Somewhere in Qiandu Mountain.
It had been just over ten minutes since Zhao Ruyue, along with three helpers from the medical team, disembarked from the helicopter and located the injured personnel.
On the large screen in the observation room, as the rescue personnel arrived, the family escorts of the injured clan disciples breathed a collective sigh of relief.
The other clan disciples who participated in the training encountered varying fates.
Dong Sanbao and Sun Yi, along with their group, were captured by bandits and subjected to torment.
Some clan disciples, however, encountered no danger whatsoever on their journey.
This left many family escorts feeling perplexed.
After all, it seemed unreasonable that while others braved dangers, some experienced nothing at all.
If it were so, what was the point of such training?
It was only when a clan disciple's arm and leg were scratched by a fleeting dark shadow that the family escorts finally understood!
It turned out Lin Weidong had other arrangements!
"Dr. Zhao is a renowned physician in Yunhai City. With her here, our family's young men will surely be fine."
"Indeed. Perhaps soon, they will be able to return and rejoin the training."
"Dr. Zhao is beautiful, kind-hearted, and highly skilled. I wonder why she is not married yet. If our family's young men were fortunate enough to catch her eye, then..."
"You're dreaming. She hasn't married yet, so she must already have someone in her heart. Besides, your family's descendants are all weak and frail; they couldn't possibly protect Dr. Zhao."
Seeing that their disciples were not in mortal danger, some escorts resumed their banter.
However, Lin Weidong, seated in his chair, wore a peculiar expression.
Zhou Yu watched for a moment, then a possible explanation came to mind.
"Everyone, you continue to monitor here. I'm going out for a bit."
Lin Weidong said, and then left the observation room.
Zhou Yu followed him out.
Outside the observation room.
Zhou Yu caught up with Lin Weidong and asked, "Uncle Lin, has something gone wrong?"
"Xiao Yu, to be honest, when I saw those clan disciples injured earlier, I felt something was amiss, but I couldn't quite figure it out, so I ordered an investigation."
"The people I sent to investigate reported back that they had already cleared the entire area and that there shouldn't be any wild animals capable of causing such injuries. Any that could pose a threat have been temporarily relocated."
"When I examined those wounds carefully just now, I noticed... the shape of the wounds is extremely similar to one I saw before!"
"But I can't be certain yet. I need to go and confirm."
Lin Weidong finished speaking, his expression still grave.
This indicated that there was indeed trouble.
Zhou Yu pondered for a moment and guessed, "Although those clan disciples lack wilderness survival experience, they are still Body Tempering cultivators. They should be able to react promptly to wild animals. Moreover, due to the training, they are all on high alert and shouldn't have been slow to react."
In reality, he was being conservative.
Body Tempering cultivators possess physical speed far exceeding that of ordinary people, even several times that of elite special forces!
Given this, an unknown creature could still injure them. If those 'bandits' and 'ruffians' encountered such an unknown creature...
The situation was not optimistic.
"Elder Lin, tell me honestly, is it possible that this is man-made?"
Hearing Zhou Yu's words, Lin Weidong immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.
In fact, even without Zhou Yu mentioning it, he would have been able to deduce this information after confirmation.
However, Zhou Yu had indeed taken a step ahead.
"If what you say is true, then the possibility of it being man-made is extremely high. No one has entered the training grounds since they were sealed off, and they have been scoured repeatedly by drones to ensure there were no large wild animals.
Lin Weidong's face turned extremely grim.
This meant that someone had deliberately introduced unknown creatures into the training grounds, causing the clan disciples to be injured.
In other words.
The training grounds were currently extremely dangerous!
Yet, the current training had not even reached one-quarter of its course!
"Elder Lin, if my guess is correct, the training cannot continue. Quickly send people to bring back all those clan disciples. Otherwise, if anything happens..."
Zhou Yu trailed off, not continuing.
He believed that Lin Weidong understood the implications.
If any of these clan disciples were crippled, their families would surely be furious!
And the one most directly responsible would be Lin Weidong, who was in charge of this training program!
Even the Dragon Group might be implicated!
The responsibility for such an accident would be immense!
"Xiao Yu, how about this: I'll send people to handle this matter, and we can head over there together? This happened so suddenly, and I can't think of a better solution right away. But Dr. Zhao's medical team consists entirely of ordinary people, not even martial artists. If they..."
"Elder Lin, stop. Let's get on the helicopter now!"
"Alright, alright!"
Zhou Yu absolutely could not allow any harm to come to Zhao Ruyue!
After all, this woman had just left his side.
If he were to stand by and watch Zhao Ruyue get injured, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
Furthermore, an unknown creature capable of injuring Body Tempering cultivators would be lethal if it targeted ordinary people!
At the same time.
Zhao Ruyue, who was bandaging the injured, also noticed something was wrong.
She asked the injured clan disciple, "Your wound looks strange. When it attacked you, did you get a clear look at its appearance?"
"Dr. Zhao, I'm sorry, I didn't see clearly. It darted out with a 'whoosh.' I don't even know how big it was." The clan disciple said with shame.
He was injured by an unknown creature, yet he hadn't even seen its form. It would be too humiliating to spread this news.
His two teammates also looked at him with disdain.
"Don't be embarrassed. The fact that it could injure you means it's not an ordinary wild creature. Perhaps it's an undiscovered species."
Zhao Ruyue comforted the injured person and then said to the other two, "You two, come over here. Your companion is injured, and you're looking down on him. This is not what a true man would do."
"..."
The two companions lowered their heads upon hearing this.
"His wound is very deep, and the blood seeping out is purplish-blue. I judge that the unknown creature's claws are likely poisonous. Both of you, be careful and don't get attacked by that unknown creature again." Zhao Ruyue warned.
Honestly.
She had already realized that something was wrong.
But now, she couldn't abandon the injured.
The helicopter would take some time to arrive. Before then, no one could say for sure whether the seven people on site would encounter that unknown creature again.
"Dr. Zhao, its claws are poisonous? Are there such strange creatures in this world?" one of the clan disciples asked in surprise.
He had never heard of any creature that could move so fast and whose claws carried such unusual toxins!
The injured companion couldn't even stand up now!
This indicated that the toxin could even affect cultivators!