"But if we don't catch them... what can we do?"
Liu Qi was nearly in tears. "You saw those demons inside! That Bear Demon tears people apart like paper! Even the Prefect was forced to... forced to eat... If we don't go, we'll die right now! Either way, we're dead, Chief! Unless... unless..."
Liu Qi suddenly thought of something and hurriedly suggested, "How about we slip away and run to the Ren-Rank Camp to report this? Let Jiang Bei come! He's now the Town Army Deputy General of Qingzhou Camp! Let him kill all these demons!"
Zhang Peng's face drained of color upon hearing that.
He abruptly clapped a hand over Liu Qi's mouth, nearly suffocating him with the force of it, while his terrified gaze swept the surroundings—
"Are you insane?! Why are you shouting?! Afraid the ancestors inside can't hear you?!"
Lowering his voice, he continued coldly, "Report them? Find Jiang Bei? Do you think he's some immortal? Those things crawled out from the depths of the Demon Vein! They're a hundred times more vicious than those barbarians who caused trouble before! Just one look at that Wolf Demon makes my legs cramp! No matter how strong Jiang Bei is, he's still human. Can he handle them? If those beasts are provoked, Great Feng Prefecture will be torn apart before Qingzhou Camp even arrives! You and I will both be skinned and have our tendons pulled out!"
Just as Zhang Peng anxiously prepared to continue berating Liu Qi—
"Hmph! I told you to find some tender food, yet it's either windy or rainy. So you two were hiding here, wagging your tongues?!"
A sinister voice silently emerged behind them, accompanied by a gust of fishy wind that suddenly swept over them!
Zhang Peng and Liu Qi whirled around