Chapter 334: Dad’s Hunting Lesson

That had been close. He had almost forgotten Byeol’s instructions and allowed Joo Joowon to face danger directly. Fortunately, he had reacted quickly enough. The moment the wolf pack charged out, he had already picked Joo Joowon up by the back of his neck and carried him to a safe place.

"Meow, meow!"

Dad! You can come down now!

Hwi raised his tail and meowed toward Joo Joowon in the tree.

Joo Joowon jumped down, patted Hwi, and said with both amusement and helplessness, "Hwi, if you encounter danger, you don’t need to worry about me. Just take care of yourself."

Although he did not have many powerful offensive skills, his own attributes were already at a superhuman level. His level was also five levels higher than Hwi’s, so even if he really encountered danger, there was no guarantee that he would perform worse than Hwi.

"Meow~"

Hwi rubbed himself against Joo Joowon. His white gloves, which had been dyed pink by blood, were still round and adorable, making it impossible to see even the slightest trace of their destructive power.

Joo Joowon had no idea whether Hwi had actually taken his words to heart. After collecting the spoils, he quickly left with Hwi, just in case the smell of blood from the wolf pack attracted even more dangerous predators.

He walked carefully, while Hwi, as usual, walked ahead. The rugged mountain path posed no obstacle to him at all, and he soon stopped beneath a tree.

It was a rather small tree compared to the ones around it. Joo Joowon could not tell what species it was, but several vermilion-colored fruits hung from its branches. They looked somewhat like apples, although they were smaller and their color was slightly different. They gave off a strange, jelly-like appearance, and it was obvious at a glance that they were no ordinary fruits.

Hwi stared at the fruits, wiggled his butt, and leaped upward.

Joo Joowon was quick enough to grab him by the back of his neck.

Hwi: "???"

"Don’t let food be the only thing in your eyes. You also need to look around and see whether it is safe," Joo Joowon taught him earnestly. He felt quite helpless about Hwi’s habit of becoming completely unable to move whenever he saw something delicious.

"Meow!"

I did look! There’s no danger!

Joo Joowon opened the translator, so he could naturally understand what Hwi was saying now. He pointed at the snake that was almost completely blended into the tree.

"Isn’t that exactly what I’m talking about?"

Hwi: "I can beat it!" If he could beat it, then of course that meant there was no danger.

"It has poison!" Joo Joowon was starting to get a headache. "How do you know what skills it has? You are a close-range fighter. You have to fight enemies at close distance, and you don’t have any armor. What if that snake suddenly releases poison when you get close? Can you block it?"

In the past, when Joo Joowon had been browsing the internet, he had seen quite a few videos of cats playing with snakes. Usually, before the snake could attack, the cat was already agile enough to dodge the snake’s attack.

However, one had to understand that this behavior itself carried a great deal of risk. It was not impossible for things to go wrong. After the apocalypse, level alone did not represent everything.

Take Byeol, for example. Who could have imagined that a Level 3 cat could possess a Legendary-grade skill?

Joo Joowon was using Byeol as an example at this moment, telling Hwi that one could not judge a cat by its appearance and that he could not underestimate any enemy he encountered outside.

Hwi did not really understand what skills were and such, but he knew that if he fought Byeol, he would usually be the one who ended up suffering.

Even now, it was still the same. Every time he developed a bad thought about Byeol, he would immediately get the feeling that a great disaster was about to fall upon him. If that were not the case, he would have already gone to provoke Byeol.

However, he could also be absolutely certain that if they were talking about pure physical combat, he could sit on Byeol’s head and crush him to death.

Therefore, when Joo Joowon used Byeol as an example, Hwi could not help but become thoughtful. Even the small snake’s weak body gradually began to seem somewhat unfathomable in his eyes.

In fact, Joo Joowon was not even certain whether the little snake was dangerous to them. He only knew that snakes with triangular heads were venomous snakes. He could not tell what species of venomous snake this one belonged to or how strong its venom was. However, it was true that the snake’s level was not high. It was only Level 3.

Even so, Joo Joowon did not want Hwi to act so recklessly.

With skills in existence, a low-level creature was not necessarily incapable of killing a high-level creature in a counterattack. Hwi’s behavior of judging the difference between friend and foe based solely on their aura was too arbitrary. At most, it could only be used as a reference.

It was like how, at the same level, the situation would definitely be different if a player with equipment fought against a player without equipment.

In online games, game developers would not allow low-level players and small monsters to have too many opportunities to kill high-level enemies in order to maintain game balance. However, this was a real game, so such a restriction did not exist. It was not impossible for someone at Level 1 to possess god-tier equipment.

Not to mention Hwi’s ability to conceal his aura. Who could tell that he was Level 5?

Although his level could not escape detection through the detection panel, his appearance alone was enough to make others underestimate him and prevent them from becoming too wary.

Hwi remembered everything Joo Joowon had said. After all, how could anything Dad said possibly be wrong?