The raging torrents would soon carry the bodies away, and the active fish and shrimp in the water would quickly devour them, leaving only a few bones buried under the silt or drifting to faraway places.
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After dealing with the two, Chen Zhou spent half a day searching along the riverbank and finally found the two metal shurikens thrown from the mouth by the Japanese Ninja.
Only then did the wound on his foot, pierced by the shuriken, start to act up, with the toxins causing a numbness to spread across his sole.
After sniffing the scent on the shurikens, Chen Zhou roughly determined the poison was derived from the giant lizard, which put his mind at ease.
The poison from these lizards is only deadly when it tears open large areas of flesh and injects a significant amount of toxin; insufficient doses merely cause wound necrosis and minor paralysis.
