Chapter 884 Beaten! (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was 11 p.m. and this happened in the underground beneath the gully of the abyss.

After exactly 23 hours, the Union Government army finally arrived close to the volcano where the Nightmare Dragon was after traveling across over 5,000 kilometers.

At that moment, the 200-strong army had dwindled down to 176 people. The 176 people separated into a couple of smaller groups and began their search.

Fu Qingwei frowned as she looked around. She mumbled to herself softly while feeling puzzled, “That’s strange. The coordinates Gong Sun gave is somewhere around here, but why can’t we find the source of the monster horde?”

As the leader of the mission from the Union Government this time and the head of EA.2, she was sure that the information was legit.

“There’s something here!” Someone from one of the teams shouted all of a sudden.

Fu Qingwei headed there immediately in a flash.

One of the members in the team voiced his observation, “There seem to be battle traces on the ground and they’re recent.”

The other few EA.2 members landed on the ground and took a careful look around.

The marks on the ground seemed to be cut by some kind of sword, but it might be caused by a monster with sharp claws too.

Fu Qingwei scowled slightly after looking around for a while.

“The monsters around this volcano have all been cleared!” All of the teams stopped searching immediately and joined the hunting team.

Around 20 minutes later, they finally cleared the area around the volcano and the ground was revealed. The people from the Union Government could eventually see the traces left from the battle of Bai and the rest as well as the pools of blood that had seeped into the ground.

“There are many battle traces around the volcano which is obviously not the result of a fight between monsters. The blood all over the ground has been here for less than 24 hours.” The few EA.2 members came up with the same conclusion after checking the area thoroughly.

They had been beaten!

“There are saber marks, sword marks, frozen marks, burn marks and gunfire marks left from a firearms master… The battle covered a wide surface. It seems like it was a one-sided, large-scale ma.s.sacre. It was clearly not done by a person. Only a huge army could’ve orchestrated such a thing!”

“But who would know about the Nightmare Dragon apart from us?” Fu Qingwei was a little puzzled. “That fella called Gong Sun mentioned that he didn’t tell anyone else when he told us about it.”

“What if Gong Sun lied?” A girl dressed in a camo asked softly.

Fu Qingwei was stunned when she heard this suggestion. The truth was right before her eyes, and it seemed like there was no other explanation.

If Gong Sun had not exposed the information to anyone else apart from them, there would not have been a second group of people who knew about the Nightmare Dragon’s existence and they would not have been defeated.

“I would suspect the people from Dynasty if they hadn’t been killed by the Luotian Sect,” a young man with a buzzcut voiced his opinion. He was also one of the EA.2 members, and his name was Fei Yun.

Dynasty was the first name that flashed through Fu Qingwei’s mind because it was the most capable one among the underground organizations that came in this period. They were the most likely culprits.

However, Dynasty had been killed by a local organization. She even got someone to confirm the news when she first heard about it a few days ago.