CHAPTER 562: CHAPTER 528: THE GREAT DEITY WILL DESCEND!

"My head is spinning..."

Someone started to experience symptoms of tinnitus and vertigo upon looking at the symbols on the altar.

"Don’t stare directly at these symbols. Have you guys found any of the tribe’s people?"

The special forces team shook their heads, indicating they hadn’t seen anyone.

"It’s really strange, we clearly saw traces of people having lived here, but we can’t find any signs of them leaving."

This discovery was a blow to all eight members of the special forces team.

Because each of them was an expert in tracking, yet here they were like beginners.

"I have a bold suspicion, they probably haven’t gone far."

A social psychology expert spoke up.

"How so?"

The special forces team furrowed their brows, confident that within a hundred meters, there wasn’t a single trace!

"Look, it’s obvious someone has cleaned up around the altar, otherwise the vegetation would have covered this area by now, wouldn’t it?"

Everyone nodded. Indeed, compared to the not-too-distant area, the vicinity of the altar appeared "neat and tidy."

"Moreover, with the vastness of the forest, not to mention the dangers within, where could they go even if they wanted to leave?"

"So, what are you suggesting?" asked the Director, starting to form a vague conjecture.

"Actually, they’ve been here all along, we just haven’t found where they’re hiding."

Pausing for a moment, the sociologist elaborated,

"More precisely, where they’re dwelling."

"These indigenous tribe members couldn’t possibly know about the Director’s movements unless they were clairvoyant."

"So, they didn’t hide at all, we just haven’t found the place where they live!"

"Shh, that’s right, this is just an altar. In their hearts, this place must be sacred and inviolable – they naturally wouldn’t eat or sleep here."

Another psychologist added.

The special forces team had their eyes opened.

It seems that sometimes, experts in their fields can really outclass these "special forces kings."

"Sorry, we saw how unique this place was and just assumed they would be living here..."

"Who’s there!"

A member of the special forces team instantly turned around, drawing their gun and cocking it in one fluid motion!

’Whoosh whoosh whoosh~’

Some bushes rustled, and out walked a little deer.

"Come out!"

Another member of the special forces team also held up their gun, continuing to shout at the bushes from which the deer emerged.

Life isn’t like a TV series.

Any person with a rational mind wouldn’t be fooled by a small cat or dog emerging from the bushes.

Director Wang and the others all stepped back behind the eight-person team, knowing that there are specialists for every field – they didn’t want to get in the way.

Seeing these people weren’t easy to deceive, slowly emerging from the bushes was a... wild man?

Hmm, that fit the beliefs of Director Wang and his team regarding cavemen.

He was covered in nothing but a piece of animal skin around his loins.

His face was marked with red and green stripes, and it was unclear what they were made of, his head adorned with ornaments made from bird feathers.

After being dragged out, he mumbled and chirped, incomprehensible in his utterances.

"Xiao Qian, why don’t you go and communicate with him?"

Xiao Qian was the youngest of them all, yet she had been rated by the industry as the most talented behavioral expert in the last three hundred years.

Put simply, she could express her thoughts through body language.

She could also understand what others wanted to say by interpreting their body language.

This was not sign language.

Sign language has its own systematic set of symbols.

Shi Shi, who had learned behavioral studies, was employing the most primitive method of interpretation.

The captured savage seemed very frightened, his big eyes scanning around for something, apparently looking for a chance to escape.

Shi Shi approached, beginning to use both her hands and feet to express her meaning.

Honestly, Director Wang had to suppress a laugh.

Was this still the calm and cool beauty who usually spoke so little?

The use of hands and feet was one thing, but Shi Shi also added in some goofy and exaggerated expressions.

In an instant, everyone categorized her and the wild man as the same type of "creature."

Soon, Shi Shi had the special forces team release the man.

She turned to Director Wang and said,

"It’s okay, he means no harm, and he also knows that our weapons are powerful. He has no intention of being our enemy."

"Is he from the Nika Tribe?"

"Yes, I asked him to lead us to his tribe as guests."

Director Wang nodded, with no objections, since visiting the Nika Tribe had been their goal from the start.

"But..." Shi Shi looked unsure whether she should continue.

"What’s the matter? Why are you hesitating?" Director Wang urged her to speak plainly.

"It’s like this, from what I understand, his tribe hadn’t encountered outsiders before, but they knew our weapons were powerful, that we are strong, and that we have big heads, uh, big heads probably mean we are smart."

"Could it really be that they have the ability to predict the future?" someone joked.

"Don’t overthink it. Our equipment and weaponry, let alone against the Nika Tribe, could easily overpower an entire military unit."

The special forces team was confident in their combat abilities, if nothing else.

The others nodded in agreement. After all, they were just undeveloped savages, and even if they were cannibals, there was nothing to fear.

...

A god?

Jiang Xiao and Shi Shi sat on the school steps, tilting their heads back to gaze at the azure sky.

"If there were a god, surely he would fall from the sky, right?"

That was Jiang Xiao’s ultimate speculation...

"It could also be from underground. Who knows what’s down there?"

Shi Shi stomped her foot, as if there really was something terrifying beneath the ground.

But what relationship could there be between a god and a virus?

Jiang Xiao tilted his head, his mind racing to understand the connection between the two.

Could it be that the deity was so displeased with human actions on earth that he sent down this "plague"?

That didn’t make sense either.

If divine punishment descended on earth, there were countless ways more domineering and violent than a virus, and more able to teach humanity a lesson.

Why resort to a virus?

"Daddy, I’m hungry,"

Shi Shi pouted, she hadn’t even drunk a drop of water all night.

"Let’s go then; if it’s a university, then there must be a cafeteria."

A virus can’t possibly infect rice and steamed buns, right?

Other chosen ones started showing up one after another.

Clearly, Shi Shi wasn’t the only one feeling hungry.

Of course, there were also those who were ultra cautious, preferring to starve than leave the office.

They were waiting.

Waiting for that man to get through, after which they could just coast to victory, couldn’t they?

"Right, after we eat, we can take a good look around the university to see if there are any clues. It would be best to find a living person."

"And if we don’t find anyone?"

"Then we’ll have to leave campus. This Kaidan is definitely linked to the sudden outbreak of the virus."

As for how to be sure if there was anyone alive in the school, Jiang Xiao already had a plan in his mind.