73: Chapter 73: Watch here, the show is about to begin!

Xiao Zhou panicked and grabbed a thick branch nearby, preparing to rush back. "Brother Fan, Brother Tao, let's run back quickly! It's still not too late to intercept them halfway. You have a knife, they'll definitely be afraid of you."

"Stop."

Lin Fan had no intention of moving his feet; his gaze remained locked on the overturned plastic box.

"Pick the box up. If even one mud crab runs away, I'll chop off one of your fingers."

Xiao Zhou stamped his feet in anxiety on the spot, his face turning beet red. "Brother Fan! What time is it now! Who cares about some damn crab! Chen Jian brought a dozen grown men to raid our base."

"Lily and the other girls definitely won't be able to hold them off! If the supplies are snatched, not only will we have to drink the northwest wind after tonight, but we won't even have a place to shield ourselves from the wind and rain."

He had already experienced the taste of hunger and freezing, and he wouldn't want to go through it again even if it killed him.

Lin Fan turned his head and stared coldly at Xiao Zhou.

That look was no different from looking at a dead person. Xiao Zhou's scalp went numb, and the words on the tip of his tongue were abruptly swallowed back.

He obediently bent down and, together with Zhang Tao, righted the box, throwing the few escaped mud crabs back inside.

"Brother Fan... Are we really not going back?" Zhang Tao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, boldly probing.

"Not going back. They can't take the supplies away."

Zhang Tao was dumbfounded. "Why? Do you really think those two men can hold the fort?"

In his cognitive world as a bottom-tier wage slave, with Lin Fan, the backbone, absent, if it were him guarding the base and he saw a dozen people charging up, he would definitely slide to his knees on the spot.

"Watch right here, the good show is about to begin." Lin Fan interrupted his thoughts.

At the same time.

Chen Jian walked at the very front of the team.

He clutched a sharp stick in his hand and pushed up his glasses.

That bastard Lin Fan was still too naive.

Once he took the cliff-top platform, he would turn around and kick away that yellow-faced shrew Wang Lan.

Using supplies to manipulate Su Qingxue and Liu Feifei—the female CEO and the female celebrity, he wanted them all!

"Step it up, all of you!" Chen Jian urged excitedly.

The team stumbled and climbed upward.

The slope grew steeper and steeper, and the loose rocks were slippery and hard on the feet.

The air was filled with a nauseating, foul stench.

That was the urine Zhang Tao and the others had splashed last night, mixed with blood. Baked by the sun, it fermented even more powerfully than a septic tank.

"Blech..." A physically weak male employee covered his nose and retched. "This smell is way too fucking strong."

Chen Jian stopped in his tracks, his brows knitted into a dead knot.

He scanned his surroundings and sensed a trace of something being wrong.

Ma Liang also crowded forward, lowering his voice, "Engineer Chen, the situation isn't right."

"What's wrong?" Wang Qiang squeezed up from behind, looking around sneakily with a rat-like expression.

"Where are the bodies?" Ma Liang pointed at a large black reef. "Last night I watched with my own eyes as Old Chen's neck broke and he rolled to the bottom of this rock. And Xiao Li, his head was smashed open and stuck in a rock crevice."

"How come there's not even a ghost of them left now?"

As soon as these words came out, the dozen or so grown men around instantly fell dead silent.

Only the sea breeze whistled through the pile of jagged rocks.

Someone plucked up the courage to mutter, "Could it be that Lin Fan had a sudden burst of conscience and buried them early this morning?"

"Did you forget to bring your brain when you went out?" Chen Jian ruthlessly lashed out. "Lin Fan treats the lives of living people like dung and grass; would he kindly bother with dead people?"

"Then where did the bodies go? They couldn't have risen from the dead and run off!" That person was retorted with an ashen face.

Chen Jian didn't reply, squatting down to stare fixedly at the ground.

The bloodstains hadn't been cleaned up; instead, they were dragged into a long, large-area blood trail.

Following the blood trail, it extended all the way to the right side of the slope, where a dense cluster of bushes hid a huge rock crevice behind it.

A bad premonition welled up in his heart.

He stood up and gripped the wooden stick tightly. "Forget about the bodies! Full speed ahead, charge straight onto the platform!"

Just as the words fell.

"Crunch."

An extremely abrupt crisp cracking sound burst from the dark rock crevice.

That sound was just like hydraulic shears forcibly crushing steel bars, making one's teeth ache just to hear it.

Everyone's movements froze instantly.

Twelve grown men turned their heads in unison, staring fixedly at that crevice.

"Crunch... Rip..."

The chewing sound grew louder and louder, accompanied by a horrifying sound of flesh and blood being torn apart.

That was the commotion of skin and flesh being ripped straight off the bones.

"Th-this what sound is this..." Ma Liang's legs shook crazily, and he didn't even feel pain when the stone in his hand smashed directly onto the back of his foot.

Chen Jian clenched his teeth tightly without making a sound, staring dead ahead at the bushes.

An unimaginably huge head covered in dark brown, rough scales slowly poked out.

This was a monster that only existed in nightmares.

Its body length was close to three meters, its limbs as thick as pillars, and its pitch-black claws gripped the rocks.

On its flat, triangular head, two dark yellow vertical pupils exuded murderous intent.

A bifurcated scarlet long tongue flicked rapidly in the air.

Pale yellow, viscous venom dripped from the corners of its mouth, and inside that bloody maw filled with interlocking sharp teeth, it was fiercely biting down on half an arm wearing a Shengtang Group white shirt!

The severed end was too gruesome to look at; stark white bone splinters stuck out, and blood dripped and splattered downward.

That was Old Chen's hand!

"Giant Lizard... It's a Komodo Dragon!" The IT guy let out a pig-slaughtering scream, his legs turning to jelly as he collapsed straight to the ground.

The bizarre magnetic field of the Devils Triangle catalyzed these cold-blooded killers to be a size larger than ordinary Komodo Dragons, and the sense of oppression was suffocating.

Furthermore, there was more than just one.

Accompanied by the dense sound of scales rubbing, a second, a third, and a fourth crawled out of the shadows one after another.

They had just finished eating Old Chen and Xiao Li as appetizers. At this moment, the fear hormones of these twelve living humans in the air completely ignited their instinct to chow down.

All four Komodo Dragons turned their heads in unison, their dark yellow vertical pupils directly locking onto Chen Jian and the others.

"Run! Run quickly!"

Chen Jian strained his throat and let out a shrill, frantic roar.

Only one thought remained in his head: two legs could definitely not outrun four legs, but as long as he ran faster than his teammates, that would do!

He turned around without hesitation, scrambling and rolling as he fled wildly down the slope.

But the explosive power of these monsters far exceeded human cognition.

"Hiss—"

The Komodo Dragon charging at the very front let out a low roar, its thick hind legs pushing hard against the ground.

Its massive body lunged directly at Ma Liang, who had fallen behind at the very end.

"Engineer Chen, save me! Help!"