Shen Heng's brows were furrowed tightly.
"Something went wrong?" a low voice asked from the side.
Shen Heng glanced at Han Ling, who was asking the question, before turning his gaze to the crowd.
He moved his head slightly, as if he wanted to nod, but after hesitating for a moment, he slowly shook his head.
Seeing this, the people around were slightly puzzled.
Was this... an unexpected turn of events, or not?
"Did those high-level Calamity Beast find out that we were destroying the Anchor Point, so they sent even more Calamity Beast to guard it?" Zhou Xuan asked speculatively.
"No," Shen Heng said, frowning.
"Then... there are higher-level, mid-to-late 5th Tier, or even Sixth Tier Calamity Beast there?" Zhou Xuan guessed again.
"No, not exactly," Shen Heng said.
"That..."
Zhou Xuan frowned slightly. It wasn't this, it wasn't that, so what was the reason?
Shen Heng pondered for a moment, then asked:
"If you were the Calamity Beast, what would you do after you found out we were destroying the Anchor Point?"
"They must be reinforcing the defenses at the Anchor Point," Zhou Xuan said instinctively.
His question just now arose from this very idea.
Shen Heng did not reply, and turned his gaze to the others.
Everyone opened their mouths slightly, but no one said anything.
It's obvious that they think so too.
Seeing this, Shen Heng frowned slightly and looked away again.
Han Ling looked at Shen Heng, who was frowning in thought, and she seemed to understand something.
"You mean, the Calamity Beast already know we're sabotaging the Anchor Point, but they still haven't sent any other Calamity Beast to defend it?"
Shen Heng nodded slowly.
"Uh, why...?" Zhou Xuan asked, somewhat confused.
Shen Heng did not reply, which was also something he couldn't understand.
Why didn't the Calamity Beast strengthen the defenses of other Anchor Point, even though they knew the other Anchor Point were being destroyed?
"Could it be that the Calamity Beast doesn't actually care about these Anchor Point?" Zhou Xuan suddenly asked.
"Is there even a question? If you were Calamity Beast and you wanted to invade another world, would you care about places that could accelerate your invasion?" Zheng Guomin said.
"Uh, that's true!" Zhou Xuan nodded, his brows furrowed. "Then what's the reason?"
No one spoke; they were all deep in thought.
"How about," Han Ling raised her head slightly, "We invite the others over to discuss this together?"
Shen Heng looked at Han Ling, pondered for a moment, and then slowly nodded.
A moment later, all the inspectors gathered around.
After Shen Heng explained the problem, everyone began to discuss it.
"Could it be that the Calamity Beast don't care about these Anchor Point?" Someone raised the same point as Zhou Xuan.
"How could we not care about something that concerns their progress in invading our world!"
"As long as it's reproducible, then we don't need to worry about it. You can destroy it if you want, I'll just make another one next to it!" the man said.
"If it were that easy, we wouldn't have had to run around like this these past few days!"
"Then tell me, what's the reason?"
"..."
The crowd discussed it amongst themselves, but could not reach a convincing conclusion.
Wang Hu, Liang Yanhao, and the others all frowned and remained silent.
Huang Jun looked around the Taowu Squad, picked someone who had just finished speaking, and said:
"If you ask me, even if we find out, so be it. We haven't detected any threat, have we? Just call them!"
These words immediately garnered approval from many people.
"Indeed, if there are no problems, just call. Why overthink it?"
That's exactly how it is!
"That's true. Anyway, isn't Captain Shen's detection range fifty kilometers? It doesn't even cover that distance. Any further, even if there's some movement here, it probably wouldn't be able to detect it!"
"Yes, that's right..."
Shen Heng stood frozen in place, his gaze fixed on the person who had spoken the second-to-last sentence.
Does the absence of something within one's own reconnaissance range truly mean it's safe?
Shen Heng slightly raised his hand.
Those who noticed his movements fell silent and looked at him.
The scene fell silent for a moment.
"What's on your mind?" Wang Hu asked, sitting on the ground with his arms crossed.
"Um,"
Shen Heng nodded solemnly, then slowly said:
" The Calamity Beast might be waiting for us more than 50 kilometers away, and most likely, it's somewhere between these last two Anchor Point!"
"Huh? This..." Zhou Xuan's eyes widened slightly. "These last two Anchor Point are over 300 kilometers apart. Can the Calamity Beast see them clearly? Or is it that this Calamity Beast is actually good at reconnaissance?"
Many people nodded in agreement.
Even if their eyesight is passively enhanced during cultivation, they can only see a few dozen kilometers away when there is no obstruction. They can only see, not see clearly!
Now... you're telling them that there might be Calamity Beast observing the situation from over a hundred kilometers away?
As for the other possibility Zhou Xuan mentioned...
The Calamity Beast is good at reconnaissance... They felt the probability wasn't much higher than the Calamity Beast's ability to see clearly from over a hundred kilometers away.
"We don't need to be good at reconnaissance. As long as the Calamity Beast flies into the air, and after the Anchor Point is attacked, it can send out a relatively conspicuous signal into the air, that's enough," Shen Heng's eyes darkened slightly.
"At that time, any Calamity Beast paying attention to this area will easily be able to detect this signal."
"This..."
Everyone opened their mouths, and their expressions simultaneously darkened.
"Are you confident?" Wang Hu asked, his eyes darkening.
"I can't say I'm certain, but based on the situation, there's a considerable possibility," Shen Heng said in a deep voice.
Wang Hu nodded heavily.
After he finished speaking, the scene fell silent for a moment.
After a long silence, someone finally suggested:
"How about we move closer to the middle and take a look? We can decide what to do after we confirm there are no Calamity Beast there?"
"If that's true, when you go over there, who knows who will find whom!"
"What should we do then? Should we still damage the Anchor Point?"
"Knowing there might be Calamity Beast lying in ambush, why go? Isn't that just suicide?"
"But that's just speculation after all! Should we stop just because of a speculation?"
"Okay, even if it's just a guess, and there's only a 20% chance of being right, but if you guess wrong you die. Are you going or not?"
"There's never anything that's completely certain..."
The scene became noisy for a moment.
Shen Heng stood to the side, listening intently with a slightly somber expression.
The team leaders also did not participate in the argument.
a long time.
"Alright!"
Wang Hu said in a deep voice.
He glanced around at the now quiet crowd, and finally looked at Shen Heng, saying:
"Regardless, it's just speculation after all. If we stop because of a mere speculation, then we shouldn't be martial artists!"
"As martial artists, what we need to do is solve this problem, not run away from it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, many voices of agreement immediately rang out from the side.
"Exactly! What if we go back and say we were too scared to go even though we didn't see a shadow of them? Wouldn't that make us a laughingstock?"
"Yes, I agree with Captain Wang. Rather than leaving, I think we should continue with the plan. However, we also need to pay attention to the possible signals that Captain Shen just mentioned."
"Exactly. If a martial artist isn't even willing to take this small risk, what kind of martial artist are they?"
More and more people are agreeing with this.
Just then, a different voice rang out.
I object!