Round Rock——

Yuan Ze's slender fingers tapped rhythmically on the chair handle. "When will my brother's medicine be ready?"

"One day limit."

Shen Qi raised her eyes to look at him, "But you have to let us go after saving your brother."

Yuan Ze stopped and smiled faintly, wickedly and uninhibitedly, "Are you so eager to leave here? What's wrong with staying here?"

"By the way, there have been a lot of tiger beasts wandering around the Dark Forest these days. Are they looking for you?"

His handsome face and narrow phoenix eyes stared at her.

Hearing this, Shen Qi frowned.

A tiger beast? Could it be a tiger beastman? If it was a tiger beastman, then it was likely Bai Yuwei and his tribe had come looking for him.

There must be quite a few tiger beasts coming, otherwise they wouldn't have been noticed by the orcs in Demonic Beast City. If they rashly entered here, the only ones who would suffer would be the tigers...

Yuan Ze saw the emotion that flashed across her eyes and asked her with interest, "Did I guess right?"

Shen Qi raised his obsidian eyes, "Do you think I can get so many people from the Tiger Tribe to come here?"

"That's not necessarily true. It's either you or another female who came with you."

Shen Qi narrowed his eyes and said, "Let's make a deal. I will help you treat your brother, and you will give me a medicinal pill that can cover up his aura."

"That's all you need?"

"right."

…

"Qiqi, there are a lot more orcs outside, what's going on?"

As soon as Shen Qi returned to the cave, Ai Chu approached worriedly.

Ever since Qiqi came back, there have been a lot more orcs outside, always hovering nearby. They don't look like ordinary evil beasts, but more like... they are specially guarding them?

Shen Qi had just returned and noticed something unusual outside. He glanced at them, but they immediately looked away.

It should be that after the tiger beast came to the Dark Forest, it found the evil beast to watch over them.

"It's okay, we'll be out of here soon." Shen Qi took out the pill he had just obtained from Yuan Ze.

"Is this... true, Qiqi!" Ai Chu covered his mouth, excitement rushing to his head.

"Yeah." Shen Qi smiled.

She took out the alchemy furnace, put the Hanxuan grass in it, added some water, and started it running.

This kind of medicine takes longer to refine, and she estimated that it would be finished by tomorrow morning, so she decided to rest for a night.

In the early morning, the sun was still shining beautifully in the clouds, with a hint of red light shining through.

Shen Qi took out the refined pills and heard some whispering outside. It was a bit noisy. She just stuck her head out and saw two more evil beasts standing at the door.

When they saw her, they glared at her and said, "Go back! You are not allowed to go out today by the king's order."

"Why?"

"Why so many questions? Just stay inside the house and stay there. The other orcs will prepare the food. Now go back!"

Shen Qi turned around and went back into the house, and the two evil beasts outside the door stopped being aggressive.

What's going on? What happened today? Yesterday, the Demonic Beast King had only arranged for the demonic beasts to observe their actions nearby, but today, he had directly sent the demonic beasts to guard the door, preventing them from even leaving.

She just saw the beast pattern on the arm of an evil beast. One was level three, and the other should be no lower than level three.

"Qiqi, what happened? We are being monitored by them again, just like when we first came here."

"We'll escape from here soon..."

A moment later.

"ah--"

A female scream was heard from the house. The evil beasts outside looked at each other, and one of them nodded and went in.

"What's wrong?" He asked, but got no response. It was as if the back of his head was hit by a heavy stick and he fainted.

Hearing the heavy groan from inside, another evil beast outside also went in. Seeing the orc who had just fallen to the ground, his eyes sank. Just as he took out his claws, his neck was pressed against a sharp blade.

The force used was quite strong, leaving a scratch on his neck and bleeding.

"What happened outside?" A cold voice came from behind.

"You...you let me go first, and I will tell you." The evil beast looked at the reflective blade, its lips trembling.

"Don't try to play tricks on me. If you don't tell me, I can't tell you where the knife will land." As he spoke, Shen Qi pressed the blade down again, but avoided the fatal part.

"I'll tell you! Yesterday, there were many tiger beasts lurking in the Dark Forest. Today, they seem to have reached the vicinity of the Demonic Beast City. The king sent us to guard you."

"Where are those evil beasts outside yesterday?"

"They...they followed the king outside."

With a powerful swing of his hand, a shallow knife mark was left on the neck of the evil beast. It fell to the ground, its eyes wide open in death.

"Qiqi, are there no evil beasts outside?" She also heard what the evil beast said just now. Doesn't that mean that there are no evil beasts guarding them outside?

"That's not necessarily true. It's a lie."

Shen Qi took out a dagger and shot it at the muddy ground outside the door. The next moment, the four evil beasts pounced on the dagger, hitting them and making them dizzy.

She approached them in an instant and quickly killed two third-level evil beasts with her knife. The other two evil beasts realized the danger and quickly retreated.

They transformed into beasts, howled, stretched out their claws, and attacked from both sides.

Just when their claws were only half a meter away from her, she exerted force on her feet, flew into the air, turned over, and kicked one of the evil beasts on the back of the head with her toes.

The evil beast looked at the other evil beast with horror. Unexpectedly, its head was pierced by the sharp claws of the evil beast opposite. Blood gushed out, staining the ground red.

Taking advantage of the other evil beast's shock, she stabbed him in the back with her knife, causing thick scarlet blood to flow out. She kicked his body away and fell to the ground.

Shen Qi's eyes moved slightly, and she suddenly looked towards the bushes beside her. Almost a second before she looked over, a sound came from the bushes.

"Want to run?"

She pulled the retractable strap and the blade shot over there. With a "pop", Shen Qi instantly moved over and saw that the blade had hit his chest and pulled it out.

This evil beast had just been hiding in the shadows. When it saw her deal with the remaining evil beasts, it turned around and wanted to run away to report to the other orcs...

Ai Chu didn't hear any more fighting outside. He came out and saw several evil beasts lying on the ground. "Qiqi, you've taken care of all the evil beasts!"

"Let's go now before we're discovered by other evil beasts."

"good."

Shen Qi pulled Ai Chu and walked towards the river they had visited last time, stealthily passing through layers of grass.

I took the right path and didn’t run into any other orcs.

She could faintly hear the rhythmic sound of the river flowing slowly, getting closer and closer.

A smile spread across Shen Qi's lips, "We're almost there."

Immediately, she pulled Ai Chu and stopped.

She saw a leopard beast standing opposite her, which looked familiar to her. The next moment, the leopard beast transformed into a human form, which was Ruolan, whom she had not seen for a long time.

A sharp light flashed in her eyes, "It's you! Why are you here?"