Published: February 12, 2025
In an instant, Li Daqian felt a surge of wild beasts within him.
To be honest, when he saw the fireworks, he truly believed that Ye Zhongming was there to disrupt the banquet, or even to attack the Ten Thousand Beast Manor. If controlling battle beasts wasn't his specialty but rather close combat, he might have already rushed over.
"I treat you as a brother, yet you want... to hit me?"
The others from the national district were equally bewildered. They thought that although Ye Zhongming had a notorious reputation, he was said to be quite reasonable. Why was he suddenly acting out now? What did he intend to do?
The powers present were numerous, and although Cloud Summit Villa was strong, it couldn't possibly be powerful enough to take on thousands. Did he want to provoke everyone's anger?
Even the water steward, who had a good relationship with Ye Zhongming, opened his mouth, hesitating on how to choose. If Ye Zhongming's real target was the Ten Thousand Beast Manor and he asked for help, should the five rings society he represented agree or not?
After the fireworks exploded in the sky, the scene began to stir with two groups of people.
One group was Ye Zhongming and the distant red dress guard, while the other group consisted of the fifty mutated chimpanzees that had been modified by the Alamos and Guan Cheng Village laboratories at the center of the venue.
After launching the fireworks, Ye Zhongming began to retreat. His pace was not fast, but it was steady. Xia Bai, Xiao Min, and the other four protected him as they moved in the direction that the red dress guard had previously vacated, striving to regroup early.
"Ye Zhongming, you..." Li Daqian stood up and managed to say a few words before suddenly realizing that the Stabilizing Kun Needle in his hand was shaking violently. Caught off guard, this purple piece of equipment slipped from his grasp.
He quickly turned to look back, his heart already frightened half to death.
There was no other way; it was a purple piece of equipment. This was the highest level of equipment that an evolver could have. As long as rainbow equipment had not been confirmed to appear, this was the best thing!
If something unexpected happened and the Stabilizing Kun Needle was seized, although the Ten Thousand Beast Manor could afford it, it would still suffer a significant blow.
With their current ability to kill ninth-level beasts, only that large beast pool equipment was purple!
But when Li Daqian saw where the Stabilizing Kun Needle was flying, he first showed an expression of disbelief, then profound coldness.
The direction the purple equipment flew was towards Mr. Wen, who at this moment was a longtime friend with whom he had maintained a friendly relationship for decades. Mr. Wen was raising a hand to summon the equipment back, while his other hand was passing two of Li Daqian's golden pieces of equipment to a person from the Alamos laboratory nearby!
With just a thought, Li Daqian knew what had happened.
He looked again at the retreating Ye Zhongming and realized that the two sides were not in cahoots. It was just that the people from Cloud Summit had detected the anomaly ahead of time; otherwise, they wouldn’t be retreating but rather attacking him.
At this moment, others, like Li Daqian, understood that the situation had nothing to do with Cloud Summit because the fifty mutated chimpanzees that were supposed to fight each other were not attacking one another, but were instead charging towards the crowd.
This open-air banquet was originally divided into two parts; on the left side were more than a dozen powerful factions, each table filled with six or seven people, some even with only three or four people.
On the right side, there were many tables, but each faction was allowed only two attendees, even though ten tables were set up, they were not fully occupied.
Among them, two tables were occupied by foreigners, and due to this fight, some people from Alamos and several previous factions were standing nearby, with their numbers exceeding thirty, only about half of the number of people on the right side of the national district.