My husband is too wild, I need to go home and find my mom.

Chapter 195 Captured by the Wandering Orcs

As Linni watched the wandering orcs attacking from both sides with great concern, she suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet soften, and the damp earth collapsed with a soft thud.

"Ah!" Lin Ni cried out in surprise. As the ground collapsed, she lost her footing and fell. A-Zhi immediately grabbed Lin Ni and tried to jump up, but felt a force pulling her down from below. A-Zhi could only fall down with her.

When Yao looked sharply towards where Lin Ni was, he saw A Zhi tightly holding Lin Ni and disappearing into the ground: "Little Ni!"

Lin Ni, tightly protected by A-Zhi, fell into the burrow, and then someone tried to pull her out of A-Zhi's arms. A-Zhi held Lin Ni in his arms with all his might, and she felt pain from his embrace. But with a cry of pain, he suddenly turned around and pinned Lin Ni to the ground. Lin Ni, pinned down, had no idea what was happening. She only heard A-Zhi cry out in pain again, and his arms loosened, and Lin Ni was roughly pulled out. Lin Ni looked up and saw a scorpion clamping its pincers onto A-Zhi's hand, bending it into a strange shape, while half of his body was being viciously bitten by a crocodile.

"Ah Zhi!" Lin Ni's heart skipped a beat, and she called out worriedly.

Then Linni felt a sudden tightness around her waist; a black snake had coiled around her and was darting deeper into the cave. The enormous, dark brown scorpion followed closely behind, its two gleaming black eyes coldly fixed on her. Linni's heart leaped in terror. Just as she was about to scream, a dark shadow flashed before her eyes, a sharp pain shot through the back of her neck, and she fainted.

Lin Ni was awakened by a suffocating sensation. When she woke up, she found herself being pulled forward in the water. She choked on some water and quickly covered her mouth, suspecting that she would have drowned if she had woken up any later. Fortunately, the black snake quickly pulled Lin Ni into a dark passage and then left the water.

Once out of the water and ashore, Linni coughed incessantly; water had gotten into her trachea, and her throat was incredibly sore. Just as she finished coughing, she heard someone else coughing beside her. Linni glanced to the side and could only make out a bald man in the darkness. His skin was very dark, and his muscular physique gleamed with a metallic sheen. This must be the scorpion beastman who had been following her.

After only a couple of glances, I heard a hoarse voice from the other side say, "Don't you like such a strong man? Don't worry, you'll be satisfied in a moment!"

The voice, the implication in the words, and the malicious tone sent chills down Lin Ni's spine. Lin Ni turned around and saw a similarly muscular, fair-skinned man with long, flowing black hair. His lewd, snake-like eyes were fixed on her with lustful intent. He also had a long, black snake tail coiled around her waist.

When the black snake beastman saw Lin Ni looking at him, a playful smile appeared on his face. He reached out and pinched Lin Ni's face hard, laughing, "As expected of the Beast God's messenger, you were captured by two wandering beastmen, yet you didn't cry or make a fuss, and you're still so calm! Aren't you afraid of us?"

He pinched Lin Ni so hard that her bones ached. Lin Ni frowned and said, "Can you let go of me and talk to me properly?"

The black snake beastman leaned over and pressed his forehead against Linni's, saying, "I like to see females crying beneath me, not looking at them in comfort!"

The foul stench emanating from his mouth made Lin Ni want to vomit, but with her face being pinched, she couldn't turn away and could only purse her lips and hold her breath.

The black snake beastman even flicked its black forked tongue and licked Linni's face and tightly pursed lips.

The bald black man standing nearby said, "Alright, Black Snake! It's not safe here yet! What if the level nine green snake next to her catches up?"

Upon hearing this, the black snake beastman reluctantly released Linni, but still forgot to savor the taste, flicking his tongue: "So sweet! I must enjoy it properly later!"

After saying that, he used his snake tail to lift Lin Ni up and continued to dart into the underground passage. After a short while, he emerged from the passage, and Lin Ni finally saw what the bald black man had turned into: the scorpion was about the size of a small car and had bristles on its body. It looked really scary. When Lin Ni saw the scorpion, she felt a pain in the back of her neck, which must have been caused by him.

Both the black snake beastman and the brown scorpion beastman were level eight beastmen. Lin Ni guessed that the reason they went into the water was because the water could eliminate their scent, and also to avoid Yao and the others' pursuit. After all, they were definitely no match for level nine beastmen, and no matter how fast they ran, they couldn't outrun flying beastmen, so they could only go underground.

On the other side, Yao jumped down into the collapsed hole and saw Azhi struggling painfully under the crocodile beastman's gaping maw. He immediately conjured a red spear and stabbed it into the crocodile's back. The crocodile roared in pain, and Azhi successfully broke free from the crocodile's jaws.

Covered in blood, A-Zhi transformed back into human form, his face pale as he stared in the direction Lin Ni had disappeared: "Yao, hurry and chase after her—"

As soon as Yao saw the scorpion disappear into the distance, he rushed over. At the end of the tunnel was an underground river, and he jumped in without hesitation.

The underground river flowed turbulently, dark and deep. Linni's scent and aroma, along with the scents of the snake-beastmen and scorpion-beastmen, had long been washed away by the current. He searched underwater for a long time, only able to sense through his companion's mark that Linni was in the east, but he couldn't follow her.

Yao surfaced with red eyes and saw Yan jump into the water with a backpack containing Ye Yin and Ye Qing. When Yan saw him come up alone, he looked him up and down in a panic: "Yao, where's Lin?"

Yao glanced at Yan but didn't say anything. Both of them were flying beastmen. Yao dared to go underwater to search, but Yan couldn't even go underwater.

The two returned silently to the collapsed area and saw the white eagle covered in blood, its life hanging in the balance, while the crocodile beastman had just left the burrow.

Yao said, "Look at him." Then he leaped out of the hole.