standing next to Yuhaka, looked at the purple marker displayed on the system panel map and said:

"So it has finally appeared... an invasive species from another world."

Zelus touched Yuhaka's little head and said:

"Yohaka, a potentially very strong enemy is coming soon, so be careful."

"OwO?"

Upon hearing Zelus's words, Ehaka looked completely bewildered. Soon, a biological reaction appeared within Ehaka's perception range, putting him on alert.

Soon, a white figure appeared in front of Yuhaka. Thanks to Yuhaka's excellent eyesight, he was able to see the figure's full appearance.

A fluffy white ball with long white fur, or more accurately, a fluffy white ball with four short legs.

Yuhaka tilted her head as she looked at the white fur ball. She had never seen such a strange creature before. Meanwhile, the Merus cats were so frightened by the sudden appearance of the white fur ball that their fur stood on end.

One of the Merlin cats quickly tugged at Eohaka's big tail and said to Eohaka:

"Boss Youyou, be careful, meow! That white-haired bastard's hairs are all covered in deadly poisonous barbs, meow! And that white-haired bastard moves and reacts very fast, meow!"

Upon hearing what his subordinate, Meru Cat, said, Yuhaka immediately became wary. Its fur was poisonous and it moved very fast, making it seem like a formidable opponent.

The white furball opposite Yuhaka seemed to have noticed Yuhaka next to the frog's corpse and the Merlins hiding behind Yuhaka. Naturally, the white furball wouldn't let the enemy who had invaded its territory get away with it.

"Chirp chirp chirp chirp!"

After letting out a strange roar, the white-fuzzy beast (named by Yuhka) raised the white quills on its body and charged towards Yuhka and the others.

Chapter 24 [Yohaka's Recollections]

"Where...is this?"

Yuhaka looked around at the things that looked like giant, tall, disc-shaped plants or something else and said this.

A few minutes ago, Yuhaka got into a fight with a fluffy white Pokémon.

"Whoo~"

Yuhaka unleashed a scorching fire breath at the rapidly charging Whitefur Beast. The Whitefur Beast dodged Yuhaka's fire breath with astonishing speed, but the flames forced it to keep its distance from Yuhaka.

"Gululu..."

The white-fuzzy beast kept a wary distance from Yuhaka, several dozen meters away. Fire was not a good thing for the white-fuzzy beast. Although the white-fuzzy beast had hard bristles all over its body that could penetrate armor, those bristles were still just bristles and could be easily ignited by fire, not to mention the high-temperature breath spewed out by Yuhaka.

Ehaka was also wary of the fluffy beast. Although it was not even half the size of Ehaka in its third form, the tall, sharp hairs on the fluffy beast's body made Ehaka very alert. Through observation, Ehaka could see that those sharp hairs kept thrusting forward as the fluffy beast moved at high speed. Ehaka could tell that those sharp hairs were probably very hard, and that striking with his claws and tail would not be very effective.

Secondly, as the Meru Cats from the Misty Swamp tribe under his command had just mentioned, those sharp hairs contained deadly poison, so Yuhaka wouldn't go up and confront this white furball head-on, otherwise he would be the one to suffer. Although there were antidotes and herbs in the flat hole, Yuhaka knew that the white furball beast would definitely not give him time to drink the antidote.

"Hmm... I should say that it is indeed a soul born with [Dehaka] as its template. It has the same intelligent thinking ability as Dehaka, and the knowledge brought by the memory fragments of the former host has greatly expanded the scope of Yuhaka's thinking."

In the system space, Zelus nodded in satisfaction as she watched Yuhaka's thought process through the system backend. Although Yuhaka's initial childlike demeanor made Zelus feel like a mother, fortunately, Yuhaka's mind worked very quickly when she was seriously fighting.

Zelus watched Yuhaka fighting the white fluffy ball on the big screen, clenched her fist, and said:

"Then, as the system, I'll lend a hand as well."

Soon, Yuhaka, who was fighting the white-furred ball of beasts, was slightly taken aback. Yuhaka could feel some changes in the spiky scales on its large tail.

【Paralyzing Tail Sting】 + 【Rapid Dragon Spiny Scale】 = 【Paralyzing Spiny Scale】

[Parasitic spiny scales]:

This essence is a fusion of the essence of the Paralyzing Tail Sting and the essence of the Nargacuga's Spiny Scales. Each spiked scale that hits an enemy inflicts 15 points of Paralysis (this effect stacks). The higher the Paralysis value, the greater the probability of the target being paralyzed. (1 point of Paralysis is considered a 1% probability; the probability of triggering Paralysis is triggered when Paralysis is applied or stacked.)

Sensing a change in its tail, Yuhaka altered its fighting stance, biting the broken greatsword it had been holding, landing on all sixs with its wings folded and its tail held high and swaying slightly.

“Gurgle…”

Seeing Yuhaka change its posture made the white-fuzzy monster more alert. Although it didn't know why, the white-fuzzy monster could roughly guess that the other party was about to get serious.

Soon, it was Yhaka who made the first move.

"Ooh ooh ooh ooh————!"

Yuhaka immediately let out the cry of the Poisonous Dog Dragon King. The white-furred dumpling was puzzled when it heard Yuhaka call out the Poisonous Dog Dragon King's cry, but the white-furred dumpling knew very well what this character would summon. Last time when it was patrolling the territory and looking for food, a strange-looking monster would make this sound and a large number of identical small monsters would run out. Moreover, those monsters would spew out poisonous mist, which made the white-furred dumpling very wary.

After all, just because its white, pointed hairs are covered in deadly poison doesn't mean it's immune to poison. In the end, however, it killed all the poisonous dog dragons that had invaded its territory.

However, Eohaka's roar of the Poisonous Dog Dragon King did not summon the little Poisonous Dog Dragon. After all, Eohaka's location was the territory of the White-haired Dumpling Beast, and for the White-haired Dumpling Beast, any monster that dared to appear on its territory would be violently driven away.

Ehka picked up the broken metal greatsword stuck in the ground again and ran towards the white fluffy beast on all sixs. Seeing Ehka rushing towards it, the white fluffy beast also rushed towards Ehka. Because it saw that Ehka had a broken greatsword in its mouth, the white fluffy beast knew that Ehka could not breathe fire in this state.

As for going head-to-head with Eohaka... the white pointed fur of the White-furred Beast can act as a kind of armor-like protection, although it's not very tough.

Just as Yuhaka and the fluffy monster were about to collide, Yuhaka's small arm instantly pulled out a sonic bomb stolen from the hunter camp from the system's storage space and threw it at the fluffy monster. After throwing it, Yuhaka immediately covered its cat ears.

The white-fuzzy monster saw what Yhaka was throwing and didn't know what it was, but it cautiously dodged the object. Unfortunately, sonic bombs are not something you can defend against just by dodging them.

Eek!

As the sonic boom exploded with a loud sonic boom, the white-fuzzy beast felt its limbs go weak and its head go blank. Because the white-fuzzy beast had pretty good perception, it was still quite affected.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yuhaka rushed forward and smacked its tail in the direction of the white fluffy beast. With the slap of Yuhaka's tail, several paralyzing spiky scales flew towards the white fluffy beast. However, Yuhaka was lucky, and one of the paralyzing spiky scales hit the white fluffy beast's head where there was no thick, sharp fur to protect it. Moreover, this hit just happened to trigger the paralyzing effect of the paralyzing spiky scales, and the white fluffy beast immediately began to convulse.

Then Yuhaka raised his broken greatsword and stabbed it hard into the White-furred Beast's undefended head. The blade pierced through the Beast's skull, leaving the creature covered in poisonous spikes motionless.

However, right after Ehaka killed the White-furred Beast, the Beast's corpse suddenly erupted with something like a black hole vortex, which sucked Ehaka into it.

Chapter 25 [Roasted Whole Waggle Monster and Fried Fish Fillet]

That concludes the recollection.

Yuhaka chewed on her little hand and looked around at the unfamiliar environment. For primitive insects, any environment on Earth would not have much of an impact on them. If it did, they would simply capture local creatures and evolve to adapt to the environment.

Yuhaka looked up at the huge hole above him. There was something like thick fog in the air that prevented him from seeing the sky. Yuhaka could also sense a thin, strange force field tens of meters above him. He didn't know what that force field was, but he knew one thing.

Coo coo coo.....

Yuhaka looked at his little belly, then touched it and said:

I'm hungry...

Yes, Yuhaka is hungry again.

Yuhaka looked around to see if he could find anything to eat, but unfortunately, there was nothing there except for hot water that smelled sour. Perhaps Yuhaka was in a low spot with nothing above him.

.............

"Hey~"

A small animal, resembling a mushroom-like pig with mushrooms growing on its back, was pinched by the scruff of its neck by Yuhaka and made whimpering noises. For Yuhaka, who had no sympathy, such noises would annoy him. So Yuhaka took an apple out of his spatial backpack and stuffed it into the mouth of the small animal in his hand to shut it up.

Then Yuhaka took the other ingredients to a more spacious area and began preparing a meal. First, she dealt with the little animal that was stealing her apple. (Sobbing: Didn't you give it to me?!)

Yuhaka first snapped the neck of the whimpering little animal with a snap, then skillfully skinned, gutted, and decapitated it. Meru and the others had taught her all of this, so Yuhaka was very skilled at skinning, gutting, and deboning.

After dealing with the whimpering monster (named by Yuhaka), Yuhaka went to the stream and washed it clean. After washing it clean, Yuhaka took out his barbecue grill and seasonings from his storage space and prepared to start grilling meat.

Yuhaka first applied the necessary seasonings and oil to the whimpering monster, then used the barbecue tongs to hold the monster with its limbs outstretched and placed it on the hunters' barbecue grill. After Yuhaka blew a small puff of air onto the grill where the fuel was placed, everything was ready.

"Mmm...smells so good..."

While Yuhaka was turning the grill with its tail, it prepared the second dish. With one hand stirring the batter, Yuhaka was processing a large fish it had caught in the area with the other. After cutting the fish into fillets, Yuhaka took out its small frying pan and another portable stove to heat the oil.

Just then, Yuhaka's other pair had already prepared the batter. Then Yuhaka picked up the cut fish fillets, put them in the batter, mixed them with a layer of batter, then picked up the battered fish fillets, put them in dry flour, flipped them a few times, and then threw them into the oil to fry until golden brown. He then picked them out by hand (dangerous action, do not imitate).

Dishes: [Roasted Whole Egg] [Fried Fish Fillet]

Appearance: Perfect! Extremely eye-catching!

Smell: It smells so good!

After everything was finished, Yuhaka wiped the drool from the corners of his mouth and prepared to eat. The first thing Yuhaka picked up was the freshly fried fish fillet. Yuhaka gently poked the golden-brown fried fish fillet with a small fork, accompanied by a crunching sound.

Yuhaka forked a piece of fried fish fillet, dipped it in Merlin's special sauce, and then ate it in one bite. The crispy texture between his teeth immediately filled his mouth, followed by the slightly spicy golden batter and the sweet and sour taste of Merlin's special dipping sauce. At the same time, the delicious taste of the fish meat mixed together, making Yuhaka enjoy chewing with his eyes half-closed.

Taste: Absolutely delicious!

*gulp* (sound of swallowing)

As Yuhaka was eating, his cat ears suddenly stood up and began to sway from side to side. The sensory plates on his back also glowed faintly. Yuhaka slightly opened his orange eyes and secretly glanced at the dense jungle around him. While eating fried fish fillets, Yuhaka could clearly hear someone around him secretly swallowing saliva. Although the sound was very faint, he could also sense a gaze fixed on his... food!

Eohaka immediately revealed a dangerous glint in its eyes, and the spiky scales on its large tail bristled. Eohaka would naturally not let go of any creature that dared to steal its food; the female Rathalos that dared to steal Eohaka's food last time had already become Eohaka's lunch.

However, since the other party was not within Yuhaka's sensing range or line of sight, Yuhaka decided to ignore it and focus on eating.

Soon, Yuhaka relaxed, the spiky scales on its large tail returned to normal, and it wiggled a few times before continuing to enjoy its food.

Yuhaka tore off a leg from the roasted Yingying Monster and put it in his mouth, starting to bite into it. The crispy golden skin and the tender, juicy meat inside made Yuhaka chew heartily. Because the Yingying Monster had mushroom-like things growing on its back, perhaps like a mushroom pig, the taste also had the freshness of mushrooms and a unique, slightly sweet flavor, which made Yuhaka very satisfied with this ingredient.

However, the size of the whimpering monster was much smaller than the mushroom pig on Yuhaka's side, which made Yuhaka feel a little disappointed. But the mushrooms on the back of this whimpering monster tasted good, with a slightly sweet juice inside.

Yuhaka licked the grease off his tiny fingers, looked up and thought for a moment, wondering if he should catch a few whimpering monsters to take back and raise. Recently, Yuhaka and Rorota had been discussing whether to raise some edible animals. It wasn't easy to raise large herbivores like mushroom pigs and antelopes in Water Cave Village, since there weren't enough spaces there.

The excrement of the wild boars and antelopes is also difficult to handle; if not handled properly, Shuiku Village will definitely become a stinking mess.

While the outdoor enclosure is a good breeding ground, it is easily threatened by other carnivorous monsters. The Merlins cannot guard the enclosure 24 hours a day. Most importantly, they simply cannot defeat large monsters like the Dog Dragon King.