Blood Beast, Part One

The entire place fell deathly silent.

Everyone held their breath, not daring even to let out a puff of air, doing their utmost to keep their breathing slow. They feared drawing the giant rooster's attention.

Time slowly passed. After roughly a dozen breaths—

The red rooster head looked left and right, seemingly finding nothing to eat. At last, it slowly withdrew again, vanishing into the darkness.

Whew...

Everyone present could not help but secretly let out a breath. That rooster head was simply too huge... Never mind any strange abilities such an enormous rooster might possess—just the force of its beak striking down would be impossible to withstand.

Lin Xin also secretly relaxed. They had not been in this karst cave long before encountering such a colossal creature. Calling this place fraught with danger on all sides would be putting it mildly.

Just as the giant rooster was about to retreat into the abyss—

Sssht.

Out of the corner of his eye, Lin Xin suddenly saw a small, round object being thrown toward the abyss. He had no idea who had thrown it.

"That is... a Signal Flare!!!" He recognized it at once, and his face instantly turned pale.

That rooster had probably been drawn here by the Signal Flare just now. Who had thrown another one at a time like this? The malice behind it was vicious indeed—they wanted everyone here dead!

It was not just him. Xiao Lingling, Senior Brother Guang, and the others all turned pale as well. They had recognized the Signal Flare.

Before he could think further, Lin Xin came up with an idea in his moment of desperation. He snatched up a stone and hurled it at the Signal Flare.

The stone struck it dead-on in midair, sending it flying far away. No one