There was a faint glow in the dark forest, and intuitively, Evan thought it was the light from the thing's eyes. It was a faint purple light that flickered in the shadows. But in a moment, Evan realized that it was not two points, but a single piece of light emitted by several points of light combined.

"Damn, it's a mutant creature again!" Evan swallowed hard, his palms covered with sweat, and the automatic rifle became more and more slippery, constantly trying to fall to the ground. Most of the higher creatures in the old days had two eyes, but many mutated creatures were characterized by having multiple eyes. From a biological point of view, this may seem like a no-brainer, but the reality is that it is.

Evan hates mutant creatures, facing mutant creatures is equivalent to facing the unknown, and most of his fear comes from the unknown. No one knows how many mutated creatures there are in this world, let alone what these guys have mutated. An instinctive impulse wanted him to hide behind the safe walls of the village, but the experience of the battlefield required him to stay, find out what it was, figure out what it was, and preferably kill it again. Traces in the barn indicate that the high fence is just a seemingly safe one, and that the chemical toxins on the barbed wire are only effective against most normal animals and humans, and God knows if they will work on that thing. And Evan is the most combat-ready and experienced person in the entire village. In the complex environment of mountainous areas, the large number of people is not necessarily an advantage, and it is more likely to increase casualties.

Although he was sent to this remote and inhospitable place, Evan remained a captain with honor and a sense of responsibility, and he never changed.

Evan controlled his breathing, flattened his automatic rifle, and slowly walked into the forest. From the light to the darkness, Evan's eyesight was temporarily uncomfortable, and at that moment, a black shadow swept forward like lightning, and disappeared into the depths of the forest after a few jumps between the trees. Evan still hadn't seen the thing, but it was certain that it was about the size of a feral cat. It made him feel better, but he still didn't let his guard down. Even if it's really a feral cat, you can get seriously injured if you don't handle it carefully. What's more, after seeing its size, Evan couldn't understand how the bull disappeared.

He straightened up a little and continued to search deeper into the forest, and experience told him that what he was looking for should not be far away.

In the forest, there was a wisp of blood in the rich smell of grass and trees. The faint breath was immediately captured by Evan's keen nose, and he sniffed hard, found his way, and slowly walked towards a few large trees.

Bypassing the ancient tree that was as thick as a man, Evan suddenly froze, and cold sweat suddenly broke out like a spring!

And the bull that had been lost lay on his stomach in the open ground before him, and did not move, as if he were asleep. But Evan, who is very experienced in the battlefield, can see at a glance that the bull's eyes are abnormally purple-black, and his eyelids are cracked, which is clearly a table of extreme fear!

To be exact, it was not "one" bull lying on the snow in the woods, but "half" bull!

The part of the bull from the shoulder blade back is only the white bones of the forest, and no flesh can be found, while the chest and shoulders are intact. But when Evan's slightly narrowed eyes swept away, he immediately noticed that there were several crisscrossing black lines on the bull's dark fur, and it was easy to ignore the past if you didn't look closely. He then found a similar line on the skeleton of the back half of the bull's body. The corners of Evan's eyes involuntarily **, he finally knew how the bull had passed through that small ventilation window, but he would rather not know anything himself.

The cattle weighing several hundred kilograms was cut into dozens of pieces, moved out of the barn piece by piece, and reassembled here into a cow. The lower half of the body that disappeared had naturally gone into the stomach of that thing. However, even the most skilled chef can hardly cut the whole cow so neatly that it is almost indistinguishable from a whole cow when it is assembled. Not only was the cut section of the bull extremely smooth, but the cut did not avoid the bone, even the hard hind leg bone was cut into three pieces. In Evan's memory, only a fifth-order or higher sword master or sword master in the Holy Radiance Crusade could cut such a neat incision!

A thought suddenly came to Evan that if these were really killed by the wild cat-like creature, then it would be about the same as cutting open its own head as if it were cutting open a piece of cheese.

"Damn mutated creatures!" Evan cursed, his chest as if it had been crushed against a stone, and it became very difficult to breathe.

At that moment, there was a slight grinding sound overhead that did not belong to the forest. Evan looked up suddenly, and just a few meters above the trunk of a tree, he finally saw the thing.

It was an indescribable creature, with a streamlined body that was very slender and had several twists and turns. It is wrapped in dark blue skin with a faint sheen circulating on the surface of the skin. When moving quickly, these sheens allow it to blend in with its surroundings, and while not invisible, they can make it difficult to capture its location. Its abdomen has two pairs of arthropods, the back pair is extraordinarily long, the surface of the arthropods that are also cyan shines with a metallic luster, and the sharp tip is shallow** tree trunk. Judging by its powerful lines, the four arthropods should be able to sink into the trunk of the tree with ease. At the front of its body, there are two blades that resemble the forelimbs of a praying mantis, with several twists, not like insect arthropods, but like the elaborate slashing knives of masters. The two blades were twenty centimeters long each, not like they could dismember a bull, but they were more than sharp and powerful. Its head is densely packed with sixteen small compound eyes, half of which are sparkling purple, and half of which are of all colors and lusters.

It was pinned vertically to the trunk of the tree, staring at Evan as its blades rubbed against each other, seemingly restless.

It is a creature full of power and streamlined beauty, with a lofty grace and arrogance. Unlike those ugly and weird mutated creatures, it is by no means ugly and weird, but simply terrifying because it is powerful.

Evan doesn't say he's seen it, he's never heard of such a creature. As soon as the muzzle of his automatic rifle was raised a little, the movement of the small creature rubbing the blade immediately slowed, and the sudden increase in coercion caused Erwen to cease his potentially hostile movements. But he didn't dare to retreat, for fear that he would attract the opponent's instinctive attack.

He couldn't advance, he didn't dare to retreat, and he couldn't make other moves without being familiar with the other party's habits, so Evan froze there. The only thing he was glad about was that he didn't bring the people from the village out, with the speed of this little thing and the lethality of cutting beef cattle lightly, even if the whole village was **, there would be no chance. Now Evan only hopes not to provoke this little thing, even if it often comes here to forage in the future, although eating half a beef cow in a day is a bit of a pressure on the village.

Unbeknownst to Evan, the little thing nailed to the tree was also in a quandary. Compared to beef cattle, the man in front of him is obviously more delicious and tasty. In its eyes, the deliciousness of food is directly proportional to the ability it contains. The energy in beef is pitiful, and even if half of it is eaten in one meal, it can only make it feel not hungry. In its field of vision, the beef cattle were completely dim, while Evan was radiating a warm and bright glow of energy.

It has more than a dozen compound eyes, each with a different role, and the combination of the vision of the dozen eyes is too numerous to count. But no matter how you switch, Evan is much tastier than beef cattle.

The stomach is getting hungrier, but it has to resist temptation. In pain, it sharpened its blade very melancholy, and the two sharp armor blades rubbed against each other, splashing large sparks that only metal can have. This action obviously stimulated the man under the tree, although he didn't make any movements, the energy light on his body was suddenly strong and weak, and he was obviously frightened.

Of course, Evan didn't know that his calm disguise had already been stripped clean in the other party's composite vision.

It is not easy for the little ones to resist temptations, especially the temptations of food. It's still very young, and it doesn't know what will is. When it begins to be conscious, it has been growing in the mother's body for a while, and then it is born. It seems normal for it to leave its mother as soon as it is born. The mother's advice before leaving was just muttering, but more of a blessing and hope. But she didn't know that it actually understood everything.

From the moment of birth, it has its own consciousness and wisdom. The mother told it not to approach itself and not to look for itself. It was very obedient, because it sensed a very strong aura of danger from its mother, and even a thick dark gray glow that represented death. Even if the mother doesn't say it, it won't come close, this is the instinct of the young body to survive, and it is also the embodiment of wisdom. It is clear that now it will only become a burden to its mother. Before it was even born, the strength of the creature named Elena had already shaken it.

It needs to grow, it needs to be strong.

Survival, growth, and strength are instincts engraved in the deepest part of its genes.

As for the idea of the mother letting the people in the village raise him, it seemed completely unnecessary. Even if it is a juvenile, it has a perceptual range of more than fifty meters in radius, and foraging for food and avoiding danger are not a problem at all. It can even kill everyone in the village after the full moon if it wants to.

It doesn't consider itself human, and all perceptions verify this fact, but it knows that its mother is human. So if it's really hungry, or if the food is too tasty, it's not willing to feed on humans. When it is in the mother's body, it is extremely warm and comfortable, which makes it full of good feelings for humans.

Just when the trees and the trees were all tangled, the little guy's movements suddenly stiffened!

Its body trembled, and scales emerged from its dark cyan skin, and the pieces were opened, and a little yellowish glow lit up under each scale. The scales were long, smooth, with sharp edges, and when they opened, the little thing turned into a ball of knives. If a beast swallows it in one gulp, it can cut through the internal organs of the beast by spreading its scales.

But now, it spreads its scales clearly not to attack. All of its compound eyes flickered wildly, and the four arthropods nailed into the trunk were pulled out and lightly tapped against the trunk, barely supporting its body.

After a few seconds, it seemed to have discovered something, and it let out a soft scream, and several extraordinarily long scales on its back opened to the maximum, spewing out several faint yellow rays from under the scales. The light had a strong propulsion, and it leaped so hard that it actually floated in the air, then turned around in the air, and flew into the distance with a whirl, and disappeared from Evan's vision in an instant.

Evan stood stunned, unaware of what was happening. When the little thing jumped in the air, he thought he was dead, but who knew that it actually flew away, and it escaped very much!

Evan's whole body suddenly relaxed, and he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. At the same time, there seems to be a sticky and wet feeling on the body, which is indescribably uncomfortable.

He gasped for air, his knees went limp, and he sat down on the floor.

The forest grew even more gloomy, but Evan didn't notice it for the rest of his life. Little did he realize that in another world, a vast shadow enveloped the entire area. Shadow spotted Evan, and a tentacle reached into the world, touched Evan on him, and returned to the Illusory World without interest. A few other tentacles took a keen interest in the half of the beef cow and coiled for a long time before retreating.

The shadows rushed through like a tidal wave, heading towards the undulating mountain range to the north. Evan only felt a chill pass through his body, as if he was naked and constantly washed by the cold tide of the sea. He finally gained some strength, struggled to his feet, and slowly walked out of the forest. As for the beef cow, it was just left there. While it is possible to bring the little thing back, it is more likely to anger the little guy if the beef cattle are taken away or burned. That would be a complete disaster for the whole village.

The gloom of the forest lasted for half an hour, during which Evan was limp in his legs and walked more than half as slowly as usual. It took ten minutes to walk in, and half an hour to go out and not get out of the forest. Evan cursed secretly in his heart, there were too many incredible things to do today.

As Evan walked out of the forest, his eyes suddenly lit up, and it seemed that a very beautiful young man and two girls had walked in front of him. The amazement of the moment made Evan's heart skip a full beat. But when he rubbed his eyes to see more clearly, there was nothing in front of him, and there was no sign of anyone on the ground.

Evan examined the ground closely, and there was no sign of it. But the memory of seeing the three people just now was extremely clear, and they walked less than a hundred meters in front of him!

For the first time in his life, Evan doubted his eyes. After another futile search, Evan finally decided to give up. He's been through so much today, he's been scared too much, and he needs a good rest.

Ten years of quiet life are shattered today. Evan even wondered if all his luck had been exhausted in the last decade.

In a certain way, Evan's hunch this time was right.

A few hours later, the shadows of another world rolled back, and a dazzling ball of giant plasma fireballs rose from the village.

It's angry, but Evan doesn't need to know about it anymore.