47: Chapter 47 Changing the Route

Wang An's original body was registered at the Special Administration Bureau.

On the Incarnation's side, after two days of exploration, the four-person Exploration Team finally circled from the left mountain range all the way to the northern part of the right mountain range, approaching the Tianping location.

This Exploration Team had only a few people, so they were small in number and agile in movement. With the Incarnation, a powerful combat force, escorting them, they had been searching for job-change stones quite smoothly and quickly along the way.

This place was indeed worthy of being the "prime location" specially chosen by the Chen Martial Arts Hall; the Exploration Team had collected a total of four job-change stones and four meteorites.

Added to the three job-change stones and two meteorites the Incarnation had collected at the wild boar den, their harvest was quite bountiful.

However, how many of these they should turn in still required careful consideration.

Just as the members of the Exploration Team were advancing from the northern mountain range toward the southern route.

A crisp voice came from ahead, quietly changing the somewhat relaxed atmosphere of the team.

After all, the most taboo thing during exploration was for another Exploration Team to appear on the route ahead. This meant that the area in front had already been picked clean by others, requiring them to change their route, which pointlessly added risk and wasted time.

"Brother Ye, do you think there are still those patterned meteorites in this forest? We've only found these ordinary meteorites all the way here. If we turn them in to the authorities, there won't be much left for each of us after they're divided up."

"Wanxing, be patient. There should still be some. Not many people have explored this area yet, so the probability of special meteorites appearing is high. They should be just ahead."

A movement ahead caught Ye Xingchen's attention.

"Who? Who's there? Everyone, be on alert."

Just as Ye Xingchen's warning was issued and the others were about to raise their bows and arrows, an arrow whistled through the air and shot toward them, embedding itself at their feet.

The six people from Chunhe Aluminum Industry clearly saw that the arrow had embedded nearly halfway into the soil. This clearly meant the power of this bow and arrow was far beyond the ordinary.

Ye Xingchen, Lin Wanxing, and Qian Kaige, the three amateur archery coaches, were even more aware of this. It would take at least a 100-pound draw weight Compound Bow to achieve such power.

Just looking at this arrow, several of them swallowed hard, their mouths feeling a bit dry.

At this moment, the Incarnation's questioning voice came from in front of them.

"Are you from the Chunhe Aluminum Industry Exploration Team?"

The Incarnation cleaved through the shrubbery between the two Exploration Teams. He usually used one stroke to the left and one to the right, cleanly cutting through all the obstacles in front and opening up a path wide enough for two people to pass.

"Yes, we are the Chunhe Aluminum Industry Exploration Team. I am Qian Kaige."

Qian Kaige watched the person in the lead, whose hand rose and fell with great precision, the rapidly swinging machete leaving afterimages, and hurriedly replied.

The Incarnation sized up these six people: five men and one woman. Among them, only three were clearly carrying long-range weapons like a Compound Bow.

Besides Qian Kaige who had just answered, there was a young man who looked to be in his twenties, and a sweet-looking woman.

The other three had rough, dark skin, clearly from being exposed to the elements outside frequently; their style was extremely mismatched with the others.

He withdrew his gaze from the others and walked over. When he was two meters away, he looked at the young man holding a Compound Bow and asked.

"Are you the captain of this team?"

Ye Xingchen felt an invisible pressure from this person as he sized him up. He sensed the killing intent this person had revealed while cutting through the vegetation just moments ago.

Sensing such an aura from this person, several members of their team were too scared to make a sound.

His temperament was very similar to the members of the special recovery team he had seen in the camp before—it was the kind born of long-term slaughter, where every swing and slash was executed at the fastest, most energy-efficient angle.

That was what Ye Xingchen thought to himself.

"This person must have participated in the cruel slaughter of certain creatures to have honed such skills.

As for such a person, he felt that if he could avoid provoking him, he should try his best not to; after all, who wasn't just a mortal of flesh and blood?

As long as it wasn't too excessive, he, Ye Xingchen, was also capable of bending and stretching."

He immediately replied,

"I am Ye Xingchen, currently the captain of this Exploration Team."

"Doesn't your Chunhe Aluminum Industry Exploration Team usually deploy with over a dozen people? How come? Only six today? Where are the others?"

"Our original Exploration Team captain had a temporary matter to attend to halfway through, and should have returned to the camp by now."

The Incarnation found it a bit strange that the Exploration Team captain had returned temporarily, and he made a mental note of this.

"Why come here to explore? I remember this area has always been the region explored by the Chen Martial Arts Hall."

"Our team doesn't have a fixed exploration area. We just go wherever we see there are no Mutant creatures, so we came to explore here."

"Oh, is that so? Why do I feel like you snuck over here while we were busy fighting with Mutant creatures?"

Hearing this, the members of the Chunhe Aluminum Industry team felt their hearts tighten in fear. Ye Xingchen felt the Incarnation's cold, blade-like gaze fixed on his vitals, as if his life would be forfeit in the next second.

Lin Wanxing felt extremely uncomfortable with such questioning and replied in an extremely impatient tone.

"The country shouldn't have any regulations on the exploration range of each Exploration Team. Our team explores wherever we want to; no one can control that."

When the others heard this, cold sweat broke out on their backs, fearing that this fierce star would be angered, finish them off, and abandon their bodies in the wilderness.

Qian Kaige apologized with a forced smile to ease the tension between the two sides, while others immediately went up to drag Lin Wanxing to the back of the team.

The Incarnation ignored this woman who didn't seem to have her head screwed on right. Was he going to do something just because she was rude? He wasn't that crazy.

"Mark the locations where you collected meteorites over the past few days for me, and also the terrain data you collected along the way."

Seeing that they had no intention of demanding the meteorites, the Chunhe Aluminum Industry Exploration Team breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, they copied a version of their data from along the way and sent it over.

Comparing it with their own route, the Incarnation knew that they had been exploring from the foot of the right mountain range all the way north.

In fact, back when they set out, he already knew someone was following them.

But just as they thought, it was impossible for the Incarnation to just kill them all.

Therefore, during these few days of exploration, they tried to speed up as much as possible to secure most of the job-change stones.

Since this route had already been explored by them, they would have to return via another route; after all, there was no point in retracing other paths.

Immediately, the Incarnation called his teammates and began to head down the mountain. He planned to go to Huangzhushan, and then to Wuyancha. Although it was a bit of a detour and might take two or three days, at least it was better than having nothing to show for it.