Published: February 12, 2025
“Two minutes left!”
Commander Cheng Liujin stood at the top of the hill, watching the large swathes of trees and plants that had fallen in the distant jungle, accurately estimating the time.
Ye Zhongming nodded, his attention focused more on the three small teams of the First Division below.
“Zhong Ming, is this really going to work? If something goes wrong, our thirty thousand men could be finished here. Two mutated groups are blocking our way back to the camp. If things go south, we’ll have to retreat, and that just takes us further away from our base. Who knows what could happen then?” Cheng Liujin expressed his concerns.
When Ye Zhongming first approached him with the plan, he had been skeptical. However, Ye Zhongming’s assurances based on his impressive track record since joining the Star-Eye Clan made Cheng Liujin choose to trust him.
Yet, now that the moment was at hand, anxiety was unavoidable. After all, Ye Zhongming's plan... was indeed a bit far-fetched.
“Don’t worry, even if something happens, I have backup plans here. We will definitely be able to retreat safely,” Ye Zhongming said with a smile. “Fortune favors the bold. We are indeed taking some risks, but if we succeed, the rewards will be significant. Just think about it, a twin-tailed kuroiwa alone is worth tens of millions, not to mention the ring city wolves, which are also very valuable. Over fifty thousand of them! Just thinking about it makes my mouth water.”
Some of the people behind Cheng Liujin couldn’t help but laugh. At a time like this, with just over a minute before battle, he remained light-hearted.
“Twin-tailed kuroiwa entering range in fifteen seconds!”
“Ring city wolves entering range in twenty seconds!”
As more people behind him called out time checks, everyone held their breath and watched.
At this moment, Ye Zhongming also felt a hint of tension. While he had some confidence in this plan, he couldn’t guarantee it would be successful 100%.
Fiz fish meat was meant to be used right now.
This fish meat itself wasn’t anything special, and even for the All Races of the Universe, its taste wasn’t great.
However, after a mutated creature consumed this fish meat, its own flesh would become incredibly tender and delicious.
Of course, that wasn’t the key point; what mattered was that this tender and delicious meat was a lethal temptation for carnivorous mutated animals. Eating it would greatly benefit their bodies.
However, this meat could cause a slight side effect, or to be more accurate, it wasn’t really a side effect; it simply made the mutated creatures that consumed it irritable, aggressive, and bloodthirsty for a certain period of time.
Even this change didn’t last long, nor was it intense, and it wouldn’t affect other aspects.
But for Ye Zhongming, that was sufficient.
The mutated beings that enjoyed fish meat were called zhuzhuo, and nearly a thousand of them were fed until they were half full... and then they were all captured.
After all, aside from being quick and tough-skinned, they were quite greedy, and with a simple trap laid down by Ye Zhongming and Cheng Liujin, they were caught in one net.
Just moments ago, he had opened their bellies and drained their blood, leaving it on the two groups of mutated creatures charging towards the First Army.
Both groups of mutated beings were highly intelligent, with other members being at the ninth level or above, and there were very few at the seventh or eighth levels.
Under normal circumstances, such a simple trap would be too crude.
But precisely because of its roughness, Ye Zhongming believed that those higher life forms wouldn’t care or wouldn’t think it was a trap. On this planet, finding food was quite common.
And because they were high-level and intelligent, they could tell that the corpses of the zhuzhuo contained nothing harmful to them, perhaps even beneficial.
Once they ate, things would be much easier.
The twin-tailed kuroiwa was the first to approach the food. Ye Zhongming couldn’t see if they were eating, but visually, their speed had clearly slowed down.