“Quick! I saw the intruder go that way!” Outside the door, a man in black spoke urgently into his walkie-talkie.
Shen Qi pressed her ear against the doorframe, waiting until the footsteps faded before shifting her gaze inside the room.
The security was tight now. This room had just been searched, giving her a place to hide for a while.
Suddenly, something hanging on the wall caught her eye—a picture densely covered with various animals. Shen Qi reached out and ran her hand over it, feeling the rough fabric and an indescribable texture.
Looking closely at the animals in the picture, her brows furrowed slightly. Human heads, animal bodies?
One corner of the picture was missing a piece. As soon as Shen Qi’s hand touched the missing section, the picture seemed to exert a strange pull, emitting a blinding white light. She frowned, forced to close her eyes, and then felt herself uncontrollably sucked inside.
When she opened her eyes again, an unfamiliar environment greeted her.
Towering trees reached into the clouds, their trunks several times thicker than her. Everything she saw was larger than anything she had ever encountered before!
For reference, the scenery was even more immense!
“Where… is this?”
A sense of foreboding gathered in her heart, and her head still felt dizzy from the immense force that had pulled her here.
She rubbed her temples as a gentle breeze brushed past, carrying the faint scent of fresh grass into her nostrils, soothing her chaotic emotions.
She needed to think about how she had ended up here. In just a few seconds, she had arrived in this strange, vast place.
She had accepted a mission to retrieve important documents but had found an out-of-place picture in that room. The picture was primitive yet eerie, depicting half-human, half-beast figures with blurry faces and a missing corner…
Right! It was that missing corner!
As soon as she touched it, a white light had forced her to close her eyes, and then a powerful force had sucked her in. The next moment she opened her eyes, she saw this scene.
“Could it be… I’ve traveled through time?”
Shen Qi’s brows tightened as she looked up at the impossibly tall trees. She reached out and touched one, the real texture reminding her this was no virtual world.
After walking a short distance, she heard the gurgling sound of flowing water. Quickly parting the grass, she saw a man lying with his eyes closed in a stream, his arms resting at his sides, revealing only his broad shoulders and firm chest muscles. He was clearly bathing.
His nose was high and straight, his lips finely shaped, and his skin a warm wheat color. Sunlight poured down, illuminating his handsome face.
She had never seen such beauty before.
In all the circles she had navigated, dealing with countless men and encountering all kinds, she had never met anyone this striking.
However, as captivating as the sight of this handsome man bathing was, now was not the time to dwell on it.
Perhaps she could ask this man about the situation in this world.
Just as she took a step forward, the man, who had been lying with his eyes closed, seemed to sense something. His eyes snapped open, revealing a fierce, tiger-like gaze filled with killing intent. And his pupils—they were amber in color!
Beautiful! So beautiful!
His face was smooth and fair, his eyes dark and profound, and his ink-black hair cascaded down to his waist, shimmering with an enchanting luster.
However, his attire was something she had never seen before—a beast hide, black and tightly wrapped around his body, perfectly outlining his curves, both concave and convex.Bai Yuwei instantly restrained his killing intent. While bathing with his eyes closed, he suddenly heard a faint movement. Initially thinking it was another reckless beast, he was surprised to see a female—and not just any female, but one of extraordinary beauty!
He immediately felt a warm rush in his nose, and his amber eyes were fixed, unable to look away.
The next moment, a massive figure appeared behind the small female, and a look of tension abruptly surfaced on Bai Yuwei’s face.
Oh no! The female is in danger!
Before he could even stand up, Shen Qi sensed something behind her. Just a second before it attacked, she sidestepped to evade its strike.
Shen Qi raised her obsidian-like eyes, narrowing them dangerously as she faced this reckless creature that dared to attack her.
Upon seeing what it was, her pupils contracted sharply.
A hyena covered in black stripes, its body taller than hers, was now glaring at her ferociously, as if wanting to tear her to shreds.
Shen Qi gripped the small knife at her waist, watching its movements cautiously.
The hyena, finding its first attack had failed, stubbornly launched a second assault. Its blunt, short claws aimed for her head. She bent down, stepping sideways to avoid its striking hand, then forcefully drove her knife into its arm.
The force was so great that a small section of the knife even pierced into the soil. Blood flowed from the wound, and the hyena howled in pain. With one arm rendered powerless, it tried to use the other.
Shen Qi had anticipated this, moving out of its attack range beforehand. Before leaving, she stomped hard on the knife handle, aggravating the injury and causing more blood to gush out.
Just as Shen Qi pulled out her handgun, she saw the hyena suddenly spit out a mouthful of old blood, then collapse to the ground.
Stunned, she looked behind it to see an even larger tiger—golden, glossy fur adorned with deep brown stripes, and amber eyes staring intently at her.
The hyena had been killed by this tiger with a single strike…
“Damn it! An even more powerful one showed up!”
Before she could pull the trigger, the next scene left her utterly shocked.
The tall, imposing tiger before her instantly transformed into the man who had been bathing earlier.
Shen Qi was truly speechless this time. A tiger turning into a human? Absurd! How is that possible!
Despite having weathered countless storms without much fluctuation, this scene genuinely frightened her.
The man quickly closed the distance, his warm hand gripping her waist and pulling her close to his body.
He sniffed at her neck, “Female, you are so beautiful, and you smell so fragrant too.”
The hand on her waist tightened slightly, as if trying to press her body even closer to his.
Reacting swiftly, Shen Qi freed one hand to press against his chest while the other held the handgun against his temple.
This man was incredibly fast—she hadn’t even seen how he moved, yet he was suddenly right in front of her.
He’s dangerous!
Aware of the man’s danger and the unfamiliar sensation of his touch, she snapped back to her senses and quickly aimed the gun at him.
“Who are you? How did you transform from a tiger into this form?” Could he be a monster in disguise?
She suddenly recalled the demons and ghosts from TV dramas that could take human form. Could this man before her be a monster too?
“Little female, I am a Tiger Beast. With my powerful abilities, of course I can take human form.””Take your hand and that thing poking into my stomach away!”
Shen Qi angrily lowered her gaze, but when she saw what was pressing against her stomach, her face flushed red with anger.
“You… pervert!”
She had thought it was some kind of hard weapon, but it turned out to be that part of a man. This exhibitionist was even rubbing against her.
Just as she pulled the trigger, the man vanished from her sight in the blink of an eye. The bullet struck a tree, leaving a small dent.
“Beautiful Female, what is this thing?”