After saying that, the lion beastman paused for a while before making his tone heavier. âEven if youâre beastmen from the higher levels, I donât care either! Itâs worth it if I can have a taste of a female before I die!â
Bai Qingqing bit her index finger and guessed that they must have come across fugitives.
Parker immediately understood that these must be the rootless beasts that Winston often mentioned.
Rootless beasts no longer had the awareness of being loyal to their mates, and they held great hatred for females. They treated females as playthings out of revenge.
He looked around at the beastmen around them. All of them had a strong feeling of viciousness and seemed deadly. They had no desire to live and looked like a group of walking corpses.
Beastmen like these were the most terrifying. They werenât afraid of death and thus had nothing to fear. No one knew what theyâd do.
However, this lion beastman seemed wary of those who came from higher levels. This was great.
Parker gulped, then immediately changed his expression, laughing as he said, âHow is that possible... Females... Females are so fragile. Theyâd have created a big fuss if we were to bring them with us. How could it be so quiet?â
The lion beastman felt that it made sense. The beastmen here were all rootless beasts who had been abandoned by their females. The females they brought with them were naturally those they had captured, and they couldnât stay still. He might have heard wrongly.
He wore a look of pity, his beard-covered face filled with fatigue and looking weatherworn.
âI have long been sick of living. Iâve only been mining day and night and unknowingly became a four-striped beastman.â He smiled in self-mockery, âThe ores that Iâve saved up will let me go out very soon, but what meaning is there to go out? I only want to catch an extremely beautiful female and have her die alongside me!â
Parker hadnât experienced what rootless beasts felt before and wasnât able to continue with the conversation. Because the lion beastmanâs last line made him raise his guard against him.
Qingqing mustnât be discovered by him!
Looking at how the surrounding beastmen were all carrying rocks, Parker thought, Could it be that everyone here was locked up to mine? What ores were they mining? Did the Flame City know about iron-smelting too?
The lion beastman was still assessing Parker. He kept having the feeling that this guy was a little strange.
âI really admire you. Itâs as if nothing has happened for you.â
The lion beastmanâs words had a hint of probing in them, and Parkerâs heart tightened. He pretended to act irritated.
He removed the rope around his waist, grabbed Curtis, who was carrying the luggage (including Bai Qingqing), then said impatiently, âThis is a rootless beast I met on my way here. He wants to get into Flame City, so I brought him here to take a shortcut. Make way! Donât stand in our way!â
Curtisâs brows raised and threw a sideward glance at his hand grabbing onto his arm.
Parkerâs arm turned numb. He felt really gross but didnât let go. He pulled Curtis and headed outside like a boss leading his subordinate.
âWhen did snake beastmen come to Flame City too?â
The lion beastman didnât have any doubt about Curtisâs identity. His disposition was too cold, and he looked even more like a rootless beast than they were.
âShouldnât snake beastmen be used to not having mates? Hahaha...â
As he said this, he broke out laughing loudly. The surrounding beastmen also laughed.
Curtis threw a cold gaze toward the lion beastman. For some reason, the laughing lion beastman suddenly felt that the hair on his back was standing up. His laughter disappeared as if the mute button had been pressed.
As they spoke, the quicksand waterfall had come to a stop, and the ground returned to its peace. There was only a dune where the waterfallâs position.
The atmosphere was dead silent, and only the sound of Parkerâs and Curtisâs footsteps could be heard.
At the instant Parker and Curtis passed by the lion beastman, the latter seemed to smell something and quickly whiffed with his nose.