Chapter 290：Struggle

Dudian quietly lurked around in the silent and dark place. Every second of every minute felt like a century-long. H hoped that the bumbs would continue forever.

But he was aware that he will have to face the reality and struggle to live. He didn't continue to shy around and sit still. He began to think about ways to survive. He thought that if the food was poured into the nest then at the moment they were close to the surface. However at some point because of the weight of the monsters they would fall down to the depth of the pit. So if he continued to sit still then he would be buried alive.

He knew that he had to come up with a solution. He pulled the dagger from his legging and began to rummage through the bodies of the monsters. Soon he found a mutant crocodile's body. Its claws were stained with mud. It was not one of the three that they had killed but a mutated crocodile from the swamp.

The monsters who hid their own territories couldn't escape from the splitter.

Dudian used the dagger to cut off through the cracks on its abdomen. Afterwards he began to clean out the internal organs. He made sure that nothing was left inside the stomach of the crocodile. Later on he went into crocodile's body. His hands clutched onto its flesh on the edge as he nervously waited.

In about ten minutes the range of the bumps gradually slowed down.

The muscles of Dudian's body were tight because of nervousness. The time of life and death seemed to come.

The bumbs stopped but he didn't wait for long as the jagged organs began to loosen below them. He felt a huge force which pulled them down the hole.

Bang!

Dudian also fall down while he was wrapped inside the mutant crocodile's corpse. Dudian felt bursts of pain from his bones after a heavy hit to the ground. Bang! Bang! Continuous sounds echoed and the blood, viscera, intestines and other organs spilled out and smahes onto crocodile's body. A full corpse of a spotted dog hit crocodile's spine. Dudian felt like he was hit by a boulder and he almost suffocted. Fortunately the armor covering crocodile had evolved and had strong defensive properties. Thanks to this Dudian didn't die on spot.

The bodies of the creatures dumped and piled up.

The blood that penetrated from the upper layers began to soak the ground.

The world was dead silent.

Dudian felt that the pressure was too hard and he almost couldn't breathe. Luckily there were gaps between the bodies of the monsters so the stenchy air could circulate.

Dudian didn't dare to make a sound. His body was tight and like a sculpture. He feared that the splitter wouldn't eat but swallow the food. Although there was a very low probability of it happening but when it came to his own life even a 10% chance of such an occurrence would make a man very nervous.

He pushed his ears close to the sticky flesh and blood of the crocodile's belly. He tried to listen to the movement happening outside.

A few minutes later he heard the ground slightly tremble in a high frequence and quickly faint down. He thought about a possibility. The splitter went out to hunt!

Dudian didn't dare to wait anymore and seized this rare opportunity. His hands struggled to break apart crocodile's body and climb out.

However, Dudian's heart sank down after pushing for several times. The weight above the crocodile's body was more than he imagined. It was pressing down as if it was a mountain.

"Damn it!" Dudian felt anxious. If splitter decided that it had amassed enough food for the winter then it wouldn't go out. Moreover once it noticed that there was a living creatures inside the nest then Dudian wouldn't be able to escape the death. There was an opportunity in front of him which he couldn't use. "Am I really going to buried in here?" Dudian whispered as his heart was full of panic.

He clenched his teeth as he made every effort to push but there was not the slightest change. Anger and anxiety filled his heart and they gave birth to trace of fear. But Dudian didn't gave up instead he calmed his mind. He though of another way. Dudian planned to crawl through the crocodile's body and drill out from its mouth.

Dudian was able to quickly move through the sticky and bloody flesh. It didn't take long for him to reach the crocodile's neck. There was a trace of joy in his heart as he saw that his actions were fruitful. There was a sharp wound in crocodile's neck caused by the splitter. It was a fatal injury to the crocodile.

Dudian clutched from the wound, squeezed his upper body and tried to push from its palate. However there was no effect. The hope that was ignited in his heart once again was extuingished.

His body was sweating while he deeply breathed. He was in a sealed place and there was a thin air which made his strength to get weaker.

He was exhausted and was anxious to lie down here to sleep. He adhered to his hopes as he repeatedly tried to push its jaw open. There were no results so he decided to change the method. Dudian opened his both hands and began his struggle to shake crocodile's body.

His body did swing up after a while and made the crocodile's body slightly shook up. He continued to do so and felt that the pressure was getting smaller in comparison to before. He was happy to see that his idea was succeeding. After all, the bodies stacked on top of the crocodile's corpse weren't arranged solidly. Moreover there were lots of blood which made them slip and fall down.

The more he shook the more the pressure decreased. About seven or eight minutes later he once again tried to push open the jaw of the crocodile. At the end he was successful.

Dudian was overjoyed as he went out of the jaw of the crocodile.

Dudian saw the accumulated wreckage of variate of monsters. The blood flowed down through the remnants of their bodies. It seemed like the scene where a chef added tomato sauce into the delicious food.

Dudian crawled out as he pushed away or squeezed through the corpses of other monsters. He didn't forget to tightly pull the first aid kit which was in his pocket.

After few minutes of struggle he was able to withdraw from the amassed bodies of the monsters. He saw that he was inside a dark cave. The air was full of strange stenchy smells. The cave was about ten meters his and could accommodate the splitter.

There were rough chopping marks all over the walls. Even a man made apparatus couldn't carve such long cut marks.

Dudian raised his hand to wipe the blood on his face. He sniffed but captured lots of smells in the air. He simply couldn't rely on his sense of odors to determine the position of splitter if it came back.

He ralized the flaw of sense of smell in this situation. He squatted down and pressed his ear to the ground to listen. He didn't hear any vibrations. His heart rejoiced as he stood up and began to ran through the cave.

After seven or eight steps Dudian stopped. He thought of Scar and looked back at the mountain of corpses. He didn't see the slightest shadow of Scar's corpse. Dudian bit his lip and turned to leave. His pupils shrank as he saw the scene farther away.

There was a huge oval boulder!

Not a boulder...The proper words to describe it was...a huge egg!

Dudian was startled on spot but soon recovered. It was not the time to think whether it was an egg or something else. He ran.

After about 20 meters he passed through a corned and looked forward. Dudian's body froze up like an ice statue.