Chapter 153
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Chapter 153: Mental Breakdown
Misty Forest.
Zhan Cheng and a group of fake heavy criminals were in extreme pain.
Hours earlier, they had realized that the main forces of the Flame Mountain Tribe had left, and only a team of modest size was left, leading them in circles.
After trying to outflank this team, they watched as it escaped into the sky.
Zhan Cheng immediately ordered a full-speed return to the tribe’s base.
Without a doubt, the main forces of the Flame Mountain Tribe were using their flying ability to attack the base directly.
As a result, this group surprisingly split into two.
One part created various obstacles and troubles to slow down their speed.
The other part intercepted reinforcements made up of flying fierce beasts, preventing them from returning to support the tribe.
For the main forces of the Sacred Water Tribe, the mere thirty or so Spirit Consciousness stage geniuses, equivalent to level thirty fierce beasts, could not stop their reinforcements.
However, the opponents had not thought to stop them at all; they merely used various spells to harass them from a distance.
Once Zhan Cheng sent out fierce beasts over level forty to strike back, the harassers quickly fled using their flying ability.
Even sending the fastest and strongest Gale Tiger, which was slightly slower, could not catch up.
The main reason was that these harassers maintained a distance of two to three hundred meters.
As soon as they sensed danger, they would retreat immediately.
This forced the main forces of the Sacred Water Tribe to respond even more slowly than their initial advance.
Meanwhile, the flying fierce beast reinforcements in the middle could hardly cope.
They had flying ability, but the strongest among them was only at level thirty.
Just a dozen Spirit Consciousness stage geniuses could drive them back, making it impossible for them to advance; they could only defend their position.
“Leader, the harassing team from the Flame Mountain Tribe seems to have retreated.”
On the back of the massive Gale Tiger, Zhan Cheng was deeply pondering strategies when a fake heavy criminal rode up on a fierce beast.
“Retreated?”
Zhan Cheng showed no surprise at all.
Instead, his face was filled with resignation.
If they retreated, it undoubtedly meant that a tribe with two level forty fierce beasts and many more level thirty beasts had completely fallen.
“Notify all brothers to gather and discuss a plan. Send scouts to the tribe to see the situation and collect information.”
With no more harassment, Zhan Cheng did not order a swift march toward the tribe but instead stopped in place.
Soon, more than thirty fake heavy criminals from the main team gathered around Zhan Cheng to discuss strategies.
To Zhan Cheng, once the main forces of the Flame Mountain Tribe seized the tribe’s base, there were only two follow-up actions they could take.
The first was to force all of them to surrender.
The second was to set traps and ambushes, luring them to split their forces in a rescue attempt.
The former definitely did not need worrying.
Zhan Cheng understood very well Yi Chen’s emphasis on the human population and knew he would never resort to killing one person every few minutes without surrendering.
This was also the reason Zhan Cheng assembled the main forces for an attack.
He would not use the lives of the Sacred Water Tribe members as leverage; even if the Flame Mountain Tribe captured the base of the Sacred Water Tribe, it would not be very useful.
Knowing this important information, even if they wanted to set traps and ambushes, it would be pointless.
The main forces of the Sacred Water Tribe had no reason to worry about the safety of their tribe members.
Of course, another crucial point was that Zhan Cheng and the group of fake heavy criminals were all isolated individuals.
They had no family in the tribe.
They would not be flustered.
Otherwise, even if they knew Yi Chen would not kill the tribe members of the Sacred Water Tribe, they would not feel completely at ease.
“Leader…”
Just as Zhan Cheng and the group of fake heavy criminals were speculating how the main forces of the Flame Mountain Tribe would use the geographical environment of the Sacred Water Tribe to set traps and ambushes with the tribe members as bait,
one of the fake heavy criminals, riding an enormous flying fierce beast, rushed in, panicked.
“Don’t panic, do you have news from the tribe base?”
Zhan Cheng stated calmly.
“There are only over a thousand injured fierce beasts left at the tribe base…”
The fake heavy criminal looked extremely pale: “All the tribe members have been captured by the Flame Mountain Tribe!”
“What?”
Not only the group of fake heavy criminals, but even the usually composed Zhan Cheng widened his eyes in shock.
His gaze was filled with disbelief and confusion.
A thousand thoughts raced in everyone’s minds.
What the heck!
There were more than thirty thousand tribe members in the tribe.
They had never considered the possibility that the Flame Mountain Tribe would take them away.
According to the scouts’ reports, the entire Flame Mountain Tribe had only a little over two hundred main forces.
Even if there were other hidden teams, it was impossible to exceed a thousand.
How could such a small number forcibly take away over thirty thousand tribe members?
Even if they used force to compel those tribe members to leave, there would still be plenty of faint traces left behind.
They could easily track them down.
Without the geographical advantage of the base, and with the main forces of the Flame Mountain Tribe having to scatter to drive away over thirty thousand tribe members, they would be utterly vulnerable.
But when the event occurred,
it had already become a reality.
They realized they had overlooked a very important issue.
The main forces of the Flame Mountain Tribe were all capable of flight and possessed immense strength.
They could knock out all the tribe members, and with a large net, one person could easily carry away dozens of tribe members.
“Which idiot gave Yi Chen this idea?”
Zhan Cheng nearly lost his mind, unable to hold back a furious outburst.
In any battle, any normal person would instinctively view defeating the opponent as the goal.
But you actually set up a chain of tricks to completely clear out the tribe members of the opposing tribe?
The group of fake heavy criminals was left stunned, their heads buzzing, lacking even the strength to curse.
Clearly holding an advantage, they encountered an opponent who played by completely unconventional rules, and it drove them to despair.
Although they were elites among humanity, their mental resilience was far beyond that of ordinary people.
At this moment, they all completely broke down.
If they knew who gave Yi Chen this idea, they would definitely rush forward and tear that person apart.
This was utterly outrageous.
These more than thirty thousand tribe members were the result of their hard work over two years to build their capital for advancement.
Especially in the beginning, in the fight for the position of chief, nearly half of the more than a hundred fake heavy criminals had died; it was exceedingly dangerous.
To have all that hard work taken away while holding the advantage was unbearable for anyone.
……
“It really blew up!”
“There’s no way around it, anyone would feel like their heart has exploded.”
“It’s one thing to lose if you’re outmatched; it’s something else entirely to have the opponent steal victory while you clearly hold a huge advantage. Even in games, that feeling can make many people lose their minds.”
“Not to mention, this was the hard-earned result of two years of their lives.”
“If Zhan Cheng knew that the ‘idiot’ he was cursing was actually Yi Chen himself, I wonder how he would feel…”
“Probably very proud, after all, he insulted the greatest genius in humanity’s history! And he might not even have to face serious consequences.”
“I don’t know what others think, but I feel too sympathetic towards him; since it wasn’t intentional, I don’t plan to hold it against him.”
“Even if a fake heavy criminal leaked this information, given Yi Chen’s temperament, he likely wouldn’t hold a grudge.”
“Also, if Zhan Cheng knew that the entire stealing plan was devised by Yi Chen, he might explode once more.”
“Because this means he simply cannot contend with Yi Chen. Trying to get close to him and gain his trust is extremely difficult, let alone developing a bond of brotherhood with him.”
“By the time they joined the Flame Mountain Tribe and learned that, after two years, the leaders of the four armies were still the locals, and the political leader was still the old high priest…”
“He would find out that after all their effort, only Bai Ruo Xin successfully approached Yi Chen, and he would break down again.”
In the live room, all the viewers felt sympathy for Zhan Cheng and the group of fake heavy criminals.
Their hopeful expectations were ultimately shattered by Yi Chen’s unconventional decision.
They resonated with that feeling, having experienced it many times before.
