"Will it give you more strength?"
"Will it let you avenge your dead loved ones?"
A stern-looking middle-aged man straightened up and barked out a few reprimands. Then he bent back down to tend the crops in the field.
The others wiped away their tears.
Without saying a word, they quickened their movements.
They had to be faster. Faster.
Every extra moment spent outside increased the danger.
Fortunately, those monsters did not destroy the fields.
They only needed to keep hungry wild boars and pheasants from getting in.
However, with so many living people here, the sweat from their labor and the strong scent of the living could still very likely draw nearby monsters over.
Sure enough.
After they had worked for a while, footsteps came from the woods.
The soldiers immediately noticed something was wrong. They quickly assembled and guarded the entrance by the woods.
"Something's coming."
"Pass the word—tell everyone to be careful!"
"Lure it to the other side! We can't fight here!"
"Hurry! Get them all out of the fields."
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
A soldier struck a gong.
Upon hearing the sound, everyone gripped their farming tools tightly. "They're here. They're here."
"Get out of here!"
"Move!"
They seemed to have experienced scenes like this countless times before, leaving the fields swiftly and orderly.
Fu Zeyu followed behind them.
He watched as the soldiers created a disturbance, luring the monster that had emerged from the woods away from the fields.
He knew why they were doing this.
Because once blood was spilled, nearby monsters might come swarming over one after another.
When that happened, this hard-won patch of reclaimed farmland would probably be ruined.
After all, one or two monsters were easy enough to kill.
But dealing with ten or twenty monsters would probably require