On the other side, Zhao Wuji, who had withdrawn from Ao Sichen's detection range, said to Flender:"Birdman, just now I saw that soul tool on that kid Ao Sichen seemed to be in a ready-to-fire state.
Could it be that kid discovered our approach and was preparing to attack?"
"He definitely discovered us," Flender confirmed Zhao Wuji's guess, then said,"Do you know why I followed them from more than five hundred meters away?
Shao Xin told me before, the detection soul tool in Little Ao's hand is extremely sensitive within five hundred meters.
He already tested it: as long as you enter that five-hundred-meter boundary and move a little, you will definitely be detected by Ao Sichen.
I just didn't want Ao Sichen to know our position and let him feel like he had someone to rely on, so I stayed that far away."
Hearing Flender's words, Zhao Wuji looked at the detection soul tool in his hand with a face full of doubt about life, and decided to give up thinking about the gap between a "genius" and a "normal person."
Time returned to normal. Within the advancing student team, Ao Sichen did not tell the others about his discovery.
Because Ao Sichen vaguely guessed why Flender and Zhao Wuji stayed so far from everyone,
so naturally he would not ruin their intention.
Because of the unexpected attack by the Bay Crocodile, everyone became much more cautious along the following route, but still inevitably experienced three battles.
The most dangerous was when passing through the territory of a thousand-year Thorn Hedgehog.The rain of quills shooting at them instantly made everyone extremely miserable.
Because breaking through the long-range blockade of the Thorn Hedgehog to launch a full attack was not easy, and the Thorn Hedgehog did not fit their target requirement,
the Shrek group only retreated quickly out of its territory under the cover of Ao Sichen and Oscar's long-range attacks.
It was precisely due to encountering the thousand-year spirit beast — Thorn Hedgehog — that the students confirmed they had entered the target area:the peripheral mixed region of Star Dou Great Forest.
After cautiously moving forward for another half hour, Ao Sichen had Cowen begin leading everyone to conduct lateral search movements.
This time Tang San's target spirit beast was those that could provide his Blue Silver Grass martial spirit with poison and toughness attributes.
Xiao Wu's target spirit beast, according to what she said herself, had many options—
it could be comprehensive enhancement-type soul skills, strong attack-type soul skills, or even some very useful special-type soul skills.
But Ao Sichen understood in his heart that this was just what Xiao Wu said to everyone.
Her real soul ring would be the one she condensed herself after leaving everyone's line of sight.
Along the way they searched carefully and did encounter several spirit beasts of suitable age before dark, but their attributes were only barely acceptable.
Because this was an extremely important third soul ring, and time was abundant, everyone remained cautious in choosing soul rings,
hoping for the most suitable one — not just "good enough."
In the end, since they had no gains before nightfall, the Shrek group arrived at a slanted stone wall.
Because the stone wall blocked the area, it formed a rocky clearing with no plant growth.The surface was extremely hard and flat, requiring no clearing of vegetation,
and with the huge stone wall behind them, they could save one direction of detection, making it an excellent campsite.
After careful inspection, they confirmed there were no spirit beast nests or tunnels in the stone wall, and no hidden scorpions, centipedes, or similar in the rocky ground.
Ao Sichen even used the Omniscient Library's scanning function to inspect the rocks, confirming they were not some strange spirit beast species.
Only then did he set up and secure the foam-metal house.Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing went to install detection soul tools in the other three directions without stone-wall cover, for night watch.
Tang San and Xiao Wu took the bucket-type storage soul tool to fetch water from the water source.
Ao Sichen habitually sprinkled medicinal powder around the campsite.
Ma Hongjun and Ning Rongrong began preparing the half-spirit-beast — the spirit pig — they caught earlier that morning when entering the forest.
Once Ao Sichen returned, they could start preparing dinner.
But this dinner was destined to not be eaten.
Half an hour passed, Ao Sichen was almost done cooking, but Tang San and Xiao Wu still had not returned.
Everyone in the camp realized Tang San and Xiao Wu might have encountered trouble, so they hurriedly took out their phones to try contacting them.
At this moment, they simply assumed Tang San and Xiao Wu were delayed by spirit beasts blocking the way.
But when everyone tried to contact them yet received no response at all, they all realized something was seriously wrong.
The panicked group instinctively wanted to rush toward the water source to investigate.
But Ao Sichen stopped them, saying:"Everyone, don't panic, or you'll make mistakes. Let's analyze the situation first."
Ao Sichen's words forced them to calm down, and everyone looked toward him to see what he had realized.
In truth, Ao Sichen was very worried at first, but he believed that the more unexpected the situation, the more one must stay calm.He forced himself to calm down and not act rashly.
Once he did, Ao Sichen suddenly thought of a few strange things.
First was Xiao Wu's clearly abnormal state at noon.
Second, not long ago, when they were about to continue searching,
Xiao Wu suddenly said that after moving intensely all day on their first day in the forest, she felt tired
and asked if they could set up camp early.
Since Xiao Wu was the one needing a soul ring, and everyone indeed felt their mental condition declining,
they had no suspicions and began searching for a campsite.
The third point was that when setting up camp, Xiao Wu very proactively volunteered to fetch water. That wasn't unusual itself.
But Ao Sichen noticed that Xiao Wu seemed to want to refuse when Tang San proposed going with her,
but in the end probably couldn't find a good excuse to stop him, so she didn't say anything.
With these three suspicious points, combined with the memories in his mind, a bold guess formed in Ao Sichen's mind.
At noon, Xiao Wu was not leaving a message for the Titan Giant Ape — she was actively summoning it.
In the afternoon she suddenly requested rest because she sensed the Titan Giant Ape was close.
When setting up camp she volunteered to fetch water and didn't want Tang San to follow because she wanted to slip away and meet the Titan Giant Ape alone.
But unfortunately, Tang San — protecting his beloved — insisted on following, likely causing complications in Xiao Wu's plan.
Right now Ao Sichen could not determine whether Xiao Wu had told Tang San her identity and was peacefully meeting her "guardian,"
or whether she did not reveal her identity, and when the Titan Giant Ape appeared, Tang San attacked in panic, causing the Titan Giant Ape to fight back and forcibly take Xiao Wu.
If it was the former, it was fine. If it was the latter, Tang San's situation would not be pleasant.
In Ao Sichen's mind, the latter was more likely,
since if he were Xiao Wu, he also wouldn't easily reveal that he was a hundred-thousand-year spirit beast in human form.
But now was not the time to think about that — the others were waiting for his explanation.
"Think about it: with Tang San and Xiao Wu's strength, if they couldn't even send out a distress signal before losing contact,
then the opponent must be something we absolutely cannot handle.
To be safe, we should contact the two deans first."
Knowing Ao Sichen was right, Dai Mubai immediately called Flender.
Connect — explain — hang up.
Five seconds later, Flender and Zhao Wuji burst into the camp, acceleration soul tool light trailing behind them.
"Which direction did Tang San go?" Flender asked urgently, wings spread.
Ma Hongjun pointed out the direction and Flender soared into the sky immediately.
Zhao Wuji's expression was extremely serious, but he did not leave with Flender.
One reason was fear that if he left, spirit beasts or enemies might attack the camp, and Dai Mubai and the others couldn't handle it.
The other reason was that searching was clearly something Flender, with his flying martial spirit and agility-attack attributes, was far better at.If even Flender couldn't find them, Zhao Wuji going would be pointless.
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