"It's just that this place is too remote, otherwise it could really be a stronghold. It's much warmer than our little broken wooden hut."
Zhou Haimei muttered softly, but Xu An shook his head in disagreement.
"We still don't know when the lighthouse will arrive. Even at the fastest, it will take at least one to two days. But we still need to eat and make fire for these two days. Although this is a natural shelter, it's also too enclosed. If the fire gets out of control, we'll panic when we try to escape."
What Xu An said was indeed correct.
Qin Chuan on the other side had already finished dealing with the man. Seeing the man lying on the ground, silent.
"You killed him?"
Qin Chuan shook his head, "No, he fainted."
Xu An was a little curious why Qin Chuan didn't kill the other party.
"Let's leave him here. Whether he lives or dies depends on his own fate."
No one else objected.
Although Qin Chuan didn't say anything, Xu An vaguely guessed that the deaths of those outside should be related to this man.
After finishing, Qin Chuan borrowed a kerosene lamp from Xu An and walked towards a certain direction in the cave.
He picked up a backpack and found a lot of supplies left behind by them in the cave, all packed into the backpack.
Xu An just watched quietly.
After tidying up, Qin Chuan left without looking back.
Xu An also took Zhou Haimei and left.
Passing through the beach littered with corpses again, they tacitly did not look back, because it was too tragic, making people unable to bear to look up again.
As the three walked out of the cave, Xu An heard a strange noise.
Just then, the wind and snow started again, so Xu An didn't think much about it.
It wasn't until the three were about to reach the frozen sea that
Xu An saw that the originally solid ice surface had developed cracks.
In a flash, a monster with a fish body suddenly leaped out of the sea.
It was just a bite away from biting Qin Chuan's arm.
But even so, Qin Chuan's sleeve was torn by the sharp teeth, scratching his arm.
"Hiss—"
As if excited by the smell of blood, it cried out, and then countless monsters with fish bodies but two legs leaped out of the ice.
Their eyes were red, as if craving the smell of blood.
Qin Chuan glanced at the wound on his arm indifferently and said to Xu An and Zhou Haimei behind him.
"This way is no longer viable. I don't know where these monsters came from."
"Weren't these the same monsters that were chasing you before?"
Qin Chuan shook his head, "No, those monsters could climb onto land, but these things seem unable to."
As they spoke, the three took out their weapons.
Before Qin Chuan could react, Xu An's long saber stabbed directly towards Qin Chuan's face.
But Qin Chuan still stood there without dodging.
Following the sound of an object being pierced, Qin Chuan looked back.
He found that at some unknown time, the monster had quietly climbed onto Qin Chuan's back and was about to bite Qin Chuan's neck.
With those terrifying steel teeth, it was easy to imagine that if it really bit down, Qin Chuan would probably die on the spot.
As Xu An chopped the monster to death with one strike, more and more monsters climbed up from the ice.
Zhou Haimei took out the gun tucked at her waist and kept shooting at the monsters.
The violent impact caused the ice to crack further. Xu An and Zhou Haimei started running backward, and Qin Chuan did not hesitate.
Following the pace of the two, they kept retreating.
Xu An ran to the front, the monsters behind were chasing relentlessly, shouting loudly, as if summoning their companions.
The sound was sharp and piercing, making Xu An feel like his eardrums were being crushed, churning in his ears again and again.
"What the hell is this thing?" Zhou Haimei cursed as she ran, while constantly dodging the monsters' attacks. Her face, already flushed red by the cold wind, became even redder from the strenuous running.
But no one answered Zhou Haimei's question.
Qin Chuan and Xu An were too busy dealing with their own situations.
Fortunately, the three of them dodged in time. Except for Qin Chuan's arm being scratched with several obvious bloodstains.
The other two were unharmed.
But these monsters were chasing the three of them like mad. In the icy and snowy weather, walking was difficult, let alone running in such weather.
Xu An suddenly turned back, took out his gun, and kept shooting at the monsters in front of him.
But these monsters seemed to be immune to pain, completely disregarding the lethality of the firearms, and kept rushing forward.
Perhaps it was because Xu An killed the most monsters.
More and more monsters gathered towards Xu An, as if Xu An alone had firmly drawn their aggro.
Soon, Qin Chuan and Zhou Haimei also noticed this and started to support Xu An.
But such support was meaningless.
These monsters seemed to be endless, constantly approaching the land.
And the bullets in Xu An's and their hands were not inexhaustible.
"Mei Jie, do you have any more bombs?"
Zhou Haimei shouted back to Xu An without hesitation, "I have one last one!"
After speaking, she continued to hack at the surrounding monsters with her dagger.
Xu An kept shooting while constantly retreating, trying to create some distance from these monsters.
Just as Xu An was about to be bitten on the calf by a monster,
Qin Chuan suddenly flashed from the side and kicked the monster's head away, then followed up with a shot from his gun.
Xu An and Zhou Haimei immediately understood and cooperated with Qin Chuan, fighting and retreating.
"This won't do!" Xu An's voice was a little unstable, her stamina was draining from the prolonged combat.
But Xu An's current condition was the best.
Just a little exhausted.
Qin Chuan's forehead was already covered in large beads of sweat, and Zhou Haimei on the other side's hands were starting to tremble from exhaustion.
Her upper and lower teeth were chattering in her mouth, but Zhou Haimei still gritted her teeth.
She knew the current situation.
Everyone was fighting their own battles.
She couldn't fall at this moment, even though the recoil of the handgun made Zhou Haimei's hands numb.
But she still held the gun tightly.
This was the only reliance for survival.
Xu An momentarily glanced at the condition of the other two, bit her lower lip, and just as she was about to make a difficult decision,
Qin Chuan spoke rapidly from the side.
"Let's lure these monsters to that beach, and then blow them up with bombs!"