One month later.
Flames flickered in the Gobi Desert.
Wang Hu stood on the simple rooftop with his arms crossed.
Beside him were two other figures.
None of the three spoke, their gazes fixed on the distance.
There, two warriors, one thin and one round-faced, were dragging the carcass of a Calamity Beast toward the rear of the stronghold.
They were accompanied by a number of soldiers.
The two sides are currently exchanging ideas.
They were quite far apart, so I couldn't see exactly what they were saying, but I could tell they both seemed pretty happy.
"Speaking of which, how come Zhou Xuan and Lü Wenrui are able to hunt Calamity Beast every day?" A somewhat puzzled voice came from the side.
Wang Hu stood on the rooftop, continuing to gaze into the distance.
The other person replied, "With two Fifth Tier, hunting Calamity Beast should be easier, right?"
"Aren't we also at the Fifth Tier? But even when we go out, we can't hunt Calamity Beast every day!" Shi Ruiyuan looked at the person who spoke with some confusion.
"Well..."
Huang Jun hesitated for a moment, then tilted his head back and thought for a moment.
"That was probably just luck!"
"Well, maybe!" Shi Ruiyuan sighed and turned his gaze back to the distance.
Huang Jun also turned his gaze in that direction.
"However, hunting these Calamity Beast is indeed getting harder and harder these days!"
"After all, we've killed most of the Calamity Beast around our base. Now, if we want to hunt Calamity Beast, we either have to run far enough away, or..." Shi Ruiyuan paused, glancing at Huang Jun beside him, "Or we can only rely on luck, like you just said. If we're lucky, we might run into those ignorant Calamity Beast that are heading in our direction!"
"Hmm!" Huang Jun nodded in agreement. "Fortunately, we killed a lot of Calamity Beast earlier. Even if we don't hunt any more later, it'll be enough to feed us for a while!"
"It's enough, but there will always be a time when it's all gone, right?" Shi Ruiyuan said.
"Then we can just move out later!" Huang Jun said matter-of-factly.
There was no response. Shi Ruiyuan frowned slightly and looked towards the distant horizon.
Darkness enveloped everything.
As if sensing his unusual behavior, Wang Hu turned his head to look at him.
Is there a problem?
"No, Brother Hu, it's just..."
Shi Ruiyuan spoke, paused, and finally decided to voice his concerns.
"We haven't seen any new soldiers for many days!"
What's so strange about that?
Huang Jun stood to the side, looking at Shi Ruiyuan with some confusion.
"We've stayed put, and we've absorbed almost all the other soldiers in the surrounding area! We've absorbed everyone we could, so where would we find new recruits?"
"Besides, the inability to find new talent didn't just happen suddenly; after the peak period, the search simply became slower and slower!"
"It's true that the search was getting slower and slower, and we were indeed stuck in the same spot. But weren't we constantly expanding our hunting range because hunting the Calamity Beast had become more difficult?" Shi Ruiyuan looked at Huang Jun.
"As we expanded our hunting grounds, the number of warriors we encountered not only didn't increase, or barely remained the same, but actually continued to decline rapidly."
"It's even gotten to the point where we haven't seen any new soldiers for many days!"
Upon hearing this, Huang Jun paused slightly, unsure how to respond.
Wang Hu stared straight at Shi Ruiyuan and asked:
"So what? What do you mean?"
"What I mean is," Shi Ruiyuan said gravely, "That by now, the warriors who were also teleported to this place have either banded together like us, or have likely already sacrificed themselves. There are probably very few left, maybe even just one or a few, wandering outside!"
After he finished speaking, the rooftop fell silent.
After a long pause, Huang Jun's somewhat heavy voice finally rang out.
"Even if we had known this before, let alone just now, there wouldn't have been any way to deal with it, right?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Ruiyuan paused, unsure how to refute it.
Indeed, even if they had known beforehand, there was no way to effectively prevent this event from happening.
"So, that's what you were worried about earlier?" Wang Hu looked at Shi Ruiyuan and brought the topic back.
Beside him, Huang Jun also looked at Shi Ruiyuan.
"Yes, that's true!" Shi Ruiyuan nodded.
"Anything else?" Wang Hu asked.
"Also, I'm worried that if we gather together, the Calamity Beast might gather together too!" Shi Ruiyuan said with a slight frown. "That way, even if we run out of food later, it won't be so easy for us to go out and hunt Calamity Beast to replenish our supplies!"
Upon hearing this, both Wang Hu and Huang Jun frowned.
If that's the case, things might get complicated once they run out of food.
"And..."
The voice rang out again, and Shi Ruiyuan said with a solemn expression:
"We still don't know where we are!"
There was no response; the two people nearby remained silent.
Wang Hu turned his head and looked at the dark horizon in the distance.
They still do know where they are.
The only thing they know is that their sudden teleportation here might be related to the Sixth Tier Calamity Beast that attacked the base.
This news came from the only soldier at the outpost who was currently at the base.
According to them, the base was attacked by a Sixth Tier Calamity Beast, and their artillery units were inexplicably teleported there while they were engaging in combat.
Although there wasn't much specific information, what was provided was already quite valuable.
The base has been attacked by Sixth Tier Calamity Beast!
In other words, their presence here is very likely related to the attack on the base!
After all, North-Pacifying City was fine, and according to Zhou Xuan and the others, Shuofang City was also fine. In addition, it was unlikely that the Calamity Beast would suddenly cause such a thing.
The only place where an unexpected situation occurred was at the base.
In this situation, and considering the Distortion space that has occurred before, the current predicament seems quite understandable.
that is...
Is the fighting on Daoist Master Li's side really this fierce this time? It's very possible that the Erosion Zone has been completely destroyed?
Wang Hu gazed at the distant horizon, lost in thought.
He had a vague feeling that this might be a little strange, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.
Suddenly, Huang Jun, who was standing to the side, paused.
He looked in a certain direction, then looked away and said:
" Brother Hu, two people are coming!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Hu was taken aback and looked towards Huang Jun.
Now, everyone who went out should have returned!
Beside him, Shi Ruiyuan clearly realized this as well, and looked at Huang Jun with a surprised expression.
No, we just said we hadn't seen them for days, and then they suddenly showed up?
"Can you sense who it is?" Wang Hu asked.
"Like..."
Huang Jun frowned, his head tilted slightly, as if sensing something.
After a moment, he said somewhat uncertainly:
"It seems to be Captain Han from Captain Shen?"