Chapter 7 (2/2)

Next to Tucker ridge was a small cliff as well as a mild waterfall. With the sound of water around them, the coughing members of the party were resting below the waterfall while Comoros awkwardly walked away and sat down a bit further.

Dax looked at the slowly setting sun. He was sure that his life was also setting just like it, but unlike the sun, he would not be able to rise again after this day was over.

Hearing the cawing of crows nearby, Dax glanced at the light of sunset once more and smiled, he also needed to leave his own blinding light behind.

“I knew you damned creatures would follow us!” Dax forced himself to stand, nocked an arrow and shot.

But, because the shot was too hasty, the mutated crows easily avoided it.

“A last-ditch struggle huh?” Wang Yuan was standing a bit further away, observing the party of four that was firing arrow after arrow at the crows; but didn’t put their resistance in mind too much. The germs were quickly multiplying and doing their job, about half an hour later at most, they would lose their strength and fall, and be killed by the epidemic.

However, it would be best to let the crows kill at least one of them, that way Negary’s image would be deeply rooted in their minds, the crows would become his representative and make the domination of the rest more convenient.

“But something doesn’t seem right” while watching them struggle, Wang Yuan was hearing the constant sounds of the waterfall.

“Waterfall? Water, the Xili river!!” Wang Yuan suddenly realized and remembered what Dax had told Brad. He hurriedly checked the crows’ situation and noticed that Dax’s party was firing arrows with the purpose of luring the crows closer to the waterfall.

“Damn it!” Wang Yuan quickly ordered the crows to scatter but was still a bit too slow. A man had already jumped down from the waterfall with a net in his hand, the man’s face was covered in black spots, blood was flowing from both his mouth and nose, it was Brad who was kicked out from the party earlier.

With the last of his strength, Brad spread the net open and captured all of the crows. He was already on his last leg, and in fact, if Dax’s group had been any slower, he would’ve already died.

The final hug that Dax gave him was to tell him about this ambush, like Dax said, the village needed him. If they couldn’t kill these followers of Negary, the epidemic would soon spread to the village.

The words that Dax told Brad this morning repeated in Wang Yuan’s mind. Wang Yuan understood right away, Tucker ridge had always been right next to the Xili river, Dax had planned this from the very start, and Wang Yuan had fallen right into his trap!

“How dare he!? He couldn’t confirm that the crows would attack them, he couldn’t confirm the man called Brad would understand or even follow his orders, how dare he!!!”

Wang Yuan was feeling the humiliation of being tricked by his own prey and immediately headed over. The crows were cleanly caught within the fishing net, and despite Dax’s group losing their strength, they still had the most basic ability to hit stationary targets.

The first arrow hit and Wang Yuan immediately sensed the consciousness of one crow weakening.

He didn’t have a lot of white mist left, even if he could absorb quite a bit of white mist from killing these people, if he were to lose all of the crows here, without their help, without knowing how far away the human settlement was, it was possible for him to consume all of his white mist before he reached the human settlement!

“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!! I was careless!!” Wang Yuan could sense the crows’ consciousness fading one by one as he made a mad dash towards the humans with triumphant smiles on their faces.