114: Chapter 114 The Four Beast Kings!

Two kilometers away, inside a large factory.

Dozens of people were entrenched here, and the one leading them was none other than Liang Kun.

"Brother Kun, do you think that old fellow Saint Descending Upon the World can take down Li Yunlong!"

Li Shuai respectfully poured a cup of tea.

"What are you rushing for?"

Liang Kun raised his arm, glanced at the Patek Philippe on his wrist, looked lazy, and slowly spoke.

"It's only been half an hour, no need to rush..."

As soon as his voice fell, a lackey was seen running in in a panic.

This person was sweating profusely, his clothes plastered against his body, not knowing whether it was from fear or heat.

"Kun... Brother Kun! Saint Descending Upon the World and the others... they lost!"

"What? So fast?"

Liang Kun instantly stood up with a start.

"If I remember correctly, Saint Descending Upon the World and his group have twenty or thirty people, and they lost just like that? Hurry up and tell me, what on earth happened?"

"All... all..."

The person delivering the message had run all the way here, completely out of breath.

Being urged like this by Liang Kun, he couldn't even speak properly anymore.

"Damn it! You fucking speak up!"

Li Shuai went up and delivered a hard slap, sending the person flying far away, almost knocking him out cold directly.

"Fuck your mother, why did you hit him? Is your head full of shit?"

Liang Kun glared fiercely at Li Shuai, the killing intent in his eyes completely undisguised.

Li Shuai shuddered all over, his back instantly soaked in cold sweat.

He dared to confirm that if he hadn't been following the other party since before the apocalypse, Liang Kun would probably have already made a fatal move by now.

"Big Brother, I was just anxious! I also had good intentions!"

He hurriedly lowered his head to apologize, quickly took out the water canteen from his waist, trotted over to the fallen lackey, pried open the other's mouth, and poured several large gulps of clean water down his throat.

After easing up for a full dozen seconds, that lackey coughed violently and caught his breath, his eyes filled with fear, his voice trembling beyond recognition.

"They're all dead, twenty or thirty people, not a single one survived, they're all dead!"

"What on earth happened?"

Liang Kun walked up to this person and asked eagerly.

"That Li Yunlong is too freakish, he..."

This person told everything he saw in detail, from the attack by Saint Descending Upon the World and the others to Chen Ze's thunderous counter-kill after rushing back. He didn't dare to conceal any of the details he saw.

When he finished the last word.

The entire large factory instantly fell into a deathly silence.

You could hear a pin drop.

The dozens of subordinates present all froze in place, the arrogance on their faces completely solidified, their eyes filled with utter disbelief.

They had previously witnessed that group of people from Saint Descending Upon the World. Although there weren't many Level 2 experts among them, every single one of them had martial arts training, and ordinary people really weren't their match.

But no one expected that in less than half an hour, the entire group would be wiped out, and even Saint Descending Upon the World died.

Just how strong has this Li Yunlong reached?

"Let's go! Return to the Fortress!"

Liang Kun took a deep breath and spoke in a deep voice.

The dozens of people felt as if they had received a grand amnesty. They were truly afraid that their boss would lose his mind and lead them to attack Li Yunlong.

"Let's go, go, go!"

"Hurry!"

The group came with grand momentum, but returned in low spirits.

The few people walking at the very end kept looking back from time to time, as if an evil ghost would pounce out at any moment to claim their lives.

On the other side.

Chen Ze briefly gave instructions to Wang Yalan and the others, then went to the Mutated Forest once again with Fatty to seek the possibility of advancing to Level 3.

Following the memories in his mind, the two quickly reached the brush area on the outer periphery of the forest.

After just a few short days, this place was already completely unrecognizable.

The dense bushes that were originally nearly a person's height were forcefully flattened and crushed over large areas.

The ground was a complete mess, the soil layers churned up, covered with dense indentation marks and scratch marks.

The ground was littered with pits of various sizes, varying in depths, as if they had been repeatedly rooted up and searched through by some giant creature.

"Let's go, let's go take a look!"

Chen Ze stepped forward quickly to investigate.

Getting closer made it even clearer. Surrounding those dense, tiny pits were fine crawling marks and insect limb imprints.

Fragments of withered insect shells still lingered on the edges; without a doubt, these were traces left behind by the activities of the Mutated Ant Swarm.

As for those giant pits that were several meters deep and wide in size, the traces were completely different.

The edges of the cave openings were covered with thick claw prints, the soil had been widely dug loose and churned into a mess, and quite a few mutated ant corpses were scattered around.

The originally stiff ant shells had long since turned into a light layer of skin, fluttering and rattling whenever the wind blew.

"Brother Ze, did that group of mutated anteaters make this?"

Fatty swallowed his dry throat.

"This thing looks a bit big!"

It was no fault of Fatty having such a reaction; it was mainly judged based on the size of those pits—that largest anteater was probably four or five meters long!

"Indeed quite big!"

Chen Ze looked at Xingzhe Sun on his shoulder.

"Can you tell if this was made by that D-rank anteater?"

Hearing this, Xingzhe Sun jumped straight down and ran limping over to the side of the pit.

It leaned forward, pressing its nose tightly against the rough soil on the edge of the pit to sniff hard, scratching here and digging there, as if looking for something.

Soon, Xingzhe Sun pulled a wisp of thick, hard, dark-brown beast hair out of the soil.

(That's the big guy, look, this is his hair!)

Chen Ze took it and looked, discovering that this wisp of hair was nearly two meters long with a very coarse texture. How should he put it, it was very similar to a kind of thin hemp rope.

It was hard to imagine that a group of fellows draped all over in hemp ropes could actually force the Ant Swarm to directly evacuate the forest.

"Will that fellow actively attack other animals?"

Chen Ze didn't know much about anteaters, having only seen them a few times in Animal Planet, so now he could only ask the local resident, Xingzhe Sun.

(No, they only eat ants, but don't underestimate them either. Even those large carnivores wouldn't dare easily provoke them!)

"Something that eats ants can be that powerful?"

Breaking through to Level 3 required a D-rank beast core. Chen Ze's original plan was this mutated anteater, but after hearing Xingzhe Sun put it this way, his heart really started to feel a bit doubtful.

(That fellow's two claws are extremely sharp, easily piercing the fur of predators of the same rank, and it possesses boundless strength. Even the king in this forest wouldn't easily provoke it!)

"There's still a king in this forest? Is it a mutated tiger?"

Speaking of the king of the forest, the first thing Chen Ze thought of was a tiger.

(The Mutated Tiger King is just one of them; there is also the Bear King, the Wolf King, and that giant python living in the swamp! The four of them have almost occupied the core area of the entire forest.)

Chen Ze didn't expect that deep within this mutated forest, four beast kings were actually hidden.

And judging by what Xingzhe Sun meant, these few beast kings all lived in the core area of the forest.

It was hard to imagine that tigers, bears, wolves, and giant pythons—whose survival environments and racial habits on Earth were completely and utterly different—

could actually divide their own territories and entrench themselves in the same area in this Otherworldly Realm.

"Could it be that deep inside this forest, there is some extraordinary treasure?"