"... Watch carefully... the outcome... and what will happen next..."
The shouts echoed across the plains.
The stench of blood filled the air, terrifying the thousands of Calamity Beast standing on the plains.
They were indeed intimidated.
The Calamity Beast stared blankly at the nearly one hundred figures lying on the ground in the distance.
This was the first time they had ever seen so many Calamity Beast killed by the supervising Black Rat Lord at the same time since they were captured and brought to the mines.
However, escape, capture, torture, murder...
"... Lord Stone, I didn't expect so many of us to want to escape!" A Tier 2 Shadow Wolf swallowed hard and whispered among the pack.
"What's so strange about wanting to run away? Don't you want to run away?" came a similarly hushed voice.
Shadow Wolf turned its head and looked over, only to see Lord Stone staring at it with a serious expression, as if he were genuinely asking for its true thoughts.
Without hesitation, it quickly replied:
"No, I never thought about that. I was only thinking about helping Lord Black Rat mine properly, otherwise I wouldn't have been mining for so many years!"
"Hmm? Is that so?" Lord Stone continued to ask.
"Yes, that's right, that's exactly it!" Shadow Wolf nodded vigorously, as if trying to show his sincerity through the force of his nod.
However, Lord Stone didn't seem to believe it so easily. It lowered its voice again and said:
"It's understandable that they want to run away. After all, who would really want to keep mining here forever? You can check out the other guys if you don't believe me!"
Shadow Wolf paused for a moment, his gaze instinctively sweeping around.
One after another, the Calamity Beast wore expressions of relief, yet also a hint of bewilderment.
Fortunately, they were thankful that this incident didn't affect them; inexplicably...
The words of Lord Stone echoed in its ears.
Nobody really wants to stay here mining forever.
So, if that team had invited me before today, would I have accepted?
The moment the thought arose, Shadow Wolf shook his head violently.
No, no, no, I can't think like that! If I do, I might be the one lying in front next time!
Thinking of this, it reminded the Stone master who hadn't been oppressing it these past few days:
"Lord Stone, please stop saying that! If this continues, it will be very dangerous!"
"Ah, I know, but don't worry, at this time, only..."
Around them, the Calamity Beast stared blankly ahead at the vast expanse of corpses.
This was the first time they had realized that so many of their Calamity Beast creatures were plotting to escape.
Would they have agreed if these guys had invited them before?
Maybe!
But after this, if anyone tries to invite him again, they'll have to think twice.
After all, this situation is a case in point.
So many guys, and they all fell down in front of us...
One after another, the Calamity Beast instinctively shrank back.
Unlike them, a very small number of the Calamity Beast in the herd felt both fear and relief.
"Thank goodness, no one who's seen me before got dragged up!"
"But I didn't expect there to be so many Calamity Beast entering this world."
"No wonder Steel-Mane Bear and the others didn't arrange for us to meet beforehand. With this many of them, it would be almost impossible for them to avoid being discovered by the monitoring Black Rat!"
"However, things are getting complicated after this failure... So many of our kind died at once, I don't know what to do next..."
Relaxation, lingering fear, tension, worry...
A variety of emotions appeared on them.
Unlike their emotions.
Among the beasts, the Steel-Mane Bear and the Black Jade Lion stared at each other, somewhat bewildered.
They hadn't communicated before, and weren't exactly good companions, but at this moment, they each received the information they wanted.
Or rather, the other person's expression already revealed a lot.
Then, even more puzzled, they looked ahead.
In my field of vision, the largest Black Rat is giving its final speech.
At first, things were going according to their understanding, and they were prepared to either escape or fight back the moment they were exposed.
They were even prepared to die at the hands of these guys.
result...
In the middle of the process, things suddenly started to take an inexplicable turn.
First, an unfamiliar Tier 2 Spiny-Back Lizard was pulled out. Then, the Spiny-Back Lizard inexplicably pulled out several more, and those pulled out several more, and so on, one after another, until dozens of them were pulled out.
The whole process went exceptionally smoothly.
The process went so smoothly that they couldn't help but begin to doubt—were those captured Calamity Beast really from their batch?
After all, judging by the number that was pulled out, it was beyond their capabilities.
Excluding those that died at the beginning, there are only 34 of them alive in total.
As a result, the number of the Calamity Beast that were pulled out was nearly one hundred.
This number is far beyond what they can achieve!
Therefore, they strongly suspected that those Calamity Beast were not from the same batch as them.
Could it be that there are actually quite a few Calamity Beast in this world, and these creatures are also planning their escape?
Well, if we only look at this, it's very likely.
The problem is, if these Calamity Beast were planning their escape, then why was the first Calamity Beast they unleashed also Spiny-Back Lizard? And also Tier 2?
Thinking of this, they couldn't help but look to the side.
No Spiny-Back Lizard were seen.
The Spiny-Back Lizard they knew so well has gone missing!
The last time I saw it was last night, when I left the food in the forest and asked it to watch over it...
"... What do you think?" Steel-Mane Bear withdrew its gaze and replied, its tone a mixture of fear and something else.
There was no immediate response. The Black Jade Lion, its eyes deep and thoughtful, said after a long pause:
"Do you remember the guy you sent out to find other Calamity Beast?"
"I remember, but after finding you, I didn't care about the others except for the Spiny-Back Lizard. Later, after we split into two teams, one for mining and one for going out, one of them should have been with us, and the other was in the team that went out!" The Steel-Mane Bear looked over.
"Of the Calamity Beast that were just captured by those Black Rat, did any of them go out?" the Black Jade Lion asked.
"No, they might not even be ours, right? Otherwise, how could so many Calamity Beast have been brought up?" Steel-Mane Bear said.