Chapter 62: The Ambush Begins

After Yao Xiang heard him finish, he jumped up and angrily cursed, "You're all a bunch of animals!"

The group, including Hu Zi, shivered at his rebuke, not daring to retort, and only knelt down to beg for mercy.

Yao Xiang, with a cold expression, said to Chu Yunsheng, "Brother Chu, these bastards have lost their humanity. Keeping them around is just asking for trouble!"

Although Chu Yunsheng had killed many people, he had not fallen to the point of using women to lure flesh worms. He nodded and said, "They do deserve to die. You handle it. I'll go get the bow!"

The group, including Hu Zi, was shocked. Previously, Jiang Lao Da had always done this, and they had hoped the new boss would continue the same way. However, they never expected Chu Yunsheng and Yao Xiang to completely ignore their suggestions. Realizing that further pleading would be futile, they all scrambled to their feet and tried to flee in different directions.

However, they couldn't outrun the awakened Yao Xiang. In no time, he cut them down with his fiery wheel, causing the women nearby to scream in terror.

Chu Yunsheng went down to the second floor, searching through the rooms but found no crossbows, only some bows. He stored all the bows and arrows in his storage talisman.

He was a novice with bows, but he couldn't be too picky now. He would have to practice more in the future.

Chu Yunsheng spread out the map of Kuncheng, marking the four places he had been, labeling them 1-4. He had no idea where Colonel Du and his group were, so his only hope was to run into them or follow the clues left by Ding Yan to find them and continue trailing them.

He was just a step away from advancing to the next level, with enough energy in his body to deal with eleven red-armored bugs. While searching for Colonel Du and his group, he could kill a few red-eyed monsters to let the Thousand Split Sword absorb more of the blue mist.

The insect meat that Jiang Lao Da had hunted made Chu Yunsheng feel nauseous. He had Yao Xiang distribute it to the women, telling them to flee for their lives. Chu Yunsheng and Yao Xiang then潜入迷雾之中。

His plan was to ambush the red-eyed monsters if possible, and if not, to kill a few and quickly cross through the fog wall. As long as they crossed back and forth a few times, the monsters would eventually lose track of them.

Chu Yunsheng's archery skills were terrible, but since he only used energy to shoot, he had plenty of arrows left. The defensive capabilities of the red-eyed monsters were not high, so he only needed to use a small amount of energy to freeze them to death.

Originally, he planned to climb a tree to ambush them, but after hearing Hu Zi's words, he knew that there might be other monsters in the tall trees. It was better to deal with the red-eyed monsters on the ground, and if he couldn't fight them, he could always run.

After crossing through several blocks, Chu Yunsheng still hadn't seen Colonel Du and his group. He suspected that Colonel Du might be hiding somewhere, as they couldn't leave the fog wall and had many scientists who could study the situation.

It took two days for Chu Yunsheng and Yao Xiang to run and hide on the city's surface, mapping out the nine districts divided by the fog wall. The fog wall changed every twelve hours, and he had experienced this pattern, realizing that he didn't have the ability to predict it.

Along the way, he also collected many red-armored bug corpses to repair his battle armor, which had a large tear.

Chu Yunsheng had also seen the flesh worms Hu Zi mentioned. They were nearly ten-meter-long, white, cylindrical monsters with no head, only two openings at each end, making it impossible to tell which one was for eating and which for excreting. Chu Yunsheng knew that with his current abilities, he could kill at most two of these monsters. No wonder Jiang Lao Da had to make human flesh energy bombs; only by detonating a fire energy bomb inside the monster could his eight awakened subordinates dare to attack it.

What frightened Chu Yunsheng even more were the monsters that occasionally flew down from the upper layers of the plants, covered in flames, as if made of pure fire energy. When they flew down, he saw the flesh worms and red-eyed monsters fall to their attacks effortlessly. Even a team of five awakened individuals was instantly incinerated by the fire energy.

Chu Yunsheng estimated that with his current battle armor, the Six Jia Talisman, and the energy level of eleven, he would be nothing against such a fire monster. Unless he reached the Second Yuan Heaven realm, he would die a hundred times if he encountered one.

He was four steps away, he silently thought. After thirty-two more body tempering sessions, he would reach the peak of the First Yuan Heaven realm. Then, using the rules from the ancient book, he could break through to the Second Yuan Heaven realm.

At the Second Yuan Heaven realm, he could not only perform true sword techniques but also use the lowest-level Third Rank Sealing Beast Talisman, which could seal a dying monster into the talisman and summon it during battles to assist him. As long as he had enough talismans, he could seal many monsters.

At that point, with other attack talismans and sword techniques, Chu Yunsheng believed he could at least escape from the terrifying fire monster, even if he couldn't kill it.

He already had nearly ten mixed ice and fire pattern energy absorption talismans, mostly accumulated from red-eyed monsters after killing Jiang Lao Da's group.

The blue patterns on the Thousand Split Sword had not significantly improved, and Chu Yunsheng didn't dare use it to experiment on flesh worms, as the fire monsters primarily fed on them. If he accidentally encountered a fire monster, he would be dead.

A red-armored bug could provide one fire pattern, while a red-eyed monster could provide at most one-fifth of an ice pattern, a significant difference that made Chu Yunsheng a bit discouraged.

The only benefit was that he could use the fog wall to escape from red-eyed monsters when surrounded, and if he encountered a group of red-armored bugs outside his capability, he could only rely on his legs to outrun them.

Chu Yunsheng was currently in the area he named Zone 3. He had discovered Colonel Du and his group three hours ago. They had hastily left a stopover, heading somewhere unknown, but were now trapped in a massive attack by red-eyed monsters.

This was the opportunity Chu Yunsheng had been waiting for. He signaled to Yao Xiang, and the two of them潜入附近的楼房，不敢爬得过高，只在三楼，打开窗户，正对着下面拼死苦战的杜团长一行。

Chu Yunsheng had Yao Xiang ensure their safety, while he drew his bow. A pure energy ice arrow formed on the bow, and Chu Yunsheng only injected one-fifth of his energy. His goal was to help, not necessarily to kill, and he knew his archery skills were poor. If he missed, it would be a huge waste of energy.

He aimed at the closest companion of the long-faced man and released the ice arrow.