Chapter 149: Peeping

Now, no one wanted to investigate why this Fierce Beast did not launch an attack, because no one wanted to know the answer.

The team that had escaped a disaster was panting heavily after stopping their wild run. Everyone held their knees, staring at the Fierce Beast that had turned into a faint small dot until it disappeared. The terror from just now still echoed in their minds; no one knew what it would have been like if it had launched an attack.

Zhou Liming did not think it was his credit. In front of a King-level Fierce Beast among Level Six Fierce Beasts, an aura alone was not enough to scare the opponent away. On the contrary, once an aura was revealed, in the eyes of the Fierce Beast, this was a provocation. The consequence would be a fight to the death between the two sides until one side fell. In fact, Zhou Liming had not revealed his aura just now, because he understood the characteristics of Fierce Beasts.

Everyone, still shaken, patted their chests and then looked at each other and laughed.

Being able to walk around the gates of hell and come back, the desire to live on was something worth being happy about. When thinking they were bound to die, being able to freely breathe the air here, was there anything more wonderful than this moment?

“Let’s go. Our good luck won’t last forever.”

Wang Ruijin was the first to come back to his senses. He glared fiercely at Wang Lei and took the lead in leaving this place.

Wang Lei lowered his head, his face still pale. He hadn’t yet recovered from the series of changes just now. Receiving the look from his uncle made him feel a bit at a loss.

Zhou Liming walked to his side, patted his shoulder, and said indifferently, “It’s nothing. We’re all fine now, aren’t we? Alright, this was just an accident. Don’t take it too seriously. Accidents are unavoidable.”

Wang Lei nodded gently, moved his mouth a bit, but ultimately said nothing, though his expression was still full of frustration.

Zhou Liming knew he needed some time to digest this sense of guilt. Having not experienced danger before, he would only mature after going through it.

They left West Village smoothly. Seeing that it was already evening, Wang Ruijin had no intention of stopping. He said, “It will be another two hours before it gets completely dark. Two hours is enough time for us to return to the Settlement.” Walking on the mountain ridges, although the road was not easy to walk, it was safe.

After crossing two or three ridges, they returned to the dirt road, and their speed increased a lot.

The danger from earlier had long been thrown to the back of their minds by the group. Along the way, they chatted excitedly. With this big harvest, they wouldn’t lack meat to eat for at least half a month. With oil, the rich fish resources in the lake would be put to use. Various seasonings were not lacking in the Settlement; a random trip to some villages could yield a pile of them.

The people, who hadn’t eaten pork for who knows how long, were already fantasizing about what dishes would be on the dinner table tonight.

Their performance made Zhou Liming shake his head. Birds die for food? In fact, this phrase should be changed to humans die for food. For the temptation of meat, the whole team set foot on the territory of Fierce Beasts, snatching food from their mouths. This was even crazier than birds fighting for food. Zhou Liming believed with reason that with the depletion of food, people would stage even crazier battles for food, and that wouldn’t be far off.

The luck that Wang Ruijin thought of just now, in Zhou Liming’s view, actually couldn’t be considered luck.

Now Zhou Liming could confirm that this powerful Level Six King-level Fierce Beast was a Herbivorous Fierce Beast. If it were an omnivore or carnivore, they would have launched an attack the moment they discovered humans. Do not underestimate their level of ferocity, otherwise, you would die very miserably, entering the Fierce Beast’s stomach without even a scrap left.

Perhaps so-called luck is just that the carnivorous Fierce Beast you encountered happened to be full and, in a happy mood, simply didn’t want to bother with you.

Fierce Beast Occupied Area, this term was a bit scary.

But in Zhou Liming’s view, it didn’t mean that the Fierce Beast Occupied Area was necessarily very dangerous and impossible to traverse. Like during the War of Resistance Against Japan back then, weren’t there Japanese occupied areas too? Yet guerrillas could still infiltrate them and even act like fish in water? Similarly, in the Fierce Beast Occupied Area, some activities could still be carried out.

Fierce Beasts would appear from time to time, but it hadn’t reached the exaggerated level of covering the ground. As long as you found certain patterns, the probability of encountering danger would be reduced a lot.

The route Wang Ruijin chose was obtained after some bloody lessons and deliberation, avoiding Fierce Beasts to the greatest extent, so the safety factor was very high. From the fact that they weren’t attacked by Fierce Beasts when going out and returning, one could confirm the effort Wang Ruijin had put into this aspect.

Before nightfall, they finally returned to the Settlement.

The people who learned that Wang Ruijin and his group had returned safely all gathered around cheering. Especially when seeing the meat Wang Ruijin and the others brought back, people’s emotions were pushed to a climax. You had to admit that people’s resistance in the face of food was very low. Even those who weren’t fond of Wang Ruijin had to admit that tonight was a wonderful night.

Normally, people would definitely start a fire and cook directly, but now it was too late. The light of a fire in the endless jungle of this dark night was indeed a bit too dazzling.

Wang Ruijin and the others, tired after a whole day, washed with cold water, hurriedly ate some flatbread, and then entered dreamland with happy moods.

After waiting for most people to fall asleep, Zhou Liming got up from his bed, exited the Cave silently, and with his upper body naked, the moment his thought moved, wings suddenly appeared. Without hesitation, Zhou Liming flapped his wings, shot up into the sky from the woods, and in a refraction, disappeared in front of the Cave.

The news obtained by accident today gave Zhou Liming an impulse to investigate thoroughly.

The information from Wang Lei’s mouth was too little; he didn’t know how many Settlements made of survivors there were or how far they were from here. From his fragmented words, Zhou Liming only understood a vague concept. This couldn’t satisfy Zhou Liming. If he were still in the X Squadron, he would have the right to use spy satellites. As long as he locked onto a certain area, it wouldn’t be hard to discover where surviving humans were gathered.

Wanting to know if this Settlement had Super Warriors was simple to judge.

Settlements with Super Warriors were generally towns and villages, and people’s activities would be bolder. Settlements without Super Warriors would be set up in hidden places, like forests or among mountain ridges. When no one could contend with the appearing Fierce Beasts, hiding was still the first rule of survival.

Seeing the flying speed of this strange Fierce Beast today, Zhou Liming realized that his advantage in flying speed was not as great as he had imagined.

Under Wang Lei’s vague description, Zhou Liming roughly knew that more than thirty kilometers to the north, there would be a not-small Settlement. Although the exact number wasn’t known, it was at least over a thousand people. With communication interrupted and transportation inconvenient, wanting to understand the situation dozens of kilometers away wasn’t that easy.

More than thirty kilometers, in Zhou Liming’s eyes, was just a distance of a few breaths.

Hovering far away in the air, in the pitch-black night, a Small Town occasionally flashed with a trace of light, and then returned to darkness.

For Zhou Liming, this was enough. He could confirm that this was the human Settlement Wang Lei had mentioned. Just as Wang Lei said, they indeed lived in the town. It was just that under the fall of night, naturally, a light blackout was carried out; no one dared to attract the arrival of Fierce Beasts in the dark.

Zhou Liming landed not far from the Small Town and could see that the fields around the town were all cultivated and utilized. The green rice plants preparing to ear meant that this Small Town would not be affected by the food crisis in the coming time. From the perspective of stability, it was far from comparable to Wang Ruijin’s small Settlement.

Under the looting of Fierce Beasts, animals like pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks were practically extinct, so meat was indeed a problem for the Settlement.

Walking on the highway leading to the Small Town, the abandoned cars from before were not seen; they should have been gathered by the people in the town. With the interruption of fuel supply, cars basically became piles of scrap metal. A small number of electric cars, in a Small Town with cut-off power, relied on generators which were hard to satisfy, so they were similarly abandoned.

It was somewhat helpless; it seemed to have returned to the seventies or eighties, a time when cars were rare and bicycles were relied upon as the main means of transportation.

Standing at a distance of a few hundred meters from the Small Town, Zhou Liming released his powerful aura, enveloping the entire town inside. In just an instant, he obtained everything he needed, then retracted his aura, and he sprang into the air. After revealing his wings, he disappeared into the night sky.

Inside the former government building of the Small Town, a naked man suddenly struggled up from a pile of equally naked women, then grabbed a bedsheet. With a jump, he rushed out of the room, then rubbed against the open balcony and actually jumped over a dozen meters away, landing on a distant roof.

The powerful aura that suddenly appeared just now made him instinctively feel fear, startling him from his sleep.

But this powerful aura disappeared in just an instant, making him even suspect if it was his illusion. That aura, which appeared and retreated in a flash, seemed to have seen through all his details. It was as if he had appeared naked in front of the other party, with no secrets to speak of.

Perhaps this man’s movements woke up the other few Super Warriors; they also appeared on the roof.

“It’s nothing. Everyone go back.” This man was very calm. He waved his hand to let his subordinates leave, while he looked at the pitch-black outside the town. His eyes needed to be sharp, but they hadn’t reached the point of seeing at night yet. He just felt that the aura just now was not his illusion, but a real existence.

But what kind of Fierce Beast could emit such a powerful aura?