Ling Cage: I am a spiritual master, devouring source matter to become a god.

Mark glanced around and replied, "These must have been brought in by the Devouring Beasts. Some Devouring Beasts need a long time to digest, so they bring the food into their nests."

"Food?" Ran Bing felt a little nauseous, but she quickly regained her composure.

Mo Cheng, standing nearby, said with some doubt, "According to the lighthouse report, no Devouring Beasts have appeared in this area, and the assessed danger level is moderate. It seems the report is unreliable."

Mark walked to the center of the hall and looked around at his surroundings.

This place has Mana ecology and traces of Devouring Beast activity; it is indeed a nest, but fortunately, the Devouring Beasts are not here.

This gave Mark and his team an opportunity.

"Quick! Move these things away before the Devouring Beasts return!"

Mo Cheng waved to the back, and the hunter team members and the dustman laborers carried supplies together.

In such an emergency, regardless of whether the people are ordinary or not, the most important thing is to move the supplies away as quickly as possible.

Mark, along with Ran Bing and Corey, kept watch around the area.

Suddenly, a long tail drooped down from the roof.

Corey immediately raised his gun to fire, but Mark stopped him.

The drooping tail remained motionless for a long time. Mark went over to take a look and saw that it was a huge Devouring Beast, sleeping on the roof beam.

Corey was glad he hadn't fired his gun when he saw this, otherwise he would have woken up the big guy.

Mark gestured for everyone to be quiet and move the supplies silently.

However, with so many people in the team, it's inevitable that they'll make noise while moving supplies.

Mark quietly put on the gravity suit, and the others were all ready as well.

The first group of people carried two boxes of supplies away. When they were carrying the third box, no one noticed that the box was blocking one of the support pillars of the shelf.

As soon as the box moved, the balance of the entire support was disrupted, and the shelf above collapsed with a crash!

Suddenly, a rustling sound rang out.

"Run! Run now!" Mark immediately got down, ready to fight, keeping a close eye on the Devouring Beast ahead.

The Devouring Beast looked rather lazy.

At first, the Devouring Beast seemed indifferent, but after only a few seconds, its eyes changed, and it stared intently at Mark and the others.

"Ouch!"

The Devouring Beast let out a strange cry and charged directly at the group of hunters.

"Fire!"

At Mark's command, all the Hunters opened fire on the Devouring Beast.

Flames burst forth, forcing even the Devouring Beast to temporarily retreat.

"Cover the retreat of the troops!"

Under Mark's command, the veterans began to evacuate back to the building in an orderly and rapid manner.

Mark gave the order via the communication frequency: "Notify the other squads to immediately return to their original positions, contact the lighthouse, and prepare to withdraw to the lighthouse."

"Yes!"

Mark stood alone behind, blocking the Devouring Beast.

His marksmanship was precise, and he always managed to hit the weak points of the Devouring Beast.

Every time the Devouring Beast is hit in a vital spot, it will dodge.

The beast was very large and had difficulty moving around inside the building, which gave the hunters time to retreat.

Once outside, the hunter team members and the dustman laborers immediately loaded the two boxes of supplies they had obtained onto the vehicle, and then the driver started the vehicle immediately.

Mark asked the messenger, "Is everyone here?"

"Captain Mark, and we still can't get in touch with Jing Yuan."

"Erica, Jingyuan is on your team, where is he?"

Erica, piloting the gravity vehicle, was somewhat confused upon hearing this. "Didn't he go to Captain's side?"

Mark was also puzzled, "I didn't see him!"

"I'll keep in touch!"

After a while, the correspondent finally got in touch with Jingyuan.

At that moment, the enormous Devouring Beast also rushed out of the building.

This Devouring Beast was as tall as a building when it stood up, and seven or eight meters long.

It resembles a lizard-like reptile, has six legs, and a long tail.

Many small Devouring Beasts also emerged from the building.

These small Devourer Beasts also resemble lizards with long tails, but they are much smaller, about the size of a snake-dog.

Mark stopped and piloted the Gravity Machine to launch an active attack on the Devourer.

The Devouring Beast is agile and adept at attacking with its tail.

Mark's attack was extremely fierce, and the Devouring Beast was initially stunned.

How can someone be this strong?

The Devouring Beasts roared in fury, and in an instant, all the smaller Devouring Beasts increased their speed and began attacking the convoy.

A machine gunner stood inside the vehicle, gripping his machine gun and firing at the Devouring Beast.

He had only been shooting for a few seconds when suddenly another Devouring Beast leaped over his head and snatched him away.

Penny was also in this vehicle. When she saw the machine gunner being thrown off, she went to the machine gunner's position and gripped the machine gun to shoot at the Devouring Beast.

Those little Devouring Beasts tried to use the same trick again, leaping up to Penny's head.

The Devouring Beast's claws reached out towards Penny, and it seemed about to succeed, but at that moment a black afterimage flew by.

Blood splattered from the Devouring Beast's head.

Then, a white gravity body streaked across the sky and cleaved the Devouring Beast in two with a single strike.

Penny recognized it as Jingyuan's gravity body.

Chapter 36 Retreat

Jingyuan hurried back while dodging the snakes and dogs that were chasing him.

He hadn't expected the situation to be so bad.

There were also so many Devouring Beasts on the main force's side.

Seeing that Penny was about to be captured by the Devouring Beast, Jingyuan first used a throwing knife to kill the Devouring Beast, and then slashed at it with his sword.

Jingyuan doesn't have time to think about absorbing life essence right now; he can only save people first.

Jing Yuan piloted the Gravity Body, weaving through the ranks and slaying the Devouring Beasts one after another.

But there were just too many Devouring Beasts.

This also includes the snake-dog that followed Jingyuan all the way here.

A large group of Devouring Beasts followed behind the entire procession.

On the Hunters' side, including Jing Yuan, there were six gravity bodies and six machine guns.

However, even with so many Devouring Beasts, they were still at a loss.

After slaying several Devouring Beasts, Jing Yuan went straight to Mark's side.

"team leader!"

"Jingyuan!"

Mark didn't even have time to think about what Jing Yuan had been doing before; he was only focused on using his guns to stop the Devouring Beast.

"Captain! Give me some covering fire!"

After saying that, Jing Yuan rushed towards the Devouring Beast.

This lizard-like Devourer resembles a lizard in both form and movement.

One of its legs is injured, so it can't run fast.

Jing Yuan rushed forward, and the Devouring Beast used its forelimbs to block him, but Jing Yuan skillfully bypassed it.

Jingyuan followed Mark's attack method and slashed the Devouring Beast's leg with his sword.

The Devouring Beast had injured both legs and stumbled and fell to the ground.

Mark slowed down the Devouring Beasts in this way.

Unfortunately, the Devouring Beast has extremely strong regenerative abilities and will recover quickly.

Just then, a missile flew from the Hunters' ranks.

The Devouring Beast could detect the missile and rolled over to dodge it.