Chapter 1511: Chapter 1484: Light in Despair
Amidst the towering mountains and ridges.
Ten silhouettes swiftly darted through the forest. Even a cliff several hundred meters wide was jumped over effortlessly.
With each movement, hundreds or thousands of meters were left behind.
It was none other than Xiao Yi and his companions.
Roar!
Seeing a rushing great river ahead, the terrifying roar of the waters striking the shore sent shivers down the spine.
At this moment.
Xiao Yi and his group were riding bear-wolves, pacing along the riverbank. Each bear-wolf hunched over, hair standing on end, letting out a low growl.
“Stay hidden!”
Shu Feng raised a hand and patted the bear-wolf beneath him on the head. It glanced at the other bear-wolves behind, calming the restless creatures and leading them quietly into the forest.
Each bear-wolf lay beside piles of rocks or crouched among the foliage, and the clattering of their scale armor completely concealed their bodies.
Without close observation, passing by them might go unnoticed.
“Captain, is there something up?” Luo Xiang asked.
Shu Feng didn’t speak. He crouched by the river, gently dipped his fingers into the water, then scooped a handful and sipped it, before spitting it out.
Xiao Yi raised an eyebrow, a hint of confusion on his face: “What’s he doing?”
Wei Du chuckled quietly and said, “This is the captain’s knack—finding clues from any clue, he must have discovered something by doing this. We just need to wait!”
A moment later.
Shu Feng stood up and pointed upstream, saying, “Five hundred miles from here lies a group from the Blissful Heaven Realm with at least thirty people. I plan to go take a look…”
Xiao Yi: “?????”
What the hell?
Just by sipping a mouthful of water, you know that there’s a group of thirty people upstream, five hundred miles away?
On the domain battlefield, it’s not like the Qingtian Realm or Unharmed Heaven Realm. Even powerful Saint King Realm beings like Xiao Yi cannot cover long distances with their divine sense.
Five hundred miles already exceeds his perception range.
Shu Feng just tasted the river water and not only deduced that there were people five hundred miles upriver, but also estimated their number.
This ability is truly astonishing.
Zhao Lei shrugged, already accustomed to this: “If he didn’t have some special abilities, how could he survive in this ghostly place for thousands of years?”
“Let’s go, the captain probably plans to take action against those people. It’s your first mission, so observe and learn, our captain’s combat experience is immensely valuable!” Wei Du patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder.
The group walked towards Shu Feng.
Luo Xiang put away his playful demeanor and said seriously, “Captain, let me scout this time!”
Before Shu Feng could respond, Wei Yang chimed in with a sarcastic tone, “Let you go? Are you trying to make us follow in Lin’s footsteps?”
Luo Xiang’s face turned sullen and he remained silent.
The atmosphere grew awkward.
Wei Du shot Wei Yang a harsh glance. Admittedly, the incident was partially due to Luo Xiang’s ineffectual reconnaissance, leading to incorrect information, and ultimately an ambush that cost them two team members.
But Luo Xiang was not entirely to blame.
After all.
At that time, neither the one giving orders nor the one planning the operation was Luo Xiang.
Wei Du said, “Captain, let Luo handle it! In our team, if you say who is best at reconnaissance, aside from you, it’s Luo!”
Shu Feng glanced at Luo Xiang, knowing Luo was trying to makeup for his guilt and prove himself again, he said, “Luo, the other side numbers many this time, be extraordinarily careful when scouting!”
Luo Xiang patted his chest: “Captain, rest assured, I guarantee no mistakes!”
Swish!
Luo Xiang gave a call and dashed off, sprinting through the forest.
Five hundred miles.
For beings at their level, it was only an hour to run back and forth.
However, Luo Xiang was evidently more cautious this time, taking a whole hour before returning, tardily, back to the group.
Xiao Yi noticed Luo Xiang’s expression was unpleasant, his eyes filled with coldness and suppressed rage.
“How was it?”
“Did you find anything?”
The group inquired.
Luo Xiang clenched his fists, producing crisp squeaks, gritting his teeth: “They’re beasts, when I got there, they were conducting a live human sacrifice…”
“Human sacrifice?”
“I remember there was an extraordinary people’s tribe nearby, could it be them?”
Since the domain battlefield’s inception, not only the Unharmed Heaven Realm and the Blissful Heaven Realm exist but also Life Heaven Realm’s experts.
Some foreign creatures, abusing the weak, infringe on other worlds’ souls, eventually birthing newborns.
These newborns were often abandoned, left to fend for themselves on the domain battlefield.
As the domain battlefield existed longer, these mixed-race beings accumulated to an alarming number.
Because none of the three worlds acknowledge them.
So these people declared themselves the extraordinary people.
Living within the domain battlefield, forming backward tribes.
Wei Yang dismissively said, “They’re just a bunch of extraordinary people; even if they were all killed, what does it have to do with us?”
Luo Xiang gritted his teeth, “Those being sacrificed were babies, living beings. They have noses and eyes, just like us, living beings just like us…”
“Why are you yelling at me? Do you want us to take risks for a band of unrelated extraordinary people?” Wei Yang met his gaze unflinchingly, questioning sharply.
Luo Xiang was momentarily speechless.
Although having witnessed the live sacrifices of those infants, he wished to slaughter all those from the Blissful Heaven Realm.
But as Wei Yang said, there’s no connection, no relation.
The idea of risking their lives for unrelated extraordinary people wasn’t something anyone would agree to.
Luo Xiang’s gaze swept over his companions, but everyone’s face bore indifference.
He couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile.
No one knew.
In fact, he had a younger brother, but that brother was an extraordinary person, a result of his mother being defiled by a Blissful Heaven Realm being.
From a young age, he and his mother hid his brother at home, fearing that his existence would spell disaster.
Yet, man’s plans are no match for fate. An unexpected war collapsed their house, exposing his brother to the villagers.
Brutally slaughtered, at that time his brother’s painful cries and heart-wrenching begs for help remain vivid.
He knew well that extraordinary people were no different from them, only despised due to their lineage.
“You’re right…”
Luo Xiang smiled bitterly, “Their life or death, what does it have to do with us?”
However…
Just when Luo Xiang was in the depths of despair, a hand patted his shoulder.
Luo Xiang was startled and looked up to see Xiao Yi smiling at him, like a light emerging in his darkest night: “I’ll go with you! Let’s rescue those extraordinary children…”