Favorite of the Beast-world: I Got Rich Through Farming-Chapter 36: Devour? Take Away?
A low wolf’s howl shattered the darkness. Dozens of wolves instantly leaped from the shadows, lunging like arrows shot from a bow to pin down the massive black-and-red python. They tore madly at its flesh with their sharp fangs.
In just the blink of an eye,
the giant python stopped writhing. The wolf pack had stripped its skin and flesh, reducing it to a pool of gore and bone.
Droplets of blood stained the Silver Wolf’s soft fur. It lowered its head beside the python’s gory corpse and sniffed lightly. In an instant, its lupine pupils constricted to pinpricks.
A furious howl. "It’s a trap!"
"Awoo?" The remaining wolves lifted their heads from the python’s flesh, tilting them in confusion as they looked at the fierce expression on the Silver Wolf’s face.
In the next instant, the Silver Wolf transformed into a tall, imposing man. His silver hair was soft, his features handsome and cold. He normally had a cool and detached disposition, but at this moment, his furrowed brows revealed extreme agitation and unease.
Ling Hong glared at the dead python, his thin lips pressed into a tight line. He practically spat the words through gritted teeth, "That’s not the Snake Beast!"
His hands at his sides clenched into tight fists, his knuckles turning white from the force.
He had fought that Snake Beast before and could recognize the scent of its blood, distinguishing it from that of an ordinary snake.
But this python lying dead before them, while almost identical in appearance to that Snake Beastman’s beast form, was revealed to be just an ordinary python up close.
It was likely a diversion, a trick by that Poisonous Snake Beastman to lure them away.
A sudden thought struck Ling Hong. He jolted and roared, "Back to the tribe! We’ve been tricked!"
The wolf pack always fought as a unit. To take down the Snake Beast in one fell swoop, he had specially selected a few elite Wolf Beasts to set up the ambush.
After all, Snake Beasts were extremely powerful Wandering Beasts, posing a grave threat to the survival of any neighboring tribe. What’s more, this particular Snake Beast possessed a venom far more potent than that of any ordinary one.
For the sake of the mate mark on An Jin, and for the safety of the tribe, Ling Hong had to eliminate this Snake Clan Beastman. But!
’He never would have imagined...’
’He never imagined that cunning Snake Beast would turn the tables on them!’
The pack burst from the jungle, sprinting toward the tribe with incredible speed and endurance. They were like arrows shot from a bow, flying through the forest.
But.
’It’s not enough.’
’This is still too slow.’
The Silver Wolf let out a furious roar and left the pack behind, racing toward the tribe at the fastest speed he had ever mustered.
’He didn’t dare to imagine...’
’Could the Snake Beast’s reason for luring them away be An Jin?!’
The last time, the Snake Beast had snatched An Jin from their tribe and forcibly placed a mate mark on her. If Ling Hong hadn’t ambushed and severely injured him, An Jin would have already been abducted and become a tool to sate his lust during his mating season...
He couldn’t bear to imagine if the Snake Beast would seize this opportunity to strike again.
The reason Snake Beasts, especially Poisonous Snake Beastmen, were classified by other Beastmen as extremely dangerous Wandering Beasts—despised and driven out by all tribes—was not just because of their cold-blooded, ruthless, and brutally patient nature.
What was more terrifying was their obsessive and bloodthirsty nature. They would snatch females and slaughter their other mates to possess them exclusively.
Furthermore, they often harbored a desire to devour their mates.
When their mate was dying, they would brutally consume them before taking their own life to lie with them in eternal sleep.
If they themselves were dying, they would also devour their beloved before their own death.
They couldn’t stand their mates having other males, yet Snake Beasts were inherently lazy and had long periods of hibernation. Consequently, during their dormancy, a mate without another male to care for her would often face the danger of freezing or starving to death.
Among Wandering Beasts, especially Snake Beasts, the mortality rate for mates was extremely high.
It wasn’t that Ling Hong couldn’t accept An Jin having other mates, but he absolutely could not accept her having a Snake Beast as one!
「Luoten Tribe」
It was the middle of the night. The crescent moon hung high, the stars twinkled, and the Beastmen, weary from a long day, were sound asleep. The world was utterly silent, save for the intermittent chirping of insects.
The entire world was shrouded in darkness, with only a few torches hanging by the gates flickering with faint light.
But in the dead of night, an unusual, eerie sound could be heard.
RUSTLE... SLITHER...
Dried leaves were crushed by a long, thick, black-and-red snake tail. A serpentine track, like that of a giant python, was left in the soft earth, extending brazenly from the depths of the forest into the tribe’s territory.
