Chapter 49: Discovery and Pursuit
The caravan where Xu Yue was located stopped after a commotion, and then the mercenaries who were leading the way ran over to report that they had discovered a small caravan being attacked.
After hearing the news, Joey went over and looked at the heads of several other shops in the caravan. After seeing the scene, the faces of several people turned pale.
After hearing the discussions of the people in the caravan, Xu Yue also came to follow him. This was a small caravan with only seven or eight people. It seemed that one or two shops were in a hurry to go, so he temporarily gathered up. The caravan's truck was turning to the ground, and all kinds of goods were scattered on the ground.
Seven or eight corpses lay near the truck. The corpses were chewed to pieces, and even the limbs were bitten down and then scattered on the ground. Even though Xu Yue had already fought more than once, seeing this tragic scene still made him feel a little churning in his stomach. The scene here was even more tragic than the last time the wolf pack surrounded Komodo town.
Holding the nausea in his stomach, he walked to a face-down corpse and squatted down. The back muscles of the corpse had been gnawed, revealing the bleeding skeleton.
Xu Yue carefully observed the wounds of the corpse and compared the shape of the wounds with the wounds he saw in the book that described the biting of the monsters.
"It's not a wolf-shaped monster! The wound is too wide, and even the wolf-shaped monster does not have such great strength. Is the leopard-shaped monster? No, this attack was obviously caused by a group of monsters, and few leopard-shaped monsters act in groups." Xu Yue thought in his mind while observing carefully.
He stood up and came to another corpse again. Xu Yue observed the injured part of the corpse. The body of this corpse was kept relatively intact compared to other corpses, with only a wound on the abdomen, but both feet and one hand were bitten by the monster.
Suddenly, he found a very exquisite necklace hanging around the neck of the corpse. The necklace was wearing a round small box. Perhaps because of the collision during the fight, the lid of the round small box had been touched open. There was a magic picture inside the small box. However, Xu Yue would rather call this magic picture a magic photo.
These pictures are similar to photos of the earth, but they are all moving, just like a video that is repeatedly played. The picture shows the scene of a family. It is obvious that the dead person is the male owner in the photo. There is also a woman in her forties and a boy in her thirteen or fourteen. The boy in the photo is training with a dagger in his hand, and the dead man is coaching next to him. A woman in her forties is smiling and watching all this.
Just as Xu Yue's hand touched the magic photo box, he suddenly grabbed his arm with one hand. The man he thought was dead suddenly opened his eyes.
The man reluctantly raised his head and struggled to use his last strength to spit out a few words.
"Save...Save...Child...World Beast" The man stared at Xu Yue with his eyes widened. After shouting these words intermittently, he looked at the photo box on the ground and fell back to the ground with hope. The explosion just now was his last remaining vitality, and at this time the man really took his last breath.
This man's actions almost scared Xu Yue to death. In such a place with corpses, suddenly someone who thought you were dead caught you and talked. I'm afraid nine out of ten thought they were damn. Fortunately, Xu Yue's mental quality improved a lot after so many things, so he didn't shout it out on the spot.
After calming down his frightened face, he looked at the dead man and shook his head helplessly. It was obvious that his child was also in the caravan when the caravan was attacked. The thirteen or fourteen-year-old child could already accept some simple jobs at Tarenmiya. I guess the man wanted his child to exercise, so this time the merchant brought his child with him, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen.
Among the few people who died at the scene were adults and there were no children. It was obvious that his child was either dragged away by the monster or ran into the Yege Forest. In either case, the possibility of surviving was very low.
Joey, who happened to see this situation next to him, was also shocked, but then he walked over with some regret and said, "He is a good father, but unfortunately he could only leave with regret. No one would chase his child into the Yege Forest at this time to face a group of monsters. What's more, according to the situation on the scene, his child might be difficult to survive!"
Xu Yue did not object to Joey's words. Although he was very moved by the father's feelings of dying and wanting to save the child, he could not have rushed into the Yege Forest because of a stranger to save people from the mouths of a group of monsters. What's more, the boy is likely to be dead.
Xu Yue took off the magic photo box on the man's neck, thinking that if he could meet his wife in the photo, he would at least return his belongings to his family. But when he finally looked at the magic photo of the activity, something in the picture suddenly caught his attention.
The scene played in the photo is that the man is teaching the boy swordsmanship. As the boy cuts and chops, you can see a necklace on his neck falling out of his collar. It is the thing that attracted Xu Yue's attention.
"The Piercing Gate!" Xu Yue was shocked by the thing and almost shouted out. He was so familiar with the appearance of the silver-white metal object that looked like water droplets, exactly the same as the appearance of the Piercing Gate left to him by Oward.
"No! No! Although the shape and appearance are the same, the size is not right. This thing is much smaller than the Pijiemen!" The next moment he discovered something wrong.
The Piercing Gate left by Oward was a silver metal water droplet-shaped object the size of a baby’s fist, but according to the proportion of the magic image, the droplet-shaped object on the boy’s neck was only one-third the size of the Piercing Gate item.
Xu Yue, who was confused by this sudden situation, calmed down his spirits and began to think quickly in his mind.
The Piercing Gate in his hand was found by Oward in a magic ruin of Talenmiya. When he first obtained the Piercing Gate, this thing was abandoned by Oward because there was no magic fluctuation. It was not until an experimental accident that the blood of Oward was stained on the Piercing Gate that the function of this water droplet object was discovered. Then Oward's time travel and Xu Yue met him.
In fact, Xu Yue has always suspected that the Piercing World Gate may not be the local area of Tarenmiya. One of the important reasons why he thinks so is that the Piercing World Gate does not have any magic fluctuations when it is opened and closed, which is different from any method and item that Tarenmiya can travel through space.
But no matter what, he always thought that the Piercing Gate was unique. After all, even Oward had never heard of anything similar to the Piercing Gate Gate from Tarenmia. But now something very similar to the Piercing Gate appeared, which made Xu Yue feel shocked.
The unique water drop shape of the Piercing World Gate is really strange. If it were not specially made, few people would create something that is exactly the same in shape and color. He suspected that even if this thing was not another Piercing World Gate, it might have something to do with Piercing World Gate.
The change in his heart changed almost in a few seconds. Finally, Xu Yue gritted his teeth and made up his mind. He stood up and said to Joey: "Super Joey, it seems we are going to separate for the time being. I want to chase after him to see if I can save the child."
After hearing his words, Joey looked at him in surprise and persuaded: "Master Xu Yue, you don't have to go to Fanxian for the request of a stranger. In the past month, many times have happened in the group of monsters siege the caravans. Those monsters are like crazy. Any slightly smaller team will be attacked. Obviously, this man's caravan did not receive any relevant information, otherwise he would not have been on the road just like this. It would be too dangerous for you to chase and face a group of monsters. You should go back to the city with us."
After hearing Joey's words, Xu Yue raised her eyebrows and asked, "You mean that Warcraft attacked the caravan many times in the previous month."
He was delayed on Earth for a month before returning. After returning, in order to connect with Aivo, he had been hiding in the dark and had never asked for information. Therefore, he was completely unclear about the fact that Warcraft attacked the caravan in the past month.
Joey nodded with a few differences and said, "Don't you know? Similar things have happened seven or eight times, and many people have died or disappeared. So we gathered teams of five or six shops and hired guards to deliver goods together. In the past, we encountered some small robbers on this road, and the incident of Warcraft attacking the caravan cannot happen once a year."
After hearing his words, Xu Yue suddenly thought of the wolves besieging Komodo Town a month ago. These attacks were too coincidental, especially in the season when such monsters were not the most active, and it seemed very strange that monsters frequently launched attacks on humans.
"No matter what, that's a life! I try to chase after you, and if it doesn't work, I won't force it. Supervisor Joy, you should go first. If things go well, I will catch up with you." Xu Yue thought about it and found a reason for himself and said. He couldn't just say that he was looking for clues to the Piercing World Sect, so he gave himself a reason to save people.
Chapter completed!