Raising the Price on the Spot

Shen Hui stared at it for a moment and said:

"This beast must have eaten walking corpses to become like this."

Xu Ye lowered his voice as well. "And from the look of it, it has eaten quite a few."

Miss Zhu gripped the reins tightly and asked in a low voice, "Is it very dangerous?"

"Fierce, certainly, but it is still only a beast. Aside from having a bit more strength, there is nothing particularly remarkable about it."

It was simply that such beasts always wandered around places where corpse Baleful Intent had erupted, as though they had become addicted after eating that flesh and could never leave it again.

Since it had appeared here, Cold Spring County could not be far away.

And either the people in the city had already been completely devoured by now.

Or there was something even more formidable there, something that made this beast afraid to approach.

The strange pig followed the group for a while, growing bolder and bolder as it began cautiously edging closer.

Several escort guards shouted desperately and slashed their blades through the air, but they could not frighten it off at all.

Though its four legs were thin, they were immensely powerful. With one kick against the ground, it could leap more than ten feet, circling the group again and again.

One of the younger escort guards gradually lost his nerve and said in a low voice:

"Master Zhao, this thing is far too frightening. Why don't we withdraw first and make plans at leisure? We have not even reached Cold Spring County yet, and we have already encountered such a monster. If we truly enter the city, wouldn't that be disastrous?"

That burly, bearded man was the Master Zhao he spoke of.

His face darkened as he