Clumsy Beast, Keep Your Paws Off novel Chapter 358

Chapter 358: Chapter 358: No Ground, No Sky to Hide

While the tribe leader was at the front, Su Qinglan was at the very back of the line. She was clutching Stove and keeping her eyes on everything.

Her husbands...Hu Yan, Xuan Long, Rong Ye, Han Jue, and Shi Feng...stayed with her, forming a wall of muscle behind the fleeing people.

Su Qinglan had insisted on being at the end. She had a gut feeling that if the attack came, it wouldn’t come from the front.

It would come from behind, like a predator chasing down the weak. If they were at the back, they could at least act as a shield to buy the others time.

Su Qinglan looked over at Lan Yue, who was riding beside her. Her heart filled with heartache.

Lan Yue’s stomach was huge; she was heavily pregnant and looked exhausted. She was only a few days away from giving birth.

Su Qinglan felt a surge of worry. Lan Yue was a mermaid. She needed water...specifically the sea...to give birth safely and comfortably.

But here they were, running through a dry, dusty forest with a horde of monsters at their heels.

"Lan Yue, are you holding up?" Su Qinglan whispered, reaching out to steady her sister.

Lan Yue wiped sweat from her forehead and gave a weak, forced smile. "I’m okay, sister. I just... I wish I could smell the salt in the air. This dirt is making my skin feel so dry."

Su Qinglan squeezed her hand, but she didn’t know what to say. They hadn’t found any sea yet.

She looked at the horizon, her mind racing. How was her sister going to survive a birth in the middle of a forest while being hunted?

Suddenly....

The terrifying sound of a fox beastman’s howl suddenly tore through the air from the direction they had just come.

It wasn’t a call for help; it was the warning howl of the scouts.

Everyone stiffened. The long line of people seemed to skip a beat in terror.

That howl meant only one thing: the scout team had spotted the beast tide. The monsters had already reached the Fox Tribe’s empty village.

"They’re there," Su Qinglan whispered, her voice trembling. "They’re at our home."

The realization was like a cold blade to the heart.

Only a few hours ago, she had been sleeping in her warm bed. Now, that bed was likely being trampled and ripped apart by mindless, bloodthirsty monsters.

"Run! Don’t look back!" Su Mingxuan’s voice roared from the front.

The pace changed instantly. The quiet, steady walk turned into a desperate, panicked sprint.

Almost all the males had already transformed into their beast forms. Huge wolves, powerful tigers, and agile foxes were now carrying heavy loads of food on their backs, with small cubs clinging to their thick fur and exhausted females riding on their shoulders.

Su Qinglan gripped the thick fur on Hu Yan’s neck as his massive tiger body lunged forward.

He was running even faster now, his muscles bunching and stretching with every powerful leap.

Beside them, Xuan Long’s serpent form flickered through the undergrowth like a dark shadow, his cold eyes constantly checking the treeline.

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