Chapter 220: Escaping Alive
Panlong Mountain Range’s outer perimeter, supersonic missiles from various outposts continuously lifted into the air, locking onto the foreign races that had left the no-fly domain.
All of these foreign races that dared to venture out of the Panlong Mountain Range were elite hunting squads among the foreign races, with backbone members of the Giant Race serving as their captains.
Facing supersonic missiles filled with an aura of destruction, these elite foreign hunting squads could only suppress their anger and immediately retreat back into the no-fly domain.
And at the instant the supersonic missiles came into contact with the no-fly domain, all electronic components lost their effectiveness.
The warheads detonated under mechanical triggering devices, ultimately causing waves of thunderous explosions along the outer perimeter of the Panlong Mountain Range.
“Peh, peh…”
A professional Beast Tamer who had narrowly escaped death looked utterly disheveled, like a refugee, as he spat the dirt from his mouth while staring at the flames behind him.
“Damn it, what the hell are these foreign races doing? They’re just short of sending out transcendent-level foreign races.”
Recalling how his squad had been surrounded by several times their number of same-rank foreign races, and that in the end only he alone survived, there was no grief in his heart, only immense relief that he had lived.
After returning to the outpost, many professional Beast Tamers were discussing the abnormal changes within the Panlong Mountain Range. Upon learning that foreign transcendent powerhouses had even begun to attack human professional Beast Tamers, he felt even more fortunate about his luck.
Faced with such abnormal changes in the Panlong Mountain Range, even the Alliance military had begun urgently investigating the cause.
Xu Chunjun and other transcendent Beast Tamers even directly entered the Panlong Mountain Range to clash with transcendent foreign powerhouses.
In order to restrain part of the Giant Race’s elite giants, the Slaughterer Type-1 heavy artillery and other models of heavy artillery began long-range bombardment of the Panlong Mountain Range’s core area.
Under such circumstances, the Giant Race’s Grand Priest and ten elite giant elders could only join forces to strengthen the defensive power of the earth barrier.
In response to the Alliance military’s attacks, the foreign races were not without countermeasures. The Shadow Cat Clan, adept at concealment, began leaving the Panlong Mountain Range to sabotage the heavy artillery firepower points.
For a time, both sides suffered losses.
Faced with this situation, both sides could only tacitly cease hostilities and restore the original balance.
However, the Alliance military still took this opportunity to learn the cause of the abnormal changes in the Panlong Mountain Range.
It turned out that a professional Beast Tamer had captured a newly born Catwoman and, at the same time, managed to escape from two transcendent foreign powerhouses.
Such news immediately drew the attention of the Alliance military’s upper echelons.
However, the number of professional Beast Tamers who had entered the Panlong Mountain Range was no less than eight hundred, if not a thousand.
Moreover, among these professional Beast Tamers, many had extremely complex backgrounds, making it difficult even for the Alliance military to conduct thorough investigations.
Thus, Zhou Ming, who had caused the drastic changes in the Panlong Mountain Range, did not have his information exposed.
Nevertheless, the intelligence obtained by the Alliance military’s upper levels had already begun spreading among various outposts, clearly showing that the military intended to leverage external forces to find Zhou Ming.
While all factions were secretly investigating, Zhou Ming was currently hiding in an underground karst cave to recuperate from his injuries.
Although he had successfully preserved his life, the terrifying power of the giant elder had still inflicted severe damage to his internal organs.
In the gloomy underground karst cave, the firelight from a campfire illuminated the surroundings.
At this moment, Zhou Ming was sitting cross-legged beside the campfire, treating his injuries.
The terrifying power of the giant elder had not only shaken Zhou Ming’s internal organs, but a fragment of stone carrying dreadful force had also pierced through his right chest.
Fortunately, he had obtained a high-tier healing potion from Qi Shouwu earlier; otherwise, Zhou Ming would not have retained the strength to escape.
Opposite Zhou Ming, the Catwoman Aina, who had already awakened, was curled up, not daring to make any movement.
The bloodline power within her body had not only been sealed by Zhou Ming, but the Inkband was like a black chain, tightly binding Aina’s arms and body together.
A snake’s kiss bearing scarlet venom fangs was pressed tightly against Aina’s neck.
If she made the slightest abnormal movement, she would suffer an attack from the Inkband’s venom fangs.
Facing her current predicament, Aina, who had only recently undergone her transformation into a Catwoman, revealed a trace of despair in her eyes.
The extent of a Catwoman’s allure to males was something she had already understood when she was still an ordinary Shadow Cat.
It was precisely because of this that their Shadow Cat Clan had proactively sought refuge with the Giant Race.
Due to their physique, giants had little interest in Catwomen, and the Giant Race also possessed the strength to protect the Shadow Cat Clan.
Although the Giant Race within the Panlong Mountain Range had no legendary existence, the Giant King Court behind them was a top-tier power within the Tamu World.
Thinking of what she might encounter in the future, suicidal thoughts had already taken root in Aina’s heart.
“Cough, cough…”
The silent underground karst cave was suddenly broken by violent coughing.
Seeing Zhou Ming awaken, Aina turned sideways to conceal that scenery.
Zhou Ming had no mood to pay attention to Aina’s small movements. Instead, he summoned the Ironthread Snake swarm.
Seeing Zhou Ming’s actions, Aina watched cautiously. When she saw more than a thousand Ironthread Snakes appear, and even six high-tier Ironthread Snakes among them, her complexion instantly turned pale.
The sound of hundreds and thousands of Ironthread Snakes crawling echoed in the dark underground karst cave like whispers that stirred fear in the heart.
However, an even greater change unfolded before Aina’s eyes. The snake swarm fused together, forming a giant python whose strength had already surpassed that of a normal high-tier Shadow Cat.
The Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python writhed its body as it cautiously approached the severely injured Zhou Ming.
Yet no matter how careful the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python was, the firelight burning from the nearby campfire was still suppressed by an invisible airflow, dimming by more than half.
Zhou Ming did not blame this too much. Instead, he placed his right hand onto the scales of the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python.
In the next moment, the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python, formed from the gathered Ironthread Snake swarm, immediately transmitted a surge of life force that merged into Zhou Ming’s body.
Although he had a high-tier healing potion, Zhou Ming’s current physique was too powerful, already second only to a Beast Knight of the same rank.
To fully recover the injuries within his body, relying solely on a high-tier healing potion was not enough; Zhou Ming still needed more life energy replenishment.
With the constitution of the Dark-gold Purple-patterned Python, it was perfectly suited to help Zhou Ming. After all, the life energy he extracted was distributed across the Ironthread Snake swarm and would not cause too great an impact.
If Zhou Ming had not been unable to undergo fusion at present, he would not have used such a troublesome method.
Curled up to the side, Aina could clearly sense that Zhou Ming’s injuries were rapidly recovering and that the aura on his body was growing stronger and stronger.
The only remaining hope in her heart was completely severed.
An hour later, Zhou Ming’s injuries had finally recovered by more than half.
Seeing the scars left on his body, Zhou Ming immediately flexed his muscles. A layer of dry skin bearing scars peeled off and was casually tossed into the campfire.
“Can you understand Blue Star speech?”
Only at this moment did Zhou Ming finally place his attention on the Catwoman Aina before him.
However, in response to Zhou Ming’s question, Aina revealed a bewildered look in her eyes.
“It seems I’ll need to find a Scorpion-Lion to provide language data on the foreign races.”
Toward the Catwoman before him, Zhou Ming had no intention of crudely dissecting her; that would be the most wasteful method of utilization.
Of course, he also had no intention of tasting a Catwoman.
As his cultivation of White Bone Contemplation deepened, Zhou Ming had come to comprehend the bodily visage of youthful beauty and white bones, making it difficult for mere fleshly allure to influence his will.