Chapter 116 Shadow of Death
"Run!"

All of Shen Bing's calmness disappeared the moment the strange giant ape appeared.

The combat effectiveness of a leader-level pet is vastly different from that of pets below the leader level, even if the team members' pets can compete with them or even have the advantage due to their higher-level bloodlines.

But the number of the enemy is too large. There are currently fifty or sixty strange giant apes that can be seen. As the tide of beasts surges in, this number will increase rapidly.

Moreover, Shen Bing could feel that there was an even more powerful existence approaching them in this forest.

If we don't run now, I'm afraid everyone will die here.

While shouting to run, Shen Bing took out several grenades from his backpack and threw them towards the location where the strange giant ape was least likely to be found.

The grenade exploded immediately after it hit the ground, and the surging energy blew a huge gap in the herd of beasts.

"Qi Xue, take everyone and leave quickly. I'll cover your retreat!"

Shen Bing released all six of his clouded leopards, turned around and rushed into the herd without looking back.

As the leader of this operation, his responsibility is to ensure everyone's life safety.

Faced with this crisis, he made the decision to sacrifice himself without even thinking about it.

Qi Xue didn't waste any time and immediately yelled at the students to break out through the gap created by the grenade.

At this moment, Chu Yi and Monkey Brother performed a great feat again. The man and the monkey transformed into giant martial spirits, holding sticks and holding up the gap, blocking all the strange beasts that tried to complete the encirclement again.

"The water overflows the golden mountain!"

"Ice and snow!"

With two familiar shouts, the surging beast tide instantly transformed into ice sculptures, helping Chu Yi relieve a lot of pressure.

The rising water curtain froze quickly under the blowing of ice and snow, like two city walls protecting the team members.

"Damn, it turns out you two have a combined attack skill?" Chu Yi looked at Lin Siyao and Ji Chen with a surprised expression.

"Please, kill me."

At this moment, an extremely miserable plea sounded in Chu Yi's ears.

He looked up blankly, but did not find the source of the sound.

"You still have time to sit here and stare blankly, hurry up and leave!"

Lin Siyao found that Chu Yi was standing there motionless. He was immediately furious. He rushed over, grabbed Chu Yi's hand, and then ran away.

Shen Bing, who was left behind, saw that most of his teammates had almost left, so he threw a few large grenades at his feet and quickly followed.

After running for a distance, everyone immediately switched to their own pets and started a desperate run for half an hour.

After feeling that he had shaken off the beast tide, Shen Bing slowed down his pace and took out the radar. Seeing that there was no red dot on the screen, he felt relieved and asked everyone to stop and rest.

"Captain Shen, when we were exploring the camp with robots before, did you encounter a pet like this?"

Qi Xue got off her big dolphin and said with a serious expression: "We have never seen such a strange pet in the secret realm of China. There must be something wrong!"

"No, when I used robots to explore before, the pets I found were relatively normal. I don't know why it became like this." Shen Bing replied with a gloomy face, "This place is a bit weird. I can't stay here any longer. I decided to apply to the camp to return."

Then he took out his intercom: "Calling the camp, please reply if you hear me, please reply if you hear me!"

“Sizzle, sizzle…”

The only answer Shen Bing got was a chaotic sound of electricity.

"Why is there no signal?" Shen Bing frowned and immediately switched to the second walkie-talkie, but the situation was still the same and he could not contact the outside world at all.

"Lin Mu, can you see if the locator is still usable?" Shen Bing immediately shouted to Lin Mu who was standing beside him.

"It's out of order and can't locate at all." Lin Mu handed the instrument to Shen Bing.

This instrument could locate the team's current position and record the route they took.

But now all that's displayed on the screen is a bunch of garbled characters, and it's obviously completely unable to work.

Not only the locators and walkie-talkies, but also the radars and communication phones, almost all electronic equipment failed.

Shen Bing raised his head and saw the bright sun hanging right above everyone. He no longer had any way to identify his direction.

"Everyone keep moving forward. Once we have determined our location at night, we can find a way to evacuate." Shen Bing gave the order and then continued to shout into the walkie-talkie, hoping to contact the camp.

Just then, several golden butterflies flew out from the depths of the forest.

Everyone's expression tensed, thinking that the herd of beasts had caught up with them.

However, after these butterflies encountered everyone, they suddenly shattered into light spots, and then the following sentence emerged in everyone's mind:

"This is the American expedition team. We have discovered a treasure that we cannot fully develop on our own. If you receive this message, please follow the golden track. Let's explore together and share all the gains equally!"

“There’s always light at the end of the tunnel!”

Shen Bing's expression became excited.

He was originally worrying about how to spend the night, but he didn't expect to receive a text message asking for help from the American expedition team.

If the two expedition teams unite, whether they continue to explore or evacuate the secret realm, they can better resist the dangers they may encounter.

"Did everyone hear it?" Shen Bing asked the team leaders.

"My beast taming power is still sufficient, so there shouldn't be any problem if I go take a look." Lin Mu responded first.

"What about you?" Shen Bing looked at the students again and got the same answer as Lin Mu.

After all, everyone came here for the treasures, and now that America has made a discovery, how can they just turn a blind eye?

What's more, although the previous wave of beasts was scary, there were no casualties among the expedition team, so the students did not feel much fear.

Afterwards, with everyone's unanimous agreement, the expedition team began to move towards the American expedition team along the path of the golden butterfly.

In order to save time, everyone did not walk this time, but rode on their pets again.

After running along the golden track for half an hour, Chu Yi and others finally found the American expedition team who had set up camp by the river.

"Oh my God, finally an expedition team responded to the call."

A strong man with a big beard came towards them, welcoming Chu Yi and others with an extremely warm smile: "My name is Anderson, and I'm the captain of the American expedition team. First of all, I have to ask you, are your electronic equipment still working?" "All of them are out of order." Shen Bing shook his head and said.

"It doesn't seem to be a problem with the equipment. I thought those bastards in the logistics department embezzled all the money and sent me a bunch of defective products."

Anderson laughed and turned sideways to make a gesture of invitation: "It has been more than ten hours since the communication butterfly was sent out, and only you have arrived. I guess your expedition team is the only one nearby.

The baby is just ahead, and we'd better set off now while it's still noon."

Shen Bing did not move, but asked: "Let me ask Captain Anderson, have you encountered a beast tide during the time you came in?"

Anderson smiled and said, "Of course, we put a lot of effort into getting rid of those weird monkeys, and then we found this place by accident. I don't know whether to say it's unlucky or lucky."

Hearing that the other party had a similar experience as himself, Shen Bing felt a little relieved.

Soon the two expedition teams met in a temporary camp. As the number of people increased, the nervous mentality completely relaxed.

After a whole afternoon of hard work, everyone finally had time to eat.

The American leaders were very enthusiastic. While cooking steaks and roast chicken, they invited the Chinese guests to have lunch together.

Noah and the others were sitting nearby, chatting with relaxed smiles on their faces. They looked so leisurely, as if they were here for tourism rather than adventure.

Chu Yi nibbled on the delicious steak, chewing it with an expressionless face.

Although the steak was delicious, he was in no mood to enjoy it.

Because from the moment the two teams met up, he felt something was wrong.

But for a while I didn't know what went wrong.

Maybe he was too nervous?

Chu Yi took a deep breath and decided to fill his stomach first.

After lunch, the two teams set out on their journey again.

"That is a valley. I sensed several powerful auras in it. There are not only pets but also treasures." Anderson said to Shen Bing confidently.
Only then did Shen Bing react: "So you're not sure if there's any treasure inside?"

Anderson said with a smile: "Exploration itself is a gamble. The more dangerous the place, the more likely it is to hide treasures. Captain Shen must know this, right?"

Shen Bing remained silent and began to wonder whether this reunion was the right decision.

Chu Yi, who was walking at the back of the team, suddenly seemed to remember something and began to count with his fingers.

"Fifty-eight!" Chu Yi's heart skipped a beat. He finally found out what the problem was.

The number of places for the first batch of expeditions from each country is thirty people. In order to ensure sufficient manpower, these thirty places will definitely be filled.

But there were only twenty-eight people in the American expedition team. Where did the other two go?

"Noah, you haven't had any casualties in the past few days, right?"

Chu Yi stopped the only person he knew and asked loudly.

"No." Noah looked at Chu Yi in confusion, not knowing why he suddenly asked this.

"Then why are there two people missing from your team, or are you only sending out twenty-eight people this time?"

Chu Yi continued to question loudly, and Shen Bing, who was at the front of the team, stopped suddenly, his expression changing suddenly.

"Those two team leaders were sent out to ask for help. What's the problem?" Noah still had a puzzled expression on his face, not understanding why Chu Yi cared about these things.

"Captain Anderson, why didn't you tell us about this?" Shen Bing asked calmly, with his right hand already in his pocket, as if he was ready to take out a surprise for the other party at any time.

Anderson spread his hands and said, "After we lost contact with the outside world, we sent two deputy team leaders to find a way back. Do you have to ask so much about such a small matter?"

"We have so many lives on our hands. Every detail is very important. You should know this, right?"

Shen Bing sneered at Anderson twice: "I can't even get this little bit of trust. It seems that it was a wrong decision to form an alliance with you. You can dig that treasure by yourselves. We don't want it!"

"Oh, why bother?" Anderson sighed regretfully, "I didn't want to make things like this. Can't you just pretend to be confused?"

"What? Are you planning to fight us?" Shen Bing took two steps back, and the Chinese team members immediately stood ready.

"I'll give you one last chance. Let's go to our destination together. This way you still have a chance to survive." The smile on Anderson's face had disappeared, replaced by a malicious gloom.

"I'll warn you one last time. If you don't leave, you'll bear the consequences!" Shen Bing did not give in and had already pressed down on the hibernation badge.

As long as there is something unusual, he will take action immediately.

"Ok, ok." Anderson raised his hands and took two steps back. "Since you Chinese are so unwilling to accept the treasure ahead, I won't force you. Let's say goodbye now!"

But just as he said this word, Shen Bing suddenly felt a piece of cold metal pressing against his back.

"I'm sorry, Captain Shen." Lin Mu held Shen Bing at bay with a specially made pistol under the extremely shocked gaze of the Chinese people. "Don't try to resist. I'm holding the Desert Eagle King in my hand. You should know how powerful it is."

"why?"

Shen Bing closed his eyes tightly, then slowly opened them and asked in confusion.

Lin Mu smiled and pushed his glasses: "I thought you could understand what I did. After all, everything that happened to me was so unfair."

"Just for such a small grievance, you dare to betray your country!"

Shen Bing gnashed his teeth, wishing he could turn around and punch Lin Mu, the bastard, to death: "I believe in you so much, and Teacher Li also believes in you so much, are you worthy of those who have helped you!"

Listening to Shen Bing's questioning, Lin Mu just showed a cold smile: "I can tell you very clearly that I have not betrayed anyone. This is just a sacrifice that must be made for this great cause.

I believe that when we meet in the afterlife, you will understand me."

Just as Shen Bing was about to continue cursing, he heard a gunshot next to his ear.

Broken flesh and blood mixed with bones spurted out of Shen Bing's chest. His eyes were full of surprise. He never expected that Lin Mu would suddenly kill him.

Shen Bing, whose heart was blown up, seemed to have lost all his strength in an instant, and fell to the ground without a sound.

"Damn it, who the hell told you to shoot!"

Anderson rushed over in a rage, spitting and pointing at Lin Mu, cursing: "You damn yellow bastard, when did I ever say you could shoot? Do you know how much trouble it will cause if you kill him?"

"Of course I know, and this is not the only trouble I'm going to cause." Lin Mu grinned and pulled the trigger again at Anderson's head.

(End of this chapter)