Lin Feng carried the Jackalman's corpse back to the valley, where he happened to see Ranger lying peacefully in the pit.
Da Qing and the others were filling the pit with soil.
"What are you doing?"
Lin Feng asked curiously.
"Reporting to the chieftain, he was too badly injured to save. He said he wanted to experience what it felt like to be buried alive."
Shooting A Bit Like Kobe came forward and reported, struggling to hold back his laughter.
"Oh, oh."
Lin Feng nodded with a blank look on his face.
These players sure know how to have fun!
"Perfect. Bury this guy along with him."
Lin Feng tossed the Jackalman's corpse onto the ground and spoke.
"Sure thing! He can keep Ranger company!"
Grinning, Shooting A Bit Like Kobe tossed the Jackalman's corpse into the pit, pressing it down on top of Ranger.
"Get lost! I don't want to be buried with a Jackalman!"
Ranger immediately protested from inside the pit.
"What are you afraid of? Your corpse will respawn soon anyway. In the end, this Jackalman will be the only one left in the pit."
Shooting A Bit Like Kobe ignored Ranger's protest and continued filling the pit with soil.
Ranger shouted several times, but when no one paid him any attention, he could only helplessly accept the reality of being buried with a Jackalman.
Late at night.
Beneath the Sky-Piercing Giant Tree.
Inside the largest tent.
The chief of the Jackalmen Tribe, Kuang Tu Blood Axe, sat upright in the center of the tent, his face gloomy.
"Has Suihou still not returned?"
He asked in a deep voice.
Early that morning, he had sent Suihou, one of the tribe's three greatest warriors, to lead a squad southeast in search of traces of a Human Race tribe. Yet even now, Suihou had not returned.
This gave him an ominous feeling.
"Not yet. I went out to look just now, but it was pitch-black outside, and there wasn't a sound."
Bear Hunter Blood Axe, one of the tribe's three greatest warriors, answered in a booming voice.
He had been given the name Bear Hunter because he had once defeated a giant bear more than two meters tall all by himself!
Among the tribe's three greatest warriors, he was the strongest, second only to the chief, Kuang Tu.
Besides Kuang Tu and Bear Hunter, the tent also held Wind Wolf Blood Axe, one of the three greatest warriors.
Among the three warriors, Bear Hunter was the strongest, Suihou came next, and Wind Wolf was the weakest.
However, Wind Wolf had awakened a special ability.
Wolf Transformation!
He could transform from a Jackalman into a black wolf, gaining greater agility and concealment.
Relying on this special ability, he was deeply valued by Chief Kuang Tu.
"Could something have delayed him, causing him to spend the night outside?"
Wind Wolf guessed.
"Suihou is fairly cautious. Unless something special happened, he wouldn't risk spending the night outside." Kuang Tu frowned. "Something must have happened!"
"Should I go investigate?"
Wind Wolf volunteered.
"It's too late. I can't let you take that risk."
Kuang Tu shook his head.
In his eyes, the entire Suihou squad combined was not as important as Wind Wolf alone.
"We'll wait until noon tomorrow. If they still haven't returned by then, you can go investigate."
In the end, Kuang Tu made his decision.
Perhaps something really had delayed Suihou. Returning at night was too dangerous, so he had found a safe place to spend the night.
Maybe they would return first thing tomorrow morning.
By noon the next day, Suihou and the others had naturally still not returned.
All their corpses had already been buried underground, so how could they come back?
Wind Wolf, the Jackalmen Tribe's foremost scout, transformed into a black wild wolf and quietly left the tribe, heading southeast.
The grass and shrubs along the way provided him with excellent cover.
He traveled southeast, carefully avoiding the beasts he encountered while seriously searching for traces left by Suihou's squad.
However, after searching for a long time, he still found no trace of Suihou's squad.
What exactly had happened to Suihou's squad?
Had they encountered a powerful beast and been wiped out?
Or had they run into some accident and become trapped, unable to escape?
Just as he lowered his head in thought, an angry beast's roar suddenly came from ahead.
He immediately recognized it as the roar of a wild boar!
A glint flashed through his eyes as Wind Wolf slowly approached in the direction of the sound.
Using the grass as cover, he silently reached the source of the sound and peered ahead through a gap in the grass.
He saw five members of the Human Race hunting a wild boar.
There really are Humans here!
Wind Wolf was delighted. Since Humans were hunting in this area, it meant there were no excessively powerful beasts nearby.
The possibility that Suihou's squad had been wiped out by a powerful beast could be ruled out.
Without the threat of an unknown powerful beast, he could calmly continue searching for traces of Suihou's squad.
Perhaps he could find some clues from these Humans.
Through his observations, he discovered that these Humans were very strong, stronger than any Humans he had encountered before.
One had to know that wild boars were not easy to deal with in the wilderness!
Especially the wild boar before him. It was more than two meters long, with a pair of sharp, foot-long tusks. It was absolutely a giant among wild boars.
Even his fellow Jackalmen would need at least four or five people working together to be confident of dealing with such a large wild boar.
Yet these five Humans surrounding the wild boar were not at any disadvantage!
Two Humans had used ropes woven from vines to bind the wild boar's body. They pulled with all their might, preventing it from escaping.
The wild boar charged left and right and struggled desperately, but it still could not break free.
Those two Humans have incredible strength!
Wind Wolf could not help marveling at the sight.
Even two Jackalmen, a race known for its strength, might not be able to hold back a wild boar of this size.
Yet although the two Humans' faces had flushed red from exertion, they continued gripping the ropes tightly. The wild boar struggled desperately and could drag them along, but it still could not break free.
How can the Humans be so strong?
Taking advantage of the wild boar being restrained by their companions, the other three Humans attacked it with weapons, trying to kill it.
One Human wielded a Wolf Tooth Club covered in stone and bone shards and smashed it hard into the wild boar's forehead, making the beast let out a painful howl.
Wait, a Wolf Tooth Club?
Wind Wolf came to his senses, his eyes locking onto the Wolf Tooth Club in the Human's hands.
He could say with absolute certainty that this Wolf Tooth Club had come from the Blood Axe Tribe!
Only their tribe could make Wolf Tooth Clubs with such a distinctive style!
That raised the question: had this Human happened to find the Wolf Tooth Club, or had Suihou's squad fallen at the hands of these Humans?
These Humans were indeed quite strong. In a one-on-one fight, each of them had the strength to challenge a Jackalman.
But with Suihou's strength, he alone would have been enough to defeat this five-person squad.
For the Human tribe to wipe out Suihou's squad, there were only three possibilities.
The first possibility was that this Human tribe possessed more than thirty warriors as strong as these five Humans.
That was obviously impossible.
Generally speaking, the ones who went out hunting were the strongest warriors in the tribe. These five should be the strongest fighters the Human tribe possessed.
Given the Humans' physical gifts, producing even one warrior of this strength among thirty people would have been impressive!
To gather thirty warriors of this level, the tribe would have to number at least a thousand people.
The largest Human tribe in the eastern part of the island, the Baimu Tribe, had only three or four hundred people. It was impossible for a Human tribe of more than a thousand people to exist.
Therefore, this possibility could be ruled out first.
The second possibility was that the Human tribe possessed a powerful warrior whose strength rivaled Suihou's!
That was obviously impossible as well.
With the Humans' frail bodies, no matter how much they trained or how gifted they were, they could never be Suihou's opponent.
These five Humans before him were basically already the ceiling of Human strength, yet they were still far weaker than Suihou.
With two absolutely impossible possibilities eliminated, only one truth remained!
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