Was he... always this brave?
However, the next second, intense pain and the countless sounds of cocking guns around him instantly sobered Tarak—that Soldier reacted extremely quickly, enduring the severe pain, and delivered a fierce elbow strike directly to Tarak's face!
"Ugh!" Tarak painfully bent over, now completely awake.
Looking at the dozen or so guns around him that could turn him into a sieve at any moment, a tremendous fear washed over him like a bucket of cold water.
"Wait! Don't shoot! Misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding!" He moved with astonishing speed, dropping to his knees on the sand with a "thump," his hands raised high, his voice choked with tears: "I was wrong! I didn't mean to! Really!"
As expected... he was just dazed from the fall...
But the Soldier who had been inexplicably punched by him clearly didn't accept this explanation.
He wiped a hand across his blood-smeared face, his eyes turning incredibly vicious, and with a sudden kick, he sent the kneeling Tarak sprawling to the ground!
Then, with a "click," he pulled back the gun's bolt, pressed the muzzle firmly against Tarak's forehead, and then looked at the officer, seeking instructions!
The officer smirked contemptuously, saying, "The President only wants the Black Queen; as for the others, feel free to kill them."
Upon hearing this, the Soldier immediately revealed a cruel smile, a stark contrast to Tarak, whose vision was obscured by tears.
However, at the same time...
On the sand several hundred meters away...
A pair of delicate, sand-covered bare feet were unconsciously, slightly curling their toes upwards.
Two straight legs were wrapped and bound by bandage-like fabric.
The bandages were slightly loose from friction with the sand, revealing glimpses of fair skin underneath.
A slender waist, too delicate to grasp, was deeply buried in the sand.
As for her upper body... it was plunged straight into the sand, disappearing from view, making her seem like a radish planted in this beach.
"Mmm... gurgle gurgle..." A muffled, seemingly drowning whimper and choking sound came from beneath the sand.
Immediately after, there was a soft "pop," like a cork being pulled.
Serie suddenly pulled her upper body out of the sand!
She looked as if she had just been pulled out of water, her head and face covered in golden sand.
Serie, in a state of disarray, coughed violently while gulping down the sand that had choked her mouth.
[Gained 0.01 Gluttony Count]
['Sand Concealment' + 0.01%]
['Sand Concealment' current progress 0.01%, upon completion will gain ability 'Quicksand Domain']
"Ptooey! Ptooey ptooey!"
I'm so dizzy...
She haphazardly brushed the sand from her hair and face, her eyes glazed over as she looked around, seemingly not yet fully understanding the situation.
On her sand-covered cheeks, her eyes held a completely bewildered expression.
But suddenly, an extremely fresh, life-energy-filled scent of blood, like a flare, rushed into her nostrils!
Buzz—!
It was as if a string in her mind instantly snapped!
Serie suddenly raised her head, precisely locking onto the faint black smoke in the distance.
In an instant, her originally somewhat dull, eerie green eyes, which had been from eating sand, suddenly erupted with two terrifying crimson blood-red glows!
Even under the sun, they were as dazzling as searchlights.
Her vision instantly elongated and focused, penetrating hundreds of meters of distance!
Chloe's desperate face, Tarak's slumped kneeling figure, the pilot's terrified eyes... and, the Soldier who was pressing his gun muzzle against Tarak's forehead, with blood continuously gushing from his collapsed nose.
The blood dripping down his chin onto the sand was like a silver needle dropping, stimulating Serie's nerve endings.
Serie's originally delicate small mouth instantly stretched into an inhuman angle, revealing two rows of gleaming, shark-like, densely interlocking serrated fangs, with saliva mixed with sand dripping from between her teeth.
Bloodthirsty Madness — Activated!
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