A'Huo landed in front of Lu Li. Several wounds marked its fat body; it had clearly already fought some aberrant creatures outside.
A'Huo had followed Lu Li in battle across the major city-states these past few days and eaten quite a few aberrations, improving greatly. Anything capable of injuring it was certainly no ordinary threat.
A'Huo's roar woke the people within the tribe. With the endless darkness, some people's biological clocks had already begun to fall into disarray. Combined with the difficulty of tracking prey in the dark, many of the tribe's hunters had been going to sleep very early.
Now, people emerged from their homes one after another, looking anxiously beyond the basin. No one could see any trace of aberrations, yet they could all feel an ominous presence pressing down upon this last pure land of humanity.
Emily heard all kinds of whispers beside her ears, as if something in the darkness were holding a meeting around her. Their gazes scrutinized her, filled with deadly desire.
She could not help wrapping her arms around herself, shuddering all over. "Something is coming."
Nia set down his hoe as well and drew his tactical short blade from the back of his waist. He rarely used his gun now; against powerful aberrations, its firepower was insufficient. It was not as useful as the blade in his hand.
"What's going on?" Nia asked. "Didn't you say the aberrations couldn't find this place?"
Lu Li flipped onto A'Huo's back and used Healing Kidō to heal it. "I never said that. People in the tribe have been erased by the numbers. Doesn't that prove that eyes have been watching this place all along?"
Hearing that, Nia knew his earlier thinking had been somewhat naive. The tribe had existed for several eras, but that did