Chapter 40: Accident

Zhou Liming had also never seen this kind of Bird Beast before, so he couldn’t guess what its abilities were really like.

But at this point, was there any other way? To get the fuel, he had no choice but to lure it away and give Zhang Yibao and the others enough time.

Zhou Liming took a deep breath and then swaggered towards the direction of the Bird Beast. Seeing Zhou Liming walk out like that, Zhang Yibao and the others behind him cursed under their breaths: “What a fool, doesn’t he know to use other methods to lure it away? Damn it, with this stupid look, he’d just get torn apart by that monster in one go.”

Whether Zhou Liming lived or died was none of their business, but if Zhou Liming failed to lure the monster away, this trip would be a waste for all of them.

The Bird Beast had very keen hearing. When Zhou Liming got within a hundred meters, it stopped eating and turned its head to look at Zhou Liming.

To be honest, the corpse under the Bird Beast’s feet was gruesome. Its internal organs were almost eaten empty, leaving its belly hollow with the meat walls exposed. Dark blood had coagulated into a viscous substance, and the skin was pale with no color at all. Especially the face of the corpse, twisted in terror, with white eyes that seemed to reveal endless pain and horror. He had been found by the Bird Beast, crushed to the ground alive, his belly torn open, and died while the Bird Beast pulled out and swallowed his internal organs.

In the past, if Zhou Liming had seen this scene, he would have vomited up his yellow bile.

But after days of fleeing and facing people who died in various gruesome ways, Zhou Liming had long become numb. Moreover, the violent and impatient emotions in his body gave him a slight sense of excitement towards such a bloody scene. Yes, it was excitement, a negative emotion brought by genes.

The Bird Beast just looked at Zhou Liming a few times and then, ignoring him, went back to pecking at the ground for food.

Zhou Liming was somewhat stunned. In his memory, fierce beasts always attacked and slaughtered as soon as they saw people. Why was this Bird Beast so strange?

Seeing Zhou Liming standing there looking dumbfounded, Zhang Yibao and the others behind him grew anxious. This Small Town was indeed weird. Who knew if there were still more monsters? Why wasn’t this fool luring the beast away quickly so they could drive the oil truck away and be done with it? What was he dawdling for!

However, Zhang Yibao and the others were anxious but dared not shout. If they made a sound, the beast might charge at them, and then…

Zhou Liming remembered his purpose and stepped forward, approaching the Bird Beast again.

As long as Zhou Liming didn’t move, it was fine. But the moment he moved, the Bird Beast immediately stopped eating, turned around, and let out a sharp cry into the sky. It sounded somewhat like a crane’s call, but it carried a metallic grinding sound, which was very harsh and uncomfortable to the ears.

The sound conveyed a warning.

Zhou Liming’s purpose was to lure it away, so how could he be afraid of its warning?

Seeing that the warning was ineffective, the Bird Beast dropped the corpse under its feet, used its legs to push off with sudden force, and exploded forward with such power that it literally tore up the concrete road. Then, the Bird Beast almost became a blur, covering dozens of meters in an instant. Zhou Liming didn’t even have time to react before it was right in front of him.

Zhou Liming only felt himself being tossed into the air, and a tearing sensation came from his shoulders, with blood continuously gushing out.

“Damn it.” Zhou Liming cursed aloud. He knew his own physique. After Genetic Modification, he could block bullets from ordinary pistols. But under the claws of this Bird Beast, he was nothing but a scrap. Just looking at the flesh and skin flapping from his shoulders, one could see that his powerful defense was utterly insignificant.

Moreover, the speed of this Bird Beast was too terrifying. Without entering Fierce Beast Form, Zhou Liming couldn’t even track its movements.

Thrown away by the Bird Beast and landing more than ten meters away, Zhou Liming crashed into the wall by the street with a thud, punching a huge hole directly through it, and fell into the shop behind the wall.

“Cough… cough… cough, what rank of Fierce Beast is this?”

Zhou Liming struggled to his feet and shook his hands. Fortunately, although his shoulders hurt and bled a lot, they weren’t disabled, which was partly due to his Genetic Modification. If an ordinary person were caught by this Bird Beast, their shoulders would definitely be torn off.

Zhang Yibao and the others, who were watching everything from nearby, swallowed their saliva as they saw the ferocity of the Bird Beast. It was too fierce, truly too fierce.

But when they saw Zhou Liming shake the dust off his clothes and step out from the big hole in the wall, they were all dumbfounded: “Damn, is that even human? Thrown ten meters away, crashing through such a thick wall, and yet he doesn’t die.”

Seeing that its strike failed to kill the weak prey before it, the Bird Beast let out a sharp cry and accelerated again, charging towards Zhou Liming.

Zhou Liming’s pupils shrank. He knew that against this Fierce Beast, whose strength lay in speed, he didn’t even have the chance to run. The only way now was to kill it; otherwise, his current state, ten of him wouldn’t be enough for it to play with to death. As for Zhang Yibao and the others… Zhou Liming snorted coldly and made “oh oh” sounds, rushing to meet the Bird Beast.

To Zhang Yibao and the others, the Zhou Liming before them was definitely a fool. Instead of running now, he was naturally charging towards the monster. Did he not want to live?

But the next second, their mouths hung wide open…

While running, Zhou Liming instantly entered Fierce Beast Form. Scales covered him, and with the sound of his clothes tearing, he transformed into a Human-shaped Fierce Beast in the blink of an eye.

“Take this, for what you just did!”

Zhou Liming crashed ferociously into the Bird Beast. With huge force, he knocked the Bird Beast, which weighed at least half a ton, into the air. Before it could fall back down, Zhou Liming, using his speed, appeared at the Bird Beast’s landing spot. Bone Spur struck with shockwaves, ruthlessly piercing into the Bird Beast’s back, forcibly drilling two blood holes the size of fists.

Suffering this heavy blow, the landed Bird Beast let out a mournful cry. After getting up, a burst of flames suddenly surrounded its entire body.

A wave of heat rushed towards Zhou Liming, and then a ball of fire detached from the Bird Beast and sprayed towards Zhou Liming.

Zhou Liming contracted his muscles, stomped his foot, cracking the street surface, and jumped into the sky. The ball of fire flew past underneath Zhou Liming and crashed into a nearby seven-story residential building with a “boom.” The flames spread, and the extremely high temperature ignited everything combustible in the residential building.

This time, Zhang Yibao and the others were truly stunned. Looking at the Human-shaped Fierce Beast covered in scales on the street, and the Bird Beast burning like a ball of fire…

“Damn, what the hell are these things?”