Chapter 84: The True Beginning
What humans fear most is a living thing that looks like a person but is not.
The man-eating beast is exactly that.
First and foremost is the human face they possess.
No matter how ferocious a lion or tiger may be, they only bare their teeth and snarl or roar.
But the man-eating beast can laugh like a human, and cry like a human.
Who would not be afraid to see a monster with a human face laughing right at them?
Secondly, the brain of a man-eating beast is only the size of a soybean; they can only hold one concept in their minds at a time.
When a mother man-eating beast is protecting her young, her brain contains only the concept of “protection,” and she will desperately kill any creature that poses a threat to her offspring.
If the offspring dies, another concept shifts into their brain: “food.”
They will devour the young they have defended for so long without a moment’s hesitation.
Finally, and this is the most terrifying part.
Man-eating beasts love to eat humans the most; as long as they see a person, only one concept remains in their minds: human.
The mother man-eating beast will stop protecting her young and instead attack the humans.
The adult offspring will also fight with their mother for the food, even killing each other for it.
Once you are targeted by these things, it is very difficult for a human to escape. They can swim, climb trees, their speed is high, their stamina is ample, and their strength is formidable.
They will not give up; even if a Fangshi protects themselves within a formation, they will wait patiently. It is said that there are even man-eating beasts that have starved to death because of this.
