They were actually being eyed by three giant tigers, and everyone was completely unaware!
Moreover, these three ferocious tigers were incredibly fierce, with sharp claws glinting coldly and icy eyes radiating ferocity.
Most bizarrely, these tigers had a pair of peculiar, jet-black wings growing on their backs.
The entire adventure team had never seen such strange creatures before, and they immediately recoiled in terror, their faces pale.
The curly-haired man pulled out a pistol and aimed it at the winged tiger, his lips trembling. "Stop! Don't come any closer, or I'll shoot!"
But the three winged tigers paid no heed to his words; they couldn't understand him anyway. They slowly advanced, their bodies low in a predatory stance.
The team members, locked in the tigers' gaze, felt sweat pouring down their backs and retreated continuously until they bumped into a giant tree, with nowhere left to go.
"We're finished! No more retreat. We're doomed, destined to be devoured by tigers!"
"Wuwuwu... I haven't lived enough yet, I don't want to die. I should never have come on this adventure."
Several girls burst into tears on the spot, their bodies trembling with immense fear.
"Run!"
Someone, terrified, turned to flee. Professor Sam shouted to stop him:
"Don't run! Once you turn your back on a tiger, you're dead!"
But the man didn't listen to Professor Sam at all. He turned and plunged into the bushes to his right.
Everyone's expression tightened, as if they could already foresee the man's fate – to be caught by the tigers and torn to shreds!
However, the three tigers remained motionless even after the man had fled into the bushes, merely glancing at him with their cold eyes.
Did he escape successfully?
The adventure team members were shocked, and then some regretted why they hadn't fled just now, choosing instead to wait here for death.
"Professor Sam, he escaped successfully? The tigers didn't pursue. Are they not interested in us?"
Alice's expression was incredibly tense, her fair hand tightly clutching the blue five-petaled flower.
Now, behind them stood a giant tree seven to eight meters in diameter, and in front of them, the tigers, eyeing them menacingly, were slowly closing in.
At this moment, the adventure team was like fish on a chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered. And the man who had seized the opportunity to slip into the bushes was like a trapped fish struggling to leap off the board.
Sam frowned deeply, unable to understand why the man had escaped under the tigers' noses without incident.
He shook his head. "I don't know. Perhaps these tigers are truly not interested in us?"
"If that's the case, then if we all split up and run, we might have a chance to survive!"
Upon hearing this, the team members stirred, and several began to move, wanting to escape first.
Jack's expression shifted, and he decisively stepped forward, intending to be the first to flee.
At this moment, those who escaped first would undoubtedly have the highest survival rate. Conversely, those who ran last might very well become food for these tigers!
The others also realized this and all wanted to escape before anyone else.
They didn't expect to outrun the tigers, only to outrun the others in their group.
"Professor Sam, you..."
Alice looked at Sam, who was nearly a hundred years old. An elder of this age couldn't run at all. Having followed the adventure team hundreds of meters into the jungle was already a testament to his robust health.
Sam took it in stride, smiling easily.
"I don't have many years left to live. Whether I die sooner or later makes no difference. Miss Alice, don't worry about me, just run. Don't be slower than the others."
Alice's heart felt heavy, but she couldn't help Professor Sam. She could only nod.
But just as everyone was about to make their move to escape, a scream of extreme agony echoed from the bushes!
"Ah!!!"
As the scream faded, another giant tiger leaped out of the bushes, a man who had just escaped clutched in its mouth.
However, the man's body was now separated, his head, like a nut, was being chewed and swallowed by the tiger as a snack, with blood and gore splattering everywhere – a scene of utter carnage!
"Someone... someone's dead!"
Everyone was terrified by this sight, their faces drained of all color. Several girls even started to vomit.
There were four tigers!
The adventure team's spirits sank to the bottom. They knew this time they might truly be finished.
They couldn't escape, and how could mere humans fight against such ferocious tigers?
The curly-haired man, the only one with a weapon, immediately became the team's pillar. He gritted his teeth and said,
"Damn it! Let's fight these beasts! Aren't they just tigers? So what if they have wings? They're still just beasts. I don't believe we can't kill them!"
Driven to desperation, the others were also roused to a fighting spirit. Those with weapons all drew them out, pointing them at the four tigers.
"Let's fight! I don't believe bullets can't kill these beasts!"
"Aim for their heads! Make sure to kill them with a single shot!"
The tigers were now within three meters, about to pounce. The men hesitated no longer and pulled the triggers.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A series of over a dozen gunshots rang out, bullets flying rapidly towards the four tigers.
Hope surged in their hearts, expecting to see the tigers fall after being hit by bullets.
But soon, despair washed over them.
The bullets did hit the tigers, but they didn't even dislodge a single strand of fur. Instead, they only enraged the four tigers!
"Roar!"
The winged tigers let out earth-shattering roars. One of them directly lunged into the crowd, its claws swiping down, reducing a man who had just fired to a bloody pulp!
"Monsters! Run!" someone screamed in terror!
Tigers that bullets couldn't penetrate, what else could they be but monsters?
The adventure team scattered instantly, a dozen people fleeing in a dozen different directions.
But the other three tigers also began to move. With a slight leap, they were beside a fleeing person, their claws striking down, instantly turning them into a pool of bloody mud.
Alice happened to witness this scene, her face turning ashen. Suppressing the churning in her stomach, she desperately ran towards the edge of the forest.
Professor Sam followed closely behind, but his pace was too slow, and he was quickly falling behind.
Fortunately, the tigers seemed uninterested in the human exuding an aura of age and decay.
Jack fled alongside the curly-haired man. At this moment, Jack's face was contorted with rage as he yelled at the curly-haired man,
"You idiot! If you hadn't opened fire and attracted these monsters, the adventure team wouldn't have lost anyone! You killed them!"
The curly-haired man, filled with fear, felt utterly powerless against tigers that bullets couldn't harm.
"Nonsense! How do you know it was me who attracted those people?" The curly-haired man refused to admit fault and retorted sharply before accelerating his escape.
Seeing the curly-haired man pull ahead, Jack immediately gritted his teeth and ran desperately to catch up.
...
A kilometer away in the sky, the three people on the wooden boat watched this scene unfold, exchanging bewildered glances.
"These guys are all mortals!? Not a single trace of extraordinary power!" Wang Hao exclaimed, his eyes wide with disbelief.