The three stood back-to-back in the woods for several minutes.
Aside from birdsong and insect chirps, there was no other movement nearby.
Feng Ling was the first to lose patience. She raised a foot and headed toward where the Contaminants lived. "Forget it. Maybe they were just passing along a note."
Ye Zheng snorted and followed her. "At a time like this, how could a note possibly be that simple?"
After thinking it over, Feng Ling took the note back from Li Qing. "Let me look at it again."
She looked at it for two seconds, crumpled it into a ball, and casually tossed it away.
"Feng Ling?!" Li Qing asked in shock. "Why did you throw it away?"
"I think Zhengzheng was right," Feng Ling said decisively. "It's definitely a trap."
Ye Zheng, beside her: "..."
I did say that, but you didn't have to throw it away, did you?
Feng Ling walked lightly onward, ignoring the subtle expressions on Ye Zheng and Li Qing's faces.
"I'll put on a show for you," Feng Ling said with a smile over her shoulder, raising one hand high. "It's called—A Chorus of a Hundred Birds!"
With a wave of her hand, all the Little Third Children began shrieking! They darted into the nearby woods!
Animals large and small throughout the forest were startled. Flocks of birds took flight, and the Monkeys in the trees scattered wildly! Wild Boars and black deer fled in panic!
"Don't misuse idioms. This is clearly called Pandemonium." Ye Zheng looked disgusted.
After locking onto their targets, the Human-faced Crows gathered into a single mass and blanketed their victims in a dark swarm, using their energy-draining skill to rapidly weaken them!
Most small animals died in the crows' beaks, but larger Wild Boars and deer could break