Compensation
From the monster's escape to its being shot, everything happened in the blink of an eye. Zhang Heng had not expected the fight to end so quickly. Watching the thing fall from midair, he slowed the Audi A6 and stopped at the tunnel entrance.
The old man in Tang suit pushed open the door and walked over, crouching down to test the creature's breathing.
"Is it over?" Zhang Heng pulled up the handbrake and got out as well.
"I wish I could say yes. That it's over, and we can both go back where we came from and get on with our lives. But something isn't right. It was far too easy." The old man in Tang suit frowned. "I tangled with it for two months. If it were this easy to kill, I wouldn't have dragged things out until today."
"Based on what you know about it, does it have any other tricks it hasn't used?" Zhang Heng stepped a little closer. He had only caught a fleeting glimpse of the thing when it clung to the windshield before, but now he could finally see it clearly.
It was slightly bigger than a monkey, about the size of a six- or seven-year-old child, though its limbs were very short. Other than its smooth face, its body was covered in golden fur, which was why Zhang Heng had initially thought it resembled a monkey. Yet the most striking feature was the genitalia between its legs, three times the size of an adult man's.
Zhang Heng was certain that this thing did not belong to any known species on Earth.
"Fertility worship. A lot of indigenous tribes have similar preferences. Also, I think you've misunderstood something. I may look old, but I'm not as old as you think. Moresby is