This overlord not only had a poor brain, but even worse eyesight. After a moment of silence, he raised his hand to rub his eyes, blinked hard a couple of times, then turned to Xia Chuan and said: "Tsk - my eyes are playing tricks on me, I actually saw seven or eight overlapping images of one person."

Xia Chuan looked up at him expressionlessly: "There are exactly eight people, unless my eyes are blind too."

Shen Lan: "...Maybe you're not fully awake yet."

Xia Chuan snorted coldly, turning his head away, too lazy to listen to his nonsense. Although Shen Lan's eyesight was poor, his hearing was excellent. Those eight people were breathing heavily and roughly after being startled, completely out of sync. Even Xia Chuan could hear it clearly, let alone Shen Lan. Apparently, the overlord just didn't want to face reality...

He had finally managed to block the wild imaginations of Xia Chuan and the other two. One more would have been manageable, but suddenly there were seven more...

Seven! Especially since among them was a figure obviously much shorter than the rest, clearly a child - this kind of creature that defies common sense, with an exceptionally bizarre imagination, is simply a walking human weapon in the current situation. Who the hell can control them?!

Shen Lan felt his vision go dark, his whole being not feeling well.

"I've been running rampant in this place for so many years..." He stared at the blurry figures of those seven people and slowly said half a sentence in a tone and intonation as if reading an obituary. For the first time, a look of despair appeared on his hardened, handsome face.

The cave was too dark for Xia Chuan to see his expression clearly, but just from hearing his tone, he could guess what the second half of the sentence was. "Never thought that one day you would be done in by such a little one?" Xia Chuan glanced at him and finished the sentence for him.

"Can't even bring myself to hit him." Shen Lan sighed with great regret, feeling that his earlier efforts to stretch his neck and limbs had been in vain.

The group gathered at the opposite cave entrance was probably scared senseless, frozen in place like statues, with only the one clinging to the rock wall still trying to squeeze towards the entrance, not even looking back.

Shen Lan was full of pent-up grievances with nowhere to vent. Seeing that person's actions, he instantly slid along the rock wall at high speed to behind that person, grabbed his collar, and ripped him off the rock wall at the entrance, angrily saying, "With your snail-like speed, you think you can escape?!"

"Ahhhh!" The man screamed, reflexively clutching his head as he was suddenly pulled down. The volume made Shen Lan's head buzz. Without looking, he randomly grabbed something from the side and stuffed it into the man's mouth, forcibly suppressing the scream.

He then frowned deeply, head tilted back as if wanting to be eight feet away, and said while digging in his ear, "Shut up, if you scream again, I'll roast you on the fire, no room for negotiation!"

Only when he spoke did the terrified man stop moving. As if just realizing, he raised his head, stared at Shen Lan for a long time, and then let out a few surprised "mmm" sounds.

Because his mouth was blocked, Shen Lan couldn't make out what he was "mmm-ing" about. But the others beside him spoke for him -

"You are - human?!" They exclaimed in disbelief.

Shen Lan's expression was even more incredulous: "Do I really not look human to you?!"

Xia Chuan, who had just walked over, couldn't help but roll his eyes, feeling that listening to this kind of moronic dialogue too much would definitely lead to brain damage.

Those few people had their mouths wide open, fingers pointing at Xia Chuan one moment and Shen Lan the next. Finally, they said something not brain-dead: "There are actually still people alive! My God! We thought it was just us few living people in this hellish place!"

Shen Lan said expressionlessly, "Oh, what a coincidence, we thought the same until yesterday."

"Huh? Until yesterday?" They obviously didn't understand what Shen Lan meant by that. But at this moment, they were clearly still immersed in the shock and excitement of discovering fellow survivors.

The young man with protruding ears at the front, who was probably a naturally chatty and overly familiar type to begin with, was even more so in this kind of "meeting a fellow townsman" scenario.

He grabbed Shen Lan's arm and began to chatter incessantly, looking for resonance: "It's so great that there are still people alive! Were you also on that ill-fated cruise ship? All of us were! Originally thought we were done for after falling into the sea, but woke up to find ourselves here. Honestly, not much better than being dead! You have no idea, we encountered dinosaurs before! Real dinosaurs! Alive! Just like the ones that always appear in movies, no, even scarier! Ten-plus meters long, two or three stories tall... Almost pissed ourselves from fright! Luckily they were herbivores, otherwise we definitely wouldn't have survived until now..."

The others on the side couldn't get a word in and just kept agreeing, "Yeah, yeah, almost pissed ourselves! Really!"

Even the one with his mouth stuffed "mmm-ed" a couple times in deep agreement.

Xia Chuan glanced at the protruding-eared man's hand grabbing Shen Lan and felt speechless.

This guy and Dennis were probably from the same family from 800 years ago. Fortunately, Shen Lan was in human form now. If he reverted to his original form, they would probably be so scared they'd need diapers and still not be able to contain it.

Unfortunately, Shen Lan, this ancestor who had been dealing with dinosaurs for a long time, was very bad at human conversation. He yanked his arm back from the man's grasp and said bluntly, "Why didn't I know that? I just roasted a few carnivores for the last meal."

Those few: "............"

Protruding Ears dug in his ear: "What?!"

A middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties beside him gave a dry laugh: "You're so funny."

Shen Lan was too lazy to waste words with them on this issue. After all, he didn't keep these people around to exchange experiences. He jerked his chin in the direction they came from and said concisely, "Go in."

His handsome features had a sharp edge to them. When he had a serious expression, he appeared somewhat fierce. His voice was also very deep. Suddenly spouting these two words, it was like a tough cop wielding a baton ordering a group of lackeys. Those few people subconsciously shrank their necks and obediently walked towards the cave, sticking close to the rock wall.

With Shen Lan herding them like ducks from behind, everyone's pace was very fast. Before long, they arrived at the leftmost fork in the road. Dennis and Professor Lin, who were originally napping inside, were awakened by the commotion.

They sat up groggily and stared blankly for two seconds before suddenly realizing that there were many unfamiliar figures in the cave, their silhouettes blurry, standing or squatting in the not-so-large space.

"What the hell is going on?!" Dennis was stunned for a moment and cried out. He fumbled in the pack on his chest for a while and pulled out the small emergency flashlight, pressing the switch.

The cold white light instantly shone from the flashlight, illuminating the space. The group of people shielded their eyes from the sudden white light, crying out "Ouch, ouch" for a good while before slowly adapting. They squinted in surprise, "There are actually two more..."

"Oh my god, there are actually so many people still alive?!" Dennis almost simultaneously exclaimed this sentence, with even more surprise in his tone.

He was so excited that he forgot it was very impolite to shine the flashlight directly at people. He just held the flashlight and scanned each of them one by one—

Just as Xia Chuan and Shen Lan had counted, there were a total of seven people in this group. There were two young people who looked to be in their early twenties, the thinner one being the big-eared guy who kept talking to Shen Lan, and the other short and fat one looking quite honest and simple;

There was also a man in his thirties or forties with a beer belly, his mouth stuffed with something black, looking a bit disheveled;

Next to him stood a middle-aged man in his fifties, with a bit of a receding hairline, the remaining hair on his head forming a perfect Mediterranean circle.

Protected behind them were two women and a little boy. One was also only in her early twenties, with a simple high ponytail, standing close to the big-eared guy, the two seeming to be a couple. The other woman was already middle-aged, with good features, just a slightly plump figure. She tightly held the hand of the golden-haired little boy, looking like a mother and son.

When Professor Linton saw this group of survivors of varying composition, he also got extremely excited for a moment. He quickly called out to them to sit down and rest, not to be too nervous, and reminded the beer-bellied man to take out the stuff in his mouth.

Only then did the beer-bellied man remember that with his hands free, he could pull out the thing stuffed in his mouth himself.

However, after the excitement passed, Professor Linton thought of that very critical question. He looked up at Xia Chuan and Shen Lan to the side and said, "So the situation that erupted outside was them..."

Xia Chuan nodded, "More or less."

He and Shen Lan had left them here to clarify this issue with them. However, before they could speak, the golden-haired little boy tugged on the middle-aged woman's hand and asked softly, "Mom, why are we sitting here? Aren't we going outside the cave?"

"Everyone changed their minds," the woman holding him tightly replied in a low voice, "There's a fire outside, we have to hide here for a bit."

The little boy said "Oh," and after a quiet second, spoke again, "Then Mom, will the sky really shatter? Just like the glass I accidentally dropped on the floor last time?"

Xia Chuan and the other three: "............"

"Is this how the dinosaurs went extinct? Dad told me before that stars fell, and there were tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. When the sky shatters, will lava flow down?" The little boy was still solemnly seeking confirmation of the scene at the time of the dinosaurs' extinction.

Shen Lan's temple throbbed, his handsome face turning a vibrant green.