NIP Chapter 243 The Escaped Beast King
Chapter 243 The Escaped Beast King
When Song Chen's spaceship landed in the Poisonous Valley, the valley was completely empty.
He stood at the cabin door, his mental energy sweeping across the entire valley.
There were no strange beasts, not a single one.
The claw marks on the ground were still fresh, and the residual spiritual energy fluctuations in the nest indicated that at least three fifth-tier beasts had stayed here. The unique fishy smell of the beasts still lingered in the air.
But it's empty.
"Han Duo, when was the last reconnaissance report on Poisonous Miasma Valley?"
Han Duo pulled up the data: "Two days ago, the reconnaissance battalion confirmed the presence of strange beasts here, with an estimated number of over three thousand, and the number of fifth-tier beasts is unknown."
Wang Zhan frowned as he looked at the scanner: "It was here two days ago, but now it's empty. It's too clean; even the low-level ones have all left."
Song Chen stood on the edge of the cliff, gazing at the empty valley below, his Eye of Truth slowly sweeping across it.
The residual psionic energy traces in the air were still there, with lines of different colors extending outward from the depths of the valley, all pointing in the same direction: south.
His communicator rang.
Lu Zhengbei's voice boomed out from inside, skipping even the opening remarks, "Councilor Song, the entire Nanjiang region is experiencing a beast riot. All thirty-two monitoring points have simultaneously issued alarms. The scale is expected to reach a level four beast tide. No base city in Nanjiang can withstand it. Return to the rescue immediately."
"What?" Song Chen exclaimed in surprise.
He was about to move, but something felt off.
He stood on the edge of the cliff, looking at the hazy, miasma-like clouds on the southern horizon.
The Eye of Truth pierced through the miasma and captured more traces of spiritual energy. The residual spiritual energy traces of dozens, even hundreds, of strange beasts all pointed in the same direction.
Those marks weren't from an attack formation, but from a marching column, and they were moving very fast.
He showed no trace of scattered psionic energy, no pre-charge rallying, and no coordinated signals between the various lairs, unlike when he unleashed the beast tide.
This doesn't look like a beast tide; it looks like an escape.
"wrong……"
Suddenly, Song Chen thought of a possibility and immediately turned around and walked back to the spaceship.
"Han Duo, turn around and head south."
Han Duo was stunned for a moment: "South? But Garrison Commander Lu said there's a beast tide."
Song Chen sat back down: "He guessed wrong about what those strange beasts were up to. It wasn't a beast tide, it was an escape. The strange beasts wanted to flee Nanjiang."
The call hadn't ended; Lu Zhengbei was still shouting on the other end, his voice rising even higher: "Escape?"
"Yes, they're going to run away."
Lu Zhengbei thought for two seconds, then cursed, and immediately the voice of him turning around and yelling at his adjutant came through the communication: "Cancel Level 1 combat readiness and send out all reconnaissance battalions."
Song Chen hung up the call.
"Han Duo, full speed ahead, due south."
The spaceship drew a sharp arc in mid-air, turned its nose south, and its engines roared, its tail flame instantly changing from orange-red to dazzling white.
The valley below rushed past the porthole, followed by hills, and then vast stretches of jungle.
The gray miasma-like clouds on the southern horizon were getting closer and closer.
Wang Zhan stared at the scanner screen, his expression growing increasingly grim.
"Congressman Song, the scanner has confirmed it."
"Thirty kilometers ahead, the total number of beasts exceeds twelve thousand, and there are forty-seven energy signals of fifth-tier beast kings."
"The energy intensity of the leader far exceeds that of an ordinary peak fifth-tier creature; it should be a golden-eyed black dragon."
Upon hearing this, Han Duo turned around from the cockpit: "Twelve thousand heads, forty-seven Tier 5, Councilor Song, should we request reinforcements for this number?"
"Keep going." Song Chen didn't even look up.
"But……"
"I said keep the pace."
Han Duo and Wang Zhan exchanged a glance and swallowed back what they were about to say.
The spaceship's engines roared as it continued southward, getting closer and closer to the horde of alien beasts ahead.
The energy signals on the scanner became increasingly dense, with countless light spots covering the entire screen.
In front.
The golden-eyed black dragon was moving at full speed.
Its 500-meter-long body dragged a deep ravine through the jungle, crushing the trees along its path like matchsticks.
Behind it followed the main force of high-level exotic beasts from Nanjiang Province. The Iron-Armed Violent Ape leaped on the ridge on the left, collapsing half a hillside with each landing.
The black-scaled leopard galloped wildly through the valley on the right, splashing water dozens of meters high.
The falcon flew low in the sky, its wingspan obscuring a large portion of the sky.
Further on, a torrent of thousands of fourth-tier beasts densely covered the entire land, appearing from the air like a black river flowing south.
Then the falcon turned around and glanced back.
Its eagle eyes are the sharpest among all the strange beasts in Nanjiang; it can see the ear of a rabbit from 300 kilometers away.
So when it saw the rapidly growing point of light on the horizon behind it, its feathers instantly bristled.
"He's caught up with us."
The wind falcon's voice boomed through the alien beast's mental communication network.
All the beast kings turned around at the same time.
The point of light rapidly magnified in their pupils; a silver-white S-class spaceship, its tail spewing blazing white flames, was approaching from the north at supersonic speed.
The black-scaled leopard's four legs went weak at the same time, and it almost fell headfirst into the river.
It considered itself fearless, having dared to tear apart human sixth-level martial artists when they faced each other head-on back then, but now, seeing that spaceship, its heart felt like it had been squeezed tightly.
How did he know we were heading south?
"Impossible! We've only been gone for an hour, how could he be so fast?"
"Golden Eyes, Golden Eyes! He's coming!"
The golden-eyed black dragon suddenly raised its upper body, and the golden patterns in its vertical pupils throbbed wildly.
It has dealt with humans countless times and never takes any individual martial artist seriously.
But at this moment, the reflection of that silver-white spaceship in its pupils grew larger and larger, and it felt its scales tighten involuntarily.
This is fear, genuine fear.
"spread!"
"All the beasts disperse and go their separate ways, then reunite on the other side of the border."
The roar of the golden-eyed black dragon exploded within the mental network.
Before the words were even finished, the spaceship's hatch opened in mid-air.
A figure plummeted from a height of three thousand meters, leaving a trail of blue wind behind it.
Golden-purple lightning exploded around him, instantly expanding into a spherical lightning field with a diameter of two hundred meters.
Looking up from the ground, it looked like a golden-purple sun crashing down from the sky.
Song Chen landed.
The lightning field spread outwards from its point of impact, and the low-level beasts on the outermost edge were carbonized before they even had a chance to scream.
The shockwave swept up rubble and charred corpses, blasting them outwards. Trees within a 300-meter radius were uprooted, and the ground cracked with spiderweb-like fissures.
The three slow-moving peak fourth-tier alien beasts were enveloped at the edge of the domain. Their scales and armor began to crack in less than two seconds, then their flesh and blood carbonized, their skeletons collapsed, and finally even their skeletons were shattered into powder.