Beauty and the Beasts

The beast tide arrived. The smell of the behemoth egg drifted into the sky. With the behemoths jumping on the ground, making loud banging noises, the impact of the strong vibration brought about a crack in the terrain.     

Under the rampage of the behemoths, the towering old trees collapsed one by one.     

Curtis swung his snake tail and crawled from one collapsing tree to a thicker one, the danger of which could only be felt by Curtis himself.     

In any case, the sickly Bai Qingqing was much more awake now due to the shock, and she finally had the strength to silently grumble. Damn! Are we shooting a movie?     

The sense of weightlessness Curtis felt as he swung in the skies was not inferior to the feeling one got on a rollercoaster ride. Bai Qingqing felt like her heart was about to leap out of her chest.     

She slumped lifelessly on Curtis's body, watching as the scenes flew by before her eyes. All she managed to see was a patch of green.     

This tree that Curtis was on must be very old. With its circumference, perhaps even a hundred people wouldn't be able to form one full circle around its trunk. There was a hole on the tree the size of a small room—perhaps the nest of some animal. Curtis crawled into the hole with Bai Qingqing in his arms.     

"What should we do?" The tree trunk shook with the vibrations on the ground, and Bai Qingqing's voice trembled accordingly.     

Gazing at her, Curtis gently fixed his large hand on her slim and long neck.     

The female was so fragile, a gentle pinch and her life would end. How could he bear to do it to her?     

Instinctively sensing danger, Bai Qingqing felt all the hairs on her body standing on end. In a frail voice, she asked, "Curtis?"     

Curtis gazed at Bai Qingqing with lifeless eyes, then he suddenly placed a hand on her face and said, "I'll bring you to that eagle beastman."     

Bai Qingqing was delighted to hear that, but when her eyes met Curtis's desolate ones, she instantly kept away the delight on her face and said, "After I leave, the horde of behemoths will leave too. In the future, you can come to the tribe to look for me."     

The joy on Bai Qingqing's face was too obvious, Curtis couldn't have possibly missed that. He smiled bitterly.     

As he released her, his gaze fell upon her chest.     

"Ah! What are you doing?" A terror-stricken Bai Qingqing screamed as Curtis's cold and large hand lifted her tube top. She covered her chest with her arms and dodged with all her might, terrified.     

Was Curtis going to force himself on her in these last moments?     

It was indeed befitting of a feral beast.     

"Don't do this…" Bai Qingqing's voice sounded choked and her eyes welled up with tears instantly as she looked pleadingly at the towering Curtis.     

Ssss~ Curtis didn't seem to notice that. The features of a snake appeared on his head—his skin was now covered with dense light red and light black scales.     

Most visibly, his sharp and glistening fangs in the corners of his mouth could be seen.     

He lowered his head and opened his mouth to bite Bai Qingqing, using his sharp teeth to instantly pierce through the human's tender skin.     

"Ah—!"     

The pitiful cries of a female rang from the hole in the tree.     

Muir instantly flew towards the tree hole and was prepared to fight to the death with the snake beastman, when unexpectedly, the snake beastman glided out with the unconscious female in his arms.     

"What happened to her?"     

"Take her away with you." Curtis straightened his arms with much difficulty and handed Bai Qingqing to the eagle beastman.     

Full of questions and yet to recover from his shock, Muir nonetheless used his back to catch the female, before cautiously flapping his wings and flying into the skies.     

Watching as the female went further and further away from him, Curtis's eyes were dim and lifeless. "I will go and look for you…"     

After Bai Qingqing left, the horde of behemoths also shifted according to the smell.