Lin Ruoke didn't care what others would think of her actions; all she wanted now was to go home as soon as possible. After being at sea for so long, she really missed A Liu and the others.

With a few powerful flaps of her wings behind her, she instantly increased her speed, darting across the sky like a blur. Many of the survivors at the B City base saw her and waved at her from below, as if trying to get her attention, but she ignored them all.

At this moment, she was thinking about how to appease her pets. She had promised them that she would be back in a few days when she left, but now more than a month had passed. What would their reaction be when they saw her again?

She moved incredibly fast, making no attempt to conceal her presence. Just as she flew out of the B City base area, she encountered a flock of mutated birds. The birds were not of a single species, and varied in size, numbering over sixty. The leader was a level six mutated goshawk, and the mutated birds behind it were all at level four or higher.

It's not hard to imagine what it would be like to look up from below as those birds fly by; it would be so vast that it would blot out the sky, stretching for thousands of meters.

They were just passing by Lin Ruo. When the two sides were rapidly approaching each other, the eagle almost stopped flapping its wings when it saw Lin Ruo. They were mutated beasts living nearby, and naturally had interacted with the mutated beasts and plants on Lin Ruo's mountain. They had also seen Lin Ruo's figure from the sky and recognized her.

It let out a sharp, piercing cry, and the beasts that were about to meet Lin Ruo head-on immediately changed direction and circled around her from a distance.

Lin Ruo raised an eyebrow slightly, her wings flapped, and she came to a sudden stop, hovering in the sky, watching the beast horde quickly disappear from her sight.

Moreover, the flock of birds was clearly under the command of the mutated goshawk, which was obviously quite intelligent.

Thinking of Ah Liu and the others at home, they too are progressing in intelligence step by step as their level increases, and now they can think like normal humans.

She withdrew her gaze. After being away for a month and a half, she had already stockpiled a lot of mutated sea beast corpses in her static space. In addition, with the mutated beast corpses that the B City base was about to send, she didn't need to stockpile any more. Moreover, the level of these mutated beast groups was not high enough. The leaders of the beast groups she had fought in the sea for the past month and a half were all level seven.

Since the flock of birds didn't seem to want to provoke her, she didn't bother and turned to leave towards her own mountain peak.

The mutated eagle, which had already flown far away, finally felt the dangerous sensation clinging to its body disappear. Relieved, it shook its feathers and led its flock towards the distant sea.

Lin Ruo flew back to her mountain peak and could sense from afar that something was wrong with the atmosphere on the entire mountain. All the mutated animals and plants were on edge. In the very center of the mountain, she could only feel the power emanating from A Liu and Lao Bai. Her heart tightened. Could it be that something had happened to A Fu and the other two?

Her spiritual power quickly extended forward, enveloping the entire mountain peak, and she immediately spotted the three giant beasts lying outside the fortress. They all had their eyes closed, and A-Liu and Lao Bai were tightly protecting them with branches.

Lin Ruo scanned them with her mental energy and confirmed that they had no injuries, only that their energy was steadily increasing. Her tension eased slightly. It seemed that the strange thing about the whole mountain was just because Afu and the other two were leveling up.

Her spatial domain enveloped the entire mountain peak, and she instantly teleported outside the fortress. The mutated plants on the perimeter, which had just discovered Lin Ruo's presence and wanted to extend their branches to greet her, retracted their branches as if it were commonplace when Lin Ruo suddenly disappeared. The tension on their bodies also disappeared. More than a month of vigilance had finally come to an end.

A-Liu and Lao Bai had already sensed Lin Ruo's presence when he appeared around the mountain peak, and they immediately suppressed their aura and stretched out their branches to greet him.

Her figure instantly appeared in front of Afu and the other two. Although she had already checked them with her mental energy, she couldn't help but reach out her hand. Streams of water rapidly flowed from her palm, slowly enveloping Afu and the other two. She used her water-based ability to check them again, confirming that their upgrade was successful and without any problems. Only then did she withdraw her ability and completely relax.

Once the surrounding water had all dissipated into the air, A-Liu and Lao Bai stretched out their branches to Lin Ruo and gently rubbed against her. A-Liu's branch even pulled on Lin Ruo's arm and swayed back and forth. They missed her because she hadn't been home for so long.

Lin Ruo, whose face was usually indifferent, now had a bright smile on it. "Thank you for your hard work. I did stay out for too long this time, but I found a lot of good things, and I even found an eighth-level mutated beast for you."

Upon hearing that there was an eighth-level mutated beast, Ah Liu and Lao Bai straightened their branches, clearly eager for it.

For the past month or so, they have been eating the mutated beasts that Afu and his companions have caught. The highest level of the mutated beasts at the foot of the mountain is only level six. Those level six mutated beasts are extremely cunning and difficult to catch. They are also protected by many other mutated beasts. Therefore, most of the mutated beasts that Afu and his companions bring back are level five mutated beasts, and sometimes they are even level four.

This made Ah Liu and the others, who had always been well cared for by Lin Ruo, immediately feel the contrast. Their master was not around, there was no good lake water to drink, no high-quality beast meat to eat, and no fragrant master to keep them company. Life was simply unbearable.

But A-Liu is a sensible person. Even if they miss Lin Ruo, they won't send her those kinds of messages. They usually just say that they are doing well and that she doesn't need to worry.

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