Chapter 1027

The old man corrected: "Wind noise! Did you hear the wind noise?"

"Wind noise?"

"Yes, that's wind noise!" The old man suddenly sat up from bed, "It's definitely wind noise, it's surely that one—it's coming back again, after forty years, I hear its voice again… I hear it again!"

As he spoke, tears and snot streamed down his face.

"My lord, which 'it'? What is this 'it'?"

"You were all too young back then—you wouldn't have known!"

"Is my lord referring to… that Beast Emperor?"

A maid asked, barely believing it.

She was over forty, but she still faintly remembered that Black Tiger City was not her hometown.

She remembered the days of her childhood, when her parents fled with her…

In her memory, there were refugees everywhere, one after another collapsing along the way.

In the end, looking all around, it felt as if only her family remained in all the world.

"Yes, that's it! That hurricane-roaring cloud tiger that destroyed our seventeen cities—I'm certain, this is definitely its voice, definitely its voice, it's coming back… it's conquering, it wants all the ferocious beasts around it to gather under its command!" the old man trembled as he spoke, "I've guarded here for forty years, forty years have passed, and I've finally waited for it again—I knew it, I always knew it would return… I thought I'd never live to see it, but now, at last, I've waited it out!"

The old man struggled to rise from the bed.

But as soon as he stood, he staggered, crashed down with a "thud," and fell straight off the bed.

The two maids rushed forward to help him, but he staggered back up from the floor: "Notify the deputy city lord—summon all of Black Tiger City's high-ranking officials!"

Of course, the terrifying beast roar had kept all of Black Tiger City's high-ranking officials awake.

Just twenty minutes later, all of Black Tiger City's high-ranking officials had arrived.

None of them had expected that this monstrous beast roar had awakened their city lord, Zhang Yi, who had lain comatose in bed for over half a year!

In the conference room, Zhang Yi, the city lord of Black Tiger City, was supported by two maids as he shakily took his seat at the head.

"Did you hear the beast roar?"

Zhang Yi's voice was weak and exhausted, yet to the ears of Black Tiger City's high-ranking officials, it carried heavy weight.

"We heard it!"

"Do you know what kind of ferocious beast made that roar?"

The high-ranking officials of Black Tiger City exchanged uneasy glances.

To most of them, as beast tamers, the roars of ferocious beasts all sounded much the same!

Zhang Yi slammed his fist hard on the conference table in furious rage—the solid wood table was sliced clean through by his palm—and he roared:

"You deaf fools, all of you are deaf! That's the Hurricane Roaring Cloud Tiger—that's the roar of the Beast Emperor Hurricane Roaring Cloud Tiger from forty years ago!"

"No way, my lord!" the deputy city lord wiped sweat from his brow and asked softly, "It's been forty years—how could that Hurricane Roaring Cloud Tiger still be alive? Didn't my lord and the other five experts severely wound it and drive it into the Black Tiger Mountains? It's probably long dead from other ferocious beasts! And even if it did return, wouldn't it be ancient by now?"

Zhang Yi cursed: "Ancient? Pfft—it's not old at all! It's a royal-level ferocious beast—its lifespan is far longer than that of a king-level beast tamer!"

An old officer with white hair murmured: "Now that I think back… I also feel that voice sounds a bit like the Hurricane Roaring Cloud Tiger."

All of Black Tiger City's high-ranking officials turned toward the old officer.

The deputy city lord asked, voice slightly tense: "Old Cao, are you sure?"

The deputy city lord of Black Tiger City had exercised the city lord's authority for nearly the past few years.

Cao Yun looked hesitantly at the group, then at Zhang Yi, and said apologetically: "I can't be certain, but it feels similar… it's been forty years—how could I possibly remember clearly?"