Chapter 235: Unusual Activity (1/2)

The ship started moving once more and soon they were back to the same speed.

Alex sat down next to Ma Rong looking at her contemplating something and thought, 'the beasts are getting restless? What does she mean?'

He didn't speak for a few minutes, but the curiosity got to him in the end, so he asked, ”Master, What is happening with the beasts? Why are they attacking the caravans?”

Ma Rong thought for a while and said,  ”I do not know. I have tried making sense of what little information we have, but nothing makes any sense.”

Alex got more curious, ”What exactly is happening, Master?”

”Ever since a while ago, the monsters in the southern forest have been getting restless in several places. Monsters that never leave their side of the forest are coming out, attacking the people in the roads.”

”I previously thought that these were just one-off incidents and would go back to normal after a while, but…  it has only started to escalate since then,” she said.

Alex fell into thought as well. There was no such thing happening in the Scarlet city yet… but what if it did? What if suddenly, one day the monsters started attacking them from the south, while the monsters in the desert arrive from the north.

If that happened, the city would have to evacuate and relocate.

'Are these two things related? Can't be, right?' he thought. The monsters in the desert were strong, but they were not strong like regular monsters that had access to Qi.

No monsters in the desert could ever make him feel fear the way the worm had back then.

'Worm…?' he thought.

”Master, did I ever tell you about the strong worm? No, right?” he asked.

”A worm? What's this about?” she asked.

He proceeded to explain to her how he met a worm that was stronger than both her and Wen Cheng. Ma Rong heard it all with a face of shock. ”Thankfully, you didn't get caught by it. You… I don't even want to think what would've happened to you,” Ma Rong said.

”So, do you think the worm might be behind it?” Alex asked.

”No, I don't think it's possible for a worm that is not even the peak of True Realm to do anything so as to launch a coordinated attack against the empire. Besides, given how random these beast attacks are, I doubt a single monster could plan the attacks that currently happening. No, it's something else. Something entirely different,” Ma Rong said as she looked far away into the south.

”Then… ” Alex asked, ”Could it be Pearl's mother? Is her corpse somehow responsible for this?” he asked.