Human Lives Are Worth Less Than Grass!

Roar! Roar! Roar!

The strange beasts lunged at once. With such a formation, even a savage elephant would have been brought down.

Wei Fan's expression did not change. He took a deep breath, and the muscles all over his body suddenly bulged as he compressed the air within him to the limit. A massive surge of force erupted from his right fist.

"Cannon Fist!"

Boom!

A heaven-shaking blast rang out, like a compressed gunpowder shell exploding. The powerful shockwave instantly tore thirteen strange beasts to pieces, their flesh and blood staining the entire city wall red.

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When Lu Qingshan and Shi Meng heard the commotion and turned to look, they were dumbfounded by the sight.

Even the strange beasts that had been besieging them were intimidated.

The destructive power of that punch was simply terrifying!

Wei Fan looked at the results of his punch, yet his brows remained tightly furrowed.

These strange beasts were merely puppets. The strange entity manipulating them from behind was the most troublesome enemy tonight.

Yet the battle had now reached a stalemate. The ordinary Night Watchers had almost all been wiped out, but they had not even seen the boss behind the scenes.

"Kill!" Wei Fan did not hesitate and continued hunting the strange beasts.

More than half of the strange beasts besieging Lu Qingshan and Shi Meng were instantly dealt with.

For a moment, both Lu Qingshan and Shi Meng were stunned by the strength Wei Fan had displayed.

But the situation was urgent, and there was no time for explanations. The three could only continue hunting the strange beasts.

Fortunately, there were only a little over a hundred strange beasts. They had not poured endlessly into Wushan Village, or the entire village would have been wiped out.

The dozens of strange beasts that had already entered Wushan Village began devouring the villagers.

These ordinary people had no room to resist against strange beasts comparable to Black Wraiths.

Once the strange beasts broke through the defenses, the villagers became food laid out on the dining table, left to be butchered at will.

"Monster, I'll fight you to the death!" A dark-skinned, burly young man raised his hoe high and smashed it viciously at a strange beast.

Clang!

The strange beast's skull was as hard as iron. The hoe struck it as though hitting an iron ingot; the young man's attack was no different from scratching an itch.

The next instant, the strange beast bit the young man to death and swallowed him whole.

Roar!

The strange beast's body swelled slightly as it let out a low roar.

Its nose twitched, and its keen sense of smell discovered the mother and daughter hiding in a corner. It turned its head, blood-red eyes fixed on them.

"Mother!" The little girl trembled all over and instinctively cried out.

"Don't make a sound." The woman hurriedly covered the child's mouth and eyes, closing her own eyes in despair.

Roar!

The strange beast had already charged over and was about to swallow them both.

At that moment, a silver flash streaked past, and Wei Fan slew the strange beast with a single slash.

"We're alive?" The woman opened her eyes and saw only a broad, burly back.

Wei Fan did not linger, continuing his pursuit of the other strange beasts.

Meanwhile, a strange beast gradually approached the watchtower at the eastern district garrison.

Its nostrils flared. Its sharp sense of smell had already discovered Wei Yingying hiding inside.

At that moment, Wei Yingying was crouched in the corner, holding Little Shadow in both hands as she encouraged herself. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!"

Chirp!

Little Shadow cried out and broke free from Wei Yingying's hands.

"Come back! It's dangerous!" Wei Yingying shouted, but Little Shadow had already vanished.

Outside the garrison watchtower, a black shadow flashed by.

The approaching strange beast slowly collapsed. A hole had been punched straight through its head.

After killing that strange beast, Little Shadow circled the watchtower several times, piercing through and instantly killing the few strange beasts nearby one by one.

Then Little Shadow flew back into the watchtower and landed on Wei Yingying's shoulder, looking utterly harmless.

Whoosh!

Wei Fan formed his fingers into a spear and fired two invisible blasts of force, killing two strange beasts in the distance.

At this point, all the strange beasts in the Outer Circle of the eastern district had been cleared out.

Lu Qingshan panted heavily, exhaustion written across his face as he slumped onto the city wall.

Shi Meng had already been wounded, and after taking the Explosive Secret Medicine, he passed out cold the moment its effects faded.

Wei Fan had consumed only a small portion of his stamina. These strange beasts did not require him to go all out; there were simply too many of them, which was why it had taken so long to kill them all.

The outside of the city wall had now returned to calm, with no new strange entities appearing.

The night became tranquil again, but sobbing and whimpering drifted from the darkness.

Wei Fan leaped to a high place and looked over Wushan Village after it had been ravaged by the strange beasts.

Many mud-and-thatch houses had collapsed. The air was thick with the stench of blood, and hundreds of villagers had perished in the bellies of strange beasts.

"Before the Calamity of Strangeness, human lives are worth less than grass!"

Wei Fan clenched his fists, and his determination to grow stronger became ever firmer.

Afterward, he returned to the garrison watchtower. Once he confirmed that Wei Yingying was unharmed, he went back to the city wall to meet up with Lu Qingshan.

"Wei Fan, I never expected you to be so strong. Thank you so much this time!" Lu Qingshan said sincerely. "If you hadn't held back most of the strange beasts, Shi Meng and I might have faced certain doom, and even more villagers would have been killed or injured."

"It was what I should have done." Wei Fan did not comment further and instead checked Shi Meng's condition.

Shi Meng was unconscious. The wound where a strange beast had bitten him was so deep that bone could be seen. Though Lu Qingshan had already applied ointment to it, bloody fluid still seeped out without stopping.

"Don't worry, he won't die for now. But with a wound like this, he'll need to rest and recover for a year or half, and his strength will also plummet," Lu Qingshan sighed.

"As long as he lives." Wei Fan nodded.

After learning that Shi Meng's life was not in danger, he finally relaxed.

Wei Fan stood and headed toward the northern district of Wushan Village.

"Where are you going?"

After learning of Wei Fan's strength, Lu Qingshan felt particularly safe staying by his side. Seeing Wei Fan about to leave, he hurriedly asked.

"To deal with something." Wei Fan answered flatly.

He wanted to go over there and see whether there were any strange entities he could kill for energy.

And while he was at it, settle his grudge with the Zhu family.