At the end of the highway.
This was a human settlement. A battle had just ended, leaving more than twenty armed thugs lying in pools of blood. But a closer look would reveal that more than half of them had been shot from behind.
They had clearly been betrayed.
"Hahaha! Brothers, hurry up and clear the battlefield! Something's definitely happened to the Boar Emperor. We need to grab what we can and pull out before the other factions arrive."
A bald, eyebrowless man with a black scorpion tattooed on his scalp shouted, a shotgun slung over his shoulder.
"Hahaha! Don't worry, boss! We owe this one to our second-in-command!"
His men laughed in unison and picked up the pace as they cleared the battlefield.
Hearing this, the bald man looked at the man beside him with satisfaction.
The man was tall and handsome, with striking looks, but a closer look would reveal a faint trace of something sickly lurking in his eyes.
"Thanks for your hard work, baby. You got the news to us in time and gave our brothers a head start. I'll make sure to reward you properly when we get back."
"What exactly happened to the Boar Emperor?"
The handsome man smiled and shook his head.
"I'm not sure either. I've been undercover here for a while now. He used to disappear with those wild boars for stretches of time, but this time was clearly different.
"Last night, all the piglets in the pen became agitated. They bit the keeper who went to check on them to death. That was when I figured something might have happened to [Boar Emperor]."
The bald man rubbed his bare scalp and nodded slightly.
"Rumor has it that [Boar Emperor]'s wild boars are pretty amazing. They can understand what he says,