With a roar that seemed to come from the primeval wilderness, a large number of Yayu poured out of the collapsed ground.
Alvin turned his gaze toward the spot in surprise...
The Yayu were stampeding all over the gravel wilderness like startled herbivores.
A monstrous beast over thirty meters tall, with the body of a tiger, a human face, a pig's snout, and a tail like an iron chain, leaped out of the collapsed ground...
The moment it broke free, the beast let out a piercing howl at the sky...
As the beast howled, the ground collapsed again fifty kilometers from the Gravel Plain.
A great many Yayu leaped out of the crater like migrating wildebeest on the African savanna...
The Yayu looked somewhat bewildered when they first appeared, but when the tiger-bodied, human-faced beast let out another roar, they began converging in the direction the first group had run.
From a distance, the densely packed monsters made one's skin crawl...
Alvin pressed his Communicator and shouted, "What the hell is that now?
Did we kick a hornet's nest?"
Zhang Qiang was clearly having trouble on his end too. Panting heavily, he shouted, "That's Taowu. Ignore it. Powerful monsters like that can't get far...
Find cover. Ten Ballistic Missiles are about to arrive!"
Alvin watched the terrifying beast casually slap the ground, making a crater the size of a basketball court...
"What do you mean, 'can't get far'?" he yelled angrily. "This thing's stronger than you can imagine. How did you manage to keep these things under control?"
Before Zhang Qiang could reply, the terrifying Taowu threw back its head and howled again. Then it crouched and charged toward the Yayu horde ahead...
But before it had gone even five hundred meters...
Alvin watched in surprise as a translucent chain