The trees in this mountain forest are extremely lush.
A large bird with an unknown name hovered in the air and did not land on the tree. It just made a piercing scream.
One of the deacons felt upset and raised his hand to shoot the crow.
Silence returned to the woods.
If it weren't for the five injured people guiding them, they wouldn't even know which direction to pursue.
Except for the four deacons who led the team, the remaining deacons retreated inwardly after seeing the miserable condition of their colleagues.
Although everyone yelled for a long time to chase, no one dared to walk in the front.
Everyone looks at me and I look at you, we all want to wait for others to come first.
When the four deacons saw this scene, they also knew that they might not be able to do what they expected from these frightened deacons.
Some of these people were seconded and had no intention of pursuing them, they just wanted to deal with them.
One of the deacons also said, "Everyone has disappeared, why don't we go back!"
"go back?"
The four deacons leading the team are headed by Yang Kun, who is also a direct descendant of Elder Liu Yongtai.
At this time, Yang Kun was looking at these deacons and sneered.
"If Elder Yongtai knew that you were unwilling to pursue him and blamed you for being so afraid of the enemy, how would you explain it?"
"Aren't you unaware of Elder Yongtai's methods? Do you all want to be sent to open up the wilderness?"
After Yang Kun scolded him, someone immediately stood up and expressed his position.
"Deacon Yang, we are all from the Spiritual Feeding House in the back mountain. We are mainly responsible for taking care of the Earth Dragon Beast and other mounts."
"I have never experienced this kind of battle before, so just tell me what to do, and everyone will listen to you!"
Deacon Yang nodded slightly, "Leave one person to take care of the injured, and the others will follow me in pursuit!"
After looking around, I casually ordered one from Deacon Li and left it.
Deacon Li was obviously a little happy. By staying to take care of the wounded, he could take the opportunity to escort the wounded back. Even if the hard work was completed, it would still be easier than chasing the enemy.
Deacon Yang took the lead in pursuit and chased towards the forest.
After these people walked away, Gu Yuan jumped down from the tree crown on one side and smiled at the injured person on the ground.
Deacon Li, who was responsible for staying behind to take care of the injured, had just taken out the sound transmission scroll.
He wanted to contact the Soul Rearing Institute to send some earth dragon beasts to help escort the injured back.
These people all had their feet chopped off and were fine after simple treatment, but they had to have mounts before they could go back.
Gu Yuan's smile, in the eyes of these five horrified injured people, looked like a demonic existence.
Deacon Li, who was about to send a message, was dumbfounded and immediately questioned several injured colleagues.
Only then did the deacon realize that the big bird refused to fall. It turned out that there was someone in the tree!
He angrily asked the injured person sitting on the ground, "Didn't you say that he had already run far over there?
How is this going?"
One of the injured people immediately complained, "He really left just now. How did we know that he would come back to kill us again!"
Another injured person followed up and said, "Deacon Li, we are seriously injured now, you have to protect me!"
Deacon Li asked bravely: "Who are you?
Why are you chasing down my Liu family’s guards?”
After he asked a question, he turned around and ran away without waiting for Gu Yuan to answer.
Gu Yuan raised his hand and shot a sleeve arrow, hitting Deacon Li right in the back of his mind.
Deacon Li fell to the ground with a groan, blood spreading from his lower body.
At this moment, the injured deacons who were still counting on his protection were instantly discouraged, and their emotions were very complicated.
Gu Yuan asked impatiently: "Now I will ask you to answer. If you don't want to answer, then you can go underground to keep Deacon Li company."
"How many people are you chasing?"
But although these deacons were injured, they did not cooperate.
"Little thief! You are so cunning. Now that you have taken advantage of Deacon Yang to leave, you have come back to attack us!"
While the man was talking, he was still struggling crookedly, trying to stand up and pounce on Gu Yuan.
When Gu Yuan heard this, he realized that this man could no longer tell the truth, so he directly used the Exploding Dragon Fist to blast the man into a big tree more than ten meters away.
This man was lying motionless under a tree, and there was a high probability that he would not survive.
Gu Yuan looked at the other deacon again.
The deacon just took out the sound transmission scroll and said, "Come back quickly, this little thief is... poof!"
Gu Yuan walked over and slashed with his knife, then looked at the third person.
"How many people do you have chasing me?
How many routes are there in total?
What’s the plan?”
"You can't get any useful information from us!"
"We are not your opponent, but the elders and the inner deacons will be here soon. There is no way you can escape from them, not even your accomplices!"
Gu Yuan looked at this man's fanatical expression, but he didn't want to kill him directly. He felt that he should let this man watch.
Let him see what he does and kill the inner sect deacons and elders who are powerful in his mind one by one!
But before he could take action, the man bit his tongue and committed suicide.
It turned out that he was watching Gu Yuan walking towards him, fearing that Gu Yuan would torture him and die immediately.
Three people died in a row, and the remaining two injured did not even dare to cry loudly, with despair on their faces.
"I'm asking you to answer, I don't want to hear any other answer!"
After Gu Yuan asked again, they were greeted by silence.
They didn't shout any more.
After a while, Gu Yuan's patience was almost worn out before someone answered.
"It's not that we won't talk about this young hero, but both of us are from the Soul-raising Yuan in the back mountain, and our duty is to take care of the mounts."
"This time, we were transferred here just to search for strangers here. As for the specific deployment, we don't know."
The other one also nodded repeatedly.
"Young hero, everything we said is true!"
"If you really don't believe it, just kill us all!"
Gu Yuan frowned slightly, "Since he doesn't know anything, why did he bite his tongue and commit suicide just now?"
The deacon who spoke first was silent for a moment, and then said softly:
"We are now useless people. Living is almost as good as dead."
"But if we die because of this incident, there will be three times the resettlement allowance..."
"Then you two also want to bite your tongue and commit suicide?"
"The deacon who committed suicide only had one mother in his family. Even if he died, the old mother could survive with three times the pension."
"But my son has only been born for more than two months, and I still want to watch him grow up."
Another deacon also cried and said:
"Although we are deacons of the Liu family, the Liu family does not treat us well and often deducts our salary for any reason. If I were not afraid of hurting my family, I would have stopped working."
"Just like this time, I was on duty last night. I should have rested during the day today, so I will continue to stay on duty at night."
"The recent period has been the birth season for the earth dragon beasts. Our deacons at the Spiritual House take turns to guard it, and they don't dare to leave anyone for a moment."
"But they still called us here regardless, and didn't listen to our explanation."