So this group of people all stood ready with their weapons raised.
Lame Man Uncle watched them pop up like gophers and couldn’t help but shout, "Quick, find a place to hide! This Man-eating Eagle is no ordinary bird!"
However, no sooner had his words fallen than the Man-eating Eagle had arrived.
When the Man-eating Eagle saw its enemies, it didn’t think - it just attacked.
They swooped down like Arrow Feathers, either clawing or pecking with their beaks. Those people stood there like giant radishes, and the Man-eating Eagles caught them with pinpoint accuracy.
The captured Soldiers swung their swords fiercely, but the tail feathers of the Man-eating Eagles were extremely tough. A soldier’s sword would come down without causing any damage, only to find himself captured.
The Man-eating Eagle had one characteristic: when not in a hurry, it liked to carry its food back to the nest to eat slowly. In a rush, it swallowed the food first, then regurgitated it back in the nest to chew slowly.
As for being hurried or unhurried, it mainly depended on how much food there was.
In their eyes, these swarming two hundred or so worms would run back into the Tube-shaped Building if they were one step slower, so they couldn’t take their time!
Thus, these Man-eating Eagles stopped being polite, landing and stepping on several at once, and fiercely pecking at people on the ground.
Meng Yi and the Centurion had already hidden behind a large tree at the sight of this scene.
"These... these... Man-eating Eagles, are they this big?"
Although they had always known about the Man-eating Eagles here, everyone who had seen them was dead. None of the living had ever seen one.
Now witnessing them firsthand, their faces showed difficulty, these monsters surely weren’t something ordinary people could contend with.
But seeing his own Elite Troop suffer losses here, he wasn’t willing to let it go.
After all, for him, this was an unwarranted disaster. Had it not been for the Centurion stirring up trouble, why would he have come here!
Meng Yi furiously turned his head to look for the Centurion, who by this time had already quietly started to run back.
"Where are you going!" Meng Yi’s face was marked with anger.
The deserting Centurion, upon being spotted by Meng Yi, simply stopped pretending, ran even faster and said as he ran, "I’m going back to get reinforcements now, Supervisor Meng, hold on until I return!"
It was truly shameless to the point of refreshing the worldview of those present, as they saw the Centurion running faster than a Rabbit, many from Death Valley spat toward his retreating figure.
"A bunch of cowards afraid of death!"
Lame Man’s lips curled in a mocking smile. Such people were plenty in the Eastern Army, flattering their way to promotions, while those who fought earnestly ended up unclaimed corpses.
"What should we do now?"
Meng Yi knew he could not rely on the Centurion and now was not the time to punish him. Escaping alive was of the utmost importance.
He and his soldiers had no experience dealing with Man-eating Eagles, so they could only pin their hopes on Lame Man.
Lame Man, seeing more and more Man-eating Eagles gathering, was at a loss for words.
At that moment, forty to fifty Man-eating Eagles were pecking at the corpses of the Elite Troop.
In just a moment, more than half of Meng Yi’s Soldiers had been lost, from two hundred Elite Troops now fewer than a hundred remained, all of them awkwardly hiding in the bushes.
These soldiers were trembling and unsettled. Seeing the Man-eating Eagles, their eyes lost their murderous intent, and they didn’t know how to react.
Meng Yi was very anxious; when soldiers lose their will to fight, death is the only remaining path, and if this continued, he too would surely die.
Meng Yi looked to Lame Man in questioning once again.
"Is there really no way at all?"
"Supervisor Meng, aren’t you clearer than us on this?"
Lame Man glanced at him indifferently, "In recent times, we’ve been nothing but fish on the chopping board, without any power to resist."
Meng Yi was momentarily struck dumb.
The matter of Man-eating Eagles consuming people in Death Valley had indeed been knowingly ignored by them.