Before long, a young man stumbled toward the pond, his clothes in tatters. His exposed skin was a canvas of cuts and bruises, and he moved with an air of utter exhaustion.
"Careful!" Gu Chen called out, stepping from the cover of the bushes. "There are iron-toothed crocodiles in that water." His warning was well-intentioned, though he was also wary of startling the very creatures he was there to hunt.
This man looked dangerously fatigued and
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