Chapter 47 (2/2)

“Then, Sister Mei, should we follow him to take a look?” the short-haired woman immediately suggested with a glint in her eyes.

Sister Mei nodded heavily, “Why not? Zhang Yujie needs some time to gather his men, anyway. Although we don’t dare to go against Ding Feng Corporation directly, it’s not a problem to drink a little of their soup when they’re having meat.”

The rest of the group all revealed eager looks on their faces.

It was the mount-type beast Elephorse; although their combat potential was worthless, it was a useful tool for travelling. Who wouldn’t want one?

Seeing as the rest had agreed to her decision, Sister Mei turned to an ordinary-looking man with a scar on his chin and said, “Old Lu, get your baby to follow him. Make sure to keep an eye on where that kid from before is going.”

Old Lu nodded silently, as a three-star bronze-quality beast card suddenly appeared in his palm. Tossing it into the air, the card transformed into a white-headed falcon with a wingspan of over two meters. It beat its wings and flew off, giving chase in the direction Zhang Che had disappeared to.

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Zhang Che had no idea he was already being silently spied upon.

Riding the elephorse, he sped through forests and crossed ravines, and soon returned to the foot of the mountain range, entering the long, narrow basin from the familiar route.

In his view, the grass plains ahead were still a desolate sight, as if there were countless ghosts of elephorses that had died unjustly, recounting Zhang Che’s brutality.

Zhang Che didn’t stop. The beast galloped past, leaving this harvested land in the dust and went deeper into the basin.

The ride went on for another several tens of li.

The basin’s terrain started becoming more hilly, and a few of the stronger exotic beasts Zhang Che discovered were too much for him to handle. As such, he could only get off the elephorse and travel on foot, sneaking around them.

Suddenly, the scenery before him opened up to a wide panorama. An area of truly endless hilly grass plains entered Zhang Che’s eyes.

The grass plains was backed by a mountain range that rose high up into the clouds, extending into the horizon. He could only see where the sky met the earth at the extreme distance, like a black straight line.

“There are definitely elephorse herds in this place!”

Zhang Che immediately grew excited and patted on his elephorse to enter the open grass plains without any hesitation.

As expected, Zhang Che only travelled about five kilometers or so into the grassland before he discovered a huge herd of elephorses ahead. They were so numerous that it left him with his mouth agape.

“This is a freaking huge firecracker; it could explode with the slightest spark!”

Looking at the herd of elephorses numbering at least a thousand, Zhang Che couldn’t help but be dazed. There were so many of them! This was definitely an existence he couldn’t afford to mess with. If they were to stampede over, wouldn’t he be crushed into fine powder?

Fortunately, herbivorous exotic beasts like Elephorses would rarely attack others on their own initiative. Zhang Che was prepared to go around this huge herd and continue forward to scout, to see if he was lucky enough to discover a smaller herd.

However, just as he was going around this huge herd, Zhang Che saw a scarlet elephorse that was extraordinarily majestic, leaving his eyes wide open.

“Damn, it’s actually at three-star gold-quality! It’s definitely a horse king!”

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Translator’s Note:

1: Sha Ma Te, Chinese subculture of young urban migrants, usually of low education, with exaggerated hairstyles, heavy makeup, flamboyant costumes, piercings, etc (loanword from “smart”)