At this moment, Li Teng had run to the edge of a cliff.
With an abyss behind him, he had nowhere to run.
The pursuing squad formed a semicircle and surrounded them, closing in like lightning without any unnecessary words, directly moving in for the kill. They wanted to settle Li Teng as quickly as possible.
Li Teng’s body already bore many wounds, all inflicted while trying to escape. Beside him, Zhu Xue, dressed in white, had only some dust stains, with no traces of blood at all.
She was well protected.
Facing the encirclement of this group, Li Teng knew that unless something unexpected happened, he would not be able to escape today’s fate.
"Later, you should jump off the cliff. I’ve seen in novels that jumping off cliffs usually doesn’t end in death, and I can’t protect you anymore."
After saying this to Zhu Xue, Li Teng gripped his sickle and advanced towards the pursuing squad.
He would surely die in front of Zhu Xue.
This way, he would fulfill the task Xiao Zhan had entrusted to him.
The sickle was chilling cold, ready to fight a desperate battle.
But at that moment, a dark figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
A hand from the shadow reached out, grabbed his sickle, and forcibly stopped his attack.
"Master, why are you here?" Li Teng, seeing Xiao Zhan appear, immediately showed a look of joy.
"If I don’t come now, she would have jumped off the cliff."
Xiao Zhan said with a cold huff.
He really didn’t know when Li Teng started reading novels and even learned such plot twists.
Jumping off a cliff? Is that something ordinary people can do?
Without a crooked tree, one jump equals one death.
Being reprimanded, Li Teng also felt somewhat embarrassed; he had said it because he was out of options. If there had been even a sliver of a way, he wouldn’t have spoken like that.
However, now that his master had arrived, he could be at ease.
He stepped back in front of Zhu Xue, protecting her to prevent any attackers that slipped through.
Xiao Zhan looked straight at the group’s leader, "Who sent you?"
"It is human speech; it’s just that you can’t understand."
The pursuit squad leader sneered lightly.
Xiao Zhan knew he would not easily tell the truth, but that was okay, he had ways to make him speak.
Death Aura released, enveloping the group, and then his sickle shone with a cold light, attacking everyone.
Li Teng only stood outside for two seconds when Xiao Zhan ended the fight.
Everyone was dead, with only the pursuit squad leader left, his neck locked under Xiao Zhan’s sickle.
Xiao Zhan planned to take him back for harsh interrogation, but in the next second, the leader’s body energy surged chaotically, his face contorted with pain, muscles twisted, and then with a spurt of fresh blood, he quickly weakened and life faded.
Xiao Zhan slightly frowned; this guy had actually committed suicide.
Turning his head to Li Teng and Zhu Xue, "All good?"
Both shook their heads.
"Good, then follow me."
Xiao Zhan immediately headed to the Northern Bear Federation’s base.
Since the battle had already begun, he would block their way back and completely clear them out.
However, by the time he arrived, the battle had already ended.
Hose was leading people to clean up the battlefield.
Seeing Xiao Zhan and his group’s return, he immediately came forward.
"Except for the initial communicator, no one else escaped," reported Hose.
Xiao Zhan nodded, looking at the ruins on the ground without saying much.
He had expected this situation.
Since the war had already started, there was nothing much to worry about.
What needed to be done now was to prepare for the upcoming events.
"Order the army to build defenses at the entrance of the Northern Bear, arrange for the best weapons; we must ensure no failures, don’t let them break through."
The entrance was narrow; just a little setup could achieve ’one man guards the pass, ten thousand unable to break through.’
Since they had already occupied the Secret Realm, Xiao Zhan could not give the chance for the others to take it back.
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Hose responded immediately.
But then he added, "After this battle, we’ve consumed a lot of strategic resources, we need to return to the Northern City for resupplying, otherwise, we can’t build up defenses."
Xiao Zhan slightly frowned, "I will find a way."
Hose nodded, "However, there is good news, the Northern Bear Federation might not be able to bother us for the time being."
"They’re in a similar situation to our Federation, powerful Demon Beasts have appeared both inside and outside their territory, they are currently busy dealing with those Demon Beasts, it would be difficult for them to spare additional forces to entangle with us."
Entangling with Demon Beasts was a straightforward deal.
Engaging with Xiao Zhan and his forces meant a slow simmer, continuous and consuming.
They would make their own judgment on what is more critical.
"So, the world isn’t very peaceful now," Xiao Zhan said with a grave expression.
So many events occurring at once likely indicated a major disaster brewing worldwide.
"It’s not necessarily so pessimistic, from what we see, it’s quite normal, global disturbances of Demon Beasts always happen periodically," Hose analyzed seriously.
Occurrences such as Seventh Grade Demon Beasts and Seventh Grade Holy Medicine have had examples before, just infrequent in occurrence.
Xiao Zhan nodded, not over-worrying.
If a real global turmoil occurred, it wasn’t something he could stop alone.
Arriving at the entrance of Northern Bear, they first blocked it with several giant Black Stone; the defenses couldn’t be built in a short time, but the Black Stone could delay significantly.
Then, Xiao Zhan asked, "How’s the internal investigation going?"
"We haven’t had time to start investigating yet," Hose shook his head.
"Make it quick, I won’t feel at ease until we find out," Xiao Zhan remarked.
Just then, Hose suddenly received a message from his communicator, his face changing instantly.
"I just received a message, someone killed the sentry at the entrance and escaped."
Hearing this, Xiao Zhan immediately knew that this person was the insider mastermind, and ordered, "Send someone to pursue!"
Not reassured, Xiao Zhan pursued personally.
However, the two entrances were far apart; by the time Xiao Zhan arrived, the person had long disappeared.
The soldiers who went to pursue also returned without success.
Xiao Zhan, looking at the dead soldiers, released his Perception to see if he could find any clues, but to his surprise, he detected no traces.
No, to be precise, not that there were no traces, but that they had been deliberately erased.
Xiao Zhan was astonished.
It seems this person was well aware of his Perception Skill and had taken such actions accordingly.
It seems they came prepared.