"Could it be … the others were eaten by exotic beasts or ferocious beasts?!"
Méjolin covered her mouth and guessed in horror.
"That's impossible!"
Lu Ji continued his analysis, "If they were really eaten, with so many people, there would definitely be a lot of bloodstains here."
"Captain, what do you think?" Zhang Yuan came up to Chen Qiang and asked.
Chen Qiang's expression was similarly ugly.
After looking around, Chen Qiang waved his hand and said, "Let's go. The battle here seems to have ended less than a day ago. Let's follow the traces left here and take a look.
Even if there's a tiny bit of hope, we have to do our best to save those who survived. "
Everyone nodded and left the settlement. They followed a series of messy paths outside and chased after him.
Chen Qiang rose into the air again and spread out his powerful spiritual force, searching along the way.
Ten minutes later, a few more human corpses appeared on the road.
However, when Chen Qiang, Zhang Yuan, and the others checked, they discovered that other than the corpses of humans, there were also exotic beasts and ability users among the corpses!
"Captain, it seems like this is a chaotic battle between three factions!" Zhang Yuan looked at the corpses on the ground in shock and said in disbelief.
Chen Qiang didn't say anything, but went over the corpses one by one.
There were a total of eight corpses.
Other than one exotic beast corpse, six of the remaining seven corpses were human bloodline warriors, and one was an advanced ability user!
However, when Chen Qiang finished checking the last exotic beast corpse, he suddenly sat down on the ground as if he had been stung by a wasp, his face filled with shock!
"Captain, what's wrong?"
Chen Qiang pointed at the last Swordhog corpse and said word by word, "Ferocious beast!"
"What?!"
Hearing Chen Qiang say those two words, Zhang Yuan and the others looked at the Swordhog corpse.
The large Sword Hog's heart was pierced through by a golden longsword. Furthermore, its two blood-red eyes were wide open, as if it had died with a grievance.
"Captain, this, this is clearly an exotic beast. How can it be a ferocious beast?"
Vagabond casually kicked the Sword Pig's corpse and said, "We've killed this kind of Sword Pig before, and it's no different from this one!
Uh, other than the fact that this Saber Pig's eyes are bigger and redder, it's completely the same! "
The others nodded in agreement.
Chen Qiang didn't say anything else. He stood up from the ground and walked to the Saberpig's head with a cold expression. He extended his left hand and gently placed it on top of the Saberpig's head, then sucked with force.
A crystal chip stained with blood appeared in his hand.
This scene immediately stunned everyone!
"This is … an exotic beast with superpowers? Are they Ominous Beasts? "
"This is bad!" Lu Ji, the bookworm, suddenly said, "Captain, it looks like this Direbeast was created by an ability user!
We only knew that humans were implanted with crystals, but we didn't expect that the ability users wouldn't even let off exotic beasts!
The so-called Ominous Beasts were intentionally created by the beastmen by implanting crystals into them!
Could it be that the ability users want to control exotic beasts as well?
What are they scheming by doing this? "
Lu Ji had always been known as a resourceful person in the team, and no one doubted his words.
After hearing his analysis, they all fell into a deep fear.
The three forces had always maintained a balance, especially in the past few years, the human race's fighting strength had improved by leaps and bounds, changing their long-term decline.
However, they didn't expect that the ability users would start to control exotic beasts again!
This way, wouldn't the human race have to face both exotic beasts and ability users at the same time?
"Captain, it looks like the situation is more complicated than we thought. If this goes on, the living space of us humans will be compressed again.
The ability users are trying to put us to death! "
Just as Zhang Yuan finished speaking, Chen Qiang shook his head instead.
"Impossible! Brothers, don't forget.
Ability users don't have the ability to reproduce, it's just that their lifespan is longer than ours.
If they really want to exterminate us humans, what good will it do them?
If that's the case, the ability users will also face the danger of extinction.
Therefore, the ultimate goal of the ability users is only to control the human race, and not to exterminate them! "
Chen Qiang's words weren't without reason. Zhang Yuan and the others only needed to think for a moment to understand the reasoning behind it.
"But, how do we explain the current situation?"
The loud voice asked, pointing at the corpses on the ground.
"These corpses are suspicious, too." Chen Qiang pointed at the Bladed Boar corpse on the ground and said, "This Bladed Boar is only a mid-tier general-class exotic beast, but the other corpses are only bloodline warriors. There's even an ability user corpse here, and it's a high-level ability warrior!"
Saying that, Chen Qiang sucked out another crystal chip from the head of the last ability warrior.
"Hmm? Captain, how did you determine the level of this Bladed Boar? And you even know that it's an ability user? "
The attentive Zhang Yuan looked at Chen Qiang strangely.
Zhang Yuan couldn't be blamed for having doubts in his heart.
After all, this Bladed Boar was already dead, and ability users didn't have any surface characteristics after death. Ordinary people wouldn't be able to investigate at all.
"Uh- this is very troublesome to explain. We'll talk about it later." Chen Qiang said, then continued, "Look, the weapon stuck in this Bladed Boar is obviously a weapon used by an ability user. This means that this Bladed Boar died in the hands of an ability user."
"So that's really the case!"
Bookworm nodded, then was stunned again.
"That's strange. This beast was implanted with an origin crystal chip, so it can only be done by an ability user. Why would an ability user kill it instead? "
"Don't think about it anymore!" Chen Qiang said with a cold expression, "Won't we know once we catch up and take a look?
Zhang Yuan, with your cultivation, as long as you cooperate and act carefully, you should be able to handle it even if you encounter a beast.
I want to go ahead and see what's going on! "
Zhang Yuan nodded, "Captain, don't worry. You should be careful too."
After saying that, Chen Qiang rushed into the air first, spreading out his powerful mental power and searching along the messy path.
After half a day, Chen Qiang's mental power finally found a group of people nearly twenty miles away!
However, what made him feel strange was that within this group of people, there were actually humans and ability users mixed together!
In addition to more than two hundred humans on the ground who had the highest cultivation of high-ranking bloodline warriors, there were more than twenty ability users flying in the air, secretly protecting those humans!
It seemed that those ability users really didn't have any ill intentions towards the humans below. Could it be that it was really as he had guessed before, that those ability users were protecting these humans who had almost no fighting power?
Chen Qiang simply increased his speed, flapped his wings twice, and arrived above this group of people.
Whoosh — —
Chen Qiang's silver wings, which were more than nine meters long, let out an intimidating sound, alarming all the ability users and humans below.
From the cultivation of those twenty ability users, four of them were high-ranking ability users, while the rest were mid-ranking and low-ranking ability users.
These ability users who were fleeing for their lives raised their heads and saw Chen Qiang's huge wings. It was as if they had seen their savior, and they stopped at the same time.
"Sir, there's a beast nearby! It has already injured many of our people! "
One of the high-ranking ability users spoke first.
Chen Qiang maintained a protective posture in the air and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter with these humans? Why are they with you? Whose subordinates are you? What are you doing here? "
"Sir, I'm from the battle team under King Qinjiang. My name is Zheng Cheng, and I originally had a combat mission with the human battle team at Luo Nan General's Mansion.
However, before we arrived at the designated location and fought with the human battle team, we discovered four or five beasts causing trouble.
We once saw with our own eyes that those beasts destroyed a human settlement and wantonly killed the humans who had no combat power. Thus, our battle team changed their minds at the last minute and decided to deal with these beasts first. "
"Wait, why don't I understand?" Chen Qiang stopped Zheng Cheng from speaking and asked with a frown, "Just now, you said you were going to attack the human battle team, but now you're thinking of a way to protect these humans, right?"
"Yes, sir. What's so strange about that?"
"Haha." Chen Qiang smiled slightly. "Don't you think your words are a little confusing? You want to kill the human battle team and save the humans at the same time? "
"Sir, which of us ability users wasn't originally a human?!" Zheng Cheng straightened his body and asked in return, "The battle between us and the human battle team is a battle of strength and influence.
But, we saved these human beings, who had no fighting power, because of human nature!
What's the conflict between the two? "
Seeing Zheng Cheng's fearless look, Chen Qiang's heart was filled with admiration.
"Well said!"
Chen Qiang clapped his hands and praised as he slowly lowered his altitude to look at Zheng Cheng and the other ability users.
However, under the coverage of Chen Qiang's Spiritual Force, a group of over thirty exotic beasts were suddenly rushing towards them from over twenty kilometers away.
Chen Qiang's expression froze and he hurriedly asked, "Zheng Cheng, are you sure you only saw four or five beasts?"
Seeing the strange expression on Chen Qiang's face, Zheng Cheng didn't know the inside story and nodded. "That's right, sir. Earlier, a sword boar beast perished together with one of our brothers.
If I'm not wrong, there should be three more beasts nearby.
These beasts don't seem to have any intelligence and don't have a fixed target. They'll attack as soon as they see living creatures.
It's because of this that we were able to survive. Otherwise, we would've been caught and killed long ago. "
"Enough!"
Chen Qiang waved his hand and said, "Zheng Cheng, stay here and protect these humans. Don't move.
Someone will come to meet you soon. "
At this point, Chen Qiang added, "Remember, the ones coming to meet you are human ability users!
Although you belong to two different factions, don't get into a conflict with them before you deal with the beasts! "
"Ah?"
Zheng Cheng was stunned for a moment. He turned back to look at his men and nodded, "Don't worry, sir. As long as the human ability users don't attack us first, we won't attack them either."
Only then did Chen Qiang quickly send a message to Zhang Yuan and the others, asking them to come over as soon as possible and protect the humans below together with the Arcana Warriors.
After doing all this, Chen Qiang flew towards the monarch beast.
At this moment, the exotic beasts were less than ten kilometers away.
However, Chen Qiang's spiritual force suddenly sensed a huge black bear behind the group of exotic beasts!
Through his spiritual force, he could tell that the huge black bear was a high-tier general-tier exotic beast. Its body was as big as a small house.
Other than that, what alarmed Chen Qiang was that the black bear's eyes were the same as the eyes of the Sword Boar he had seen before. They were as red as blood!
Looking at the thirty-odd exotic beasts, they didn't look like they were going to attack the humans. Instead, they looked like they were running for their lives!
Could it be that those beasts wouldn't even let the exotic beasts off?!
While Chen Qiang was observing, the black bear was less than half a kilometer away from the exotic beasts.
Even where Zheng Cheng and the others were, they could faintly hear the rumbling sounds from the ground!
Seeing Zhang Yuan and the others gradually arriving, Chen Qiang shouted, "Zhang Yuan, protect the humans and ability users here!"
Even Chen Qiang felt awkward when he said that, let alone Zhang Yuan and the others.
After Zhang Yuan and the others arrived, the tyrannical aura they emitted immediately made Zheng Cheng and the others tense up.
They were all experts!
As for the humans below, after going through a life and death crisis, they were scared out of their wits.
At this moment, it was indeed a little strange to see a human general and a superpowered general gathered together with the purpose of protecting them.
Although Zhang Yuan and the others still didn't understand Chen Qiang's order, Zhang Yuan and the others finally felt relieved when they saw that the ordinary humans below not only didn't resist those ability users, but were instead grateful and dependent on them.
As long as these ability users didn't hurt the humans below, it was fine!
At this time, the sounds of fighting had already erupted from five kilometers away. Among them, an earthquake-like sound was the most frightening!
"Captain, should we go over and help?"
"No!" Zheng Cheng said with a grave expression, "Listen to that lord and protect the humans here!"
Zhang Yuan and the others heard the conversation between Zheng Cheng and the others clearly.
"Zhang Yuan, why don't we go over and take a look at the captain's situation?"
"Vagabond, you stay here obediently, or you'll be disobeying orders!"
Although Zhang Yuan was also worried about the situation in the distance, Chen Qiang had already ordered them to stay here.
Moreover, the situation here was indeed not optimistic.
The more than two hundred people below were all powerless, so they had to stay here and guard against sudden attacks from the beasts.
When Chen Qiang flew over the group of exotic beasts, the black bear beast also happened to arrive.
Dong, dong, dong — —
The black bear beast caused a huge vibration when it ran, causing the fleeing exotic beasts to be like little boats in the waves. They almost couldn't control their own movements, and their bodies swayed back and forth from time to time.
Chen Qiang recognized the leading exotic beast at a glance. It was the first exotic beast species he absorbed when he first started cultivating — — Poison Flame Blood Bat!
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