ATPnovel Chapter 9 A terrifying behemoth descends! My men think it's not enough to fight!
Chapter 9 A terrifying behemoth descends! My men think it's not enough to fight!
"Master... there's something over there!"
The square-faced man lowered his voice to a very low tone, a stark contrast to the man who had been shouting orders at the top of his lungs during the day.
Lin Feng's gaze sharpened, and he immediately scanned the tree line to the north.
The firelight only illuminated the edge of the open space; beyond that, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.
But there was a sound.
The sound of branches and leaves being parted grew louder and louder as it approached.
Alarm bells rang in Lin Feng's mind. The teleportation portal was deep in the northern forest, and this thing also came from the north.
If these are indeed monsters released from the portal, their numbers and strength are unknown. Standing here and waiting is tantamount to suicide.
We must shrink our lines!
"Everyone retreat!"
Lin Feng gave the order and pointed to the barbecue grill behind him.
"Form a circle around the fire, with the axe blades facing outwards!"
The ten burly men acted on their bodies before they even thought.
The square-faced giant was the first to step back, holding the iron axe horizontally in front of his chest. The other nine men quickly followed, their steps fast and steady, forming a rough circle around the barbecue grill in just over ten seconds.
Lin Feng stood in the middle of the circle, with his back against a large tree.
The fire was still burning, its orange glow illuminating the silhouettes of the burly men clearly. Each of them stared intently to the north, iron axes raised in mid-air, the muscles on their arms taut and defined.
The camp was so quiet you could hear your own heartbeat.
The commotion deep in the woods grew louder and louder.
The sound of bushes being knocked aside, the crisp sound of branches breaking, and heavy footsteps.
One step, two steps, each step carried weight, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
The square-faced man swallowed hard, his hands gripping the iron axe handle so tightly it made a cracking sound.
We were only twenty or thirty meters away from the edge of the camp.
About ten meters.
The branches and leaves rustled and fell to both sides, and the bushes at the edge of the clearing shook violently.
A low growl came from the darkness.
It wasn't a human voice.
With a raw and fierce quality characteristic of wild beasts, it came out in a muffled, trembling voice, as if it were dragging a thick phlegm in its throat.
Lin Feng's nerves tensed instantly.
The square-faced, burly man clenched his teeth and raised his iron axe high.
"They're here!!"
The bushes exploded.
A dark shadow burst out from the treeline at an absurd speed, bringing with it a stench of hot air, and rushed straight toward the defensive perimeter.
The moment the firelight shone on them, everyone could see clearly.
A pig.
No, it can't be called a pig.
This thing is about the size of a cow, with shoulders reaching a person's waist, and its whole body is covered with coarse, stiff black hair, with a row of bristles standing up on its back.
His two eyes gleamed with a dark red light.
A fang protrudes from each side of its mouth, as long as an adult's forearm, with slightly curved tips that gleam with an oily sheen in the firelight.
It lowered its head, its fangs pointing directly at the square-faced giant at the front.
The burly man on the left started to tremble in his legs, and almost dropped the iron axe from his hand.
The burly man on the right took a step back, his heel hitting the grill leg.
Lin Feng's tense shoulders suddenly relaxed.
There were no magical effects, no elemental attachments, and there was neither fire nor ice on its body.
Simply, abnormally large.
It turned out to be just a mutated wild boar with an abnormally large size.
It can be cut.
The square-faced giant also made his judgment at the same time, but his criteria were completely different from Lin Feng's.
What he saw was not a threat.
What he saw was meat.
Several hundred kilograms of meat.
The square-faced giant kicked his legs, but instead of retreating, he took a big step forward, swung his iron axe high, and roared angrily.
"The meat delivery guy is here!!"
As soon as those three words were uttered, the nine burly men behind him were all stunned.
Meat?
Nine pairs of eyes simultaneously switched from fear to another emotion.
Ten fish to feed eleven mouths—that last meal was just the bare minimum. Everyone still had plenty of room in their stomachs, and the feeling of not being full lingered deep inside.
Now a wild boar weighing several hundred pounds is just delivering itself to my door?
The big man on the far left was the first to react and let out a howl.
"Roasted pig!!"
The second one followed immediately with a shout.
"The pig's leg is mine!"
"I want pork ribs!!"
The mutated wild boar's tusks were less than three meters away from the square-faced giant.
The square-faced giant's iron axe had already come down.
The axe struck the right side of the pig's head squarely, the blade sinking into the flesh beneath the coarse hair, and blood splattered everywhere.
The wild boar grunted, its head being smashed off course by the axe, its tusks grazing the square-faced man's side, tearing off a piece of his clothing.
It steadied itself, shook its head wildly, and let out a piercing hiss, preparing for a second charge.
There won't be a second time.
Nine iron axes arrived at the same time.
Three burly men on the left swung their axes at the boar's sides simultaneously. Three cold blades fell neatly together, and with three muffled "thuds," the axe blades sank into the flesh.
The two on the right were chopped off in the hind legs. With one swing of the axe, the knee joints were broken, and the wild boar's hind half sank to the ground.
The remaining four attacked from the front and rear, and Iron Axe unleashed a flurry of attacks.
Puff. Puff. Puff puff puff.
The wild boar's squeals abruptly stopped.
It didn't even have a chance to struggle; three of its four legs were severed, and six or seven gashes were opened in its waist and abdomen, with blood gushing out.
The square-faced man swung his iron axe and delivered another blow to the pig's neck.
"Click."
The wild boar's massive body crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust. Its front hooves twitched twice before it lay still.
From the moment it broke through the tree line to the moment it fell to the ground, it took less than ten seconds.
The camp fell silent again.
Ten burly men surrounded the wild boar carcass, each holding an iron axe dripping with blood. They were all panting heavily, their chests heaving, but the expressions on their faces... weren't of lingering fear, but of excitement.
The square-faced man pulled the iron axe from the pig, shook off the blood, and looked down at the wild boar that had been hacked beyond recognition.
He frowned.
"this one?"
A burly man next to him also curled his lip in disapproval.
"I haven't even put any effort into it, and it's already stopped moving."
"It's too fragile."
"Could we have another one?"
Lin Feng stood there, looking at the group of burly men who seemed to think the hundreds-of-pounds-weight wild boar carcass wasn't enough to fight, and then at the iron axes still dripping blood in their hands. A smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
Tonight, these guys can finally have a good meal.
The square-faced man squatted down and patted the wild boar's belly.
"Master, this pig weighs at least four or five hundred pounds, enough for several meals!"
As he spoke, he reached his hands under the pig's belly, straightened his back, and actually lifted the whole pig up.
"Wait a minute—"
Lin Feng had only spoken halfway through his sentence.
A crisp notification sound suddenly popped into my mind.
[Ding—Congratulations to the survivor for successfully surviving the first wave of monster attacks on the island!]