Chapter 421
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Chapter 421: The Real Purpose
Hachikuju was puzzled, “What are they here for?”
“Who knows? Maybe they’re just passing by, or maybe they have some purpose, doesn’t matter.”
“Hmm, let them be.”
Hachikuju habitually placed the huge axe on her shoulder, hands resting on it, looking very tired.
“Three more kilometers to go.”
Zhang Mu woke everyone up, not sure what the other group meant, but with two opposing teams merging, they couldn’t just sleep in front of them.
The sound of hooves approached from far away, with flickering torches in their hands.
Even the soundly sleeping Qizilbash was instantly awake upon hearing the horses neighing, seeing the flickering torches, resting his chin on his massive shield lethargically.
“That’s Su Rui, I heard his friend Green Sky’s voice.”
“Why aren’t you curious at all? What are they here for?”
Hachikuju looked at Qizilbash yawning one after another and asked, puzzled.
“I guess the mutant beasts nearby have all been attracted by us, coming to find out why they’ve been hungry for three days.”
Qizilbash chuckled, adjusted to a more comfortable position, and continued, “I just like seeing Su Rui looking angry but still smiling. It’s quite amusing.”
“I suppose it’s similar to what you said, they can’t find any prey. Hearing you say that, Su Rui’s behavior seems quite interesting. Why didn’t you mention it before?”
“You didn’t ask me, what’s there to say.”
Hachikuju laughed, and Su Rui and his companions’ warhorses had already stopped in front of the shelter.
“Oh, Su Rui City Master, what’s up? Suddenly paying us a visit, a bit caught off guard. Why, is it because you have too many spoils of war to show off here?”
The firelight made Huang Yan’s face look very bad, and he said after taking a sip.
“Hachikuju, don’t pretend with me. Where did you get the ambergris? You’ve actually gathered all the mutant creatures within fifty kilometers to your place.”
Hachikuju’s face immediately turned serious. “Old man Huang Yan, don’t play games with me. I only call you ‘Second Huang’ out of respect for your old age. With the Eight War Riders situation now, do I still need to pretend?”
Don’t rely on your old age. Among us, your position is based on your age, while the rest of us have fought for ours. Being called ‘Second Master’ is only because of Zhang Yi’s mercy towards you. Instead of being grateful, you are still scheming. I feel embarrassed for your old face!
“Look at you, sitting on the horse unsteadily as if about to fall. In a real fight among the Eight War Riders leaders, who can you defeat?”
Hearing Huang Yan shouting down at him from his high horse, Hachikuju couldn’t control his temper and started cursing loudly.
“You…”
Huang Yan pointed at Hachikuju, who looked disdainful, trembling and unable to speak.
“What about you? You’re so old that you can’t even speak. Why bother fighting for the position of Capital City Lord? Planning to pass it on to your son? Sorry, I forgot that even though Elder Huang likes women, he doesn’t have any children. What a pity.”
Qizilbash also didn’t hold back his anger, shouting a sentence that almost made Huang Yan faint.
This Huang Yan didn’t have any children before the apocalypse. After the apocalypse, his body recovered to a young person’s level, and he started sneaking around looking for many beautiful women.
Because he was the Sub City Lord, and he usually only pursued single women, there wasn’t much to say. But despite his body recovering, being at such an old age, the rumors of an older man with younger women started spreading.
Even though his body had reached its peak, after such a long time, not a single woman had conceived for him. Now being publicly embarrassed by Qizilbash, naturally, he was extremely angry.
Seeing Huang Yan about to act, Su Rui, who had been silent all along, stood up and smiled, speaking up.
“Elder Huang, why lower yourself to our level? City Lord Hachikuju and the others are all younger than you. Being full of youth, please bear with us.”
Huang Yan snorted coldly and started carefully observing the surroundings, without saying much.
“Don’t, Su Rui, great City Master, if you want to be his junior, go ahead yourself, don’t involve us.”
But Su Rui seemed not to have heard Hachikuju’s words at all, still smiling, “Seeing City Lord Hachikuju all looking tired, you must be resting. It’s only right for Su Rui to disturb your rest and make you angry.”
Regarding ambergris, it really affects our fair competition.”
Qizilbash was about to speak, but Su Rui didn’t give him a chance to talk and continued, saying,
“But it doesn’t matter much, it has only been three days now, and the mutated beasts heading towards you are getting fewer. You all should consider relocating.”
Hachikuju frowned and directly interrupted Su Rui, saying, “Don’t beat around the bush, no one is here for riddles. Just say what you have to say.”
In the glow of the fire, Su Rui’s eyes became very intense, shining in the darkness.
“I’ll just say it straight, Elder Huang and I couldn’t find many mutated beasts in other areas, didn’t know they were all here with you. We thought they were hiding deep in the wilderness, so we kept going further, until we reached a place 200 kilometers from the edge of the wilderness.”
Hachikuju and the others gasped in disbelief, asking Su Rui, “200 kilometers? We are only 120 kilometers from our current location. Is that the heart of the wilderness?”
Upon hearing Su Rui’s words, Hachikuju no longer had the heart to be angry with him. Two hundred kilometers, a terrifying depth. It was unexpected that Su Rui had been there and brought himself and Huang Yan’s people out unharmed.
Su Rui nodded seriously in response, “Yes, 200 kilometers away.”
Hachikuju’s tone became urgent, “Quick, what’s there? Are there high-level mutant beasts?”
Su Rui shook his head slowly, but then revealed a shocking piece of news.
“Oddly enough, as we ventured deeper, we didn’t encounter many mutant beasts, of course, that’s also because we kept going deeper.
But when we reached a distance of two hundred kilometers, we unexpectedly found a patch of land covered with mutant plants.
Roughly estimating, there were at least a hundred plants.”
At least a hundred mutant plants!
People on Hachikuju’s side were all stirred up!
“But I don’t know if there are any mutant beasts guarding nearby. Normally, each mutant plant is guarded by a mutant beast.
If there are hundreds of plants, it means the mutant beasts claiming these as their territory are either very powerful or there are a huge number of them.
I was worried that both teams wouldn’t be able to eat, so we slowly left from the other side. But suddenly, Green Sky sniffed a strange smell and followed it, eventually finding you guys.
That’s my goal.”
Su Rui’s eyes were honest, staring at the leaders Hachikuju and Qizilbash intensely.
