Chapter 1724: Chapter 1724
Chapter 1724: Chapter 750: Suffering Casualties
Lin Baici and the others had chopped down quite a bit of corn, and from above, this bare patch looked like a scar, quite conspicuous.
A few straw crows landed, fixing their black eyes intently on the surroundings.
Everyone slowed their breathing.
The girl with the lip ring wore less clothing and was sweaty, already uncomfortable. Now lying among the corn stalks, she felt even more uneasy and itchy in spots.
The girl with the lip ring scratched herself.
Internally, she still thought, “They’re just some crows, what’s the danger?”
They surely wouldn’t eat people, right?
So she wasn’t worried about it. This content belongs to novel⁂fire.net
She did not notice that right beside her were two crows, and as she scratched her back, the corn stalks covering her naturally shifted slightly.
The two straw crows noticed this and walked over, reaching out their beaks to peck at the corn.
The girl with the lip ring cursed under her breath and stopped moving, but the straw crows did not leave. Because of these two pecking, other crows began to gradually gather there as well.
The crows flapped their wings, flying over towards the girl with the lip ring.
At this, the girl with the lip ring panicked a bit.
No matter what it is, once the numbers increase, it appears rather creepy.
The girl with the lip ring reached out, trying to drive away the first two crows, thinking that without crows beside her, new ones wouldn’t be attracted.
But this action was like stirring up a hornet’s nest.
Those two crows driven away were not scared off; instead, because of her reaching out, they discovered her.
The two crows flapped their wings, flying away from the corn stack, and let out sharp, urgent cries.
Upon hearing this cry, the other straw crows flocked over.
The first two dived like bombs at the corn stack where the girl with the lip ring was hiding.
The atmosphere at the scene instantly turned tense.
In the blink of an eye, the area around the corn stack was filled with crows using their beaks and claws to scratch at the corn stack, trying to drag out the ‘food’ hiding inside.
The girl with the lip ring panicked, regretting her earlier attempt to drive away the two crows.
She dared not move, curling up into a ball, but it was useless; the straw crows had already spotted her.
A piercing cacophony of screams.
The girl with the lip ring suddenly jerked her leg, crying out in pain.
One crow had pecked at her calf.
The girl with the lip ring tried to endure it, but she couldn’t; the pecking area hurt intensely, and it seemed like some liquid was seeping out.
The girl with the lip ring wanted to reach down and check, but worried about alarming the crows, she hesitated. Meanwhile, the crow that had pecked her continued pushing into the corn stack, trying to eat the girl with the lip ring’s flesh.
How big could the space under a corn stack be?
Moreover, the girl with the lip ring, feeling lazy earlier, hadn’t built a big enough corn stack.
Soon, the crow saw her curled right foot and took another peck.
The girl with the lip ring shivered in pain.
With this crow having discovered her and tasted flesh, more crows crowded in, beginning their feast.
Their frenzied feeding was like a school of piranhas having spotted a drowning victim.
[Here comes the food, lunch has begun!]
Now, the girl with the lip ring couldn’t stay hidden, leaping up in pain, clutching her head, and ran towards her blond boyfriend.
The girl with the lip ring cried for help. She actually wanted to run to Lin Baici, but she figured the chances were high that they wouldn’t save her!
These crows were frightening.
Individually large, their beaks exceptionally sharp, each peck tearing a piece of skin and flesh from the girl with the lip ring.
The old man hiding in the corn stack wasn’t sure if he was talking about the crows being too ruthless or the blond being too heartless.
The girl with the lip ring didn’t listen, running to the corn stack where the blond was hiding, beginning to move some of the corn stalks aside.
In just this short time, the girl with the lip ring was pecked until her skin was split open, blood oozing, looking like a blood-soaked figure.
“Are you fucking crazy?”
The blond, also spotted by the crows, stood up angrily, complaining to the girl with the lip ring.
The girl with the lip ring sobbed uncontrollably.
“How am I supposed to help?”
The blond-haired guy coughed up blood, waving a machete while calling out to Lin Baici for help: “God Lin, help me?”
There were too many crows; even with his wild swings, he managed to hit one or two.
After they died, crows immediately gathered to eat their corpses.
Competing for the carcass, feathers flew everywhere, and the entrails were torn out and scattered all around.
The scene was gruesome.
Ma Xiaoyun felt uncomfortable all over and wanted to scratch, but the horrifying sight in front of her made her too afraid to move; she wished she could burrow into the ground to hide.
She regretted not stacking the corn pile thicker.
[No saving us, just wait to die!]
Lin Baici knew that speaking out might attract the crows’ attention, but out of humanitarianism, he shouted, then continued to ponder the variables that might arise next.
The girl with the lip ring cried, wanting to find Lin Baici but not daring to; she ran around aimlessly.
The blond-haired guy felt similarly, but he thought if he went to Lin Baici, Lin Baici would probably kill him to avoid exposure, so he chose Ma Xiaoyun and the photographer instead.
Having two more cannon fodders to share the burden of attack was not bad!
Moreover, they were just ordinary people, couldn’t provoke him; if they died, they died.
Ma Xiaoyun screamed in fright as the blond-haired guy ran over: “Don’t come over!”
“Run back to the manor!”
Lin Baici shouted again.
“What about you all?”
The girl with the lip ring didn’t want to go alone, feeling she wouldn’t survive the pollution of the rules if she was alone, causing her significant fear.
“Listen to him, go back to the manor!”
Huang Cheng also shouted.
Old Luo and Zhong Shuman were speechless; Lin Baici risked exposure, reminding them was already the utmost kindness; what else could he do?
Send him out to fight crows for three hundred rounds?
But the more troublesome one was the blond-haired guy, who didn’t want others to have it easy after being found himself.
For self-preservation, as Old Luo and Zhong Shuman were about to activate Divine Grace to kill the guy, a gunshot was heard.
Smoke rose from the corn stack.
It was the photographer hiding below who fired.
The lead shot hit the blond-haired guy in the lower abdomen; the intense pain made him stagger and fall to the ground.
The blond-haired guy screamed miserably.
The straw crows swarmed over, and in the blink of an eye, covered him, completely drowning him.
The blond-haired guy struggled, crawled, waved to drive them away: “Get away!”
Like at an all-you-can-eat buffet, the straw crows competed with a mad rush as if they were at a zero-dollar giveaway.
The girl with the lip ring cried in terror, turned and stumbled back towards the manor they had come from, hearing Lin Baici’s words.
Whether she’d die alone later or not was not the issue now; surviving came first!
Old Luo and Zhong Shuman, who were initially about to kill her, stopped.
“Go eat them, there’re people there too!”
“Brother Su, save me!”
“I don’t want to die!”
The blond-haired guy called out, but his voice grew weaker and weaker.
Qi Fentou and the girl in leather pants remained motionless.
The blond-haired guy’s worst plight was that with the crows pecking, there was no fatal wound, so he wouldn’t die quickly; he couldn’t escape either, only watching as these crows feasted on him.
In the cornfield, the blond-haired guy’s screams gradually weakened, only the sound of the crows flapping and cawing remained.
Zhong Shuman and the others held their breath, watching as the blond-haired guy’s belly was pecked open, his innards eaten.
A few crows, pecking at the guy’s intestines, pulled them out of his stomach.
“Damn, they even turn over the intestines?”
The two bodyguards with Wu Shitong were having their scalps tingled by the scene.
Ma Xiaoyun curled up into a ball, holding her head, praying to the Tathagata Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva that those terrifying crows wouldn’t find her.
She didn’t know how long it had been when she heard Lin Baici and the others’ voices.
Ma Xiaoyun quickly peeled open the corn pile and cautiously peeked out.
Lin Baici and the others had left,
the man-eating crows were gone!