154: Chapter 154 I Don't Want to Die

Zhang Tao's body was still sitting on that piece of rotten wood.

Where did so many fierce beasts come from?

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They just talked about otters, and now they are suddenly making us run.

It couldn't be that there's a monster every three steps and a King of Hell every five steps in this forest, right?

Zhang Tao didn't dare curse Lin Fan, so he could only vent his resentment on Zhou Kai.

"Zhou Kai, you fucking ran so fast. If there really is something, what is that spear in your hand good for? Where did all that extra meat you ate last night go?"

"And what the hell are you afraid of? Brother Fan has a crossbow, wouldn't shooting an arrow finish it?"

Lin Fan did not remind them a second time.

His gaze turned cold.

In a place like this, people who don't understand commands don't get a second chance to be taught.

Ten seconds.

Zhou Kai had already climbed to the edge of the tree fork, hooked the bark with one hand, and turned back to glance at Zhang Tao.

"Idiot! Get up!"

Song Ya dragged Liu Feifei to hide behind a tree.

Wang Lan had already retreated behind a thick tree, pressing half her body against the trunk, her eyes fixed strictly on the patch of banana leaves that Lin Fan had looked at.

Five seconds.

Lin Fan kicked off with his feet and rushed toward a slanted large tree on the right.

He wasn't doing it to save Zhang Tao.

He just wanted to avoid the collision path.

Three seconds.

"Snap…"

A tooth-aching loud noise exploded from the forest on Zhang Tao's left.

Zhang Tao's voice stopped abruptly.

The surroundings instantly quieted down.

"Hoo—ch—"

Immediately after, hot and humid breathing leaked out from behind the bushes more than ten meters away.

Every breath carried the foul stench of rotting meat and fermented soil, rushing over along the humid air like a rag plastered directly onto someone's face.

The banana leaves began to shake violently, and then a few fell over.

Large patches of leaves rubbed against each other, making a rustling noise.

The color on Zhang Tao's face drained away completely in an instant.

He sat on the rotten wood, his entire body's muscles completely stiffened.

Those eyeballs stared fixedly at the swaying bushes ahead, his lips trembling uncontrollably.

The words he originally wanted to continue complaining were now stuck at the bottom of his throat, unable to even let out a single fart.

"Hmph… Ao!"

A pig howl that numbed people's eardrums rang out.

Accompanied by the howl, a Mutant Wild Boar covered in black-red long hair rushed out fiercely from the forest.

On a pair of pale tusks as long as two spans and curved like hooks, half a section of torn-off bark was still hanging.

At the base of the tusks, there were even dried and blackened bloodstains.

Two bloodshot eyes stared fixedly at Zhang Tao, who was blocking right in front of it.

Its four hooves kicked open the mud.

The distance was less than twenty meters.

Zhang Tao squeezed out an out-of-tune scream from his throat.

"Save… save…"

As soon as the sound came out, he swallowed it back down, frightened by himself.

Because that Mutant Wild Boar had already lowered its head.

Its tusks aimed at his chest.

The next instant, it came running wildly.

The running wild boar approached with a putrid stench.

The distance shortened to ten meters.

Five meters.

A person's desire to survive under extreme fear is unreasonable.

Zhang Tao, who felt his thighs cramping and his lumbar spine breaking just a second ago, burst out with a speed that even he couldn't understand in these few seconds.

Using both hands and feet, he scrambled and scampered toward a crooked tree on the right.

There was only one thought left in his mind.

Climb up.

As long as he was a little higher than others, as long as he wasn't the first one to be rammed to death, that would be enough.

"Hnk!"

The wild boar's front hooves trampled through the piece of rotten wood Zhang Tao had just been sitting on.

Wood chips mixed with black mud exploded.

That piece of wood, which had rotted down to only an empty shell, couldn't last even half a second under its hooves and shattered directly into a pile of rotten slag all over the ground.

The Mutant Wild Boar couldn't stop its forward momentum, and half its body crashed fiercely into an old tree.

"Thud!"

The dull collision sound was like someone hitting a chest with an iron hammer.

The old tree shook violently, its bark cracking, and fallen leaves and damp insects rustled down.

At that moment, everyone clearly saw two deep white scars scraped onto the tree trunk by its tusks.

If what had been gored just now wasn't the rotten wood, but a person's chest.

The ribs would have snapped like dead branches.

Climbing halfway up, Zhang Tao heard that loud noise behind him, and his legs almost went so soft that he couldn't grip the tree trunk.

He didn't even dare to turn his head back, only caring about desperately scraping upward, his fingernails digging into the slippery bark until his nail gaps were full of blood.

The wild boar shook its tusks hanging with bark.

In those bloodshot eyes, there was not a trace of the fear normal animals had when seeing humans, leaving only manic frenzy and murderous intent after its cubs were disturbed.

Its limbs scratched in the black mud, and its heavy body slowly turned around.

This turning movement exposed its undefended neck and spine on the left side.

Zhou Kai, hiding on the tree trunk, clutched tightly in his hand the wooden spear bound together with iron wire and a sharp blade.

If he shrank back and didn't move at this time, waiting for this beast to recover, everyone would be smashed apart by it one by one.

By then, everyone would die.

Zhou Kai clenched his teeth, kicked off the tree fork with his feet, and pounced down with his whole body.

His body weight plus the impact force of the fall pressed entirely onto the tip of the spear.

"Squelch!"

The sharp blade at the front of the wooden spear stabbed into the thick skin below the left scapula of the Mutant Wild Boar.

Black-red blood squirted out along the wooden shaft, spraying all over Zhou Kai's face.

Scalding hot.

Foul-smelling.

Zhou Kai even felt that the blood carried a rotten sour smell.

"Howl!"

The wild boar let out a shrill and miserable scream.

The intense pain plunged it into complete madness.

Its heavy body twisted wildly, the long hair on its spine bristling. With a shake of its head, its tusks grazed past Zhou Kai's lower leg, instantly ripping open a slit in his trouser leg.

Zhou Kai gripped the spear shaft tightly with both hands, his feet hitting the ground, trying to use the leverage principle to plunge the spear deeper.

But the next second, his expression changed.

It couldn't pierce in.

The muscle density of the mutant species far exceeded his expectations.

Although the sharp blade pierced the thick skin, it was bitten tightly by the bone joints and muscles, neither able to be pulled out nor able to pierce the truly fatal spot.

The wild boar gave a sideways nudge using brute force.

Zhou Kai's entire body was thrown away.

His back slammed heavily against a protruding tree root.

The spear in his hand broke into two pieces.

The sharp blade remained on the wild boar's back, and the wooden stick was dragged down to the ground by him.

"Zhang Tao! Help! Poke its eyes!"

Zhou Kai clutched his chest and shouted at the top of his lungs.

He thought Zhang Tao was still nearby.

As long as he harassed from the side for a bit, as long as he bought a few seconds, he could pull out the short knife at his waist to continue maneuvering.

No response.

Zhou Kai turned his head sideways.

In his field of vision, there was only a thick old tree.

Moving upwards, Zhang Tao had already transferred from the small tree at the beginning to this old tree.

On a tree fork six or seven meters high, Zhang Tao was tightly hugging the main trunk, his two legs closely coiled around the bark, his whole body trembling like a sifting sieve.

"Help… help my ass! I don't want to die! Run quickly!"