Serving people according to their status?
Several patrol members turned pale, gasping for breath in their panic.
A false alarm would have been one thing, but headquarters had sent the woman by that lord's side. If they handled this badly, even if she casually killed them, no one would find it excessive!
"My lady, those monsters really are completely different from any we've seen before!"
"Oh?" Murong Xue's expression turned icy as she stared coldly at the flushed, thick-necked man. "Different how? Go on, tell me."
"You'd better think carefully about this. Wasting my time and filing a false report—those are two separate offenses." Murong Xue was in an extremely bad mood.
"My lady, weren't most of the monsters we saw before mutated animals or plants?"
"What do you mean?" Murong Xue frowned.
Of course, she knew what kinds of Mutated Creatures there usually were. But judging from how adamant these people looked, they had clearly encountered a Mutated Creature beyond their understanding.
Very quickly, as they described what they had seen, Murong Xue's initially dismissive expression gradually turned grave, even becoming much more serious.
"You're saying those Mutated Beasts seemed to be entering the Black Fog in some kind of pattern, moving in groups without attacking one another?!"
Murong Xue nearly lost her voice.
Mutated Beasts hunting one another was practically common knowledge.
Thus, generally speaking, other Mutated Beasts would not appear around particularly powerful ones. Yet the Mutated Beasts these people described had not only broken that rule by hunting together, but seemed to have faintly developed intelligence, as though they were hunting in groups according to some pattern. That clearly defied all "common sense"!
Moreover, according to these patrol members, although the newly emerged Mutated Beasts were not as massive as the previous ones, the aura surrounding