Beep! Beep! Beep~
Wang Chen had just laid Huang Ze's murdered family to rest when the urgent, piercing sound of a bamboo whistle suddenly reached his ears.
Xiao Hong, standing beside him, immediately changed expression. "Something's happened!"
The village hunters often entered the mountains in groups to hunt. To keep in touch with one another amid the complicated mountain terrain, they used homemade bamboo whistles to relay messages.
A third of Datian Village's Guard Team members came from hunter families, and all of them understood this method of communication.
Xiao Hong had previously assigned the team members to search for the missing Huang Ze. Now that he heard the warning whistle, he immediately felt that something was wrong.
Wang Chen reacted far more quickly than he did. The instant the whistle sounded, he suddenly soared into the air.
Sky-Plundering Technique!
Following the direction of the sound, Wang Chen flew westward like an arrow loosed from the bow for several li before descending at the foot of a hill.
"My lord!"
Two Guard Team members supported each other, still visibly shaken. The moment they saw Wang Chen, it was as if they had grasped a lifeline.
One of them clutched a bamboo whistle in his hand. He had clearly sent out the warning just now.
The other team member trembled as he pointed at the hill. "H-Huang Ze is up there. H-He's eating... Bleurgh!"
Before he could finish, he could no longer hold it in and vomited.
"You two return to the village first."
Wang Chen frowned and immediately used Shrink Ground into Inch, flashing to the top of the hill a hundred paces away.
A sweep of his Divine Sense immediately located the target.
This hill was a graveyard, tombstones standing everywhere among burial mounds. Even in broad daylight, it