"Zhu Ping'an!"
Gu Xuan cried out in alarm. He'd been the one to take Zhu Ping'an out of the city on his first trip beyond its walls.
"Wasn't that kid supposed to be in No. 13 Secret Realm? How'd he get out? Quick, tell the mayor what's going on. I'm going to save him!"
As soon as he'd spoken, Gu Xuan tossed his cigarette aside and leaped down from the city wall, rushing straight toward Zhu Ping'an.
"Hey, Old Gu! Damn it!"
Pan Dahai was frantic. What difference was there between going out to save someone in a Beast Tide like this and throwing your life away?
But all he could do now was hurry to notify the mayor, Lin Zhao. After all, Zhu Ping'an was Green City's Top Scholar.
By now, Zhu Ping'an was already at the end of his rope. He still had nearly four thousand Qi and Blood Pills in his hands, but his injuries were simply too severe. He looked like a rag doll that had been hastily stitched back together.
The worst wound was on his chest: a bloody hole that went straight through him, where a Black Armored Mad Rhino had gored him with its horn amid the Beast Tide.
Without the protection of plot armor, anyone else would have died from injuries like these.
Looking at Green City's wall, so close he could almost touch it, Zhu Ping'an felt despair creeping in.
Just a little farther. Just a tiny bit more.
Even if he used the Devil Sha Black Dragon Cannon to blast a path through, he no longer had the strength to make it there.
The Beast Tide around him had already swallowed him up once more.
Just then, a deafening boom rang out. A figure dropped from the sky, blasting all