The Villainess Cannot Escape — Five Beast Husbands Chase Her Madly-Chapter 135: Fei Zhao Regrets Leaving

In the Black Bull Tribe, the scorched earth was soaked in fresh blood.

Niu Biqi was bound in iron chains, and Niu Xueli was locked in an iron cage.

The blood-soaked Big Black Bull Brave and the guard Beastmen were doused in oil. The approaching torches reflected in their glazed, bovine eyes.

"Filthy beasts! How dare you harbor a runaway slave! We’ll let you taste what it’s like to be burned alive!"

The members of the Slave Capture Team threw their torches with sinister smiles.

The flames leaped two meters high. The Big Black Bull Brave let out a wretched bellow as the stench of burning flesh and thick smoke billowed into the sky.

"No!"

Inside the iron cage, Niu Xueli frantically pounded on the bars, tears of despair streaming down her face.

"Don’t you worry, pretty little thing!"

Three leering slavers surrounded her, their claws tracing bleeding red lines across her tender cheeks.

"Once we’re done burning this pile of stinking Cow Beasts, it’ll be your turn to have some fun."

"Let her go! You bastards will all die a horrible death!"

Niu Biqi struggled wildly. The black spiritual power suppression collar dug into her neck, instantly electrocuting her and sending her into convulsions.

"Noisy. Cut out her tongue."

A short, stocky Beastman pried open Niu Biqi’s mouth and forcefully pulled out her tongue.

A sharp dagger was just about to slice across it.

BANG!

His head suddenly flew off his shoulders, and the blood that gushed from his neck showered Niu Biqi’s face. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

She looked up in shock.

A figure in a long black robe had appeared like a phantom.

The Slave Capture Team’s torches abruptly died, and the flames engulfing the Cow Beastmen were instantly extinguished.

"Who’s there?!"

The leader of the Slave Capture Team barked, his men aiming their weapons in unison at the dark figure.

The Beastman slowly turned. His hood slipped back, revealing a face so stunning it could make the very air stand still.

His hair was like fire, cascading over his shoulders and making his brilliant red eyes seem all the more demonic.

Black markings climbed from his neck to his cheeks like some ancient curse, yet they did nothing to detract from his handsome features. Instead, they added a touch of dangerous allure.

"Could you be Lord Red Fox?!"

Niu Biqi’s voice trembled, her chains rattling. CLANK.

Fei Zhao didn’t answer. His eyes swept over the carnage of Cow Beastmen strewn across the ground, and his pupils constricted.

’Did Anan ever suffer like this?’

The thought cut through his heart like a blade. His fingertips trembled, and the black markings on his skin abruptly darkened.

"Kill him!"

The leader of the Slave Capture Team roared, and Poisoned Crossbow Arrows shot through the air!

Fei Zhao didn’t even lift his gaze. He simply raised a hand. "You’re courting death."

Fox Fire ignited!

The crimson flames melted the Crossbow Arrows into molten iron, which dripped to the ground with a SIZZLE.

The members of the Slave Capture Team backed away in terror, but it was too late.

A bone-chilling smile touched Fei Zhao’s lips as he clenched his right hand into a fist.

"AHHHH—!"

Amidst wretched screams, every last member of the Slave Capture Team was incinerated to ash.

Fei Zhao walked over to Niu Biqi. With a flick of his finger, the suppression collar on her neck shattered with a CRACK.

"Where is Su An’an?"

His voice was soft, yet it felt like an Ice Blade pressed against her throat.

Before Niu Biqi could speak, the Big Black Bull Brave at her side struggled to push himself up. His voice was weak but urgent.

"The Princess fled into the depths of the rainforest! Five members of the Slave Capture Team are after her!"

Fei Zhao’s nails dug into his palm, and blood dripped between his fingers. "Where did she stay last night?"

He had been away from Anan for too long—so long that even her scent was starting to fade from his memory.

He needed something she had touched recently to lock onto her trail again.

"Over there!" Niu Biqi quickly pointed to a cave on their left.

Fei Zhao’s figure flashed, and he shot into the cave.

Inside the dim cave, a faint trace of Su An’an’s scent lingered on a simple animal hide.

Fei Zhao dropped to one knee and picked up the hide. Mixed with the briny smell of the sea was that familiar sweet fragrance.

It was like cream under the sun, warm and soft.

His breathing quickened, and a tidal wave of emotion and heartache surged in his eyes.

"Anan!"

Before the whisper faded, he had already transformed into a crimson hurricane, sweeping into the depths of the rainforest with a sharp, murderous intent!

Deep within the rainforest, the storm had passed, leaving behind a quagmire of yellow mud and fallen leaves.

Su An’an knelt on one knee in the dense thicket, her left hand pressed tightly against her bleeding right shoulder.

After the pale green Big Mouth Whiskers repaired the wound, it began to glow with a dangerous red light.

In the distance, the heavy panting of a Gray Wolf Beastman mixed with the sinister laughter of another Beastman, drawing closer step by step like a death knell.

"You little bitch! Let’s see how long you can hide!"

The Gray Wolf Beastman swung his War Axe, hacking through the dense undergrowth as he closed in on Su An’an.

In the moonlight, half his face was a mangled mess, and the scar there twisted with his sneer into a terrifying sight.

Su An’an snapped her head up, her pupils slightly unfocused from spiritual power exhaustion.

Half an hour ago, she had used Snake Teeth to devour the spiritual power of the strongest Beastman, killing him. Then she used one of Little Pink’s spare chips to injure another.

Unfortunately, after revealing her position, the remaining two had cornered and pursued her relentlessly.

Little Pink’s voice crackled in Su An’an’s sea of consciousness. "Princess, take out my last chip. Once you get rid of these two, you’ll be safe."

"Okay!"

Su An’an dug the last chip out from beneath her collarbone, placed it in her mouth, and gripped her dagger, her eyes fixed on the injured Gray Wolf Beastman.

Her gaze was filled with a reckless madness.

Suddenly, the ground gave way beneath the Gray Wolf Beastman’s feet, and vines ensnared him tightly.

Su An’an lunged in an instant, plunging her dagger viciously into his chest.

"You bitch, you fell for it!"

The Gray Wolf Beastman grabbed the dagger in his chest with his left claw and seized Su An’an’s shoulder with his right.

The other Beastman, the one with the broken ear, suddenly charged from the side, raising a Bone Spear to stab at Su An’an’s chest.

A vicious glint flashed in Su An’an’s eyes. She opened her mouth and spat the chip, now glowing with blue light, at him.

"You scum, go to hell!" Little Pink shrieked.

The blue chip embedded itself in the Broken Ear Beastman’s eye and exploded with a BOOM. The aftershock made the Gray Wolf Beastman’s right claw loosen its grip.

Su An’an seized the opportunity to wrench her dagger free and plunged it into the Broken Ear Beastman’s throat.

The Broken Ear Beastman raised a powerful arm to block. The sharp dagger sliced open his flesh but failed to deal a fatal blow.

The Gray Wolf Beastman took the opening to lunge forward, bringing his War Axe down toward Su An’an’s head.

At that critical moment, Su An’an’s black hair floated up as she activated the spiritual power of Snake Teeth again. A black mist enveloped the heads of both the Gray Wolf Beastman and the Broken Ear Beastman.

"AHHHH!"

The Gray Wolf Beastman clutched his head and let out a bloodcurdling howl, his War Axe dropping to the ground with a thud.

The Broken Ear Beastman’s eyes rolled back in his head, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

Su An’an seized the chance to viciously stab her dagger into the Broken Ear Beastman’s throat.

The intense pain, however, only drove him into a frenzy.

He swung his hammer around wildly.

Su An’an was struck in the back, and she flew through the air, crashing into a tree trunk. The coppery taste of blood filled her mouth.

The Gray Wolf Beastman roared and charged, his claws clamping around Su An’an’s throat to end her life.

A crazed light flashed in Su An’an’s eyes.

She opened her blood-streaked mouth and bit down hard on the Gray Wolf Beastman’s neck.

The taste of blood spread through her mouth, and she felt her consciousness begin to fade.

But she held on, refusing to let go, and frantically stabbed her dagger into his chest.

One stab, two stabs, three...

Blood stained her clothes red. The Gray Wolf Beastman’s pupils dilated as he collapsed to the ground.

Su An’an spat out a mouthful of blood. She staggered to her feet, only to fall back into the mud.

’So cold!’

Her body was trembling, but her forehead was alarmingly hot. A wave of dizziness from her spiritual power exhaustion washed over her, but she couldn’t stop.

’Qiuqiu is still waiting for me.’

She gritted her teeth, stumbled into a hollow tree, and picked up the unconscious Qiuqiu.

The cub’s body heat, felt through the fabric, was the only thing keeping her going.

"Just a little longer," she murmured to herself. "We’re almost at the safe zone."

She dragged her heavy feet and plunged once more into the depths of the rainforest.

「Meanwhile.」

A dark shadow tore through the night like an arrow.

Fei Zhao stopped in front of the mangled remains of a Sniffing Beast and the corpses of the Slave Capture Team.

Amid the thick stench of blood, that familiar, creamy fragrance almost made his heart stop.

’I thought leaving was for Anan’s own good.’

’But look what happened.’

’She was abducted, hunted, and left to struggle for survival alone in this man-eating rainforest!’

"Anan, please, you have to be alive!"

Regret churned in Fei Zhao’s chest like a twisting knife.

He instantly became a bloody afterimage, speeding off in the direction of Anan’s lingering scent.