The sky was completely dark.
Oro was no longer as relaxed as when he'd been chatting with Chen Zhao.
Perhaps because of fatigue, his footsteps were even heavier.
"Do you need to rest?" Chen Zhao asked.
"Can I refuse to continue?"
"I want to tell you that it's more dangerous for you to leave alone than with me. Something can tear you apart in the darkness at any time."
In the end, Oro gave up on the idea of escaping alone.
He wasn't the best mercenary, but he could always make the right choice.
"I hope I made the right choice this time," Oro muttered.
"This is too dangerous. When I go back, I won't do it again …" Oro muttered to himself, "This job is too dangerous. When I get back, I won't do it again …"
"Don't say the death flag."
"Don't say the death flag."
…
"Johnson, look over there."
Ningtai Johnson looked at the surveillance camera.
Two figures appeared on the screen.
"It should be the mercenary who escaped earlier," Ningtai Johnson said.
The image wasn't very clear. After all, it was night time.
But Ningtai Johnson still recognized one of them.
It was the one who'd escaped yesterday.
But he remembered that he'd already released some unclean creatures to chase after him.
He didn't expect that the guy hadn't died. Instead, he'd brought more people.
"I didn't think that he'd dare to come again."
"I won't let him escape this time." Ningtai Johnson looked at the screen coldly.
"Don't chase after them this time," Herm said. "They're still on the outskirts. If you scare them now, they might turn and run. Let them enter the entrance."
…
"It's around here," Oro said. "I'm not sure of the exact location. There should be a hidden cave nearby."
"Found it," Chen Zhao said. "Over there."
Oro looked at Chen Zhao in shock. "Are you sure?"
This was a deep mountain forest, and it was in such a dark situation.
Could Chen Zhao find the location?
"Don't ask. It's magic if you ask."
Chen Zhao had already found the entrance.
The enemy wasn't hidden well. This concealment spell was only an ordinary one.
It basically couldn't hide from Chen Zhao's senses.
Plus, there was a thick smell of blood in the cave.
If it wasn't a slaughterhouse, then someone had definitely died.
Chen Zhao walked to the cave. Oro looked at the deep cave in fear.
"We're going inside?" Oro felt like his head was about to explode.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, Oro could already smell a nauseating stench.
Chen Zhao also frowned, but not because of the smell.
Although the smell was unbearable.
But what really surprised Chen Zhao was that …
Chen Zhao didn't sense anyone in the cave.
There were many auras, but all of them were inhuman.
There were even a few undead creatures among them.
Chen Zhao was a bit confused, but he still led the way.
Halfway there, Chen Zhao and Oro saw wreckage all over the ground.
Oro suppressed his grief, or perhaps it could be said that his fear far surpassed his grief.
Obviously, the corpses on the ground were his former comrades.
However, Oro was in no mood to mourn for them.
Because he felt that he might follow in their footsteps.
He felt that his body was completely stiff and his limbs were not listening to him.
The deeper they went, the more tragic the scene became.
"Mr. Chen … don't you think … this doesn't look like an entrance … more … more like …" Oro's voice was trembling.
"You want to say that this is more like a place to raise pets, right?"
Oro's expression became even more stiff. He wanted to say that this looked like a ranch.
Of course, it definitely wouldn't be cattle or sheep.
"We still have to go in?"
"Of course, we're already here," Chen Zhao said matter-of-factly.
"But … didn't you see the things along the way?"
"I said I'm a professional."
"No, you said you're an amateur."
Chen Zhao suddenly stopped.
Oro looked at Chen Zhao and suddenly had a bad feeling.
"What's wrong?"
"Shine the light on the wall in front of us."
Oro knew that Chen Zhao must have found something bad.
He didn't want to, but his body was honest.
The moment the light swept across the cave wall, the light disappeared.
He saw pieces of flower petals.
More accurately, petals' mouths.
There were many unknown creatures on the wall.
They were grayish-white and slightly smaller than adults.
But their mouths were wide open like petals.
It felt like … their chrysanthemums were in the wrong place.
"What … What are those?" Oro's teeth were chattering.
"I don't know … They don't look like normal creatures."
Look? Oro felt that Chen Zhao's choice of words was rather careless.
Was there a need to look?
They weren't normal creatures at all, okay?
"They seem … seem …" Oro gulped. "They don't seem to have noticed us."
"Yes," Chen Zhao said. "They probably rely on their hearing, so we better be quiet."
Chen Zhao had never seen these things before.
He didn't know how they sensed enemies and prey.
Oro immediately covered his mouth and didn't dare to make a sound.
"Of course, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they're light-sensitive creatures," Chen Zhao said nonchalantly.
At the same time, he walked deeper into the forest.
As for the things above him.
As long as they didn't wake up, Chen Zhao couldn't be bothered to touch them.
But Oro really couldn't be unmoved.
The things above their heads were simply too terrifying.
But when Chen Zhao walked past the "chrysanthemum beasts," they didn't move at all.
Chen Zhao was a bit curious. If they were light-sensitive creatures, the light just now should have woken them up.
If they relied on their hearing, his and Oro's conversation should have been enough to wake them up.
Normally, if they didn't have vision and relied on other senses, they would stand out in certain aspects.
But these chrysanthemum beasts didn't seem to rely on light or hearing.
That was what surprised Chen Zhao.
Suddenly, Oro fired a shot into the darkness.
Chen Zhao looked at Oro in surprise.
The moment the shot rang out, Chen Zhao saw that something had been hit in the darkness.
Chen Zhao actually hadn't noticed it himself.
Chen Zhao relied too much on his senses. This was his advantage.
But in this place where the auras were mixed up, Chen Zhao's senses actually couldn't detect anything nearby.
That thing wasn't very strong. Oro shot it twice in the head.
"You should thank me," Oro said. "Otherwise, you'd be disemboweled already."
But just then, the chrysanthemum beasts above them seemed to show signs of waking up.
"I think … I know how these things wake up."
"What?" Oro asked in surprise.
"The smell of blood."
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