Wolf Bandits
Four hundred kilometers Southern Region of Heaven Dou City in the Heaven Dou Empire lies a small mountain village nestled among the mountains. The village is small, with about a hundred households. Around the village stretches a field, but even in the morning, no farmers are to be seen working.
A group of eight people were walking across the fields. They looked to be between twelve and seventeen years old. Five boys and three girls. They were walking in a line, heading towards the village ahead.
They were dressed in red. On the chest of their clothes was a Shrek monster's head. Surrounding the head were the three large words "Shrek".
Shrek Academy has now completed its ranking as an advanced Soul Master Academy. Under Flender's leadership, Ye Feng's suggestion was ultimately adopted. Passion Red is now the main color of the Shrek Academy's school uniform.
Flender originally planned to use green for the uniforms, but Ma Hongjun came up with a garish, unappealing shade of green. Flender glared at Ma Hongjun and then consulted everyone. Ultimately, they decided that Ye Feng's red was the most passionate, so red became the main color for the Shrek Academy's uniforms.
"Ye Laoda, are you sure the Wolf Bandit would commit a crime here?" Zhu Zhuqing asked skeptically.
"Well... I'm not entirely sure either. Judging from the locations of the villages that His Crown Prince mentioned that were successively wiped out by Wolf Bandit, this village is the closest to the village where the Wolf Bandit first committed their crime, and the furthest from the village where the most recent crime was committed," Ye Feng replied.
"Ye Laoda, you're going against the grain. Is that right?" Zhu Zhuqing asked.
"Zhu Qing, what do you and my senior brother mean? I don't understand. If we're going to wipe out the Wolf Bandit Wolf Bandit, shouldn't we wait in the village near where they've recently committed their crimes?" Ning Rongrong asked.
"Rong Rong, that's the way an ordinary person thinks. If I'm not mistaken, Ye Laoda is betting on how smart the Wolf Bandit leader is. If the Wolf Bandit leader is really smart, he definitely won't continue to commit crimes near the village where he last committed crimes. This would prevent him from being surrounded and wiped out by the Heaven Dou Empire's army. On the contrary, an ordinary person wouldn't think that he would commit crimes near the village where he first committed crimes," Zhu Zhuqing explained in detail.
"Is that so, Senior Brother?" Ning Rongrong turned her head to look at Ye Feng beside her.
"Yes." Ye Feng nodded, then shared his insights. "Based on the locations and times of the crimes committed by the Wolf Bandit that His Crown Prince gave us, I discovered that the Wolf Bandit commit crimes every two to three months. The locations are random. Judging from the directions of the three previous crimes, they have been moving eastward. Now, more than four months have passed since their last crime, yet they haven't committed any. Calculating the distance, it would take them four months to reach the vicinity of this mountain range from the location of their last crime. If the Wolf Bandit leader really chooses to commit crimes in this area, then they will definitely choose this village. Because this village is the only one within dozens of miles that is surrounded by mountains on all sides, making it easy to retreat after committing a crime."
As soon as Ye Feng finished speaking, Tang San and Dai Mubai stopped in their tracks. They looked at Ye Feng with complicated expressions.
Tang San hadn't expected Ye Feng to possess such strength, and also to be as cunning as him. He inwardly lamented that Heaven had sent him through time, why send the even more outstanding Ye Feng as well? He felt a sense of unease, like the proverb, "Why did Heaven create both Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang?"
Dai Mubai was surprised by Ye Feng's intelligence. He felt that if he returned to the Star Luo Empire one day, he could entrust Ye Feng with important responsibilities. He believed that with Ye Feng in charge, the Star Luo Empire had a good chance of achieving its grand ambition of unifying the continent.
Zhu Zhuqing stopped, frowned, stared ahead, and said, "Something's not right."
"Yes, I also sensed something was wrong. Why is this village so quiet?" Ning Rongrong frowned and analyzed with a puzzled look, "It's still morning, and it's summer, the season when weeds grow rampant. Why isn't there a single farmer working in the fields? And there's not a single living person strolling around the village entrance either."
"Could it be... that the Wolf Bandit have already committed the crime?" Xiao Wu analyzed.
"Very likely." Ye Feng flicked his finger, took out a pistol from his Storage Soul Guidance Device, and instructed, "From now on, everyone be careful. No matter what happens, don't fall behind."
Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Dai Mubai, and Tang San all nodded. Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun, being Support System Soul Master, immediately took out the pistols given to them by Ye Feng. Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ma Hongjun, for safety's sake, also took out their own pistols. As for Dai Mubai and Tang San, they took out the Godly Zhuge Crossbow that Tang San had crafted.
Ye Feng disliked Dai Mubai and Tang San, and since Dai Mubai and Tang San Tang San happened to appear with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow when Ye Feng was giving pistols to others, Ye Feng didn't give Dai Mubai any.
The Shrek Eight Monsters entered this village to gain practical combat experience—life-or-death real combat. To achieve better results, Ye Feng requested that no teachers accompany him. Shrek Academy, considering that the enemy they were dealing with was only Wolf Bandit, granted Ye Feng's request.
Ye Feng and his group of eight cautiously entered the village. On the village roads and walls, there were stains of bright red blood. Judging from the freshness of the blood, a battle had recently taken place there.
When Ye Feng and his group arrived at the back of the village, they were stunned. Before them lay a gruesome scene. All the men in the village, along with some elderly women, had been brutally murdered. Some of them had their abdomens ripped open, their large and small intestines, livers, and stomachs spilling out from the slits.
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Ning Rongrong, who came from a privileged background, had never seen anything like this before. Her face turned pale, her body trembled, and she bent over to vomit.
Not only Ning Rongrong, but even Zhu Zhuqing, who was always cold and unsmiling, had a face as pale as snow. Her delicate body trembled slightly.
Among the Shrek Eight Monsters, Ye Feng noticed that Tang San was the calmest person besides him. Ye Feng's calmness stemmed from his past life's exposure to numerous zombie and horror films. Furthermore, in his previous life, when he sought medical help, the doctor's office walls were adorned with anatomical diagrams and skeletons. Therefore, Ye Feng was able to withstand the scene before him.
However, Ye Feng couldn't understand how Tang San could remain so calm after witnessing such a bloody scene for the first time.
"These must be the people who died in this village!" Xiao Wu analyzed.
Xiao Wu was the third calmest person besides Ye Feng and Tang San.
Ye Feng fully understood Xiao Wu's composure. Xiao Wu was a transformed Soul Beast. In the hundred thousand years Xiao Wu had lived, she must have seen far more gruesome corpses, such as those infested with maggots.
Ye Feng surveyed his surroundings, his gaze drifting towards the hill behind the village. He said, "There's some blood here. The blood on the ground and grass hasn't congealed yet. It looks like it was dragged. The Wolf Bandit fled towards this hill. Chase them!"