nucmednet Chapter 118 Crisis
Chapter 118 Crisis
Before Yao could even suggest Bai go, Feng smiled at him and said, "It's alright, I believe the three of you can protect Lin. Besides, I feel my chance to break through to the ninth level and become a Heavenly Rank expert lies inside. Let Ye and I go in together!"
Ye nodded to Feng, and the two of them looked at Lin Ni, smiled at her, and then transformed into beast forms and flew away towards the cursed land.
Linni watched their retreating figures with concern. Not long after they entered the cursed land, the blood-sucking red flowers inside shook violently, and then they could hear the roar of a ferocious beast in the distance.
Bai held Linni's hand and said, "Let's go, they'll be out soon."
Linni felt her heart sinking; she had a feeling that something bad was about to happen.
Yan flew around the area in the rain and chose a remote cave far from the cursed land. They would definitely be spending the night there, so everyone packed their luggage.
Linni sat down, drank a glass of water, and ate two rice balls—a convenient and energizing food. She couldn't eat too much at once, so this was the only way to supplement her energy. She sat for a while but Ye and Feng still hadn't returned, so she became a little restless. She walked to the cave entrance and found that the rain had mostly stopped, so she turned back to her three companions inside the cave and said, "I want to go over there and wait for them."
Yan disagreed, saying, "The ferocious beasts can leave the cursed land for a short time, but we can't go there."
Lin Ni bit her lip: "Can I just look around this side of the pond and not go over there?"
The three of them considered the distance and decided it wasn't a big problem, so they nodded.
Yao tidied up his weapons, which he hadn't used in a long time, and hung them on his body. He also picked up his wooden spear, which was nearly two meters long.
Seeing him like this, Lin Ni felt even more depressed.
Bai Heng picked up Lin Ni, and the three of them returned to the pond. There were five orcs from the Peacock Tribe watching there, and Ling was among them.
Unlike the silence when she first arrived, the Cursed Land was now filled with various howls and roars. Linni looked up and saw a small bird fly by. Then, a red flower larger than a washbasin suddenly raised its head like an animal, its blooming petals like gaping maws, swallowing the bird whole. Then it returned to its original quiet state. This blood-sucking red flower even devours living things—it's terrifying!
Linni looked anxiously at the sky; it had started to drizzle again. Feng and Ye had been inside for over half an hour and still hadn't come out.
Bai glanced at Lin Ni's nervous expression and said, "Shall I go over and take a look?"
Lin Ni was about to nod when Yao said, "No! Feng and Ye are the strongest among us. No matter what they do inside, we can't go in."
That was the truth. After hearing his words, the three of them tacitly remained silent.
Just then, a roar suddenly echoed from the cursed land, and Linni's heart skipped a beat: "That sounds like the night!"
Something was rushing rapidly toward them from within the cursed land.
Bai and Yao quickly shielded Lin Ni behind them, while Yan stood behind Lin Ni, the three of them protecting her tightly.
A moment later, Night's enormous serpentine body shot out and crashed heavily in front of the cursed land. Two ferocious beasts were still biting him, but Night ignored them and twisted his body, charging towards Linni's direction. At that moment, a huge yellow-striped tiger also rushed out from within.
Lin Ni, who had been on edge because of Ye's disheveled state, breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Feng. But then Feng roared and pounced on Ye. Ye hurriedly rolled to the side, but Feng still grabbed his tail and bit it.
Linni couldn't help but scream, "Ah!--"
She noticed that Feng was also emanating black mist. The characteristics of a ferocious beast were a body covered in black energy, black stripes, and bloodshot eyes. Feng's body already had black stripes, so at first glance, the change wasn't noticeable. But upon closer inspection, she saw that the whites of Feng's eyes were gone, leaving only a menacing red. At that moment, Linni even forgot to breathe. She stared at Feng in horror, unable to believe her partner had become like this. Tears welled in her eyes, and she cried out with all her might, "No, Feng! No!"
Feng looked up at her, and Lin Ni could almost see the bloodstains on his two sharp canine teeth.
Lin Ni pushed aside Yao and Bai, who were blocking her way, and shouted loudly at Feng, who was hundreds of meters away on the other side of the pond: "Feng, wake up! It's me, Lin!"
Feng stared at her for a few seconds, which felt like an eternity, before leaping towards her. His over three-meter-long body raced towards Lin Ni, sweeping across the 300-square-meter pond. The 20-meter diameter seemed like flat ground to him, and the several hundred meters between them were covered in an instant. As he swept across the pond, he roared and charged towards Lin Ni, his sharp claws nearly slicing through her throat. Fortunately, Yao reacted in time, erecting a red shield in front of Lin Ni to block Feng's claws, but the immense force of the impact forced them back nearly ten meters.
Yao raised his wooden spear and thrust it at Feng, but Feng swatted it in two with a claw and sent it flying to the side. Then Feng roared and pounced on Yao. At 1.9 meters tall, Yao was quite tall and mighty, but he was pressed down by Feng's massive tiger body and was almost invisible. Only the red shield that Yao had raised his hands to create could be seen flashing.
Bai rushed forward and started hitting Feng fiercely, trying to save Yao.
Yan helped Lin Ni to her feet: "Lin, are you alright?"
Lin Ni shook her head, wiped away the tears that blurred her vision, and tried to say calmly, "Yan, go save Yao quickly!"
Yan nodded: "Step back a bit!" After saying that, he transformed into a black eagle and flew over.
At this moment, Ye also knocked away the ferocious beast that was biting him and rushed over. Together with Bai and Yan, they all unleashed their abilities and began to attack Feng. A fierce battle unfolded in front of the Cursed Land.
Lin Ni covered her mouth and slowly backed away. Yan, Ye, and Bai were besieging Feng. Wasn't this the same thought that had come to her mind when she looked back at the cave and saw the stone tablet they had carved themselves when she left the First Encounter with Moon Pool? Was this a coincidence or destiny?
Lin Ni was extremely worried when she suddenly felt a tremendous force pulling her clothes up from behind, and she heard Yao's exclamation: "Xiao Ni!"
Linni looked up and saw a huge flying beastman grabbing her clothes and flying upwards. She suddenly remembered what Ye had done to her when she was swimming in Sunrise Pool at First Sight Mountain. If she wasn't mistaken, this should be a flying beastman who kidnaps females. Linni's heart skipped a beat. So, was she going to be kidnapped by a wandering beastman again?