Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

“No.” Ye Ge’s expression was serious: “But we are surrounded.”

Xia Xiyao: "Huh??"

"Shh, don't speak," Ye Ge said. "You'll follow my instructions for the next move."

Xia Xiyao: "Okay."

......

Deep in the forest.

Dozens of people with gloomy expressions crept stealthily through the woods, approaching silently.

Pushing aside the bushes, they saw a campsite, a campfire, an off-road transport vehicle, and a large iron box chained to the vehicle in the distance, as well as Ye Ge and Xia Xiyao sitting in front of the campfire.

"How many of them are there in total?"

"Six, and four others are sleeping in the tent."

"What levels are they?"

"I don't know, but five of them look like children, so they must all be low-level superhumans."

"Who cares what level they are? In this Hundred Soul Forest, they can only use the strength of the Hundred Soul Realm at most. Just wipe them all out!"

After a while, wisps of colorless and odorless white smoke began to drift out of the woods.

Ye Ge and Xia Xiyao sat in front of the fire, their eyelids gradually growing heavier and heavier until they finally closed their eyes one after another, both of them losing consciousness and collapsing to the ground.

Dozens of men and women then emerged from the dense forest.

Most of them were dressed in rags, their faces covered in filth, and they reeked of fish and stench. Some even wore furs of unknown animals and carried weapons such as pickaxe handles, axes, and hoes, looking like a group of primitive savages.

Undoubtedly, this is a group of wilderness scavengers.

A young man, holding a boning knife, approached Ye Ge and Xia Xiyao and sneered, "These guys are all superhumans from the mainland? Hmph, they don't seem to be anything special."

Another woman with long, disheveled hair said, "Yeah, just like that group from before, they fell down as soon as they were put down. I thought they were really strong."

A burly man with a thick beard said, "There are other people in the tent, so don't be too careless."

The young man waved his hand: "Don't worry, this mind-control smoke has a wide range and is specifically designed to deal with superhumans like them. Even if they're inside a tent, they'll definitely be affected."

As he spoke, he reached out to pick up Ye Ge from the ground.

However, the moment the young man's hand touched Ye Ge, Ye Ge's body instantly turned into a cloud of black mist with a "poof".

"A fake body??"

The young man was stunned for a moment, but the black mist quickly wrapped around his body and burrowed into his skin...

"What is this??...Aaaaaaaah!!!"

Hysterical screams echoed throughout the forest.

The young man was just an ordinary person. The apocalyptic curse claimed his life in less than a second; his blood boiled and he died! He lay on the ground, boiling blood bubbles even rising from his skin—a gruesome and nauseating death...

The other scavengers were also stunned.

Fake? ?

Where did Yege really go?

"Copy Martial Skill - Black Light Draw Sword Slash!"

The next moment, Ye Ge's figure appeared behind them like a ghost!

He held the Shadow Moon Straight Blade in his hand and unleashed a horizontal slash!

A long, black line flashed across the bodies of these scavengers. Before they could react, they felt their upper and lower bodies being torn apart! Then came a series of horrific screams...

A few survivors managed to escape, and they fled in terror.

But at this moment, Cang Feng, Long Ying, Nangong Qiuyue, Gao Shenxue, and Xia Xiyao appeared from the surrounding woods.

"Special Ability - Wood Illusion Entanglement!"

Xia Xiyao raised two fingers and used her special ability.

The seven or eight fleeing scavengers were immediately entangled by the vegetation growing beneath their feet. This vegetation spread up their legs and quickly up their upper bodies, seemingly becoming one with their skin and flesh! Soon, they were unable to even struggle.

Cang Feng and the others walked over.

"Are these people scavengers?" Gao Shenxue asked.

“Yes, that should be it.” Cang Feng nodded. “And it seems that they are a group, an organized wilderness force.”

Nangong Qiuyue pouted and said, "Teacher Cangfeng, didn't you say that no wilderness forces appear in the Hundred Souls Forest?"

“Logically speaking, the Wilderness Forces wouldn’t enter the Hundred Souls Forest so easily. After all, they are just ordinary people. Even if they wanted to rob passing transport vehicles, they wouldn’t choose to rob them here.” Cang Feng came up to the bearded man. “I think it’s definitely not a coincidence that so many of them are here today.”

Xia Xiyao said, "So, they were deliberately ambushing us?"

Cang Feng did not respond. His thin-rimmed glasses gleamed silver in the moonlight as he calmly looked at the burly man with the thick beard: "Speak, what is your purpose? Will you tell me yourselves, or do you want me to torture you?"

The burly man with the thick beard seemed quite nervous when facing Cang Feng at first.

However, after a while, his breathing gradually became heavy, the blood vessels in his neck visibly throbbed rapidly, and he broke out in a light sweat all over his body, as if some kind of "illness" had struck.

Cang Feng also sensed that something was wrong.

Then he saw the burly man with the thick beard suddenly burst into laughter, "Hahahaha..."

Cang Feng stared at him calmly, while everyone else frowned, wondering what was wrong with this guy.

"You high and mighty superhumans!"

The burly man with a thick beard roared menacingly, "Do you really think you'll leave this forest alive today?!"

Ye Ge narrowed his eyes into slits and immediately activated the system to scan and analyze the physical attributes of the bearded man.

[Hint: The target character is experiencing a strong emotional fluctuation!]

[Hint: The target character's body is undergoing an unknown mutation, and all attributes are rapidly increasing...]

[Hint: Target character's Strength +9, +11, +10, +8...]

[Hint: Target character's Agility +15, +7, +11, +9...]

【提示：目标角色智力-3、理智-10、耐力+15、痛觉-50%、肾上腺素分泌+130%......】

Ye Ge's expression changed, and he quickly said, "Teacher! Get out of the way!"

"Ah—!" The burly man with the thick beard suddenly unleashed terrifying power.

The vegetation wrapped around his body was shattered by the demonic energy emanating from him!