Inside a village in East Gorta.
Green smoke rose from the village. It wasn't coming from anyone cooking, but from the ruins scattered throughout the village.
Su Xiao, Bubu Wang, and A-Mu walked toward the village. Before they even entered it, they saw a human torso and head.
The torso's limbs had been torn off by brute force, with blood scattered all around. This wasn't the aftermath of a murder, but the remains left behind after some creature's hunt. Compared with the torso and head, the limbs were easier to carry, and the meat was better, too.
There was no need to think about it. The perpetrators were the Chimera Ants. They rarely hunted beasts because they had discovered that, compared with beasts whose ability to escape wasn't weak, humans were easier to hunt. Humans also lived in groups, so every time the Chimera Ants found a village, they could obtain a large amount of "meat."
Su Xiao crouched beside the torso and touched its skin with his finger. Judging from the corpse's temperature, the Chimera Ants that had just finished hunting hadn't gone far.
"Bubu, track them."
Bubu Wang began searching the village for suspicious scents. He quickly picked up a scent, and the pursuit began.
Five kilometers away, in a forest, a group of strange creatures hurried forward. They carried large and small bundles on their backs, with blood seeping from the bundles and dripping onto the ground.
These strange creatures were about the same size as humans. They walked upright and wore clothes, but their limbs and heads were completely different from those of humans. They looked as if beasts and humans had been combined into one.
These were Chimera Ants. Their strongest ability was to seize the DNA of other creatures, taking the superior genes and