The man had avoided serious injury largely thanks to the protective plates strapped around his calves. Over the many years that whirlworms had ambushed visitors from the mortal realm, people had long since developed ways to deal with them. Every set of equipment was specially made, and every attachment served a purpose.

They continued hurrying southwest.

The farther they went, the fewer corpses they saw along the road. Clearly, the visitors from the mortal realm had already avoided the sharpest edge of the beast tide’s advance.

The direction indicated by the tracking bee compass also gradually split away from the path of the beast tide.

After another half day of walking, even the wounded man climbed down and resumed travel on his own. At last, behind a massive boulder, He Lingchuan regrouped with the Chiyan team.

Only five members of the team were still alive, but the small camp itself held more than twenty people. They all came from other teams and had been scattered by the beast tide, leaving them no choice but to set up a temporary camp here.

Roughly a quarter of the hunters were injured, some lightly, some badly. Though they had originally been competitors, everyone in this camp was temporarily united and helping one another.

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