277: Chapter 277 "Run! Hide!"

Behind the Beast God Temple on Beast God Mountain.

Rows of towering trees formed a natural barrier.

Sheltered by the giant trees was an area surrounded by massive boulders.

Due to the passage of time, the crevices of the boulders were overgrown with grass and small trees.

Unknown pink flowers swayed gently in the breeze.

"Where is this?" Tang Ruan asked from within Heng Zhou's embrace.

Heng Zhou carried her as he descended from the sky, standing on the highest boulder and looking down.

Tang Ruan followed his gaze.

She suddenly realized that the area enclosed by the boulders was as large as a soccer field.

And in the center of this area stood a small house.

The giant trees blocked the sunlight, casting only a single beam of light through the gaps in the rocks, which landed right on a large tree next to the house.

Sunlight filtered through the dense foliage, casting dappled spots of light onto the swing beneath the tree.

Tang Ruan: "Aren't we on Beast God Mountain?"

She remembered this scene from her memories, but it wasn't on Beast God Mountain.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have said to Heng Zhou at that time, "Wait until the day we leave the Beast God..."

"It is Beast God Mountain."

Heng Zhou brought her down in front of the small wooden house.

"At the time, I thought that since we couldn't leave Beast God Mountain, I would build an identical one for you here on Beast God Mountain."

As he said this, there was a hint of happy bitterness at the corners of his mouth.

It was just unexpected that before he could give her the gift, she was already with Fen Tian.

"But this house looks like it's brand new?" Tang Ruan walked forward and touched the window frame, which was kept very clean.

"I took some time to come and spruce it up a while ago."

Tang Ruan looked at him.

"Again?"

That meant he had already maintained it many times.

Did he come every time he was reborn?

Heng Zhou felt a bit shy under her intense gaze and rubbed his nose.

"Years ago, you asked me if I was willing to live here with you. I didn't get a chance to answer. Now I am telling you 'I do'. I dream of living here with you."

Tang Ruan: ...

"But I—"

Heng Zhou suddenly reached out and patted her head.

"Don't worry, I'm not asking you to leave them. It would be enough if you just stayed here with me occasionally."

Tang Ruan beamed, "Okay!"

She stepped forward and reached out to open the door.

Suddenly, Heng Zhou sensed something.

With speed that was hard to track with the naked eye, he grabbed her hand.

At the same time, he retreated with her to a distance of several dozen meters.

"What's wrong?"

Before Tang Ruan could finish her sentence, she suddenly saw an almond-shaped yellow spot of light appear within the pitch-black window.

"Black Shadow?" Tang Ruan exclaimed.

Heng Zhou turned to look at her, surprised that she still remembered Black Shadow.

Suddenly, a "thump, thump, thump" sound came, as if Black Shadow was ramming the door with its body.

"Did you lock the door?" Tang Ruan looked at Heng Zhou curiously.

"Of course not."

Tang Ruan: ... Uh... That's true, Heng Zhou isn't the type to play pranks.

Then who locked Black Shadow inside? Could there be someone else on Beast God Mountain?

At the thought of this possibility, Tang Ruan immediately looked around nervously.

"Has the Former Beast God returned? Or has the reincarnation of Duan Shi returned?"

"Neither," Heng Zhou said.

He was using his consciousness to communicate with Black Shadow.

But Black Shadow's consciousness was chaotic, and the memories in its mind were a jumbled mess.

He could only sense that it seemed to have died many times.

It was clearly an immortal monster. Yet at this moment, its heart was filled with a fear of death.

It kept shrieking: "Don't let me die again! Don't eat me! I don't want to die again!"

Although Black Shadow could be reborn, rebirth was not a pleasant process for it.

The wooden door bulged outward from Black Shadow's ramming, as if it would shatter at any moment.

Heng Zhou stepped forward, wanting to hear more clearly.

Suddenly, he heard two words—"Run fast!"

Heng Zhou whipped his head around; a gigantic eye was already hovering above Tang Ruan's head.

Tang Ruan saw that Heng Zhou's expression was wrong and immediately ran toward him.

Heng Zhou stared directly at the giant eyeball, "Freeze!"

The eyeball showed no reaction at all.

The eyeball was connected to a body formed by intricately intertwined, flesh-colored vines, and beneath the body were hundreds of small feet wriggling like earthworms.

It made an eerie rustling sound as it walked.

Heng Zhou realized that his Supernatural Ability was useless against it.

He strode forward and caught the running Tang Ruan.

With a tap of his toes, he leapt into the air.

At the same time, a mass of black matter squeezed out from the cracks in the wooden house's window.

Like melting asphalt, it kept oozing out.

Heng Zhou had already carried Tang Ruan to a height the eyeball monster couldn't reach.

The two looked down and saw that after the monster fully stretched its body, it was actually a hundred meters tall.

The purple eyeball was surrounded by terrifying red bloodshot veins, as if a person were glaring at them with eyes wide open in rage.

Every hair on Tang Ruan's body stood on end.

She had seen plenty of monsters, but this was the first one that looked this disgusting.

No! It didn't look like a monster at all; it looked more like mutated human organs.

Suddenly, Tang Ruan recognized that eye.

Heng Zhou looked down at her; clearly, he had recognized it too.

However, neither of them had a chance to speak.

A loud explosion was heard.

The wooden door of the house finally blasted open from the inside out.

A blob of something resembling black slime crawled out from inside.

That blob was covered with countless yellow eyes.

"Black Shadow..." Tang Ruan whispered.

The thing below did not hear her voice.

"Is it mutated?"

Heng Zhou frowned sharply.

Mutated? He had heard the Former Beast God use this term before, and he roughly understood what it meant.

But Black Shadow hadn't mutated.

"Black Shadow can rely on the Energy released by the person who kills it to be reborn. Every time it is reborn, it gains more eyes. But after rebirth, it needs time to repair its body. I suspect it has been reborn too many times, and each time, before it could repair its body, it was killed again... That's why it has become like this," Heng Zhou said.

"Did that thing kill it?" Tang Ruan's voice trembled slightly.

Just thinking about Black Shadow being killed right after being reborn, killed right after being reborn... constantly experiencing the fear and pain of death, made her heart tremble.

That must be such a desperate thing.

"What exactly is that thing? Is it Princess Jiao Yi?"

The color of that eye was exactly the same as Princess Jiao Yi's.

Heng Zhou didn't answer directly: "Let's leave first."

He turned to leave.

Tang Ruan suddenly shouted loudly at Black Shadow: "Run! Hide!"

Black Shadow seemed to understand her words; it turned and quickly slithered in the opposite direction of the monster...

Returning to Central City.

Heng Zhou immediately called all of Tang Ruan's Beast Husbands together.

He handed Tang Ruan over to Hu Che and said solemnly, "Watch over her."

Tang Ruan: ... She wasn't a child.

Before she could speak, Heng Zhou had already closed the door.

Hu Che pulled Tang Ruan, intending to leave.

"Mistress, leave this kind of thing to the Male Beastmen! You don't need to worry."

Tang Ruan: "How can I not worry?"

Hu Che: ...

Tang Ruan: "At least I should know what happened, right?"

Not letting her know anything only made her more worried.

"Ruan Ruan!"