novelraw Chapter 609 - 552: Truly a Thief at Heart (Part 2)
Chapter 609 - 552: Truly a Thief at Heart (Part 2)
If someone is truly sabotaging things and doesn’t get caught, they’re likely to keep spreading the insect eggs.
For some reason, Shen Tang suddenly recalled the shadow from last night.
Xiao Jin, Lu Xiao, and Xue Yinzhou clearly had the same thought; the air around seemed to freeze instantly.
Xiao Jin’s handsome face turned dark, and his clenched fist made a cracking sound. He turned around to leave, saying, "I’m definitely dragging that troublemaker out!"
Shen Tang knew he was angry and didn’t stop him.
She looked at Lu Xiao and Xue Yinzhou, who were equally serious, along with Luo Fei and Fu Teng who had just arrived, and discussed the next plan.
If the mastermind’s goal is truly to destroy the Purification Tree, then before the plan succeeds, they must be hiding nearby!
Shen Tang divided the personnel into several teams, each led by a Tenth Rank Beastman, to conduct a thorough area search.
Luo Fei also led a team to set out.
In the vast wilderness, Beastmen transformed into their true forms, lowering their heads to carefully sniff out suspicious scents.
Leading the pack was a massive black wild boar, nearly five or six meters long, with taut muscles and bristles as strong as iron, sharp tusks, a mane of long bristles standing upright like a spiked array, exuding a commanding presence and a strong sense of oppression.
Luo Fei usually refrains from easily revealing his beast form, but at the moment, he couldn’t care less. In his true form, the Beastman’s strength and senses are most fully unleashed.
The opponent was cautious, leaving no energy traces, but the scent was hard to fully conceal. With a keen sense of smell, the wild boar’s long snout kept nudging the ground until it suddenly caught a peculiar scent.
He jerked his head up, eyes sharp as he looked in a certain direction, "Over there!"
He dashed forward first, unleashing a superpower fiercely towards that spot.
With a bang, the ground exploded into a deep crater, and a shadowy figure flew out.
"Caught you, little thief!" Luo Fei chased after him triumphantly.
But just then, the solid ground beneath suddenly turned into a muddy swamp, causing his hind legs to falter and sink instantly, unable to pull out.
"Captain!" The Beastmen behind saw this and hurried forward to assist.
However, the next second, the ground under their feet also turned into mire, their ankles sank swiftly.
More alarmingly, it seemed an invisible force within the swamp was pulling them downward!
The more they struggled, the faster they sank. In less than half a minute, most of their bodies had submerged in the mud.
Luo Fei, who got caught first, was now only revealing his head. He struggled to breathe, but kept sinking, with his mouth and nose about to be engulfed by the sludge.
At the critical moment, a green vine wrapped tightly around his neck, forcibly dragging him upwards to prevent him from sinking completely.
Luo Fei’s eyes rolled back from being strangled, his face flushed red—if his mouth wasn’t clogged with mud, he’d curse out loud. Was this damned plant saving him or trying to strangle him? It was definitely private revenge!
Fu Teng didn’t bother with his thoughts. A dozen vines burst from the ground, wrapping around the Beastmen trapped in the swamp, temporarily slowing their sinking speed.
Fu Teng, who also brought a team nearby to search, had sunk his roots deep into the earth, detecting a slight anomaly in the energy fluctuation, and tracked it here, just in time to rescue Luo Fei’s group.
Needless to say, Luo Fei and his team were rather fortunate amid misfortune. A few seconds later, their lives could have been lost.
Xiao Jin arrived with his team and saw some Beastmen wanted to help, shouting sternly to stop them, "Everyone back off!"
From high above came the piercing cry of an eagle.
Lu Xiao led the flying Beastmen and arrived too.
His steady voice rang from the sky, "Don’t panic! The more you struggle in the swamp, the deeper you sink. Lean back slowly to increase surface contact with the mud."
Fu Teng also attempted to use vines to pull the Beastmen out, but the swamp’s suction was too strong, nearly snapping the vines, still unable to extract them.
Even more disconcerting, something seemed to be moving, stirring beneath the swamp, accelerating the engulfing speed!
Lu Xiao’s sharp eagle eyes instantly spotted the anomaly beneath the swamp, his talons conjured a whirlwind, striking at that precise spot.
Boom!
Mud splattered like an explosion.
Seizing the opportunity, Fu Teng exerted his strength despite the pain, quickly pulling the Beastmen back to solid ground.
Luo Fei’s body was mostly pulled out too, but with his enormous size and heavy weight, he was like a small truck.
Fu Teng, exhausted to the point of a white face and panting heavily, wished to kick him—this dead fat pig eats so much usually, he’s heavy as hell! The vines were close to snapping!
Xue Yinzhou arrived in time to witness this scene, frowned, and immediately transformed into his beast form, joining Fu Teng in pulling Luo Fei out completely.