Insect Rain

All day long, members of the Skyfire Club had been in contact with Lu Feng through the communicator.

But everything around remained normal, and no one grew suspicious.

Even Gao Zhan and Fang Qing had come out to check on things.

By the Third Day.

Lu Feng was now densely surrounded by Drill Bulls that the Night Owl Squad had herded over.

Their limbs were curled up as they lay on the ground, eyelids heavy, all in a half-dead state.

Because the energy inside them had been completely drained.

And over these past few days, Lu Feng had consecutively broken through every acupoint in his body, his cultivation level shooting up like a rocket, all the way to the peak of the Meridian Condensing Realm.

"Just a bit more—if I can get a few more Exotic Beasts, I can try to condense the Innate Qi Sea and break through to the Fourth Realm Warrior."

Lu Feng could barely contain his excitement as he stood up and looked around.

But there were no more Exotic Beasts around to Absorb Energy from.

"So close..."

Unwilling to give up, he dashed off into the distance, relying on his own perception to search the surroundings.

Unfortunately, he ran nearly thirty kilometers and still couldn't find any trace of an Exotic Beast.

"Can't go any further."

Any farther and he'd exceed the coverage range of the Temporary Starry Sky Station's Energy Shield.

Without having broken through to the Innate Realm, Lu Feng couldn't move freely on the surface of Planet Caro 9 without wearing a Mecha.

"Forget it. I'll have to wait for the next chance."

He sighed, turned around, and headed back.

Just at that moment, Lu Feng suddenly sensed the presence of Exotic Beasts.

Ten kilometers away, over a hundred Exotic Beasts were charging madly in his direction.

Their fierce aura was startling.

"There's a Leader Level among them."

Lu Feng's heart tightened. He immediately opened his Communicator and sent an alert on the team channel: "A large number of Exotic Beasts are approaching the outpost!"

Within seconds of the message being sent, every member of the Chasing Wind Squad inside the outpost rushed out.

"Where?"

Gao Zhan and the others hadn't detected anything unusual yet.

"To the south. Over a hundred of them, and there's a Leader Level among them."

Everyone's hearts clenched.

"How many Leader Level ones?"

"Not sure yet."

Though Lu Feng could roughly sense the number of Exotic Beasts and the presence of fourth-tier auras, he couldn't accurately determine the exact count of Leader Level ones.

"Follow me!"

Gao Zhan immediately led the entire squad south at full speed.

They hadn't been running for more than a Few Minutes when they spotted a large group of Drill Bulls lying on the ground five kilometers away—at least three or four hundred of them.

"Attack now!"

Seeing this, the Chasing Wind Squad members were stunned for a moment, then quickly struck. In the blink of an eye, they slaughtered the entire herd of Drill Bulls, the whole process taking only two minutes.

"Captain, these Drill Bulls... they didn't seem to have any ability to fight back?"

A Team Member looked at the corpses littering the ground and asked in surprise.

Though the herd was large, they were unusually weak. The squad cut them down one by one with almost no resistance, slaughtering them all.

Gao Zhan also found it strange.

Drill Bulls were always fierce and bad-tempered by nature—how could they just lie there and let themselves be butchered?

"Lu Feng! Where are you? The Exotic Beasts are all dealt with. Come out."

Thirty kilometers away, Lu Feng received the message and froze.

Dealt with?

The beast horde he'd sensed hadn't even entered the Energy Shield's range yet!

He immediately realized—Gao Zhan and the others must have mistakenly killed the Drill Bulls whose energy he'd already drained.

"Captain Gao, you've got it wrong. That's not the batch you killed!"

"Wrong?" Gao Zhan was even more confused. "Explain clearly!"

"Thirty kilometers due south, there are still over a hundred Exotic Beasts approaching. They're not Drill Bulls—they're Multi-headed Pythons!"

"Thirty kilometers? How did you get so far?"

"No time to explain—get over here, quick!"

Hearing this, Gao Zhan and his team immediately rushed forward at full speed.

Lu Feng had just finished sending the communication when he suddenly noticed that not far outside the energy shield, the ground was covered in strange beetles.

These beetles were a chaotic mix of species, their sizes wildly different—the smallest were about the size of a fist, while the largest nearly matched the length of a mecha's forearm.

Their appearances were bizarre: some had backs bristling with spikes, like moving thickets of thorns;

some had asymmetrical compound eyes, one side larger than the other;

some had particularly developed mandibles that kept opening and closing with a sharp clicking sound!

"Not good!"

Lu Feng's heart sank.

His survey experience from a few days ago made him remember clearly that the Multi-headed Pythons in the dense forest mountains to the south fed precisely on these kinds of strange beetles.

Logically, these bugs should only live deep in the mountains, never appearing on the edge of the Sudali Plain.

Unless... someone had deliberately brought them here to lure the Multi-headed Pythons over!

"Zheng Yi?!"

Lu Feng's mind immediately flashed the face of that despicable man.

Just then, the ground not far outside the energy shield began to tremble.

Then, he saw hundreds of slender giant pythons surging toward him like fish swimming swiftly.

And at the very front of the python swarm, there were seven Multi-headed Pythons, each over twenty meters long, with four heads!

"So many?!"

Lu Feng's pupils contracted. Shocked, he didn't hesitate for a moment—he turned and sprinted.

Although he could control exotic beasts, it was limited to those of the same realm.

If they exceeded his own realm, his control time was extremely short.

Facing seven Leader-level Exotic Beasts appearing at once, if he didn't run, it would be certain death.

"Captain Gao! The situation is worse than expected..."

As he ran back with all his might, he quickly sent what he had seen to the Chasing Wind Squad's communication channel.

By then, the Chasing Wind Squad had already reached less than ten kilometers from Lu Feng.

Seeing the message from Lu Feng, Gao Zhan's heart grew heavy.

Of the entire Chasing Wind Squad, only he, Fang Qing, and Hong Kun were at the Innate Realm.

Facing seven beasts of the same realm, they had no chance of victory.

If they fought head-on, the Chasing Wind Squad would suffer heavy casualties, possibly even total annihilation.

But if they chose to retreat, what about Lu Feng?

And what if the beast swarm broke through the defenses and charged into the Starry Sky Station?

Gao Zhan made an immediate decision and contacted the station's Command Center, requesting support from senior officials.

But the Command Center's reply made his heart tighten even more: all Grandmaster Realm Legion Commanders were currently away from the station and needed time to return. They ordered the Chasing Wind Squad to hold the line at all costs and not let the beast swarm approach the station's core area.

The Command Center said they had urgently contacted several Legion Commanders and notified nearby outpost squads to rush over for support.

"Damn it!"

Gao Zhan cursed inwardly, but he had no choice but to lead the Chasing Wind Squad forward, biting the bullet.

Meanwhile, Lu Feng stopped after running a certain distance.

He noticed that the Multi-headed Python swarm had not continued advancing—they had halted at the area covered in beetles and begun feeding.

"Looks like there's no danger for now," he thought.

Once these giant pythons finished their "feast," they should return to the depths of the mountains.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, a fist-sized beetle suddenly dropped from the sky.

Then a second, a third... more and more beetles rained down toward the outpost like droplets.

Lu Feng looked up and saw several dozen mechas in mid-air turning to retreat.

"Bastards!"

He immediately understood—that must be Zheng Yi leading the Night Owl Squad, using this despicable method to steer the python swarm toward the Chasing Wind Squad's outpost.

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