"This feeling..."
Sensing his faint presence, as though he were holding his breath, Yu Ziyu felt a slight stir in his heart.
It seemed that the mist really had concealed most of his presence in response to his will.
He just did not know whether this could fool those spiritual energy monitoring devices.
The Spiritual Energy Monitoring Satellite was only one of them; after all, it searched over a wide area.
His concern was that these survey personnel might bring precision instruments with them.
A moment later, however, Yu Ziyu shook his head as though something had occurred to him.
He was indeed afraid of humans discovering his existence.
After all, he had not fully matured yet.
But that did not mean he would truly let fear tie his hands.
If those people really brought precision instruments and detected his existence, Yu Ziyu would not mind going on a killing spree before he was fully exposed.
At this thought, a rare trace of killing intent rose in Yu Ziyu's heart.
"Whoosh, whoosh..."
As branch after branch suddenly swept through the air, the entire canyon began to churn.
Just then,
"Roar..."
A low growl suddenly came from the ground nearby.
Looking over, Yu Ziyu actually saw that honey badger crawl out of its burrow and growl repeatedly at his main body from inside the tree cage.
Its sharp claws even began to scrape faintly, as though it were provoking him.
"What..."
Slightly taken aback, Yu Ziyu could not quite understand how this little fellow had grown so bold.
Could it be...
As though something had occurred to him, Yu Ziyu suddenly swept his gaze around.
Sure enough, the white crane he had yet to tame was slowly spreading its white wings. Even the golden monkey in his treetop seemed restless, baring its teeth.
"So that's it?"
With a cold inward laugh, Yu Ziyu figured it out.
After he used the thick mist to conceal his presence, the oppressive aura that had been bearing down on these mutated beasts must have gradually dissipated.
Naturally, these mutated beasts, which had never been tamed in the first place, revealed their unruly side.
"Hmph."
With a cold snort, Yu Ziyu suddenly lashed a branch through the air.
Smack!
With a crisp sound, the honey badger, which had climbed out of its burrow and was baring its teeth, went flying.
"Roar..."
As it growled, a trace of bewilderment flashed deep in the eyes of the honey badger, which was too injured to get to its feet.
It could not quite understand.
Why did this great tree still possess such strength when its presence had already faded?
"You lot..."
Sweeping a cold gaze around, Yu Ziyu sighed helplessly to himself.
Then his gaze shifted to the honey badger nearby, blood seeping from its mouth, and his eyes suddenly flickered.
Perhaps this could work.
After giving it some thought, Yu Ziyu suddenly coiled a branch around the honey badger and lifted it off the ground.
Then, before the honey badger could react, highly concentrated life essence began seeping out.
"Roar..."
With a terrifying growl, the honey badger's fur slowly grew, standing on end like a hedgehog's spines.
At the same time, its sharp claws slowly lengthened.
Nearly half a meter long, those claws carried a heart-trembling edge.
"Don't let those fellows enter the mountains."
With that nightmare-like whisper, Yu Ziyu activated his ability, Hallucination.
A few lingering stars hung in the gray sky, and a gauzy gray-black veil shrouded the earth. All was silent, save for the occasional chirping of insects in the grass.
"Step, step, step..."
Accompanied by soft footfalls, more than a dozen fully armed soldiers slowly entered the mountains.
It was the early hours of the morning, an excellent time.
Most mutated beasts were asleep at this hour, making it ideal for surveying.
Thus, after leaving the village, the dozen or so soldiers led by Yan Gaoyuan entered the mountains at this time.
As for the girl with fire-elemental talent, Yan Gaoyuan had already made arrangements.
"Say, Regiment Commander, why won't this mist clear?"
Looking out at the sea of white, one soldier was the first to ask.
It was a fair question. This thick mist had already lasted an entire day.
From night into day again.
Moreover, the farther they went, the thicker the mist became.
By now, visibility was less than five or six meters.
Surveying mountains like these left even these soldiers on edge, deeply afraid that a mutated beast might suddenly charge out from some corner.
"Uh..."
After a moment of silence, even the seasoned regiment commander could offer no explanation.
That there was mist in the mountains was an indisputable fact.
But he had never seen mist this thick in his life. And, whether it was his imagination or not, he felt somewhat dazed. Even the trees in the mist seemed to be baring their fangs and claws, as though about to pounce.
"It's probably a mutation."
Yan Gaoyuan, who was walking at the very front, suddenly stopped. He looked up at the thick mist, sighed, and explained:
"Rising spiritual qi concentrations can cause inconceivable changes in certain places, and these changes often can't be explained by science."
"For example, the magnetic field across the entire planet is in chaos now, and electronic communication equipment has very poor reception?"
Hearing the regiment commander's question, Yan Gaoyuan nodded and acknowledged:
"That's right. Deep in mountains like these, electronic communication equipment can't be used at all."
"And this is also one manifestation of mutation."
At this point, Yan Gaoyuan added half-jokingly:
"If a mutation occurs somewhere, the spiritual energy concentration might rise too. If that's really the case, this trip will be easy for us."
"Yes, that's true."
The regiment commander, who knew some inside information, nodded as well.
If a mutation really was the reason this area's spiritual energy peak had reached seventeen or eighteen thousand, that would truly be fortunate for them.
At least it would be no less than a hundred times better than encountering a mutated beast with a spiritual energy peak of seventeen or eighteen thousand.
Crimson concedes-I'll just label which update this is...
Ahem, why do you always think Crimson only posts one or two updates a day?
Sigh, and here Crimson stays up late every day to upload in the early hours... ┭┮﹏┭┮
(Event period: June 12 to June 14)
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