Chapter 347: The Fountain of Youth (4)
As time passed, the forest was rapidly revealing its dangerous side.
The lizard that had attacked the mercenaries was only the beginning. As Everly continued forward, she heard gunshots becoming increasingly frequent, occasionally accompanied by the dull boom of grenades exploding.
At the same time, fallen creatures gradually began to appear on both sides of the road.
Some were large insects, while others were dinosaurs and reptiles whose species she couldn’t identify. The most outrageous sight of all was a saber-toothed tiger, something Everly had only ever seen in scientific magazines.
Grant and the others had obviously engaged in a fierce battle with the enormous beast. A large area around it had been trampled flat, with muddy water splattered everywhere.
The saber-toothed tiger was riddled with bullet holes, and a knife was still lodged in one of its eye sockets. Its body lay motionless in the middle of the mud.
Not far from the tiger’s corpse lay two blood-covered mercenaries.
One had had his abdomen torn open by claws, his intestines and internal organs spilling out and attracting countless fist-sized insects that crawled over him and devoured him. He had long since died.
The other had suffered multiple fractures throughout his body, and his spine was probably broken as well. He lay on the ground like a limp sack of flesh, yet miraculously still had a breath left in him. As Everly passed by, she could still hear him weakly calling out, “Help me.”