Chapter 22: Games in the Cave
The rustling sounds continued, and everyone in the dark mine felt in danger.

Everyone fell silent involuntarily, fearing that something might attack from the darkness. This made the noise in the cave even clearer, mixed with the pounding heartbeats of people.

Suddenly, a huge black shadow flashed from the corner of the cave and passed somewhere among the crowd.

One miner lost his voice before he could even shout.

"what--"

"Gudong."

This was followed by a sound of swallowing and crushing food.

In the tense atmosphere of the cave where it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, everyone heard the swallowing sound clearly.

Suddenly, people's fear could hardly be contained.

The noisy crowd involuntarily rushed towards the exit of the mine.

Hart squeezed to the center of the crowd and said as calmly as possible, "Everyone, don't be nervous. If you see anything unusual, throw your spear there."

"It's just a beast cowering in the dark. All we have to do is ..."

"Gudong."

As if deliberately slapping Hart in the face, before Hart finished speaking, there was another clear swallowing sound.

I wonder which unlucky guy lost his life again.

Suddenly, the crowd was in an uproar, fear broke out, and the desire to survive overwhelmed everything.

"No, don't eat me!"

"There's a monster! There really is a monster!"

"Run!"

"Fuck it, get out of my way! Get out of my way."

Screams and noises were heard everywhere, and the entire mine was in complete chaos. Even the overseer's whip could no longer control the chaotic crowd, and even the overseer himself wanted to sneak away.

"I want to live."

"We're almost there. As long as we get out, we can..."

And in this chaotic situation, in this noisy and chaotic sound, I don’t know how many people were silently swallowed up in the darkness.

However, just as the front group of people were desperately climbing up in a vain attempt to escape, the huge figure had already emerged from the darkness.

"what--"

The leading people were immediately swallowed up by the figure and then disappeared.

In the brief illumination of the torches, people could only see a huge green monster passing by.

Immediately afterwards, the place where several people had originally stood became empty, and the light of the torches went out, falling into darkness.

The people behind were unaware of the situation and continued to crowd forward.

The people in front had learned from previous experiences and were afraid to move forward, but were pushed from behind and had no choice but to bite the bullet and explore the way forward.

The swallowing sound was drowned out by the noise of the crowd.

Hart looked at the situation in the cave, beads of sweat dripping down his chin, and he was almost completely in despair.

How to leave, how to escape?
That monster can swallow a person in just a moment.

It only needs to guard the entrance of the cave, and people will bring food to it one by one to fill its insatiable, bottomless stomach.

"Throw the spear forward!"

"Kill that monster!"

The desperate miners had no other choice but to obey orders from others and throw spears aimlessly into the darkness.

However, all that could be heard was the crisp sound of the spear hitting the rock.

People were screaming and crying. To them, the deep darkness was a symbol of death.

Suddenly, hoarse laughter came from the darkness.

"Human, your little tricks are really funny."

"I've eaten three giant bats, two goblins, and eight humans today, but I think I can still eat more - all of you."

The monster slowly swam out from the darkness, and the faint light of the torch barely revealed its true face.

The monster only showed its hideous head, its vertical pupils emitting a faint light in the dim mine, and the huge, long horns on both sides of its head that curved back were particularly conspicuous.

The slightly opened giant mouth alone could probably swallow several people at once. Its slender body covered with striped scales looked like a combination of a crocodile and a centipede, with many legs, stretching all the way to the darkness.

Under the flickering firelight, a terrifying smile appeared on the monster's hideous face.

"I don't want to miss this opportunity. The food delivered to my door is enough to fill my stomach."

"No, don't eat me!"

"It's over! It's over!"

"We are all going to die!"

"Help!"

"It, it's coming!"

People were in panic and retreated desperately, huddled together, trying to escape from this hell.

Trampling, pushing, screaming.

However, the monster just followed the crowd slowly, crawling like a shepherd driving his sheep, and occasionally eating one or two people.

"I don't mind playing a game with you guys."

"Run away, run as far as you can..."

"I'm still very interested."

The monster's hoarse voice sounded like the call of death to people, making them fall into the abyss of fear.

"Snapped!"

Kru's arrow hit the monster.

The weak spears, tiny arrows, and inferior swords, the human counterattacks hit its striped scales and seemed so powerless.

Even if you are lucky enough to break its armor, that small wound will seem insignificant compared to its huge body.

The barbarian Scar finally couldn't stand this cat-and-mouse game anymore, so he stopped, turned around and faced the monster.

However, the strong body that he was proud of seemed as small as a mouse in front of the monster.

Scar took a deep breath, holding the hammer and swearing: "For so many years, I have been the only one to play tricks on others, and I have never been played as a fucking toy by others!"

"Ahhh-"

Scar roared, breathing heavily, his eyes red - these were the signs of a barbarian going berserk.

The mad barbarian raised his warhammer and rushed towards the monster's huge body, like a knight rushing towards a windmill.

Faced with the madly charging barbarian, the monster did not move at all, but just looked at him with great interest, as if looking at an interesting toy.

"Frenzy Strike!"

Scar shouted loudly and exerted the muscles in his arms, punching the monster hard in the chest.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Hammer after hammer hit the monster.

It actually broke a few scales on its chest, causing a trickle of blue blood to ooze out.

"Interesting human, I will give you a good death."

The monster laughed evilly, completely ignoring the damage caused to it by the barbarians, and its body slowly crawled on the ground.

"Ah! Ahhhh—"

The barbarian heard this and became even more furious. He hammered madly and desperately, again and again.

But he soon discovered that the monster's huge body had curled up and entangled him without his knowledge.

Perhaps the word "entangled" is not quite appropriate. It would be more accurate to say that the monster trapped him with its huge body, like a blue-green prison cell.

Scar felt the space around him becoming increasingly narrow, his muscles being constantly squeezed, and his breathing becoming increasingly rapid.

"I didn't expect that I... would be suffocated to death."

This was the last thought that flashed through his mind.

(End of this chapter)