Professional Enough, Right?!

Night had fallen deep.

After handing those hunting tasks over to the Ghouls, Bai Zhi stopped worrying about them. There were two hundred of them, after all; no matter what, they were far more efficient than him alone.

Taking advantage of the time, Bai Zhi made a trip to the passage leading to the Core Zone.

He had nothing else to do right now, and it would take time for the two hundred Ghouls to hunt. He couldn't exactly run back to the wooden house and find someone to play cards with, could he?

As time passed, however, the island would become increasingly dangerous. Who knew how many Anomalies would come ashore from the sea, or whether new Anomalies might escape from the Core Zone?

—It was necessary to prepare for the worst.

The passage leading to the Core Area was a pitch-black cave on the island. Calamity Reimu and the others had clearly been here before; they had left markers a long way from the cave entrance.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi took a book from his Inventory. He had originally intended to throw it into the Guild Warehouse, but later decided it could serve as spare ingredients, so he simply kept it on him.

A moment later, a sow gleefully ran toward the cave.

Then, under Bai Zhi's watchful gaze, the running sow gradually turned into a mass of walking Linen Cloth as it moved forward, collapsing into a heap about a dozen meters from the cave entrance.

"This thing..."

Watching the scene before him, Bai Zhi couldn't help but feel his teeth ache.

He now roughly understood why the six Sick Persons lying on the Beds in the wooden house had all been wrapped up like Mummies.

If they weren't bound with bandages, their bodies