His subordinate nodded.
"Mm..."
"The Commander ordered thirty men to escort Priest Gou's body back, and each was equipped with three Jizhuashanshou beasts."
"Traveling day and night, switching mounts, it should take three days to reach Myriad Beast City."
He paused, as if wanting to say more.
"Alright, then we'll just stroll back at our own pace!"
With that, the Commander lay back on the broad back of his mount and crossed his legs.
His subordinates' eyes widened.
They thought: Shouldn't we hurry back?
The Gou family had three priests.
With one dead, Myriad Beast City would likely be thrown into chaos!
The old man from the Gou family would use this as an excuse to trouble the old City Lord.
Shouldn't they go back and support the City Lord?
...
Chu Tian knew nothing of what was happening here.
He stood in place, observing his surroundings.
This was the right spot. Where were Old Yang and the others?
The coordinate point they had set was at the entrance of the tent.
Now, the tent was gone, and Old Yang and the others had vanished.
His divine sense found nothing unusual.
On the sand beneath his feet were scattered footprints.
It looked like many people, and...
the footprints of Jizhuashanshou beasts.
Could they have encountered danger?
He observed carefully...
There were no signs of a fight.
If they had encountered danger, Old Yang wouldn't have resisted.
With Old Yang's skills, he wouldn't be easily captured.
Chu Tian's gaze fixed on the half-buried dead tree trunk.
They had emerged from here.
Inside the trunk was the stored tent, and the food Chu Tian had left.
It hadn't been two days yet. Why had Old Yang and the others left?
The food, water, and tent were all neatly packed inside.
It didn't look like they had left in a hurry.
Where had they... gone?
More precisely... why had they willingly followed those people?
Moreover, before this group arrived, Old Yang and the others had neatly packed the tent, food, and water.
The footprints on the sand were no longer very clear.
Their direction was northwest...
Could they have already gone to Myriad Beast City?
Considering it, Chu Tian still didn't take out the items from the tree hole.
In case Old Yang and the others returned and didn't meet him, they might still be useful.
Besides, he had set a coordinate here, and these items were stored here.
He could always come back to get them.
With nothing else to do, Chu Tian followed the footprints.
The footprints were not very clear, which was fortunate, as there had been no wind these past few days.
Otherwise, after a sandstorm, nothing would be visible.
He didn't know how long they had been gone, or if he could catch up.
Time flew by, and the eastern sky began to lighten.
That night, Chu Tian had traveled for the first half of it.
He had chased Priest Gou past midnight and battled the Fire-Eyed Gu Chan.
After returning here, he had continued his journey.
He hadn't rested at all that night.
Especially after unleashing his strongest attack.
Now, he suddenly felt a lack of strength.
However, the disappearance of Old Yang and the others worried him greatly.
He persisted for a while longer, but finally, the footprints vanished.
Chu Tian slowly stopped.
He couldn't continue without resting. With his current stamina, even if he caught up, dealing with any danger would be difficult.
After pursuing for so long, the general direction of the group was confirmed.
It was towards Myriad Beast City.
"Hoo..."
Chu Tian took out his new tent, set it up, and ate something casually.
He then fell asleep...
He was truly exhausted.
Eating and sleeping were the best ways to recover strength.
After an unknown period, Chu Tian was woken by the squeaking of Little Kong Kong.
He opened his eyes to find that it was already dark.
Little Kong Kong was holding a red bead, trying to stuff it into its mouth, but it wouldn't fit.
It was jumping up and down anxiously.
Curiously, he reached out and snatched the red bead.
This caused Little Kong Kong to let out a cry.
Of course, it couldn't snatch it back from Chu Tian. Chu Tian held it in one hand, and it flailed its limbs and bared its teeth,
as if to say that it was its thing.
[Ding... System Prompt: Obtained Item [Fire Element Magical Beast Core (Level 4)] x1.]
"Hmm? Where did you get this?"
Seeing the system prompt, he had a guess.
Perhaps this little thing had dug it out of the Fire-Eyed Gu Chan after he entered the cave.
It was as he suspected.
However, this item had fallen out of the toad's mouth by itself.
Little Kong Kong had found it.
Then it hid it in its dense fur.
At this moment, Chu Tian had slept for a day, and the little thing was extremely hungry.
So it had taken out the item to eat it, but it couldn't bite it and couldn't even fit it into its mouth.
Now that Chu Tian had found it, it was naturally confiscated.
Although he didn't know what it was for.
After the man and the monkey finished eating, Chu Tian didn't rush to depart.
He lay down and slept again...
The fatigue in his body had not yet subsided.
During this time, he had tried many times to send the command to exit the game to the system.
He had not received any response, let alone a countdown to exit the game.
He knew it was likely the same as last time.
The game's exit function had been forcibly restricted.
However, this place was not like the Underworld.
The time flow here was a thousand times slower than on the Blue Star.
Otherwise, his physical body in reality would probably have developed problems again.
He thought this, unaware that...
on the Blue Star, in the new virtual pod he had purchased,
his body had already vanished.
...
Boom...
Chu Tian, still asleep, was suddenly sent flying by a powerful force.
He woke up abruptly.
He found himself embedded in the sand.
Chu Tian sprang up.
He saw a group of people in the distance, standing not far from the previous tent.
There were men and women among them. When the women saw Chu Tian's state, they quickly turned their heads away.
The men, however, wore expressions of mockery and disdain.
Chu Tian looked down and realized he was completely naked.
He had a habit of sleeping naked.
Since he was sleeping alone and the weather was so hot, he had naturally stripped off his clothes.
The main reason was that he was too tired to bother with the air conditioner.
Chu Tian quickly took out his clothes and put them on. These people were already slowly approaching him, riding their mounts.
While putting on his clothes, he saw the surroundings, the tattered tent, the bedding,
and a large ten-liter bottle of pure water.
All of them had fallen to the ground and were broken.
Suddenly, anger surged in his heart.
He didn't have many tents.
Moreover, he was fortunate that he hadn't turned on the air conditioner.
He still had three air conditioners in storage.
But he only had two miniature solar power supply units left.
If they had been blown away, one of them would likely have been scrapped.
These people... were looking for a beating...
This was his thought.
However... on second thought, that wasn't right. Where was Little Kong Kong?
"Squeak, squeak..."
Chu Tian looked in the direction of the sound. Little Kong Kong was currently being held in the hand of a young girl.
Its limbs, including its neck, were all bound by chains.
Immediately... Chu Tian changed his mind.
He changed "looking for a beating" to "looking for death."
But to Chu Tian's surprise, there were several unusual individuals among these people.
In their auras, there was a non-human presence.
Or rather, they carried the aura of beasts.
Chu Tian had sensed this kind of aura from Lin Chi after he had transformed.
However, these people had not transformed and were all in human form.
A strange thought flashed through his mind.
Could it be... those few people were... half-human, half-beast... hybrids?
"Kid, are you sunbathing your butt here? I ask you, does this little thing say you're its boss?"
"Is that so or not?"
A young man with a fair complexion, wearing a earth-colored robe that covered him entirely on his mount,
asked imperiously.
Another pretty boy, Chu Tian thought.
This guy looked younger than him.
Yet he called him "kid."
Moreover, his arrogant demeanor made Chu Tian want to slap him a few times.
After hearing his words.
Chu Tian looked around and pointed to his own nose, saying, "Are you asking me?"
"Nonsense, you're the only one here. If not you, who else would I ask?" the man replied impatiently.
Chu Tian pouted and said, "You're right, I'm the only one here."
"I only talk to people, not to things that pop out of butt holes."
With that, he bent down and picked up the items on the ground that were still intact.
"Kid, are you looking for death?"
"Do you know who you're talking to?"
"If you kneel down now, you can beg the young patriarch to spare your life!"
After Chu Tian finished speaking, more than a dozen people from their group spoke up.
At the same time, they drew their weapons, which were all made of fine steel.
And they urged their mounts to surround Chu Tian.