'I have to find a way to turn this around!'
This time, I had underestimated my opponent, and because I had encountered the thylacoleo unexpectedly, I hadn't had much time to prepare. This led to some mistakes in this battle that shouldn't have happened. If my shotgun still had ammo, this beast wouldn't be acting so arrogantly right now.
I was getting more and more exhausted. I roughly estimated that if the fight continued like this, I had at most five minutes before this creature would bite through my neck. I had faced countless strange and dangerous situations on this deserted island, but was my fate to die in the mouth of a beast? How ironic would that be!
Just as I was feeling utterly frustrated, I suddenly remembered that I wasn't far from the wreckage of the Chinese men's ship. An
