The town mayor glanced casually at the knife in Lin Han's hand and said dismissively:
"If weapons of this caliber can scare away monsters, our town's guard can handle it themselves; there's no need to go to the law enforcement team."
Lin Han glared at the town mayor, knowing that the mayor had deliberately invited Uncle Lin and him to their deaths, but he was helpless.
Upon hearing this, Li Yu and Ma Yuanbai finally understood the whole story.
In order to buy time while waiting for the law enforcement team to come to their aid, the mayor of Bada Town came up with a rather ingenious and underhanded trick.
They offer funds several times higher than the market price, while simultaneously dispatching various tasks to temporary teams and personnel in all surrounding towns, as long as people can come to the town.
Faced with the high monetary reward, Uncle Lin and Lin Han were naturally not spared either. They received a barbecue task with a price almost three times higher and rushed here in a hurry.
Unexpectedly, the two were very unlucky and encountered the red monster on their way out of Wucheng.
This was precisely the purpose of Bada Town inviting large groups to the town—to deliberately make these travelers the targets of monster attacks.
Just then, a guard rushed in in a panic, shouting to the town mayor:
"Mayor, something terrible has happened! That red monster is here!"
"What?!" The mayor exclaimed in surprise, "Where are we?"
“It’s just outside the town!” the guard hurriedly replied.
The mayor immediately stood up, because he could already sense the strange aura outside the town.
The situation is extremely critical, concerning the life and death of the entire town's residents, but reinforcements from the law enforcement team have not yet arrived.
Thinking of this, the town mayor couldn't help but look at Li Yu.
This extremely young-looking regimental commander, Li Yu, may be the last hope for their town.
The town mayor immediately set aside his status and airs, and said to Li Yu with a sincere expression:
"Commander Li Yu, as long as you can drive the monster away, we are willing to give up half a year's revenue of Bada Town as a reward."
"Six months?"
Just as Li Yu was about to answer, a huge echo came from the sky above the town.
"I'll eat you all! I'll devour you all!"
The monster spoke in a human voice, sounding unusually excited, as if it could see a sumptuous feast of flesh and blood laid out before it.
Almost at the same moment, the law enforcement team, which had been hiding not far outside the town, rushed out.
They were all dressed in identical uniforms and shouted in unison:
"The Central Plains Law Enforcement Team is here!"
Immediately afterwards, a man who appeared to be the team leader stepped forward and shouted angrily:
"Beast-like criminal—Yue Nian, surrender now! Otherwise, don't blame us for being impolite!"
Upon hearing this, the monster instantly flew into a rage, roaring repeatedly:
"What beast race? I'm clearly a human! You bunch of blind bastards!"
Before the words were even finished, it opened its blood-red maw, brandished its sharp claws, and launched a frenzied attack on the Central Plains Law Enforcement Team.
Faced with the monster's sudden and fierce attack, the Central Plains Law Enforcement Team did not back down and immediately launched a counterattack.
In an instant, several supernatural abilities, accompanied by bullets, swept towards the monster in a deluge.
When Li Yu and his group, along with the town mayor, rushed to the town gate, the Central Plains law enforcement team had already been completely defeated. Several team members lay sprawled on the ground, clearly no match for the monster.
Li Yu looked up and saw a monster that looked very much like a human, but whose entire body was covered with a layer of blood-red scales, charging towards the disheveled law enforcement team once again.
A strong, pungent smell of blood emanated from the red monster's body and drifted into Li Yu's nostrils on the breeze.
Li Yu knew very well that this was the smell of human blood.
Without a doubt, this monster had just drunk human blood.
However, it still seemed unsatisfied, so it instinctively searched all the way to the most densely populated place in the vicinity, Bada Town.
Upon merely witnessing the monster's figure, the mayor and those behind him couldn't help but gasp in shock.
An indescribable fear instantly surged into their hearts, as if an invisible hand had tightly gripped their throats.
They could clearly feel the suppressive force emanating from their bloodline.
This eerie feeling made them realize that their own strength was no match for this monster.
"That's it! This is the guy who killed Uncle Lin!" Lin Han, who was standing to the side, suddenly widened his eyes and recognized the monster, shouting with grief and indignation.
Before he finished speaking, he had already swiftly reached into his waistband and drawn his knife, staring intently at the monster.
At this moment, the town's guards also arrived with the residents, carrying various weapons.
Everyone knew that in the face of such a ferocious monster, retreating would only lead to death, while fighting back might offer a glimmer of hope.
A tense and solemn atmosphere permeated the crowd, and every resident's breathing became rapid.
Not far away, the red monster grabbed a law enforcement officer, revealing its long, spiky fangs, and bit him.
Bright red blood kept flowing into its mouth, and then the monster stuck out its tongue and licked its eyes, looking very strange.
Li Yu took out a repeating crossbow, and the black eye on the crossbow quickly opened, looking ahead.
When the Nightmare Beast saw the red monster not far away, it didn't even need Li Yu to ask before it blurted out in astonishment:
"Orcs?"
The Nightmare Beast stared intently at the monster, muttering to itself incessantly:
"I always thought orcs were fake, I never imagined they actually existed..."
"What exactly is this monster?" Li Yu asked immediately, sensing that the Nightmare Beast seemed to know something about it.
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