"I wonder how long this trip will take."
"I hope Red Fang Leaf can get through it smoothly. Otherwise, Scale Smoke will worry again."
Leaning against the city wall, Scale Tooth let out a bitter laugh, a bloodstained scale pinched between his slender, three-fingered claws.
After seeing Lin An off, he began to miss his little sister and father back home, and a trace of melancholy rose in his heart.
It had been a long time since he had gone back.
Perhaps it was out of guilt, or perhaps because he did not want to hurt his little sister.
As for Lin An, he believed he had done everything he could to help him. He only hoped that Lin An would pass the selection smoothly, then return and be with Scale Smoke properly.
As long as his little sister could be happy, he, as her elder brother, would have no regrets.
Because of his affection for Scale Smoke, his concern for Red Fang Leaf was also sincere.
"Captain, why haven't the brothers coming to relieve us arrived yet?"
"It's already been several minutes. They usually come early to change shifts."
Standing beside Scale Tooth, a short, stocky mutant youth with somewhat tender scales scratched at the scales on his face, unable to stop himself from looking toward the core in confusion.
After a large number of Third Order mutants had received a mysterious order to go out and search for some target, the fortress's guard duty had temporarily fallen to them.
It was already time for the shift change, but the squad that should have come over seemed to have vanished halfway through. They had not even sent word.
Not only that, but as he guarded the outer perimeter in another direction of the fortress, he constantly felt that the