Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Edited by Aelryinth
After packing their belongings, Zhang Che and the others journeyed deeper into the hunting zone.
This time, they didn’t encounter any overly powerful exotic beasts. All of them were only shrimps, with not a single one that could hold its own against Zhang Che’s two strong beasts, allowing the group to smoothly steamroll their way through.
“Haha, Brother Che, are we considered to be dominating?!” Zheng Hongru’s delicate face turned red from excitement, his eyes shining with fervor.
Li Da and the others also had looks of complacency on their faces. Was there any way they wouldn’t get a good score for this examination?
“Don’t be conceited. Complacency causes one to fall behind. You should be humble; humbleness brings about improvement!” Zhang Che said sternly, but was reciprocated with a burst of extended laughter.
Today, they covered several dozen kilometers of ground, and went deep into the hunting zone, reaching its core. They obtained a bunch of bronze-quality beast cards, two silver-quality beast cards, and gold-quality… well, they weren’t that lucky. They didn’t gain a single gold-quality beast card.
Regardless, they were very satisfied with their results.
Today was only the second day. They still had three more days; there was definitely the possibility of them each obtaining a gold-quality beast card. They’d really be unstoppable then!
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When they set up camp again, Zhang Che finally didn’t have to worry about going hungry. General Tang had already sent him a huge bag of compressed biscuits, weighing over two hundred and fifty kilograms. While they were travelling, most of it was carried by the Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander.
However, Zhang Che wouldn’t eat to his fill in one go. Let alone the sight being too overwhelming to others, just eating compressed biscuits was truly a little hard to swallow. He only ate until he was half full. It was better to wait until late at night and bring out some roasted meat to eat to his satisfaction.
When darkness enshrouded the entire beast world, and Zheng Hongru and the others had fallen asleep, Zhang Che snuck out of his tent again like last night. He went aside and summoned the Rock Tortoise, then ordered it to bring out a large piece of roasted meat. He unwrapped the leaves and began enjoying the food.
While he was happily eating, another change occurred in his spiritual sea.
Zhang Che stopped his actions abruptly, shocked. -Hmm? Which subdued beast is advancing?-
He hurriedly focused on his spiritual sea, and realized that the two four-star black iron-quality Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterflies he kept in his spiritual sea after his previous return to Qian Wei City were now like two whirlpools in his spiritual sea, madly absorbing the rainbow fog like black holes.
“Right, it’s been a week since I returned!”
A faint smile showed on Zhang Che’s face. He no longer paid any attention to the two black iron-quality beast cards. Instead, he continued his task on hand, which was to get rid of the meat.
Even if these two cards advanced to bronze-quality, the potency of their powder wasn’t too different from the two-star silver-quality one.
If you wanted to exhibit a certain might from the powder, you had to wait for another half a month, when the two four-star Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterflies card advanced to silver-quality!
At that time, even a three-star gold-quality exotic beast would fall to its hallucination-inducing powder.
After Zhang Che quickly finished the roasted exotic beast meat in his hand, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine, as if something extremely dangerous was about to happen.
“What’s going on? Weren’t the powerful exotic beasts in this area all killed or driven away?” Zhang Che’s face changed greatly. He quickly ran back to his tent and retrieved his Fallen Star bow, as well as waking up Zheng Hongru and the others.
“Are you serious, Brother Che? We just fell asleep!” his teammates crawled out of their tents begrudgingly, wearing only their underpants. They didn’t understand why Zhang Che would wake them up in the middle of the night.
“Be careful. I sensed danger!” Zhang Che shouted with a stern face. The Gale Wolf King and Dark-Scaled Lizard Commander were summoned with a wave of his hand, followed by a mass of golden light enveloping him, materializing into the Swamp Crocodile King armor.
Seeing Zhang Che acting so seriously, the looks on Zheng Hongru and the others couldn’t help but turn grave. They quickly returned to their tents and put on their clothes. By the time they came back out, their subdued beasts were already summoned to their sides. Although they weren’t strong, having a large number of them by their sides provided some courage, not to mention them being useful cannon fodder during crucial moments.
“But, Brother Che, what’s so dangerous? Why don’t I sense anything?” Zheng Hongru asked.
There weren’t anything unusual in their surroundings. The insects were still chirping non-stop.
A slight breeze blew across their faces. There weren’t any strange smells either.
Li Da, Xiao Yi, and Sun Zhi looked confused. They truly didn’t sense any danger around them.
Zhang Che couldn’t help but start to suspect whether he was only imagining things earlier.
That wasn’t right, either. After his body was altered by the demonic flower, not only was his physique improved qualitatively, his sense for danger also improved. How could it be wrong?
Right at this moment, Zhang Che felt the chilling sense of danger again. Zheng Hongru and the others, standing opposite of him, widened their eyes looking in his direction, and revealed astonished looks on their faces, as if they just saw something unthinkable.
Before any of them could react to this, Zhang Che felt an immense suction force so strong that he couldn’t put up any resistance from his back. Just as he let out a shocked cry, his entire body was sucked into a blurry mass of chaotic light.
“Brother Che!” Zheng Hongru and the others cried out. In the next moment, the black door that just appeared behind Zhang Che also vanished without a trace, and Zhang Che had also disappeared from their sight.
“Quick, quickly send the rescue signal!” the more dependable Li Da was the first to react. He shouted with a sobbing tone, and his hands reached for a small little signal air gun from his waist. He flipped the safety lock and pulled the trigger, aiming the gun to the sky. A specially-processed signal round shot to the skies with a sharp screech, reaching several dozen meters high into the air.
Zheng Hongru and the other three also reacted one after another. It was like sending a single signal wasn’t enough. Each of them reached out for their own signal air gun and fired the rescue signal to the sky.
Four consecutive sharp screech rang out in the night sky, immediately breaking the silence in a several kilometers radius.
The rescue teams stationed around them came out of their tents one after another and rushed towards the direction where the signals came from.
If the examinees didn’t encounter some danger they could never hope to retaliate, they would never fire all their rescue signals consecutively. They had to move at full speed to have a chance of saving the endangered examinees.
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Half an hour later, the location where Zhang Che’s team’s camp was set up was fully surrounded by squads upon squads of fully-geared soldiers. All kinds of powerful subdued beasts surrounded this area. Not even an insect could hope to fly in.
Zheng Hongru and the others were standing before General Tang mournfully. They recounted the happenings from earlier a few times, until they were sure that nothing was left out before stopping. Their eyes were filled with confusion, not knowing what to do.
General Tang nodded with a dark expression. He said gravely, “Alright, you get back to rest. Remember; you mustn’t reveal any of this matter. Otherwise, not only would you be punished heavily, you might even implicate your family. You understand?”
