74: Chapter 74 Tree Branches? What kind of tree branches could stop those beasts?

Ma Liang was shaking so badly in his legs that just as he wanted to turn and run, his foot slipped, and he slammed solidly onto the jagged rocks.

Before he could even crawl up, a foul, stinking gust rushed straight at his face.

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The Giant Lizard's body lunged straight forward.

Opening its bloody maw, it clamped down hard on his thigh in one bite.

"Snap!"

A crisp snapping sound exploded as the Giant Lizard's terrifying bite force instantly shattered Ma Liang's femur.

"Ah~!" Ma Liang let out a miserable scream, his hands digging desperately into the stones on the ground.

The Giant Lizard shook its massive head with a "rip" sound.

It forcefully tore off a large chunk of flesh and tendons from Ma Liang's thigh!

Fresh blood spurted out, instantly staining the rocks beneath him red.

The Giant Lizard tilted its head back and swallowed the torn flesh straight into its belly.

Lowering its head once more, it precisely snapped Ma Liang's throat, its execution of physical deliverance smooth as flowing water.

The screams abruptly ceased.

Ma Liang's body twitched a few times before going completely cold.

"Save me! I don't want to die!"

The remaining dozen or so people completely collapsed, their psychological defenses shattered into dust.

They threw away all their wooden sticks and stones, wailing and screaming as they pushed and shoved each other while rolling down the slope.

Wang Qiang was sandwiched in the middle of the group, and he glanced back at the three Giant Lizards chasing after them.

Scared out of his wits, his sphincter completely lost control as urine gushed down his trouser legs.

"Get the fuck out of my way! Don't block the path!"

At this critical juncture of life and death, better you die than I.

Wang Qiang's eyes were red as he shoved forward fiercely with both hands.

The fellow in front already had weak legs and was directly pushed flying by Wang Qiang's backstab, tumbling headfirst onto the sharp, jagged rocks and rolling down.

"Wang Qiang, fuck your ancestors!"

His rolling body happened to become home delivery for the Giant Lizard.

One of the Giant Lizards unceremoniously pounced, biting clean through his shoulder and pinning him firmly to the ground.

Highly toxic saliva was instantly injected into his bloodstream, paralyzing his entire body, and he could only watch helplessly as he was dissected alive.

The slaughter continued, and the slope completely degraded into a meat grinder of flesh and blood.

Chen Jian ran at the very front, hearing the screams behind him without even daring to turn his head.

The twelve-person raid squad now had only eight left scrambling and rolling away for their lives.

After eating and drinking their fill, the Giant Lizards did not continue the chase.

They stopped halfway up the mountain, their cold-blooded vertical pupils watching the fleeing prey.

Afterwards, dragging the remaining corpses of Ma Liang and the others, they slowly retreated back into the jungle.

In the distance, behind the bushes.

"Was it a good show?" Lin Fan asked indifferently.

"It's too brutal, and I don't know how Third Brother managed to 'sleep' them into submission."

"How about the two of you go try? Perhaps your bestial desires can overcome their bestial nature."

Zhang Tao and Xiao Zhou slumped weakly on the ground, their clothes long since soaked through with cold sweat, their faces as pale as plastered wall ash.

What time is it right now! This moron still has the mood to joke around.

They had just witnessed the entire unilateral massacre firsthand; it was practically a lifelong psychological trauma.

They would rather castrate themselves than get within half a step of those monsters.

"Fa... Brother Fan..." Zhang Tao's upper and lower teeth were clacking frantically, and he couldn't even straighten out his tongue.

"Let us off, please. In that aspect, we really can't compare to Third Brother."

Lin Fan couldn't be bothered to deal with him, as golden small text once again emerged on his retina.

[4 Komodo Dragons have finished eating and are retreating along the northwest ridge line towards the deep mountain areas.]

[Reason for retreat: The Giant Lizards instinctively avoid areas marked by the scent of higher-tier predators on the island and will not return in the short term.]

He withdrew his gaze and stood up.

"Let's go, up we go."

Zhang Tao's butt was still glued to the ground, and the color that had just half-returned to his face was sucked away again by these words.

"Brother Fan, did those 'Third Sisters-in-law' really leave? What if... what if they are hiding in the bushes waiting for us?"

"A well-fed 'Third Sister-in-law' is just like a well-fed you, only wanting to find a shady spot to lie down and digest."

Without even turning his head, Lin Fan said, "Besides, there are bigger things around here than them; they wouldn't dare stay long."

"Bigger things?" Xiao Zhou shrank his neck, his voice cracking, "What else could be bigger than those things?"

Lin Fan's patience had reached its limit. "If you don't want to go back, that's fine too; no one is forcing you."

Zhang Tao and Xiao Zhou looked at each other. Lin Fan's life on this lousy island was like an emperor's; since he wasn't afraid, it meant he had enough confidence and backing.

Besides, if they didn't go back with Lin Fan, Wang Qiang and the others would definitely tear the two of them to pieces.

The two of them gritted their teeth, each lifting one end of the plastic storage box, and hunched over as they followed behind.

Large areas of dark red bloodstains still remained on the slope.

Tattered strips of cloth and a small piece of scalp belonging to who-knows-who hung on a few rocks.

The air was filled with a thick smell of blood and foul-smelling mucus left behind by the Giant Lizards.

Zhang Tao and Xiao Zhou could swear this was the most deadly smell they had ever smelled.

Both of their pupils shrank to needlepoints, scanning left and right with every single step they took.

The green crabs in the box were scratching against the plastic walls with a "kacha kacha" sound, which sounded exceptionally spine-chilling on the quiet slope.

In contrast, Lin Fan...

His pace was steady, and his breathing was even.

Stepping on those bloodstains was no different from walking on the floor tiles of his own living room.

Zhang Tao looked at Lin Fan's back, and a thought popped up from the depths of his mind.

Just what had this man experienced to be able to face four man-eating monsters without even blinking an eyelid?

The cliff-top platform.

The moment the three of them climbed over the final stretch of the gravel slope, hurried footsteps came from the Karst Cave.

Song Ya rushed out from the cave entrance.

She was wearing that beige high-necked woolen sweater, and her hair was simply coiled at the back of her head with a branch.

Seeing Lin Fan standing unscathed at the edge of the platform, her eyes turned red.

She threw herself straight into Lin Fan's embrace.

Her hands tightly wrapped around Lin Fan's waist, pressing her face against his solid chest.

Her voice carried the crying tone of a survivor of a catastrophe: "Lin Fan, you're back... You scared me to death."

Lin Fan didn't push her away, just letting her hug him, feeling the warm and soft delicate body in his arms, as well as the softness rubbing against his chest—the feeling was somewhat fatal.

Song Ya gently pushed Lin Fan away, tears already streaming down, "Let me see, are you hurt anywhere?"

As Song Ya spoke, she began checking Lin Fan's body. Those monsters could eat other people, so they definitely would have bitten Lin Fan too. She was truly terrified that after coming back up, Lin Fan would be missing an arm or a leg.

"Alright, stop crying. If you cry anymore, I'll spank your butt."

As he spoke, Lin Fan actually gave Song Ya's butt a pat.

The feel was not bad, soft and tender.

With Lin Fan acting like this, Song Ya truly confirmed that Lin Fan was fine.

She wiped away her tears and changed the subject, "Wang Qiang and the others didn't come up, and those monsters... really didn't dare cross those few branches you placed."

Song Ya was famously pure in the company, and when Zhang Tao saw Lin Fan patting Song Ya's butt, he was currently immersed in daydreaming about when he could also pat one.

Hearing Song Ya's words, his thoughts snapped back to reality.

"Branches? What kind of branches could stop those beasts?"