Zhang Yuchen had already taken the lead, pulling out a piece of yellow cloth, wrapping it up, and slinging it over his back.
It was just Old Rat's corpse, only as big as a cat.
Then, as we talked about the bloody battle in Ghost Cry City, we headed back.
When we reached the slope behind us, Zhang Yuchen even took out his phone and snapped a picture.
With Fox Grudge dead, the mist here had dispersed.
The magnetic field had returned to normal. Under the moonlight, we could capture a rough outline.
He said that since this was the first time we had pacified a forbidden zone, we needed a memento...
After that, we continued heading out.
But before we had gone far, a dense flurry of footsteps suddenly rang out ahead.
The sound of footsteps—tap, tap, tap—continued without pause...
Hearing them, we did not dare let our guard down.
Everyone immediately became alert.
"Someone's coming?"
"Hide first!"
"..."
Everyone moved at once, hiding in the bushes to one side.
At the same time, we suppressed our auras and watched the outside.
Before long, eight or nine people rushed out of the forest.
Leading them was a little old man in his fifties.
"Quick, hurry!"
"The higher-ups gave a death order. Nothing can go wrong, absolutely nothing..."
"..."
All eight or nine of them were unfamiliar faces. We did not recognize a single one.
But they were all human and were hurrying in the direction of Ghost Cry City.
Since we did not know them, and everyone was exhausted even after our breakthrough, none of us spoke.
We watched as the group ran toward Ghost Cry City.
Only after they had left and we felt it was safe did we continue onward.
This time, however, we picked up the