Rising from the Ashes (Andrew and Lauren)

Magnus shook his head. "Young man, ignorance can cost you your life. You're putting too much faith in modern weapons and treating a tiger spirit like an ordinary tiger. In the end, all you'll get is having your bones sucked dry and being devoured alive in agony!"

Ralph sneered. "Is that so? Well, I'm looking forward to that beast coming back to try me again."

Logan suddenly shouted, "There's something in those bushes over there."noveldrama

Andrew quickly walked over and pushed the brush aside to look. Immediately, a corpse with its face gnawed beyond recognition appeared before everyone. Besides the face, this body's chest and abdomen had been completely hollowed out, all the organs eaten clean.

Magnus turned deathly pale as he exclaimed, "Tiger spirit! That beast from earlier wasn't an ordinary tiger at all! It was a man-eating tiger spirit, I'm sure of it..."

He mumbled, "It's over, Ralph, you're really done for now! Once it's marked you, if you keep staying here, you'll definitely die a horrible death."

Ralph's heart was already racing with fear. Seeing this mutilated corpse made him even more terrified, his whole body shuddering.

"Damn it, if that beast dares come back, just watch me blow it to hell," he yelled to bolster his courage as he grabbed a grenade with one hand.

However, his voice had already changed pitch, betraying how scared he really was inside.

Tiana looked at the rotting corpse and said grimly, "Another one from the Wright family's security detail. Kevin was leading the team, and the Wright family had plenty of skilled fighters. How could someone still die?"

Logan turned to look at everyone. "Folks, maybe we should get out of these mountains tonight?"

Magnus nodded repeatedly. "Yes, yes, yes! Mr. Keller's got the right idea-I agree. Let's get out of here right now."

No one paid attention to him, as all eyes focused on Andrew, waiting for his decision.

Andrew shook his head, saying, "Buzz and his men have already gone up. If we retreat now, getting back into the mountains will be troublesome. Besides, if I'm not mistaken, the forbidden area at Gallow's End heritage hamlet should be our destination for this trip."

Chantelle gasped. "What? Mr. Lloyd, are you saying the treasure location is inside

the forbidden area of Gallow's End heritage hamlet?"

Andrew nodded with a dark

expression "That's right, it should be

in the forbidden area. The Gallow's End heritage hamlet down the mountain isn't the same Gallow's End from the dynasties recorded on the treasure map. It's a heritage hamlet that was relocated from the mountains after a disaster."

Tiana picked up the thread. "So you're saying the original Gallow's End heritage hamlet was actually in the mountains-what the Patoajo call the forbidden area. That would mean the treasure must be there!"

Andrew said, "Exactly! What we're looking for should be in that forbidden area."

Logan impatiently said, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go catch up with Buzz and his men-we can be the first to find the treasure!"

Everyone fell silent. They all felt uneasy, remembering how, when they first entered the mountains, Axel, the village chief, and Buzz's warriors had avoided that forbidden area like the plague.

Now here they were, in the dead of night, actually planning to head into the very heart of it. It just seemed suicidal.

The treasure was certainly tempting, but no one had expected Gallow's End to be so terrifying and sinister.

They had not even seen the treasure yet, and several people were already dead. Moreover, in these dark, remote mountains, there was a man-eating Dire Tiger lurking about.

No matter how they looked at it, this mission was a death trap. Whether or not they would actually find the treasure, no one could say for sure. However, if they pushed forward, getting torn apart by that tiger or running into something even worse was very much on the table.