The head was covered in a layer of white bony carapace, presenting the shape of a skull.
The body was slender and strong, like a giant lizard, but it only had two thick forelimbs and no hind legs.
It dragged a tail like a python.
It was over five meters long; although not as massive as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, that cold, cunning aura filled with malice was even more chilling than a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
It opened its mouth and stuck out a long, forked tongue; the tongue was actually two or three meters long, nimbly curling in the air, as if it were tasting the flavor of fear in the air.
"Skull Crawler!"
Alice's pupils constricted sharply.
This kind of monster was the nightmare of the island and also the mortal enemy of King Kong.
They were greedy and bloodthirsty, forever in a state of hunger, and would devour everything that could move.
Even if this one before them was just a juvenile, it was enough to wipe out their group of stragglers.
"Don't move, absolutely do not move."
Alice said in an extremely low voice while on Banner's back.
"Its vision mainly tracks dynamic objects. Back up slowly, slowly."
However, Murphy's Law tells us that at the worst of times, worse things will always happen.
A gust of wind blew by.
A drop of sweat, shed due to nervousness on Strange's forehead, dripped onto a dry leaf.
"Plop."
The sound was infinitesimal.
But in that monster's ears, this was like the sound of a starter pistol.
"Hiss—"
The Skull Crawler let out a hiss similar to a snake, and those dead-gray eyes instantly locked onto Strange.
The next second, it lunged out.
Fast, too fast.
Its speed simply defied biological common sense.
The two thick forelimbs dug into the ground violently, and the entire body became like a missile flying close to the ground, carrying a suffocating stench, instantly crossing a distance of over ten meters, opening its bloody maw to bite at Hughes.
"Fuck!"
Strange only had time to curse, his body instinctively falling backward, rolling on the ground in an extremely disheveled manner.
"Snap!"
The monster's sharp teeth bit at empty air, the crisp sound of its upper and lower jaws colliding making one's scalp tingle.
If Strange had been half a second slower, his head would have become a rotten watermelon by now.
"Shoot it, Hughes, shoot its eyes."
Banner roared, turned and ran with Alice on his back, attempting to put some distance between them.
Hughes finally didn't drop the ball this time.
Perhaps it was because extreme fear had made him lose the ability to think, leaving only muscle memory.
"Whoosh!"
An arrow was shot.
It struck the monster right in the shoulder.
The arrow pinned against the thick scales, only sparking before bouncing off.
Against such a thick-skinned monster, ordinary arrows simply couldn't break through its defenses.
But this arrow successfully enraged it.
The Skull Crawler turned its head violently, its long tail sweeping over like an iron whip.
"Bang!"
Hughes, along with his bow, was swept away, crashing heavily into a tree, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and passing out instantly.
"Hughes."
The battlefield was instantly left with only two scientists with no combat capability and a weak little girl.
"Alice, can you turn into that superwoman again?" Strange scrambled up from the ground, grabbing a rock in his hand, and shouted desperately.
"No, the cooldown time hasn't finished yet."
Alice gritted her teeth and forced herself to slide down from Banner's back.
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