High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

On the other end of the phone, Song Zhengye paused for a moment, as if thinking about what else he needed to say.

"By the way, Anning City has been raised to the next level of alert."

Song Chen's heart tightened: "When?"

"Just a few days ago, just like last time, a peak fifth-tier beast king appeared on the outskirts of Anning City and then disappeared."

"The capital has sent another grandmaster, who is currently stationed in Anning City. He says he wants to find out exactly what happened."

"The Beast King has reappeared on the outskirts of Anning City?"

"Hmm, is it the same one as last time? The higher-ups didn't say."

"However, this time the commotion is bigger than last time. The grandmaster who came from the capital is a woman, who looks to be in her forties and is surnamed Lu. After she arrived, she sealed off the entire outskirts of Anning City and led people to search in the wilderness for three days, but they couldn't find it. The beast king just disappeared into thin air."

Song Chen didn't reply; instead, she was thinking.

Anning City, an inconspicuous inland city in Nam Giang Province, is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the nearest coastline.

After the alien beasts landed, the coastal base cities became the front line, while the inland cities became the rear.

The first time a fifth-tier beast king ran around the outskirts of Anning City and then disappeared could be considered a coincidence, but the second time, especially if it was the same beast or a different one, was no coincidence.

This whole thing is wrong. It's a small inland town with no strategic value, no psionic resources, and no high-level martial artists stationed there.

Why would a Tier 5 Beast King run around in circles?

He recalled Guangchang Island, where the sea tribes spent thirty-two years capturing people, building the island, and learning nuclear weapons.

They are not lacking in patience; their appearance and disappearance on the outskirts of Anning City twice is unlikely to be a coincidence.

"How is the situation now?" Song Chen asked.

"Master Lu is still in Anning City. She said she won't leave until this matter is investigated. The city is still under Level 1 alert, but people are going about their lives as usual, going to work and buying groceries as usual."

"Dad, where does that Master Lu live?"

"Of course I'll stay at the garrison commander's residence. Why are you asking?"

"It's nothing. Where's Mom? I'd like to say a few words to her."

Song Chen didn't say much.

"She was standing right next to me, constantly poking my arm to get me to give her the phone. Fine, you can talk to your mom then."

Li Xiuying's voice rang out again, followed by a series of instructions.

Eat well, don't stay up late, don't train too hard, and wear more clothes when it gets cold.

Song Chen agreed to everything, and after a few minutes, his mother reluctantly hung up the phone.

Song Chen put down the microphone.

He didn't leave; he kept his hand on the radio panel, his eyes fixed on the still-flashing call sign on the screen.

There's good news and bad news.

The good news is that news of his disappearance didn't get back, but the bad news is that the damned Beast King has reappeared.

Song Chen quickly made a decision: he would go home to visit his family this time.

Since going to Tianhai, all he could think about was getting stronger, killing alien beasts, accumulating killing points, breaking through, and then killing more.

In just a few months, he has progressed from the second tier to the present, killing fourth-tier monsters as easily as cutting vegetables, and even killing a fifth-tier early-stage abyssal sea monster.

He is no longer the Song Chen who left Anning City.

He is currently at the fourth rank, possessing master-level swordsmanship, master-level movement skills, A-level lightning-type ability, and A-level mental ability.

He has killed a beast king at the early stage of the fifth tier. If his strength increases a little more, perhaps he can try at the peak of the fifth tier.

Regardless of what the fifth-tier beast king's purpose was in appearing in Anning twice and then disappearing, he must go back.

Before returning to Tianhai, he decided to make a detour to Anning City to find out what was going on and, ideally, eliminate the hidden dangers there.

Song Chen tapped his finger on the radio panel, and that was it.

He turned and left the square.

After walking a few steps, I saw Lin Zhao leaning against a collapsed stone pillar at the edge of the square, still holding the nautical chart in his hand.

"Finished?"

"Um."

"How's everything at home?"

"fine."

Lin Zhao nodded without asking any further questions.

She straightened up, walked towards the center of the square, took two steps, then stopped and turned her head to the side.

"Song Chen".

"Um."

"How do you plan to get back?"

"soon."

Lin Zhao looked at him for two seconds, then nodded and continued walking forward.

As Song Chen walked out of the square, more and more people gathered behind him.

Old Zhou moved the radio to a wider table, and the old lady with completely white hair, a communications expert, took out the electronic components from the metal box one by one and arranged them according to their model numbers.

Lin Zhao unfolded the nautical chart and weighed down the four corners with stones.

Several engineers from Guangchang Island gathered around a table, some holding pens, others holding old maps they had dug out of the ruins.

The person on the phone now is a middle-aged man with dark skin, rough hands, and indelible grease stains between his fingers.

He was from the Eagle Kingdom and was abducted by sea creatures fifteen years ago while conducting research in the near sea.

The electrical hum lasted for almost half a minute before the circuit was connected.

The middle-aged man gave his identification number, which was from fifteen years ago.

The other party remained silent for a long time, then there was a sound of keyboard typing, and then the cold voice changed.

"Dr. Wilson? You...you're still alive?"

Wilson, a middle-aged man, was holding the microphone with trembling hands.

He spoke his first words to his hometown in fifteen years.

"I'm alive. I want to go home."

Then a gray-haired physicist took over, having been abducted for twenty-two years.

On the other end of the line was a young woman's voice, crying out "Father!"

The old man held the microphone, his lips trembling for a long time, before he could utter only one word.

"Um."

One by one, they came up.

Some are from Great Xia, and some are from other countries.

Song Chen had already arrived outside the town. He didn't intend to waste any more time and was going to continue the killing spree.

After walking about two kilometers, he found the first strange beast.

A Tier 3 Ironback Crocodile lay on the muddy bank of the river, half of its body submerged in the water, with only its spine covered with bony plates showing.

It is one of the most common terrestrial beasts in the Ganges River basin, and its territory extends for thousands of kilometers from the river mouth to the upper reaches.

This creature, over eighteen meters long, had bony plates on its back that gleamed with an iron-gray luster in the twilight. Its mouth was half-open, with bits of flesh from its previous meal still clinging between its densely packed teeth.

Song Chen made no attempt to conceal his presence and walked straight over.

The iron-spined crocodile sensed him, its vertical pupils snapped open, and it sprang up from the mudflat, its gaping maw snapping at his waist with such speed that it left a trail of afterimages in the air.

Song Chen turned slightly to the side, and the crocodile's mouth brushed against the hem of his clothes, missing its mark.

He gripped the hilt of the Heavenly Blade with his right hand, drew the blade, and slashed down.

The blade sliced ​​into the iron-spined crocodile's upper jaw, running down its spine and splitting its 18-meter-long body in two.

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 487 kill points.]

He didn't stop; he flipped the blade and picked out the crystal core from the corpse's chest cavity, storing it in his system space.

Then continue upstream.

The second one, the third one...

The iron-spined crocodile has no natural predators in the Ganges River basin and reproduces as quickly as rats in the old days.

Song Chen walked less than five kilometers along the riverbank and killed eleven third-tier iron-spined crocodiles.

The riverbanks begin to narrow, the mangroves recede, and in their place are vast expanses of marshland.

The psionic particles floated above the wetlands, at a higher concentration than at the estuary.

Song Chen stood at the edge of the swamp, the golden light of his Illusionary Eyes shining deep within his pupils as he swept across the depths of the wetlands.