Reincarnated as A Bamboo

Chapter 23: A Choice to be Made

A shrill scream exploded, which traveled to the ears of everyone on Zheng Guodong's squad.

"Focus and pay attention!"

Zheng Guodong immediately roared, causing the squad members behind him to return their attention to him.

However, there came more violent cries and cruel roars from beasts. Everyone's focus once again dispersed.

"Octagonal formation! If you don't want to die! Immediately!" Zheng Guodong roared. The screams surrounding their ears have already frightened the squad members who had just entered the spiritual realm.

The fifteen squad members were quickly snapped awake by Zheng Guodong's roar, and they got into formation.

"There are others in the area, but they are not one of us. Hearing their cries, they have probably suffered tragic deaths," Zheng Duodong said as he took a deep breath. He turned to his squad again, all of whom looked extremely pallor. "We will leave them be for now. When we get out, I'll report to the top authorities."

At this time, everyone on the squad was wondering in their hearts whether they would even be able to leave.

Even if they possessed great strength, they were not sure if they could defeat the mutated creatures in this spiritual realm.

Moreover, the mutated beasts tearing away at the screaming group of people seemed to be the wolves that they had previously heard!

After all, before the screams started, they had already heard the roars which shook their spirits.

"Cap...Captain, what should we do?" Liu Cheng's face was dripping with cold sweat. His face was pale, and his voice trembled as he spoke.

Zheng Guodong glanced at the others and saw that they too wore similar expressions to Liu Cheng.

Oh, this group of fresh recruits.

He was unsure of how many people he could bring out.

They lacked experience in both directly facing mutated creatures and dealing with emergencies.

To put it bluntly, although this group of people was transcendent, they were merely ordinary people with extraordinary powers.

They were quite simply incomparable to soldiers with strengths in execution, discipline, and combat effectiveness.

It was a pity that there were not many soldiers with awakened transcendence. It was even rarer to be someone who was born in a special force like he was.

Zheng Guodong's brows furrowed. What the top authorities had requested, was to try not to lose a team member, and to measure the exact spiritual aura density in this spiritual realm.

Moreover, the villager and the four so-called travel buddies were to be retrieved.

Looking at the situation now, the task was simply impossible.

Measuring the spiritual aura density seemed rather easy. They only needed to retrieve this item that looked like an iron box.

However, it was also frankly the most difficult task.

If everyone on the squad, himself included, met an unfortunate end, the task would immediately fail.

As for the villager and the four travel mates, Zheng Guodong and the others had not even seen a trace of them.

Come to think of it, it was not a surprise. In a valley as vast as this, finding five people was like finding a needle in a haystack.

After all, based on Zheng Guodong's experience, even if the most powerful creature in this spiritual realm was the giant centipede that he had previously encountered, an ordinary villager and four bounty hunters would not be able to deal with it.

They were likely already dead. As for the corpses, they probably would not be left behind.

Mutated beasts would not just leave those fresh meals behind.

He turned on the spiritual aura density indicator again. The number displayed had already reached 14,300.

According to the law, the highest peak of the spiritual aura density in this spiritual realm was only at about 18,000. However, Zheng Guodong felt at a loss again.

The highest peak of spiritual aura density in a spiritual realm depended on the spiritual aura density of the most powerful mutated creature in the spiritual realm. Generally, the peak spiritual aura density of a spiritual realm was twenty times that of the most powerful mutated creature.

As for the giant centipedes from before, they probably belonged to the lowest Grade-E mutated creature. They were merely in the initial stages of "demonization", and their bodies had only grown slightly bigger.

Before, Zheng Guodong had thought that those giant centipedes were probably the most powerful creatures, or the closest to most powerful, in this spiritual realm.

However, before the howling of the wolves begun and until the actions of the wolves as they bit and killed the humans just now, Zheng Guodong had always felt that the peak of the spiritual aura density in this spiritual realm should not be like that.

Zheng Guodong stared at the spiritual aura density indicator under his feet. That thing had never made a single mistake at previous spiritual realms. The peak spiritual aura density in each spiritual realm had always been measured extremely accurately.

As the latest technology, aside from its slightly larger size, it had no other disadvantages.

Though for transcendent beings like them, even if that object was larger than a double-door refrigerator, it would be like a drizzle to them. If they thought of it that way, it was not quite a disadvantage either.

Previously, he had already entered a few spiritual realms and every single time, Zheng Guodong had always witnessed the spiritual aura density indicator accurately measure the peak density in the spiritual realms. The grades of mutated creatures that essentially reacted with the value would be evident.

However today, Zheng Guodong suddenly did not want to believe the tool. Instead, he wanted to believe in his own experience.

The howling of the wolves that caused everyone to feel uneasy and dizzy led Zheng Guodong to think that these wolves were the strongest in this spiritual realm.

Moreover, after walking for so long, how had they not come across any mutated creatures?

It was too odd.

In addition, there was a rotting stench wafting in the air. It smelled a bit like

"Captain Zheng, something doesn't seem right over there!" While Zheng Guodong was deep in thought, Liu Cheng suddenly pointed a finger at a tree trunk not far away, where there was a pile of something dark.

Zheng Guodong motioned the other squad members not to move. He slid out a duandao that shone with a black light. He leaped forward and jumped to a spot close to the dark pile.

However, what he saw before him quickly cleared his vigilance. "It seems like we have completed one of our tasks."

In front of Zheng Guodong was a pile of human remains with only half a face left.

The flesh on his body had essentially already been gnawed away, with only white bones left. As for his face, the remaining half of it was lying on the ground.

The fact that it had not been completely eaten up by the mutated creatures in this spiritual realm made Zheng Guodong felt disbelief.

"Captain, this seems to be someone we were looking for"

"Yes, it's Li Ming. He was shot in the head by a shotgun. Based on the rate of decay, it's been a while since he was murdered." Zheng Guodong was silent.

It seemed that it was as the village chief Old Li had said and speculated. The so-called travel buddies must be bounty hunters. Perhaps their secrets had been exposed, so they killed Li Ming.

"Captain Zheng, it seems like we don't need to find those four anymore. They're most likely bounty hunters," Shen Sisi said.

Zheng Guodong nodded.

The top authorities had requested that in the case of encountering bounty hunters, the first thing they should do was to kill them.

They were not afraid of the various weapons they possessed. On the other hand, it was because there was also a considerable number of transcendent beings among them.

"Captain Zheng, what's our next move? Should we continue advancing, or"

Zheng Guodong looked at the squad member who was speaking, then looked at the others. "It seems we have two paths to choose from."