Chapter 416 - 140: [Monster Slave Master and Human Slaves]
What remains, is merely switching positions, chopping a few times, and then...
The female monster pushed forcefully, and the tree as thick as a bowl in front of her fell to the ground!
The female monster cheered, handed the axe to Chen Yan, and then went over to carry the tree herself, dragging it to an empty space nearby.
"You, today, twenty trees! Fail to do it, you’ll go hungry!"
After the female monster roared, she grabbed that tree herself, lifted it, and walked towards the wooden house in the village.
Not bad, this female slave master actually carries stuff herself.
Chen Yan didn’t know whether to laugh or be angry in his heart.
However, he took a few steps away, selected a new tree, and started recalling the swing action of the female monster from earlier, bit by bit remembering, bit by bit dismantling.
Two minutes later, Chen Yan stood still, imitating the female monster’s movements, and swung the axe again.
Crack!
This time, the axe blade cut into the trunk, although it only went a little bit deep, at least it broke through the bark.
It was a significant improvement over before.
Chen Yan didn’t rush to act immediately but continued recalling the female monster’s method and angle of exertion...
A minute later, crack!
This chop went deeper than the last.
Chen Yan even discovered a trick—the texture of this strange tree, although hard as iron, was diagonal! To chop it effortlessly, one must find an angle that aligns with the wood grain...
Since he found the knack, after about half an hour, Chen Yan felled the first tree he had ever chopped in his life.
Actually, by the latter part, he was getting more and more into the rhythm; if he continued chopping at this efficiency, he could reduce the time to chop one tree to less than twenty minutes.
At this speed, chopping twenty trees a day shouldn’t be a problem.
Feeling confident, Chen Yan kept his hands busy, appearing to be diligently and seriously chopping trees, but his gaze began to survey his surroundings extensively.
The forest was deep, and he wasn’t sure how expansive it was.
Simply escaping... this idea indeed swirled in his mind, but it was quickly dismissed.
He was unfamiliar with the place, and his combat power was clearly not as good as the native creatures in this monstrous village.
Running into the forest and hoping to get away would be too slim; the probability of being captured was nearly a hundred percent!
The forest seemed endless, and Chen Yan roughly saw... the village was surrounded by woods on every side.
The edge of the forest he emerged from last night wasn’t really the boundary; it merely bordered the village’s range.
This monstrous village should be located in the middle of the forest.
Moreover... what good would it do to escape from this village?
Because the core issue wasn’t escaping this village; escaping the village was meaningless.
The key is to escape this world!
What caught Chen Yan’s eye was about fifty meters to his left; there was another human slave silently chopping trees like him.
With each chop, that guy’s efficiency was obviously higher and more skilled than his.
However, Chen Yan intentionally glanced over several times and made some noises deliberately.
But that person seemed utterly unresponsive, not even glancing here once.
It was a very numb feeling.
The effect of Essence Nourishing, combined with the forceful flushing of the body with Primordial Qi after the Japan Secret Realm trial, resulted in Chen Yan gaining a body as robust as that of Captain America.
He roughly estimated that after spending a few hours, he had already chopped down nine trees on the ground.
The human not far away performed better; he had chopped down fourteen.
Moreover, he worked very skillfully, dragging each felled tree aside and stacking them together.
Chen Yan felt his strength was decent, but his stomach was starting to feel uncomfortably hungry.
Moreover, thirst, dryness, and the parched feeling in his mouth left him with no saliva.
After chopping trees for half a day, he broke a sweat, yet under the pervasive cold wind in the forest, his back felt icy, with only his chest and belly warm.
Moreover, his hands gripping the axe felt painfully cold!
Hungry, thirsty, cold!
Chen Yan’s gaze involuntarily drifted several times toward the distant frozen stream, his dry tongue instinctively licking his equally dry lips.
However, he didn’t blindly rush over to break the ice to drink, but instead patiently observed for a while.
Sure enough, he saw other human slaves emerging from the forest, trying to break the ice at the stream to get water.
But soon, monsters chased after them, shouting and cursing, while punching and kicking them.
That unlucky human was beaten until he spit blood on the spot and then was dragged back into the forest by his hair.
Chen Yan felt a chill in his heart and dismissed the thought of breaking the ice to drink water.
Fortunately...
The female monster finally returned.
A few hours later, the female monster jogged back to the area, and then she saw nine whole trees placed beside Chen Yan’s woods, clearly very satisfied.
She laughed heartily at Chen Yan, speaking a lot of words mixed with human language like "Very good," "Continue," and "I am delighted."
And to Chen Yan’s surprise, she didn’t return empty-handed.
She brought back a big leather water bag!
Chen Yan’s throat was burning with thirst, and his gaze fixated on the water bag in the female monster’s hand, unable to look away.
Fortunately, the female monster laughed and tossed the water bag to Chen Yan: "Drink!"