Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife.

Facing the black tiger's attack, Zhao Feng did not retreat but advanced, sweeping his axe and attacking forward.

Ever since entering this dungeon, Zhao Feng had been feeling somewhat depressed by the strange atmosphere, but he hadn't encountered any real danger, leaving him with a feeling of having too much energy to use.

Now, a monster finally appeared to block the road. It was a regular, flesh-and-blood creature. Zhao Feng was naturally not afraid. He just wanted to kill it and turn it into his own experience.

Black Tiger didn't react at all to Zhao Feng's giant axe. He continued charging forward regardless, crashing into the axe blade. A large gash was cut in his head, and his body fell to the side, twitching.

Zhao Feng sneered and shook off the blood on the axe blade.

"That's it? Is this monster too weak, or am I too strong?"

Zhang Shi did not receive any killing notification from the system and looked at Hei Hu in confusion.

Countless tiny granulations emerged from the black tiger's wound and entangled with each other, healing at an extremely fast speed.

Zhang Shi decisively took out his compound bow and unleashed a triple attack on Black Tiger's body. Ge Dalong also noticed something was wrong and fired another ice spike.

The black tiger's body was blown into countless pieces of flesh, but each piece of flesh seemed to be alive, producing countless buds, and began to gather in one direction. The body was also recovering rapidly. In less than a few seconds, the black tiger completed its reorganization and approached the four people.

Ge Dalong and Zhang Shi both realized the difficulty of the black tiger. After looking at each other, they attacked the black tiger's limbs in unison.

Ge Dalong's ice cone hit first, breaking one of the black tiger's front paws. The slowdown effect was triggered, and a layer of frost began to spread on its body.

Zhang Shi's arrow followed, piercing its other front paw. Then came the second and third arrows. All of Black Tiger's limbs were broken, and it collapsed to the ground, unable to move.

Everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the black tiger tear off the remaining limb and swallow it into its stomach. Its movements were so skillful that it seemed like it did this often.

"Fuck! What a ruthless person!"

Zhao Feng highly praised Black Tiger's actions.

Seeing the black tiger's broken limbs healing rapidly, Zhang Shi had no choice but to aim his arrow at its head and shoot it to death to buy some time.

Ge Dalong showed a rare look of anxiety.

"This thing is like the undead in the game. Even if you kill it a hundred times, it will still recover. We have to find a way to subdue it, otherwise we will be exhausted to death by it."

When Zhao Feng heard this, he immediately started thinking.

"Undead? Do we have anyone who knows light magic, or has holy water? These things can restrain dark creatures and will definitely be effective against it."

Zhang Shi's face was full of black lines as he blamed.

"It's already this critical moment, what nonsense are you talking about?"

"Ah, that, I think I do."

Wu Qing raised her hand and said coquettishly.

Seeing everyone's eyes on her, she quickly took out an arrow from her backpack and explained.

"This thing is called a Holy Silver Crossbow. I got it from a treasure chest. The item description says it's a holy object that has a restraining effect on evil creatures. I wonder if it will work on this black tiger."

Zhang Shi hadn't expected his teammates to possess such a weapon, so he casually took the crossbow arrow and placed it on his bow. Although it was called a crossbow arrow, it was actually not much different from a bow and arrow, except that the arrow was shorter and thicker.

Not far away, the black tiger had completed its body reorganization and was staring at Zhang Shi fiercely.

Zhang Shi aimed at Black Tiger and fired a triple strike. Black Tiger still didn't dodge or evade, using his body to catch the arrow.

The Holy Silver Crossbow is indeed extraordinary.

The arrow penetrated into the black tiger's body like a red-hot iron penetrating into ice and snow. The black tiger's body seemed to melt away, and in an instant only a pool of dark black liquid remained.

A moment later, wisps of black mist drifted out from there, and Zhang Shi and others hurriedly covered their mouths and noses and retreated.

The fog could not see the light of day and soon dissipated completely into the air.

Zhang Shi had not received any killing prompt from the system, so he did not dare to go forward to check. He could only stare at the pool of black liquid from afar, fearing that it would undergo any further changes.

As feared, so be it. The black liquid suddenly began to boil. Countless granulations emerged from the liquid, quickly condensing into a single outline. Within seconds, the black tiger reconstituted itself and appeared before everyone.

Ge Dalong raised his hand and wanted to shoot ice cones to control its movements, but was stopped by Zhang Shi.

"Something seems to be wrong, don't act rashly."

Everyone looked at the black tiger and indeed found some differences.

The black tiger's expression was no longer ferocious and terrifying, but extremely calm. Although its body was still skinny, its fur had a luster and was full of life.

The most amazing thing is that the dark clouds above the village are gradually dissipating, and the howling wind is gradually subsiding.

"What's going on? Are you trying to exorcise it?"

Zhao Feng picked up the giant axe and joked, but he still did not let his guard down.

Zhang Shi used Dingzhen to identify it, and the identification information had indeed changed.

[Village Black Tiger (Green): Panel (Unknown) Ability Value: 45]

[An exquisite-level elite monster, the sacred beast of the Village of Doubt.]

Seeing the black tiger standing there in a daze, Zhang Shi wanted to try to communicate with it. Since it was a sacred beast of exquisite level, it must be able to understand human language.

Seeing Zhang Shi approaching, Hei Hu came to his senses, stared at Zhang Shi's figure, crouched down, and showed a hint of hostility.

"Outsiders, what is your purpose here?"

A deep voice came from the direction of Black Tiger, startling Zhao Feng so much that he staggered.

After confirming again and again that there were no other living people present, Zhao Feng exclaimed in shock.

"Fuck, this black tiger can talk!"

Zhang Shi stopped and tried to communicate with Hei Hu.

"We came here by chance and lost our way. Please forgive us if we have offended you."

The black tiger slowly stood up and walked to Zhang Shi and sniffed him.

Zhang Shi didn't dare to act rashly, standing still. Behind him, Zhao Feng had already grasped his giant axe, fearing that Black Tiger would suddenly turn against him and launch a surprise attack.

"Hmm, you have a familiar smell to me."

Zhang Shi didn't understand what Heihu meant, but when he saw that Heihu didn't make any trouble, he felt relieved and continued to ask.

"Respected Holy Beast, after we entered the village, we found it deserted and many houses abandoned. I don't know why."

Black Tiger sat cross-legged on the ground, yawned lazily, and responded.

"I'm hungry, go get me something to eat."

Ge Dalong kept an eye on the team interface. As soon as Hei Hu finished speaking, the task interface was updated again. Below the main task, a new branch appeared, which read:

Hidden mission one: provide food for the black tigers in the town and village.

Ge Dalong reminded everyone in the team channel.

Zhang Shi glanced at the dark underground stairs. The situation inside was still unknown. Now he had a better choice. He decided to get some information from Hei Hu first.

Zhang Shi treated Hei Hu as an NPC, and quickly put on a flattering expression, taking out a large piece of fresh meat from his backpack.

"Noble holy beast, this is a tribute to you."