This is not a courtyard, but a clearing in the middle of the courtyard.

In the middle of the clearing, there was a weeping willow that looked as thick as four people hugging each other, and the thick trunk alone was enough to tell that it had been here for some years.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this old tree that the surrounding villagers all tacitly vacated this place when building houses, so there is such an open space that looks like five or six hundred square meters.

The trunk of the tree had begun to peel off, and the layers of bark had already become like the wrinkles on the old man's face, and from time to time you could see the cracks revealing the blackened heart of the tree.

But even so, it still had no intention of falling, and even the half-withered canopy began to sprout, while the leaves on the other side had long been impermeable to block the sunlight above.

Such a peculiar scene naturally attracted the attention of the players.

There is no doubt that this old tree, which was already dying, has been given a new lease of life under the influence of the red mist.

But what is even more amazing is the shadow under the canopy.

It should have been flat on the ground, but now it was a high bulge, and it wasn't until the team got a little closer that they realized what kind of shadow it was, it was clearly a dark monster hiding in the shade of a tree!

The monster looked to be more than three meters long, and its body looked black and dirty under the shade of the trees.

The team didn't dare to get too close, and they quickly realized the seriousness of the problem after noticing the unpleasant monster under the tree.

How can there be such a large animal in modern society? So these eight achievements are a mutant beast that has been repeatedly mentioned above!

The handbook that circulated among the survivors made it clear that even if the Awakened encountered mutant beasts, it would be difficult to get benefits, so if others saw these monsters, the best option was to flee for their lives.

But the curiosity of the team members was aroused by this monster that they had never seen before, and instead of stopping, the steps under their feet were still slowly approaching.

It wasn't until they crept up to a distance of less than a hundred meters from the monster that they hid behind a low wall and continued to spy on it.

As the distance closer, the monster's appearance became clearer, and the team members realized that its body was not jet black, but a faint earthy yellow. And what looked jet-black at first was the spike-like sideburns on its skin!

The monster turned its back to a group of team members, and did not seem to notice the living people approaching behind them, but lowered its head to eat something.

One of them crept around to the side to see what the monster's head looked like, and when he finally saw the monster's side face and what was underneath it from the left side, his whole face instantly became horrified.

The monster's head was large, almost as thick as its neck, and when viewed from the side, the curves of its entire body arched high above its back like a hill.

A ripe brown eye was set into a huge head like a small light bulb, and the ears were pointed and short, and they were upturned upwards.

Its eyesight didn't seem to be very good, and it didn't notice that the large living being, less than fifty meters to the bottom of it, was still gnawing on something below.

It was precisely because he could see what the monster was gnawing on after looking down that the whole team member felt that his hairs stood on end.

It was the corpse of a man.

Even though only about half of his upper body could be seen from his side, and the arm on the other side seemed to have disappeared into the big mouth, the team member was still sure that it was a human corpse!

The only remaining arm was still dangling on the ground with the arch of the head on his body, and it looked like he was still struggling.

The skin of the corpse looked a little yellow, not the kind of white or gray that only zombies have.

It is precisely because of this that it makes people feel even more terrifying, watching their compatriots being eaten by this monster in front of them to only half of it, this kind of impact is incomparable to anything else.

Just when he was a little stunned, the monster in his sight suddenly raised its head, and then saw two fangs that curved like horns pull out from the corpse on the ground.

Rhinoceros?

The moment Wang Yao saw this scene, he subconsciously thought of an animal, but this idea was immediately denied by himself.

There are no rhinos in Xia Guo, and there is no zoo in Z City, so it is even more unlikely that rhinoceros will appear in such a small mountain village. What's more, the two sharp and uplifted protrusions don't look so much like horns no matter how you look at them, but more like the fangs of some kind of animal.

Thinking of this, he concentrated his mind and observed the monster that appeared in the field of vision of a certain team member more closely, and its image gradually completely overlapped with a certain animal in his mind.

Pigs, or rather, wild boars!

Yes, it should have been thought of a long time ago, and aside from its current terrifying size, in terms of appearance alone, it was actually quite obvious.

The canines are well developed, the dorsal line is high in front and low in the back, and the body has this signature sideburns, but now those sideburns have completely turned into spikes like steel needles, more like its distant cousin porcupine, not so much a wild boar.

In fact, it is unlikely that wild boars will appear in the countryside, after all, modern society is full of mountains and rocks, and wild animals have disappeared from people's sight.

It's just that pigs are strange animals, even if they have been kept in captivity by humans for thousands of years, as long as they return to the wild, it only takes a short time to return to the wild state they used to be.

It is estimated that the mutant wild boar in front of him was originally a domestic pig in captivity in the yard of a certain family.

The man who approached from the side alone immediately returned to the group after scouting the monster's situation, and then the five of them wanted to discuss countermeasures.

It's okay if it buries its head in grass, at least it means that this mutant beast may be docile and will not take the initiative to attack humans.

But the unrecognizable thing that was gnawed by this monster for breakfast just now was obviously not a weed on the ground, it was a meat eater.

That's a bit of a serious problem, although the above rule is to protect yourself first in case of danger, but with such a terrifying carnivorous mutant beast running around the village, the threat to everyone is too great.

Several people were thinking about whether to send someone back to inform Wang Yao and ask if they would like to invite Brother Feng or Lu Heng to come over and help kill this mutant beast, when they heard Wang Yao's voice suddenly ring in their minds.

"Don't act rashly for the time being, just make sure this mutated boar is in your sight at all times while ensuring your own safety. As for how to deal with it, I'll figure it out. ”

Wang Yao's voice sounded a little anxious, as if he was afraid that they would do something impulsively.

Mutant boars?

The five people looked at each other, this monster that looked like a pickup truck was actually a pig?

They were a little unconvinced, but when they looked at the monster that was eating under the tree with this thought in their minds, they found that there were indeed some similarities between the two.

It's just that this change is really exaggerated.