Chapter 1993 - Moving Canteen (1/2)

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

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The Mailong Private Military Group decided to leave the mountains that night. They were moving even quicker this time, trying to leave the Tianshan Demon Tiger’s territory and shake it off.

The group finally stopped in the afternoon of the next day. Bright sunlight shone upon the irregular mountains, delivering warmth to the Rift Valley.

“It has been a while since we were last under the sun. I’m already missing the Middle East,” a mercenary with a hat spoke up.

“I believe you miss the warm embrace of your new girlfriend’s bust instead?” another mercenary grinned.

“HAHA, you’re right on the money! To be honest, she doesn’t treat me seriously. I’ll dump her after having a blast once I earn a fortune from this mission. I’ll look for someone with a beautiful face too!” the mercenary with a hat said.

A cold shadow suddenly loomed over the mercenary as they were talking. Its menacing eyes were glaring at them like they were mere food to it.

“We’re under attack!” the mercenary yelled.

The shadow that was blocking the sunlight suddenly disappeared with a whoosh. The man immediately searched for the figure among the rocks, yet he only saw some leaves spiraling.

“Where’s the enemy?”

“I saw it just then, right over there,” the man said.

Someone tossed a Brilliant Light in the direction that the man was pointing into. It immediately lit up the area.

The light would expose every living creature, especially those that were moving.

“Are you messing with us? The group didn’t get to sleep well for the past few days. Don’t you know your false alarm is going to waste a lot of our precious energy?” an old mercenary rebuked.

“I…I’m sorry. Eiro, didn’t you see something too? I’m pretty sure… Eiro?” The mercenary turned around and realized the man named Eiro he was having a conversation with had already disappeared!

He quickly looked around, but did not see Eiro anywhere. The two of them were standing close together. How did he disappear all of a sudden?

The old mercenary belatedly realized something had shown up, and quickly gathered the others.

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“It’s the third victim today,” Tommy said.

“Yeah, and one of them was killed when someone was right beside him. Speaking of which, the creature could have killed both of them. Why did it only kill one and leave?” Aubern said.

“It seems like the creature only eats three humans every day,” Kuma said.

The others were spooked.

It made a lot of sense, as the creature had killed three mercenaries for three consecutive days. It did not kill more than three even when it could.

“Damn it, is it herding us?” Aubern spat.

“I heard the Tianshan Demon Tigers prefer eating their prey alive. They won’t even bother sniffing a dead body,” Tommy said softly.

“Which means, that son of a b**ch is treating us like a moving canteen!” Aubern said angrily.