Strengthening

Seeing the crocodile egg suddenly disappear, Agumon was stunned and momentarily confused, but he quickly came to his senses and turned to run towards Lin Chen's location.

"Walk!"

After Agumon returned to Lin Chen's side, Lin Chen glanced at the things he had taken from Agumon and then ran directly towards the outer edge of the Giant Crocodile's territory.

"Sister Lin, it's no use, these crocodile demons are no longer affected by mind magic."

Rou Rou unleashed a terrifying wave that swept away all the crocodile demons that approached her.

"Let's try to hold on a little longer and buy some more time for Xiao Chengzi!"

As soon as Liu Lin finished speaking, the giant crocodile smashed through the ice chains blocking its path, opened its blood-red maw, and lunged at her.

"Water Guardian!"

Rou Rou constantly observed her surroundings, and with a flick of her fingers, she arranged star trails, placing a water armor onto Liu Lin's body.

Just as the giant crocodile's jaws were about to bite into Liu Lin's water armor, a flame roared in from the side, striking the crocodile's mouth and knocking it back a distance.

"roar!"

The giant crocodile roared and turned its head to see who was attacking it.

But the sight that came into view startled it, and it froze in shock.

In its line of sight, Lin Chen and Agumon were clearly rushing towards it from the direction of the giant crocodile's lair.

"Ice Lock - Vast Wilderness!"

Taking advantage of the giant crocodile's momentary distraction, Liu Lin summoned one ice chain after another to bind it tightly.

"Walk!"

Lin Chen showed no sign of stopping. With a roar, he charged straight out to the outer perimeter.

Upon hearing this, Rou Rou, Gabumon, and Guilmon immediately repelled the Azure Crocodile Demon that was constantly attacking them, and then turned around and ran out with Lin Chen.

Liu Lin manipulated the ice chains to intertwine and wrap the giant crocodile's massive body in several layers before leaving with peace of mind.

A few moments later, cracks began to appear on the ice lock, which was as hard as iron. As the giant crocodile struggled, the cracks became more and more numerous and larger.

"collapse!"

Suddenly, all the ice locks shattered in an instant, revealing the enormous body of the giant crocodile.

The giant crocodile, having broken free of its restraints, did not follow the direction Lin Chen and his group had gone. Instead, it turned and charged towards the location of the wetland properties.

When the giant crocodile returned to its wetland home and saw the scene before it, its anxiety finally died.

It immediately sensed that from this moment on, the entire crocodile life would be plunged into darkness, and the crocodile egg of the leader of the entire clan, the pseudo-dragon crocodile, had disappeared.

The giant crocodile's eyes were filled with panic and anger. It spread its limbs and chased after the crocodile, while raising its head and letting out an anxious roar.

"roar!"

A tremendous roar instantly resounded throughout the entire territory of the giant crocodile. As if by conditioned reflex, all the crocodile demons in the territory emerged from every corner of the territory, roaring and following in the footsteps of the giant crocodile.

However, during the time the giant crocodile traveled back and forth, Lin Chen and his group had already vanished without a trace, and finding them again would not be an easy task.

……

After escaping from the giant crocodile's territory, Lin Chen and his group randomly chose a direction and sped away, only stopping when they reached a relatively safe place.

"Little Orange, did you get the crocodile egg? Why didn't you notice any change in Agumon's aura?" Liu Lin asked Lin Chen breathlessly as she stopped.

"Yeah, Lin Chen, those crocodile eggs are so big, I didn't see you and Agumon bring them back?" Rou Rou was also a little puzzled.

Even Agumon looked at Lin Chen with curiosity.

Lin Chen smiled slightly, and gently swiped his right hand across his left. A flash of white light appeared, and a crystal-clear crocodile egg, about 1.5 meters long, with wondrous patterns, appeared before everyone.

"A storage ring!" Rou Rou stared at Lin Chen in shock, her face filled with disbelief.

"You were surprised that we had storage bracelets before, but I didn't expect you to be the one hiding your true abilities. You even have a storage ring, which is much more valuable than a bracelet," Liu Lin teased.

Lin Chen smiled slightly and offered no further explanation.

Actually, Lin Chen didn't have high hopes for using the ring given by the system to collect the crocodile egg. He just wanted to give it a try, since he had tried to collect other things with the ring before, but none of them worked.

Surprisingly, it actually fit this time. It seems that any treasure useful to Digimon can be stored in the ring.

To prevent the process from dragging on for too long and causing unnecessary trouble, Lin Chen decided to immediately push Agumon and Guilmon to their limits.

Liu Lin was worried that the scattered demons wandering around Poyang Lake Wetland might affect Agumon and Guilmon's breakthrough, so she took Rou Rou and Gabumon to patrol the surrounding area.

"Now it's up to you two. I hope this crocodile egg will allow you both to evolve successfully." Lin Chen reached out and patted the heads of Agumon and Guilmon.

"Lin Chen, we will do our best," Agumon and Guilmon said in unison.

Arriving next to the crocodile egg of the Azure Crocodile Pseudo-Dragon, Agumon swung its claw at the egg, and with a crisp "crack," a long crack appeared on the crystal-clear eggshell.

Looking at the broken crocodile egg, Lin Chen felt no remorse, nor did he feel any guilt for the death of an unborn little life.

Humans and demons—this is a war between two races, resulting in countless deaths. The death of a powerful demon in the future gives birth to two powerful Digimon that help humanity, which is actually a good thing.

The top of the crocodile egg cracked, and Lin Chen heard a faint dragon's roar coming from inside the egg.

Immediately afterwards, a beam of azure light flowed out from the eggshell, floating in mid-air and forming a miniature azure crocodile pseudo-dragon. At the same time, an extremely strong life force spread outward.

Lin Chen even felt that this miniature crocodile pseudo-dragon possessed more dragon characteristics and temperament than the commander-level crocodile pseudo-dragon he had seen before.

"Is this a case of atavism?!"

Sensing the extremely powerful and vibrant energy emanating from the crocodile egg, Lin Chen couldn't help but speculate.

Agumon and Guilmon couldn't hold back any longer and pounced on it, gulping down the egg white and yolk of the crocodile egg.

"what!"

The moment the crocodile egg essence entered their stomachs, Agumon and Guilmon both let out painful roars. A rich life energy burst forth within their bodies, and they even felt their souls being burned.

Hearing Agumon and Guilmon's painful roars and seeing the ferocious expressions on their faces due to the violent evolution within them, Lin Chen's expression was extremely solemn, and he felt very uncomfortable.

But he knew that this was a necessary process of evolution, and that as long as they persevered, a brighter future awaited them.

……

"Such abundant life force!" a middle-aged man exclaimed in surprise. "There must be some very precious treasure being born there!"

"I haven't arrived in so many days, my dad must be furious! If I bring this treasure, he won't scold me!" a young man shouted. "Where's the treasure? Take me there now!"

The middle-aged man nodded and turned towards the direction from which the life force fluctuations were coming from, which was the location where Lin Chen and his group were.