They didn't sleep for long, as Chloe crawled out of her sleeping bag around four in the morning.
Instead of waking her companions, she stepped out of the tent, her gaze falling on the branches stuck in the ground near the campfire.
The soul fire was still burning, though its color had dimmed somewhat.
Chloe walked over, pulled out the branch, and casually extinguished the flame. Then she noticed some complex footprints in the muddy ground nearby.
She stared at the footprints for a moment before opening her terminal to send a message to Ren Yunying.
[World's Most Handsome]: Dear Instructor Ren, if you don't want your beloved student's beautiful and noble life to end in the Forest of Life, please send reinforcements.
After three seconds, the other side sent back a question mark.
Chloe didn't pay it any more attention. She turned off the terminal and suddenly threw the branch in her hand!
The sharpened end, coupled with Chloe's incredible strength, pierced straight through some creature's neck. The sound of blood gushing out came from not far away.V/\IssịT n0(v)eL/b(i)(n).co/m for the b/est novel reading experi/en/ce
The surrounding bushes instantly erupted into a frenzy of movement.
Chloe's lips curled up slightly as she returned to the tent to wake up Qin Huaibei and the others.
"Get up, it's time to work."
The first thing the groggy Daniel did upon sitting up was to take out his wolf-tooth mace from his spatial ring.
"They came so quickly?" Katherine asked.
Chloe: "Yes, they've probably been lying in ambush for a long time."
She paused briefly before continuing, "But it's better for them to come out during the day than at night. At least their movements are easier to track."
"That's true."
Everyone packed up their gear and walked out of the tent.
In just a few minutes, the area outside the tent had been surrounded by layers upon layers of transparent monsters.
They flexed their muscles, their sharp claws scratching the muddy ground a couple of times, turning the once relatively even terrain into a mess.
Unintelligible "hisses" came from their throats.
Chloe raised an eyebrow: "Well, well, so many little bastards."
As soon as she finished speaking, the transparent monsters' bodies began to tremble, emitting threatening roars.
Seeing this, she was slightly surprised: "They actually know I'm insulting them. Pretty high IQ."
The Elven Holy Maiden had formed a connection with this forest. Green vines suddenly burst from the ground, instantly restraining a large wave of monsters.
Looking at the group of monsters held fast by vines around their ankles and bodies, Katherine's gaze remained calm as she extended her hand—
Vines gushed forth, wrapping tightly around the monsters' necks like ghostly hands. With just a slight outward pull, there was a "crack" sound as their necks shattered.
Hearing this sound, Daniel smashed his wolf-tooth mace hard onto a monster's head. After confirming that its brains had splattered and it had no chance of getting up again, he muttered:
"I didn't expect Katherine to be so brutal."
Anderson, who was assisting Chloe nearby, glanced at the monster brains stuck to the bottom of his shoes. His lips twitched, but in the end, he said nothing.
Brutal? Who here was the most brutal? Everyone knew in their hearts, they just didn't say it out loud.
Time passed minute by minute. Despite everyone's various abilities, they couldn't withstand the sheer number of monsters here.
Chloe couldn't take it anymore. Her fire dragon grew dozens of times larger, incinerating the heads of all the monsters present in one go.
But the next moment, many more leapt out from the bushes.
They were so densely packed, they almost blocked out the sky.
Chloe said in frustration: "Is the Viper Group so bored that they keep churning out these monsters? Don't they have anything better to do?!"
"There are so many, they must have moved their entire breeding lab here!"
Daniel chimed in: "They might even be hiding somewhere, continuously creating more. Those beasts!"
As he spoke, Daniel spat in disgust.
But hearing this, Chloe paused for a moment.
Indeed, no matter how many monsters there were, it shouldn't be possible to kill for so long without finishing them off.
The Forest of Life was so vast, could these monsters really be everywhere? That didn't seem likely.
Unless someone was indeed continuously creating these monsters and releasing them.
This person must still be in the Forest of Life right now.
Just as she was thinking this, the roar of a spaceship suddenly came from above.
Chloe looked up and saw Ren Yunying peering down from the ship's entrance.
The next instant, Ren Yunying raised her hand, and a group of young people who looked like soldiers jumped down from the spaceship.
The reinforcements had arrived!