492: Chapter 492 Searching for Parents

Before them, a vast, imposing dark shadow appeared.

It was heading straight toward them.

"Hide!"

The captain also noticed this anomaly and whispered, and everyone hurriedly found a place to hide.

"What on earth is that?"

"Could it be an Evolved Beast from the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone?"

Someone in the team asked in a low voice, but the thin man shook his head, his eyes filled with caution. Because the event had happened so suddenly, he hadn't perceived it clearly, but he felt that something was wrong.

He stared intently at the dense mass of shadows in the distance.

His brows were tightly furrowed, and his eyes revealed confusion and astonishment.

"No, that's not an Evolved Beast!"

"If it's not an Evolved Beast, then what is it? Could it be humans?"

One person said in disbelief, and the thin man nodded heavily, speaking in a tone of disbelief.

"It is humans..."

The swarming dark shadow gradually revealed itself to them, and the ten people stared at the scene before them, completely stunned, their minds filled with great confusion.

How could so many people suddenly appear in the wilderness?

The number had reached tens of thousands.

These tens of thousands of people who had suddenly appeared were stumbling along, their faces showing unconcealable fatigue, their clothes already tattered.

However, these tens of thousands of people seemed to have a certain level of discipline.

Many young and strong men were protecting the old man at the very front, and it was evident that they looked at the old man with respect.

"Captain, this..."

Someone in the team asked in confusion, and the captain immediately walked out. Seeing the suddenly appeared fully armed woman, the leading old man was stunned, but he still stopped the team from advancing.

A moment later, the captain bid farewell to the old man and returned to the team.

And these tens of thousands of people continued toward their destination.

Soon, only their backs remained.

"Captain, what on earth is going on?"

"Where did these people come from?"

The others in the team asked impatiently, and the captain spoke slowly with disbelief.

"These people all came from the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone."

"They are the group of people that the Tiger King of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone previously abducted from Gejiang City and kept in captivity."

The captain said, and after hearing this, everyone's eyes were filled with disbelief. People coming out of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone? How is that possible? How could there be living people coming out of that Forbidden Ground?

"Captain, is it the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone with that Snake King?"

One person asked.

"Yes, it is."

"It is that Huangjiang Forbidden Zone. I heard from that old man that the master of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone has changed. The Snake King killed the Tiger King and is now the master of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone."

"However, I am also curious why they were able to come out alive."

"The old man said that after the Snake King took control of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone, it released those of them kept in captivity. It didn't harm them again, nor did it pay any attention to them, and then, after a few days, it inexplicably let them go."

"When they left the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone, the master of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone, the Snake King, even allowed them to take food with them."

"So these people took the food, left the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone, and then walked step by step toward Gejiang City."

"Along the way, they didn't encounter a single Evolved Beast."

"The old man told me that he was also very surprised and couldn't believe that they had returned alive from the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone."

The captain said slowly. To be honest, she didn't believe these words either, but they were spoken by the old man himself.

"The master of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone..."

"The terrifying Snake King..."

"And it actually let them go..."

One person said in disbelief, and another added.

"And even let them take food..."

This... putting all these facts together, why couldn't they make sense of it?

"What exactly is that Snake King trying to do?"

"Could it be trying to use these people as bait to wipe out Gejiang City in one fell swoop?"

Someone muttered, but the idea was immediately dismissed. The Snake King's strength was already so great; why would it bother with such futile efforts?

"It seems the Snake King didn't attack us either?"

"Could it be because the Snake King doesn't like eating humans?"

One person said, and this guess was quickly accepted by the others as a possibility; it was very likely that this was the reason.

"Don't overthink it."

"Regardless of whether the Snake King likes to eat humans or not, the Snake King's strength is obvious to all. Let's just find General Lu Zheng first."

Everyone nodded and hurriedly followed the captain, heading toward Baiyun City. Meanwhile, Lu Zheng, who had already left, didn't know where he had arrived.

In the surrounding wilderness, there was only him and the Ox King.

And in his Perception, apart from the existence of some Evolved Beasts, there wasn't even a single human.

His parents and the others had set off from Baiyun City, intending to head toward Wutai City in Baiyun Prefecture, so Lu Zheng's goal was also Wutai City.

After that was the Yangtong Forbidden Land.

As for whether he needed to pick up his parents and bring them back to Baiyun City, Lu Zheng felt it was unnecessary. As long as he ensured his parents' safety along the way and they could successfully reach Wutai City, that would be enough.

Afterwards, once the matters in Baiyun City were concluded, his main body would naturally go there in person.

"It should be in this direction."

Based on the past maps of Baiyun Prefecture and the latest partial map drawn by that team, Lu Zheng found a direction and burst forth at an extremely fast speed.

At this moment, the speed of his Clone allowed him to travel a hundred miles in just three or four minutes. If he wanted to traverse the entire Baiyun Prefecture, it would probably take about half a day.

As long as he found the direction, everything would be easy to handle.

"Sir, are there many beings like you?"

"If it weren't for your appearance, our Shangjing City might have already been breached by that Tier 4 Beast King."

On the city walls of Shangjing City, many people were standing, every one of them covered in traces of battle on their faces and bodies. Below the city walls were countless corpses of Evolved Beasts, mixed with human corpses.

It was such a tragic scene, yet the eyes of those who survived held a glimmer of excitement.

Because they had won.

They had defended Shangjing City and successfully killed the Beast King that had attacked the city. The Beast King's corpse lay not far outside the city, its terrifying body stinging everyone's eyes.

And the being who had killed that Beast King stood on the city wall; although he had quite a few injuries on his body, they could not conceal the radiance emanating from him.

He had become the hope and the War God in the eyes of everyone in Shangjing City.

Just as everyone was immersed in the joy of victory, the being on the city wall who was hailed as the War God frowned and stared intently into the distance.

And at that very moment, a powerful aura swept over.