Just as they were about to call and notify Zhang Wujin, the young master,
a several-meter-long tentacle suddenly extended from the mine tunnel and lashed out at the two people nearest to it.
The tentacle was so fast that they had no time to resist before it pierced straight through their bodies.
Those who witnessed the scene no longer had the courage to stay.
The braver ones turned and fled.
A few more timid people were so terrified by what they saw that they could not move at all.
By the time Zhang Wujin received the call, those people had already fled the valley.
At the time, Zhang Wujin was leaving Nanlin Island by boat, heading for Blue Island.
After hearing their report, he knew this was no longer something he could handle himself.
But as the Zhang family's heir, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and rush over.
After all, it was his family's property.
Now that something like this had happened, there was no way he could avoid going there.
Yet he had no confidence in how things would develop afterward.
He had no idea how deeply the Zhang family would be implicated in this matter.
As a second-generation heir, he had at least heard whispers about certain things.
When faced with something so unbelievable,
his first thought was not disbelief, but how to clean up the aftermath.
That was when he thought of Ye Yuan.
He thought of Ye Yuan's relationship with the Xu Family.
Though he was not sure whether the Xu Family could intervene in something like this,
based on what he knew of them,
if that family wanted to lend the Zhang family a hand, it would be easy enough.
As his final safeguard, Ye Yuan was a trump card he