"Relax. You wouldn't want to point that at me."
Lu Li looked at the girl before him. From her voice and build, he could tell her gender. Once the mud was washed away, she was only a girl of fifteen or sixteen.
"Damn it!"
The girl's face was filled with terror. She had been hiding beneath the vines and watching, and she had seen a creature that looked like a human man kill a Nerve Fiend in a way she could not understand.
It was the first time she had ever seen someone kill a Nerve Fiend. Her awe and curiosity had thrown her breathing into disarray, and when the other party's gaze swept in her direction, she felt that she had been exposed and tried to flee.
She knew that anything capable of killing a Nerve Fiend could not possibly be human. She must have encountered a Skin Thief wearing human skin, or a Servant of the Ancient Gods controlled by a Mind-Stealing Parasite!
Those were far more terrifying existences than Nerve Fiends. At least Nerve Fiends were not especially fast. If one was clever enough to run, or found a good place to hide like she had before, there was still a chance of survival.
Now that she carefully observed the man before her, she could sense an extremely ominous aura from him. The barely concealed murderous force around him made her wonder just how many humans he must have slaughtered and devoured to possess such a presence.
For a moment, she regretted it terribly, believing she should not have left the tribe alone to come here for medicine.
"I... I don't taste good..."
The panicked girl did not have time to think. She turned and tried to run, because she simply did not have the courage to