Chapter 43: Gui' is the Common Enemy of Humanity

The Wood-Puppet 'Gui' is a problem that all camps around Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge must face, and no camp can escape it.

If it's not solved, everyone is waiting to die. This is beyond doubt.

Hong Gang and the other four understood that even if they left, Luo Ming wouldn't ignore it.

So the four of them, before proposing to leave, might have had the idea of letting the Luo Ge camp solve this trouble alone.

But Luo Ming, clearly, is not stupid.

Shi Qing wanting to leave is understandable.

The Da-Shi camp has lost too many people. If the two don't leave, the hundreds of people in the camp will starve to death or freeze to death.

But the other four camps have losses within an acceptable range.

Luo Ming naturally won't let them go, but he is not a tyrannical person and won't force the four to stay, which is why he said those words.

You want to leave, you can, but that Wood-Puppet 'Gui', the Luo Ge camp definitely won't think of ways anymore. If Yang and Li want to leave, let them leave. Luo Ming won't try to keep them anymore.

When the Wood-Puppet 'Gui' brings disaster, it will be everyone's bad luck together.

Hong Gang and the other four could naturally understand the meaning in Luo Ming's words, which is why their expressions changed instantly.

Luo Ming's last sentence about taking the camp to another place to seek another way out was basically an angry remark that could be ignored.

Not to mention one night, how far could they go?

Out of Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, they were completely blind in an unfamiliar environment.

In an unfamiliar environment, cold beasts, 'Gui', and extreme cold, any one of these was enough to take the lives of all of them.

If they could really escape, these people wouldn't have waited until now.

"Leader Luo, we all respect you, so I won't talk nonsense. Let us continue to help deal with the Wood-Puppet 'Gui', okay, but if it's like the previous four times, sending people out as bait to let the brothers die in vain, impossible!"

It was still the outspoken Hong Gang who spoke first.

The other three leaders, hearing this, all nodded to Luo Ming in unison, expressing their stance on Hong Gang's words.

In fact, let alone these three leaders, even Luo Ming himself agreed with Hong Gang's words, but he didn't respond immediately, but turned his head with a difficult expression and looked at Yang Ning and Li Hu sitting above.

Although a bit aggrieved, Luo Ming had to admit that how to deal with the 'Gui' was not up to him, but up to Yang and Li.

Regardless of whether the two really took a fancy to any good things on the 'Gui', it was true that they were helping them. At the moment, only these two had the strength to deal with the 'Gui', which was also absolutely true.

After thinking for a moment, Luo Ming still bowed to the two with a difficult expression, then lowered his head and said respectfully:

"Luo first thanks the two adults for their righteous help. I believe the leaders are the same, and they are all grateful for the two being able to help regardless of gain or loss.

But the first four times, too many people died. The two adults also witnessed it with their own eyes. Hong Gang and the others are all small camps, and the Woodcutting Realm combat power itself is small. If a few more are lost like this, survival will really become a problem.

Two adults, can you think of other ways to lure out that Wood-Puppet 'Gui'?"

After Luo Ming finished speaking, he waited quietly for the response of the two above.

The other four leaders also waited quietly for Yang and Li to speak, hoping they could come up with other ways and not let them send people out as bait again.

However, what the crowd didn't notice was that from the moment they started talking, the expression on Li Hu's face was already extremely impatient.

Even Yang Ning, who had always been relatively calm compared to him, had his brows tightly furrowed at this moment, and his face was also very ugly.

Li Hu couldn't help but stand out. Judging from his personality, he was definitely planning to vent to the crowd again.

But before he could speak, Yang Ning stood up from his seat, stopped him first, then turned to face the crowd, thought for a moment, and asked a question in a low voice:

"Do you think that using people as bait to lure the 'Gui' out is too cruel, and that it hasn't been effective four times, and so many people have died in vain, so it's not worth it?"

Luo Ming didn't speak, and the four leaders looked at each other and didn't speak either.

Of course, silence could also be considered an answer.

Yang Ning naturally understood this principle. After scanning the five people, he suddenly let out a low laugh, then shook his head constantly, his face full of helplessness.

"Do you know what it means for that Wood-Puppet 'Gui' in Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge to advance from primary to intermediate?"

When asking this question, his tone already carried obvious anger, and he didn't expect the crowd to answer, so he continued directly.

"Intermediate 'Gui', even if an 'Imperial-Cold' powerhouse comes, without any understanding, it is highly likely to be killed. Earth-Digging level humans are not even considered ants in its eyes and can be killed with a wave of a hand.

So, once it advances, it will mean that not only the few people in your Seeing Seeing Hong Mu Ridge, but all large and even giant camps around will become its hunting ground;

And if you are unlucky and let it advance to high-level, then even my Bei-Shuo town will have to pay a huge price to deal with it.

Do you really think that the two of us stayed here to save your few cheap lives?"

Yang Ning was angry for the first time, and his mean tone made Luo Ming and others tremble in their hearts. The hall instantly fell into dead silence.

And his words were not finished yet:

"The 'Gui', this evil creature that evolves through killing, is the common enemy of humanity. If it weren't for worrying that its strength would become stronger and harm more camps, do you really think that the two or three thousand lives of your few camps combined would be taken seriously by me?"

"These 'Gui' have no humanity and only kill and evolve by instinct. They won't stop after becoming stronger. If they are not eradicated as soon as possible while they are weak, it will only cause endless harm.

Do you think the method I used is deliberately harming you?

'Gui' are addicted to killing. Except for using people as bait, there is no other way to lure them out. This is the consensus of humans in the Ice Abyss.

Twenty-nine lives, in your eyes, are many, but in my eyes, if that Wood-Puppet 'Gui' is not removed early and it evolves successfully, then by then, the dead will be two thousand nine, twenty-nine thousand, or even more.

Not to mention my Bei-Shuo town, among the nine towns of Mo-Ao Mountain, which one hasn't had thousands of people die to deal with 'Gui'? I have seen with my own eyes that in order to encircle and suppress an intermediate 'Gui', more than a hundred Earth-Digging level humans voluntarily asked to be bait."

Speaking of this, Yang Ning seemed to remember something, pointed his finger at Li Hu behind him, and said loudly to the crowd: "Li Hu's father sacrificed himself to be bait in order to hunt a 'Gui' in Bei-Shuo."

Li Hu heard Yang Ning's words, didn't show sadness, only pride and self-esteem, as well as deep hatred for the 'Gui' in the depths of his heart.

Hearing this, the crowd fell into silence.

Yang Ning seemed to feel that he had said too much. He was silent for a moment, finally shook his head, and sighed: "Forget it, I've said all I have to say. Let's try one last time tomorrow. If we can't destroy that Wood-Puppet 'Gui', Li Hu and I will return to Bei-Shuo to seek reinforcements. By then, you can fend for yourselves!"

With things said to this point, whether it was Luo Ming or the other four leaders, they couldn't make any rebuttal. Even if they had this idea, it was forced back by the words Yang Ning just said.

They were all leaders of their respective camps. Even if they weren't geniuses, they always had some ability to judge people.

When Yang Ning said those words just now, his emotions were clearly real.

With things said to this point, the crowd naturally didn't want to refute Yang Ning anymore.

At worst, they would try one last time tomorrow. If they could really get rid of that Wood-Puppet 'Gui', wouldn't everyone be happy?

The meeting ended, and everyone returned to the rooms arranged by Luo Ming to rest.

The accommodation conditions of the Luo Ge camp were still okay. Everyone could be arranged in a room. Shi Dong and Shi Qing were arranged in the room next door.

At this moment, it was dawn outside, and everyone was tired for a night. After returning to the room, almost everyone lay down and fell asleep.

At noon, when everyone was sleeping the deepest and the temperature outside was the coldest.

Shi Dong suddenly opened his eyes on the bed in the room.

He got up lightly, opened the door, and walked toward the outside of the wooden house.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 44 =====