"Attention, they're coming!"
"Insects! So many insects! There are more outside!"
"Quick, light it up. Set fire to the oil tanks below."
"If the oil tanks are gone, we won't be able to leave!"
"If we don't light them now, we'll all die!"
Inside the village committee building, men shouted angrily, glaring outside.
They were a gold-mining team. They had originally planned to enter the village today and scavenge for supplies, hoping to find something valuable.
Unexpectedly, the village had already been occupied by Giant Beast parasites. No one knew how long these insects had gone hungry. The moment they caught the scent of humans, they swarmed over.
The team could only fight while retreating, eventually withdrawing into the village committee building.
"Shut up!"
A sweat-soaked man roared as he fired a shot at several oil drums near the building's entrance below.
Boom!
The violent explosion blasted the insects rushing toward the building to pieces.
Blazing Flame surged upward, making the insects behind them afraid to take even one step closer.
The parasites stopped below the building and shrieked, but they did not dare approach the flames.
When they had retreated into the building, the gold-mining team had made preparations, laying a ring of flammable materials around its perimeter.
Now that the oil drums had exploded and the fire had spread, a ring of fire soon appeared around the building.
The appearance of the fire ring temporarily made the gold miners safe.
But once the fire went out, that would be the moment of their deaths.
A younger man sat down and buried his head in his hands, crying. "I told you not to enter the village, but none of you would listen. Look what happened. We're doomed now."
"Shut up. The boss didn't know there were parasites in the