After a quick bite to eat, we continued on our way.
Yesterday, we were so focused on escaping that we didn't realize we had strayed seven or eight miles off course.
Now we can only follow the route we remember to get back to the original road. This is the road we've traveled before, and we're somewhat familiar with it.
I know those Haru won't give up so easily, but I don't know if they'll find the route we're taking.
Now we can only hope that they don't happen to find this place. If we just hold on for a while longer, we'll be able to return to our tribe soon after we get past that carnivorous forest.
But that's just how reality is; what you fear most is what happens.
These Haru are even more troublesome than I imagined. I tricked them once again, and they naturally hate me to the core.
When Haru arrived, Haru's king had already told them that no matter what the cost, they could not allow these people to return to the tribe.
As long as we can hold out until Haru's army wipes out the Mira tribe, eliminating this unstable factor, then we will have plenty of confidence to deal with not only three people, but also the Asada tribe.
As Tang Yi detoured back to their original route, they were unaware that a group of Haru, who had also taken a shortcut, were lying in ambush ahead of them.
This time, Haru abandoned its various ingenious tricks and instead clearly laid an ambush on the route Tang Yi and his companions were bound to take. As soon as the three appeared, they would immediately launch a coordinated attack to annihilate them.
At this moment, Tang Yi and his group continued their journey towards this place. The Mira tribe, which was still some distance away from them, was already caught in a fierce battle.
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At this moment, the leader of the Mira tribe was covered in dust and his eyes were bloodshot, clearly indicating that he had not slept all night.
Starting around midnight yesterday, Mira warriors on covert patrols were killed one after another. Haru's army thus silently breached the outermost sentry network established by the Mira tribe in the darkness.
The decision to establish these hidden sentries was made after discussions between Tang Yi and everyone else, in order to create two overlapping security lines, one visible and one hidden, in conjunction with the overtly deployed guards.
Logically speaking, there should be many more sentry posts and traps deployed outside the guard lines of these hidden sentries.
As soon as someone touches those mechanisms, a whistle will be launched from the ejection mechanism, creating a piercing alarm high in the sky to alert the sentry.
What they didn't know was that Haru had secretly come to these places to investigate several times and knew the sentry posts there very well.
When they first discovered this thing, they didn't know what it was for, so Haru curiously touched the mechanism.
Immediately following was a loud whistle, and arrows shot high into the sky. Several patrolling Mira warriors came over to check the situation.
In order to attract the attention of the Mira warriors, Haru had a quick idea. He pierced a dead rabbit with an arrow, creating the illusion that the rabbit had triggered a mechanism and been shot dead.
When the Mira warriors came to investigate, they found that it was just a rabbit that had triggered a mechanism and been shot dead. They had encountered such things many times before, so they didn't pay much attention to it, treating it as just another ordinary accident.
From that day on, Haru knew that such mechanisms were set up within a few hundred meters of the Mira tribe, and that a large-scale deployment of such mechanisms would inevitably cause quite a stir.
In order to successfully crack these mechanisms, Haru risked everything to manage to take one of them back to his territory for research.
Previously, the Sand Beasts were able to break through Tang Yi's traps using their own intelligence. These Haru were even more intelligent than the Sand Beasts, and they quickly figured out how to break through these mechanisms.
The day before attacking the Mira tribe, Haru had already dispatched men to destroy all the early warning sentry systems, rendering the sentry systems completely silent and depriving the sentry personnel of their outermost eyes.
The elimination of the hidden sentries was one of the reasons. No one expected that the mechanisms that had been protecting the tribe would all fail in a single day.
However, this time, everyone underestimated the sheer number of Haru. This time, Haru mobilized their entire force, and the darkness concealed their vast, swarming army.
Moreover, it wasn't that the sentries arranged by Tang Yi didn't discover Haru; the main problem was that by the time the sentries discovered Haru, they had already overwhelmed them like a tidal wave.
These Haru people relied entirely on their numerical advantage to discover all the hidden sentries in advance and secretly circled around to cut off their retreat.
After breaking through the outer perimeter, Haru's army continued to approach the tribe.
Their plan was that if they could silently advance to within 20 meters of the Mira tribe, they could overwhelm them with their overwhelming numbers.
If the Mira tribe were to be suddenly attacked at this time, their morale would be thrown into chaos, and they would certainly not be able to form a decent fighting force in a short period of time.
With just a few waves of continuous attacks, the Mira tribe, whose numbers were already small, would be easily overwhelmed and quickly disintegrated.
However, Haru's plan was quite clever, but they still seriously underestimated the strength of the Mira tribe and their determination to fight to the death when faced with a life-or-death situation.
When a race faces annihilation, the astonishing willpower they unleash is beyond the comprehension of ordinary reason.
Everything had gone smoothly until Haru and his companions were only fifty meters away from the Mira tribe when a sudden change occurred.
The tribe's guardian beast, Luo, which had been kept in captivity, was released to roam around the tribe's vicinity at night because the chief was worried that the tribe's defense system was not sufficient.
Giant hyenas are nocturnal animals that are accustomed to being active at night. They hardly need to sleep at night and can roam around foraging all night.
The methods Haru used to launch sneak attacks against the Mira tribe members were still effective, but this time the people they were dealing with were not so easy to talk to.
Because it was a surprise attack, Haru didn't dare use any lighting tools. Coincidentally, several Haru scouting ahead bumped right into the huge Lo.
Haru's strength is certainly considerable, but compared to Lo, who is much smaller, they are no different from chicks, aside from intelligence and the tools they use.
Luo harbored great hostility towards all unfamiliar wild beasts, and when he discovered that these menacing creatures reeked of blood, he had a vague sense of something amiss.
It immediately snapped its jaws shut on one of Haru's heads. Under Lona's terrifying bite force, the hard head was instantly exploded into a bloody mist, just like a watermelon.
The remaining Haru, seeing that they had met their match, were about to flee when Luo roared to the sky and charged toward the fleeing Haru.
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