At the corner of the corridor, I heard that Jiang Man only had five bullets left. After thinking for a moment, I gripped the dagger and walked toward the hairy monster's corpse behind me.
Jiang Man saw my actions and asked, somewhat puzzled, "Duan Shenxing, what are you doing?"
“I need to cut open this monster’s stomach to see if there is any food left. If the people who died here before were eaten by it, the risks ahead will be less! If its stomach is empty, it means there are other monsters in this passage.”
I crouched down next to the monster, took a deep breath, and then plunged the knife into its abdomen.
The skin of this hairy monster was extremely tough. It took me a long time to cut a palm-sized gash in its abdomen with a knife before I could cut open the monster's stomach.
Slippery blood flowed down the hairy monster's abdomen, and its stomach was indeed empty, containing nothing at all.
"Oh no!"
I saw the hairy monster's empty stomach, wiped the blood off its body, and walked around the corner: "This guy's stomach has no food. The corpses in the corridor have nothing to do with it. There are other monsters in here. Be careful of your surroundings."
The unknown light we just saw, and the hairy monster that filled our empty stomachs, made Jiang Man and me tense.
At this moment, besides the two short knives each of us carries, all that's left in our team are Jiang Man's five bullets and my four throwing knives.
Judging from the marks in the corridor, the attackers of the Ping'an Village people were ruthless and extremely powerful. A living person was torn to pieces in their hands, which is truly astonishing.
Without the bloodstains on the ground obscuring the view, checking the mechanism became much easier. I walked along the passage for a while when I suddenly heard a "bang" from ahead.
The loud noise from this confined space startled me. Jiang Man quickly added, "It's a gunshot! It sounds like a replica firearm used by the Ping'an Village people!"
"Let's go take a look!"
After hearing Jiang Man's reply, I couldn't help but quicken my pace.
"Bang! Bang!"
As we ran, two more gunshots rang out ahead.
Following the sound of gunfire, Jiang Man and I ran a distance through the passage. Suddenly, a huge space appeared in front of us. As I approached the exit, I saw a faint green light flickering in the distance.
The light was very dim, and it couldn't even illuminate the surrounding environment clearly. It was exactly what Jiang Man and I had seen in the corridor earlier.
As I shone my flashlight over it, I discovered that the owner of the eerie green light was a huge beast.
The beast resembled a dog three parts and a cat seven parts, and was the size of a calf. It had no hair, only bald skin covered with fleshy growths the size of walnuts. The light emanating from its body came from these growths.
At this moment, the strange beast was fiercely tearing at a member of the Ping'an Village tribe. The two shots fired by the tribesman had just hit the beast's abdomen, causing blood to continuously seep from its muzzle.
"Snap!"
With a scream from the villager, the beast bit off his arm as easily as cutting tofu, then lashed out with its claw.
"Jiang Man, save him!"
I saw that the villagers were in imminent danger, so I ran over there quickly, drawing two throwing knives and hurling them with all my might.
"Pfft!"
The throwing knife slashed across, leaving two streaks of blood on the beast.
"roar!"
The beast, stung by the throwing knife, roared angrily and pounced on me.
"Bang bang bang bang bang!"
Seeing the beast's movements, Jiang Man stood beside me and repeatedly pulled the trigger, emptying the magazine.
"Aww!"
The beast was shot five times in the head, staggered and fell to the ground, its face covered in blood as it kicked its legs and screamed in agony.
I had never seen such a strange beast before, and I didn't know if Jiang Man's shots would be fatal to it. Taking advantage of its inability to hurt anyone, I grabbed my knife and rushed at it.
"Pfft!"
I swung my dagger, and it pierced the beast's head through its eye, then began to twist and turn it violently.
"Aww—"
The beast was in pain and instinctively tried to struggle, but its scream was only half-finished before it stopped abruptly and died completely.
After I killed the beast, I ran towards the village people, but when I saw what he looked like, I frowned.
The villager's arms had been bitten off by the strange beast, and his legs had also been severed at the groin.
The beast's claw had just slapped him across the face, scraping off half of his skin, leaving half of his tongue dangling out, and his eyeballs, now without eyelids, staring wide-eyed.
Seeing that the person was exhaling more than inhaling, I unfastened the Velcro on my medical kit and pulled out a metal gun-style syringe.
Seeing my actions, Jiang Man followed and reminded me, "Duan Shenxing! He's already beyond saving, there's no need for us to waste the medicine!"
Looking at the man from the village whose body was stained with blood, I injected him with a syringe: "We are all trapped here, which is a kind of fate. This injection will not save his life, but it will make his passing less painful."
Upon hearing my words, the villagers, though their speech was slurred, said with a fierce glint in their eyes, "I don't need your pity! The Temple of the Fierce God is a forbidden area for the village. Anyone who trespasses... will be killed without mercy!"
“I know you hate us outsiders, but believe it or not, I’m here to stop others from opening the third door.”
I knew the villagers didn't have many minutes left to live, so after explaining my purpose, I quickly asked, "Did you come here on your own, or did you follow another group?"
The villager didn't answer my question, but just stared at me with his round eyes, which were missing half of his face: "The Temple of the Ferocious God, anyone who trespasses will die!"
Seeing the man's resolute attitude, Jiang Man said to him, "I don't know how much you knew about your opponents before you took action, but among these forces, there is a man named Duan Jinyan, known in the tomb raiding world as the Wind-Born Beast! There's a folk rhyme in the martial arts world: 'The Yellow Springs Palace has three thousand six hundred tombs, all accompanied by the wind; if it weren't for Jinyan to bring peace to the world, even knowing the dragon would be in vain!'"
Although this poem contains exaggerations, it still illustrates that if even Duan Jinyan can't open any of the tombs in the world, then others can only look on in awe! He is not only a master tomb raider, but also possesses the keys to open three doors. The fact that he has reached this level already demonstrates his abilities!
If you tell us about him, we can help stop him. Even if we say I'm lying to you, this conflict of interest is still good for you both! Since you're willing to risk your life to protect this so-called Temple of the Evil God, you can't expect to die meaninglessly, can you?
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