Genius I

Elsewhere in the dense forest.

Three young men and women, dressed in identical green robes and holding peculiar hook-like weapons, were fleeing all the way while constantly looking back.

Trees and rocks flashed past them. They were already moving at great speed, yet all three remained pale-faced, like startled birds at the mere twang of a bowstring.

"Are they still behind us?"

The man in front turned back and asked, his eyes filled with vigilance.

"I don't know. But there were clearly so many living corpses here before—why can't we see a single one today!?" another woman said anxiously.

"I'm not sure. Could it be connected to those people behind us?" the other woman said softly.

"Not likely. The living corpses here have existed since ancient times, and even several great upheavals never affected them. The legend of the Living Corpse Forest did not arise for no reason." The man vigilantly scanned their surroundings. "Something else must have happened and drawn all the living corpses elsewhere."

"Then what do we do?"

"Run deeper in!"

A fierce glint flashed through the man's eyes.

Suddenly, his expression changed. He yanked the two women down, and they flattened themselves against the ground.

"Silence!"

At the same time, a red-and-blue disk resembling a Taiji Diagram spread out from his body. A pair of black dragon eyes at its center slowly lit up.

Whoosh!

Whoosh, whoosh!!

Several streaks of white light suddenly shot over the heads of the three. Within the streaks was a bald man glittering all over in gold, with a silver small fish faintly swimming at his side.

"Miss Rong, the general has given his orders. You should obediently comply and return with this old servant. Otherwise, if we encounter Mister Wang and this old servant accidentally beats him to death, would