leonardwarren Chapter 41 Who will save us?
Chapter 41 Who will save us?
Deep in the swamp.
Shh, keep it down.
Chi Le crouched behind a clump of low, dense grass, coldly observing the scene not far away, while whispering a reminder to Yu Xun beside him.
"What's wrong? What's up ahead?"
Yu Xun also lowered his voice and moved more quietly, craning his neck to see what Chi Le was seeing in the distance, beyond the highest point of the grass.
A five-legged toad, unlike the previous six-legged toad, was lying on the ground, missing a leg.
Its mouth opened and closed as if it were chewing something tough, with a twig-like object hanging near its mouth, swaying back and forth as it chewed.
Upon closer inspection, Yu Xun realized that this was not a tree branch at all, but clearly a human arm!
What the five-legged toad is chewing in its mouth is self-evident.
"No...no, someone please save me..."
Not far from this five-legged toad, two girls on the verge of a mental breakdown huddled together.
What the toad is chewing on now is their companion.
They just couldn't understand it.
Why did things unfold so terrifyingly tonight?
Shouldn't this just be a regular holiday shopping trip, an outing that couldn't be more common?
Just a second ago, they were complaining to each other about how their takeout was always being stolen at school, forcing them to eat the terrible food in the cafeteria.
They're still saying they're already sophomores and haven't had a sweet romance yet.
"Why...why did it turn out like this?"
The speaker was a young girl with exquisite makeup, dressed scantily, and with a pair of fair and slender legs exposed to the air.
Her face was filled with fear and disbelief.
Who would have thought that one of the three who were laughing and joking just moments before would become a snack in the mouth of this ugly toad?
"Where am I? I want to get out! I need to get out!"
Beside the long-legged girl, a girl who had been looking dazed suddenly seemed to snap out of it, gesturing wildly and shouting...
"This must be a dream! Xiaoyu, wake me up!"
The girl's expression was contorted as she grabbed the long-legged girl's arm with both hands, completely ignoring the toad that had already finished eating the person and was slowly approaching her.
Or rather, she simply couldn't control it.
It wasn't that no one had tried to drive away the toad that crawled out of the mist before.
But it was just a fleeting encounter.
Several tall, muscular men were pierced through the heart by one of the toad's protruding tongues.
She probably doesn't even poke open a milk tea cup with a straw this easily, right?
"Why...why did this happen to us..."
I witnessed the death of a passerby.
The surviving friend was slowly swallowed alive by the five-legged toad.
She still remembers the cracking sound of her friend's esophageal muscles crushing her bones when the toad swallowed her.
Remember how a toad used its tongue to curl up a passerby's hands and feet to make it easier to swallow?
Then, like tearing off an unwanted packaging bag, tear off his hands and feet, and then swallow the human pig-like passerby whole.
The wails of her friend before her death, the screams of passersby, and the sounds of flesh and bones being crushed still seemed to echo in her ears.
The girl's mental state completely collapsed.
She swayed as she got up, her hands hanging limply at her sides.
Like a lifeless, aimless wandering ghost.
The girl's eyes were vacant as she approached the five-legged toad step by step.
"What are you doing? Don't go over there!"
The long-legged girl quickly called out and reached out to grab the girl's hand, but grasped nothing.
She tried to get up from the ground to help her friend, but her legs gave way and she stumbled, falling back into the muddy water.
They could only watch helplessly as the toad's tongue coiled around their friend's body, again and again.
He pulled her into his mouth.
The long-legged girl watched this scene.
With her mouth agape and her eyes vacant, tears welled up and silently streamed down her cheeks, eventually dripping onto the muddy water in a tiny ripple.
Overwhelmed by extreme fear and a profound sense of powerlessness, she couldn't help but choke up.
She covered her mouth tightly, as if that would prevent the toad from seeing her.
She didn't want to get entangled with that sticky, fishy, light red tongue.
I don't want to be swallowed by this incomprehensible monster.
She doesn't want to die.
Through the gaps between her fingers covering her mouth, she forced out a few words, her voice trembling and choked with sobs.
"Someone...someone, please save me."
"Don't be afraid, beautiful lady, your brother Yu will kill this ugly thing right now!"
Yu Xun's angry shout not only attracted the attention of the long-legged girl, but also the attention of the five-legged toad.
As soon as the toad turned its head, a short knife gleaming with a cold light magnified in front of it.
laugh……
Unlike the easy feeling of piercing a six-legged toad before.
Right now, Yu Xun feels like he's piercing a tough, thick piece of rubber.
For a moment, the fish-killing knife couldn't pierce the fish.
By this time, the toad had also come to its senses.
She released her tongue from the other girl's grasp and flung it around, as if to rip the man who had stabbed her in two.
Sensing the toad's next move, Yu Xun stopped straining the dagger.
The arm holding the knife had bulging muscles.
Using the short knife as a fulcrum, he twisted his body, clenched his free hand into a fist, and slammed it hard into the five-legged toad's cheek.
Following the direction of the force, Yu Xun pulled the dagger out of the five-legged toad's body.
He landed on the mud, barely dodging the toad's flicking tongue.
The toad, having taken a solid punch from Yu Xun, turned its head to one side, as if it were completely bewildered.
It even forgot to retract its outstretched tongue, leaving it stuck in the mud.
"Chi Le, hurry up, I have a feeling this is bad, this thing seems a bit angry."
Ignoring the growing sense of threat emanating from the surroundings, which felt like needles pricking his nerves, Yu Xun observed the changes in the five-legged toad with a solemn expression.
"Know."
Chi Le helped the long-legged girl who was sitting on the muddy ground to her feet.
"Can you walk by yourself?"
Chi Le said as he walked toward the other girl he had snatched back from the toad's mouth.
The long-legged girl was clearly still in shock.
He replied instinctively.
"Ah...oh...okay."
Chi Le picked up her friend and led her away from the toad that had eaten a bunch of people, to a clump of short grass.
The long-legged girl's eyes regained their sparkle.
"Thank you... thank you!"
The long-legged girl's face was still wet with tears, and her voice was still choked with sobs, making her words come out in fits and starts.
Chi Le ignored her and simply handed the unconscious girl in his arms to the long-legged girl, giving her some instructions.
"Stay put. There are no more of those things around. Don't wander off."
After saying that, he walked towards Yu Xun.
The long-legged girl stared blankly at Chi Le's back as he headed headlong toward the monster.
"They really... came to save us."
She's currently watching a TV series.
There is a type of being that responds to the desperate cries for help from mortals and appears before them in an instant to offer assistance.
Celestial beings and gods.