Chapter 861: Haicheng Discovered! A Foreign Organization! Su Yang's Tip!

Coming out on a mission with Vice Company Commander An Hang, my speed is fast, so I arrived at Tian Xincheng first to wait for them!"

The matter of Haicheng hasn't spread yet.

General Qian didn't say Su Yang's group had to keep this mission confidential on this trip, but the problem was he also didn't say they could go around blabbing about it.

Mi Shan nodded, but didn't press further: "Then I'll arrange a residence for City Lord Su."

"Then sorry for the trouble!"

On the morning of the third day after Su Yang arrived at Tian Xincheng, An Hang and the others finally caught up.

The moment Su Yang saw them, he complained: "You really made me wait!"

An Hang said angrily: "You think everyone is like you, with a spatial-type pet beast?"

At this, Su Yang didn't brag.

If he kept going, An Hang might think he was showing off.

This time, the Southeast Military Department's lineup of personnel could be called powerful.

Over ten Stellar-tier experts, more than twenty Platinum-tier beast tamers—not counting Su Yang—were all four King-tier powerhouses, beast tamers.

One could see how much importance Qian Hailong attached to this operation.

After all, an organization crazy and brazen enough to destroy a city in the Southeast—throughout the Southeast's history, there probably weren't more than three.

What about Su Yang?

His head was full of "national war."

Judging from the information that surfaced in the system mission, behind Haicheng's self-destruction lurked a nation.

Su Yang really wanted to figure out which country was behind this!

He actually also really wanted to tell Qian Hailong something.

But he had no proof; even if he spoke up now, he'd probably be taken for a joke by the people of the Southeast Military Department.

Seven days later, Su Yang and the others finally caught sight of Haicheng.

Haicheng, likewise, was built against the mountains.

Looking from afar, almost all of Haicheng's city walls had collapsed.

As the sea breeze blew, Su Yang could smell the stench of rotting corpses in the air.

Above Haicheng, several Jin Gang vultures circled.

These scavenging fierce beasts had sharp noses!

Near the city's Beimen, a giant demon worm was parked.

An Hang brought Su Yang and the others down near the giant demon worm.

They had just stopped when a Platinum-tier beast tamer leapt down from inside the worm train.

This was Guo Shu, the worm-train commander who had discovered Haicheng.

Guo Shu had once served as squad leader under an emergency unit of the Southeast Military Department, and later applied to be transferred to worm-train commander.

Traveling back and forth between the major cities of the Southeast, he had done this for over ten years.

After discovering Haicheng had been destroyed, Guo Shu sent all the passengers on the train to nearby cities, and reported to the local city lord, who then sent people to pass the information to the Southeast Military Department!

Then Guo Shu led the train's crew back again.

Guo Shu sighed: "Vice Company Commander An, you've finally come! Mm! The moment we got the news, we rushed over!" An Hang said, "You've been staying in Haicheng for over half a month—have you discovered anything unusual?"

Guo Shu said in a low voice: "It wasn't sea beasts, it must have been beast tamers; they never returned to Haicheng! I sent people to examine many corpses, and I feel something very strange—the beast tamers who massacred Haicheng should have a large number of water-type pet beasts!"

"A large number of water-type pet beasts, how is that possible?" An Hang asked, "Overall, water-type pet beasts among our Southeast beast tamers are still relatively common, right?"

"Those bastards had an unusually high number of water-type pet beasts. Among the civilians and beast tamers in Haicheng killed by pet beasts, out of a thousand, nearly four hundred were killed by water-type pet beasts!"

"Sigh!"

At this moment, not only An Hang, but Su Yang and the other three King-tier beast tamers all felt stunned!

This ratio of pet beasts was clearly off.

In places like the Southwest and the inland West, because of the environment, many beast tamers didn't even want to contract water-type pet beasts.

Water-type pet beasts, fighting on flat ground, were somewhat mediocre in strength.

Attack power, not as good as fire-type.

Defense, not as good as earth-type or rock-type!

Speed, not as good as wind-type!

Apart from countering fire-type relatively well, they had no great advantages.

But in the Southeast, because of the proximity to the sea, the situation was different!

Many Southeast beast tamers would always contract a water-type pet beast.

However, one water-type pet beast was enough.

Beast tamers who often fought in shallow-sea areas could contract two water-type pet beasts... any more, and there wasn't much need.

Yet the beast tamers who massacred Haicheng had almost half of their pet beasts as water-type—that was very strange!

Guo Shu continued: "Besides water-type pet beasts, those bastards had a very high proportion of wind-type pet beasts too, taking up roughly three to four tenths!"

"This kind of pet beast configuration is way too obvious!" Su Yang asked: "Vice Company Commander An, is there such an organization in the Southeast?"

An Hang shook his head, asserting firmly: "There isn't!"

Su Yang looked at the other King-tier beast tamers, and they too shook their heads one after another...

An Hang asked Guo Shu again: "Do you have any other leads?"

Guo Shu said in a low voice: "I suspect the enemy came from the sea. I checked the traces left from the battle at the time—the enemy didn't land from the coastline; after breaking through Haicheng, they retreated back into the sea!"

"Really?"

"Really!" Guo Shu nodded, "I sent people to roughly count the corpses in Haicheng. The corpses in Haicheng probably only number thirty to forty thousand; the remaining ten thousand or so should have been taken captive. Those bastards left footprints, but no scent could be detected!

"Why would they need to capture people?"

"The ones taken were all children and women!" Guo Shu said. "When we counted the corpses, we found the number of children's and women's bodies was clearly much lower!"

An Hang and the others' faces were no longer pleasant to look at.

The situation grew increasingly bewildering!

Why did the other side want to massacre Haicheng?

Why take away the women and children?

Why would they contract so many water-type and wind-type beast pets?

Wind-type beast pets, that could still be explained.

Wind-type flying beast pets' high mobility is very popular among beast tamers; many beast tamers will contract two flying-type passenger beast pets. But oddly, in their memory, there wasn't a single organization whose beast tamers would contract so many water-type beast pets!

King-rank beast tamer Liu Yan asked: "So many water-type beast pets—could the other side be deliberately trying to confuse us?"

This Liu Yan, of the Suyangshi Society.

Back when Liu Mengyun had trapped herself inside the ice coffin, Liu Yan had also dug an ice cave at the time!

An Ban said: "We can't rule out this possibility!"

Su Yang chimed in: "What if that organization, the one with so many water-type beast pets here, we don't know them simply because they're not an allied organization of the Huaxia Alliance?"

The moment Su Yang finished speaking, every beast tamer stared at him.

"Why are you all looking at me?"

"A foreign organization?" Liu Yan shook his head and said, "The world is so chaotic right now—our Huaxia Federation can't even manage to protect itself. I don't believe any country could suppress the fierce beasts and have nothing better to do than come to our Huaxia Federation to cause trouble!"