Bai Ye quickly left the room and, upon reaching the outside, found a crowd gathered at the entrance.
With a casual shove, Bai Ye parted the throng.
While not everyone targeting the Ice Pillar Divine Thunder, Gei Yasi, was necessarily from the Beast Taming World—other worlds might covet such powerful tamed beasts—at least sixty to seventy percent of those at the glacier were summoned individuals from the Beast Taming World. Since taming beasts was their livelihood, they would naturally be more interested.
Therefore, without their tamed beasts, these beast tamers were no match for Bai Ye in terms of physical strength; he easily pushed them aside.
After clearing the crowd, Bai Ye saw Jin Sha and asked, "What happened?"
Jin Sha replied, "Someone's dead."
Bai Ye looked up and saw a woman lying in the snow, her back covered in a crimson stain.
Jin Sha explained, "She probably came out for a cigarette, and not long after she left, a scream was heard."
Bai Ye nodded and approached the body, crouching to examine it. He then frowned.
There was only a single fatal wound. Someone had used an extremely sharp and piercing weapon to stab through the woman's body from behind. Next to her lay a thin ladies' cigarette, suggesting, as Jin Sha said, she had come out for a smoke and been ambushed.
However, this didn't add up!
This was a vast snowfield with no cover. It was impossible for someone to approach without being wary and foolishly allowing themselves to be attacked from behind. Even with a significant disparity in strength, one would at least face their attacker, be hit in the chest, and fall backward, not collapse forward after a blow to the back.
Bai Ye's gaze slowly shifted to the side, where he spotted footprints.
The footprints resembled those of a human, but strangely, at the tip of the toes, there were hook-like imprints, like beast claws, though a beast's claws shouldn't be so short.
Still, Bai Ye now understood what had happened.
Following the direction of the footprints, they led around to the back of the monitoring station.
Bai Ye immediately stood up, walked back to the main entrance of the monitoring station, pulled Jin Sha’s arm, and signaled with his eyes for her to come with him.
Jin Sha looked bewildered. After being dragged about ten meters by Bai Ye, she couldn't help but ask, "Hey, hey, Bai Ye, wait a minute, what's going on?"
Bai Ye released Jin Sha, took out his cigarette case, and lit one.
Exhaling smoke, Bai Ye said, "I'm not one to poke my nose into other people's business, but for the sake of that hot chocolate, I'm willing to save your life."
Jin Sha looked confused, "Save my life?"
Bai Ye gestured towards the main entrance of the monitoring station, "Those people, they're all going to die."
Jin Sha's expression turned solemn. "Can you explain what exactly is happening?"
Bai Ye replied, "You can think of it as a monster appearing at the monitoring station. That monster will kill everyone here."
Jin Sha said, "If that's the case, we should tell others."
Bai Ye shrugged. "I have no way to prove the existence of that thing, so how can I make them believe me? Just because a body appeared? When I pulled you away, didn't you hear what the people around were discussing? They're speculating that someone among them killed that woman. A group of people who just got together, do you expect them to trust each other? No, their first reaction will be to suspect those around them."
In truth, Bai Ye wanted to say that the lives of others had nothing to do with him.
Bai Ye wasn't the type to meddle, but Jin Sha was very enthusiastic and the information she provided had indeed helped him. Therefore, Bai Ye intended to take Jin Sha with him, but the keyword was "casually." If Jin Sha insisted on interfering, Bai Ye would definitely leave on his own. With Jin Sha's personality, she clearly hadn't experienced the harshness of the world battlefield yet.
In this damn place, one was lucky to look out for oneself!
And at this very moment…
Jin Sha's gaze inadvertently swept across the snow behind Bai Ye. She suddenly froze, then shouted, "There are footprints behind you!"
With almost no hesitation, Bai Ye lifted his clothes, drew his Zanpakuto, and swung it backward.
Clang!
A crisp clang echoed.
In front of Bai Ye, a faint, indistinct human-like silhouette appeared.
"Invisibility cloak!" Bai Ye gritted his teeth and said forcefully, "Truly a Predator!"
In terms of strength, Bai Ye was evenly matched with the Predator before him, perhaps even slightly stronger.
However, while the Predator's body was powerful and they were skilled in combat, they didn't rely solely on their physical prowess; they also utilized…
Technology!
Bang!
A dull thud sounded. Bai Ye felt a sharp pain in his side and his body tilted slightly, his expression contorting in pain.
Bai Ye knew he had been struck in the ribs with a knee, but there was nothing he could do. The opponent was wearing an invisibility cloak, so Bai Ye couldn't see the knee strike.
"What's going on!"
At this moment, two men, seemingly alerted by the commotion, walked towards Bai Ye and Jin Sha, shouting questions.
And just then…
Bai Ye suddenly felt the pressure on his Zanpakuto lighten as the Predator withdrew its weapon!
"Run, run…" Bai Ye shouted towards the two approaching men, "Hurry and run!"
The two men were confused, and then…
Squelch, squelch!
The sound of flesh tearing suddenly rang out. Gaping wounds appeared on the throats of the two men, and large amounts of blood sprayed out, dyeing the white snow red.
The two men didn't even understand what had happened before they met their demise.
Bai Ye spat on the ground, cursing under his breath, then decisively grabbed Jin Sha and ran.
If the Predators dared to engage in a direct confrontation, unless they were particularly strong individuals, Bai Ye was confident he could defeat them. But this was contingent on them being willing to fight him head-on.
Predators were often more like assassins because they came with three standard pieces of equipment: wrist blades, shoulder cannons, and invisibility cloaks!
The function of the invisibility cloak was, as the name suggested, quite straightforward. Furthermore, precisely because of the invisibility cloak, unless absolutely necessary and their stealth was broken, Predators would choose to fight as assassins.
This was the most troublesome aspect of dealing with Predators: how to counter their sudden appearances. Once this was resolved, most of their other technological weapons could be dealt with through sheer strength.
Bai Ye thought this as he pulled Jin Sha and ran towards the back of the monitoring station. Then, Bai Ye suddenly stopped, his gaze falling on several snowmobiles.
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