Chapter 86: Section 87: I’m Going to Die


    “What are these things?”


    “I don’t know, it’s my first time seeing them too.”


    Zhenjin and others squatted down, using the tall trees for cover, watching from a distance as beasts rampaged through the camp.


    These beasts were not large, resembling monkeys. Their bodies were covered in purple-black fur, with two small black horns on their foreheads, and a pair of wide bat wings on their backs.


    Their claws were extremely sharp. When they screeched, their mouths split wide open, revealing full sets of sharp teeth.


    Some of them were flying in the air, occasionally diving down fiercely to crash into the cabins. Others were bouncing around on the ground and on the buildings of the camp, jumping off the ground and then leaping away, stirring up a cloud of mud and grass.


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    After observing for a moment, Cang Xu shook his head and gave a wry smile, “Their horns remind me of demons, but I’m sure they’re not any kind of demon. They resemble monkeys but have bat wings, so let’s just call them bat monkeys.”


    Zhenjin and the others furrowed their brows, annoyed by the sharp, piercing screams of the bat monkeys.


    The noisy, piercing sounds Zhenjin had first heard were made by these bat monkeys.


    Among the group of bat monkeys, there were no shortage of Bronze and Black Iron Level Magic Beasts, but the Magic Beast-level bat monkeys were all flying in the air and did not participate in the attack. It was mainly the ordinary bat monkeys that surrounded the central wooden hall of the camp, incessantly scratching outside, trying to find a breakthrough.


    The doors and windows of the cabin were tightly closed.


    The cabin had a large chimney, currently emitting thick smoke. Ordinary bat monkeys trying to get in were immediately driven away by the thick smoke.


    The attack of the bat monkey group was making little progress. S~ea??h the n?velFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    “What exactly could be inside the cabin? The cleared battlefield we saw earlier, could it have been these people?” Zhenjin secretly speculated.


    He didn’t rashly go to the rescue.


    First, it was hard to discern friends from foes; he was not sure whether the occupants of the cabin were enemies or allies.


    Second, the situation in the camp was still at a stalemate and did not require immediate action.


    Third, there were numerous bat monkeys. Their constant jumping and flying, agile and fierce, would pose a significant threat if they were disturbed. Cang Xu and the others would likely be in a bad situation.


    The exploration team consisted of five members; aside from Zhenjin, only Lan Zao was capable of withstanding a few bat monkeys. If Bai Ya and the others were caught in an attack, they would certainly be torn to pieces by the bat monkeys.


    “Sir… it seems I built this camp,” Zi Di suddenly uttered, surprising everyone.


    “Have you been here before?” Zhenjin was stunned.


    Zi Di shook her head.


    “I led others deep into the rainforest and discovered you, sir. You were unconscious and couldn’t be awakened. So, I decided to set up camp nearby. I planned to provide on-site care, aiming for a quick recovery.”


    At this point, Zi Di looked again at the camp, nodding in confirmation, “There’s no mistake. I have a deep impression of this wooden cabin and the camp. For your safety, sir, and to facilitate future treatment, I had intended to stay here for a while. That’s why it took a lot of time to build the cabin very sturdily.”


    Bai Ya was astonished, “So, how did this camp end up here… Ah, I know, it was teleported!”


    Just like how Zhenjin and their camp had been teleported into the desert, this camp abandoned by Zi Di had also been affected by teleportation, from the rainforest to the forest.


    Afterwards, it was occupied by another mysterious group. They renovated it based on Zi Di’s original constructions and expanded outward, building a larger camp.


    Bai Ya looked intently and nodded continuously, “Zi Di is right. I also noticed that the wood used for the wooden cabin and the Arrow Tower are different. I recognize the wood of the Arrow Tower, it’s from the trees of the forest.”


    Cang Xu was puzzled, “Strange… Before Zi Di set up camp, it was before the teleportation. Now that we all know about the Teleportation Array, does this group in the wooden house not know about it? Have they never experienced teleportation or are they just not concerned about it?”


    If they are not concerned about teleportation, that would mean that this group belongs to the camp of the Island Master. Contacting these people poses a great risk.


    Zhenjin pondered for a moment, “Given the unclear situation, we must not act rashly. Let’s retreat to a safe distance, and then I will quietly capture a bat monkey. By studying this beast, perhaps Zi Di can also develop relevant potions.”


    “I will do my utmost,” Zi Di nodded.


    Her voice had barely faded when suddenly a window of the wooden house was thrust open, and a middle-aged man with a sallow face appeared inside, holding a peculiar crossbow and yelling loudly, “Die, you beasts!”


    Saying this, he grabbed the bottom of the crossbow with his left hand and the upward-curving trigger at the back with his right hand.


    He pressed down hard on the trigger, and a short arrow shot out.


    He lifted the trigger, and the crossbow was strung.


    Pressing it down again, the second short arrow flew out.


    Continuously pressing and lifting the trigger, this sallow-faced man managed to fire a dozen arrows in a very short span of time.


    “There are people in the wooden house!” Bai Ya whispered in shock upon seeing this.


    “Are they from the Pig Kiss?” Zhenjin immediately asked.


    Everyone shook their heads.


    It was possible, or it might not be.


    Pig Kiss was a large sea vessel that could cross the ocean and connect two continents. With many and varied personnel on board, Cang Xu, Zi Di, and others could not possibly recognize everyone.


    “Their hands have crossbows. What kind of crossbow is that, capable of firing continuously?” Zi Di frowned.


    Zhenjin’s expression was solemn, “The crossbow is good, but the shooter is terrible. He has no aim at all, just firing wildly. This is bad!”


    The sallow-faced man, with an aggressive demeanor, fired wildly and drove back the nearby bat monkeys.


    But soon, the bat monkeys counterattacked and swarmed him.


    Seeing trouble, the man hastily pulled out the rod supporting the window, and the heavy window slammed shut.


    But even in that brief moment, two extremely agile bat monkeys had already slipped inside.


    Immediately, there were screams and curses from inside the wooden house.


    “Should we go and save them?” Zhenjin gritted his teeth, caught in indecision.


    “Ah, quick, quick, quick, hide!” Inside the wooden house, a fat man screamed, trying to crawl under a table.


    Most likely due to his corpulence, the two bat monkeys targeted him at first sight.


    With a powerful kick against the wall to dodge an attack, the bat monkeys lunged at the fat man.


    The fat man had just hidden under the table when he heard a loud bang – the sturdy wooden table was smashed to smithereens. Amidst the flying wood chips, the bat monkeys paused for a moment, then grabbed towards the fat man.


    The fat man’s eyes almost popped out in that instant, overwhelmed by terror to the extreme. He had no thought of dodging; his mind went blank, and he simply collapsed on the ground, motionless as if he were a statue.


    At a critical moment, a guard stepped forward and repelled the bat monkey with the longsword in his hand.


    But the next moment, another bat monkey took the opportunity to fly onto the guard’s head.


    “Ah—!”


    The guard screamed in agony.


    His eyeball was gouged out by the bat monkey directly.


    The intense pain made him swing his longsword wildly, causing his companions, who wanted to rescue him, to retreat.


    Taking advantage of this moment, the bat monkey opened its mouth wide and buried its head, biting into the guard’s neck.


    “Splurt.”


    Accompanied by a chilling sound, the bat monkey fiercely jerked its head, ripping a large hole in the guard’s neck as blood gushed out like a fountain.


    With a flap of its wings, the bat monkey, carrying its small body, flew directly to the rooftop.


    The bat monkey hung upside down on the roof, with a small piece of trachea still hanging out of its mouth.


    The bat monkey slurped it up, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it down.


    “Beast!!!” shouted a person furiously inside the cabin.


    Finally, having tasted blood and flesh, the bat monkey became even more ferociously aggressive.


    They were incredibly fast and agile, turning the entire cabin upside down.


    The fat man collapsed on the floor, watching everyone panic and another person die, scared to the point of screaming incessantly, “Help, help.”


    The man who had opened the window had just raised his crossbow when he saw a bat monkey charging at him.


    He quickly ducked, evading the bat monkey’s dive, and awkwardly rolled three times on the ground.


    The bat monkey missed and hit the ground. Its limbs touched down, and its claws dug four furrows into the muddy ground, coming to a swift halt.


    Then it charged at the yellow-faced man again.


    The yellow-faced man, lacking any combat skills, was still lying on the ground trying to get up.


    Just as the bat monkey was about to pounce on his face, a sharp thin sword suddenly thrust out from behind the man.


    The thin sword instantly pierced the bat monkey’s face, penetrating its skull.


    The bat monkey was too fast and impaled itself from the tip of the thin sword to the hemispherical guard at the hilt, turning itself into a kebab.


    But the bat monkey was not yet dead.


    In excruciating pain, the bat monkey struggled, flapping its wings violently.


    The person holding the sword hastily gave a fierce shake, flinging the bat monkey away.


    The bat monkey hit the ground, screamed frantically, and struggled wildly, biting around. After five breaths, it finally collapsed motionless.


    The person with the sword angrily pulled the yellow-faced man to his feet, “Mu Ban, this is all your fault. I told you not to open the window! Why couldn’t you just wait for Lord Xi Suo and the others to return?”


    Mu Ban snorted coldly, neck stiff, “I have treasures in hand; all these riffraff must die.”


    Saying this, he again pulled the trigger, firing a dozen arrows in quick succession.


    In the cabin, there was only one bat monkey left. The arrows made a great sound but hit none.


    Instead, someone’s thigh was struck by an arrow, who roared in pain and fury, “Mu Ban, you hit me!”


    People scrambled to dodge the arrows.


    Whoosh.


    An arrow stuck in the ground, its tail quivering slightly.


    Seeing this arrow, and the realization that it had landed less than an inch from his groin area, the fat man who had previously collapsed let out a howl, his eyes rolling back as he fainted on the spot.


    “Mu Ban, stop it!”


    “Someone, stop Mu Ban.”


    “He’s more dangerous than these monkeys!!”


    People shouted loudly, rushing at Mu Ban with fierce expressions.


    Mu Ban hurriedly dodged, losing his crossbow in the chaos.


    “Kill the monkeys, kill the monkeys!” someone else yelled.


    Just then, the last remaining bat monkey injured another person.


    The crowd’s attention again focused on the bat monkey, and after a whirlwind chase, this bat monkey was also slain by the same thin sword.


    The person holding the thin sword was a young man.


    He had black hair, black eyes, and dark skin, his hair naturally curly.


    “Well done, Hei Juan!”


    “Didn’t expect you to have this trick up your sleeve,” the crowd praised, surprised.


    Hei Juan lightly snorted, twirling the thin sword beautifully in his hand, about to sheath it, when suddenly a thudding sound like war drums being struck was heard.


    “What’s that sound?” people listened suspiciously as the drumming sound grew louder.


    “Not good!” Hei Juan focused and listened briefly, then suddenly realizing something, he hastily lunged to his left.


    The next moment, a huge rhinoceros broke through the cabin, brutally and fiercely unstoppable.


    Those who couldn’t dodge in time were either thrown into the air or trampled on the ground.


    The giant rhinoceros didn’t stop its charge, breaking straight through the cabin, lifting a huge cloud of dust.


    Without the cabin to block them, the bat monkeys outside let out excited screeches, charging into the cabin towards the people.


    “It’s over! I’m going to die!!” Seeing Bronze Level and Black Iron Level bat monkeys diving in, Hei Juan felt utterly desperate in that moment.