"I suspect this wasn't Cursed Tiger's idea, but rather the work of those humans who had yet to leave."
Connie frowned thoughtfully. "But it doesn't make sense if it was those humans either. More and more foreign races are joining the siege of the Hundred Severed Mountain Range, yet the overall situation is a complete mess. That's nothing like the way those humans operate. Besides, it doesn't seem as though they're trying to find you immediately. It's more like they're forcing you to show yourself."
"Did Cursed Tiger train his brain wrong? Does he really think I'm an idiot? Why would I jump out and fight them at a time like this?"
Su Mo immediately laughed helplessly.
Connie's guess sounded absurd, but then again, the foreign races' current actions were indeed baffling.
They claimed to be besieging the Hundred Severed Mountain Range, but the foreign races that came were each fighting on their own. They even frequently clashed over places to establish their camps. Su Mo had witnessed several similar scenes over the past few days.
But if this wasn't a siege, then judging from the frequency of the attacks on the Town Fire Squad, they had encountered almost no repeat races in three days. They could run into a patrol team after only a few steps, and there were so many of them that it made one's scalp crawl.
"Maybe they're deliberately leaving an opening, waiting for you to take the bait?"
Connie guessed again. "I can't ask too many questions about this situation, but there's one thing you must pay attention to. At the gathering, Cursed Tiger told all the foreign-race leaders that he had a trump card capable of temporarily changing the game's rules within a certain area."
"Changing the game's rules?"
"Yes. Those were his exact