29: The four beast kings!

Tianning City.

A helper, who had been intently watching the footage from the drone, suddenly changed his expression.

He was surprised to find that, initially, the drone had indeed been closely following the Golden Tiger King. Even when he disappeared into the mountains, the drone could still determine his approximate location through color analysis and other methods, and hadn't lost him.

But after nightfall, the drone seemed to have lost its target and remained in place for a while.

"Professor, the Golden Giant Tiger seems to have disappeared!"

The helper quickly pointed to the screen with his hand, looking quite panicked. "He already possesses the immense strength to kill the Amethyst Lion King, the Giant Wolf, and the Giant Python, and the Great Wilderness Mountain Range is right next to our Tianning City. What if he charges into the city?"

Upon hearing this, Professor Huang frowned deeply.

During the day, Professor Xia Xinyu was also here and had provided a lot of data on the fierce beasts of the Great Wilderness Mountain Range, as well as several strengthening potions.

After the battle between the Golden Tiger King and the Giant Python and other fierce beasts concluded, Professor Xia immediately returned to the Imperial Capital.

He had to further research potions that would allow more people to become espers.

But after nightfall, they lost track of the Golden Giant Tiger!

Such an important matter was enough to cause panic throughout Tianning City, because no one knew what the Golden Tiger King's objective was, or if he would suddenly charge into Tianning City.

Currently, the place with the most espers was the Imperial Capital.

And with the lessons learned from Tianning City, the Imperial Capital had already urgently begun training all espers, determined to enhance their strength.

Even Tianning City had two or three promising espers transferred out.

Professor Huang understood that as long as the Golden Tiger King's location remained unknown, Tianning City could not relax its vigilance for a moment.

After a moment of silence, Professor Huang said helplessly, "Alas, report the Golden Tiger King's information to the Imperial Capital."

...At the same time.

Imperial Capital, Central Research Institute.

Since Professor Xia Xinyu returned from Tianning City, he had immediately plunged into the laboratory. Only after arranging follow-up work did he take some documents and convene a meeting.

"Please look, everyone."

Professor Xia Xinyu extended his hand, signaling the commanders and officers present to watch the videos sent back from all over the country. He said with a solemn expression, "Since the discovery of that golden fruit tree, the fierce beasts in the Great Wilderness Mountain Range of Tianning City have become even stronger than we imagined, especially the Golden Tiger King that suddenly appeared."

"Therefore, the speed at which these fierce beasts are evolving is simply far beyond our imagination."

"This is an extremely dangerous signal!"

Upon hearing this, the commander and all the officers frowned in silent contemplation.

The commander then asked, "How is the training of espers progressing?"

"If we classify fierce beasts by their strength, our current espers can at most only deal with first-tier fierce beasts."

"However, fierce beasts exceeding the first tier have already appeared in the wilderness."

As he spoke, Professor Xia Xinyu's eyes were filled with worry. "Furthermore, four powerful fierce beasts capable of withstanding missiles have already appeared."

"If this continues, our thermal weapons will soon become ineffective."

After his words, the conference room fell silent, almost to the point where a pin drop could be heard.

They only then realized that they had consistently underestimated the changes in the fierce beasts outside. It seemed... their research speed could never keep up with the fierce beasts' rate of strengthening.

When fierce beasts first appeared, everyone still thought they had only grown in size and increased in strength, but were essentially still flesh-and-blood creatures, so thermal weapons would definitely be useful, and humanity didn't need to be too afraid.

But now... all these illusions were cruelly shattered.

After a long silence, the commander asked worriedly, "Professor Xia, what are the four powerful fierce beasts you just mentioned?"

"The Ice Serpent King, the King Kong Ape King, the Venomous Rat King, and the Golden Tiger King."

"Currently, we only have data on the Golden Tiger King's battles with other fierce beasts, and know very little about the other three powerful fierce beasts."

"Therefore, I believe the Golden Tiger King currently ranks first!"

Professor Xia Xinyu expressed his thoughts. "According to investigations, only the Golden Tiger King has been constantly moving, making his target unpredictable. The other three powerful fierce beasts, however, are temporarily still occupying their discovery locations."

"But we don't know if these three fierce beasts will continue to move and cause immense disaster to our cities."

As he spoke, he pressed a remote control, and video footage of the four powerful fierce beasts immediately began to play.

In the footage, a colossal, two-headed silver-white giant snake suddenly shot out of a lake. While still in mid-air, it spat out frost imbued with extreme cold, which instantly froze a large section of the lake.

"We sent people to investigate, and the ice layer was ten meters thick."

"Hiss..."

Listening to Professor Xia Xinyu's words, everyone gasped in unison.

Such terrifying ability, no esper currently possessed it.

Immediately after, the screen scrolled again.

A human armed force, following orders, entered the mountains to hunt the appearing fierce beasts, but this time they provoked a terrifying existence.

It was a Golden Giant Ape, over ten meters tall, like a mountain.

Facing the full firepower of the human armed force, the Golden Giant Ape was completely unharmed.

At this moment, an officer murmured, "I never thought that one day, scenes from movies would actually appear in reality."

Professor Xia Xinyu heard this, nodded, and said, "Yes, that's precisely why it was named the King Kong Ape King."

As he finished speaking, the video screen suddenly showed a sky full of poisonous mist, and countless giant rats rampaging wildly, destroying an entire human village in a very short time.

One of the rats, as large as a buffalo, let out a strange cry and then vanished, and the other rats retreated like a tide.

The last video was of Xia Fan's battle with the Amethyst Lion King and other fierce beasts in the Great Wilderness Mountain.

After watching these, everyone remained silent for a long time.

Finally, the commander himself spoke, "From now on, we can no longer overly rely on thermal weapons."

"Spread the word, gather espers from all over the country, form esper special forces, and use every means to make them stronger."

"Only when espers become powerful can they contend with fierce beasts!"

The other officers had no objections; after all, in the battles with fierce beasts during this period, humanity had suffered too many losses... Five days later.

A Golden Giant Tiger, seeing the mountain range before him, finally stopped and let out a low growl to the Magic Cat beside him, full of excitement, "We've arrived!"

After continuous travel, Xia Fan, accompanied by the Magic Cat, finally arrived at the Yunxia Mountain Range.

He rubbed against the Magic Cat and growled again, "From now on, this will be our territory!"