"Tap, tap—"
With two low growls, the pair of shadows leaped down and landed in front of Xu Feng's house.
Xiao Dan clamped both hands over her mouth, staring at the screen without daring to make a sound.
Xu Feng was just as tense. He gripped his Battle Blade tightly and stared fixedly at the screen.
"F-rank, early-stage Beast Soldiers. Shadow Hunter Wolves.
"Ordinary alloy weapons can't even pierce their hides.
"Only C-Grade Alloy weapons will do. Looks like I bought the right blade."
Xu Feng muttered under his breath, recalling the knowledge about Mutated Creatures stored in his mind.
After all these days of absorbing those memories, the knowledge had sunk so deeply into his mind that it was almost instinctive.
It was like the essential material taught in nine years of compulsory education.
Compared to his previous life, knowing about Mutated Creatures was like memorizing the multiplication tables: he could recite it at the drop of a hat.
He waved Xiao Dan over, telling the little girl to hide at the back of the empty room.
Then he stood guard in the passage with his blade in hand, watching the surveillance monitor.
Fortunately, the two Mutated Creatures didn't linger.
When a scream came from somewhere in the distance, the two Shadow Hunter Wolves immediately turned and left.
"Phew—"
Xu Feng let out a long breath and swallowed. Then he turned to Xiao Dan. "Don't be afraid. Daddy's here."
"Mm." Xiao Dan sat on the mat with her knees hugged to her chest, quietly watching the monitor. Her little face gradually relaxed.
But soon, she looked worried again. "Daddy, I wonder how Sister Liu Yu's family is doing. And Sister Lu Fei..."
Xu Feng sighed. "We can't worry about anyone else right now."
Though he couldn't see the whole scene outside, he could imagine the chaos.
"Lie down and rest for a while. I'll use the drone to check what's happening outside."
With that, Xu Feng took a remote control with a screen from a nearby box.
"I want to watch too." Xiao Dan clearly wasn't sleepy. She snuggled into Xu Feng's arms and peered at the screen.
Xu Feng glanced at Xiao Dan. He'd already imagined what the scene outside would look like.
To keep the child from seeing anything upsetting, he said, "Help me keep an eye on the monitor. Watch out for any monsters coming near."
"Okay!" Xiao Dan understood that this was important and nodded obediently.
Xu Feng piloted the drone into the air.
A brutal scene, shrouded in smoke, gradually came into view on the screen.
In the direction of the base, arcs of artillery fire crisscrossed the sky, and bodies lay everywhere.
Countless Mutated Creatures surged toward the base from every direction.
Every so often, several golden figures swooped down from the sky.
So this was the war between martial artists and the Alien Race!
Soon, the drone flew away from the roof of Xu Feng's house and headed deeper into the Shanty Town.
Mutated Creatures were everywhere—in the streets and alleys.
Many people were fleeing, too.
But they were quickly swallowed up by the Beast Tide.
Besides them,
dozens of figures charged and sprinted through the beast horde, weapons in hand.
Xu Feng even saw some people pushing forward toward the base.
"Are these people crazy?"
He couldn't understand it.
Only when the drone reached the Trading Zone did he draw in a sharp breath.
There were even more people and Mutated Creatures here!
In the drone's video, several figures took advantage of the chaos to smash open shops in the Trading Zone and haul out all kinds of expensive alloy weapons!
Xu Feng sat bolt upright. "Damn, why didn't I think of that?"
With chaos on this scale, no one was keeping an eye on the Trading Zone.
If he grabbed a few C-grade weapons and resold them at another base's trading zone, he could make tens or even hundreds of thousands!
No wonder these people were risking their lives to get there.
"Life and death are in my hands; fortune is in heaven's."
Xu Feng was sorely tempted.
With his current blade skills and speed, if he...
But Xu Feng quickly shook his head. "No, no. What am I thinking?
"With my current speed and strength, I'd be lucky to feed two Shadow Hunter Wolves. Fortune?
"Fortune is in heaven's hands; life and death are mine.
"Only an idiot would go out and mess around now. Even if I got the money, would I live long enough to spend it?"
He settled down in the tunnel, checking the drone while conserving his strength.
But soon, the drone's screen went black, and the connection was lost.
Xu Feng had no idea whether the drone had crashed or if something had attacked it.
Either way, he'd lost all view of the battlefield.
Father and daughter hid until noon the next day.
Xu Feng first ate a little in the tunnel, then checked the monitor.
Outside was silent, and there hadn't been a Mutated Creature in sight for quite some time.
But Xu Feng didn't take any chances. He and Xiao Dan slept in the tunnel all afternoon. Only after he received a message from Lu Fei toward evening did he finally relax.
It was over!
The war alert had been lifted!
The danger had passed!
"Creak—"
Xu Feng climbed out of the tunnel and moved the bed aside. He stopped Xiao Dan from coming out. "Wait here. I'll take a look outside first.
"If anything seems wrong, close the tunnel door immediately."
"Mm." Xiao Dan nodded.
Xu Feng got up, opened the door, and went outside.
As soon as he stepped out, he frowned.
The air was thick with the stench of blood and burning.
There were no bodies in sight. His place was on the outskirts of the Shanty Town, far from the heart of the battlefield.
Only after he closed the door and walked farther down the road did he find the body of a Shadow Hunter Wolf in the middle of the street, and a woman's corpse lying in a drainage ditch.
Xu Feng took a careful look. The woman had been dead for a while. He wasn't in the mood to search her body, so he continued on.
He didn't go far this time before he spotted several martial artists walking toward him, followed by a cart for collecting bodies.
"There's someone over there!"
"Brother! Wait!"
When Xu Feng turned and walked away, a martial artist in the group called out to him.
The young martial artist leading the group came up to Xu Feng and took one look at him, then said in surprise, "It's you! Mr. Xu, we meet again!"
Xu Feng paused, then recognized the young man. He was the martial artist who had knocked on his door that night to ask whether he'd heard gunshots.
"Hello, Mr. Luo." Xu Feng nodded slightly.
"Oh? You have a good memory, Mr. Xu. You only glanced at my ID once, and you remembered my name."
Luo Feng smiled.
Xu Feng didn't feel like making small talk. He glanced at the group clearing bodies from the street and asked,
"Is the war over? What were the losses last night? How many people in the Shanty Town are still alive?"
Luo Feng sighed. "The losses were certainly heavy, but we were well prepared, so our core forces weren't badly affected.
"The Shanty Town suffered more. Quite a few residents were killed or injured, and we're still counting the dead."
Xu Feng drew a deep breath, his face heavy with grief.
Then a faint anger welled up in him.
Sky Moon Martial University had known the attack was coming, yet hadn't given a single warning. It had treated the Martial Servants living in the Shanty Town as if they didn't exist.
Human lives were nothing but grass.
If someone wasn't a martial artist, were they just disposable goods?
Thinking this, he grew colder toward Luo Feng and the others. "If there's nothing else, I'll be going. You all carry on."
With that, Xu Feng turned and headed back.
Luo Feng noticed the change in Xu Feng's attitude, but couldn't think of anything to say.
As for his suspicions about Xu Feng, he didn't have the energy to investigate them now.
He'd lost many comrades in last night's attack, too.
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