64: Chapter 64 Chaos in the Racing Circle

After listening to the report, Zhou Che's brow furrowed tightly, a deeper chill rising in his heart.

Instant death, traceless devouring, and targeted specifically at the Dawn Convoy.

This was no longer a common anomaly causing trouble.

All the anomalies in the city were suppressed, yet this thing alone was unbound by the rules and could still hunt living humans in secret.

This was enough to prove that this thing's level and tier far exceeded all the dormant anomalies in Mountain City!

It was absolutely a top-tier terror!

Zhou Che waved his hand, his tone heavy and solemn. "Keep this matter under wraps for now. Do not spread it, and maintain morale within The Convoy."

"Pass down the order immediately: all members and survivors are strictly forbidden from taking even a single step outside the camp!"

"Anyone who dares to go out on their own will face the consequences themselves, and their life or death will be their own responsibility!"

The three of them hurriedly took their orders and withdrew, rushing to restrain everyone.

The carriage instantly fell silent.

Zhou Che leaned back in his seat, his fingertips lightly tapping the car body as his mind rapidly reviewed all the clues, sorting out the entire situation.

Currently, the Dawn Convoy's four main combatants were all out exploring the main city, leaving The Convoy's high-end combat power empty.

Investigating or confronting them rashly now carried too much risk; it would make it easy for others to take advantage of their vulnerability, and the losses would outweigh the gains.

The best approach was to keep a low profile, endure patiently, and quietly wait for their combat forces to return.

Once Captain Liu Ruyan, Lin Wan, Ruan Xiaoxiao, and Luo Xi returned, he would send them to the Trainee Convoy to thoroughly investigate the truth.

First, they would investigate the fish pouch incident to see if it was man-made.

Then, they would slowly dig deeper to find out exactly what terrifying thing had set its sights on the Dawn Convoy, silently hunting down its members in the dark.

Zhou Che had a strong, faint premonition in his heart.

This sealed-off desperate situation in Mountain City was far more perilous and bizarre than he had imagined.

What seemed like a peaceful convoy circle was actually fraught with hidden perils and lethal steps.

Beneath the calm of all the city's anomalies lying dormant lay a monstrous undercurrent capable of destroying all The Convoys.

And his Dawn Convoy had already been the first to be firmly targeted by the terrifying existence in the shadows.

Zhou Che leaned back in the modified car's seat, his fingertips unconsciously tapping on the window.

A mixture of emotions churned in his heart, filled with frustration and anger.

To say he wasn't anxious would be a lie.

Right now, the entire Mountain City convoy circle appeared calm on the surface, but a great terror was hidden in the dark.

It specifically targeted those who were alone, silently wiping them out without leaving even a trace.

Four of his subordinates had mysteriously vanished, and one of them was a bona fide Transcendent.

Yet, all the anomalies in the city were being suppressed tightly by an unknown power.

Logically speaking, such a hunting tragedy should be utterly impossible.

Whether this thing was an anomaly or some other wicked entity, no one could say for sure.

Zhou Che cursed wildly in his mind, feeling more regret the more he thought about it.

What a fucking massive loss!

Had he known this wretched Mountain City was a cage that devoured people whole without even spitting out the bones,

no matter how many opportunities or temptations of top-ten strange objects were offered, he would absolutely never have taken a single step inside.

Now, he was stuck—unable to leave after entering, his hands and feet bound, not even daring to walk around freely.

He was terrified that the next to disappear would be himself or the core combat force of his convoy.

He could only hunker down tightly inside the camp, not daring to make a single reckless move, frustrated to the extreme.

Just as undercurrents surged within the Dawn Convoy and everyone was tense, the entire East Bank convoy circle had already descended into utter chaos.

It wasn't just the Dawn Convoy that experienced missing personnel; over a dozen convoys, large and small, had reported disappearances one after another.

At first, it was only a few scattered ordinary survivors who mysteriously lost contact.

No one paid much attention to it, assuming they had run off and gotten lost, or met with some danger and died in an accident.

But as the number of missing people grew larger and larger,

and even the Transcendents of various convoys began to vanish into thin air one after another, everyone finally panicked.

Transcendents were the core combat strength and life-saving foundation of every convoy.

Each one was an indispensable force; losing even one was enough to severely cripple a convoy's strength.

Amidst the widespread panic, conflicts erupted completely.

Two neighboring small convoys directly tore off all pretenses of civility, confronting and fighting each other.

Each side had lost a Transcendent who had gone out to coordinate supplies, leaving no traces of death and no clues to investigate.

No one knew the truth, and everyone's immediate, subconscious guess was that the other side had double-crossed them, silencing their member to seize the supplies.

"You suspect I played dirty, and I'm certain you harbored murderous intent."

Suspicion grew wildly like weeds, and the pent-up fear and anger exploded completely.

The two convoys turned their weapons on each other and fought fiercely, resulting in several deaths and injuries, and the atmosphere between the camps instantly became tense to the extreme.

Seeing that the small-scale skirmish was about to escalate into a massive brawl across the entire East Bank convoy circle, the Human Alliance had no choice but to step in to restore order.

Captain Ma Shangwu brought the elite members of the Second Squad.

He personally went down to visit each convoy one by one to mediate conflicts and suppress the chaos.

He arrived at the scene of the two fighting convoys immediately, unleashing his full presence.

The pressure of a Sequence Five swept across the field, instantly suppressing everyone so they dared not make a reckless move.

After suppressing the situation in a simple and brutal manner, Captain Ma Shangwu questioned the two convoy captains one by one about the cause of the conflict, the time and location of the disappearances, and all the details.

After hearing both sides' accounts, Captain Ma Shangwu instantly grasped the key point.

It wasn't the other convoy playing dirty at all; everyone had been misled by the anomaly in the dark.

The routes of the missing Transcendents from both sides did not overlap at all, making it completely impossible for them to have met and fought.

The so-called double-crossing and silencing were entirely misunderstandings born of suspicion.

But even though the misunderstanding was cleared up, the root cause remained elusive.

What on earth was capturing, killing, and devouring people in the dark, completely traceless and silent?

Captain Ma Shangwu searched all the traces at the scene and sensed the surrounding aura.

Yet, he still found nothing, unable to grasp the details of this bizarre case at all.

After pacifying the two convoys and ordering both sides to cease fire and reconcile,

Captain Ma Shangwu did not rest, heading straight for the Dawn Convoy, which currently held no small amount of suspicion.

This was because the Dawn Convoy had pulled back its forces and had not experienced any chaotic situations.

At this moment, Captain Liu Ruyan, Lin Wan, and the other two had not yet returned from exploring the main city, so the only one in the camp who could make all the decisions was Zhou Che.

Naturally, Zhou Che came forward to handle the reception for this meeting.

Captain Ma Shangwu did not beat around the bush either; he got straight to the point and stated his purpose, his tone incredibly grave.

"Brother Zhou, recently, there have been large-scale mysterious disappearances of personnel across the entire Mountain City convoy circle."

"It's not just you guys. On the East Bank, all The Convoys, big and small, have been hit.

Even Transcendents have fallen one after another. The situation has completely spiraled out of control."

Zhou Che understood in his heart; as expected, they weren't the only unlucky ones.

At first, he thought the anomaly was only targeting them, but thinking about it now,

the entire Mountain City was shrouded in the shadow of this bizarre hunt.

He didn't hide anything either, honestly laying his cards on the table:

"In our convoy, one Transcendent, Li Yiming, and three ordinary survivors have gone missing.

All of them mysteriously lost contact after stepping out of the camp's safe perimeter. There were no signs of a struggle, no lingering anomalous aura—they just vanished into thin air."

Captain Ma Shangwu's face darkened even further upon hearing this. He personally led his team members to conduct a thorough patrol around the perimeter of the Dawn camp.

It was still completely clean, without a single clue.

After a moment of silence, he looked at Zhou Che and said solemnly:

"Tonight, the Human Alliance is convening a general assembly of all convoys to discuss countermeasures."

"Please represent the Dawn Convoy and come with me to attend the meeting."

Zhou Che did not refuse.

A major matter concerning everyone's safety was something he couldn't hide from anyway.

Going to listen to information from all sides and grasp the situation was much better than staying cooped up in the camp making blind guesses.