Holy crap!

Jiang Yuan's head was buzzing because it was too unbelievable; the drop rate was too illogical.

You're just a Tier 1 normal monster, isn't it a bit much to use this Radiant Gold Core? Even if you're the Fish King, you can't mess with my mentality like this!

Ning Yanlan also covered her mouth and stared in disbelief at the Radiant Gold Core on the ground. She could imagine the change in Jiang Yuan's expression without even looking at it.

This had nothing to do with her; she just made a gentle, casual cut, but who knew it would yield a Radiant Core! She also found it incredibly illogical.

But then I thought, with the world like this, what's the point of talking about science? Thinking about it that way, I felt relieved.

"Jiang Yuan!" Ning Yanlan tossed the Radiant Gold Core in her hand up and down. "Look, what's this!"

"I……"

Jiang Yuan was about to say "I'm willing to accept defeat" when a roar came from hundreds of meters away.

“It’s Xu Feng’s voice!” Ning Yanlan frowned.

"Something's happened in Xujia Village! Put the Sharp-Toothed Fish into your storage ring, let's hurry back and check!" Jiang Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He inexplicably thought of those people killed by the hunting team during the day, who were very likely them.

The two hurriedly collected the carcass of the sharp-toothed fish and then ran all the way back to Xujia Village.

The sky had already darkened, but the night not only carried an impenetrable darkness, but also an indescribable sense of unease.

When they stepped into the courtyard of the last inhabited house in Xujia Village, Jiang Yuan was stunned, and Ning Yanlan was stunned as well.

The scene before them was a horrific sight they had never witnessed in their lives. A group of crazed people were pinning a man to the ground and brutally tearing him apart. The man was the young man from Xujia Village who had survived earlier. Although he was being torn beyond recognition, he was not completely dead yet. He was howling and struggling violently, but his struggles were futile against the attack of five or six people.

"Help me! Help me!"

The young man, whose face was completely disfigured and who only had one eye left, roared in grief and anger at Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan. But as soon as he finished speaking, a madman who had been tearing at the young man's eyes dug out his only remaining eyeball and then swallowed it with great excitement.

"Ugh!" Ning Yanlan's stomach churned, and she was about to vomit.

Jiang Yuan gritted his teeth, unable to understand why these people would do such a heinous thing when there was food everywhere.

"Prey has come knocking!"

Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan were discovered. The group of people who were lying on the ground eating flesh and blood stood up one by one, while the young man on the ground had already died.

"There's another woman. I love the fragrant flesh and blood of a strong young woman. I hope I'll have that pleasure today!" One of them licked his bloodied lips, his eyes filled with an extremely sinister look as he looked at Ning Yanlan.

"Die, all of you!" Xu Feng roared out of the gate, surrounded by a dozen or so madmen, his body a gruesome sight.

His flesh was torn apart, his tendons were ripped out, and the blood that spurted out stained his clothes red, but Xu Feng did not retreat because there were still four people behind him.

Xu Feng charged out like a bull, instantly clearing a space in the crowd, leaving only two corpses torn to shreds.

"Brother!" Xu Lian ran towards a corpse like a madwoman, bursting into tears in an instant.

"They're all going to die, they're all going to die!" Wang Hetai was too terrified to say much. He had witnessed this scene several times and was already numb to it.

"I'll give you a chance to live!" A young man who was so thin he was unrecognizable stepped forward, and the crazed crowd calmed down slightly when he appeared.

Jiang Yuan pulled Ning Yanlan to Xu Feng and the others, while also using a detection skill on the young man.

"Human, third-tier Soul Energy type! Eight points of Soul Energy, Talent: Control."

The assessment was nothing special; the Soul Energy of eight points was only at the third tier. However, this was the first time Jiang Yuan had encountered a Soul Energy type, which made him even more wary of underestimating the opponent.

The young man scanned the six people, including Jiang Yuan and Ning Yanlan, and said with a look of enjoyment, "Don't you want to live?"

Xu Feng roared, "You beasts! You're all a bunch of beasts!"

The young man and his companions didn't get angry; instead, they showed smug expressions upon hearing Xu Feng's angry curses. "Live on, join us, isn't that good?"

"Now, all you have to do is eat each other's hearts, and you can survive and become one of us!"

The young man looked up at the golden gate in the sky, now shrouded in darkness, and sighed, "The gates of the apocalypse have opened wide. The weak will become food. Rather than becoming someone else's food, it's better to sit on the table yourself and enjoy the struggle of being eaten!"

Jiang Yuan felt a chill. Forcing someone to eat their own kind was extremely cruel. Humans are highly social omnivores. Although their food is not fixed, it depends on the group's choice.

Take this group of people, for example. If you choose to eat your own kind in order to survive, you will only go further and further down this path and will never be able to integrate into a normal human group again.

Once you've had the experience of eating your own kind for the first time, you can't return to the ranks of normal humans, because you are an outcast, and no normal person can tolerate someone who has eaten their own kind.

You can only keep going, even to the point of becoming so twisted that you force other innocent people to eat their own kind, trying to assimilate them into a cannibalistic group.

"I'll kill you all!" Xu Lian swung her wood-chopping knife and charged at the young man, determined to avenge her family.

Xu Lian's actions quickly attracted attention, and a large number of frenzied hunters rushed towards her, each one grinding their teeth and looking at her with the eyes of prey.

"Xiao Lian, come back!"

Xu Feng took a step forward, his strength terrifying. His not-so-strong body pushed aside dozens of crazed people like a bulldozer, and then pulled Xu Lian behind him.

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