Chapter 960 - Precarious Night (1) (2/2)

“Waaa—”

At this crucial moment, the loud and clear cry of a baby rang from the opposite shore. A taut string in Bai Qingqing’s heart snapped as she thought to herself “Oh no”.

The baby’s cries seemed to be the spark that lit up Curtis’s fuse. He abruptly stood up and speedily slithered into the lake, heading straight for the source of noise opposite.

Bai Qingqing, too, ran out and yelled, “Curtis, don’t go over there!”

The snake gliding through the water halted, then suddenly changed directions and headed towards her. Those bloodthirsty eyes were filled with the cold and ruthless nature of a snake beastman, making Bai Qingqing sense an unprecedented feeling of threat.

The current Curtis felt a hundred times more dangerous than the Curtis she had met for the first time before she understood snake beastmen. He had lost all of his senses, and no one knew what he would do next.

Leopard howls and tiger roars rang from the opposite shore at the same time, as if to attract Curtis’s attention. However, Curtis remained unmoved and swam towards Bai Qingqing swiftly.

Bai Qingqing’s instinct to live caused every cell in her body to maniacally scream at her to flee. But it was like her legs were rooted to the ground, and she was unable to move an inch.

All she could do was watch as the snake got closer and closer to her, so close that she could feel the cold wind brought by the other party. Following that, the snake raised his upper body and was about to do something, when she felt something tighten around her waist, and the very next moment, she was forcibly brought away from where she was standing.

An ordinary person would be startled at having been abruptly taken away, but Bai Qingqing, on the other hand, heaved a sigh of relief.

She didn’t even have to raise her head. From her peripheral vision, she could see the abnormally developed chest muscles of the man holding her, as well as his overly long arms. Bai Qingqing realized who the person was right away.

Bai Qingqing suddenly thought of Muir. As a beastman who could fly, his chest was equally muscular, and his arms that could transform into wings also had an ape-like quality to them.

She even suspected that this mysterious beastman who treated her so well it induced panic in her heart was, in fact, Muir.