"Beast tide season!" Old Man Meng's eyes widened, and he immediately looked from side to side before shouting, "Everyone, retreat into the city! Hurry! Don't hesitate for even a moment!"
The hunters all climbed onto their Gale Beasts at once, then yanked the reins and raced madly toward the great city. Yet even with the City Lord here, not one of the hunters' expressions improved in the slightest. Clearly, they all knew what was about to happen.
I could see that Blue Stone and Chu Jiao were also grim-faced. They clearly knew how terrifying beast tide season was. As for me, being an outsider, they assumed I had never experienced anything like it, so Blue Stone hurriedly said, "Brother Xia, beast tide season has arrived... Aren't you afraid? There'll be ferocious beasts as far as the eye can see..."
"I've seen it before." I spoke calmly, then said to Meng Xu, "We Legendary Hunters can retreat more easily than the others. There's still so much cargo here—we can't possibly abandon all of it. Why not leave a group behind to cover the rear and hold this gap, giving the hunters carrying the cargo a chance to get it back to the great city? Of course, unimportant cargo of little value, such as meat, should be discarded on the spot!"
"Good! That was precisely my intention!" Meng Xu slapped his hands together, then shouted, "Unimportant cargo of little value, such as meat, is to be discarded on the spot! Hunters below the Heroic rank will stay behind. The three of us Legendary Hunters will lead them and cover the rear together!"
Old Man Meng's words carried considerable weight. Once all the hunters followed his orders, they indeed discarded a huge pile of cargo. Everyone traveled light, and their speed naturally shot