At such a high speed, after leaving Crell for 2 hours, Zhang Tie had already run over 60 km in the rolling hills.
In the sky, the huge black hawk had long been out of sight. That huge hawk could reach a high altitude like an eye of Crell in the sky. Crell said that he could sense what the huge hawk could see through his spiritual energy. Therefore, Zhang Tie admired him very much.
With the help of that huge eagle, Zhang Tie and Crell's efficiency on Grey Hill greatly increased. The two people made some secret signals to communicate with each other through that huge hawk. In many cases, as long as Zhang Tie raised his head and saw the repeated flight track of the huge hawk in the sky, he would know what Crell wanted to tell him.
When the wind blew over Grey Hill, Zhang Tie heard some strange sounds from afar, which slightly changed his direction. After running for less than 2 km, Zhang Tie met the first batch of iron-teeth hyenas that he met today.
At the first glance, there were about 60-70 iron-teeth hyenas. A small team of people was being besieged by those iron-teeth hyenas on a slope. Over 10 corpses of iron-teeth hyenas were lying on the ground from far to near. Some of the people in the team had been wounded with blood stains all over their bodies. Some of them had been heavily wounded and had to be carried by others.
The cunning iron-teeth hyenas were circling around those people. When those people moved back, the iron-teeth hyenas would catch up with them; when those people rushed towards them, the iron-teeth hyenas would move back; when those people stopped, the iron-teeth hyenas would surround them. As long as one of those people was a bit careless, some iron-teeth hyenas would give him a ferocious bite.
In the wild, very few people could defeat such a large group of iron-teeth hyenas.
Zhang Tie didn't know how long had these people been chased by the iron-teeth hyenas. No matter what, when he caught sight of them, he found they were all very fatigued. Many of them even felt a bit strenuous waving their weapons.
Facing such a situation, Zhang Tie instantly rushed over there with two short spears as if he had seen a big meal.
The moment Zhang Tie appeared, the outermost iron-teeth hyenas had rushed towards him.
The short spear in Zhang Tie's hand only had one movement — — stab!
The two short spears left a series of spear shadows in the air. Each time the sharp spear tip stabbed out, it would cause a sharp sound "Xiu" in the air. Only after 2 seconds, all the 7-8 iron-teeth hyenas had been lying on the ground. Each iron-teeth hyena had a bloody hole leading to its heart. They were all killed by one strike. What a clean way!
At the sight of this situation, those people who were surrounded by iron-teeth hyenas finally became spirited as they knew that their saviors and powerhouses had arrived.
"Brothers, hold on! Someone is coming to save us!" A leader of that group of people waved his arms and exclaimed as he stabbed his long sword into an iron-teeth hyena.
Zhang Tie moved so fast that he had arrived at the side of those people in a split second. However, he didn't rush into the encirclement; instead, he started to kill those iron-teeth hyenas ferociously.
The iron-teeth hyenas surrounded those people while Zhang Tie surrounded the iron-teeth hyenas.
In a split second, over 10 iron-teeth hyenas had been penetrated through their hearts by Zhang Tie's short spear and fell down.
Iron-teeth hyenas were also intelligent living beings. Realizing that Zhang Tie's battle strength was much greater than theirs, those iron-teeth hyenas instantly escaped in all directions. Zhang Tie chased after them for a few steps and killed some more iron-teeth hyenas. After that, he walked towards those people.
Only after a short while, Zhang Tie had gained another half of iron-teeth hyenas' seven-strength fruit. Zhang Tie felt pretty good. Actually, Zhang Tie restrained himself a bit just now. With the benefit of the seven-strength fruit of king demon rat, when there were only 3 seven-strength fruits of iron-teeth hyenas left, Zhang Tie wanted to see whether he could get another seven-strength fruit of king iron-teeth hyena. If he could, one seven-strength fruit might bring him greater benefits than some common seven-strength fruits of iron-teeth hyenas.
This was also one of the reasons why he chose to stay with Crell. If he only relied on himself, it would depend on his luck and probability. However, if he stayed with a wild patron, he would have a much greater possibility.
The wild patron wanted to find the culprit who drove the animal tide. Now that the culprit could control so many iron-teeth hyenas, according to Zhang Tie's knowledge about animal controllers from the "Great Wilderness Sutra", if there was a king among these iron-teeth hyenas, the king of iron-teeth hyenas would probably stay with that animal controller.
After finding that he could solve many problems by staying with Crell, Zhang Tie became utilitarian. Of course, although he was utilitarian, Crell's words still worked. Zhang Tie hated those culprit who stirred up troubles everywhere at the beginning of the holy war, not to mention that those culprit might be related to demons.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the cooperation between Zhang Tie and Crell was 70% private and 30% public. Zhang Tie didn't feel that he was great. After all, based on his identity and relationship with Grandma Teresa, he could not completely disguise as a pious believer of the school of patron. He could at most disguise as a half believer of the school of patron.
Zhang Tie then walked towards those people who had been besieged just now with his short spear along with the blood that splashed out of the hearts of iron-teeth hyenas. Watching the blood dripping off Zhang Tie's short spear, those people were both in awe of Zhang Tie and a bit nervous.
There were 12-13 people in total. Based on Zhang Tie's battle strength, he could easily kill all of them. Additionally, they were in the wild. Therefore, they had to be careful.
"Huo Yi!" Before Zhang Tie approached them, one of them had shouted at Zhang Tie.
Hearing this strange name, Zhang Tie became slightly stunned. After glancing at those people carefully, he found some familiar guys among those fatigued, dusty and bloody faces. Coincidentally, he met those low-level mercenaries of Adelais Business Group here.
Hearing this cry, some of the members of Adelais Business Group became dumbfounded; however, those who had realized it changed their faces greatly. They watched Zhang Tie not with amazement, surprise, or shock, but with fear. All the people who were holding weapons became intense at once. They all made a vigilant posture like how they defended against those iron-teeth hyenas just now.
At the sight of these people's expressions, Zhang Tie immediately understood that his identity as a wanted criminal might have been exposed soon after he left Adelais Business Group. It was either Dawson or that barber in Eschyle City. However, it didn't matter.
In order to not make them too nervous, Zhang Tie stood 10 steps away from them and inserted his short spear into the ground. Using his hand as a support, he didn't continue to approach them.
"I think we should call you Peter Hamplester!" When the members of Adelais Business Group were a bit flurried, a 60-odd year man, whose leg was bitten by iron-teeth hyenas and whose clothes were obviously similar to those mercenaries, limped out from the back of the group of people. This man untied his baggage and held it with both hands. He then pretended to give it to Zhang Tie, "Thanks for saving our lives. This is a gift from Adelais Business Group. There are over 700 gold coins in it and some precious herbal medicines from Grey Hill, which are worth about 2000 gold coins! The Adelais Business Group has always made a clear distinction between gratitude and grudges. If there is a grudge, there will be an eye for an eye. If there is a grudge against us, we will repay it. If there is a grudge against us, we will not let it go! "
Zhang Tie revealed a smile as he thought, 'This old man is a bit interesting. Judging from the situation, he's neither humble nor overbearing. It seems that he has a high position in Adelais Business Group.' "What's your name? What's your position in Adelais Business Group?"
"I'm Marni, the director of Adelais Business Group's herbal medicines collection center on Grey Hill!"
"When I was in Eschyle City, I indeed killed a person. He was a lackey of Demon Snake Island. I became enemies with people of Demon Snake Island. The moment I got off the boat, I had been followed by that person. He wanted to kill me. Finally, I killed him. Thanks to your business group, I could sneak out of Eschyle City. You saved me a lot of trouble. Let's call it even!" Zhang Tie said with a smile, "Put it away. I'm not a noble person, but I'm not a robber either!
Hearing Zhang Tie's words, although they didn't know whether Zhang Tie was telling the truth or not, they became evidently relaxed. Whether Adelais Business Group could avenge them or not, it would be a matter in the future. However, at present, if Zhang Tie wanted to kill them, none of them could live to see tomorrow's sunrise. In the eyes of those people, Zhang Tie's battle strength was almost LV 8 or LV 9, which was absolutely a massacre for those fatigued and wounded low-level fighters between LV 2 and LV 5.
Marni let out a sigh obviously. He put the baggage on his back once again, "We can't do anything about the fact that you're wanted. However, when we return to Eschyle City, we will definitely pass your words to the police station of Eschyle City!"
"Thanks!" Zhang Tie shrugged. As long as he left Eschyle City, he would not care about being wanted anymore. "Oh, why are you here? I don't think the Adelais Business Group would send the supervisor of the Gray Hill Herb Purchase Point to come out and pick the herbs himself! "
"We escaped from the stronghold on the bank of Huitao Lake!" Marni let out a sigh.
"Escaped from the Maple Leaf Castle on the bank of Huitao Lake?" Zhang Tie blinked his eyes out of amazement. "Can you tell me what happened?"
"Animal tide, a powerful animal tide!" Marney's face turned pale once again when he spoke about escaping from the Huertau Lakeside Stronghold. The others also looked rather panicked. "There were more than 40 of us when we escaped, and now this is all that's left?"
"Could iron-teeth hyenas break through your stronghold?" Zhang Tie asked out of curiosity.
Marni let out a long sigh...
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In the next few minutes, Zhang Tie soon figured out what happened from Marni's mouth.
Huirtau Lake was a lake in the depth of Grey Hill. In order to collect precious medicinal materials and other specialties from Grey Hill, some chambers of commerce and business groups in Eschyle City established Maple Leaf Castle there as a material storage warehouse and personnel transfer and supply station.
Even though nothing had ever happened to the Maple Leaf Castle in previous Beast Tides, this time, the Maple Leaf Castle was inexplicably breached by the Beast Tide.
Marni and the other members of Adelais Business Group didn't know what happened. A few hours before dawn, when they were sound asleep, iron-teeth hyenas had appeared over the mountain in the Maple Leaf Castle. They were awakened by the miserable shrieks of those people in the stronghold. Being unprepared, they were immediately involved in a fight between humans and wild beasts.
As there were too many iron-teeth hyenas, the entire Maple Leaf Castle was broken through. Therefore, they chose to break through the encirclement. What Zhang Tie saw was the result of breaking through the encirclement. The iron-teeth hyenas didn't let them go; instead, they chased after them all the way. Over half of the 40-odd people had died. If not Zhang Tie's timely arrival, the rest of them would have been eaten by the iron-teeth hyenas soon.
"Doesn't Maple Leaf Castle have some senior fighters? As long as there are senior fighters, even a wooden camp could not be broken through by iron-teeth hyenas." Zhang Tie asked.
"In order to deal with the animal tide on Grey Hill, Eschyle City has already dispatched a small team of bear-killing fighters to Maple Leaf Castle to clean those iron-teeth hyenas wandering on Grey Hill. Each business group has some fighters above LV 6 in the stronghold. However, not knowing why, when the animal tide broke out, these people disappeared. Even those who could still fight with weapons were flurried. In a blink of an eye, they were drowned by those iron-teeth hyenas!"
Hearing this, Zhang Tie squinted his eyes, "Where's the stronghold of Maple Leaf Castle?"
"It's 50 km away from there. There's a lake over there. It's easy to identify!" Marni pointed at a direction in the northwest.
"You'd better leave here as soon as possible. Walk towards the east from here. There are not many iron-teeth hyenas on the way. I've already cleaned them once. It depends on your luck whether you could return to Eschyle City alive!" After saying this, Zhang Tie pulled out the short spear from the ground and rushed towards the direction that Marni pointed at. In a blink of an eye, he had already been 100 m away.
Watching Zhang Tie disappearing rapidly, the rest members of Adelais Business Group hurriedly escaped towards the east without any delay.
After running for dozens of minutes, some thick smokes had already pointed out the direction for Zhang Tie. The huge black eagle had long appeared in the sky. Looking from afar, it was like a black dot...
Zhang Tie also saw Crell in the distance. At this moment, Crell was like a cheetah incarnated by a lightning bolt. He was jumping on the treetops at an amazing speed. Needless to say, Zhang Tie also rushed over there.
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After more than 10 minutes, Zhang Tie and Crell almost arrived at the stronghold of Maple Leaf Castle at the same time.
Maple Leaf Castle was a camp surrounded by 2-m high wooden fences. All the houses inside were made of wood. When Zhang Tie and Crell arrived at the stronghold, besides incomplete human corpses and corpses of iron-teeth hyenas, there were only some burning cabins.
The entire Maple Leaf Castle was in a mess. Nobody was alive. Numerous iron-teeth hyenas were wandering around inside and outside the Maple Leaf Castle, tearing and eating those corpses. At the sight of Zhang Tie and Crell, many iron-teeth hyenas with red eyes slowly gathered towards them.
"In the name of Gaia, the Mother of the Land, all the wild beasts wandering in the wilderness, retreat!" Crell roared as his hair fluttered without wind. At the same time, a 30-cm long withered twig slipped into his hand from his sleeve. After that roar, he instantly inserted the short, small wand into the ground. The great pack of iron-teeth hyenas who were going to surround them with red eyes instantly shrieked like frightened rabbits and ran away with tails between their legs. All the iron-teeth hyenas in the Maple Leaf Castle were driven away at once.
Crell's ability really broadened Zhang Tie's vision. Given the effect, Crell's movement was very similar to the secret skill "Rest" in the "Great Wilderness Sutra". If Zhang Tie wanted to drive away these LV 1 iron-teeth hyenas, he had to reach the second level of the "Great Wilderness Sutra". However, Zhang Tie had not reached that level yet. Therefore, he couldn't compare the two secret skills. However, given the time, Zhang Tie felt that it would take him a bit shorter if he used the secret skill of the "Great Wilderness Sutra". However, the effect of the secret skill "Rest" on LV 2 was not as large as that of Crell's movement.
Watching the iron-teeth hyenas everywhere, Zhang Tie didn't want to rush over and kill them.
The two people then entered the Maple Leaf Castle.
After a few steps into the base, Zhang Tie saw a broken outer fence of the base. Walking over there, he observed it carefully and immediately came to the conclusion that the outer fence of the base was broken by brute force from the outside.
Crell also saw it, and his eyes turned serious at once, "I smell the smell of an animal controller casting a spell here!"
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