Chapter 1654: Chapter 1654

Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan are technically intruders too, and they’ve killed two giant wolves, disrupting the natural order here. But neither of them would consider this excessive; their lives are under threat, and they can’t just stand there being torn apart by wolves without resisting.

However, the two of them are just here to find Bai Shan, and the deaths of other creatures can only be said to be self-inflicted.

As for these people, they were originally without any quarrel, but upon entering, they directly aimed to kill the two of them, which is a bit outrageous. So the two would not hold back.

After forcing out the information Hu Gong knew, seeing that there’s nothing more to ask, Li Yifei walked over, raised his hand, and struck Hu Gong’s neck with a hand chop.

Hu Gong widened his eyes, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted. Li Yifei then pointed at his neck, where there was a major acupoint, and with a surge of True Qi penetrating in, even if Hu Gong wasn’t dead, he would probably never wake up. And the consequence of not waking up is dying here.

Xu Shanshan didn’t think Li Yifei’s actions seemed cruel. She wanted to hand the gun to Li Yifei, but he shook his head and said, "You hold the gun. We’re going to deal with these people. There’s another team over there that needs resolving. Hurry up."

Xu Shanshan responded with a hum, turning to leave.

"Be careful. If it doesn’t work, shoot. With you and me in this terrain, killing them isn’t hard, but your own safety is more important," Li Yifei reminded.

Xu Shanshan turned her head, smiled at Yifei, and blinked, saying, "I know, you too. See you after it’s done."

The two Innate Experts blended into the forest; when they exerted fully, they were ghost-like, their bodies faintly appearing and disappearing, flitting through the trees as if without any weight.

Since they decided to kill, they wouldn’t leave any live witnesses. Very soon, each locked onto a target, flashed past, and appeared in front of them.

The target Li Yifei was eyeing was initially about to stop and relieve himself, lowering his pants when suddenly someone appeared in front of him, clad in leaves. His eyes widened with immense surprise at Li Yifei, utterly forgetting to grab his gun.

The person before him got closer, smiling. He wanted to ask who Li Yifei was. His mouth just opened slightly, the words hadn’t gotten out, and this was his last expression and action in life. The next second, Li Yifei gripped his neck, applied light pressure, and after a cracking sound, his body went limp.

Li Yifei put the person down, paused before moving to the next target, glanced at the man’s clothes, and went back.

Two minutes later, Li Yifei ran towards the next target, now wearing the man’s clothes. Fortunately, they fit reasonably well.

Xu Shanshan, on her side, had also taken care of her opponent. Coincidentally, they both made the same choice to remove the opponent’s outer clothes and wore them themselves.

With ten people scattered around, it’s not really hard to silently take them out, especially for two experts of their caliber.

Three or four minutes later, the two met up, each glancing at the other’s clothes, grinning brightly. They didn’t take many firearms; each had one machine gun and one pistol tucked away, perhaps a dagger at most.

"There’s still another squad. Let’s go." With that, Li Yifei took off running, and Xu Shanshan used her martial skill to quickly catch up.

This second squad was tasked with locating and killing them. By now, they had found the two giant wolf carcasses. Looking at the humongous bodies, they collectively halted, discussing among themselves. Without a doubt, they’d never seen wolves so large, but the problem was, these two wolves were dead, seemingly just killed.

This puzzled them; it’s definitely not them who killed them, especially when the wounds on the wolves were clearly made by a blade.

"Is it those two?" The squad leader muttered, stopping his men from wanting to tear apart the wolf carcasses, saying, "Everyone be careful; it might be them who killed these wolves, and if so, they must be very strong. We need to be cautious."

Caution, huh? Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan, like Godsend, suddenly appeared before them, not bothering with words, they immediately struck. These men were briefly stunned, initially thinking they were allies. But as soon as the first person had his throat slit by Li Yifei, they realized these weren’t teammates. Attempts to shoot back were thwarted before they could pull the trigger, as Li Yifei knocked them down with a palm to their legs.

Someone, seeing that they couldn’t win, tried to run but was chased down by Xu Shanshan, who delivered a powerful kick that sent him crashing into a tree, motionless.

It’s not cruelty on their part; this is a place ordinary people shouldn’t know. Imagine if these humongous creatures roamed the world; the impact would be massive. There’s no need to even display their intelligence; just showing their size would shock countless people.

Because it’s so huge, a pig the size and weight of an elephant—what kind of concept is that? Li Yifei recalled that the heaviest pig reported on TV was only about eight or nine hundred pounds, at most a thousand pounds, yet the pig at the bottom of the hidden valley was actually a few tons, several times heavier than the heaviest pig, and it was surprisingly agile. Not only could it run, but it could also leap high into the air, and when it landed, it wouldn’t break any limbs or anything.

So, Li Yifei also felt that these creatures couldn’t appear in the secular world, otherwise it would be an earthshaking shock akin to an earthquake.

After taking care of those people, Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan met up and didn’t bother to bury them, instead, they walked back together.

Over at the hidden valley, Samao angrily pointed at the giant pig below, cursing and jumping in frustration for a while. Getting no satisfactory response, Samao wanted to shoot the giant pig, but his friend stopped him, and after a few words, he didn’t shoot. However, he swore that once they brought the stupid pig up, he’d make it suffer.

The twenty or so people sent out were all dead, and there was no more gunfire in the woods. After Samao sat down and took a few breaths, he suddenly realized the problem, turned his head to look in the direction where his men were pursuing, frowned, and with some confusion in his eyes, he said to the person beside him, "Why is there no gunfire? Did they catch that monkey?"

His subordinate wasn’t sure either and speculated, "Maybe, the gunfire was dense just now. At this moment... that big monkey was injured and probably couldn’t run far; it shouldn’t be hard to catch."

"Hmph, two of you, go over and check. If they caught it, fire a flare, and we’ll go get that guy back," Samao said.

Two subordinates immediately took the order and ran over to check. But as soon as they entered the woods, everything turned black in front of them, and the last scene of their life ended there. Thᴇ link to the origɪn of this information rᴇsts ɪn 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵✦𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖✦𝙣𝙚𝙩

The two of them loosened their grip and, through the leaves, looked at the people at the edge of the hidden valley, roughly counting thirty or so. They had almost resolved half of them. Xu Shanshan held up three fingers and made a splitting gesture, seeming to say, among the remaining ones, I’ll handle half, and you handle the other half.

Li Yifei raised his eyebrows and made an OK gesture.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was still no gunfire, and the two groups sent out, a total of six people, hadn’t reported back either. Samao was a little restless. He stood up and paced back and forth, showing some impatience. This valley was definitely strange, but... could it really be that dangerous? Why hadn’t those people given any response? Could they have encountered danger?

Samao suddenly turned around and looked at the remaining team of less than thirty people. These remaining people were a mixed bunch, including friends, experts, mercenaries, and a few black and white bodyguards he had hired. Was he really afraid of anything with so many people protecting him?

"Everyone get ready, let’s go inside and see what’s happened to those people. As for here, we’ll come back later after all, these two guys can’t get out," Samao said.

His subordinates nodded, stood up, packed their luggage, and prepared to follow Samao deeper in.

Before leaving, Samao took a machine gun from his subordinates, aimed at the area below the hidden valley, and fired a barrage. Most bullets landed around the giant pig’s body. The sudden bullets made the giant pig uneasy, causing it to howl in fear, and one stray bullet hit it. Although it didn’t penetrate deeply, it made it roar in pain.

Seeing this, Samao face was filled with a wicked smile. He tossed the gun to his subordinate and laughed as he walked into the forest.

Not long after entering the forest, they found a corpse. Rushing forward to check, they found no wounds, but the neck was already broken. Feeling the corpse, they found it still warm, proving it had just died, which filled them with both surprise and anger. Each of them pulled out their money, looked around vigilantly, ready to counterattack at any moment.

Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan were already in hiding by then, circling near these people, waiting for a chance to take out one or two that had fallen behind.

After discovering more than a dozen corpses, Samao finally understood that someone was targeting them, and that the person behind it was likely that man and woman.

Samao was furious, clutching his gun, and cursed, "Damn it, find them for me, I’ll kill them myself!"

Gunfire rang out, and a subordinate beside Samao fell to the ground. If Samao hadn’t moved a step earlier, he might have been the one falling.

The sudden gunfire scared Samao so much that his liver and gallbladder felt like they were about to burst. He felt as though he’d been electrocuted, immediately yanking a person over to shield him, simultaneously pointing in the direction where the bullet came from and shouted, "Over there! Quick, chase!"

A few mercenaries raised their guns and rushed towards the place where Li Yifei had just been, firing as they ran, as if this could hit the enemy.

But just then, gunfire erupted from the other side, a bullet hitting a white bodyguard in the waist, directly sending him flying, his body crashing into a tree with a painful howl.

This person wasn’t far from Samao either. These people were targeting him... Samao realized this, suddenly aware he had nowhere to hide.