CHAPTER 454: CHAPTER 149: [YOU’RE JUST AN INSECT]

He had just personally killed a few guys.

Although he had a cold personality... he could still smile after committing an act of killing.

Isn’t that twisted?

Chen Yan shook his head, simply refusing to think about these thoughts.

"Actually, I overestimated you guys," Chen Yan said softly, "Only one of the three ’Ten Thousand Sword Talismans’ was used, there are still two left unused. The exchanged three spells, I only used two, there’s still one kept as a trump card, never got to use it.

You are much weaker than I imagined."

After speaking, Chen Yan no longer paid attention to the body, turned around, and left.

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When returning to his hiding cave, Chen Yan was almost at his physical limit.

An ambush battle, followed by a chase...

Although Chen Yan still looked in decent condition, in truth, his strength was nearly exhausted.

The journey through the forest took much longer than he expected.

The equipment in all three backpacks was depleted, and he had thrown them away.

He still had two energy bars in his pocket, which he ate on the way.

Glancing at his watch, there was less than an hour left until he returned.

When Chen Yan returned to the cave, he saw that Wooden Bowl had somehow removed the gag from her mouth and was struggling hard to escape.

This clumsy female monster was holding up her hands, trying hard to rub them against a protruding rock in the cave.

It seemed she planned to use this method to break the strange tree branches binding her hands.

This method had some effect, but it wasn’t very effective—when Chen Yan returned, a few branches binding her hands were broken, but more than half still remained.

Seeing Chen Yan return, Wooden Bowl was startled, shrieked, shrank back, and tried to hide her hands in a ridiculous posture...

Chen Yan just glanced at her without saying anything, first went into the cave, rummaged through his sleeping bag, and pulled out two bottles of water and some compressed biscuits.

Chen Yan sat on the sleeping bag, unscrewed a bottle of water, drank it all in one go, and then ate two packs of compressed biscuits.

After feeling somewhat full, Chen Yan looked at Wooden Bowl, "You want to run?"

Wooden Bowl said nothing, only watched Chen Yan warily.

After a while, she slowly spoke, "You have the smell of blood on you, a lot, a lot."

Chen Yan calmly nodded, "Yeah."

Wooden Bowl’s expression immediately turned very unpleasant, "You, what did you kill?"

"Black Stone, your leader, and a few others, I don’t know their names," Chen Yan replied calmly.

Wooden Bowl screamed, shouted, and said angrily, "Impossible! The leader is very strong!! Also, Black Stone is stronger than you, you..."

"Strength doesn’t equate to ability," Chen Yan shook his head, "Compared to humans, you’re just an ignorant and savage race."

"..." Wooden Bowl panted heavily, still shaking her head, "I don’t believe you! You’re lying to me!"

"Suit yourself."

Chen Yan shrugged, looked at Wooden Bowl, and threw over a bottle of water and a pack of compressed biscuits.

Wooden Bowl hesitated for a moment but still followed Chen Yan’s earlier actions, unscrewing the cap.

Her hands were tied, but she could still twist her palms slightly.

After taking a few sips of water, she tore open the pack of compressed biscuits and started eating bit by bit.

Chen Yan had already taken out all the items from the sleeping bag: a few more packs of compressed biscuits, and a bag of beef jerky.

"All the food here can be given to you," Chen Yan said slowly, "I won’t need it anyway."

Then, Chen Yan looked at Wooden Bowl, "As for you, you can return to the village, or continue living in the forest... This food should last you a few days, and the sleeping bag, you can sleep inside it, it’s warm.

But I still advise you to return to the village. You’re too young and don’t know how to live in the forest, and... in this weather, you won’t be able to hunt; you’ll starve to death."

"I’m exiled."

"I’ve already told you, the leader who exiled you is dead. Now if you go back, no one should oppose... besides, your village probably needs to replenish its population now, ha!"

At the end, Chen Yan laughed once.

He glanced at his watch, then got up, pulled out a short knife, and stuck it into the ground in front of Wooden Bowl.

"I’ll leave this with you too, you can use it to cut the branches... A rock is too slow."

After saying that, Chen Yan gave Wooden Bowl a look, "We probably won’t meet again. I’ve done everything I wanted to do... and you, you’ve captured me, but also saved me. I captured you, but also saved you. We’re even now."

After finishing, Chen Yan turned and crawled out of the cave, leaving for good.

Wooden Bowl blankly watched Chen Yan leave, after a moment of daze, she suddenly got up from the ground, wriggled over to the short knife, reached out, brought the branches to the blade, and began to saw vigorously...

After a while, Wooden Bowl crawled out of the cave with hands and feet together...

But soon, she stood at the cave entrance, as if petrified, frozen on the spot!

In the distance of the dark forest, a mass of towering flames seemed to dye the black night sky red.

The flickering flames were not even obscured by the mist in the forest! They even turned the mist into a vast red glow!

Wooden Bowl stared blankly in that direction...

That was her village!

After a moment of blankness, Wooden Bowl screamed, and ran wildly towards the village...

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Chen Yan walked through the forest, heading east.

In his mind, he still remembered the rough map Du Li had drawn when he fled.

Going east, he would see two mountain ridges, between the ridges was a canyon passage, passing through it would lead to a forest.

If lucky, he might encounter Human Race scouts after exiting the forest—though it might also be monster scouts.

As for which race, he didn’t know, Du Li didn’t say back then, and Chen Yan didn’t want to ask too much so as not to reveal his identity.

Maybe it was the Fierce Beast Race? Maybe it was... Evil?

Chen Yan didn’t believe that this Fierce Beast Race was Evil, the kind that oppressed the Human Race in the Domain Realm, against whom even someone like Gu Qingyi had to fight hard to hold the gate...

The Fierce Beast Race was ignorant and backward, lacking that power.

Besides being tall and strong, they were simply brutal by nature.

Such a race was only fit to be cannon fodder.

But while there’s still some time, Chen Yan wanted to walk eastward and have a look.

Even if time wasn’t on his side, getting closer to those two mountain ridges would be something.

Maybe he would see something, maybe not, who knows.

Anyway, sitting around in the cave would be a waste.

If he stayed in the cave, he would just have to stare at Wooden Bowl.

He had just massacred her village, personally killed at least a dozen monsters, and the number of those dead in the chaos caused by explosions and fires might have doubled.

If Wooden Bowl went mad, should he kill her or not?

So Chen Yan left.

However...

It seemed a great battle had exhausted all of Chen Yan’s luck.

Walking east for an hour, Chen Yan found nothing.

Through the darkness and dense mist, he could vaguely see the outline of the two mountain ridges.

But as the saying goes, ’Looking at the mountain runs a horse to death,’ Chen Yan walked for an hour, not slowly, but still did not reach the ridges.

As the countdown reached the last minute, Chen Yan climbed the largest strange tree he could see nearby, then looked into the distance...

The village was already far away, but the flames still dyed the distant mist red.

For those monsters, putting out the fire would likely be a challenge.

It was uncertain whether the village would end up destroyed.

As for the human slaves in the village amidst the chaos...

There were sure to be casualties, but Chen Yan did not feel guilty about it.

If he hadn’t caused this commotion, those human slaves would still be tortured to death by the monsters, and with this blizzard, they might even freeze to death faster and in greater numbers!

But after his upheaval, perhaps many human slaves could take the opportunity to escape, maybe finding a glimmer of hope.

Hmm, hopefully, they have the courage to escape.

Anything more, Chen Yan couldn’t be bothered to ponder.

Moreover, deep in his heart was a thought he didn’t want to touch: he wasn’t all that concerned about those human slaves’ fate!

In the last few seconds, Chen Yan looked into the distance, then softly sighed.

A strong sensation of falling engulfed him, and Chen Yan’s eyes went black.

He knew, he was going home.

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