After Curtis and Winston met the scorpion king, they went their separate ways.

Winston couldn’t wait to see Irina and entered the grave pit one step earlier.

Curtis used his sharp sense of smell and looked for a stretch of an oasis near Flame City.

There were drought-tolerance animals in the oasis’s clear and shallow lake.

Curtis was in no hurry. He checked out the oasis, gathered a bundle of firewood, then hunted and brought the living prey back to Flame City.

The next day, Damien’s injuries had mostly recovered.

Only Irina and himself were in the cave, and they spent their days together intimately. Damien felt extremely satisfied.

Suddenly,...