After Shen Yuan finished speaking, her gaze fell on Song Chen. She looked him up and down, the corners of her lips lifting slightly. "Little brother, you came all the way out here alone. Aren't your family worried?"
Song Chen's expression remained blank. "No need for your concern."
Shen Yuan gave a soft laugh and did not continue teasing him, but her beautiful peach-blossom eyes continued circling around him, as though she were examining something interesting.
The fourth and fifth people arrived together.
They were two men, both around twenty-seven or twenty-eight, dressed in similarly styled dark-blue combat uniforms with the same emblem embroidered over their chests.
"Liu Dong, Second Rank Martial Artist, Blood Qi 48." The older one spoke first. He had a square face and a stern expression.
"Liu Xi, Second Rank Martial Artist, Blood Qi 46." The younger one followed. He looked sixty or seventy percent like his brother, though there was an extra trace of flamboyance between his brows.
"Sky Sword Security?" Zhao Hu glanced at the emblems on their chests.
Liu Dong nodded. "That's right."
"My brother and I used to take security jobs in Dongyuan Base City. This time, we accepted an escort mission to a border outpost. On the way back, we heard there was a severely wounded Third Rank mutant beast here, so we came by on our way."
Zhao Hu swept his gaze around. Once he confirmed that everyone had finished introducing themselves, he crouched down, pulled a hand-drawn map from his backpack, and spread it across the ground.
"Alright, down to business."
He drew a circle on the map with his finger. "The Green-Scaled Viper Python's nest is in the East District of Linchuan, inside the underground reservoir of the former Chemical Plant."
"Three days ago, a five-man hunting squad