Chapter 2245

His conscience told him to go.

But his reason told him not to.

Zhao Chi thought silently.

Su Qin also listened in silence.

Zhao Chi's inner voice was like a great roar; Su Qin heard it clearly.

Although Li Ruanyu hadn't sent the message to Su Qin, from Zhao Chi's inner bellowing she too had pieced together most of it.

Su Qin also had deep feelings for the Zhao family.

Her parents had died early, and it was the Zhao family that raised her.

Later they even betrothed her to Zhao Chi.

The Zhao family had also been kind to her.

But right now she couldn't say a single word—she didn't want her own words to influence Zhao Chi's judgment.

Suddenly!

A mandatory notification came from the system.

【Lu Yibing】:

【Urgent, everyone change direction, there's a werewolf patrol ahead】

Damn!

Zhao Chi immediately closed the system and looked ahead.

He couldn't see anything in front.

But Guan Zhiyong, who was at the very front, had already signaled to stop advancing.

The lords stopped one after another.

The translucent shadows bunched together.

Guan Zhiyong immediately turned around and charged toward the middle of the group.

"Damn it, so you're a spy too!!"

As he spoke, the light over Guan Zhiyong's whole body flashed and vanished, and his body became fully visible.

Veins bulged on his forehead, and the long blade in his hand gleamed with light.

The next second, his figure vanished.

Zhao Chi instinctively looked up and behind.

Sure enough, Guan Zhiyong was above the head of a vice squad leader, his long blade wreathed in thunder.

"Die!!"

Whoosh~

Crack-crack-crack!!!

Lightning exploded, currents shooting out.

A ring of lords around them scrambled to dodge, but were still sent staggering by the powerful voltage.

The thunderbolt struck down.

Crack! Pfft!

Lightning flared.

Dozens of lords were caught in it, and their figures all emerged from stealth as well.

A deep crack appeared in the ground, as if the earth itself had split open like a wound.

But the target of Guan Zhiyong's attack had vanished.

Jiang Chen also rushed over at this point: "He's retreated back to his territory, no time to deal with him now—just root out the spy, we leave right away!"

Guan Zhiyong saluted the Tongyan main force beside him: "Sorry, we had a problem on our side and dragged everyone down."

Vice Commander Shen Jiyun shook his head: "This kind of thing is understandable, spies are unavoidable—we killed two when we set out too. The west is no good either, werewolves there as well. We head east!"

Tongyan main force captain prompted from behind: "East won't work either, the werewolves chasing the River Valley main force are right there. We can only circle around from behind!"

Guan Zhiyong and the others exchanged glances and nodded to each other.

That was the only way.

"Full speed retreat!"

Guan Zhiyong took the lead, withdrawing at top speed.

Jiang Chen slowed down slightly, still covering the rear.

Lu Yibing, who had been scouting in the distance, had already returned.

But she was still far away.

Zhao Chi's perception and eyesight were now extremely sharp; he could see a tiny white dot on the distant horizon.

That was Lu Yibing riding her paper bird.

Like a grain of white sand drifting against the black sky.

Very thin, very small.

Huh?

Why was there a white line too?

Lu Yibing is human, she shouldn't be that long, right?

Can she transform too?

That's not right!

The white line behind isn't her.

And it wasn't just one white fiber—there were multiple white lines.

Zhao Chi used Su Qin's eyes to examine them carefully.

Why do those white lines look like bones?

Bones floating in the sky?

No time to confirm.

Hurry and warn her!

【Zhao Chi, Lu Yibing! There's something behind you!】

Lu Yibing in the distance showed no reaction at all.

Zhao Chi had no authority to send a forced message, nor was he Lu Yibing's personal friend; messages posted in the group were easily overlooked.

Just as Zhao Chi was about to ask Li Ruanyu to help send a message, he saw the dark clouds above Lu Yibing's head churning.

A massive bone dragon descended from the sky and swallowed Lu Yibing whole in one bite.

"Holy shit!"

It all happened too fast.

Lu Yibing hadn't reacted at all.

A vice captain, a state-level lord, a powerful lord with over three million combat power—just swallowed like that?

Lu Yibing died just like that?

So easily?

Zhao Chi was stunned.

Immediately after, the bone dragon flapped its enormous bone wings, charged once more toward the clouds above, and vanished.

But the violently churning dark clouds in the sky were pressing down, clearly the bone dragon was rapidly approaching above the cloud layer.

Occasionally a dragon claw or dragon tail would drop down from the clouds, revealing white lines.

And there wasn't just one.

But the others clearly didn't know yet.

Zhao Chi could only control Su Qin's mouth and try to make as much sound as possible.

"Everyone retreat now! There are multiple bone dragons behind us!"

Su Qin's shrill voice rang out.

Afraid the others wouldn't hear clearly, or afraid they might think they'd misheard.

Zhao Chi also immediately sent a warning in the communication group.

Zhao Chi 【Retreat now! Bone dragons behind, lots of them! They're already here! Lu Yibing has been swallowed—run with everything you've got!】

In an instant.