I Start with a Mysterious Island-Chapter 52: Both Know the Other Is Hard to Deal With
"ROAR..."
The Leopard Beast roared at the three Exotic Beast Hunters, a faint golden Spiritual Light blooming from its feet. Then, it began to move, launching an attack on the prey before it.
When the crew-cut man saw the faint golden Spiritual Light bloom from the Leopard Beast’s feet, he immediately knew it was about to make its move.
So, the moment the Leopard Beast took a step with its right foot, he charged forward, swinging his sword and thrusting at its head.
The Leopard Beast’s running speed was extremely fast. If it was allowed to build up momentum, it would become incredibly dangerous for the three Exotic Beast Hunters.
That was why the heavily injured crew-cut man took the initiative to charge forward and meet the attacking Leopard Beast head-on. He had to break its offensive rhythm.
BANG.
Seeing its prey charge at it, the Leopard Beast was greatly surprised. Faced with the man’s thrusting Spiritual Longsword, which was glowing with a faint golden Spiritual Light, the beast actually rose up on its hind legs. It swung its right paw, slapping the incoming Spiritual Longsword aside.
Mutant Beasts were much stronger than humans. If the crew-cut man, whose back was already severely wounded, hadn’t prepared himself beforehand by tightly gripping his Spiritual Longsword, the immense force of the Leopard Beast’s paw striking his weapon would have sent it flying from his grasp.
"Captain."
"Be careful."
CRACK.
After swatting aside the man’s Spiritual Longsword, the Leopard Beast twisted its body. Its tail, like a steel whip, lashed out with the speed of lightning, striking the crew-cut man, whose condition was already terrible.
"Ah...!"
The crew-cut man, struck across the chest by the Leopard Beast’s tail, cried out in pain as a long, gruesome gash appeared. He then stumbled backward and fell.
Seeing its prey fall, the Leopard Beast knew its chance had come. It prepared to pounce again, aiming to bite its victim’s neck and finish him off.
"Get away!" At this critical moment, the bald man arrived just in time. He swung his Spiritual Long Saber, chopping at the head of the Leopard Beast as it prepared to bite his captain’s neck.
"ROAR." The Leopard Beast, its kill interrupted, roared in anger. It quickly jerked its head back, dodging the bald man’s slash.
Then, it leaped to the right. The woman with the bob-length hair was thrusting her Spiritual Long Spear with all her might from the left, aiming for the Leopard Beast’s stomach.
"Captain." The bald man quickly helped the heavily wounded crew-cut man up from the ground.
"My condition is critical. You two need to go, now. I’ll hold it off and buy you time to escape," the pale-faced crew-cut man said to the bald man and the short-haired woman.
"Captain, if we go, we go together. We’re not leaving you behind," the bald man and the short-haired woman said in unison.
"It’s better for one to die than for all three of us to die. If you still consider me your captain, then listen to me and go. Now." 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚
"..."
"..."
Seeing his two companions fall silent, the crew-cut man was deeply moved by their refusal to abandon him.
But being moved was one thing; he still didn’t want his two companions, whom he had worked with for so many years, to die with him in the wilderness.
"Go! If you die here with me, there will be no one left to avenge us! Get out of here, go back, train hard, and avenge me later!"
After speaking, he reached out and pulled his two companions, who were standing protectively in front of him, behind him.
"Captain~" The bald man and the short-haired woman cried out, their voices choked with emotion, as the crew-cut man pulled them back. They gritted their teeth and turned to flee.
In the Leopard Beast’s eyes, not a single one of these three prey could be allowed to escape.
Seeing the bald man and the short-haired woman running away, it immediately gave chase.
The crew-cut man never expected the Leopard Beast to ignore him, the heavily injured one, and instead go after his two companions.
He wanted to step forward and stop the Leopard Beast, but his physical condition was so terrible that he had no way of intercepting it.
"Behind you!" the crew-cut man shouted at his fleeing companions as he struggled to follow after the Leopard Beast.
Hearing their captain’s warning from behind, the bald man and the short-haired woman both glanced back. The figure of the Leopard Beast was right on their heels.
"Damn you, beast! I’ll fight you to the death!"
Just as the bald man and the short-haired woman prepared to turn and fight the Leopard Beast to the death, a piercing sound suddenly cut through the air.
WHOOSH.
A crescent-shaped Cyan Wind Blade shot out from the dense grass, flying straight toward the neck of the Leopard Beast as it prepared to pounce on the short-haired woman.
Sensing the threat, the Leopard Beast pushed off with all four limbs, forcefully changing its pouncing trajectory and leaping to the right instead.
The crescent-shaped Cyan Wind Blade skimmed under the leaping Leopard Beast, striking the ground with a BANG and carving out a crater a dozen centimeters deep.
"ROAR..." After landing, the ambushed Leopard Beast roared at the dense grass from which the Cyan Wind Blade had come, its eyes filled with fury.
The three regrouped Exotic Beast Hunters also looked toward the source of the Cyan Wind Blade, their faces full of confusion.
RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE...
The dense grass rustled a few times, and a figure holding a Spiritual Longsword emerged.
"It’s you?!!!" The three Exotic Beast Hunters cried out in unison upon seeing Lin Li.
They never expected the newcomer they had met at noon to appear here.
’So it really is these three! I thought those shouts sounded familiar...’
Lin Li glanced at the condition of the three Exotic Beast Hunters, his gaze lingering on the crew-cut man, who was covered in blood and deathly pale.
He knew that if he hadn’t come over just now, he wasn’t sure if the other two would have died, but the crew-cut man was definitely a goner.
"How did you end up like this?" Lin Li asked, looking at the seriously injured crew-cut man.
"Got careless. A Mutant Beast ambushed us," the crew-cut man said succinctly.
Lin Li nodded and didn’t ask any more questions. He turned to look at the Leopard Beast in the distance, which was now staring at him warily.
This strong, fierce-looking Leopard Beast was no fool.
From the lethality of the Cyan Wind Blade that had just ambushed it, and from the Spiritual Energy Wave emanating from this newcomer, it knew.
This human before it, who had awakened a Superpower and was on par with its own strength, would be extremely difficult to deal with.
It wasn’t just the Leopard Beast that thought Lin Li would be a tough opponent. Lin Li himself felt that his chances of taking down this Leopard Beast, which possessed the power of the Second Rank Initial Stage, were slim.
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