An off-road vehicle sped toward the Meilin Ecological Zone.
Perhaps, in a few months, several newly discovered ingredients would be added to the ranked list of edible foods known to humanity.
But until then, the "gears" around the world continued turning as usual.
And so—
Time passed, day and night alternating.
One day.
A piece of news was reported across the entire world.
The report read as follows:
The discoverer was a woman who had gotten lost in the forest.
There were 128 villagers living in the Kurta Clan's settlement. All of them had been killed.
At the crime scene, members of every family had been arranged in seated positions, facing one another.
Sharp weapons had been driven into their bodies, and their heads had been severed while they were still alive.
The eyeballs of every pure-blooded Kurta Clan member had been removed. The eyes of outsiders, such as those who had married into the village, had been left behind.
However, the outsiders bore noticeably more wounds than the Kurta Clan members.
From this, it could be inferred that the perpetrators had attacked the outsiders first to provoke the Kurta Clan members. Once their pain and anger turned their eyes scarlet, they had been killed and beheaded one by one.
The children also bore countless wounds. The sight was too horrible to endure.
It was believed that this had been done to enrage the children's parents, making their Scarlet Eyes shine even more vividly.
It was said that Scarlet Eyes brought forth by overwhelming rage were the brightest crimson, capable of fetching an exceptionally high price on the underground black market.
Thus, the perpetrators' motive could be preliminarily determined.
Personnel from the relevant departments who had gone to investigate the scene found a message believed to have been left behind