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Chapter 427 The Monster That Crawled Out of the Lake
It was very quiet by the lake.

The closer you get to the lake, the more you feel that deathly stillness.

Deng Ping, who had originally planned to catch fish in the lake, felt her heart beat faster and faster as she got closer to the water.

When they were about twenty meters away from the lake, she suddenly grabbed Jiang Tang's arm.

Jiang Tang turned around and looked at Deng Ping beside her.

Deng Ping patted her wildly beating chest.

"We can't go any further."

Her heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her chest.

She sensed that a great danger was lurking in the lake.

It seemed as if a pair of enormous eyes were watching them from beneath the unseen lake, as if those eyes were saying, "If you go any further, you will become its prey."

"dangerous."

Deng Ping spoke up.

Jiang Tang nodded. "I know."

Deng Ping?

For a moment, she forgot her wildly beating heart and looked up at Jiang Tang with a blank expression.

"You know you still went back?"

"But how will we hunt there?"

Jiang Tang pointed to the lakeside, and Deng Ping looked in the direction she was pointing.

We found some small animals drinking water by the lake.

There are wild goats, deer, roe deer, rabbits...

They were scattered in twos and threes along the lakeshore, drinking water.

Jiang Tang's target, however, was the wild goat among the small animals.

"Your crossbow isn't working?" Deng Ping lowered her voice, but still didn't let go of Jiang Tang's arm. "I can feel something in the water. If we go over there, it might eat us."

“Even if you kill it with a crossbow, you still have to go and collect it; a dead wild goat won’t just come over on its own.”

She also wanted to use the lake water to skin the wild goat and clean its internal organs.

Deng Ping...

"You knew there was danger in the lake, yet you still did something so risky? Aren't you afraid of being eaten?"

Her tone was somewhat urgent.

I think Jiang Tang is too infuriating.

How could she be so stupid?
Knowing there's danger, why would you still grit your teeth and go for it?

Jiang Tang: "It's not that I'm forcing myself to do it, it's that I know how to run away."

Deng Ping was speechless again.

She couldn't win an argument with Jiang Tang; she really couldn't argue with him.

Jiang Tang ignored her, removed Deng Ping's hand from her arm, and told her to be quiet.

"Find a place to hide."

"not me…"

Deng Ping wanted to say something more, but Jiang Tang had already crouched down and walked forward.

The two were not far from the lake, and Deng Ping dared not shout loudly, partly for fear of startling the unknown creatures in the lake, and partly for worrying about disturbing the animals drinking water by the lake.

If they scare them away, they won't have dinner tonight.

Once Deng Ping understood this, she could only keep her mouth shut and hide behind a big tree.

Jiang Tang had already reached a point about ten meters from the lake.

She lay prone in the woods and slowly rolled up her sleeves.

It was time to test whether her crossbow was effective.

Aim the crossbow at the wild goat drinking water by the lake, and slowly move it from its belly to its neck.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, took aim, and then pressed the switch on the crossbow.

With a snap, followed by the sound of an arrow piercing flesh, the wild goat, which had been drinking water peacefully by the lake, suddenly collapsed.

Some of the small animals nearby were so frightened that they immediately scattered to the side.

A few little rabbits looked up in surprise and peered around the woods.

Jiang Tang lay motionless on the ground.

After waiting for about two minutes and finding nothing unusual, the small animals continued to drink water.

At that moment, Jiang Tang suddenly stood up and rushed towards the lake.

She jumped across the ten-meter distance in just a few seconds.

He rushed to the wild goat, which was half-submerged in the lake water, grabbed it by the leg, and ran. The smaller animals drinking the water didn't even realize what was happening.

The lake water then began to churn, and suddenly a long, snake-like creature emerged from the bottom of the lake, opening its mouth wide as it lunged at the small animals on the shore.

Jiang Tang had already rushed to Deng Ping's side, called her and ran.

"Run! That thing is coming out!"

Deng Ping?

Looking back at the lakeside, I saw something about two or three meters long, resembling a snake but not quite, killing people by the lake.

She was startled.

There was no time to feel sorry for the rabbit that had been bitten to death; they ran uphill after Jiang Tang.

"What is that thing? It looks like a snake but also like a bat?"

"I do not know."

Jiang Tang carried the wild goat on her shoulder and ran very fast.

"It stared at us from the bottom of the lake for a long time. Luckily, I acted quickly, or our dinner would have become its dinner."

Deng Ping, "You found it?"

Knowing it was lurking underwater, how dare she rush up and steal the goat?

I really don't know how to write the word "death".

“This is the goat I hunted, it’s mine.”

Jiang Tang did not believe that she had stolen the food from the underwater creature.

Deng Ping...

Fortunately, the snake-like or shark-like creature didn't come ashore, otherwise, given Jiang Tang's reckless behavior, they probably wouldn't have fared well.

Just as Deng Ping was thinking this, she felt a foul-smelling liquid being splashed on her.

She wiped the water off her face, and before she could even react to what was happening, Jiang Tang pushed her aside.

"???"

Deng Ping turned her head and saw the creature she had just been thinking about that couldn't come ashore; it had come ashore.

It was chasing after Jiang Tang and biting her.

Jiang Tang carried a wild goat on her shoulder, and the crossbow bolts on her wrist kept flying towards the snakes that were attacking her.

The creature's skin was like scales, and crossbow bolts couldn't penetrate its body at all.

Moreover, the other party became even angrier because of Jiang Tang's counterattack.

He opened his mouth wide, ready to swallow Jiang Tang and the goat whole.

Jiang Tang dodged another of its attacks.

His face was sprayed with foul-smelling saliva.

She wiped her face and dropped the goat from her shoulder onto the ground.

Without even looking, he grabbed a tree trunk that was about the thickness of an adult man's wrist and pulled it up by the roots.

The other party opened its mouth wide.

Jiang Tang lifted the long tree trunk and stuffed the entire root into the mouth of this strange creature.

She gripped the bottom of the tree trunk with both hands and pushed it forward with such force that the unknown creature was forced to stumble backward.

Originally, the person and the creature that resembled neither a snake nor a lizard were fighting on the hillside, but after Jiang Tang intervened, she pushed the unknown creature to the riverbank.

The other party has probably lived in these mountains for too long and has never encountered an opponent.

After being suppressed by Jiang Tang, not only did he not run away, but he also put up a desperate resistance!

Jiang Tang naturally wouldn't tolerate it.

She wanted to put her own life first, so this was self-defense.

With a loud thud, the unidentified creature's body crashed heavily into the lake.

Jiang Tang stopped by the lake.

Looking at the lake surface rippling in all directions, she touched the crossbow on her wrist.

We're out of arrows.

Before the ripples on the lake's surface had completely subsided, the unidentified creature that had been submerged in the lake surfaced again.

It still had a tree trunk stuffed in its mouth.

It looked like a small tree had grown out of a big mouth.

With some strength left, its eyes bloodshot, it continued to pounce on Jiang Tang.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang, squat down."

(End of this chapter)