"Who is Xiao San (Third Brother) talking to?"
Dai Mu Bai and the others were startled, their gazes shifting upwards with alarm, then falling upon the surrounding wolf bandits who were eyeing them menacingly.
One by one, the wolf bandits, crouching low on all fours, followed Tang San's gaze. All they saw was the giant, bizarre blood-red moon hanging overhead.
The crimson moonlight was hazy and alluring, like flowing, viscous blood, exuding a thick, chilling aura, as if the Grim Reaper had raised his scythe and the death knell was tolling.
Hiding themselves among the ordinary gray-clothed wolf bandits within the deep night, the green-clothed wolf bandits twitched their elongated snouts, as if sensing the scent of death. Their wolf ears perked up, and a low growl of warning escaped their slightly parted mouths. The surrounding wolf bandits also pricked up their ears, looking towards the sky.
This scene was strikingly similar to wolves howling at the moon.
To the wolf bandits, whose vision was exceptionally keen at night, unlike humans, the blood-red moon in the night sky suddenly distorted. It was as if it had moved, stretching its body.
But how could the moon stretch?
The green-clothed wolf bandit's fierce pupils constricted. A roar of challenge, mixed with human language, erupted from its opened maw—
"Watch out above!"
"Gulu gulu—"
The shadows beneath the wolf bandits' feet suddenly churned like a quagmire.
The wolf bandits standing on the fields were caught off guard, dragged down by a powerful suction force from below, plunging into another unknown space.
Among them, the green-clothed wolf bandit, who reacted first and was also the leader, immediately sensed the anomaly of the shadow on the ground.
Beast-like intuition made the shadow on the ground glow with a spectral light the moment it began to move. It stepped on the body of another tribesman and leaped high, performing a second jump in mid-air that defied normal inertia. Then, its massive wolf body arched like a drawn bowstring.
Its claws met above its head, and green light converged, striking the blood-red moon overhead with a colossal green blade three meters in diameter.
"Boom—!"
The green energy blade collided with a semi-transparent, black-red barrier.
The wolf bandit leader's eyes grew fiercer, and just as it was about to attack again, a pressure and fear that emanated from their very souls descended from above, causing the other wolf bandits, who had scattered and were trying to escape the shadow trap, to freeze. The pressure from their bloodline hierarchy rendered them immobile.
Even the wolf bandit leader, who was about to launch a second attack, stiffened, forced to maintain an upward gaze as it fell from the sky. Its eyes, filled with ferocity and bestial nature, now held a deep terror and confusion.
For it could not understand how these humans they were hunting could be connected to this overlord soul beast.
Didn't soul beasts… detest and stay away from humans?
Until it was dragged into the domain by the shadowy tendrils erupting from the ground, the wolf bandit leader was filled with anger, shock, and bewilderment.
Meanwhile, Dai Mu Bai and the others saw a familiar figure that seemed to have merged with the blood-red moon.
Tang Sui was still Tang Sui, wearing a mask, but the mask on her face had changed from the old man's mask to an ape mask. Her scarlet, glowing round eyes were looking down at them on the ground.
"Sui Sui…" Oscar murmured.
Ma Hong Jun, his face contorted in pain, involuntarily flinched as he saw the black mask circling Tang Sui. He stammered, "The mask… the mask's color!"
"Is that… another Sui Sui?" Dai Mu Bai looked at Tang Sui, whose demeanor was entirely unfamiliar, with doubt.
Bai Chen Xiang, not understanding, maintained her vigilance. She looked confusedly at Tang Sui, who seemed different, then at Tang San and the others, whose expressions were extremely solemn. She said with difficulty, "What do you mean?"
No one answered Bai Chen Xiang.
The next second, a light hum seemed to drift into Tang San's ears. Behind Tang Sui in the void, a pitch-black spatial rift suddenly tore open, like a glaring trap entrance. Tang Sui flew backward and disappeared into the black rift, along with a considerable number of wolf bandits she had dragged along, vanishing before their eyes.
A cool night breeze blew.
On the now barren field, only the four of them and a few wolf bandits who had narrowly escaped the domain's devouring remained, hastily fleeing towards the dense mountain forest.
"Don't let a single one escape!"
A cold glint flashed in Tang San's eyes. The Eight Spider Lances on his back unfurled. Like a human-faced demon spider, he ghosted away from his original position. The Blue Silver Emperor's entanglement activated, and while the wolf bandit running the furthest was temporarily restrained by the Blue Silver Emperor, he had already silently approached that wolf bandit.
With a "swish," the Eight Spider Lances on his back pierced into the wolf bandit's body. The others, Oscar and the rest, did not neglect their task. Without Tang San's command, they pursued independently, ensuring none would escape.
Wolf bandits were called wolf bandits because they were a hybrid of humans and the Gale Wolf, a soul beast.
However, despite possessing high human intelligence, they could not be called humans, as their bloodthirsty bestial nature took precedence. Their lives were akin to those of true wild beasts: cruel, bloodthirsty, burning and plundering villages. It could be said that even robbers might be more merciful than them.
Furthermore, this type of wolf bandit clan was notoriously united. If even one tribesman died, it would draw the relentless pursuit of other wolf bandits.
They couldn't stay in this village forever, and these wolf bandits might return at any time to raid the village again, thus they absolutely could not let them escape!
Because the domain, lacking strength, sensed the falling "blood dumplings," the lurking shadows transformed into countless thorns and ferocious beasts, their maws gaping. Hungrily, they tore and chewed the "food" that fell into their "stomachs" into pieces and devoured them.
In another space, the last green-clothed wolf bandit leader who had fallen watched his tribesmen being torn apart and slaughtered like lambs to the slaughter. Thick blood-red light flared in his eyes, and a long howl, signifying a call to action, erupted from his mouth.
In an instant, the wolf bandits inside and outside the domain grew in size again. Long howls echoed from their mouths, and their claws became even larger. The entire wolf seemed to have been injected with stimulants, their thirst for blood amplified infinitely. They formed a gravity-defying bridge with the bodies of their companions, desperately trying to surge upwards.
This was a unique ability of the wolf bandit leader, akin to a group berserk amplification effect, driving all tribesmen into a bloodthirsty frenzy, doubling their attack power, speed, and strength!
"Hee hee hee—so naive."
"Such cute wolves, wish there were more."
"So much energy, ah, no, actually, it's quite little."
"Youngsters, don't waste it."
"Cunning fellows, didn't you say the energy would be distributed evenly?"
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Laughter echoed throughout the dark domain, stimulating the nerves more intensely than the wolf howls.
Because the wolf howls were merely shrill, with a slight mental stimulation effect.
But these sounds were chaotic and discordant, like countless mouths speaking at once, forming a wall of sound in their ears, mentally polluting their brains, causing their sanity to plummet!
—Interjection—
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