"Damn it, I'm going all in!" The dark-faced veteran directly pulled out two fragmentation grenades from his pocket. He discarded the assault rifle with its empty magazine and squeezed out through the windshield, throwing them towards the swarming beasts attacking from both sides of the transport truck.

With two loud explosions, several mutated beasts fell.

"Lao Lan, get back here!" someone shouted from inside the truck.

*Clang!*

Just then, the truck body was jolted again, and the dark-faced veteran was thrown directly from the hood!

Yuan Wen's head buzzed.

Under these circumstances, could anyone survive falling into a horde of beasts?

Almost without thinking, the three remaining people in the truck kicked open the doors and jumped out.

They held to the principle of not abandoning their comrades!

"Ah!"

Just as they jumped out of the truck, the three heard the dark-faced veteran's shrill scream. Several smaller mutated beasts were tearing at him, and Yuan Wen saw blood flowing from beneath him, staining the ground a glaring crimson.

*Bang!*

The new recruit's gun magazine wasn't empty yet. He gritted his teeth and fired in bursts, blowing the head of a mutated beast tearing at the veteran.

But the mutated beasts, already stimulated by the scent of blood, were incredibly frenzied. They completely ignored Yuan Wen and the others, continuing to tear at the dark-faced veteran.

"Cnm, let him go! Let him go!" the new recruit roared, firing in bursts.

Yuan Wen and the other female soldier also pulled out two fire axes from the truck, raised them high, and then chopped them down towards the mutated beasts.

Although they were women, the female soldiers in the army were equally strong. Taking down two adult men in a one-on-one fight was no problem at all. At this moment, the two fire axes slammed into the necks of the mutated beasts, their cervical vertebrae were instantly severed, and they fell with a thud.

"You guys go! Hurry!" the dark-faced veteran roared, "Don't worry about me..."

The three were very clear that although they had killed some mutated beasts, there were still nearly fifteen surrounding them!

Moreover, these fifteen monsters were all enormous, and once the bullets ran out, they simply couldn't fight them.

The mutated beasts surrounded them.

Just then, a low roar suddenly came from the distance.

The mutated beasts, who were frantically tearing and attacking, shuddered, and then, as if they had agreed, uniformly abandoned their attack on Yuan Wen and the others, quickly scattering and running towards the rear of the transport truck!

The three stared blankly at this scene, and then an even stronger sense of fear surged up.

The only creature that could make these frenzied mutated beasts give up their attack was... the Beast King!

They stiffly turned their heads in the direction of the roar, and what they saw was a robust cloud leopard!

It was slowly walking towards them, its demeanor and movements completely different from those mutated beasts, like an emperor inspecting its territory!

Looking at this cloud leopard, the word "magnificent" involuntarily came to Yuan Wen's mind.

Looking at this cloud leopard, Yuan Wen felt like she was facing a general in the army, the kind of pressure and suffocation that made her tremble all over!

"Beast... Beast King!" the new recruit stammered, unable to move.

This was the first time they had faced such a terrifying monster.

Although Sea Beast Kings were rampant now, as borderland soldiers, they hadn't had much contact with them.

"This is the first time I've seen a Beast King that isn't a corpse..." the new recruit's voice was almost crying.

"Calm down, calm down!" Yuan Wen lowered her voice. She was also cold all over. Since joining the army, she had been working in the transport team and had basically no opportunity to fight mutated beasts. This was also her first time meeting a Beast King.

The pressure this thing gave was indeed much greater than those violent but stupid mutated beasts!

"It's walking towards us!" the new recruit raised the gun in his hand: "I have seven bullets left, can I kill it?"

"Seventy might not be enough!" Yuan Wen whispered, "The Beast King's vitality is not something mutated beasts can compare to..."

And most importantly, based on the Beast King's speed, these seven bullets might not even hit it!

The cloud leopard took slow, steady steps towards them, its eyes looking at the corpses of the mutated beasts all over the ground, seemingly somewhat cold.

"Get the grenades out!" Yuan Wen whispered.

The three immediately reacted, pulled out fragmentation grenades from their pockets, each holding one and crouching beside the dark-faced veteran, who had already been torn beyond recognition.

Given the current situation, this was the only way.

If the Beast King attacked them, they could simply pull the pins and they would all die together...

Yuan Wen and the others waved the grenades in their hands, so that the cloud leopard could clearly see their movements.

The cloud leopard stopped, standing twenty meters away from them, seemingly considering the pros and cons of attacking them.

Yuan Wen's heart was pounding, and cold sweat soaked her clothes.

She didn't know how long it had been, it felt like a thousand years, but the Cloud Leopard Beast King turned its gaze to other directions, no longer staring at them, and followed the direction the previous beast herd had left in pursuit.

Only when the figure of the Cloud Leopard Beast King completely disappeared from sight did Yuan Wen and the others let out a heavy sigh of relief, a feeling of escaping death washing over them.

The new recruit sat down on the ground, panting in shock.

Yuan Wen and the other female soldier quickly came to the side of the dark-faced veteran.

His abdomen had been torn open, most of his intestines had been gnawed away, and one of his arms was broken, with碎肉 and bone fragments exposed to the air, looking gruesome.

"The closest support is at least ten minutes away, Lao Lan he... he's beyond saving!" The female soldier trembled and turned her head away, unable to bear to look.

Yuan Wen stared blankly at the scene.

Just ten minutes ago, he was a lively man, and now he was about to become a corpse.

The dark-faced veteran gently opened and closed his mouth, struggling to raise his intact arm and reach out to Yuan Wen: "Xiao Yuan, help me... help me pass a message, tell my wife and... daughter, that before I died, I didn't suffer much, don't let them be sad..."

"Waaah!" The new recruit next to him cried.

"I really didn't expect... things were good when we came, but I can't... can't go back..." As the dark-faced veteran spoke, blood flowed frantically from his mouth and abdomen. His body began to convulse and twitch, and his eyes rolled back...

Yuan Wen watched this scene, listening to his words, feeling like a large stone was pressing on her chest, making it hard for her to breathe.

She squatted down, tore open her body armor, hugged her head, and was in a state of extreme depression.

Just then, she felt something poking her chest.

She suddenly remembered that when they parted, Li Tianran had given her something and told her to take it out in times of life and death.

She took out the small iron box that she had been carrying close to her body with extremely swift movements, opened the lid, and inside were three ancient-grade carrots that were still as fresh as ever.

"Quick, help me hold him up!" Yuan Wen shouted at the new recruit next to her, while she herself crushed the carrot with force, mixed it into a paste, and stuffed it down the dark-faced veteran's throat.

Yuan Wen didn't know the specific effects of this thing, but things had come to this point, so she could only risk it!

Soon, after the ancient-grade carrot entered the veteran's body, his wounds stopped bleeding, and flesh buds grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, beginning to repair his body!

His breathing, which had been close to stopping, became smooth again!

This thing really worked!

Everyone was stunned.

"This... what is this?" The new recruit asked stammeringly, "Is it a panacea?"

Yuan Wen stared blankly at the iron box in her hand, and then turned her gaze to the two people next to her, her voice extremely serious: "No one can talk about what happened today!"

The new recruit and the female soldier exchanged glances, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes.

They didn't know what Yuan Wen had in her hand, but they knew that if this thing was leaked, Yuan Wen would definitely be caught in a chaotic vortex!

"We are the closest comrades! We swear to keep it a secret for you!" the new recruit said loudly.

Yuan Wen put the iron box back together and stuffed it into her inner pocket expressionlessly.

And the female soldier glanced at Yuan Wen's iron box as if unintentionally.

She saw the carrots in Yuan Wen's iron box.

"There are still two left..." The female soldier frowned.