Ye Chuqi had said she wanted to take a squad deep into the Beast Abyss to investigate. With Ye Qinglan and Jelous vouching for her, Ambrose could hardly accuse her of treating the soldiers' lives as a game. After all, both Ye Chuqi and Ye Qinglan were leading from the front, and what they were doing would benefit the war effort.
These things had to be done sooner or later. Someone had to take that first step. Since Ye Chuqi was confident she could lead people in, Ambrose was happy to see it happen.
He simply had not expected them to return so soon.
Had the others not looked exhausted enough to have fought several major battles, he might have doubted they had gone at all. Though they had cleaned themselves up, the aura unique to the Beast Abyss was impossible to ignore. Ambrose was astonished. Its intensity was enough to prove they had spent a long time in the Beast Abyss, yet they seemed merely tired, without much in the way of negative emotions.
Ye Chuqi had actually done it.
Even with Big Black Fish helping them come and go freely, they had been astonishingly efficient. And just as she had promised, she had kept everyone safe and brought them all back in one piece.
Ye Chuqi's return had been utterly unexpected. Big Black Fish had also taken them straight to the entrance of Ambrose's tent, the exact spot they had departed from, without the slightest deviation.
As a result, they had given the two men guarding the entrance quite a fright. Had the guards not recognized Ye Qinglan at first glance, they might have attacked on the spot. The dense Beast Abyss aura clinging to the group only made things worse. Without a closer look, they could easily